Reopening the Case into A Day With SpongeBob SquarePants

While part of me believes we were as close to the truth as ever, I also believe we were deceived, purposely misdirected so that we would stop looking.

There are plenty of ways to go about this. For example, part of the reason it felt anticlimactic for me, was because there were a bunch of leads we had listed that we never contacted.

For starters, I just rediscovered an old Google Doc that has the names of a ton of Reagal films, along with the names of those that worked on it. Somewhere to start.

I'm sorry if I post a controversial opinion here, but I felt it was necessary in light of what made the "world-famous" (no sarcasm intended) search effort destructive to Reagal Films' reputation.

First of all, I believe we should leave Mr. Orange alone and let him do his own business of writing scripts for film projects. If he doesn't want answer questions related to the film or to do anything with A Day with SpongeBob SquarePants anymore, that is fine with me. Since he is the creator of the film, it's his project and he can do anything he wants with it; in other words, it's his decision if he wants to start up that Kickstarter promised almost two years ago or not. In addition, I have no reason to suspect him of lying since he answered nearly every question related to the film on YouTube user Ongoing Mysteries' closing video on the search effort in a mature and reasonable matter as he never lashes out at any of the search members making up lies and misconceptions about him and the company he works for, but simply debunks them.

Second, despite the DVD being listed on Amazon for a long time (it was only listed to test out if people wanted to pre-order the film while it was in production), it has been confirmed later on that no material was actually produced for the film and the search effort only brought more attention to its Amazon listing, resulting in numerous people making fake DVDs to scam people and lead to the misconception that material was actually produced for the film. It also resulted in numerous proven fake fan-films on YouTube to cash in on the search effort and fool search members into believing they are part of the real "film". If the people at Reagal had simply released a statement on their website saying that nothing was produced for the film and sent out emails to search members about it or just take down the Amazon listing while saying no DVDs were actually produced, much of the ensuing chaos could have been avoided.

Third, multiple people outside of Reagal fooled people into believing that something was actually produced for the film (in one case, a Reddit user claiming to be affiliated with Reagal spreaded lies that Reagal Films isn't a legitimate film studio) and spread lies about the company in an effort to make them more "mysterious" because the people involved refused to answer people's questions about the film. I believe what Mr. Orange said about all of these hurtful accusations as he is the creator of the film and his company is being badly represented by a film that was never produced or existed.

Finally, since Reagal Films' seemingly collapsed, I believe it's less likely that Mr. Orange would want to produce ADWSS anymore because of the bad publicity it gave to Reagal and just wants to move on with his life. Plus, he wants to keep his real identity a secret (hence why he chose the nickname in the first place) for a reason, and we should respect his privacy. I believe that revealing Mr. Orange's real identity could open him up to harrassment and being called a "con-artist" for refusing to reveal any details about his project or follow-up on his promised Kickstarter campaign that never came to fruition.

In conclusion, I can't verify that Mr. Orange doesn't want anything to do with his pet project anymore, but I'm saying this in case if this is true (and even if my theory is proven false). For all these reasons above, I believe that re-opening the search again is a bad idea and can lead to potential life-long harrassment to employees of the now-defunct Reagal Films studio.

I understand that Reagal Films is not a saintly company whose responses to the search effort were questionable, but I was just saying they could have handled the situation so much better had they been more open about the project and kept their story straight. In other words, I was trying to be neutral and fair (i.e. not defend them, but point out that the people involved are human beings going on with their lives and may want nothing to do with the project anymore) to the company while avoiding to quote any of the allegations against them since they are so secretive about their employees, management and projects.

In that case, I'm glad that the planned Kickstarter never got anywhere, since the script wasn't that good. I am not aware of any Kickstarter scams as most of them I have seen (i.e. not all) can deliver on their promises, but you can't count ADWSS as one of them since it never got started and no money was donated to the effort.

I mean, the biggest thing to me is why Lorenzo acted like the movie existed, then retracted to promo copies and then nothing at all; if anyone wants to bother him again, go for it, but at least we got something from them -- they really didn't have to say anything, but I guess it was equally annoying to them as it was to us. And literally all but one of the calls (the most inconsequential one at that) have been removed/privated on YouTube.