Posted on 09/22/2022 1:46:50 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Jack Dawson didn't die at the end of the movie "Titanic." He swam down to Tampa Bay.
- That's what you would think, walking into the home of @titanicfan97.
What's happening: The 30-year-old Largo resident, who's known only by his username, has gathered a cult following of nearly 50,000 social media users, mostly through TikTok, as he builds the self-proclaimed world's largest collection of "Titanic" on VHS.
- He gave Axios an exclusive look at the collection that's now surpassed 500 copies.
Once he collects 500 more, @titanicfan97, who asked to remain anonymous, told Axios he'll reveal his face to his fans.
- "I think the mystery is good," he said. "I just love making content and having fun, and I love 'Titanic' on VHS."
Why it matters: The VHS format has been dead for nearly 20 years, piling up in thrift stores. But our "Titanic" fan has turned those rejected piles into a scavenger hunt for people around the world as they help build his collection.
- He's received tapes mailed from as far away as Australia, and he's drained Tampa Bay of all its copies. If you're looking for one, you'll need to drive at least an hour away.
(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...
Lol - I think I got one
I once watched a strangely interesting documentary about people who collect 8-track tapes called “So Wrong they’re Right”. Amazing what becomes collectible.
"It Sank,Get Over It!"
Why 1,000? Why not 1,007 or 981?
I’m guessing he’s a bachelor — maybe in both meanings of the term.
I’ve never seen it.
My daughter has the DVD, and I just recorded it on DVD last week
First glimpse of DeCappucino and I deleted it
I’m sure not sitting through 4 hours of it
The 1940 version, i absolutely loved
Found his bliss
I’ve spent some time cleaning older PC’s and the various and sundry things that are useless now. Included was a VHS player that I used to convert them to DVD.
I’m keeping the player for the heck of it. Maybe I’ll toss it in another 10 years!
It was a suck movie then, its a suck movie now.
”The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility is a novella written by Morgan Robertson and published as Futility in 1898, and revised as The Wreck of the Titan in 1912. It features a fictional British ocean liner Titan that sinks in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. The Titan and its sinking are famous for similarities to the passenger ship RMS Titanic and its sinking 14 years later. After the sinking of the Titanic the novel was reissued with some changes, particularly in the ship's gross tonnage.”[1]”
And after all these years, the Titanic’s swimming pool is still full of water.
The person collecting the tapes is probably nearly normal. It’s the 50K idiot “followers” whose sanity is in question.
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