the Ken-Year Chronicle

Wrap Up

So this last part is kind of an epilogue. This will be trends and general ideas that couldn’t be consolidated into a single episode or that I didn’t want to give a dedicated arc like with Dream or Barbie. For example, the popular memes of the year…

Back during the Golden Age, such calendars were more understandable as they only featured one prominent meme per month but um. I don’t know what’s going on. Did I even mention some of this stuff? I don’t know. It doesn’t help that memes are largely viral as videos now and still as twitter/tumblr screenshots rather than just an image and a caption. At least you can have this as a relic but I will not decipher it any further.

There is still certain trends I was able to catch. First of all, back then, people would caption memes with a preface, “the feeling when”, “my face when”, “when you” with the first two usually abbreviated as tfw or mfw. Then they would describe something that would be represented by the image. I call these Relatable Memes as you are supposed to related to them although during that time, people would also make highly specific or completely unrelatable ones as a twist. That has slowly been replaced on tiktok with “Pov” as the preface. That is “point of view” but as everyone points out it usually does not show the correct perspective for the meme to make sense. They will either use first person rather than second meaning your pov is you watching the joke happen to them rather than experiencing it yourself. Some do it correctly and I laugh harder from it. Regardless, its just a preface for the meme which may or may not be funny inherently. Also the old prefaces are still used with new (not this year new but) variants like “mfs be like” or “niggas when”, or naming specific fandoms.

Another thing in captioning is the difference between Fans and Enjoyers as the new versus meme template (older iterations exist as boys vs girls, chad vs virgins, ect). Fans are usually referenced to angry people who get nitpicky about the subject that they seldom know about while the Enjoyer is happy, entertained, and knows everything.

Next is something I hadn’t seen before this year but people have started using parenthesis in captions to further explain the joke (like I have throughout this chronicle). At least more than two years ago, memes were intentionally made for people in on the joke and thus supposed to be confusing to those not in the culture. It didn’t matter how many layers there were, if you were the target audience, you’d laugh. But I guess people want their memes to be less niche now or it is an effort to tell a second joke. Sometimes, though it doesn’t really add anything. For example:

Another trend in the wording of memes is calling stuff “my Roman Empire” that started after a trend of women on tiktok asking their boyfriends if they think about the Roman Empire everyday. For the boyfriends, their answer depended on a lot of things as it was a large polity with lots of wiggle room for the actual definition. There were admitted fans of the ancient Republic, the dynastic empire in the Roman, Greek or Turkish phases, people who like the architecture, art, or culture, and still others who had a favorite Roman civilian. Every guy posted to tiktok did affirm that they at least somewhat thought about Rome. So for those who didn’t, they decided to join the conversation with other things that represent their ‘Roman Empire’ such as a Chinese Empire or just like Taylor Swift. “Pokemon is my Roman Empire”, “Old Westerns is my Roman Empire”, “Cheese is my Roman Empire”. These posts also join others where people hint at you that they have some kind of hyperfixiation or ADHD related thing. Very annoying phrase regardless.

One bad bad bad trend on Twitter was the flanderization of the ‘hot take’ and the related ‘hear me out’ memes. A hot take would be an uncommon opinion held against the majority of society and ironically, anyone sharing what they thought were hot takes got plenty of likes and reposts. ‘Hear me out’ and its little sister ‘is this a safe space’ are thirst posting prompts captioning a picture of an unconventionally attractive woman (usually) which the OP would like to have sex with. It used to be somewhat uglier people to others but OP specifically is supposed to like them. The little sister, I specifically detest, because its supposed to be more of a dog whistle that your horny for the pictured person with no elaboration. So I’ll see these posts and wonder if they mean in a positive or negative sense as twitter can often be negative, whether or not their opinion can be popular. But it is always positively horny as I’ve learned. All three of these prompts have been ruined throughout the year as many people have started using them with agreeable opinions or agreeably attractive people such as Velma Dinkley (from the live action!). These people are perhaps new to the internet or just wanted to attract other people who would agree to the agreeable opinion. There would always be a baker’s dozen of tweeters who informed OP that their opinion is in fact largely accepted and they were using the meme incorrectly. The annoying goose chase of trying to police English.

After Zoolander memes spilled into this year, actors doing wacky poses in photo shoots would gain lots of intertest. The first to get the treatment of being used for rection memes was still at the turn of the year, actor and goblin William Dafoe. It was due to an old video of someone asking for his outfit details in which he shows off each piece of winterwear which was bought at Payless or something. The humble swagger was admirable. Edits would be made of the clip to glaze Dafoe and then a few photos of him would be shared alongside it. If you think these are eccentric, here comes Kevin Hart. The short and black comedian would be found in a series of sassy yet goofy looking photos. Many would be used from February and throughout spring in twitter and other image reaction sites. Then the next celebrity was, funnily, Kevin James of King of Queens who posed for some Getty images in silly situations. He would be used throughout September and the autumn season. He even neutrally reacted to it on the Jimmy Fallon show (holy shit it took all year for this guy to get mentioned). After that, a crazy shot from Spider-Man actor Tobey Maguire would become a meme that people would try to copy on their own. They couldn’t reach the height he reached.

Probably the most shared gif on Twitter and even on Discord, would be iShowSpeed holding a laugh while his friend tells him the funniest possible story. Obviously, he could hardly hold it back.

Rather than images, new clips from “DJ Khaled” Mohammed Khaled would become a popular trend in May. It was a new series of little catchphrases from him, reminding me of the time in like 2017 when his snapchats were popular. They are entertaining due to being loud and nonsensical, especially coming from a full grown adult. He makes himself sound like a 2 year old just gaining consciousness. Oh, weird. His new catchphrases would include, “Let’s go golfing”, “Let’s go bowling”, “let’s go swimming”, “tell them to bring the yatch out”, “tell them to bring out the whole lobster” always followed by “tell them to bring out the whole ocean,” “call me asparagus”, “Budget approved”, “Have you ever played rugby?”, “SUNDAY MORNING, SUNDAY BRUNCH, SUNDAY BREAKFAST.”, “Life is Roblox”, “They didn’t believe in us, GOD DID!”. Everyone loved it.

On Tiktok, there will be waves of certain tv shows or movies remaining stuck on one’s FYP, usually because they’re new such as Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. But sometimes, people rediscover incredibly old series that would’ve never received attention if one of the reposted clips didn’t get viral. The biggest nostalgia trend was about the surreal comedy computer animation Xavier: Renegade Angel. I can’t really describe it in a way that would satisfy what it is. But I’ll try. It is about an angel that wants to solve the problems of both himself and others. It is an acid trip of show where the English language is beyond bastardized and practically everyone acts on schizophrenic tendencies. Especially Xavier. I mean, the dialogue is just double entrendre on double entrendre while making the character look stupid for saying it, it’s astounding. This show came out on Adult Swim in 2007, imagine being confused at the rise of surreal humor in memes in 2017. THERE’S PREREQUISITES! The funniest bit from the show was when he argued with himself.

Eras Tour: Country to Pop or whatever singer Taylor Swift would shake the Earth with her Eras Tour. Now let me get the download for you on Swift Lore. Born a Sagittarius to a family in finances with Scottish blood hailing from William “Gharb”, T-Swizzle was raised in middling state of Pennsylvania. Being inspired to be the next big country singer, she traveled to Nashville only to get rejected. So she started songwriting instead, working with the new Big Machine Records company out of Nashville. She was 14-15 now and in 2006, the label would release her first single “Tim McGraw”. She was seemingly a big enough hit with the young country girl crowd and so she continued for the next few years of this “Country Era” 2004-2008. In 2007, she would become the youngest person ever to be rewarded by Nashville’s music community. It was also during this era she dated Joe Jonas. Next comes the “Fearless Era” 2008-2010 which was still country and still fairly popular. The album of the same name lasted 11 weeks and would receive many awards. While accepting one of them, she would famously be interrupted by Kanye West who had better things to say. She would have many collabs during this time period and dated Taylor Lautner while in one of her few acting appearances. Personally and with no respect, I think it’s pretty gay to date another Taylor. She showed up in Crime Scene Investigation and Saturday Night Live. In the third era “Speak Now”, she would finally start revealing details of her relationships in her music which would start a stereotype about all of her songs; that she only sings about breakups. I guess this is when she was becoming too popular for such a meme to be born. She has dated 4 other men I haven’t mentioned before Jonas, but in investigating her fandom’s wiki, I found that they will point to many songs referring to one boy purely on speculation. In Speak Now‘s “Back to December” she might be signing about Lautner. Now they pay more attention to her so I have nothing to really about. Another example will appear in the fourth “Red” era. With Red, she collabed with many songwriters to create a broader range of music from pop to rock and back to country. I would also say she changed her appearance a bit, showing up less in a frizzy hairstyle and in more dynamic costumes. Her biggest songs that I even heard here was “We are Never Ever Getting Back Together” which was attacking her relationship with Jake Gyllenhaal, supposedly. There were other inescapable Target hits like “I knew you were Trouble” and “22” as she was currently that age. For the rest of my life, the latter song was played at a women’s twenty-second birthday. She also dated Harry Style and Conner Kennedy in this era. She was defiantly in the top ten most famous white women (she was in the damn Hunger Games) by now, in contest with Kanye as the top ten most famous black men with his Yeezus. I mention him because he rears his head again in the “1989” Era (that is her birth year). Now, Taylor began living in NYC and the new local would inspire new music as she finished transitioning into pop music. “Shake it Off”, “Bad Blood”, “Blank Space”, “Wildest Dream”, “Out of the Woods” goddamn that’s nearly the whole album, SHE WAS WHITE GIRL MUSIC. The album gave her the highest grossing tour of that year. During this time, she made some big moves against Spotify and Apple Music, forcing them to give up more money in royalties to artists by threatening to remove her music. She was this powerful already. So Kanye decided to state that he made this bitch famous in his song “Famous” which is funny. Obviously, they were both big stars, so his shenanigans from a few years ago would upscale the both of them. Like you can’t tell me black people didn’t know who she was before that moment if they were aware of anything. She would retort that using ‘bitch’ on her was insulting but Kim Kardashian leaked a video in which Swift agreed to the song with Kanye in private. She faced her first loss in reputation after this. White women doing white girl things, you can’t make it up. She then logged off and exiled herself from society for a year because she thought that’s what everyone wanted. Just read the previous sentence again, I’m not repeating myself. With 2017 came the “Reputation” era which started with Mueller v Swift. This was a Colorado court case against David Mueller for groping her during one of her shows. The jury would side with her and Mueller would be charged for 1 dollar in damages. Nigga didn’t even have a dollar on that day! With “Look at what you made me do” and the rest of the album, I would say Swift took a slightly edgier turn in her music. I mean, as edgy as she could get. It was still super popular in all of the Anglo countries, gave her more awards, and she grossed $345 million in her tour breaking American records. Now these eras will basically be condensed to a year each. During the next “Covid” era Taylor joined the Universal Media Group, one of the big three in the entire music industry. So, finally, she stopped working with the Big Machine label. This would cause a problem after releasing her new female influencing album (Lover) as Big Machine wanted to keep her old masters. A master is the original recording of a song, despite how shitty it might sound, that allows a label to make copies and remasters and everything else. To EU4 players, it is like a nation’s core in a provinces. Moving on, Taylor decided instead of signing an album trade for the masters, she would simply remaster them. This is unknown to me, if this never happened before, but this is how we’ve gotten “Taylor’s Version” of songs that she already recorded. The new version would be produced by UMG during the covid arc. For this era though, Swift was only able to hold one concert in Paris (the city of lovers) before you know. The thing. The disease. And during this, Taylor was able to record and release Folklore and Evermore albums months apart. Despite the turn into more of an indie tone, she made a bazillion quadrillion thousand dollars or something a bit smaller than that. Whose to say? With Midnights released in 2022 and its single “Anti-Hero” (one of the most overplayed songs on tiktok that year), she simply kept winning. It also won awards making her an artist with the most Grammy wins in all history. Oh and those Taylor’s versions albums were a neat trick in busting a bajillion dollars. Now we’ve caught to the current year where she would have her eras tour. Quite literally every white female knows or has appreciated one of her songs. Many other people of other demographics love her music. Practically 53% of this God blessed country consider themselves a fan of her. Her power level online is 100m reaching the ranks of Pewdiepie. Her fucking net worth is basically 1 billion dollars.

Holy shit and then this tour. This tour would be about twenty-one months long with 152 shows in all five inhabited continents. In March, she started with Nevada but has moved around the planet causing earthquakes wherever she goes. I haven’t spoken about the Swifty fandom yet but they experience such a high degree of Liztomania that (we should coin Swiftimania) they argue her popularity could challenge Michael Jackson’s. Unfortunately he is the good but she brings up a good challenge. Each show of the tour would be a 3-4 hour length spectacle of lights and stage theming that correlated to the different eras of Swift’s music. The same would go for her costumes that only shared similarities in crystals as she crystalized herself into Toppest Tier music status. All of her stans screamed, cried, laughed, and danced their ass off as she sang 44 songs. It would seem there was also controversies as not all of her fans could personally experience her. Some countries didn’t want to hear a tune of hers and others were super desperate to have her. And then, you couldn’t even get tickets. During the presale, 14 million folks would be accounted for although not every single one could buy a ticket as the websites crashed immediately. Instantly. It was like the image below. Of course, she could not literally go everywhere but she actually could. Another genius move of hers was filming an Eras concert and releasing to theaters globally, in October. I have a friend who personally went to a concert and then watched this recording like three times, just to give you a hint about Swifties. So far, the tour has grossed an estimated $554 million but she still has a full calendar year to go. What the fuck. We’ll see how she continues. As for your information, Swift is currently dating Kansas City footballer Travis Kelce.

Besides that, let’s look at other popular music from the year. I already mentioned Doja Cat so we’ll skip her.

• From Ice Spice: there’s still the overflow of “Boy’s A Liar Part 2” from late last year which would be popular on tiktok throughout the winter. It is also the main song she is currently known for but she is not the best to sing it (Biden is). There was also “In Ha Mood”, “Deli”, and “Munch” (her second most famous song spawning the slang munch). She also produced a song for Barbie, partnering with Nicki Manaj. I would describe her music as sexual, trap, and club music. Some are surprised about her rise into stardom at the end of last year but others point to her fat ass as deserving it.
• Hyped up in a ironically shitty marketing clip, “Megaman” by Jay Eazy would be a longstanding audio on Tiktok throughout the year. It’s high quality lyrics would be parodied although many thought the songs indeed had bars. It will probably be the thing that jumpstarted his career along with reigniting some love for the old gaming icon.
• Meghan Trainor had released “Mother” which sampled “Mr. Sandman” by the Chordettes. And Tweeters hated it. That’s kind of it. It was released the year previous but hated on in February-March.
• Fall Out Boy would release an updated version of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”. The song is a 4 minute yappachino listing a series of atrocities and worldwide events during Joel’s lifetime while argues that the world has been burning incessantly, without modern cause. FOB’s new version would basically update the events with stuff over the last 30 years or so. Personally, I didn’t like it as they did not go chronologically as they relied on hitting harder rhymes which more or less shocked a listener due to time differences between events. It does argue that we are trying to stop the fire rather than letting it burn but admits, it will still burn. One cool thing, it rhymes Metriod (game) and George Floyd (police victim) all while not mentioning covid.
• James Gunn would revive love of Heart’s “Crazy on You” in his scene to introduce Adam Warlock. It would become Warlock’s theme song in memes. As for the introduction song for the movie, that was “Creep” by Radio Head which did set a somber tone for the film. “No Sleep Til Brooklyn” by the Beastie Boys would be the song to carry the climax of the film but that was already popular as whined about from Charlie.
• Oliva Rodrigo released the Guts album, her sophomore run of music now as a young adult. It relied less on her teenage melodrama and brought out more punkish or emo-like songs. There was several big hits from it including; “Bad Idea Right?”, “Vampire”, “and “Get Him Back”. “All-American Bitch” was well used by tiktok.
• Drake’s For All the Dogs did not help him fight the fruity allegations. While “Rich Baby Daddy” was popular enough, a certain lyric in “IDGAF” would spawn some memes. While Yeat describes how he truly does not give a fuck in the first chorus, Drake would randomly come in singing “money for fun” in such a high pitch, it was laughable. It added to Drake’s softguy perception from chat and perfect to use in certain tiktoks.
• Metro Boomin would produce the soundtrack for Across the Spider-Verse. The song “Superhero” was highly used on tiktok along with “Am I Dreaming”.
• For politically concerned conservatives, their big hit was “Rich Men North of Richmond” by the Virginian Oliver Anthony. A country song which intended to criticize the politicians in the District of Columbia for their bad administration which has caused economical instability for the working class nationwide. It immediately became quiet controversial as each side tried to kind of claim the song. Right wingers claimed it was specifically against the Democrats, considered it a successor to other conservative songs like “Try That in a Small Town” by Jason Aldean, and recognized his Reaganomics references. The Left wing accepted these claims as they also spotted the Reaganomics references, along with believing that he might be a Confederate descendent, and disagreed with his negative views on welfare ‘queens’. It is quite unfortunate that he does attack his own fabrications of welfare as it segregates physically working class people from other poorer people which might be his intention anyways. The song got so dramatic as it rose in popularity among Republican circles was that it was raised as a question to Ron DeSanctimonius during the Republican debates. Ron deflected the songs criticisms to purely the Democratic party in DC but in a later interview, Anthony disagreed with all of this. He said he was neither right nor left and the song was just for the working class. He blames all politicians for their woes from DeSantis to Biden. He believes that every political person is lying about the meaning of the song. All due respect, the song is less revolutionary and more conservative than anything because it only points out the economic problems while giving no solutions.
• Songs somewhat popular specifically on tiktok were “Hey, Mickey” by Baby Tate, “Fukumean” by Gunna, “Makeba” Jain, “ONE TWO BUCKLE MY SHOE” by Blanco y Sancho and Nike Kicks (heavily associated with Shadow the Hedgehog’s shoes), “Loving on Me” Jack Harlow, “SkeeYee” by Sexyy Redd, “IDGAF” by Drake and Yeat, “Players” Coi Leray, “IT GIRL” Aliyah’s Interlude, “Sprinter” by Dave and Central Cee, “Just Wanna Rock” by Lil Uzi Vert, “Critical” by RXKNephew (cyberspeed mix), “IT GIRL” by Aliyah’s Interlude, “Kill Bill” by SZA, and “FTCU” by Nicki Manaj, and “Qkthr” by Aphex Twin (largely claimed by the Lobotomy Fandom). I forgot to take a list of other sounds popular for tiktok this year so whatever.
• I would say, a good theme song for this year would be “Boy’s A Liar” mixed into “Just Ken” which should be finalized into “Everlong” by Foo Fighters. The latter is a much older song but got revitalized by the end of this year on tiktok, used for freeze frame videos. The opening guitar strum of the song would be used which is just about the funniest part of the song to use for a freeze frame before a terrible accident. While most tiktoks only last 15 to 60 seconds (and those with music, half as much) those posting “Everlong” would have the whole 4 minute song play out while the frame froze adding to the humor. Comments could be filled with “OP gave us time to discuss with our peers” and “wow I’m glad the recording stopped or something bad might’ve happened”.

Forbidden Cypher: Now zoomers are the majority of more mature content on Tiktok while Alpha is regular to minor status and other restrictions as stated by CEO Chew. But the language on there and everywhere else passes through everything and permeates everything. English is a highly unregulated language where the only enforcement of any speech is around the n words, nigga and nigger (and even then). Literally every other word in English can be used freely and without paying to mind the dictionary/historical/colloquial definition. Many English words don’t even have concrete forms as a noun, verb, adverb, preposition or ect as speakers can change it to get their point across while only offending those who can’t decipher them. Take blue, the color, it is an adjective. But you can make it a verb or a noun or whatever you want.

Now I have introduced a few words to you, Historian. Rizz. Livvy Dune and Baby Gronk. Grimace Shake. Only in Ohio. Edging/gooning. Skibdi toilet. Fanum tax. Mew. Yap. Now what if I did something crazy with this series of words that you know the actual definition of. What if I used them willy nilly as if they have no definition or form.

What’s up rizzlers, back in Ohio on my Baby Gronk gyatt, might goon to Livvy Dune and grimace shake in the skibidi Fortnite later. Don’t fanum tax me for any yapenese.

Nah, that was far too coherent. But this new meme, born in the summer on tiktok, would rot the brains of those on the internet for the rest of the year. I call this the Forbidden Zoomer Cypher. It was seemingly made as a ironic reaction to senior citizens in various circles online critiquing the existence of these terms or just confused by them. So in response, people made these cyphers which they knew didn’t mean anything but it would confuse the offline folks if it meant anything. Song parodies would be made out of the series of words and ai voices would have fictional characters recite the words in purposely incomprehensible dialogue. Funniest shit I ever seen.

The most famous piece of media from this meme came from an original song named “Sticking out your gyatt for the Rizzler” which was a viral audio on tiktok for AWHILE. It was also the first instance of the meme. The lyrics are simple. “sticking out your gyatt for the rizzler, you’re so skibidi, you’re so fanum tax. I just wanna be your sigma, you can come here to the Ohio.” It is beautiful. Reactions were in confusion and anger at the existence of the Cypher but people also predicted the obliteration of the English language due to the terms present here. I am no linguist but I hope they know, this is the core of the English language at work here. Also, this stuff came out before Lobotamy Kaisen found their own cypher in their iconic quotes so JJK fans took double damage from the English language this year.

To end this, I do not believe there is in any way slang cam ‘degenerate’ a lanugage like so many believe. How much millennial or boomer slang has survived the years? Probably some but it doesn’t seem to matter.

Here are other previously unmentioned terms that were coined this year or became more adopted.

• Chat: (n) synonymous with audience or crowd. As streaming has become more participated, more people have started to refer to a group people as chat not even when streaming. For this Chronicle, I consider them anonymous and amorphous as a chat always has multiple viewpoints and forms of logic. A related phrase is “chat is this real?” when you want to ask for clarification from your peers. I imagine by 2050, chat will be commonly used by government bodies.
• Corecore: (adj.) started from a tiktok account that would make posts of a specific feeling, genre, or trope. Take a couple of Sonic the Hedgehog clips and thus you can make a Soniccore compilation. Thusly, the definition of the suffix “-core” is the essential meaning or feeling of the object in the prefix. The compilations usually have a background of ambient music to give a calm and immersive feeling. Using it as an adjective, you could call your friend Dojacore if they are a weirdo or Trumpcore if they are the 45th President. A certain phrase or even just the tone of voice may belong to a specific core. One can see it as a repetition of mid 2010s tumblr aesthetic posts or vibes/mood posting from other sites. Just teenagers in their feelings, finding their identity.
• Grippy: (adj) in reference to the tightness of one’s vagina or asshole. The most famous example is the so called Chicago Grip Reaper. It has transformed to correlate with a woman’s quirkiness. If she’s really weird, her pussy is grippy.
  • Tiktok comments have considered these following women to be undeniably grippy; new yorker @chloe.longname, Texan Amanda Ochoa, @andy.licious,
• Griddy: (v) a dance in which one taps their feet while moving forward, swinging their arms from face to knees, while making ‘b’ with their hands. Invented by Allen Davis, a football high schooler, in 2018. A common quote from this year is said with a baby voice “oh my gosh he’s litewwally griddy-ing wight now”.
• Girl Math (n.): a field of financial mathematics that relies on a formal fallacy in logic. Why is it feminine? Because women are stupid. ‘Non sequitur’ Latin ‘it does not follow logic’ describes the process. If an item is purchased with cash, your actual bank account should show the same number as before so you did not actually use any money. If you receive any money, it is always a profit even against possible losses in order to receive the money. So a $200 win from a $50 investment is just making $200 profit rather than the correct $150 profit. Rounding down is also recommended when thinking about stuff bought even though you’re paying the actual price. Taxes, shipping fees, tipping and other minor costs will make an item harder to round down so much less worthy of purchase. Any credit is perceived to be discounting items to an absolute value of $0 in cost. So with all of these rules, you can consider it to be a strong manifestation of cope due from broke college girls with a consumerist addiction. Unfortunately, when a woman transitions to man, they lose the ability to practice this. Honestly, it might be the epitome of feminine humor.
• Gyatt (n. or exclamation.): “God damn me” was a Brit-American phrase invented at least two centuries ago which would be shortened to “Goddamn”. It does break Moses’ third commandment as it considers one’s influence over God to command Him to damn others or even with the original that God has damned the person saying that. Black Americans, shortening the pronunciations of many words, in the north would come up with gya-damn in the 20th century. That would be typed phonetically into gyatt come time for text conversations as used for exclamations rather than cursing someone. That was until this year when zoomers caught their hands on it. I theorize one watched a video of a NY black passing by some bazoongas and exclaiming “gyatt” at the wonderful sight. Thusly, they started to use the term specifically in excitement of beautiful women rather than any other exciting thing. Much to the chagrin of the black community, zoomers and millienals before them continues to adopt black words from media not out of appropriation but because it was something somebody used and they understood it. You ever meet a kid who reads a lot and just says a bunch of big words as if to confuse you? That’s all that happened psychologically. And they’ll keep practicing the word like an infant till their brain gets used to it. They watched movies with black characters or even dared to have black friends and just mimic the speech the same why a black person could adopt white lingo like the rest of the English language. The chagrin comes from blacks previously being segregated from whites in the US, and so they had the freedom to transform English independently creating a dialect known as AAVE (African American Vernacular English). Now they argue as if to keep the segregation going in linguistics but also due to the fact that white people don’t always know the actual definition of the black terms they are using since they learned it in a specific context. One could teach them but it seems cringie and it may not seem effective as one black person I noticed stated that white people use the terms as trends rather than cemented speech. Unfortunately, everyone does this with everything. They didn’t grow up with it and so it won’t cement as much as any other movie quote. Queers face the same problem from terms specific to their circle and so on with scientists and gamers and whites. The source of this seems to be the very liberal nature of the English language. It doesn’t ask you to care. Anyways, with “gyatt” being used to refer to bodacious woman, a few weeks later in the year, it would be completely flanderized to just mean ‘fat ass’ and could be used on men. Notably, if you were a female tiktoker, you’re comment section would just be asking for your gyatt. Then Tiktok’s recommended search term for any video on your page would be “amy gyatt” or “heather gyatt” even if you never do any sexualized content on your page. Or if you had a small ass. You just had to be a girl. It would at least be a marker that at least one of your videos went viral.
  • Side detail, becuase of missuse of this phrase and a handful of others; black twitter has decided to recommend white people bring up old timey phrases like “why I oughtta” or “you’re on thin ice, pal” or “newsflash buddy”. The phrases do come from white people, with most of them coming from the Northeast although some are Southern. All are popularized by Hollywood in various films and also even surviving in kids cartoons of the 90s and 2000s. While its true people have stopped saying it outside of fiction, it is still an argument asking for racial segregation of slang in God’s greatest country on the planet. Anyone could say that shit but if its not in one’s memorized vocabulary, it would never be said by a person commonly.
• Mid: (adj.) derived from medium or middle. Used in various powerscaling communities to describe a character as mid tier which would be in-between high and low tier. Popular in the anime community as well to rate different series/characters with some (Hunter x Hunter) belong in high, some in low (No Game No Life), and some in mid (Attack on Titan). As anime and gaming have become closer to mainstream, the term seems to have spread out. Actually, all I’ve said here is theory mostly because there is no other situation other than rating music or sports or movies where someone would need to say mid. But now it is popular anyways. The popularization would cause ‘mid’ to have a negative connotation as with an Attack on Titan fan, they would hate to hear me call it mid instead of high or top. But hey, at least its not bottom, right? So mid would be used as an insult by trolls toward quite literally anything and this would popularize the term.
• “Just a Girl”, a phrase that has quickly been received as anti-feminist and far too submissive for a post-covid society. It started as a trend on tiktok among girls who replied with it against expectations/responsibilities. Like, you have a difficult exam to take today but you’re just a girl. The male population didn’t react to it initially until they heard it enough times to call it for what it was, complacency in weakness. Lack of self motivation. Excusing one’s self based on nature rather than nurture. Ironically, it foils manosphere rhetoric that tries to (incorrectly) inspire men to be better for their own pride and for the good of society.
• Munch (n): a fan of Ice Spice or as slang for a practitioner of cunnilingus. Coined by Ice Spice.
• Hater Era (n.): a time period in which one is simply negative towards anyone for anything. Imagine yourself trolling someone but not for entertainment and not out of boredom but because you dearly hate the person. I don’t want to say the Eras Tour led to the popularity of other uses of ‘era’ but anyways, hating rates did seem to rise this year. Anytime a celebrity got in trouble, this image was used. A lot of negativity towards Dream or Mr Beast among others can be accounted to people just being haters. And hating had become a proud thing as it was as free of an action as loving someone. Being a hater would be adopted into one’s personality almost as a good thing. Characters like Reverse Flash and real people like Donald Trump would also be celebrated for being inspirational haters.
• Motion: (n.) another term for money or affluence.
• Ratio: (v, sometimes) in reference to having a better ratio of likes than replies in a tweet. Or even if person B has more likes than person B. Might be referenced in an argument between teens as a skill check. Can be found among the Forbidden Cypher memes despite coming from twitter instead of Tiktok.
• Ick: (n.) a behavior that would make a person feel sick or a girl completely lose interest in you. Not synonymous with a ‘red flag’ as one will completely avoid someone with an ick. As the term grew in use, boys found themselves constantly curtailed by the collective icks of various women to the point that doing anything but breathing was detrimental to one’s rizz.
• Tweaking: (v.) the act of losing control of oneself, acting excited or irrational. Sometimes done under the influence of drugs. Can be used as an insult against someone for being incorrect. It rhymes with and is synonymous with geeking.
• Girl Dinner: (N.) a meal of complete disappointment due to a lack of resources and effort. Common examples include just a bag of hot Cheetos and a cup of lukewarm water, perhaps half of a cheese stick, or even a rice krispy if we’re feeling fancy. The potential inventor @karmapilled, coined it in a video where she showed off an icecream bar. The meme grew to include an uncooked and weak looking meal perhaps because women can’t provide for themselves? I don’t know, that can’t be true.
  • Boy Dinner: (n.) was similarly unprepared foods but more masculine (like meat) and more inedible (paired with cigarettes). It did not pop off the same way as it really isn’t funny to not have a proper dinner.
• “It’s just a grotesque post modern psyop and anyone whose falling for this is brain damaged” coined by Tucker Carlson in reaction to a cute army girl doing a tiktok video. Useful for any freaky thing you see online.
• “should be studied” is a phrase following a sentence of a subject (usually in media) that should be paid greater attention to. Not that anyone will study the subject like a scholar, but a tweeter will use it to hype up something they feel is niche almost like the phrase “this should be normalized”. For example, it should be studied the way Gege wrote the perfect way to kill a ‘the strongest’ character. But I hate tweets like this because it convinces me not to study the material.
• “Standing on Business” is the act of standing your ground in terms of morals, ethics, or sometimes just stubbornness. An older term, it became popularized after a Druski video poked fun at a coward who stands on business. After the video, the phrase quickly came to mean someone who simply reaffirms themselves against a group of adversaries.
• “Womp Womp”, a mocking pejorative used against someone who is whining. The whiner may look and act like a crying baby that whomps with their hands when in a tantrum.
• “Game is Game” a phrase used by rizzlers to justify any of their tactics at trying to achieve female attention. The justification can be as small as a successful fumble to nearly assaulting the target. Also used to justify the type of bodies a rizzler has been with, such as high schoolers or an overly attractive woman. Game is not game sometimes.
• “Peep Game and Lock In” a phrase popularized by black college tiktoker Brian @worstlyfe whenever he is about to tell one of his highly educational stories about his daily life. After hearing this, one should pay close attention to what is about to be said as it could change their life.
• “Just thug it out”, a phrase of inspiration to give someone more strength, fortitude, and willpower to accomplish their goal. Boys are commonly found to be using this on themselves in order to avoid suicidal ideation, a real thug would survive their circumstance. One might also say “bro just lock in”.
• Typeshit: (conjunction) used to conclude the vibe or mood of a subject. Unique in the English language, it is a conjunction used at the end of a sentence or listing. For example, if Cantu wanted to use it against Dream he would say, “you’re autistic but you’re also a narcissist incel faggot, typeshit”. Entirely breaking grammar rules. Older, resurging.
• “You have no enemies” is a quote from Vinland Saga a manga and anime about the semi-fictional the Nordic Thorfinn in his search for Vinland in the 11th century. It is a powerful quote in a speech about pacifism and forgiveness of others due to the idea that no one deserves to suffer any pain. In a year of Hating, people who follow this quote have decided to act without hate and without enemies as a way to preserve one’s peace. One following this quote must temper their emotions, turn the other cheek, and especially not compare oneself to others. Will Thorfinnism continue to grow? It’s just pacifism again…

My least favorite trend this year…

Baki, Beyblade and Watching the Damn Show: Baki is a wrestling manga. That’s all that it is (I have not read it). It’s actually real old, from the early 90s, but recently has had anime adaptions produced by Netflix. Now it would seem a handful of clips from Baki would be shared outside of the fandom which confused the rest of the anime space. Here is a wrestling anime where the main character’s father is very closely stalking a regular dude around town. In fact, it would almost look like a gag anime if the wrestlers weren’t always 100% serious and bulked out all of the time. The clips were always shared out of context (what context) on the various sites. People asked themselves and others WHAT THE HELL IS BAKI ABOUT? Nobody could answer.

But that trend spread to other anime such as Beyblade. Now Beyblade is a merchandise selling anime intended to sell spinning top toys that were fairly popular from like 2006 to 2018 (in the States). The anime has had three sagas in that same span of time. Back in the 2000s, is the “Bit Beast” Saga where each higher class blader in the series had an (deity like) animal’s spirit trapped in their beyblades that would help them win fights. The animals were very basic–such as dragon, bird, turtle, tiger–with very basic elemental attributes like water or fire. If a character had a stronger connection to their beys, they could further bring out the natural energies of the bit beast leading to very destructive battles. In fact, the final villain of the series had a black hole for a beyblade. But the “Bit Beast” Saga was not suuuuper popular at least not compared to the “Metal” saga in which case, beys are made of metal now rather than partially. Here, the characters still have bit beasts (related to the constellations) but they are more metaphorical and yet the beys have more of a personality of their own. Like they aren’t conscious closer to it than the bit beast. The “Metal” Saga went more extreme with showing off the super powers characters would receive due to their bonds. The strongest blader, Ryuga, could basically blast kamehama’s at his teenage human opponents after absorbing spin energy from their beys via his own bey which can switch the direction it is spinning at will. Now it was just another kids show when I and most other people watched it so we didn’t think about it back then. But now as these people shared these clips, on the various websites, they would be shocked at how intense the show was. The kids and even adult bladers found their beys to basically be more threatening and lethal than guns and so they were treated that way by all the characters. Government agents would primarily use beys instead of a fucking gun. And again, because everyone in the show acted super serious while beyblading down the busy street, it begged the question. IS BEYBLADE THAT SERIOUS? Oh also, WHAT THE HELL IS BEYBLADE ABOUT? Now more clips were shown from the “Metal” saga than the “Bit Beast” or the latter “Burst” saga but I wonder how much chat was seriously perplexed by the show or if they simply hadn’t seen it before. If they did watch it, they’d be as old as me and be able to immerse themselves in the beyblade fantasy and answer such questions? Right? Cause I see these clips and its honestly just barely more extreme than something like Digimon or Pokemon. And they aren’t even showing the most intense clips! The black hole nigga was not shared at all by these people. But then, my worries vanished as real blading fans showed off just how crazy these toys were in real life. Even Ryuga’s bey, L-Drago, does have a function in the top to switch directions. Other beys are designed to attack in specific ways that the anime mimics because that’s what the anime was trying to sell! Just watch the show? Same thing with Baki, just watch the show and you’ll see the meaning of anything going on. Hope they did.

To finish off the movies of this year…

Under the air of Barbenheimer was Mutant Mayhem vs Meg 2; The Trench vs Last Voyage of Demeter vs Blue Beetle with an overwhelming movie to the film starring Jason Statham. The box off for The Trench sits at $398 million with TMNT as its best challenger with $180 million. The TMNT film did bring in a new generation of fans along with feeding the older fans with the two-thousandth adaption of 4 mutant ninja turtles. A few memes were harvested but they stayed insular to that fandom. I think that Dracula movie is the worst preforming Horror movie this year. The DC film would be appreciated by Mexicans but not as much as Dragon Ball Z.

There is still a lingering effect from Barbenheimer as this battle raged on; Gran Turismo vs Bottoms vs The Equalizer 3. Any guesses between the biopic adapting a video game, the female written comedy of the year, and a gritty action movie? Yessir, the openly queer coded film paled against the most masculine pieces of fiction imaginable with Denzel Washington winning 191 million.

The Nun II vs My Big Fat Greek Wedding vs A Haunting in Venice vs Dumb Money. They would all face a hefty challenge to Kenneth Branagh’s third Hercule Poirot film as it was both a detective and a horror flick. Critically acclaimed and publicly appreciated, the film made $122 million in the box office. It’s defeater would double that money at $269 million for director Michael Chaves of the most former movie.

For the Halloween season, I will simply pick the big five movies that won the most. I mean, according to what I could find. Some Horror movies released at this time were both in theaters and on streaming services so not a number was reported to my source. For the now usually disappointed Saw fans comes the tenth film making $111 million in the box office. Idk, anytime I hear someone talk about Saw, they think it should’ve stopped by now. Then comes The Exorcist: Believer with $137 in the box office and a shitty haunted house at Universal Orlando. Scorsese would release Killers of the Flower Moon to a box office of $157 million which did not break the budget of $200 million. It was positively received by critics and the public at least decently appreciated it. Surprising Leonardo DiCaprio didn’t bring more in. SECOND PLACE GOES TO THE ERAS TOUR AT $267 MILLION??? And so then our champion was the well anticipated Five Nights at Freddy’s.

The Marvels would bring $206 million out of the box office, not breaking budget, but didn’t disappoint the MCU fans that went to watch it. The fans who didn’t acted disappointed. That would be weeks ahead of The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes vs Trolls Band Together vs Saltburn vs Wish. Oh jeez Rick, what a mid month. A new Hunger Games movie was exciting for that fanbase although people came out disappointed and yet it still made a cool $337 million. Between Dreamwork’s Trolls and a new Disney film, Disney hit a close home run with $254 million. Now Saltburn didn’t make much money but it would have relevance on twitter due to a scene depicting the main character grinding against the grave of a guy he kind of had a crush on. It is a very sexual estranged movie. Oh hey, I should’ve included the other big historical biopic of the year, Napoleon. It made only $221 million and the viewers found it to be “it’s alright”.

Now December actually had like a million irrelevant films, films that no one talked about ever. Films that your weird coworker might’ve mentioned if you were listening. So the last battle is actually quite distant, between Timothee Chalamet’s Wonka and Jason Mamoa’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Both were received poorly by chat. I don’t anyone said anything positive about either one. The Lost Kingdom would serve as the final DC film for the first canon of the cinematic universe as they plan to restart with a Superman movie by James Gunn next year. It was a dogshit ending to a dogshit timeline. Wonka had like 1 meme from the trailers and nothing pulled from the movie. The former made $632 million and the latter made $434 million. Oh wow, damn.

So in the end, the Barbie, Mario, and Spider-Man films would be the biggest domestic gross of the whole year. Some detractors of the Superhero phenomena in current media felt like this year was the final requiem for the genre as other genres are finally earning a competitive amount of money compared to the MCU specifically. But I mean Mario and Spider-Man oh and also, how much money did that Scorsese make here? And the Guardians movie is in fourth, shut the fuck up. Out of the top ten films, Disney has three with Warner Bros and Universal with two placements. Cope, seeth, mauld even. Not a single horror film made it to the top ten.

And now a series of content creator advancements….

Polish-Nicaraguan Comedian from Louisiana “Theo Von” Theodor Capitani von Kurnatowski III would grow in popularity and relevance this year as a few viral clips were harvested from his podcast and other appearances for tiktok. A few of his most notable clips is his interactions with black creator Druski. His comedy seems to be mostly his own very strange life stories or his surreal view of others in the universe along with lots of wordplay and niche referencing. Playing off really stupid most of the time, few in chat have been able to spot when he makes an incredibly smart joke off rip. Or at least, what they believe the joke to be about. A lot of what he says does sound like nonsense and in a conversation, he may lack focus, but everyone seems to have a good time with him even if they feel uneasy. His growth will spike every so often, and this year he has had spiked three times, thus ending in a general power level of 6 million with a positive reputation.

Black comedian @trarags and Albanian comedian Tony Statovci have also continued to rise especially in notoriety on tiktok. They would be trend setters for specific memes or have vids of which relatable reaction images could be harvested. Their power levels are at 6 million and 4 million respectively.

The biggest winner though was the Senegalese jester Khabane Lame who started his career years ago and continues to grow in popularity. Born in 2000, living and Italy, and recently married; his main bit is the mocking of lifehack or instructional videos for really very simple activities. There’s no reason to be making some of these videos and he agrees so he silently responds to them with an even simpler solution than the OP while making a ‘you dubmass’ face. This has caused him to beat out dancer and God blessed American Charli D Amelio as the most followed person on Tiktok. He stands at around 160 million where she is at 152 million and the third place Filipina singer Bella Poarch at around 90 million.

Media maker Rooster Teeth would recruit three zoomers to be the heads of a new series Best Friends Today, filmed in Austin, Texas. These include retired Jewish actress Caroline Konstnar and black comedians “Wahony” Will and Sammie. It is RT’s newest live series after the losses of comedians Sugar Pine 7, gamers Cow Chop, and several cast members from Funhaus.

Tangentially related is the graduation of Anthony Potero (shortened to Anthpo) from Rutgers University. Anthpo was a well-natured prankster in his high school and college videos from the last 5 years. The pranks involved dressing up in silly costumes to play out a character or bit. After Quarantine, he temporarily joined a content collab house (where he lived with Marco Borghi, Wahony, Tyler Funke, Dawn Morante, Tobias Phillips, and Caroline Ricke). The House Nobody Asked For would actually receive many creators coming and going such as Summer Ahrens but seemed to be shorter lived than rival content houses of the time (all inspired by Team Ten). On Anthopo’s channel, the house would produce parodies of shows all zoomers watched back in the day. Separately, he had collabed with Alpharad and Caroline Konstnar. Once he was back in college, all videos would be recorded there. Now it turned into fun competitions, games, or dares with his roommates and friends who made up an ever revolving cast of characters. In his final year, he announced he’d stop making videos on graduation day and so many fans counted down with him until that came to past. His videos were a good representation of not relying on sex and drugs to have fun in college along, especially toward a zoomer audience whose stuck doing homework while watching his videos. Although he was never as super viral as a few of his first vids, he would retire Youtube with 1.7 million subscribers with less than 200 videos. He graduated with a a major in marketing of some sort.

While Anthpo graduated, we have the rise of a new mainstream Youtuber. Not Summoning Salt! No, it’s Appalachian (Cheerokee mixed with some kind of white) Christian Isaiah Mark Nichols also known as the “Wendigoon”. He is a Youtuber who began his career in 2019, making videos on all kinds of cryptic subjects or telling stories about certain conspiracy theories, cults, and other arcane lore of our society. He’s a true creeper, exploring haunted buildings and enjoying the beauty in nature. Over this year, he would grow in 2 million subscribers in size while always hitting at least 2 million views on his videos. This was amazing as it shows high interest in long scale-complex content that he does, versus shorter gaming videos. Since covid, video essays in general have grown more popular on the website. But that’s indirect, direct impact from his presence can be found in two videos. In his video discussing the Cormac McCathy novel Blood Meridian, Wendigoon would score an initial 2 million views. Despite talking about the book in spoiler detail, this caused a crazy rise in sales of the book. On Amazon, it was the highest selling American fiction and western novel while local bookstores endured selling out of the book, which probably never happened with how niche it was. His video on Japan’s Unit 731 would also raise casual awareness of the worst scientific experiments currently known to man. Again, a niche subject, but suddenly more than 100 people could be found discussing the strange horrors due to Wendigoon. At 24 years of age, he has also married a longtime lover, he stays humble about his popularity, has begun to host a series with Floridan Charlie White and Australian Jackson Clarke, and continues to just yap about niche nonsense.

In streaming news; Tyler Steinkamp (a loud, roided, and regarded as stupid streamer) began a very successful chess career online. Again, he was regarded as stupid so his raw skill in chess would be a surprise in his own and other audiences. In two months, he would reach 1000 elo with about 30 games per day. Here he is landing the mythical Penta Fork.

Touchy Tailor: One break out star for Tiktok this year is @samstailor, a Hong Kong tailor shop of the highest prestige. The shop was actually founded back in 1957 in order to tailor the British troops stationed there. It was made by Sam Melwani and then it descended to his sons including Roshan Melwani. The shops prestige comes from tailoring suits for the British royal family, US Presidents, and a few celebrities such as Michael Jackson. But during COVID, the business went online to advertise the shop and during this year especially, Roshan’s character would appraise the shop among zoomers. The way he enthusiastically and seductively presented suits (that the customer was currently wearing) was unique and charmed viewers. It would be parodied but nobody could really copy the master. One thing was the eeriness of the seduction in how he would describe his customers. For example, he could say, “here I have this 16 year old Indonesian boy with NO consent to touch” and then as he shows off the suit, he doesn’t make any weird moves but he’ll describe their asscheeks as planets “Jupiter and Saturn, Jupiter and Saturn”. Also he did this with anyone of any age but if you only saw one video, such commentary would shock you and reel you in. I’ll leave you with an example.

Calling of the Covenant: After the spread of the “Kill Yourself, Now” clip from Street Fighter streamer, “Low Tier God” Dalauean Sparrow, all kinds of clips would be shared of him. He’s an older streamer who seems to either intentionally play low tier characters in fighting games or play very badly (he is just bad at the games), then he rage quits, and rants at his chat. If anyone in chat–even in a donation–tries to speak, he eliminates them with the worst verbal abuse imaginable. Usually, the damnation involves “your mom” as seen in many of the shared clips but sometimes he will just describe (and act out) a graphic rape of the chatter. It was very funny for everyone involved since those in chat may even go out of their way to receive this attention from him. The rants would be very very descriptive thus lasting 3 to 8 minutes. Then, done with his decree, the chatter is banned for years at a time. Again, many clips are actually fairly old but they gained traction this year as people felt he was trendy. Nowadays, he relies less on that bit and even clips of him being positive were shared. With ai, they even reversed the suicide clip with a “Love Yourself, Now” clip. He also seems to otherwise have positive views on society so it really is just rage quit moments, I guess. You decide.

Dracula Flow Saga: is a series of 4 videos posted by Plummcorp Records on Youtube. It featured an enlightened old man, dressed as movie accurate Dracula, having an extended improv monologue about the drugs and sex he has while also being the coolest person. The videos were released one by one from the summer until December but certain clips would be taken to use for templates of certain memes and reactions. The unique flow of words spilling from his mouth containing vocabulary understandable by all generations was an endless source of entertainment for chat. The fact that he is probably doing this on drugs but was more coherent than anyone else was a feat unmeasurable by science. And he does this while not breaking a smirk or giggle, unceasingly spreading his gospel. I can’t tell if any specific lines would become apart certain viewer’s vocabulary but some of my favorites are (the entire thing).

Boogie Time: Steven Jason Williams aka Boogie2988 aka Francis, was an ancient gamer on the Internet that used to be real popular until recently. Born in the 1970s, he comes from the mid State of Virginia and is morbidly obese. Described by Aussie Lego master Jackson Clarke, Boogie had a jolly persona early in his career that of which might’ve been ruined by negative attention from Kiwifarms (and other trolls) along with his self-destructive narcissism. “He used to be the like happiest most positive guy”. Wikipedia describes his early career noting that ‘Francis’ was a persona online where he roleplayed as a stereotypical annoying gamer in order to make his audience hate this trope of gaming and perhaps be better games. Kiwifarms…(a netschool of scholars that studies the dredges of the Internet known as lolcows) describes him as immorally obese and unethically autistic. The farmers also find Boogie duplicitous and vague as he can’t be consistent on admitting to his parents molesting or raping him, about his BPD, about his weight loss, about his suicidal ideation, Clarke also agrees that he is far too much of a liar to be trusted to even fix himself. In the middle of his career, Boogie has tried a weight loss program in getting a gastric bypass surgery and everyone (including his doctor) could later remark amazement that he was able to regain all the pounds he lost. So even here, Clarke recommends better people look over him if he ever desires to lose weight. But his desires are beyond our understanding as the farmers can’t seek to even discover what he represents. They find him to be a poor centrist as he played the SJW’s and the Gamergaters against each other in those days. Comments on his Kiwifarm profile do display an interesting transition from finding him to be just a chill guy to currently being a horrible person. All of this and his power level reaches 4 million. Well, the reason to bring him up was for two things. Firstly, in the middle of the year, Boogie would lose a boxing match against “WingsOfRedemption”, another larger gamer on Youtube. Then, a documentary would be released by Mike Clum about the background of Boogie’s money loss. Boogie has had a long career from Day 1 (of YT) to the Gamergate era to Covid and now Post Covid time period so what the documentary mostly covers is Boogie’s deficit pre and post covid. The documentary closely follows Boogie as Clum tries to push and spectate him possible solve this problem. Boogie practically narrates the thing while Clum is visibly upset about being there. But…

1. Boogie’s ex-wfe, Desiree Williams used to take care of his finances. She divorced him because even she could help him spend cash like he was in Wolf of Wall Street.
2. Boogie has lost 600k in crypto.
3. He is addicted on buying any and all merchandise for various games and movies.
4. He would compulsively hire prostitutes. From 2018 to 2021, he spent 200k on whores. IT WAS COVID. He would use the sex workers as girlfriends, taking them to Disney and dinner or on cruises, whatever. He MIGHT have sex with them although one of them (who was interviewed) regretted the experience because “there was rolls upon rolls and it took me some time to find his dick”. 😲. In fact, he was one of the reasons she quit getting fucked monetarily, another angel got their wings.
5. He is socially reliant on Magic, the card game. This means spending money on cards and begrudgely selling his old cards which may not be worth as much as hoped. He would spoil friends that played Magic with him with food and refreshments although they state they didn’t necessarily need this. Also in this section, he strongly jokes that they need to bring real girlfriends and not hookers to play with but also acknowledges he is the only one to bring hookers. “Where the hoes at” if you consistently bought hoes.
6. The main source of his deficit comes from a reddit post by u/nightlikeday where he detailed all of the social sins of Boogie. His uses of nigger, making light of rape (even his own, and his general dark humor. This was in 2018 and afterwards, sponsors of Boogie would be made aware of the reddit thread and slowly dissociate with him until now where he is motionless.
7. His health problems definitely don’t help. Read unseriously by Boogie; Low testosterone, testicular hypogonadism, sleep apnea, swelling due to blockage of lymphatic flow, seborrheic eczema, chronic back pain, protein in urine (that’s from kidney damage folks), high blood pressure, history of gastric bypass, intestinal malabsorption, vitamin D insufficiency, morbid obesity, major depressive disorder, major anxiety disorder, history of diabetes mellitus, blood pooling in veins, varicose veins of the leg, degeneration of lumbar or the lumbosacral intervertebral disc, history of basal cell carcinoma, asthma, and allergies.
8. Personality problems. Clum invites 3 different people to give their thoughts on why Boogie can’t make as much money as possible. They basically agree with Clarke’s analysis that the loss of his happy attitude as he comes against a mid-life crisis of not making as much money as possible is causing him anxiety. So he complains more, acts less grateful, and certainly more disgraceful. One of them notes that he distributes Covert Narcissism tendencies, manipulating his followers with tales of woe to possible garner money. But people unfortunately got “sick of his schtick”.
9. A sudden medical expense fucks up what was left in his bank account.
10. In the video, he tries to get a job. He admits to the employment woman that he has no education, work history, is depressed, morbidly obese and “when you look up my name, you might see rumors that I beat my ex-wife and I am also a pedophile, I should also mention I am a felon”, probably the most quoted part of the video. The woman isn’t defeated but sites his can’t-do-attitude of excuses won’t help. She also advises him to not mention that he used to work in the porn industry. He decides that he just won’t get a job because he was on of the “original YouTubers”. Clum felt defeated receiving such a call.
11. Three months later, he introduces Deziree Davis, a twenty year old with the same name as his ex-wife. He is dating her now. Twenty-nine year age gap for all you gap fans. She is, perhaps, an enabler. She met him on Instagram and is genuinely attracted to him. They met and fell in love. They even basically agree to getting married. Dez admits she didn’t have a father figure growing up and doesn’t want to be alone. Around the house, she cooks and cleans for him along with taking care of his dogs. Even ridicule from a comedy house doesn’t convince her to leave as she entirely relies on him emotionally. The one to teach him about love is…someone who is not pushing him to get a job or really improve his career. She is riding and dying for him, even if they end up homeless. Repeatedly, he warns her they might be poor and he might soon collapse but still she remains just not to be alone.
12. Then comes the “WingsOfRedemption” fight hosted by Keemstar. Although he hoped to win in order to give his career momentum, he was still paid 10k. That money was spent in preparation for the fight. At this point, to subsist he needs to make 7k a month. He doesn’t make half as much.

In the video, his last ditch effort to make money is to take psychedelics in order to be awakened to a new money making strategy. He simply got high. Shaman Flaming Star of Arkansas does try to kind of help him understand his previous feelings but none of that happens. The next day, Boogie does feel enlightened by his experience. But only in that he finally realized none of other people’s thoughts about him matter and he can make as much content as he wants. How the fuck did he shift to nihilism? So while the documentary would reveal–to at least 4 million more people that watch his stuff–his new girlfriend and truth behind money details, he would gain new haters and new ire. And yet, he decided he would ignore all of his as an act of ultimate strength. He continues to lose subscribers.

MrBeast vs the World: James Stephen Donaldson of Carolina aka Mr. Beast, is a content creating (in the most literal sense) YouTuber at a power level of 400 million. He has surpassed Pewdiepie in the title for ‘King of Youtube’. He began his career as a young buck just trying to make a viral video, following YouTube’s algorithm, before simply counting to one-hundred-thousand thus starting his real career. At the age of 25, he has become an incredibly wealthy YouTuber with a sprawling empire including Beast Reacts, a gaming channel, a philanthropy channel, a burger company, Feastables, Team Trees, and Team Seas along with employing 250 proud Americans (I assume). On his main channel, the content can be described as a random game show where random Americans are invited to his challenges to win lots of money or an expensive item. There’s some videos where he just hands out money, does nice acts of charity, or hangs out with friends in a TryGuys bit. Maybe his penultimate video in terms of controversy was his Squid Game ‘parody’ where he collected a larger than usual amount of participants to win nearly half a million dollars. Critics on twitter hated this as it ‘took’ away what the Korean Netflix show was supposed to be about. Quite frankly, it doesn’t as the parody video only gave his video a bit more of borrowing Squid Game‘s formula for what would’ve been a regular video of his. He already does money challenges even without Squid Game. But it would be these tip of the dick takes people began giving to his content as he continued making more last year and this year. They called it ‘charity porn’ as he made videos that made more than enough money (not including money from merch) so that his next video had another big wallet prize. And during this year, there would be much louder and angrier criticism against the Beast Empire for all the good it does.

1. In “1000 Blind People See for the First Time”, Jimmy decided to cure the blurry blindness of many older folks from around the world. It isn’t full blown blindness but rather the lens of their eyes blurring from seeing all the bullshit of this world. He also didn’t just touch them like Jesus and his Apostles but paid for a ten minute surgery that basically replaces the lens. It’s expensive although not too expensive as Jimmy was able to give away 10k to these people who could now see once more. The cured people were overtly happy and amazed as imaginable. Tweeters would attack Jimmy for bestowing such a blessing as it was performative or faked or didn’t need to make a video out of it. One wonders if these detractors healed 1001 people of blindness.
2. Weeks later, the same tweeters would attack Jimmy for when he healed 1000 deaf people in a similar video. He went out, met some deaf people, made for a surgery that restored hearing, and gave them 10 stacks. With one little girl, he even let her use his bank account at the local Target in order to buy as much toys as possible.
3. In “I Built 100 Wells in Africa” tweeters would attack Jimmy in a lesser effort for his projects in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Somalia, and Cameroon. I don’t know why he chose this order of zigzagging back and forth but the projects would build a total of 100 wells using aquifers under the various villages. This would bring countless gallons of clean water in a more convenient way to the village. He also supplied a school with some technology, another with bicycular transportation, and another village with a steady bridge that won’t break annually. Still, the Beast received hate although much less than before as it became a tired crusade.

That later one was also later in the year at which point, it had simply become a meme to hate on Jimmy’s charity. Some people don’t find the worth on him making content out of the poor even if he still was helping them and others just hate him or members of his team. Of course, they have never been recipient’s of a doctor’s paycheck from Jimmy so they have no reason to appreciate him. And while those three videos brought ire against him, this was only because they were on his main channel. His Philanthropy channel is JUST charitable stuff like building schools or hospitals and whatever else. But the haters don’t know, I don’t even think they actually watch the videos they criticize. They just saw the thumbnail. Neutral arguments about Jimmy mention that it is at least better he is trying to spend his millions versus someone like Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk. Vaush does think he is the Antichrist, so Historian, let us know if he is right or not. But before that, I hope he blesses me.

Where is he: At the 2022 Game Awards (hosted by Geoff Keighley, why would he spell it like that), it was announced that Elden Ring would be the very expected game of the year. It was a very popular game throughout the year attracting and defeating many new fans to the style of Soulsborne games. As the award was announced, the developers came up on stage as usual, although with the addition of a young kid. After they finished, the kid would add on his own two cents. After what can be a long and sometimes boring show, he would entertain all the fans watching home with this hilarious troll that Jeff Keeley could barely respond to. And the one time I don’t watch the show! Anyways, he barely got in trouble and this clip seemed to inspire him to help his career. This kid is simply known as Matan Even, he is 17 and Jewish, although not much more is known about him. He has pages on Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok, and Youtube. On these pages (especially the latter), you’ll just find his podcasts with random celebrities from high and low. From the few minutes I could withstand, he asks them purposely confusing trick questions, will try to prank them, or troll them in some other way similar to The Eric Andre Show. The only thing is that the guests don’t seem to be very in on the joke. I feel like I can safely assume he has rich parents as his main career strategy is to randomly spawn at a populated event (like the Hong Kong protest) and aggressively troll people. For example, Mataneven meeting Speed. He wouldn’t be able to do this without flying all of the damn time and that costs money which he isn’t making too much of yet. Still under a power level of 1 million. And because he spawn unannounced unlike most creators, a random clip of him bothering someone would frighten folks on twitter and tiktok. Where did he come from? Where does he go? And who was he? These are the questions they asked, especially the last one as his name amongst chat was “Bill Clinton Kid”. Horrible, horrible epithet.

But after his initial phase of spooking people in real life, he started to just invite folks to his show. So such clips have stopped showing up and chat is non the wiser of his goals. I appreciate his trolling because it is so strong and full of solitude. No one, not even him, knows his true goals.

Alpharad Gold: Oklahomie John Jacob Rabon IV is the man of the YouTube Channel “Alpharad” which has a massive following (3.5 million) due to his clout in the Super Smash Bros community, becoming a prominent Nintendo YouTuber. A Nintuber. He has a second channel in personal-union, which was at first called “Alpharad Plus” as it plussed a few of his friends to help him play silly video games. These friends included “Wrong Way” Jo Sniffy, “Banana Soule” Ellie (spelled LE), and the Schrodinger editor Tyler/Miloni along with cameos from Keely Clove, LE’s brother Josh, ranting streamer Jawsh, a smasher known as Major, and childhood friend Travis. They would play a SpongeBob SquarePants game, Smash Bros., Super Monkey Ball, and Super Mario Maker to name a few. Another part of this channel is that it does the least amount of editing as possible as they intend to just shitpost let’s plays. The only thing that might take effort is the thumbnails and titles which might mislead viewers into another episode 1 of Pokemon Dungeon when it wasn’t advertised like this. Jacob buries himself in lies and sarcasm. It is this era when ‘Minecraft; the Way Home’ meme would be born among others within the fandom. The fandom was actually separate to Jacob’s main channel, proudly known as Plussy’s. The Plussy’s were very very annoying and would one day go too far with a joke forcing Jacob to reform the channel. It would be called “Alpharad Deluxe”. The Deluxe Era spans covid, from 2020 to 2022. During that time, Jacob and Jo would spontaneously move out of Oklahoma and into Los Angeles. They had one conversation in a video (i’m not searching) and then in the next episode, they were in LA. So deeply buried in irony is Jacob and Jo. This means the loss of LE as she is a nurse by day and can’t just to move to hell. Sad day. At first, I think Jacob lived with musician Deanna Gowland who would also be a producer of sorts for his main channel. Joining the Deluxe cast for an easy trilogy was Cascadian “Altrive” Dash/Dakota who I previously mentioned as being on Dream’s SMP. Another more common reoccurring character was Jawsh who was invited on only to make him rant about something. The collective irony of the four of them was on the level of gamma radiation, avert your ears. During this time, they would begin using teenaged adult @dotcolin as their editor. He also edits on the main channel but again, no effort is supposed to be made on Deluxe videos. It is during this era, a quote mocking Jacob for easily falling into “Icarus moments” would become the most repeated meme right next to the term “wholesome”. While there was plenty of one off games for this era, the one’s I mainly remember are Endless Easy Mode on Super Mario Maker 2, Mario Party Superstars, and max ranking every character in Super Smash Bros Ultimate. That last series would finish off at the end of 2022 as Dash finalized, for like the third time, his retirement from the channel. This was fine as Jacob and Jo had big plans for next year. Also, by now, Jacob has started living with Arizonian animator Jaiden “Animations” Dittfach.

Gold, the second reform of this channel, would be a challenge of extraordinary difficulty. The test was to play 1 new video game every day (and upload that video) for the year or not be able to upload any videos for the rest of the year. This is big stakes as this channel has no effort put into it and gives the duo a massive profit of passive income from YouTube every month. If they Colin edits and posts the video even one minute late, the challenge fails and they can’t post until 2024! But they have to play 365 video games this year. It could be ones they’ve played previously but there’s also definitely plenty new ones out there, allowing this to be a nice experimental adventure. How did they do?

• Marvin the Mouse Arc (Jan-March): In the Yakigate document, I make a mention of a rat that sabotaged this channel’s chances very early on. It was only the first month, and the two were able to get through plenty of games easily. But then, Marvin would attack. He was a real mouse that bit at the cords of Jacob’s electrical system thus affecting his upload time for the videos and even playing the games. He would seemingly be defeated by the end of January but then resurged in February and even March.
  • Now not only are they allowed to play old video games they’ve played before, but they were also able to upload older videos as long as they were the unique game of the year. Due to the lack of editing and trying to be consistent, they used to record videos and not upload them or somehow they would be deleted. One example is in the video “The Mario game you forgot about” where they played Mario Party Advanced for Gold. But this is not like them recording it in 2023 and uploading it, it is obviously still from a session that would be at least 1 year and a half ago. The layers of irony justifies entrees like this. Another example is “Alpharad Plus in 2023” where they upload that SpongeBob game from 4 years ago when they still lived in Oklahoma! Insane.
  • They also didn’t just play Switch or console games but stuff on the computer like Toontown, FPSChess, and Helltaker just to give an example of the range of games played. They also played the Chrome game of the dinosaur running when your internet is out. That counts as a game.
  • Some other game examples include Fire Emblem, One Piece Pirate Warriors 4, Jimmy Neutron (which they were very very disappointed by), A Hat in Time, Pizza Tetris (which was new and somewhat relevant at the time), and Slither.io.
  • They also sometimes let Colin play the games such as with the Fortnite video. But most games were single player, more likely played by Jacob than Jo. By the end of the year though, due to several things, Jo played the most out of the three of them.
  • They played goddamn 8 Ball Pool on the iPhone.
  • Then came “Super Mario 3 Week” in the middle of March. You know they can only play a game once? Well, what if the game was through a different emulator or version? I mean Pokemon Red and Pokemon Fire Red should both be valid. But they didn’t even use Pokemon. They somehow found six different versions of Super Mario 3 which were all barely valid- HOW THE FUCK IS IT IN ANIMAL CROSSING!?!?
  • By now, they had set a standard of doing one Mario Party game and one Super Smash Bros knockoff per month although it was kind of ever 5 weeks or so.
  • Common tradition on the channel was playing a video game and not having any commentary on it as Jacob and Jo just discuss their daily life, memories, and philosophies. The fans call these ‘podcast episodes’ as they feel as relaxing as listing to a podcast. An example is when Jo played Stanley Parable which might be ironic since the game is talking TO them. Most videos for Gold would last from 10 to 30 minutes although podcast episodes end up being longer along with games they actually like. But their shortest video would be Chess.
  • For the 100th day of the year (4/10), they would play a multiplayer version of Undertale. They were quite surprised that they made it thus far as there had been some pretty close calls. A number of times, they have forgotten to record and had to pull one last minute or for some reason, Colin wouldn’t be able to post it until a few minutes from midnight. Even on April Fools, fans thought it might’ve been the end already. But that’s 20/71 of the year! Starting with April, they would ow periodically do a Freddy game although Jacob was so scared, they only lasted a few minutes.
  • Jacob and Jaiden after attending creator clash
  • On May 11th, they play a versus version of Jacob’s favorite game Tetris. It is actually very interesting, worth a watch.
  • Now they can’t realistically imagine finding even 300 games so fans would send them recommendations that they politely ignored. Well, they played some. One of the first, at least according to memory, was this stupid platformer their friend CJ sent them. A frustrating video. Not cause they’re bad, I wouldn’t be good either, but the game? Not easy.
  • A few days ahead of the Yakigate Episode, Jacob has the most forecasted conversation with Jo. They are playing JumpKing (with Jo playing it very poorly) and Jacob has the room to kind of ramble as another ‘podcast episode’. in between a conversation of the anxious draining of a Youtuber worklife and having a good role model, he discusses consequences within the media industry. “I like to believe that bad actors are always caught” he starts as if Oda made him foreshadow what was about to happen to Yaki. It was so crazy to watch this while I was writing the article as I had fallen behind on watching Gold. And he knew nothing at this point! So let it be historical record that Jacob is so lucky (and he is famously lucky), he has precognition.

• Putt Putt Arc: (Jun-Aug) you know that feeling when you’ve started a new practice and your brain finally clicks making it into a habit? It finally sets in that you will be doing this for almost forever and your brain can nearly automatically repeat the process. As summer came and went, Jacob and Jo found themselves trapped in this feeling. They have never done daily content before, at least not to this level without a single break, and it really set in. Now they are in the routine of waking up, doing something chill in the morning, recording up to an hour of gameplay in the mid or late afternoon, and then playing games on their own or streaming as that was still necessary. This was a bit draining but still fun for them. In countless episodes of the summer, Jacob and Jo would repeat how astounding it was for them to reach 100 days and now they can’t stop. They might stop and might fail but they will for sure keep trying…
  • To start this arc off on a new trend; Jacob’s absence. Jacob’s continuous absences from many episode will force Jo and Colin to practically be the main characters of the series (although Jo also invited lots of other cameos to be his partner). His first one happens over just three days due to the Yakirisu drama affecting his mentality. Here, Jo and Colin play Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Then the next episode was a pre-recorded video of Jacob and Jo starting June with Mario Party 6 with Izziibel (all are drunk) in a challenge against the Wario CPU. If they lost to the homophobic Wario, the gays would have a bad pride month. They won so congrats.
  • Then comes the first Putt Putt video. Putt Putt is an educational kid’s game about a car in a vehicular world that helps out his neighbors and gets himself into various scenarios. I say educational, but I did not learn anything from these videos. It seems like Putt Putt spent most of the time running errands. What was this supposed to teach kids? But it was also my least favorite kind of gameplay to watch. Jacob and Jo REALLY unironically REALLY loved it. So every few weeks, they would play another Putt Putt game much to my detriment. 7 Games played, horrible.
  • I will simply mention games that I did like to watch them play! The new Street Fighter where they make the worst Sasuke possible, Jo immediately losing a tic tac toe game, a game pushing Grimace’s marketing, an Adventure Time tower defense game, a map game, and a New Super Mario Bros 2 speedrun.
  • Now you’ll notice Jacob was absent in some of those episodes. We know from his main channel that Jacob visited Super Nintendo World in Universal Studios Hollywood, which I will now take the moment to say it opened this year. This was a Mario theme park with designs brought out directly from the video games and a vr attraction based on Mario Kart. The restaurant there serves mushroom induced foods and there’s even a minigame on the universal app to play. Jacob and Jaiden would have some fun in their second visit to the park although were unfortunately disappointed with the food once more. Jacob would state that the Bowser’s Meatball Challenge was a challenge of “can you eat a pound of raw meat?” They thought the garlic knots were the best thing at a 6/10. But then, after this trip, Jacob seemingly had to go to the hospital for his own health issues. He would rejoin Jo in the fourth Putt Putt video. Afterwards though, and this is due to how the two of them release videos achromatically, he might’ve gone back to the hospital several times? Whatever.
  • I will not mention Huniepop, but I will recommend the incredibly cool Yomi Hustle, then they played their highly anticipated Pikman 3 (Jo’s favorite game series), SpyParty, and DoubleDash. The halfway episode was Mario Golf and the 200th episode was Password Game.
  • In August, Jacob went to Japan, as retold in his main channel’s video “I went to Japan and spent too much money“. Joining him once again was Jaiden, after Jacob was invited by Mr Pokemon himself to enjoy the World Championship tournament. The Pokemon Company seemed to pay for his flight, hotel, and other amenities like that so where Jacob would spend all of his money is in merchandise (allowing Pokemon to literally profit off him). Days before the tournament (the journey was three weeks long) there was basically a convention for all the Pokemon fans that held millions of items of merchandise. Jacob could not resist buying plush, the models, cards, manga, souvenirs, and everything else under the sun. I mean, it wasn’t just the convention, but also all the other stores in the city of Yokohama. He would also travel to Osaka for a Vocaloid concert. Eventually, he would come to have earned the Japanese nation at least 2,500 USD. The video ends with nearly his whole friend group receiving one or two presents that he bought for them in Japan. A very heartwhelming conclusion to a pocket draining addiction.
  • For the final episode of this arc, I will mention Trombone Champ.

• Monster of the Week Arc (Sept to Nov): But after you brain creates a new habit/routine, it will grow in confidence in the practice of the activity. There is no more dread that this will not end but instead satisfaction that they get to enjoy this. At least for Jacob, he was more content on finishing out the year and has also convinced himself that this was always possible. Jo is still somewhat preoccupied with how impressive it is that they got so far. If you asked some fans, they have already missed a day and its hard to tell as some days (in the description) are numbered wrong. I wouldn’t know as I was between 4 and 6 weeks behind on watching these daily videos. But in general, the duo would feel a bit more relaxed and used to this upload schedule. Plus Jacob didn’t get to have as many break anymore. They also decided to rely on a loophole to not playing a new game, just playing a different game in the same series. They had already been doing this with Mario Kart or fighitng games but….
  • Jackbox Week would be the first example of this weekly monster situation. Inviting several of their friends such as Adrianna and Jome, they would play the classic computer party game, Jackbox. It lasted 8 days.
  • Then they went back to playing random games such as Gang Beasts (in an impressively annoying episode) and Super Smash Flash (a childhood favorite of mine. Then came the first Konnichiwa Game, Anime Standing. What’s a Konnichiwa Game? Well 😏, it’s a developer that makes very simplified parodies of other games with the addition of you playing as a scantily dressed booby anime girl. The girl has uh advanced physics concerning her cleavage and ass and also usually moan when taking damage or something. But the games are made with like 5 bucks, the polygons aren’t exactly tiny. This first one they played, someone sent it to their Steam account and it is a parody of Death Stranding. Unfortunately, the game concept was so interesting to the Gold duo that they would continue to play more Konnichiwa Games, periodically, for the rest of this arc. There was six of them.
  • On my birthday they played F-Zero 99 which was a new nostalgia post from Nintendo. F-Zero was Nintendo’s first racing game back in the 90s, it focused on formula zero hover cars that raced in various tracks. The main protagonist was Captain Falcon who had a flashy personality in his Blue Falcon. The game was at least popular enough to land Falcon into the first Smash Bros game in 99 but Nintendo would at the same time discontinue the series, I guess in favor of Mario Kart. Even Kirby’s later racing game didn’t get a sequel. The new game would be on the Switch, of course, as a race royale. You and 98 other racers would choose 1 of 4 cars to race against in randomly selected tracks. It was fun, I was addicted for weeks after I watched this episode.
  • A few random games including Rounds, a claw machine, Cuphead, Counterstrike 2, a My Hero Acadamia Game, (damn September was crazy), Subway Surfers, and just about the worst playthrough of Amazing Mirror that I have ever seen. Sorry, it’s just my favorite game of all time! Lastly, they played the new Mario, the new Sonic, and the new Spider-Man game. They only liked the first two there.
  • On October 22nd, they played Suika.
  • Here, they give their thoughts on the Freddy movie. It is also the 300th video of the year. Then they played FriendsVsFriends, a very cool looking game. Then there was the new Wario Ware game, a series they both Katana a lot. After the last Konnichiwa Game, they would play Pixel Strike 3. We’re so close, only 1 month and a half to go.

• The Suika Arc (Nov): Listen, when this event start, I knew they would save some of their overplayed or most favorite games for the end. I was expecting more experimenting and they did well finding scores of new games and the audience suggesting dozens more. They did sometimes have to bullshit with a random mobile game or an older video, but the system worked. There is, what I think, clear rule breaking with Mario 3 week but here we are. Here we are, me weeks behind but I keep seeing that they are uploading seemingly the same game. I catch up and here we are, staring at a wall of Suika content for 19 DAYS. NINETEEN EPISODES OF SUIKA. Are you joking? And one episode is 4 hours long. Christ. I decided to really binge all of them over a weekend but it was intense.
  • Suika, also known as the Watermelon Game, is a matching game akin to Tetris. You drop down different fruits and if they match, they grow into a larger fruit. The sizes go from like cherry to orange to watermelon (there’s like 10 total). You keep growing until you can get watermelon but if the fruits overfill the ‘bucket’ then you lose. The ultimate goal is to get at least two watermelons as technically, the game can go on indefinitely and each different game might have the two watermelons combine or not. There was many different versions from waifu suika to shapes.
  • On the big episode, they played Suikarad Gold which was made by a fan. With a low ceiling and a small glitch, the game was so impossibly difficult that they would spend hours to beat the game. Halfway through, they recruited their friend @davekap (twitch) to develop their own themed Suika game since he assumed it would be relatively easy. Other friends would also be recruited to help potentially discover the 11th piece which Jacob is repeatedly on the edge of. Those would be Dash (just came to spectate actually), Sara Moon, Fir, Jaiden, Dellamie, and Colin. After another hour of data mining this game, they would discover that shrinking the video actually expanded the playfield for the game. This allowed one to deposit useless fruits rather than having them be dropped into the bucket. So with this cursed technique, with the sun setting, Jacob would finally teach us about love. In the last minute of a 4 hour 26 minute episode, Jacob performed a double layered dupes skip to end up with the creation of an ancient image of Jacob and Jo. “The real Suika was the friends we made along the waaaaay…”
    • I also want to speak to the music, it is the regular Suika music but after hearing it for 1/6th of a day, I came to realize that it sounds extremely similar to a background song in Azumanga Daioh. It’s too similar, that anime did a lot for me. Unfortunately, due to this episode, I will no longer have fond memories of this tune.
  • Dave’s game of Suika, co-developed by Jo, would be played in a final episode the next day. It was ‘open world’ and thus harder to lose than intended with any Suika game.
  • Now Suika was becoming popular as the same time they were making these videos but they may have caused many new versions to pop off as well spreading it to their ~300k fans (average views).
• Final War Arc (Dec): Finally, Jacob and Jo were at the precipice. They were on the edge of glory. What to play but they’re most overplayed and favorite games. Endless Easy Super Mario Maker 2, Mario Party Superstars, and Super Smash Brothers Ultimate. They also played the new Lego Fortnite, the new Spider-Man game (they didn’t like it), and the new multiplayer game known as Lethal Company. LE (over Discord) would finally return in a new Super Monkey Ball video where she could coin “Harlem shake Wednesday”. We love LE. On Jacob’s birthday, they played Amazing Island. Then they played Celeste (a platformer they like), Jaiden’s favorite game, and just the first cutscene Tears of the Kingdom. The coolest game Jacob, Jo, and Colin played together was Risk of Rain 2. The last game the three would play, potentially the most toxic, was Spelunky. And yes, that is the LAST game. LETS FUCKING GOOOO.
• In their final video of the year, they would rank the 300 something games that they played. They had different favorites but the highest rated game of each Jacob, Jo, and Colin was Speluncky. Jacob’s absolute favorite was Neon White, Jo’s was Melee, and Colin’s was Fortnite. Their agreed worst were options from the Konnichiwa Games and Flash Party.

The Return of Original Fortnite: Fortnite is a third pov shooting game featuring co-op and competitive play. The game initially started as a zombie killer but then adopted a new Battle Royale mode to rival PUBG. The unique part about it, even with the zombie killing, was the ability to build wooden or stone scaffolding to block gunshots or build forts. And here we dive into the lore. Back in the early days, it was just a game that changed its theme periodically (from medical to space age) until the asteroids appeared. (Chapter 1, Season 4) They flew across the sky ominously and then one larger one seemed to fall on the island (playfield where players are regularly killing each other) very slowly. When it landed, the Visitor was introduced as coming from a space pod within it. Then the Visitor would launch a device opening the Fortnite island to a multiversal wormhole, practically. Who was first to arrive from the portal but the “Mad Titan” Thanos. 

Now these default characters (in-universe) were always competing to kill each other with regular guns. Now they had access to Thanos’ Infinity Gauntlet which they could obliterate the battlefield with. Thanos himself also joined the competition. Afterwards, the trans dimensional rifts kept displacing things with the real world, in-game, and other worlds. Rifts would also allow the characters to hop across the map for mobility and logistical concerns. Out of one rift was a purple cube known simply as Kevin. Having sentience, Kevin seemed to move across the map and corrupt the map as he pleased. Then Kevin had an army of himself attack the characters from his base above Loot Lake. His corruption got to the point that players were transported into the inbetween zone of everything until the map reset. He eventually malfunctioned and broke apart. Winter came with a giant iceberg crashing into the island as guided by the Ice King (cool guy pictured below). He led a siege on Fortnite island that the players would be able to relieve. The Prisoner of the Ice King would be released and he rose a volcano to melt the island away. Eventually, miners found discovered a Vault under Loot Lake which opened a rift to the Zero Point. This is the very core of the entire omniverse created by the Big Bang protected by the Singularity. Players forcing the Zero Point to give up a Drum Gun caused the volcano to erupt which badly damaged areas such as Tilted Towers. You know what happens next? Thawed out from the Ice King’s iceberg was the Devourer who would terrorize the island. At the same time, the characters decided to use the Zero Point as fuel to rebuild Tilted Towers in a futuristic scheme. This was also an era of John Wick sweeping players in game. Miners of the volcano decided to build a giant robot known as “Mecha Team Leader”. MTL would fight and defeat the Devourer with a giant sword from  Tilted Towers before simply leaving the planet. The Zero Point is very badly overused at this point and explodes. This completely fucks the timeline of the island as things from the past reappear along with the Asteroid hovering above Dusty Depot. From the Asteroid comes the Scientist who is friends with the Visitor (along with 5 others known as The Seven) and he decides to use the rifts to try to get in contact with the others. This spawns goddamn Gotham City in the game. Using 7 rockets, he sends the Asteroid into the Zero Point to somehow blow it up which then somehow creates a black hole that eats everything. 

Chapter 2, we start with a new map with the same strategies of players trying to kill each other. They can do fishing and boating on the side if they like. The Millennium Falcon makes a visit (I guess the rifts are still rifting). On this island where warriors are sent to die, it would seem to come under the control of the Agency led by Midas. Midas hosted his own killing game to filter his secret agent company; pitting players in a white and a black team. Players were to attack each other’s bases and of course eliminate the blacks. And the whites. Deadpool, Psylocke, Domino, and Cable were also invited to the spy killing. Now the Fortnite island has a poisonous storm assisting in killing the players there. Come summer, Midas had a bit of an accident in trying to cure the storm which instead raised sea levels surrounding the island. The games would now be flooded, which attracted Black Manta and Aquaman as they fought. Suddenly, Thor fell out of the sky heralding the coming of Galactus who plans to eat the Zero Point of course. Thor summons his own Avengers team made up of She-Hulk, Groot, Storm, Doom, Mystique, Iron Man, and Wolverine. Also, Colombian singer Jose Balvin joins the Battle Royale. To defeat him, Thor tricked Galactus to eat a fleet of battle buses filled with BOMBS that blew him the fuck up. Before dying, Galactus is able to displace the Zero Point from its resting spot. This causes the spawning of new locations and attracts the Imagined Order Agent John Jones. It is revealed that he has trapped players on this island in a 22 minute time loop to forever kill copied versions of himself and others. He then recruits a multiversal league of hunters from T-800 to the Predator to the Mandalorian into the Battle Royale to kill players that try to break the time loop. Meanwhile, he continues to study the Zero Point as he wishes to create a perfect status in the Omniverse although he might be opposed by the Seven. The Zero Point is far too unstable for him anyways so he summons the Foundation (it’s just Dwyane Johnson) for a trade deal. Jones would give up the locations of his boss Geno and the Sisters, and so the Foundation built him a spire on the island to stabilize the Zero Point. But unfortunately, the Foundation would be sealed in the spire and it forced Jones to join the time loop himself. Dumbass. The Zero Point then degenerated the island to a primal state thus inviting Brazilian soccer player Neymar Jr. What are they trying to say about Brazil? Um but then aliens attack from a spaceship that would abduct players now including Rick Sanchez. The aliens would be fought off by Doctor Slone of the Imagined Order. He just bombs their shit but this causes multiple Kevin cubes to be scattered across the island. One of those cubes is golden which hatches the Cube Queen. Her goal is to destroy the omniverse so first she creates the Pyramid using the scattered cubes. The Pyramid makes a portal to the Last Reality where all the cubes come from–and so more cubes come in–to destroy the island. The Foundation, the Scientist, and the Visitor teamed up to save the loopers along with flipping the island. By flipping the island, the Pyramid’s portal would be cast into the sea and flooded, making it dysfunctional (WHAT?). But guess what? The Flipside of the island has locations that will serve as the battle grounds for the next chapter. 

Also during this chapter, Ariana Grande held a concert, following the footsteps of Marshmello and Travis Scott. 

They really let ANYTHING happen to this island.

Chapter 3, we in 2022 now, the end of Covid. The island is now flipped although there’s some old locations, such as Tilted Towers, mixed in with the new. The Imagined Order (building a new mine) and the Seven are now getting ready for formal war. Midas? Don’t worry about him. New members of the Seven are introduced including the Origin (the general of the group), the ex Cube King (what), and the two sisters which are separately the Imagined and the Order. Please. Now if you remember Geno, I mentioned him as the boss of the Imagined Order (org) but he is also the father of the sisters. What compels them to write like this. Now buckle up for the next battle. By draining out Loot Lake, the Imagined Order (org) was able to build a tower known as the Collider. Obviously, its going to collide some shit together so for the Seven to stop this, they want to reconstruct the Mecha Team Leader. Skipping the stupidass backstory of that machine, the team is able to contact ex-member Paradigm–who lives on the Ice Moon–to help rebuild the machine. The new version is known as the Mecha Strike Commander. The Loopers travel to the moon to ascertain the Commander and bring it back to the island. There, a final climatic battle commences between the Seven and Imagined Order’s forces, entirely on the Collider. The Collider is also revealed to be powered by the Zero Point, that’s kind of obvious. Doctor Slone would be killed along with the IMagined disintegrating. Before visibly dying, Geno warned that they would rue this day as his ground had somehow protected the island from two new antagonists. Who cares nigga? During the summer, a giant tree grew from the Zero Point, the Reality Tree. Also more loopers showed up including more Naruto characters and finally some Dragon Ball characters. But the Zero Point is now sickly, randomly rifting artifacts to the island and then comes the first antagonist. From the Last Reality, he is known as the Herald and he has the ability to affect matter with ‘chrome’. He chromes the island from east to west, even chroming the Seven all except for Paradigm. Paradigm decides to chuck herself into the Zero Point to possibly counter him. Herald is able to chrome both sides of the island, without pause. Then, from inside the Zero Point, Paradigm would transport players into a weird minigame that could program the Zero Point to reset the island. This was successful although Paradigm seemingly died. The new island would be one sided, set in space.

Also with chapter 3 came the Zero Build mode and Epic’s funding of Ukraine.

Chapter 4 would take place over the course of this year. By now, Fortnite is known as the collab extraordinaire of video games, partnering itself with many intellectual properties for an everly fun game. This would lead to the creation of the image below, detailing how extensive the Fortnite omniverse is. You can even see, some are not directly tied to Fortnite but instead have a degrees of separation. And its multiversal world building is truly undefeated thus far, even though there’s these stupid climaxes just to add flavor or entirely change the island. I wonder what could happen next and with that man, can you find out how many degrees of separation you are to Jonsey (Fortnite)?

So the new island would have three biomes, a tundra, a temperate grassy one, and one with a medieval European civilization. That is the Oathbound led by The Ageless and his liege Stellan. So as the loopers continue killing each other in the 22 minute time loop, they come across an ai known as AMIE. AMIE is in desperate search for the Seven and needs to make a physical body to really seek them out. Stellan begins to receive dreams to build a rift gate so that a certain someone can return to the island (Geno). At the same time, AMIE receives a coded message from the Last Reality about them possibly holding the Seven hostage. So AMIE commandeers the finished rift gate to travel to the Last Reality. This breaks the rift gate, causing a large red rift to appear in the sky. Falling out of the red was a futuristic Japanese city controlled by the Peaceful Syndicate. Also falling out were characters from Attack on Titan, Star Wars, and Across the Spider-Verse to name a few. The meta during this era was the All For One Punch from the My Hero Academia universe (i didn’t mention they rifted in as well) along with the Kamehameha from Dragon Ball. Also, by the end of the chapter, the dreaded Jujutusu Kaisen  characters would be added to the island, cursing other players with lobotomy. Then the earth broke apart as large vines sprouted, covering the map. The earth kept quaking as the vines grew until a jungle grew in the center of the island. There, Doctor Slone is revealed to have been alive although trapped in her tank. In the jungle, there’s ancient temples, one holding a satellite device known as the Apparatus. But forget, here comes time traveling vampire Kado Throne who has stolen various items for Fortnite’s past, and Doctor Slone has decided that stealing them back is of much importance. Jonsey comes to help the Loopers and they eventually steal his time machine. With the time machine, Jonsey and the Loopers accidentally fall back into Chapter 1 with the original map although some things have been altered due to their flashing back. One example is that the relived experiences of Chapter 1 either did not happen or were not as extreme for these time travelers. Also, anything Jonesy did now seemed to affect Chapter 4 (how? That’s a reset island with no similar matter blah blah blah) as evidenced by the messages Doctor Slone is sending back to him. How? Anyways, she tells him he just needs to ‘extract’ something. Jonesy instead finds the giant rocket where the time machine is strapped to. The same asteroid begins falling to the island and the Zero Point reappears. The Seven comes in to use their rockets once again to redirect the asteroid. But the rockets and the asteroid begin glitching, shapeshifting in many different things before falling into the Zero Point. This causes the Big Bang. Like The Big One. The entire universe re-explodes and the loopers float around watching the first billion years pass as stars and different universes form. There’s also different realities (teasing Fortnite’s new game modes) like Lego and Rocket League before the loopers finally fall into an Eminem concert. 

This would of course be on a new island where loopers could begin simply killing each other again, this time with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles weapons wielded by Peter Griffin. Eminem showing up did bring lots of memes out of the Fortnite community and appraised his relevancy after years of him not being in the news. It was probably the most hyped gaming event of the year. Over the years, Fortnite has had up and downs in reputation (although has always been one of the most popular games) although this year I would say it was positive. People have stopped associating the game with purely middle school boys and all of the cosmetic skin designs bring a different flavor of what a shooter could be compared to the gritty Call of Duty or basic Counterstrike Global or the too shitty Overwatch and the specialized Valorant. There is still some disrespect toward the game from the shooter community specifically towards the kids who play the game and know nothing else. The kids will cite characters such as Doom guy or the Hulk as ‘the guy from Fortnite’ which for some reason causes grown adults to get mad. But one could never escape the Fortnite omniverse. The game is six years old now so time will only tell how ridiculous the entire storyline will be in the future. 

But it would not win anything at the Game Awards (hosted by Geoff Keighley). The Game of the Year, not interrupted by Matan Evan this time, would be decided by a few entrees. 

1. There was Alan Wake 2, a sequel to a 2010 with an very insane/intense plotline. It is a survival horror which would spawn schizo related memes this year. The fans love it a lot but it is kind of niche in the big scheme of gaming.
2. Then there was Tears of the Kingdom, the sequel to Breath of the Wild in the new Zelda Timeline. Join Link once again in a HD-3d open world swordfighting and archery game to kill a bunch of goblins and rescue Princess Zelda. It is perhaps unique in the Zelda series for using the same map as its prequel although there are some new additions with floating islands and a Netherrealm. The player also has a new series of abilities to build contraptions to torture the local koroks (which would be the game’s main meme). Some players did favor previous powers but some of the new ones such as the Diver Down Elevator were well accepted. But many gamers agree that the additions didn’t change the game enough and that this was basically a $60 DLC. Complain complain…
3. On the PlayStation 5, the console’s tester would be Spider-Man 2 (2023). At least have a subtitle or something, there’s already a second Spider-Man game. This game would be a continuation of the modern PlayStation series of Parker’s life as a superhero in a realistic 3d open world New York City. Manhattan would be literally copy-pasted with additions from the comics to give the player a relaxing time in the city. They can swing through to their own interest in-between missions, defeating random criminals, or listening to the J. Jonah Jameson radio. This game would feature the same map with new abilities for the two characters you were playing as; Peter Parker and Miles Morales. The game would switch between the two; Peter tackling the venom symbiote and Miles tackling his school work. The main antagonist was Kraven the Hunter although there was a grand intro battle with Sandman that gamers glazed over due to the detail in sand. Fans decently liked the game, perhaps upscaled by the Summer of Spider-Man, but there was one constant comment. The game was not too fresh, too different from the rest of the series, or do too much to upgrade the combat system.
4. Then there was the Resident Evil 4 remake of the 2005 game. If people were already complaining about sequels that were not new, a remake was not gonna cut it.
5. And then somehow Nintendo got a second entry with Wonder. It was the first new 2d Mario game to grace the Switch (so maybe we aren’t at the end of its life) with new movement, new art style, new powers, and even new characters to play as. A refreshing take on Mario, it came out only a few months ago (nearly in tandem with Sonic’s new 2d game Superstars) so I am very surprised it made it. And in fact, it should’ve just been saved for next year because not as many people were thinking about it.

But then the winner would be Baldur’s Gate 3 by Larian Studios. A computer game (that can also be found on the PlayStation 5 and Series X) which was an rpg Dungeons and Dragons type game. One thing that posted it from niche to mainstream was the multiplayer feature of the game, allowing friends to create a party to play through a game rather than just a lonely DnD with ai. Of course, there’s single player as well but some gamers noted that this was a step in the right direction for video games. BG3 would be among a recent trend of games like Among Us, Stumble Guys, and Lethal Company to rely on multiplayer to make sure entire friend groups of people buy the game rather than just one guy. Besides that, BG3 also allowed the players to kind of do anything with the characters, even when there was scripted moments. Not that I saw any memes harvested in the game, it would still be popular 6 or 7 months after it came out in time for this award show. It was a sweep.

Due to Nintendo Directs and other studios giving their own conferences, rather than relying on E3, E3 would be canceled. E3 started as a conference of any and all tech companies to promote whatever new thing they cooked up in the lab. But soon, it was just the gaming section that received the biggest attention and participation. It would continue through the 2010s as one of the few ways gamers received official news on new games instead of rumors from GameFaqs. But its over and I don’t care.

Bidenomics: In a chronicle encompassing the whole of the United States of America’s status in 2023 has not touched on the economy…until now! Now this section will be divided into three ‘statuses’ as the economy both feels different and acts different based on your estate. I would consider the United States now having three estates; the Corpos (bigger business and national organizations), the Worker (common man in the suburbs, rural and urban regions) , and the Polis (those in any form of political power). For Bidenomics, it intends to be the antithesis of Reaganomics from a lifetime ago. Reaganomics promoted trickle down theory in that by taxing the rich less, more of their money might trickle into the economy. This was immediately proved wrong but has become a commonplace theory to attack in American media. Bidenomics wants to build both the middle and lower class to reverse the stagnation of the economy as these are the two tiers that actually provide for the economy daily. It is helped that Covid filtered out some merchants allowing Biden to ‘restart’ the economy.

1. So the White House celebrates 13 million jobs since the start of his term. They state inflation has been decreasing over the last year. This is apparently coming from thousands of public investments made by the federal government in bipartisan laws. The investments have gone toward manufacturing and technological goods, bringing in more jobs and helping such companies out. They also celebrate a rise in employment satisfaction although that might be due to the minimum wage controversy last year which stayed the same federally but some states increased. Parts of Bidenomics support unionization, free community college, promotion of trade education, and competitive capitalism. He is also planning for Medicare to give better pricing on prescription jobs. Biden’s biggest dream is to possibly tax the rich harsher in order to curb the deficit. That has at least been progressed by $1 trillion so far, I guess.
2. Despite this, the actual Americans don’t feel any better about the economy. With the rise in egg prices, the common Yankee feels childishly disturbed by rising inflation over the last several decades. Medicals and residential pricing is still expensive and believed to be getting worse. This is due to Financial Dissonance as while economists at least have some empiricism to argue if the economy is washed or not; a civilian lives month to month and hardly remembers anything from 20 months ago. Still yet, the Worker estate is still providing plenty of money to the economy as people still fly, vacation, start and end fashion trends, and buy the new game. The average credit score may or may not be good. Americans are correct in feeling that what was predicted has come to pass with streaming services. Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and Max among others used to feel cheaper than cable until Covid. During Covid, every media company would create or join a streaming service meaning their content is privately owned by that company rather than on a public cable satellite. Now some folks feel obliged to obtain multiple services even just to watch 4 different shows and so other folks have found piracy to be cheaper. That is, certain websites online are currently hosting various old and new shows/movies in decent quality for completely free. The problem is that while normies discover the basic piracy sites, real pirates understand that things such as torrenting have been washed away. Well, go teach us how to torrent then. No, why are there full twitter discussions about the loss of torrent culture instead of reviving it, nvm I hate everyone.
   • For consumers, a new store has arrived on the market. First, there’s the Tiktok shop and Tiktok creator ads that have well annoyed people on the site. It is just an online store but the way Tiktok tries to market certain items as viral or unique in quality just feels cringie. But beyond that comes the rise of Temu, a Chinese online store with huge advertising pushes across the Internet. Temu started near the end of 2022 but has soon be quick to be seen as a discount store, foiling its rival Shein. Shein and Temu actually have a funny legal history in the last few months but we don’t care. Not that Temu just sells things at discount but products have been found to be low in quality or acting as cheap knock offs of better products such as a Yeti bottle or athletic clothing. The prices ARE also low but since Temu relies on viral marketing, they might be breaking even? As for Shein, they are for some reason seen as higher end fashion at a low price. It’s mostly women’s clothing (of course) but I never seen anyone show off a Shein outfit and thought to myself “that looks good”.
   • Also, a new antagonist arose for the Working Class, the unemployed best friend. This is for those in the 20-40 age range, but one may find themselves in a friend group which includes one friend that has no occupation in the slightest. That might be because they have rich parents, live off passive income from stocks, or somehow they are a functional bum. The problem lies in the unemployed always having time to go skydiving, end up in gang fight, crashing a wedding, or some other ridiculous circumstance as if they were Kramer from Seinfeld. Actually, watch an It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, that’s the kind of shenanigans and unemployed friend could get into. Meanwhile, you’re busy trying to coordinate schedules with your other employed friends and somehow its the only day the unemployed friend is busy. HOWWW!? LIKE MIGUEL HOW IS THIS THE ONE TIME YOUR BUSY?? YOU HAVE NO JOB!!! So memes would be made making fun of the unemployed lifestyle/friend while also not having a job seemed to be generally chastised. Being motionless was something a working tweeter could not understand and in fact not holding any job seemed like a mortal sin. This is while them not having a job only impacts you socially rather than economically. Job applications would also be used as heavy rebuttals for those who invested themselves on stupid takes online or flexed their skill in a video game.
3. Lastly, for the Corpo estate, the stock market seems good. No craziness like during quarantine, nor was there any crazy mergers or break ups that I recall. Crypto has fallen off the path with Bitcoin and a few of its competitors remaining viable for any cryptic exchanging. By now, I imagine the market also stagnated since everyone wants to hold whatever crypto they do have until it rises to a descent value. Because of various rug pulls, I imagine the cryptos are frighten low (except for the rare success in Bitcoin).

For the common fashion world, are a few new entrees or pieces that have continued to rise in popularity. The first, “Olyvenn summer peach shorts” are shorts that somewhat pronounce the ass with back pockets. They could be considered casual or athletic. The other is NVGTN’s scrunch shorts which modify the ass more, perhaps due to the scrunch at the top or sometimes in the crack. They are athletic. The last are On Holding AG shoes, which are athletic. My friend finds them quite comfortable, along with others using them for a long period of time, although the price might be considered okay to expensive. Yes, you can say that the 2010s and 2020s feature a rise in athletic wear for Americans, even for those who are lightly athletic. We will espeically still wear such clothing when in casual activity, dates, doing errands, or wherever they wouldn’t necessarily need professional attire.

And then there’s the rise of the Stanley bottle, starting from 1913 by William Stanley Jr. He would die two years after inventing the company’s initial bottle but it would be well used in the Great War. More recently, the company make a quencher type bottle which failed within Trump’s presidency. I guess, according to their standards. Then, due to efforts by a woman’s Utah blog, the bottles would pop off Post-Covid to becoming quite popular, even rivaling the likes of Yeti (in term of relevance, not units sold).

The next piece is not clothing but a hairstyle that has become popular once again. The low taper fade. It would seem to resurge due to a meme editing Fortnite streamer Ninja with such a fade, sometimes including a song. Shitposters would edit all sort of people and characters receiving the low taper fade which also meant the person had to take on a more gangster/urban appearance and attitude.

The circle surrounding tweeter @JeremiahDJohns would vote for the worst tweet of the year. There was 64 contestants and at least 50k votes. The final poll puled 73k votes. 43% would choose a tweet that questioned the ethical nature of sex scenes in a movie (like Oppenheimer) as the viewers are basically peeping on them with the movie characters’ consent. My jaw hasn’t left the floor but the winner with 56% votes was @Rongwrong_ who said “Did the Nazis do anything to their victims that was as horrific as what was done on October 7?” (in reference to the Sabbath day raid by Hamas) “That’s an honest question, I don’t know holocaust history. October 7 seems more savage and sadistic than the Nazis, more like ISIS or the Comanches.” My jaw continues to remain on the floor.

My Alter Ego: At the end end of the year, Drake hosted a stream on Kick while he was in Turks and Caicos where he gambled his millions in a few games. At the beginning of the stream, a few phrases were found to be quite funny and so they were clipped and shipped to Tiktok starting a new generation of Drake memes. The phrases include, “this is my Alter Ego, Anita Max Wynn” (which is incredible wordplay), “ladies with gentle hands” (bro is on a roll) “Ws in the chhhhyat” “to the rest of you, the nonbelivers, the underachievers, the tweeting deleters, you guys make me sick to my stomach fam” and “ooooh my gah, I sarwwwy”. Each one would be made fun of and quoted, they were especially funny due to his pronunciation. The last quote would also be referenced with the character Ayumu “Osaka” Kasuga from Azumanga Daioh who pronounced that line in the same way. The influence of that show proceeds itself.

You are reaching the end. Here are heat maps of locations mentioned in this chronicle. For the American one, the bluer, the more action. Lots of no action in the midwest this year. I did mentioned Cascadia (Washington and Oregon) and Appalachia (Tenn, Ken, Virginias, Carolinas) as regions so those states get bonus points. . You may have noticed that I tried to mention ethnicities and places of origin whenever introducing someone, so that is included in these maps. That means a singular person would put their entire nation on the map, even when they were still American citizens simply with foreign ancestry. As seen in the global map, predictably, the Anglo or higher populated nations are the most green. The USA’s combined 53 entries were ignored in the latter map so single mentions like Poland could be distinguishable from Turkey (4) and then Canada (the peak of 8). But hey, every continent is represented. In sub-Saharan Africa, one can see Mr Beast’s footprints.

Now that we are at the end, what did you learn? What can we predict? Well, the conversation of Ai should continue, along with the Feminist conversation, although hopefully with new topics for both. Jujustu Kaisen does intend to conclude in the next two years (although I thought it would’ve been this year) so we will soon be rid of that plague. The Russo-Ukrani war should last another year and the Israel-Hamas conflict should end within the next year. How hard is it to kill a few million Palestinians? Until we meet again, Historian, this was T. D. Writer….with…a final tik tok link.