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Frank loves MRirian! +
Update (Feb 14, 2008): Seems the google cache doesn’t work anymore, but I did save it just in case that would happen. Check it out.
Update to the Update:(Jan, 29) Seems that the forum I linked below made it private so no one could read the posts made by her “stalker.” So thanks to Google, here is the cache of the page!
UPDATE (Jan, 29): Yet another and possibly a last update because I have no idea anymore. Thanks to Yellowjee who left a comment below, it seems that a “fan” made that Magibon website, as a stalker tribute joke. I dont know what’s going on anymore, lol. Check out the forum post.
Just a little update about MRirian thanks to Jonathan. So it seems the whole MRirian phenomena was just a viral marketing campaign for a Japanese horror movie. I think we all deep down knew it, but it’s nice that the truth is out. Jonathan discovered that the comments were being moderated to preserve the hoax. On a scale of 1 - 10 on how effective the viral campaign was, I give it a 7. The Youtube videos got their views, bloggers were talking about it (me included), and it got publicity from some big sites. Well, if you go to Magibon.com you will see a gas masked figure named Frank, obsessing over Magibon’s videos. Frank is clawing at the wall, while it seems a projector is projecting Magibon’s pictures on a wall. Frank has also drawn a lovely stick figure picture of him and Magi holding hands with hearts in the background. So who knows the name of the new movie? I wonder how many Magibon blogs are going to be abandoned and forgotten like Lonelygirl15? OH, and all of you that voted saying MRirian is the next Lonelygirl15, congratulate yourselves. You were right! Thanks again Jonathan. Yaranaika? morphing caesar?
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January 28th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Frank loves MRirian!…
So it seems the whole MRirian phenomena was just a viral marketing campaign for a Japanese horror movie. I think we all deep down knew it, but it’s nice that the truth is out….
January 29th, 2008 at 4:50 am
http://www.svamp.eu/index.php?topic=5131.msg162348
Not a viral marketing campaign.
January 29th, 2008 at 10:41 am
I knew it! Wonder if there’ll be more on this! :O
January 29th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
[...] she is definitely getting what she set out to find… publicity. UPDATE: New post about the MRirian Viral Campaign! You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video You need to a flashplayer [...]
January 29th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
[...] there seems to be a bunch of identical comments. it makes sense that they flag them, but i didn’t realize they can replace a comment with something else. oh well. i guess that verifies that it is definitely a hoax, and not merely the most disturbing response video in internet history.ΓΒ more at xorsyst.com [...]
January 30th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
I don’t think she is advertising for anything. How valid is that proof anyway?
January 30th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
What proof? There was never proof. Just another example how people assume things without proof.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:58 am
[...] media artist who thought it would be funny to invent a stalker-character. my bad. (thanks to xorsyst and [...]
February 1st, 2008 at 3:49 pm
I think its dying down now, not as hyped as it was initially thought. But that guy who created magibon.com really got more than he wanted it seems.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:48 pm
I love your header
February 2nd, 2008 at 9:53 am
Thanks. Things going back to normality yet?
February 2nd, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Bob: Like I said, she is not advertising for anything.
February 3rd, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Google is a beast, and thats the way they like it… part of the reason why they are shook up over the whole Microsoft/Yahoo! deal. However, sorry if things didn’t go as you had hoped. The net in general has a way of bringing to light things you may have not realized.
February 4th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
I consider the net the same as spoken word, once you speak, it is out there for the duration it sticks with the masses. I don’t believe that me taking this down would do anything for the situation as it stands. Society is funny that way. Unless your Joran Van Der Sloot, when people lose interest, its hard to spark it again. Plus, BuzzFeed and Google send this page about 200-350 hits a day since it was posted. Those that were interested in the whole Magibon “project” have probably found all the information they needed. Opportunities come and go. Just be ready for the next one in life.
February 5th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Well, I’ll still talk to my teacher. Whatever you do with the article, could you PLEASE, remove my last two comments?
February 6th, 2008 at 3:46 am
Actually it looks like the claim made above that it’s viral LGish marketing appears to be false. The video at http://www.magibon.com made me wonder if Magi was really part of something like an LG series. I was hoping, lol. Unfortunately, the kind of person that likes LG would be curious. So naturally I was inclined to wonder the origins of the site. Doing a revese DNS search shows that the site was createed January 18th, 2008. Someone is listed as, “Joakim Danung”. A traceroute of the site shows that it’s located in Sweeden.
If it were all a hoax and that location is wrong, why would this site be put up only 2 weeks ago when Magi’s youtube site has been up for well over a year? Also this girl lives in pennsylvania. There is a lot of proof in her pictures if you know what to look for. The site seems pretty far away to be involved. Why not have something hosted in the states?
The staler video is extremely polished and sophisticated, while MRirian isn’t. Also her videos haven’t progressed anywhere near the speed that lonelygirl would. In fact it’s almost like they are not progressing at all. She always does the same things. If it were a viral hoax on Mririans part, I doubt they’d wait over a year to spring the good stuff like that stalker video etc.
So it appears that instead of Mririan being a hoax, this is a hoax claiming that Mririan is a hoax. I could be wrong, or maybe I missed something? Of course mririan could still be hoax, but this doesn’t seem very connected.
(Edited by xor: Please don’t post personal information. Yes its public, but I don’t feel as though it needs to be here.)
February 6th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
when was the magibon.com website created? because it was created by someone name joakim danung and the person on the websites says their name is frank.
February 7th, 2008 at 3:42 am
“GyaO” invited Mririan to be an MC or something.
I think she wants to visit Japan. I would.
February 7th, 2008 at 7:05 am
I was browsing around D-addicts.com (big Japan/Asian TV Drama torrent site) and a few members claimed that Magibon used to hang out there. But after a few arguments (Magibon seems very opinionated and stubborn) Magibon ended up being banned or left voluntarily. Some of the members claim she is doing all of this for the attention for someone to give her a job. She does want to go to Japan though.
February 7th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Im scared. =[
February 11th, 2008 at 3:08 am
Come on, its just a little girl playing on her cam. That it’s a media trick for a movie is soooo silly for many reasons! The video short was made using MRirian’s videos that have been around for over a year.
The guy just used MRirian’s videos as a base for his project.
I do love the wild stories going around about this girl though, all totally fictional.
February 13th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
We can only hope. I have been seeing quite a few referrers from 2ch.net (some consider 2ch the largest forum in the world, wikipedia says so too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2channel). So it seems that Magibon is really worldwide, and her news has made it to Japan. From what I’ve read at 2ch, they support Magichan as well.
February 13th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
[...] 10:25 PM Frank loves MRirian! definatly… there is too much production value for the creepy [...]
February 18th, 2008 at 5:50 am
[...] a wall with Magibon projected on it. Some people speculated that Frank and Magibon were part of an elaborate marketing campaign for a Japanese horror movie, but it turned that Frank was just a viral hoax created by a digital media artist named [...]
February 18th, 2008 at 9:11 am
The Frank Video is an Art work response TO MRirians Videos you stupid dumbassas there was is and will be NO JAPANESE HORROR film
idiotsssssssssss
February 18th, 2008 at 9:15 am
@ Idiot: Read the comments, we all know this. I just perfer to leave the story in tact so people can read the progression.
March 1st, 2008 at 10:57 pm
that header with magibon is great! haha
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:24 am
Thanks! I know most people wont get the joke, but I thought it was funny.
March 2nd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
hi I live in istanbul I LOVE MRΓΒ°RΓΒ°AN IWANT TO MEET YOU
March 9th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Not much of a mystery, just a very young girl play you for fools.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_NA2hLPkXg
March 10th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
I dont see how it is a hoax
I see the girl
I see the faces she makes
I interpreted her emotions
I dont care if she is in league with some website, she is still a real girl,and I love the videos
March 12th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Hook Line and sinker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88zMyM6yyQo
March 12th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
That was an obvious dub.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Frankly i believe that So-Called “Frank” is nothing but a freak preying on his own lust of little girls….to be honest its quite sad……I bet he is just doing this to scare people and freak her out to where she would go out with him. of course thats my own opinion.
March 19th, 2008 at 6:28 am
Any body read japanese?
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/magichan2007
March 24th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
A Selection Of Magi’s Interview From A Certain Magazin In Japan—
>Why is your name Magibon?
My true name is Maggie. So I want a nick name like Japanese.
I got it from the nick name of Aibon as the Group member of “Γ£ΖΒ’Γ£ΖΒΌΓ£ΖβΉΓ£ΖΒ³Γ£βΒ°Γ₯Β¨Λ/Morning Musume(daughter)”.
>Where are you live in? And what are you doing now?
I live in the town about 3.000 residents where located at the mountain side in Pennsylvania, USA.
The nearest large city is N.Y. from where it takes 4hours car ride.
And I have a part time job of a casher in the shop sometimes.
>Your features look like an Asian lineage, didn’t they?
Native American is in me a little bit, because my features look like an Asian lineage.
>Why are you concern about Japan?
Because Japanese things are very enjoyably about……confectionary “Pocky”–a stick of chocolate–
In the childhood I like “Sailor Moon”–an animation–, but now I like a TV drama more than the animation or the manga.
“Hanayori Dango”,”Ichirittoruno Namida”,”Nodame Kantabire” which I watch from the internet.
> Why you spoke nothing in the YouTube at early stage?
I think it was only an experiment which if I could look my image in the internet was cool.
When I had watched my image in the display, “Wow, It’s me in the P.C.!” I waved my hands and laughed.
I didn’t think about any other people watched it. Then, I dislike my double tooth, so I didn’t want to open my mouth.
But many people who found the vlog and commented on it. They commented “No speaking is so deep!” or “Please upload more vlogs.” I was exerted myself by them. So I had uploaded more vlogs.
>You became famous in the entire world, immediately, didn’t you?
My heart went pita pat, Many messages had been sent from the entire world. Someone said, “You make me calm and mild”
But Ill-natured messages had been on increase.
>There is a rumor that a production of entertainment supported behind you, isn’t there?
I have belonged to any production. I make the vlog by myself at home, right.
I know the site in which about my true character was wrote a lie and a conjecture on their own way.
Almost all of them are nice people who watch my videos.
It is the most joyful thing for me about my vlog had been sent to Japanese peoples.
>You excel in Japanese. Did you learn it at a Japanese school and so on?
No Japanese school, No Japanese teacher in my town.
So I studied and exerted all by myself. But I don’t like a study. (With a short laugh)
As I don’t like a text book, I studied to read the lyrics of the Japanese songs which I like with looking up the kanji (Chinese character) being difficult to grasp.
And after I watched the Japanese dramas with English Subtitles, I tried to watch no subs. but, of course, I can’t understand what it is yet. But I am surprised by myself when made it sense good. (With a short laugh)
As I can write only a few Chinese characters, they are 1, 2, and 3 in it and so on!
>You wrote the blog to use Chinese character by Japanese, didn’t you?
It is full of mistakes. But it is much good advice for me as many Japanese readers sent various one
March 24th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Thanks for that KingOfPain!
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April 3rd, 2008 at 7:44 am
Pictures
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/magichan2007/GALLERY/gallery.html
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOdTAPPAlMM
Remember, OBSERVATION PRECEDES WISDOM. Watch the backrounds.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Magibon is in Japan curtesy of some Japanese media group, GyaO 4.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Wow, so she finally made it over there. I hope she fully takes advantage of her trip and finds a way to stay over there like she wants to do.
April 9th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
I think this is what she wants.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7nQ0o4jQLM
April 10th, 2008 at 12:39 am
this was the stupidest-shit youtube phenomenon in a long while. fake or not, the point is people watched this crap every week and were mesmerized by it. some little Asian bitch stares at the camera doing nothing, barely talks, and each video got millions of views.
anyone who watched more than a single video for 30 seconds is a closet pedo, needs to find friends, and needs some mental counseling. retards.
April 13th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
To cmz017No, she’s not even Asian, your retard.
April 13th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
mririan is not that pretty…..
her video in japan:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=boLqAgU0qjE
…
May 1st, 2008 at 8:56 pm
cmz017no.. you’re a fucking idiot, everyone is a closet pedo for watching it? she is a fucking 21 yr old who is fully developed and looks cute wtf is wrong with looking at her cuteness? she isn’t doing anything sexual, that is not to say I wouldn’t hit it, but I aint no fuckin g pedo I dont mind them young as in 17+ man fuck what you saying , you prob the pedo
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:47 am
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July 15th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Its a viral marketing campaign for the Bioshock movie that is going to be released in 09.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
i must be the last guy in the world to fond out about this. I found Magibon and for whatever reason tried one vid i guess cos i was white guy who lived in Japan for some years and was interested in what it was all about and why so may vlogs dissing her..
What i cannot grasp in all the thousands of other vlogs it spawned, sites like this etc is why you even give a f**k. So she got famous for a few months and got her trip to Japan. Good for her. The amount of jealousy following her around is 500000 more scary than anything anyone accused her of. i stiill cant work it out or anyone who keeps having a go at her. Insecurity and jealousy is obviously more widespread than i thought and runs to the point that half the world is having a go at some average girl who did a few short vids like millions of others do. The difference is for whatever reason now nearly 4 million hits on her utube page, 25 million more comments on hundreds of sites like this all of which which pisses some people off. thats what we need to understand, why people get upset and obsessed by it, its very very scary…i enter the discussion 1 day, i leave it the same day and move on like everyone else should
December 17th, 2008 at 5:16 am
Well the topic of this forum was about “Frank” (notice the quotations). Personaly when I first saw magibon.com I was seriously freaked out and I seriously thought that “Frank”was some cyber obsesive stalker and still do think that he has a troubled mind. But if you look at even just one MAGIBON video you could be so curious about who she is and why she does these videos and talks in broken-japanese and still never changes her apeal even after her popularity which makes the whole viral marketing campaign even more understandable I mean Epic movie and Quarantine did the same, but to keep it going for almost 2 years still makes it so confusing.
So its hard to make definit asumtions about Magibon and “Frank” only time will tell.
You can never know…maybe in three months she can make a video in english telling us about how she is scared about “Frank” and even her real intentions of her videos.
So only time will tell….
March 12th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Frank’s a fake but what is Magibon faking?
No she isn’t Japanese but anyone who speaks Japanese can tell that immediately.
She’s a girl, she stares into a camera, she has huge hypnotic eyes and YouTube has made her famous for this. That’s all there is to it, there is no conspiracy, fraud, fake, it’s just one of the many weirdnesses of modern life.
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August 5th, 2009 at 5:57 am
Nothing wrong for watching her videos, lotsa people watched just out of curiousity..
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December 23rd, 2009 at 5:27 am
she’s fake
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