Did Deagle Nation give you feels? -

[Handsome Pete]

So to see Jace, Tyce and Gail joking around on the final stream and coming across as pleasant, well-adjusted people, I felt it was genuinely touching, like they'd suddenly become the beneficiaries of some sort of sudden life-improving miracle.

I thought the same thing. Like someone went back in time and prevented whatever terrible incident had made them all crazy in the first place. We got to experience the kind of "good ending" that's normally only possible in science fiction, and I'm not going to complain about anything that makes my life more like Back to the Future.

 

[dicknastyfantastic]

I think I experienced all of the emotions a person can feel while watching Jace's antics. I would suck Jan's dick in return for the hours of entertainment he's given me if I could.

 

[Blueberry]

Confessions of someone who got trolled:
1. When that one retarded girl and her merry band of edgelords got arrested for plotting a mass shooting in Halifax, Nova Scotia I was almost certain Tyce was involved.
2. I was invested in the will they or wont they get back together Tyce/Jace Bromance. I guess including Eli it was a totally realistic and not gay bromance love triangle.
3. I laughed really hard when Gail threatened to shut down the live stream and Jace retreated to the Prius to live stream. Then I felt really bad for laughing because it was so pathetically sad.
4. When Tyce got jumped by Jace and Eli it was more logical in my mind that it was just a bunch of slow in the minds chimping out, as opposed to a really stupid staged encounter.
5. Every time Jace would have a schizophrenic meltdown during a live stream I would feel so terrible for laughing so hard.
6. I believed in Gails batshit crazy christian nonsense because I live in the bible belt and there are people here who probably believe in the heterosexual powers of all american meatloaf.
7. Sometimes I would think "I bet Tyce is on a rooftop somewhere harvesting his stash of bottled jenkem" without even considering how dumb that is
8. I was eagerly anticipating the big reveal of which STD Eli got
9. I can not play the Sims 3 anymore because its not as funny as when Jace does it
10. I no longer say "skeleton", I say "skeelaton" or some other retarded variation.

 

[dabluearmedbandit]

I was surprised to find out it was fake, then went through all of the old Deagle Nation videos, seeing Jan/Jace almost slip with a smile or a laugh during a scream after seeing a dick or gay wolf sex. Now I'm pretty much over it, but so hoping that Jan continues making videos and entertaining us all. Hell, now I can show Deagle Nation to my friends and tell them that it's all just acting instead of having to go into detail about who Jace is. xD

That's true, its a lot easier to show friends an awesome performance artist rather than "wanna see this mentally ill kid I help torture on the internet?"

 

[Rogowski]

I'll admit when I first got into Deagle Nation (when Tyce and the race war van were outside Eli's house about to rob Jace) I thought it was fake. Of course it had a lot to do with when I came into the storyline and the fact that Jace was making claims on Twitter that were pretty outrageous and had no proof of any of it. From there I was interested and I found all the good videos on youtube and I was hooked. I looked at it like pro wrestling; I thought Jace was at least a real person who was just laying it on extra thick who was also creating the storylines with someone's help. But by the end of it I was heavily invested in it and when Wupocalypse broke loose the feels started flowing and I was like a proud dad watching his only son who had made it. And seeing the way he handled himself only made me more proud while also making me more suspicious. And when the news broke of his revealing I remember being a little bit sad.

EDIT:

Let me put it this way. When I found out Santa wasn't real it was because I was too excited to sleep and I saw my parents putting all the presents under the trees. I was just like "oh cool, my parents bought us all that shit, that makes them even more awesome" and I went to sleep. But finding out DN was fake? That shit hurt man.

 

[Kool Kid Kue]

I went out of my way to take a photo of the christmas tree in city square with a big banner saying 'Melbourne' to show Jace that Christmas in Australia was safe after the Lindt Cafe terrorism because I thought he was genuinely worried.

AHA, I'm from Melbourne too. I thought there wasn't going to be many Aussies following the parkourdude91 escapades, after checking the DN forums I was wrong. Quite surprising, actually.

 

[Kablamo]

I followed the hijinks for nearly a year. I lurked the forums endlessly and watched each passing Deagle Nation video and stream with growing fascination. I never had anything meaningful to contribute and remained a lurker, but no less a dedicated fan. I followed many of the other minor lolcows and even got to recognize and appreciate many of you fine Kiwis in the process.

When I finally found out it was all a ruse, I knew it was finally time to register an account and to share my appreciation for the journey that I had been taken on. I was overwhelmed with disbelief, astonishment when all was revealed. It was such an honor to ride aboard the I would do it all over again in the blink of an eye. I'm glad the ride is not over, and in many ways things have gotten much more interesting.

I'd like to echo @Wolf Appreciator 's sentiments on immensely enjoying the final stream and seeing the crew together . It was very rewarding. Also, I can very much relate to @Dean Ween wilfully suppressing those moments of skepticism. I certainly found myself questioning of some of the events, and sometimes it seemed all to good to be true. That's okay,

It is really nice to hear that Deagle Nation helped some of you during dark and unpleasant times. I am fortunate enough that life has been treating me well in recent years, but Jan's work made me laugh in ways that were so genuine. I would sometimes laugh so hard I had tears rolling down face, laughing so hard I felt like I couldn't breath. And that is an amazing gift.

 

[iloveallah]

I had some major feels for Jace when Tyce betrayed him time and time again.

 

[c-no]

Like anyone else, I feel for the bait. Didn't follow all of Deagle Nation with the streams but I did enjoy whatever worth they had. Until Jan revealed it all to be a ruse, I honestly thought Jace was real. In light of being rused, I feel Jan deserves a medal for the performance he gave in this.

 

[Jackie Chin]

100% Yes. DN, Jace, Tyce everyone included really helped me through some depressing times. Whenever I'd go to work I'd tell my co-workers the crazy shit Jace did on the stream usually the night before. One of my co-workers heard about Jace from me, and started to follow him a little bit more during the Wu-pocalypse. I really hope from the bizarre stories I told them about Jace, that it brought a smile to their face as much as it did mine. DN is, and always shall be my friend (To quote Spock). There are definitely moments in which I kinda vent by acting like a total weed addicted psycho myself, and my friends don't understand that. Deep down Jace is in me. And in you....

 

[gettar]

The Thanksgiving stream when he said "I'm thankful for Tyce, for being my friend... While it lasted." I'm so glad they're friends again now. Jace's genuine love for "the gaming" was also quite touching at times.

 

[XH 502]

I'm actually quite impressed with how accurate Jan's portrayal of a schizophrenic man was. That's the main reason why I believed that the DN gang was real. It wasn't the shocking moments of Jace's freakouts, but rather the little things that convinced me. Delusions and paranoia all have at least some shred of factual basis and, much like OCD, once you learn to "speak the language" of psychosis you can trace the narrative. There was one fairly recent stream in particular, the one where Satan skyped his wolf soul, and Jace/Jan started talking really fast about all these signs of the devil trying to reach him and the implications of the flags the WWE crowd were holding. It sounded like nonsense, but each subject of the freakout naturally flowed into the next and was grounded in just enough reality to make his faux delusions believable.

Though I (like everyone else) loved watching his antics, I was always concerned about Jace's mental health. That's what made me sympathize with his character so it's actually a relief to know for sure that he's not a real person who's been denied treatment.

 

[CrispyBacon]

I've barely been following Deagle Nation for a month, but they've given me a lot of laughs. I was quite sad when it was all revealed to be ruse, but now I'm actually quite excited to see where things will go. Knowing that it was all actually fake is relieving in some ways, and now Jan and Robert can do a lot more with the characters than they were able to before.

Watching the final livestream together with my best friend (@Pancake, who introduced me to Kiwi Farms and Deagle Nation in the first place) was almost surreal. Jan and Robert's friendship reminded us a lot of our own, so if anything, we're even more attached to Deagle Nation than we had been before.

 

[Damn Near]

i usually consider feels to be gay and unrealistic, but yes.

 

[Da Big Staw]

Can't say i ever got the "feels" from DN. For me it was entertainment, amazing entertainment!.

I actually thought the people getting all emotionally invested did not help these boards at all. I loved that we had a rule post stating "DN is Entertainment! Do not let DN/Jace hold emotional sway over you". This is something all lolcow watchers should remember.

It was funny how the whole "Gail/christ zone" stuff really hit a nerve for so many towards the end. Yet suddenly all these people were willing to not hold Jace responsible for any of his actions, and wanted to rescue him from his mother, Pretty much the last few months anytime anyone would try to troll, or pretty much any interaction not being super nice was considered "alog" or "super weeny" by a large portion of the board because they let the saga hold wayy to much power over their emotions.

 

[TheProdigalStunna]

I got the feels. I'd always feel bad for Jace when he was having a mental breakdown on camera, especially when he would start talking in his pathetic baby voice. He just seemed like such a kid in an adult's body who was afraid of growing up and just wanted to be liked, and that always hit me hard. Like even in the comedic masterpiece that is Tyce's Intervention I still felt for him. Like many have said, Jan made the schizophrenic aspects of Jace eerily believable (especially when he was "on drugs"), which of course is how he kept the ruse going for so long. When the ruse was finished, I was both in awe but also crushed because I was so emotionally invested in these characters that I thought were real. I still at the back of my head see the whole storyline as just temporarily suspended.

 

[Arkangel]

I personally enjoyed how most of us came to see Jace as a sympathetic character even though Jan explained he never intended for him to be likable in any capacity.

My personal "feels" moment came during the Sims livestream where Jace was creating a "fantasy childhood" and was taking vengeance on all the people who supposedly messed up his life, such as his mother, father, pastor faggot, etc, all the while having John Cena as a friend and a healthy mixture of laughing and crying. It was like watching a disturbed little kid play with toys. I genuinely felt bad for Jace because he had a supposedly fucked up upbringing and playing games was his only way of expressing himself. I shed lots of manly tears during the "PRESS ONE IF I SHOULD KILL MY DAD!" segment of the stream.

But, yeah. DN gave me all sorts of feels from laughter, to sadness, to "What am I doing with my life watching this?"

 

[Clown Doll]

It was an emotional rollercoaster all the way through. I'd say that I only feel a little foolish for being such a worrywart over Jace doing something dangerous that would end him(although he did crash his car ).

I was trolled by Deagle Nation and I am wondering if anyone else got trolled too.

I thought it was kind of like a Duck Dynasty type of deal, where the characters themselves are real, but they exaggerate themselves a little for the camera. I was suspicious about the things never seen like the Jenk Jugs or the Race War van, but there was always enough plausible deniability that I never went like, "Jace is an actor" for real.

I think overall the subtlety helped in it a lot, for example things like the Vlogtember stream or the first Christstream(without Gail, with Jace saying he is quitting the internet) where Jace didn't do like actual "funny" stuff, but just tell people how he's being sick of all of it helped the believability, as did cutting Dank Swordz tv just after one episode because Jace and Tyce's "differences" even though people found it funny and wanted more.

 

[XH 502]

I was suspicious about the things never seen like the Jenk Jugs or the Race War van, but there was always enough plausible deniability that I never went like, "Jace is an actor" for real.

I think the only thing that upsets me about this whole is that it means the Race War Van never existed. My first exposure to Deagle Nation was during the night of its reveal, and goddamn I wanted to believe.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

I personally enjoyed how most of us came to see Jace as a sympathetic character even though Jan explained he never intended for him to be likable in any capacity.

My personal "feels" moment came during the Sims livestream where Jace was creating a "fantasy childhood" and was taking vengeance on all the people who supposedly messed up his life, such as his mother, father, pastor faggot, etc, all the while having John Cena as a friend and a healthy mixture of laughing and crying. It was like watching a disturbed little kid play with toys. I genuinely felt bad for Jace because he had a supposedly fucked up upbringing and playing games was his only way of expressing himself. I shed lots of manly tears during the "PRESS ONE IF I SHOULD KILL MY DAD!" segment of the stream.

But, yeah. DN gave me all sorts of feels from laughter, to sadness, to "What am I doing with my life watching this?"

That was tragic, even the great John Cena abandoned Jace in his time of need.