This is a guest blog post contributed by Peter Geuzen. Peter is familiar to fans of #Swordgate as the producer of numerous illustrations documenting the proliferation of Fake Hercules Swords since December of 2015. If it has to do with Swordgate, he's on top of it. Enjoy!
If there's one thing that folks in both the fandom and skeptics camps of The Curse of Oak Island TV show can agree on, it's that the biggest fake inanimate object to hit the show up to Season 3 was easily the Fake Roman Sword.
Yes, we capitalize it!
The official verdict hit in January 2016 that the sword was a modern brass souvenir, and not a magical Roman ticket to a self-aggrandized franchise for the promotion of diffusionism. Alas, facts didn’t seem to matter to some, and the circus never quite left town. One year and a few months into the debacle, the Fake Hercules Sword database has grown to a whopping n=24 examples. That’s a new sword every two or three weeks! The regular flow of new swords, the growing timeline of data, and the continued involvement of die-hards, means blogging and Facebooking just isn’t enough to cover the zeitgeist. The rallying cry for video action was made at the 1st Anniversary Party and out of the primordial digital soup, a video came forth . . . and then another . . . a couple more . . . and crap now there are almost as many videos as swords!
So now it’s official. Well, maybe. It’s either the official unofficial or the unofficial official YouTube channel for Swordgate. Yes, Swordgate has gone multimedia in an entertainment conquering effort to control your minds with a visual and aural bombardment. Developed initially by freelance independent producer Critical Thinking, his early work caught the eye of S.I.R., the Swordgate Institute of Research, and a friendly takeover bid was made. S.I.R. has now invested deeply and the Critical Thinking Laboratory is up and running as a wholly owned subsidiary juggernaught.
Yes, we capitalize it!
The official verdict hit in January 2016 that the sword was a modern brass souvenir, and not a magical Roman ticket to a self-aggrandized franchise for the promotion of diffusionism. Alas, facts didn’t seem to matter to some, and the circus never quite left town. One year and a few months into the debacle, the Fake Hercules Sword database has grown to a whopping n=24 examples. That’s a new sword every two or three weeks! The regular flow of new swords, the growing timeline of data, and the continued involvement of die-hards, means blogging and Facebooking just isn’t enough to cover the zeitgeist. The rallying cry for video action was made at the 1st Anniversary Party and out of the primordial digital soup, a video came forth . . . and then another . . . a couple more . . . and crap now there are almost as many videos as swords!
So now it’s official. Well, maybe. It’s either the official unofficial or the unofficial official YouTube channel for Swordgate. Yes, Swordgate has gone multimedia in an entertainment conquering effort to control your minds with a visual and aural bombardment. Developed initially by freelance independent producer Critical Thinking, his early work caught the eye of S.I.R., the Swordgate Institute of Research, and a friendly takeover bid was made. S.I.R. has now invested deeply and the Critical Thinking Laboratory is up and running as a wholly owned subsidiary juggernaught.
Facts, fun, and frivolous, we take the three Fs seriously. No late night talk show clip intro required to build the plot or the characters. If you’re reading this, you probably know the saga so far. Best viewed in hi def on the big screens of PCs and Smart TVs. Coverage includes the anniversary party fun stuff, Sword & Sandals inspiration, recaps of analysis, database summaries, morphologic highlights, critiques, and there should be more to come. There’s almost 50 minutes of entertainment value. That’s like an entire season of new stuff in 15 episodes of Curse, or less time than one video by.........haha, never mind ....just kick back and enjoy!
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