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The Day the Music Died

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The Day the Music Died	comment	The Day the Music Died is a short story created by Sam Starbuck, about what could happen if everything possible went wrong in a fandom in such a short time frame.Our narrator, Nick, runs his titular "Nick's Diner" blog, and reminiscences about the overnight downfall of the multi-media franchise Carverquest due to a chain reaction of drama.
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The Day the Music Died / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Day the Music Died / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "The day the music died" is part of the lyrics of Don McLean's American Pie, so they obviously appear when the narrator sings the whole song.
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The Day the Music Died / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
The Day the Music Died / int_25b5600	comment	Captain Ersatz: Dux Carver and the Carverquest franchise serve as one to Harry Potter. It's even got a well-known author better known by their initials than their real name (DLE instead of JKR). The fact that the story ends with everyone dying just before the author follows suit also paints it as one for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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The Day the Music Died / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
The Day the Music Died / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: As lampshaded by the narrator, the Carverquest fandom goes from thriving to bombarded with dramabombs that could last an entire fandom months individually in over a week.
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The Day the Music Died / int_52fbbe7	type	Yellow Peril
The Day the Music Died / int_52fbbe7	comment	Yellow Peril: Deconstructed, as Tamaki's scheme of stealing five thousand people's personal information through a fake leaked copy of Carverquest's final book leads Nick to note that racism became prevalent in the already unstable fandom.
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The Day the Music Died / int_59673edd	type	Computer Virus
The Day the Music Died / int_59673edd	comment	Computer Virus: A Japanese hacker sent out a trojan horse designed to take the IDs of anyone who opened it... disguised as a leak of the most anticipated book in a popular series. And word didn't get out until nearly everyone in the fandom read it. Whoops.
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The Day the Music Died / int_64713b04	type	Pedophile Priest
The Day the Music Died / int_64713b04	comment	Pedophile Priest: Donny Benson, who gets caught engaging in sexual deviancy with a teenage boy.
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The Day the Music Died / int_6ebb6b43	type	Died During Production
The Day the Music Died / int_6ebb6b43	comment	Died During Production: In-Universe. The author of the Carverquest books starts the story on his dying bed and still writing, and only barely avoids this only to decide to write the series ending on a full-blown apocalypse so nobody can write continuations and then dies.
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The Day the Music Died / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
The Day the Music Died / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: The story ends with the narrator discovering another series of books, with the implication that they'll have the exact same toxic fandom that killed Carverquest.
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The Day the Music Died / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Day the Music Died / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: The story is a barrage of bad situations all affecting the Carverquest franchise and fandom at once, which essentially nukes it to the ground overnight.
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The Day the Music Died / int_7e38ea1	type	Dead Artists Are Better
The Day the Music Died / int_7e38ea1	comment	Dead Artists Are Better: The Carverquest fandom shows it's full of two-faced people when they rage so bad about the ending of the series that when the author finally passes away the narrator snarks that maybe all of their collective hatred manifested in a heart attack... and then about five minutes or so after it is official the condolence posts start to appear and so do the fanfiction honoring the man.
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The Day the Music Died / int_d8696817	type	Torch the Franchise and Run
The Day the Music Died / int_d8696817	comment	invokedTorch the Franchise and Run: Happens in-universe to Carverquest: the tenth and final book, written on the author's deathbed, ends with The End of the World as We Know It.
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The Day the Music Died / int_d87cbd26	type	Song Fic
The Day the Music Died / int_d87cbd26	comment	Song Fic: A variation. The climax has the narrator streaming himself singing Don MacLean's American Pie (which has "the day the music died" as part of the lyrics) and videos of people singing the song becoming a short-lived meme before the appearance of a new fandom bandwagon to jump on. As typical of these type of fanfictions, the lyrics are placed among the narration.
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The Day the Music Died / int_d8ee077	type	Content Leak
The Day the Music Died / int_d8ee077	comment	Content Leak: In-universe. The leaking of the entirety of the tenth Carverquest book kicks off the plot four days before it was supposed to hit shelves. Things get complicated when another leak of the same book with entirely different text shows up later, and the ensuing debate over which one was real goes so hard it breaks the LiveJournal servers.
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The Day the Music Died / int_dc2912f	type	Armoured Closet Gay
The Day the Music Died / int_dc2912f	comment	Armoured Closet Gay: Donny Benson is caught "in a hotel room with a ball gag, a blindfold, an electrical-stimulation kit, and a teenage boy."
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The Day the Music Died / int_e4ba33fc	type	Disaster Dominoes
The Day the Music Died / int_e4ba33fc	comment	Disaster Dominoes: First two contradictory versions of the final Carverquest book are leaked. Then it officially releases to reveal an "Everybody Dies" Ending. Then the author dies. It only gets worse from there.
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The Day the Music Died / int_e5467735	type	Expy Coexistence
The Day the Music Died / int_e5467735	comment	Expy Coexistence: Harry Potter (which Carverquest is meant to riff on) is established to exist early on, as even their fandom is embarrassed by the behavior of Carverquest fans.
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The Day the Music Died / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Day the Music Died / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: The author continuously describes all of the Internet insanity, all of the standard fandom discussion and so on, as "wank".
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The Day the Music Died / int_e68fbf8e	type	Popular with Furries
The Day the Music Died / int_e68fbf8e	comment	invokedPopular with Furries: The in-universe Carverquest books are stated to have attracted several furry fans by the protagonist due to the immense amount of werewolves and romantic subtext involving them.
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The Day the Music Died / int_f5c505db	type	The Cracker
The Day the Music Died / int_f5c505db	comment	The Cracker: "Tamaki" fakes a leak of the final Carverquest book to steal approximately 5000 people's personal information. The narrator comments that "When the police caught up with him he was hip-deep in Wiis, iPhones, and candy bars."
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The Day the Music Died / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
The Day the Music Died / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: Reverend Donny Benson becomes the sworn enemy of several thousand people when he broadcasts a rant from his church the day old DLE dies, decrying the man, his work and all of its fans as evil.
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The Day the Music Died / int_fc9b6be5	type	Foe Romance Subtext
The Day the Music Died / int_fc9b6be5	comment	Foe Romance Subtext: According to the fans, Dux had plenty of it with his nemesis the Werewolf King in the books. The eighth film apparently laid it on thicker than usual.
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