So who is ready to crash a streaming site through sheer numbers this october 18 watching The Edge of Sleep? WE ARE.
for those unaware:
Mark Fischbach, aka Markiplier, has been making progressively more ambitious projects for the last several years, including starring in a television show for the Qcode podcast The Edge of Sleep. The podcast is excellent; it’s a sci fi apocalyptic medical drama about a mysterious disease causing people to fall asleep and never wake up. The TV show went into production around 2018 and fell into development hell.
It’s finally being released, but with a pair of truly upsetting conditions:
- No one involved in the project is legally allowed to say where it will air before the day it debuts, and
- The company releasing the show is holding Mark’s most recent project for ransom. His film, Iron Lung, which he’s spent the past two years working on almost exclusively, will have a path out of development hell through this company – but only if Edge of Sleep debuts on their platform in the top ten.
That means zero marketing outside of Mark revealing the air date, and the audience’s prior knowledge of the podcast. The company is dangling Mark’s future as a filmmaker above his head at a truly frustrating height, and he’s asked his fanbase to get him there, because his hands are tied.
If you’re not already following Markiplier’s work, go check out A Heist with Markiplier, In Space with Markiplier, and the podcast of The Edge of Sleep. And on October 18, help this incredibly dedicated filmmaker convince a film studio that his work is worth investing in.
I will personally watch edge of sleep into the ground to get him his iron lung goal
