Poppy & Mars Argo: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
The Similarities & So-Called 'Poppy Copies' of Mars Argo Are Voluminous & Have Been Shared & Debated by Fans of Both.
The first Poppy and Sinclair collaboration was the November 2104 video "Poppy Eats Cotton Candy.
With platinum hair, a pitched voice, stark white, sterile backdrops, monochromatic tones and audio, Sheets lawsuit says Poppy didn't just assume the Mars Argo aesthetic, she and Sinclair outright ripped off Mars Argo.
There are compilation videos that show the copies as does the lawsuit.
Mars Argo, Poppy and Titanic Sinclair lawsuit.
Examples of the evidence of what Sheets calls copyright infringement is included in the lawsuit; image after image of Mars Argo and the "Poppy copy.
Mars Argo, Poppy and Titanic Sinclair lawsuit.
Mixter posted a photo of Poppy "wearing Ms.
Sheets' jacket.
Poppy now not only looked and sounded like Mars Argo but was wearing her actual clothes," the suit reads.
Mars Argo, Poppy and Titanic Sinclair lawsuit.
As Poppy's fame grew, there was more discussion of the apparent cloning of the Mars Argo persona.
Sheets says "Mixter transformed Poppy into a new Mars Argo, and directly copied her content, style, aesthetic, sound, and expression of ideas," specifically related to "the internet, celebrity, and pop culture, with a focus on the future and technology.".
Mars Argo, Poppy and Titanic Sinclair lawsuit.
The 2014 Mars Argo "Delete Your Facebook" video on her Grocerybag.
tv YouTube Channel was copied by Poppy in January of 2017.
And Sheets claims, that it's no coincidence that the name of the original Mars Argo project was called the "Computer Show" and Poppy's debut album and tour were entitled "Poppy.
Computer.
In 2016, a friend of Mixter's and the team's videographer, Tony Katai, uploaded a video entitled "Everybody Wants It All," a 2013 'private' video of Sheets shot by Katai.
The lawsuit says Sheets had made it "for a provocative art event in downtown Detroit in 2013, and was never intended by her to be put online, "especially not in 2016 when there were so many questions surrounding Mars Argo's absence from the internet." She asked it to be taken down from YouTube and it was not.
In the video, Mars Argo has a gun to her head which caused alarm among fans who thought "Mars Argo was dead and replaced by Poppy, or that Mars Argo was working with Poppy and Poppy was the continuation of the Mars Argo project.
On information and belief, Mr Mixter, through his friend, purposely posted the video online to link Mars Argo to the Poppy project and/or to wrongly imply that Mars Argo chose to end her character so that Poppy could continue it.
Sheets, of course, never consented to Poppy appropriating her persona or stealing her intellectual property," the lawsuit reads.
A note about that video which is clearly performance art; at the end Mars Argo (or Sheets at that time perhaps) mumbles something with a mouthful of blood, presumably fake and then there are weird sounds that when listened to in reverse give existential-sounding advice that people can only have it all when they let their minds go silent and let go of their desires; money, fame and fortune.
It sounds like Sinclair's voice.
The video is exactly three minutes and 36 seconds long.
Poppy posts a video, '3:36.'.
Poppy has "used the disappearance of Mars Argo" by making "subtle references to Mars Argo in Poppy projects, the suit says.
This will be construed by some as either mocking or threatening Mars Argo.
And other elements of the video too will be directly lifted and used by Poppy in her own videos including the mouth-dripping-blood bit in this image:.
Mars Argo, Poppy and Titanic Sinclair lawsuit.
And in the "Oh, No!" Poppy video, some see an admission that Poppy has replaced Mars Argo.
Despite Sheets disappearing and swirling controversy around the question of whether Poppy had stolen the persona as directed by Sinclair, or if the two artists were one in the same or if something had happened to Argo, Poppy's fame rocketed.
But Mars Argo fans noted the copies.
That said, Mars Argo may have created the persona, but Poppy perfected it.
Poppy, With Hundreds of Millions of Followers & Fans, Broke Character on Twitter & Blasted the Lawsuit Claiming She's The Victim & Sheets is Seeking 'Publicity.
' Meanwhile, She's Invited Fans to Her New 'Poppy.
Church'.
"Part of what has made Poppy so successful is the mystery surrounding her.
That mystery would not be possible without Mars Argo's disappearance," Sheets' lawsuit claims.
Countless videos and news articles have pointed out that while Poppy is no doubt huge, she's a Mars Argo "carbon copy," that Mars Argo was a "Poppy Prototype" and Motherboard noted that the remaining Mars Argo videos (all but three have been deleted) "bear a striking resemblance to the videos on Poppy's YouTube channel.
In fact, it seems as though Poppy's character is directly based on the character of Mars Argo.
Many Mars Argo fans and others are convinced Poppy, with the direction of Sinclair, co-opted the Mars Argo persona.
In 2017, at at least one Poppy performance, audience members yelled "Where's Mars Argo?" Poppy threatens to "end the show early.".
"It's been very painful to read the lawsuit and to see the word 'abuser' and my own name in the same sentence," the personality tweeted.
In this case, as herself it appears though one cannot be certain.
"… something very few people know is that one of the reasons I work the way I work and why I had made such efforts to conceal my identity is because I have my own history as a survivor of abuse.
This trauma is something that I never wanted to be made public.".
Poppy claims on Twitter, again out of character, that Sheets is "well aware of the anguish I went through so in attempt to manipulate me psychologically she's now collaborating and maintaining an ongoing relationship with the exact man who took advantage of me when I was young and vulnerable…" She posted a video of a man who visits Sinclair and then starts hitting him.
Poppy's tweet suggests this is the man she claims abused her.
Poppy posted on Twitter just days after news of the lawsuit surfaced that she was abused and that's why she hid her identity and claimed Sheets not only knew but had developed a relationship of some sort with the man Poppy (now posting as Moriah) claims abused her.
A guy by the man of Joshua Moran.
Moran says the accusations are at best, untrue: "It's a desperate ploy to detract from their own pending legal issues, which I have nothing to do with.
" He says he hasn't spoken to either in three years and allegations of abuse are baseless; requests for restraining orders were not only dismissed, he says police never spoke with him about any allegations of abuse.
Meanwhile, Poppy has moved on promoting Poppy.Church.
Previously, some had accused her of being a member of the Illuminati or being a cultist; she addressed the accusations that she and Sinclair are cultists with a short video, "I Am Not An A Cult," where she claims not to be a cultist while telling viewers to repeat what she says and follow her.
Now, comes Poppy.Church where she asks fans, "Are you ready for your salvation?" She's already uploaded Poppy.Church videos including "Crystal" that is both suggestive and possibly metaphorical.
Other Poppy.Church videos are more opaque and hard to fathom but fans either get it and are enthralled or or don't care and are enthralled.
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