Last day of school: Good morning. This is the last day you have to put up with my morning speech. And it’s the last day of our high school lives. I'd like to congratulate those who already know their next path. I'm also rooting for those who are still finding their paths. I hope you all get to do what you want. Good luck, everyone. [Tinn Tinnaphob Jirawatthanakul - Student Body President]
Tried watching this video (the only existing evidence of the creel clock livestream countdown for the s4 trailer), which is apparently where the 'byler static kiss' originated.
The stream lasted 24 hours and was removed from YouTube shortly after airing. And so unfortunately, this is all we’ve got.
From what I can see, even watching at 0.25 playback speed, there was no static kiss, at least not at this particular time of the countdown, which was right before the trailer dropped at the end of the stream.
However, there is indeed a lot of static in this countdown. Like it’s kind of unnecessary tbh, with it even carrying through over to the trailer.
Also tv static in general tends to be mostly white. Not always, but usually color tends to come into play when there is an actual image projecting, only it's not fully visible bc of whatever reason, and so you get like this mixture of static and image.
THIS
VS.
THIS
When this happens, what you get is all sorts of colors (the colors that make up the image).
It's almost as if there was a specific image they were using as a source to juxtapose discreetly as the static itself.
So it is interesting that the byler static kiss has very similar coloring to the static that we saw throughout the countdown...
It’s entirely possible this image popped up more visibly at a different time within those 24 hrs, but we'll never know bc it's lost in history (minus the existing screenshot of course), which is pretty unfortunate.
For those that don’t know, there were also scenes from past seasons shown at the top of each hour for the countdown, along with other b-roll footage filmed specifically for this countdown scattered throughout.
So I do wonder if this static also accompanied each of those top of the hour recaps? Bc if this image did indeed come from the countdown, if there was a way we could actually find this exact still within the countdown, that would be crazy. I would fully believe it was intentional bc like wtf...??
also I see the value in having such an overtly hopeful ep and characters, but what I love the most about tlou is the entire concept that hope and goodness are made. they have in fact been destroyed. they are not inherently here. you will not stumble upon them. you will have to fight (hard!) to act in accordance to them. it will be difficult. and mostly the payout is minimal. you will not get bill and franks happy ending. but you will get bits of laughter from joel, a birthday trip with ellie, a warm hug on a hard day. they will be small things and they won’t be the majority of the experience. you fight for the bits and hope someone way further down the line can be bill or Frank.
Also finally downloaded blender to try and sculpt my own BJD so if anyone has tips about that send em my way. I’m gonna start working on a guy over thanksgiving holiday probably.
the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again