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I had fallen in love with improv when I was, like, in seventh grade, I think. I wanted to have a career that involved comedy and/or comedy writing for a while. What made you want to create the videos in the first place?

The hateful comments they received over the years - which included rape and death threats - have thankfully been eclipsed this past week by praise for their comedy, with Raven and Tara being hailed as вЂњmeme queens.вЂќ Vulture recently caught up with Sarah following her return to the Raven persona. Besides safety concerns as a sex worker, she also wanted to make sure that her video co-stars, Azer (who uses they/them pronouns) and Tara, were protected, since the latter, especially, values her privacy. In the final week of 2020, though, the speculation became fervent enough that Sarah decided to tell the story on her own terms, rather than risk being doxxed. ulG372slYb- acid bath princess of the darkness January 2, 2021ДЇor a while, Sarah was able to deny that Petra and Raven were one and the same with simple math: SheвЂ™s about five or six years older than Raven claims to be in the videos. The barrage of questions on her work accounts compounded in 2020 when the theory spread on TikTok. Internet sleuths started to connect the dots between Raven and Petra in 2018, and she disabled the comments section on the YouTube videos in 2019 to stop users from keeping the rumor alive (comments have since been reactivated). She had admitted in a 2014 WNYC interview that Raven and Tara were fictional and had no connection whatsoever to My Immortal, but people barely seemed to notice.

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Raven, whose real name is Sarah, came forward because people were beginning to link her professional social-media presence (sheвЂ™s a dominatrix who performs under the moniker Petra Hunter) with the old videos.

Twelve years to the day after their viral New YearвЂ™s video was uploaded, Raven resurfaced online, confirming that the characters were comedy creations. Many saw parallels between Tara and Raven of YouTube and Tara Gilesbie, the author of the infamous Harry Potter fanfic My Immortal (yes, the title is an Evanescence reference). Commenters speculated about the alleged poser-dom of the trio, when they werenвЂ™t insulting their appearances or sexual orientation. The videos were clearly comedy, but the internet was a much different place in the late 2000s. Their YouTube channel, xXblo0dyxkissxX, featured the girls and, occasionally, their friend Azer (who was briefly disowned after being spotted in a Hollister) dancing and singing along to the likes of Good Charlotte and Papa Roach, while also asserting their devotion to the goth lifestyle. New years, new tears.вЂќ And thus a meme was born. They fill us in on their dislikes (preps, Davey HavokвЂ™s new hair) and likes (Edward Cullen, Hot Topic) to kick off the new year, even though they advise us, вЂњCrappy New Year.

My Chemical Romance blasts in the background as they introduce themselves: Raven, the Acid Bath Princess of the Darkness, and Tara. Two teenage girls, eyes ringed in black, stare deadpan to the camera.

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