[verylittlemeat]

Arguably the only reason Poppy got popular was because people weren't sure if she was an act. For a long time she was just "OMG who is this freaky youtube girl!!!"

Obviously in hindsight we know she was an act and correspondingly interest in her has declined.

Blurring the line between act and reality is one of the foundations of entertainment. It's the reason people admire good method actors so much. It's the reason people like Andy Kaufman are considered artistic gods.

[pavs]

My rule with Youtube is that, if the production value is relatively high, the character is an act (ie, scripted). I don't know who poppy was had to look it up and saw some of her older videos and it seemed to me that right from the beginning her videos had good lighting, makeup, dress code and overall editing quality was higher than your typical amateur youtube videos.

As someone else mentioned below that easy to have an opinion after the fact, my observation of the shooter, as well be biased, but I feel that even I didn't know anything about her - I would still think the videos were odd. I can't exactly pin-point whats odd about it.