I mentioned a bit that during Victor and Gloriana Graves’ Music Video Extravaganza, there were philosophy segments. Philosophy was a big part of V&G’s work. They wanted to create a new method of doing things, something never seen before. They wanted to create brand new political systems, new ideologies, they wanted to usher in a new age. They thought the one they lived through, the one we’re currently living through, was detestable.

  You can think of Gravesian Art as Applied Gravesian Philosophy. The same with Gravesian Politics. I mentioned that there was a no politics rule for the Gravers in the last entry, but that was only true in the general sense of the word. No outside politics. Inside politics was fine. That and Victor and Gloriana became more political as time went on, it’s just they tended to go their own way. They didn’t belong to one or another political party, wanting to court both sides of the political spectrum. Was that beneficent or more self-serving? I’ll let you be the judge of that. Remember, Victor was just a man, with all that entails.

  Appealing to both sides was a tough task, though, particularly in the 2010s and 2020s, as I’m sure you know. We’re incredibly divided right now. Victor still sought to do it, much to the ire of some of the internet. He was called a fence sitter, an enlightened centrist, a political coward. This didn’t really bother Victor, as online spaces were a beehive of negativity. It can be expected by anyone who gets popular that they’re going to have their haters. Victor was no different in that regard, but he still had a very high reputation when it came right down to it.

  He knew the rules of obtaining power, both the good ones and the bad ones. He knew what great men (great =/= good) had done in the past to achieve power. He needed an enemy, he knew that. Someone to point at and say this is the source of your problems. Who would this enemy be, particularly for someone who’s not trying to rock the boat politically? He targeted Hollywood itself.

  Maybe not the celebrities, not at first, as they were, for the most part, liked by people. He targeted the industries. V&G accused them of being like a den of adders. He accused them of taking the dreams of desperate young people and using them to twist them and manipulate them and to make them go against their own principles in the pursuit of fame and money.

  This is where we’re going to get to back to real people again, with all the awkwardness that entails. We’re going to talk about Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein. And perhaps this works better for the millennial version of Victor Graves rather than the gen-z version, but for the latter, we’ll just say that the Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein thing and the Me Too movement didn’t happen in the Gravesverse world as it happened in our own world.

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  The flashpoint of the Cosby thing started in the real world when comedian Hannibal Burress laid into him during a comedy set that was posted online. We’ll say that didn’t happen, but that the rumors circulating about Bill Cosby were a bit of an open secret. The same for Harvey Weinstein.

  Before I get much further, I should say all of this happened after Victor and Gloriana Graves won Oscars for their Extravaganza. That Oscars ceremony in particular was a big turning point in V&G’s life, so we’ll come back to it in particular at a later date, so we’re jumping forward in time a bit for this entry.

  Victor and Gloriana put out a general call for people to come forward to them in secret and detail the abuses they’ve faced at the hands of Hollywood. Victor and Gloriana were big news at this time, they were considered capable people. The pair told people to come forward to them with their accusations and they would make these people who abused them regret committing the abuse, if they could. And he would keep their identity a secret unless they were specifically given permission to reveal it.

  This is what kicked off the Gravesverse MeToo movement, which was a more private affair. This gave Victor and Gloriana Graves power over some of the Hollywood movers and shakers, and it also put them on the industry’s shitlist. It was also a way for them to continue creating headlines. To remind you of the time table, this is after the Extravaganza and after the numerous episodes of Fatebook being played on a monthly basis in the movie theaters and after the Oscars ceremony where they won awards for their Extravaganza.

  Throughout their life, they remained in the headlines, and naturally, too. Always off doing some great (great=/=good) thing, always making a bigger name for themselves. This fact made some people queasy when Victor Graves became president and was given the power of nuclear war, but that’s a story for later.

  But anyway, the Gravesverse MeToo movement was started by Victor and Gloriana, and it was done strategically to cause those powerful abusive people to hurt. They didn’t instantly go to the police/court system. It started off with blackmail and obtaining influence in the movie industry. They threw Bill Cosby under the bus, as he was too old to do anything for them and his crimes were particularly heinous. Those accusations would proceed naturally with the news cycle once they had boosted the signal of the accusers. Weinstein, though, was a player in Hollywood. If V&G had him under their thumb, they’d be able to make some moves in the industry. And that is exactly what they did.