Whoa! This blog still exists!!
Anyways, what's up? It has been YEARS!!!!
I have yet to hear from Caesár, the guy behind Pointless, okay about the long lost project that he was working on SEVEN YEARS AGO, I hope he didn't forget about it!
At the same time, it has also been seven years since we last been in the studio for a new comic.
Caesár spent a whole year making comics and after that Summer it just abruptly ended.
Everyone involved in the show was waiting for the next table read, days became weeks, weeks became months, and so on. Eventually, our contract expired and we never got any news about a renewal.
From what I've understood, Caesár was getting involved in different projects as well as graduating high school. All while trying to maintain an acting career of some sort, he was filming scenes for a TV show when the last comic was published. As far as I know, he has scored a few roles since then but has developed new interests besides acting. This dude is a different guy every year and just has a lot of plans and ideas, it's insane!
I rarely speak to Bernard nowadays, I think it has been years since I last spoke to him. I think he just looked at this whole experience as another gig, for me personally we have always been one big family on set, but he might have not felt exactly the same about that. Regardless, his career did take off after Pointless, okay and went on national and international tours as a professional juggler. His shows are amazing, it's incredible how he can put so much emotion and storytelling in moving a few balls for two and a half hours. I have laughed and cried numerous times during his performance. One thing he did promise me on set was that he would let me go backstage on his juggling shows, but I think he forgot to inform his entourage about it as they wouldn't let me go backstage.
The guest stars in our comics have landed big roles as well, some have appeared on the newspaper strips as well as superhero comics!!
It seems like everyone has moved on and become successful, I'm really happy for them!!
Now you're probably wondering what I have been up to, that oh so funny counterpart of the comic that everyone could relate to!
Well, you already know about Bernard, but I could tell about myself!
Unfortunately, my career didn't skyrocket as much as it did for the rest. Quite the opposite, actually.
You see, I have been involved in Pointless, okay since the early beginning. On the old comics from 2009, the brief YouTube pilot from 2009 that never got picked up, and even long before that in Caesár's old elementary school MSPaint drawings. I have been here since the start, at a young and inexperienced age.
Everyone else was a schooled professional and even Bernard had multiple degrees.
So when they pulled the plug, I was lost. I had been living this dream for four years straight that it never crossed my mind that I had to wake up at some point. That awakening was now, I was thrown into reality unsure what I had to do next.
I never had management or connections, so I was responsible for my own gigs. There were many rejections, but I did eventually score a stand-up comedy gig. It was very comfortable and the audience left in the middle of my set. Looking back I would've joined them. I had always believed that becoming a stand-up comedian was my goal and passion. It was part of my character during the webcomics and I started to get the hang of it. Little did I realize that it was just a very underdeveloped character which is why producers didn't take me seriously. It's the dark side of the entertainment industry that people rarely talk about. It's the people playing the character that have to take the blame as they're the face of that character even though it's sometimes the fault of the writers. (No disrespect to Caesár, though. He was a little kid, I don't blame him)
Despite all of that I did have a bit of a following on soh shull netwurk and I tried to use that to my advance with sketch comedy content hoping to catch some sponsor deals to invest in future projects but the audience wasn't really fond of the online content either, so I eventually ended up deleting that as well.
Years had gone by and I had completely disappeared off the radar, I had sold my page to a comedy blog, and eventually, they rebranded it entirely to their website and their following skyrocketed as well.
Behind the scenes, I was always trying to plan a comeback, but I kept losing more and more motivation as my previous attempts weren't succesful and I started realising that I have become old news as I was unable to adapt into the new social media environment.
Speaking of news, I did get mentioned in a few articles. But it was usually throwback articles about Pointless, okay where our names wouldn't be mentioned.
Eventually, a Where Are They Now article surfaced where they would go in depth about the current whereabouts of the people from Pointless, okay. There was a bright and optimistic future for Bernard as he was going to the top. Caesár's part was complicated as expected, but even he was doing pretty well.
Then my part came and it wrecked my heart.
According to the article, I had passed away.
I remember reading that and locking myself in the house as I started crying, I was so full of emotion as they apparently weren't bothered into doing any form of research into me and they decided to kill me off like that.
What did warm my heart, however, was that I did get a lot of loving and supportive reactions about my death, even from Bernard (or someone from his social media team)
The only problem, as you probably have noticed
I was NOT dead!
That's wright, you're not reading an article by a ghost, despite looking so pale with my black eyes making it sometimes look like I'm a skull.
I was alive and well, I peaked years ago, but it was only my career that was dead.
Then this is were hell really did break loose.
I finally addressed the death rumours hoping that it would give me even more love as I hoped everyone would be relieved to se my again!
The complete opposite happened, people attacked me and "cancelled" me because they believed I faked my death for sympathy.
This wrecked me mentally, along with my longtime girlfriend leaving me. I was in a dark place, I tried to numb the pain with alcohol and started drinking regularly
I once again hid from the internet without any intentions of coming back.
Unfortunately, more death rumours would occur and, rather than blaming the author, peope started to believe that it was my personal attempy to gain some sympathy. I did try to address it at some points but eventually I grew tired of it. Not just the rumours, but myself. I legit started thinking about everything and life and got bad ideas as I stopped mattering for the death rumours.
The article already says I'm dead, so what's the point right?
I was in a deeply sunken place, making bad decisions. But I didn't care anymore, because no one cared for me.
But there was someone who did care for me, all this time he never stopped caring despite the fact that we grew apart.
Bernard cared. He reached out to me as he started to get worried that the rumours we're becoming reality and we had a heart to heart. It was emotional and a lot of crying occured, but it made me happy and strong! I am really grateful for Bernard and how much he cared, It makes me happy that he will always be there for me, even when we stop talking.
Meanwhile, I actually work at a normal job now, sort of. I work in a warehouse as my Pointless, okay and page fortune are starting to run low and I still need to afford rent as I don't want to move back in with my parents. My shifts have been heavily reduced since the pandemic and I'm kinda living paycheck to paycheck right now but I'm still staying positive!
I did get in touch with Caesár and actually asked him if he is even thinking of doing a Pointless, okay reboot as he still does have the idea for a webcomic in his head with his Guitar Monkey character.
He also has been active on Newgrounds, so an animated Pointless, okay cartoon would also be interesting, despite it being hard to make with his current resources. He's also occupied with other projects, such as his 9:25 am project so if he the idea did ever cross his mind he probably parked it in the back of his head.
Anyways, I'm doing much better now then I used to and I hope you're doing good as well!
Thanks for reading!
