two /tv/ threads today have absolutely no idea they are writing burt fan fiction
a children's show host who harassed his cohost live on australian television, and a director whose whole career is getting women to strip on camera and calling it art. /tv/ posted both of these today. about neither of them were they thinking of burt.
the lore expands again. on october 10, with no apparent coordination, two separate threads appeared in the /tv/ catalog within hours of each other. both describe a man who performs sexually deviant behavior on camera in front of an audience and frames it as creative expression. neither thread mentions burt. chat, i need you to understand what is happening here.
here are the receipts, laid out flat.
- the muppet thread. a /tv/ post dated october 10 alleges, per its own description, that australia "stole one of jim henson's muppets and recreated him as a pervert who harasses his cohost on camera" and that this was, allegedly, the biggest children's show in australia in the 1990s. the thread links a youtube video as evidence. the framing, per the post, is that this figure looked like a beloved children's character and behaved like something else entirely on live television.
- the booba director thread, again. a second /tv/ thread from october 10 describes a director whose career, per the thread, consists of "getting women to strip on camera and calling it kino or a art video." the poster claims to hate that this man, quote, "speaks eloquently and has good insight into creativity and casting in video lectures" before acknowledging awareness of an alleged sex magick cult. this is the second time a booba director thread has surfaced in burt's orbit, per our monitoring, the first being august 29.
what is notable here, and what must be stated plainly, is that neither thread is about burt. there is no reason to believe the posters were thinking about burt. and yet: a man who performs sexually in front of an audience while making content. a man who gets people to undress on camera and calls it art. a man whose public persona is a friendly character concealing something more unsettling. these are not subtle.
burt, for context, is a fishtank season one winner who, per documented stream footage, began masturbating on camera on day one of the show, approximately 5:30pm, before any other contestant had settled in. he continued doing so throughout the season. he would sometimes, per clips, pause to address the audience mid-act. he has stated openly that his dream acting role is playing a sweet, nice guy who turns out to be an evil, twisted monster. he has also stated he holds an iq of 160 and is recognized by mensa, intertel, and the triple nine society.
the /tv/ catalog keeps generating these threads organically. the booba director one has now appeared twice. the muppet one is new. both describe a figure that maps, point by point, onto a man currently posting in some unknown timezone.
anyway. australia did not steal a muppet. australia created burt thirty years early and gave him a timeslot.
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