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why do people keep consistently comparing the hot character of the moment to onceler. like. onceler was an absolutely unique level of fandom insanity nothing else has been able to capture since. not raymond, not sans, not bill cipher, not a single one of them comes close
what made onceler so insane was specifically because he was the only "attractive" element of his source property. outside of him, the lorax film was largely considered a joke, a poor attempt to adapt a seuss book by adding on a badly thought out framing device
with the other examples that people throw up of onceler characters, they& #39;re from well-liked properties, so there& #39;s plenty of shit you can do with them, especially in the shipping angle. with the lorax, there was nothing. onceler was basically the only character you could draw on
the rest of the characters in the film aren& #39;t really appealing. statistically speaking at least one person on the internet had the hots for the CEO villain because there& #39;s always that niche corner, but across the broad swath of fangirls, onceler was it. onceler was all you had
so what can you ship him with? no-one else in the film hits that mark, so they went with the only thing they had left: himself. oncest became the sole driving force of onceler fandom, and in a pace far outstripping most fandoms, AUs and alternate versions of him proliferated
like, given enough time, a fandom will hit a similar point of weirdness, but onceler was so mad specifically because the sparseness of the source material meant that the fandom effectively no choice but to immediately hit the nadir of bizarre fan material and keep going
it was a rate of growth, mutation, and decay that takes most fandoms years to get to, and the onceler fandom did it in the space of like, 3 months. in almost no time you were seeing onceler shipped with an absolutely insane variety of AU versions of himself
onceler, the cannibal. onceler, the walmart cashier. onceler, with axes for hands and some kind of devil trigger mode. onceler, but he& #39;s made of semen. this is like. barely scratching the surface, and yes they& #39;re all real examples
none of the characters that have ever been cited as being "the new onceler" have ever gotten even remotely close to the level of madness the onceler fandom reached. it& #39;s hard to believe if you didn& #39;t see it but it was real and i was like, in the eye of the storm as it happened
(i was NOT into onceler i was dating someone who was. i have better taste in both boyfriends and characters these days)
bill cipher was not the new onceler. sans was not the new onceler. raymond was not the new onceler. they& #39;re just funny boys that a lot of people liked
no-one has ever been the new onceler. the onceler stands alone, king of a castle whose peaks reach far beyond anyone else
no-one has ever been the new onceler. the onceler stands alone, king of a castle whose peaks reach far beyond anyone else
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
i& #39;m fairly sure this list no longer exists but i took a video of it at the height of the fandom and this is like. there are so many more here than just this
i wasnt kidding about axes for hands
