My Valentine

***My Valentine***, also known as ***Into the Dark: My Valentine***, is a 2020 thriller movie directed and written by Maggie Levin. The film has been widely criticized for basing its story on events described in Mars Argo's 2018 lawsuit against Titanic Sinclair and Poppy.

Several of the film's cast and crew, including Levin, Anna Lore, Shaun J. Brown and Anna Akana previously worked with Argo on the 2015 short film *Wrestling Isn't Wrestling*. Argo was also friends with Akana, but unfollowed her on Twitter shortly after *My Valentine* was released.

## Synopsis

Description taken from Hulu:

> *"A pop singer’s artistic identity is stolen by her ex-boyfriend/manager and shamelessly pasted onto his new girlfriend/protégé. Locked together late one night in a concert venue, the three reconcile emotional abuses of the past…until things turn violent."*
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## Similarities

* The characters of Valentine, Royal, Trezzure and Julie may represent Argo, Sinclair, Poppy and Ivan Leung or Sideara St. Claire respectively.
* Graffiti of a heart with a smiley face can be spotted towards the beginning of the film. It bears a strong resemblance to the scrapped *Mars Argo* album artwork, which was also used as a logo for the band Mars Argo and an avatar for the Grocerybag YouTube channel for several years.
* Valentine accuses Royal of stealing her work and morphing Trezzure into a copy of her. Argo has made identical claims about Sinclair.
* Royal takes sole credit for the songs he wrote with Valentine. Sinclair has made several tweets in the past with the same sentiment towards his work with Argo.
* Trezzure's song "Trezzure Me!" may represent Poppy's 2017 single "I'm Poppy".
* The stolen sunglasses that Trezzure wears may represent the stolen jacket that was described in the lawsuit. They may also take inspiration from the Jeremy Scott x Linda Farrow sunglasses that Argo often wore from 2012 to 2014.
* Royal tries convincing Valentine to work with him on Trezzure's new music. In 2016, Argo was often wrongly assumed to be working with Sinclair on the Poppy project, partly due to Tony Katai's short films starring Argo that were thought to be referenced in several Poppy videos.
* After Royal's death, Trezzure intends to continue with the image she stole from Valentine. Likewise, Poppy ended her relationship with Sinclair in late 2019 although continues making content that many consider to be an imitation of Argo.

## References

1. ↑ Various Artists (February 24, 2020). "Into the Dark: My Valentine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)". *Spotify*. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
2. ↑ Mars Argo News (January 11, 2020). "Brittany has unfollowed Anna Akana on Twitter shortly after a fan called Anna out for starring in the Hulu movie, “My Valentine”". *Twitter*. Retrieved June 14, 2022.
3. ↑ "My Valentine". (February 7, 2020). *Hulu*. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
4. ↑ TMZ (April 17, 2018). "Brittany Alexandria Sheets vs. Corey Michael Mixter and Moriah Rose Pereira". *TMZ*. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
5. ↑ Titanic Sinclair (May 6, 2015). "On a further note, the other half of grocerybag.tv was a construct of my imagination and I wrote every word of every video". *Twitter*. Archived from the original on April 22, 2017. Retrieved June 14, 2022.
6. ↑ Titanic Sinclair (December 5, 2016). "how does it feel knowing I wrote every word you've ever heard her say". *Twitter*. Archived from the original on April 24, 2017. Retrieved June 14, 2022.
7. ↑ Will Lavin (December 29, 2019). "Poppy parts ways with Titanic Sinclair, accuses him of "manipulative patterns"". *NME*. Retrieved May 10, 2022.