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“When I die, I will come in fast and low. I will stick the landing. There will be no confusion. The dead will make room for me.“
The most fascinating thing about the Street Sharks TV series is that, for a decade or more, the most prolific contributor to the Street Sharks wikipedia page was absolutely making everything up, including phony episode summaries and fraudulent, nonexistent characters like Roxie the Girl Street Shark (pink, naturally), as well as the idea Henry Winkler (the Fonz) was a guest star voice actor on several episodes.
Whether because of the lack of real interest in this topic, and the fact that nobody really remembers this show all that well, these facts went absolutely unchallenged, and were even reprinted in official sources, to the point that fans on forums regularly wonder why Roxie never got a toy, or even added Street Sharks to Henry Winkler’s official credits. One of the weirdest parts of this is that actual Street Sharks voice actor Andrew Rannellls once told a story at a convention about meeting Henry Winkler when a fan asked him, which…to be clear…absolutely never happened. Rannells is probably not even lying, people just said this authoritatively over and over, to the point he may even actually remember it, due to the mutability and vulnerability to suggestion of memory. One of my most controversial takes is that, the stats on memory for non-trained observers are so shockingly low, that I don’t believe eyewitness testimony should be accepted as evidence in most serious criminal cases.
The man responsible for this has since claimed that he was trying a “social experiment” about the “immutable nature of facts on the internet” but anyone who remembers the 2000s era internet probably knows that’s just blather a dumb teenager making mischief for the hell of it says when caught.
That’s really un-jawsome.
Margaret Nazon — Galaxy Cluster [velvet with beading (glass, plastic and organic material), canvas backing, 2016]
