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mostlysignssomeportents · 1 year

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The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble

Back in 2017 Long Island Ice Tea — known for its undistinguished, barely drinkable sugar-water — changed its name to “Long Blockchain Corp.” Its shares surged to a peak of 400% over their pre-announcement price. The company announced no specific integrations with any kind of blockchain, nor has it made any such integrations since.

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/autocomplete-worshippers/#the-real-ai-was-the-corporations-that-we-fought-along-the-way

LBCC was subsequently delisted from NASDAQ after settling with the SEC over fraudulent investor statements. Today, the company trades over the counter and its market cap is $36m, down from $138m.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/textbook-case-of-crypto-hype-how-iced-tea-company-went-blockchain-and-failed-despite-a-289-percent-stock-rise

The most remarkable thing about this incredibly stupid story is that LBCC wasn’t the peak of the blockchain bubble — rather, it was the start of blockchain’s final pump-and-dump. By the standards of 2022’s blockchain grifters, LBCC was small potatoes, a mere $138m sugar-water grift.

They didn’t have any NFTs, no wash trades, no ICO. They didn’t have a Superbowl ad. They didn’t steal billions from mom-and-pop investors while proclaiming themselves to be “Effective Altruists.” They didn’t channel hundreds of millions to election campaigns through straw donations and other forms of campaing finance frauds. They didn’t even open a crypto-themed hamburger restaurant where you couldn’t buy hamburgers with crypto:

https://robbreport.com/food-drink/dining/bored-hungry-restaurant-no-cryptocurrency-1234694556/

They were amateurs. Their attempt to “make fetch happen” only succeeded for a brief instant. By contrast, the superpredators of the crypto bubble were able to make fetch happen over an improbably long timescale, deploying the most powerful reality distortion fields since Pets.com.

Anything that can’t go on forever will eventually stop. We’re told that trillions of dollars’ worth of crypto has been wiped out over the past year, but these losses are nowhere to be seen in the real economy — because the “wealth” that was wiped out by the crypto bubble’s bursting never existed in the first place.

Like any Ponzi scheme, crypto was a way to separate normies from their savings through the pretense that they were “investing” in a vast enterprise — but the only real money (“fiat” in cryptospeak) in the system was the hardscrabble retirement savings of working people, which the bubble’s energetic inflaters swapped for illiquid, worthless shitcoins.

We’ve stopped believing in the illusory billions. Sam Bankman-Fried is under house arrest. But the people who gave him money — and the nimbler Ponzi artists who evaded arrest — are looking for new scams to separate the marks from their money.

Take Morganstanley, who spent 2021 and 2022 hyping cryptocurrency as a massive growth opportunity:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/morgan-stanley-launches-cryptocurrency-research-team

Today, Morganstanley wants you to know that AI is a $6 trillion opportunity.

They’re not alone. The CEOs of Endeavor, Buzzfeed, Microsoft, Spotify, Youtube, Snap, Sports Illustrated, and CAA are all out there, pumping up the AI bubble with every hour that god sends, declaring that the future is AI.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/wall-street-ai-stock-price-1235343279/

Google and Bing are locked in an arms-race to see whose search engine can attain the speediest, most profound enshittification via chatbot, replacing links to web-pages with florid paragraphs composed by fully automated, supremely confident liars:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/tweedledumber/#easily-spooked

Blockchain was a solution in search of a problem. So is AI. Yes, Buzzfeed will be able to reduce its wage-bill by automating its personality quiz vertical, and Spotify’s “AI DJ” will produce slightly less terrible playlists (at least, to the extent that Spotify doesn’t put its thumb on the scales by inserting tracks into the playlists whose only fitness factor is that someone paid to boost them).

But even if you add all of this up, double it, square it, and add a billion dollar confidence interval, it still doesn’t add up to what Bank Of America analysts called “a defining moment — like the internet in the ’90s.” For one thing, the most exciting part of the “internet in the ‘90s” was that it had incredibly low barriers to entry and wasn’t dominated by large companies — indeed, it had them running scared.

The AI bubble, by contrast, is being inflated by massive incumbents, whose excitement boils down to “This will let the biggest companies get much, much bigger and the rest of you can go fuck yourselves.” Some revolution.

AI has all the hallmarks of a classic pump-and-dump, starting with terminology. AI isn’t “artificial” and it’s not “intelligent.” “Machine learning” doesn’t learn. On this week’s Trashfuture podcast, they made an excellent (and profane and hilarious) case that ChatGPT is best understood as a sophisticated form of autocomplete — not our new robot overlord.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4NHKMZZNKi0w9mOhPYIL4T

We all know that autocomplete is a decidedly mixed blessing. Like all statistical inference tools, autocomplete is profoundly conservative — it wants you to do the same thing tomorrow as you did yesterday (that’s why “sophisticated” ad retargeting ads show you ads for shoes in response to your search for shoes). If the word you type after “hey” is usually “hon” then the next time you type “hey,” autocomplete will be ready to fill in your typical following word — even if this time you want to type “hey stop texting me you freak”:

https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/provocations/neophobic-conservative-ai-overlords-want-everything-stay/

And when autocomplete encounters a new input — when you try to type something you’ve never typed before — it tries to get you to finish your sentence with the statistically median thing that everyone would type next, on average. Usually that produces something utterly bland, but sometimes the results can be hilarious. Back in 2018, I started to text our babysitter with “hey are you free to sit” only to have Android finish the sentence with “on my face” (not something I’d ever typed!):

https://mashable.com/article/android-predictive-text-sit-on-my-face

Modern autocomplete can produce long passages of text in response to prompts, but it is every bit as unreliable as 2018 Android SMS autocomplete, as Alexander Hanff discovered when ChatGPT informed him that he was dead, even generating a plausible URL for a link to a nonexistent obit in The Guardian:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/02/chatgpt_considered_harmful/

Of course, the carnival barkers of the AI pump-and-dump insist that this is all a feature, not a bug. If autocomplete says stupid, wrong things with total confidence, that’s because “AI” is becoming more human, because humans also say stupid, wrong things with total confidence.

Exhibit A is the billionaire AI grifter Sam Altman, CEO if OpenAI — a company whose products are not open, nor are they artificial, nor are they intelligent. Altman celebrated the release of ChatGPT by tweeting “i am a stochastic parrot, and so r u.”

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1599471830255177728

This was a dig at the “stochastic parrots” paper, a comprehensive, measured roundup of criticisms of AI that led Google to fire Timnit Gebru, a respected AI researcher, for having the audacity to point out the Emperor’s New Clothes:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-ai-ethics-research-paper-forced-out-timnit-gebru/

Gebru’s co-author on the Parrots paper was Emily M Bender, a computational linguistics specialist at UW, who is one of the best-informed and most damning critics of AI hype. You can get a good sense of her position from Elizabeth Weil’s New York Magazine profile:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

Bender has made many important scholarly contributions to her field, but she is also famous for her rules of thumb, which caution her fellow scientists not to get high on their own supply:

Please do not conflate word form and meaning

Mind your own credulity

As Bender says, we’ve made “machines that can mindlessly generate text, but we haven’t learned how to stop imagining the mind behind it.” One potential tonic against this fallacy is to follow an Italian MP’s suggestion and replace “AI” with “SALAMI” (“Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences”). It’s a lot easier to keep a clear head when someone asks you, “Is this SALAMI intelligent? Can this SALAMI write a novel? Does this SALAMI deserve human rights?”

Bender’s most famous contribution is the “stochastic parrot,” a construct that “just probabilistically spits out words.” AI bros like Altman love the stochastic parrot, and are hellbent on reducing human beings to stochastic parrots, which will allow them to declare that their chatbots have feature-parity with human beings.

At the same time, Altman and Co are strangely afraid of their creations. It’s possible that this is just a shuck: “I have made something so powerful that it could destroy humanity! Luckily, I am a wise steward of this thing, so it’s fine. But boy, it sure is powerful!”

They’ve been playing this game for a long time. People like Elon Musk (an investor in OpenAI, who is hoping to convince the EU Commission and FTC that he can fire all of Twitter’s human moderators and replace them with chatbots without violating EU law or the FTC’s consent decree) keep warning us that AI will destroy us unless we tame it.

There’s a lot of credulous repetition of these claims, and not just by AI’s boosters. AI critics are also prone to engaging in what Lee Vinsel calls criti-hype: criticizing something by repeating its boosters’ claims without interrogating them to see if they’re true:

https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype-18b08b4307e5

There are better ways to respond to Elon Musk warning us that AIs will emulsify the planet and use human beings for food than to shout, “Look at how irresponsible this wizard is being! He made a Frankenstein’s Monster that will kill us all!” Like, we could point out that of all the things Elon Musk is profoundly wrong about, he is most wrong about the philosophical meaning of Wachowksi movies:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/18/lilly-wachowski-ivana-trump-elon-musk-twitter-red-pill-the-matrix-tweets

But even if we take the bros at their word when they proclaim themselves to be terrified of “existential risk” from AI, we can find better explanations by seeking out other phenomena that might be triggering their dread. As Charlie Stross points out, corporations are Slow AIs, autonomous artificial lifeforms that consistently do the wrong thing even when the people who nominally run them try to steer them in better directions:

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future

Imagine the existential horror of a ultra-rich manbaby who nominally leads a company, but can’t get it to follow: “everyone thinks I’m in charge, but I’m actually being driven by the Slow AI, serving as its sock puppet on some days, its golem on others.”

Ted Chiang nailed this back in 2017 (the same year of the Long Island Blockchain Company):

There’s a saying, popularized by Fredric Jameson, that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. It’s no surprise that Silicon Valley capitalists don’t want to think about capitalism ending. What’s unexpected is that the way they envision the world ending is through a form of unchecked capitalism, disguised as a superintelligent AI. They have unconsciously created a devil in their own image, a boogeyman whose excesses are precisely their own.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway

Chiang is still writing some of the best critical work on “AI.” His February article in the New Yorker, “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web,” was an instant classic:

[AI] hallucinations are compression artifacts, but — like the incorrect labels generated by the Xerox photocopier — they are plausible enough that identifying them requires comparing them against the originals, which in this case means either the Web or our own knowledge of the world.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web

“AI” is practically purpose-built for inflating another hype-bubble, excelling as it does at producing party-tricks — plausible essays, weird images, voice impersonations. But as Princeton’s Matthew Salganik writes, there’s a world of difference between “cool” and “tool”:

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2023/03/08/can-chatgpt-and-its-successors-go-from-cool-to-tool/

Nature can claim “conversational AI is a game-changer for science” but “there is a huge gap between writing funny instructions for removing food from home electronics and doing scientific research.” Salganik tried to get ChatGPT to help him with the most banal of scholarly tasks — aiding him in peer reviewing a colleague’s paper. The result? “ChatGPT didn’t help me do peer review at all; not one little bit.”

The criti-hype isn’t limited to ChatGPT, of course — there’s plenty of (justifiable) concern about image and voice generators and their impact on creative labor markets, but that concern is often expressed in ways that amplify the self-serving claims of the companies hoping to inflate the hype machine.

One of the best critical responses to the question of image- and voice-generators comes from Kirby Ferguson, whose final Everything Is a Remix video is a superb, visually stunning, brilliantly argued critique of these systems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rswxcDyotXA

One area where Ferguson shines is in thinking through the copyright question — is there any right to decide who can study the art you make? Except in some edge cases, these systems don’t store copies of the images they analyze, nor do they reproduce them:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/09/ai-monkeys-paw/#bullied-schoolkids

For creators, the important material question raised by these systems is economic, not creative: will our bosses use them to erode our wages? That is a very important question, and as far as our bosses are concerned, the answer is a resounding yes.

Markets value automation primarily because automation allows capitalists to pay workers less. The textile factory owners who purchased automatic looms weren’t interested in giving their workers raises and shorting working days. ‘ They wanted to fire their skilled workers and replace them with small children kidnapped out of orphanages and indentured for a decade, starved and beaten and forced to work, even after they were mangled by the machines. Fun fact: Oliver Twist was based on the bestselling memoir of Robert Blincoe, a child who survived his decade of forced labor:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/59127/59127-h/59127-h.htm

Today, voice actors sitting down to record for games companies are forced to begin each session with “My name is ______ and I hereby grant irrevocable permission to train an AI with my voice and use it any way you see fit.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d37za/voice-actors-sign-away-rights-to-artificial-intelligence

Let’s be clear here: there is — at present — no firmly established copyright over voiceprints. The “right” that voice actors are signing away as a non-negotiable condition of doing their jobs for giant, powerful monopolists doesn’t even exist. When a corporation makes a worker surrender this right, they are betting that this right will be created later in the name of “artists’ rights” — and that they will then be able to harvest this right and use it to fire the artists who fought so hard for it.

There are other approaches to this. We could support the US Copyright Office’s position that machine-generated works are not works of human creative authorship and are thus not eligible for copyright — so if corporations wanted to control their products, they’d have to hire humans to make them:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/21/22944335/us-copyright-office-reject-ai-generated-art-recent-entrance-to-paradise

Or we could create collective rights that belong to all artists and can’t be signed away to a corporation. That’s how the right to record other musicians’ songs work — and it’s why Taylor Swift was able to re-record the masters that were sold out from under her by evil private-equity bros::

https://doctorow.medium.com/united-we-stand-61e16ec707e2

Whatever we do as creative workers and as humans entitled to a decent life, we can’t afford drink the Blockchain Iced Tea. That means that we have to be technically competent, to understand how the stochastic parrot works, and to make sure our criticism doesn’t just repeat the marketing copy of the latest pump-and-dump.

Today (Mar 9), you can catch me in person in Austin at the UT School of Design and Creative Technologies, and remotely at U Manitoba’s Ethics of Emerging Tech Lecture.

Tomorrow (Mar 10), Rebecca Giblin and I kick off the SXSW reading series.

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hadesisqueer · 1 year

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Okay, hiatus is coming to an end in two weeks, so let us remember the most iconic things that happened in these TWO fucking years, since that dreadful March 27th, 2021 (my birthday actually). This might be in chronological order or not idk like I said it's two years I can't remember everything and when it exactly happened.

Bloconut.

Yango.

Many other characters as fruits. This was in the FIRST WEEK OF HIATUS AND Y'ALL WERE ALREADY ON YOUR BULLSHIT.

Ironwood discourse.

Ironwood metal asscheeks discourse.

Weiss disco ball braid.

The return of RWBY Chibi.

COCO in RWBY Chibi.

Chibi Cinder being gay for Coco???? And Crosshares date????

Bumbleby fucking in the RWBY/JL Comics.

Ironweiss cameo.

Miles talking about what male characters would make good boyfriends for Jaune.

“I may fall, but not like this, first you'll catch these hands”~Neo while trying to fucking kill Ruby while they were falling in the sneak peek from RTX.

Months of us dying.

Most of us becoming obsessed with Arcane.

More months of us dying.

“Team RWBY Project” being announced.

Everyone wondering what the fuck Team RWBY Project is.

A whole ass RWBY panel announced in Japan???

More months of us dying.

RWBY Ice Queendom is announced.

More months of us dying. Many of us coped watching The Owl House.

RWBY Ice Queendom comes out.

Blurry shit.

RWBY JL Movies announcement????

The fucking sapphic ship poll on Twitter AKA Sapphic Superbowl. You HAD to be there.

Feel free to add more!

#rwby #rwby hiatus #rwby fndm #fndm things #rwby volume 9

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earthtoharlow · 1 year

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Flashing Lights

1) intro

Jack Harlow x Singer!OC

Series Masterlist

AN: Hello, I’m back with a new series, and I promise I won’t abandon this one lol

*2021*

NFL Star Nate Williams ARRESTED Allegedly Squared Up W/ Cops

New York Giants Quarterback Nate Williams was arrested after a drunken dispute with cops in LA... TMZ Sports has learned.

The 28-year-old -- who's the son of NFL Hall of Famer, Mike Williams -- and his girlfriend, singer Maryse Monet (23) were pulled over near downtown LA... after cops say Nate was driving the wrong direction on a one-way street.

According to our police sources, cops say their car reeked of booze ... so they ordered the couple out of the car.

We're told while Maryse talked to cops, Nate got out of the car and took off his shirt and jacket and squared up like he wanted to fight.

Nate ultimately settled down and complied with their commands ... then he was handcuffed, and arrested for disorderly conduct and obstruction.

He was taken to jail ... and later posted bond.

Maryse apparently mentioned to police that the couple were arguing beforehand and that she was trying to get Nate to pull over so she could drive, knowing Williams had been drinking.

This isn't the first time the football player has been arrested, he was charged with a DUI last fall after being kicked out of a superbowl party which he also attended with Monet.

Nate Williams & Maryse Monet SPLITSVILLE…

Nate Williams and Maryse Monet are no more -- the couple reportedly broke up ... and the early indication is that it might've been her who wasn't on the same page for their future.

According to ENews, the toxic couple have ventured into splitsville, this is after more than 3 years together and power-coupling all over Hollywood & New York City. Unclear when they might've gone their separate ways ... but neither has posted a photo with the other for months.

Now, as for the reasoning behind the reported uncoupling ...ENews, citing a source familiar, says Nate apparently wanted to get even more serious with Maryse than they already were, as he was already looking in for rings and planning on asking Maryse’s family blessing to marry her.

Maryse reportedly didn’t want to get married, telling friends and family that Williams who has a history of DUI’s) drinking and anger problems were a big problem in their relationship and getting married would make things worse.

Maryse Monet seen visibly upset leaving ex Nate Williams home in NY with Rapper Doja Cat

Maryse Monet covers her face with notebook as paparazzi try to snap pictures of her moving her things out of shared NY loft with ex Nate Williams

Maryse's best friend, and famous rapper Doja Cat, yells at the camera men to back up and get away from their vehicle as the girls try to leave.

Maryse seemed visibly upset, as you could see her close to tears as she brought out the rest of her things.

STAY STRONG MARYSE- look on the bright side, at least you’ll have good writing material now!

*2022 Grammys*

You would think after 4 years of being in the industry, Maryse would be used to the bright lights and the hundreds of photographers shouting her name on the red carpet but NOPE. It doesn’t get any less nerve wracking.

As she tried to focus on not falling and tripping over her own feet in her custom Del Core dress she noticed the flashes seemingly getting brighter and the photographers motioning for her to turn around. Turning her head, she let out the biggest laugh as she saw one of her best friends, Amala, aka Doja Cat, over her shoulder making the most ridiculous faces to photobomb her.

“You bitch!” Maryse said, letting out another laugh. Amala gives her a cheeky smile before pulling her in for a big hug. The two of friends posed for pictures together before she left to go take solo photos of her own but not before slapping Maryse on the ass.

All she could do was shake her head with a smile. She loved that girl.

Maryse stopped and talked to a few musicians before her publicist, CoCo directed her towards the press to do interviews.

She smiled widely as the interviewer started to introduce her. “This is Jessie with Entertainment Tonight, and I’m here with the first time Grammy nominee, Maryse Monet! How are you feeling tonight?” They said turning towards Maryse.

Maryse took a moment to look around. She couldn’t believe this was her life.

“Nervous but definitely excited! This is such a surreal experience. You know, the last time I was here I was a plus one. Wasn’t even nominated at all, literally no one knew my name.” Maryse replies with a smile, and waves slightly at the fans that were behind the press.

Maryse watched as Jessie’s eyes got wide, slightly shocked at her words. “Oh wow! Well that’s definitely not the case anymore. You’re nominated for best new artist tonight and you’ve had one of the biggest years out of everyone with the success of your song, Good Days which is nominated for song of the year. One of the top awards of the night. Tell us how the writing process of that song came about.” He asked shoving the microphone to her lips

“You know, for the past year, I’ve gone through so much in my personal life. It was one thing after another. So Good Days became like a mantra. Everyday I woke up, and told myself that good days were coming. Sometimes I hardly believed myself when I was saying it but sometimes all you need is a sliver of hope that things will get better. It’s one of the most therapeutic songs I've ever written.”

“Wow! I absolutely love that! Everyone needs that reminder sometimes. You’re definitely a fan favorite to win tonight!” Jessie says. “Now, there’s so many talented artists here tonight and I know you mentioned how you haven’t been to the Grammy’s in a couple years, so who are you most excited to see and even meet tonight.” Jessie asked with a slight wiggle of his eyebrows.

Maryse took a moment to think, there were so many artists there tonight. Hell, even the artists she was nominated with were amazing but there was only one artist who popped in her head first.

“Well, I’m super late to the party but I’ve recently discovered Jack Harlow’s music, and I’m obsessed.”

Maryse could see the smirk forming on Jesse's face. “Better late than never, right? It also doesn't help that he’s such a cutie!”

Leaning closer to the microphone Maryse answers “Are you trying to set me up, Jesse?!” holding in a laugh.

“I won’t deny that he’s handsome but, I’ve become such a huge fan of his music and I’d love to meet him tonight.”

Maryse took a small pause

“And Beyonce too, gotta meet her first!”

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Maryse let out a tiny scream and she reached over and hugged Amala as she made her way back to her seat after accepting her Grammy for Pop Duo with SZA. Even if Maryse didn’t win anything tonight she was happy that her friends wouldn’t leave empty handed.

Maryse had a smile on her face for the rest of the ceremony. Best New Artist went to Olivia Rodrigo, which Maryse wasn’t shocked by. Olivia had an incredible year. When the host announced that Song of the Year was next, she couldn’t help but feel nervous. She was a newcomer, her peers that were nominated with her were super talented in their own right and have been in the industry for years. All of them deserved to win so she knew she most likely wouldn’t win.

Maryse gave a nervous smile as the camera panned to her as they read off the nominees. She felt Amala grab on to her knee to stop her nervous bouncing.

“And the Grammy for Song of the Year goes to…” the presenter took a pause before looking out into the audience.

“MARYSE MONET!!”

Hearing her name get called immediately made her freeze up. Maryse felt her face feel warm from blushing. No way did she just win a Grammy. As Maryse stood up to make her way towards the stage, her eyes started tearing up with happy tears. She couldn’t believe this, she just won a Grammy!

Thankfully, she was sitting in the front row so Maryse didn’t have far to walk. As she was walking up the platform steps she felt the bottom of her dress get caught on the back of her heels, she was going to be the laughingstock of the whole industry. Maryse braced herself for the fall before she felt a hand quickly grab her arm.

Maryse turned her head to see who saved her from the embarrassment and let out a tiny gasp at the blue eyes that stared back at her.

“Are you okay?” The gentleman asked with a look of concern.

All Maryse could do was simply nod and squeak out a thank you. He smiled and escorted her up the rest of the steps, making sure she was good before walking back down to his seat, but not before giving her a kiss on the cheek and whispering congratulations in her ear. Maryse chose to ignore the small spark she felt from that kiss.

Once Maryse got up to the podium she let out a deep breath and a nervous laugh.

“I can’t believe I almost tripped and fell in front of Beyoncé!” The audience began to laugh and Maryse could see the Queen herself laughing it off and mouthing that it was okay.

As everyone continued to clap, Maryse took a moment to look down at the trophy in her hands. This felt like a dream, one she hopes she never wakes up from.

“For long as I can remember music had always been in my life. My dad played guitar and my mother was a music teacher. There was hardly ever a time where music wasn’t playing from my dad’s record player.”

The entire audience was quiet as they listened to Maryse speak. “So standing up here and holding this award with all my favorite artists and people I grew up listening to, is a dream come true.”

“I want to first thank the Recording Academy. I want to thank my whole entire team for believing in me and never giving up on me. A huge thank you to everyone who listened to this song. I literally wrote Good Days on my childhood bedroom floor. It means so much to me that you guys love it as much as I do….”

Maryse took a small pause and it looked out into the audience. It seemed like her eyes would only lock in on one person.

“…And I can’t leave this stage without thanking Jack Harlow, who really saved me from embarrassing myself in front of all of you. So thank you for your quick reflexes.”

Maryse watched with a smile as Jack raised his glass of water to her and gave her a wink. With blurry eyes, she raised her very first Grammy back at him as all her peers stood and gave her a standing ovation. She will never forget this moment in her life.

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Maryse playfully rolled her eyes at her friends as they laughed around her.

“HA. HA. Laugh it up all you want, at least I didn’t fall on my face. I would’ve never shown my face again.”

“Yeah, that’s because you had Mr. White Chocolate himself, Jack Harlow save you” Diamonté added with a smirk

“White Chocolate??” Maryse heard Lil Nas X speak up from the kitchen.

“I love that guy but ain’t no chocolate in him, he’s more like a sweet uncrusted bread slice.”

The whole room started to roar in laughter

“A sugar cookie sweetie”

“A little package of cream cheese”

“OH! OH! I got one! An unsalted butter babe!”

All Maryse could do was shake her head in laughter at her friends foolishness

Maryse couldn’t help but think about that moment at the Grammys.

After she made her speech, the rest of the night went by in a blur. Maryse was pulled into so many different directions that night by friends, family and press that she wasn’t able to personally thank Jack again. She would be lying if she said that she didn’t feel a connection from their tiny connection. With how busy she was going to be with working on her debut album and she was sure Jack was going to be just as busy, she didn’t know when they would run paths again but she hoped it was soon.

LIFEOFMONET

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It's disgusting but not surprising to see Taylor wearing KC Chiefs merch. Of course she doesn't care that the team name and logo is offensive to many Native Americans. When the Chiefs were in the 2021 superbowl a bunch of people actually protested outside, demanding that the team change their name.

I know Taylor's "romance" is probably fabricated but it really had to be with someone on a racist team? lmfao it's quite fitting for her actually

indigenous people have been protesting the various teams with caricatures of native people as mascot and native names for many years, but that was the first thing i thought when i found out her football boyfriend was on one of those teams. she’s spent all year desperately trying to claw her way out of racism accusations just to turn around and use a member of a racist sports team to distract everyone. whoever says she’s smart is kidding themselves. she just knows her fans don’t care.

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2023 Haylor Timeline

Timeline Tag, or years 2011, […], 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, [...] and 2024.

12 January - Taylor performs anti-hero and The City at 1975 concert, multiple rumors Harry was also there, 3 fan tweets here. LK tweeted “I’m not drunk enough to admit how much I miss you”

15 January - MH invites HS to perform, H declines. MH makes inappropriate comments

17 January - Harry at Ferrari garage in a Italy

18 January - one direction members became shareholders who receive a percentage of profit from ppm music rather than directors. Indicates royalties are likely under £150k pa e

26 January - Little Freak is added to the Love on Tour set and stays there until June 13.

27 January - Harry's LA show that was filmed for Satellite MV. Seen being driven from gym

29 January - LA - Harry kissed anatomical heart in Love of my Life and Played Medicine.

31 January - Palm Springs, heart kiss Matilda

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5 February - Taylor goes over to Harry in the 2023 Grammys, they fist bump with strong eye contact, brief hug the internet melts. Harry’s house AOY, ❤️ heckler, Taylor stands for his whole speech and dances and claps. Joe at afterparty

11 February blind MH “Wait until fans of the year band realize how much the singer hates the A list foreign born former boy bander.”

13 February- TS superbowl capital 1 ad

21 February - Woman added to setlist for 13 shows through to 20 March. Kissed heart during first performance of it.

28 February - Harry kissed heart during Satellite in Gold Coast Australia

4 March - rumours Harry DM’ed Yan Yan to invite her to an after party after Sydney show. She was seen with other influencers there.

17 March – Eras Tour started, Mirrorball/Tim McGraw. Taylor released the "more chapters" re-records of 2012 “Eyes Open” and “Safe & Sound”, “If This Was a Movie (Taylor’s Version)” and “All of the Girls You Loved Before.” Announced in her instagram stories. Woman taken off on 20th

24 March - Snow on the Beach Surprise Song

25 March - Harry break to 13 May, in LA 12 April. Cowboy like me/white Horse. Betty: "Love Story is basically just a how-to on how to propose. This is how you do it! This is how you get the girl! This is how you fix it. If you made a mistake, how you get her back."

26 March - Harry kisses em rata in Tokyo. 'Something I've been waiting for' leak

7 April - Harry arrives in Georgia airport

29 March - MH's ex said 'going fine' till then

31 March - 5 shows had Invisible String, replaced by The 1 . SBT. LK lighthouse era.

1 April - DBATC/Clean surprise song.

8 April - Joe Taylor split first reported by ET

9 April - Harry VIP PGA golf Augusta Georgia

10 April - Joe split press release. MH delete socials said "everything happens in eras. The 1975 is a very eras band. The era of me being a f***ing a***hole is coming to an end. […] I can’t perform off the stage any more.”

12 April - TS Gucci lion Electric lady No pap

13 April - Treacherous/speak now, Florida (Harry MIA)

14 April - The Great War/YOYOK, Florida. Holy ground replace EHC in Eras Red intro. MH cries on stage in Sydney

15 April - Mad Woman/Mean (MH Australia)

19 April - Taylor NY dinner with friends. Taylor gives a fan a thumbs up that she OK. Great unfollowing. Joe seen in London next day.

21 April - Played Wonderland (!!) and You're not sorry. In the Betty Speech "I just imagined myself in the woods"

23 April - Begin Again/Cold as you SS

24 April - MH introduces 'She's American' in Tokyo with: "When I picture it, there's like three places I picture people listening to it, there's Manchester, Pennsylvania, that’s a whole other thing don’t worry about that and Tokyo” 1975 was formed in Manchester, Matty and Harry are from nearby Cheshire.

27 April - Harry in LA for last Late Late Show with James

28 April - Other side of the door/Coney Island, Houston

29 April -High Infidelity and Gorgeous, Houston

30 April - IBYTABM and HYGTG, Houston

3 May - Satellite MV released, TS & MH mouth "this is about you, you know who you are. I love you" on stage.

5 May - MH at Eras tour, Sparks Fly and Teardrops on my guitar. He joined Phoebe Bridges on stage.

6 May - OOTW/Fifteen. MH attends again

7 May - WCS/Mine Nashville, Harry England

8 May - they Both have a break. HS in outfit in later Cartier photo. MH dating rumors reported.

10 May - Harry uploaded the Lights Up audio which included / was marketed with the line “do you know who you are” many confused by the timing as it is years olds

11 May - MH and Taylor hold hands in NY

12 May - Gold Rush & CBBH, Philli. MH on stage at Eras in skeleton costume. Blind MH is talking smack about Taylor

13 May - TS This Love, no intro/Forever and Always (Philli)HS Horsens in 13th adds Stockholm Syndrome for the first time since 2018 and Grapejuice 1st time and rest of tour. MH attends eras and seen with Scott Swift.

15 May - Taylor leaving Electric Lady with MH

18 May - People reports Taylor kissed MH at Zero bond with Jack and Margaret also there. No photos allowed in Zero Bond and weirdy no pap pics arriving. Last time reported to be seen together. It was 15 days after they mouthed 'this one is about you, you know who you are, I love you". 50 days since his ex said they were good. Harry in Munich, then MIA 3 days; England on 21st

19 May - Should have said no / better man. Betty "I wanted it to be something different enough to where it could really, really, really distract me"

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20 May she gave an intro to Question…? Saying she has never been happier, her life finally makes sense and this song brings happy memories, also played Invisible. Harry posted he never happier than making HH and he put it into a Midnights style box!

21 May - Betty Speech started referring to 7's, (700 hours of TV) through to August. James screws things up in August and has to win back Betty starts.

26 May - Maroon and getaway car w/Jack in NJ

27 May - False God/Holy Ground

28 May - 1 June - both HS & TS MIA on tour break. Undated photo of Harry outside Cartier shared to gossip page 30 May. 31 May Taylor first wore $27k 80's vintage Cartier infinity necklace in NY, seen again in 4 July 1989 hint. Clean surprise song.

2 June - IWYW and the Lakes, Chicago

3 June - Expressive I don't wanna live forever / You all over Me. Betty Speech is short but emphasizes James's need to apologize more than usual "James, and he really, really, really messes things up bad with the love of his life, and he has to try to get her back, and apologize very sincerely, and profusely, and say he’s going to change and be better, and that’s all he has to do."

June 4 - Hits Different. Taylor eats a bug on stage in Chicago. Harry then ate a fly on the 12th!

June 5 - MH break up reported by TMZ later confirmed no longer speaking

10 June - Harry plays Slane Castle, Taylor plays Detroit, (AYHTDWS and Breathe) Taylor has 6 day break (unseen)

13 and 14 June - Harry at Wembley, Harry kissed his heart tattoo after "And I'm the one who will stay" in As It Was. played Best Song ever WYMB intro. Deux Moi reports Taylor attended and flew charter. Taylor's last show was 10 June and not seen.

16 June - Taylor Pittsburg (Mr Perfectly Fine and The Last Time)

17 June - Harry performed Sweet Creature in Wembley for the first time since 2018, eight months later Gemma had a baby. Only time played since 2018. Harry also played Wembley on the 16th. In January 2024 a photo of TR with Jeff was provided to a Tarry account in one of the Wembley shows. Wild Champagne Problems that refers to the cruel summer situation in front of 70,000 people and Wild Betty Speech in Denver: "I’ve always just had something happen to me, or feel a feeling, for even like seven seconds, if I feel a feeling, it’ll be like, ‘Oh! I have to write a song about this seven seconds of me feeling this way.’ It’s like, it’s genuinely been like, it’s not really a job, it’s like a full coping mechanism" ... (TTPD hint) ... "radical, the idea of a man apologizing in a beautiful, heartfelt, sincere way.’ I’m not talking about any of you. If you’re here, you’re exempt. You’re a really emotionally intelligent group. I’m sort of talking about other people right now." (Seven, (Aaron hugged her with a pat on the back, she gave speech about dads, father's day was next day, she sang "I hit my peak at seven." (no feet)) and The Story of Us) 18 June - Taylor with Gigi in NYC, Taylor 2 week break.

20 June - Cruel Summer released as a Single and goes to #1

21 June - First report of Taylor Russell at the White Cube gallery in London.

27 June - Taylor spotted at Electric Lady Studios. 1989 TV is announced 9 August.

28 June - 5 July - both MIA on tour break.

30 June - Betty Speech extra long and included "who lived in the woods alone" still with 7's. I'm only me when I'm with you and Evermore.

6 July - life & style reported they were making plans, widely reported

7 July - Speak now TV released. Taylor shared belated 4th July party photos hinting at 1989, w/cartier necklace from May. Harry wore Purple and was happy in his show 6 July. MH seen with girl he broke up with in March and heard saying he is glad to be out of LA and away from stupid F***ing swifties.

8 July - Taylor Russell and Travis Kelce spotted at Harry and Taylors concerts respectively. ....on the same day. Last Kiss is the surprise song, a break up song about JJ with a 27 second intro (how long the JJ phone call was, but what a coincidence)

10 June - AYHTWS and Breathe, wiped tears in breathe. Pap footage of TS crying in car

12 July - Taylor plays uno dare adults with Jason Sudekis (OW Ex) at quest loves can I as party

11 July - unverified rumor Harry at Taylor’s RI house ‘recently’.

19 July - daylight mv - super Haylor, long after finished posted“it’s just a video, just for you”

22 July - Love on Tour ends in Italy. Taylor played Everything has Changed surprise Song. Both MIA, Taylor on break till 3 August. Harry reappeared in Italy 3 August.

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25 July - love on tour wrap up video, peace ring appears briefly as having been with him on the tour in a bag of rings that were worn.

26 July TK talked about Taylor on podcast, she late said they got in contact "after that."

1 August reports that Harry owns a house in Civita di Bagnoregio

3-27 August, Haylor Surprise Songs, Maroon 3 and 27 August, Exile 7 August, and I know places

8 August - I know places and the last Betty Speech to refer to 7 "watching 700 hours of television a day somehow"

10 August - 1989 TV announced and Harry goes to Taylor Russell's play on the same day, 9 August in US.

19 August Taylor wore Cartier necklace to Jacks wedding

28 August - Harry attends Taylor Russells play more on closing night 7 October, with Kid Harpoon 30 September in London. Harry seen with SS Daley, it was soon announced he owned a minority stake in the fashion brand.

31 August pick you up leaked

5 September- Taylor posts if story “damn griff I love this one” about vertigo. The song is about a love that was scared and ran away, the singer says they could fix them.

14 September Travis talks about Taylor on the podcast again. Harry rode Lime bikes on the went to Hampstead Pond on the 11th, Try Honey leaked on the 12th

18 September - Cartier necklace again

20 September - Harry at Xanders wedding

23 September H’s personal trainer Brad Gould left for LA posting “new chapter”. They had been seen together a lot.

24 September - Taylor attends first Travis game, Harry holds Taylor R's hand on the 26th. Taylor and TK are 'hanging out' the next day. Travis later confirms they had “Taylor and I knew each other for close to a month before she came to that first game” IE less than a month since they met.

28 September photo from 6th walking. around grumpy on the 28th. Taylor at Mallorca for a wedding on the 9th. High tides leaked 29th

3 October - Taylor wore Shania Twain shirt, any man of mine, about a man accepting all her flaws.

6 October - Harry in London with Tom and Tyler

12 October - Harry last seen till at least November alone at a London concert. And this ‘October’ photo are last seen with hair. Blind that Tks NDA is long and he blabbed

15 October - TS watches TK games x3: 24 September - 22 October. TS & TK on SNL 16th. HS California leaked neither seen for days. 23 Oct video of HS & TR in cafe.

27 October 1989 TV. Harry still MIA. Taylors Jet in Kansas (Travis) for halloween night but not pictured.

3 November Harry seen in Vancouver with TR, head covered

9 November Taylor wears Adidas Satellite Stompers. TVFN & Labyrinth. Video of Harry's buzz cut from 8 days earlier posted during U2 concert, same day it is reported TK will go to the Eras tour.

11 November TK at Eras, Taylor sings IION/OOTW mashup and end game, replaces lyrics to Karma with guy on the chiefs and run/kiss TK in view of crowds with photographer. Taylor’s dad and brother position TK and get of view of kiss, TK waves to crowd

15 November HS London, Pleasing posts buzz cut photo. The next day Harry posts to his own IG a video with a Taylor lookalike open

20 November Taylor played so it goes and made the stadium green. HS I’m not happy leaked 21st, Pop Tart leaked 22nd. Said three more leaks coming with snippet of super pretty. Hs in London, fan via hs news 2 days later. Super pretty leaked in full 26th

27 November Taylor’s plane in KC, she’s not seen. Travis bought groceries and coffee alone. Reported staying in different houses because she is not seen with him. HS buys sushi in London. On the 29th Taylor shared a Spotify playlist with Haylor songs, Harry’s Girl Crush and JALPOYH

30 November Taylor released You’re losing me to streaming to celebrate being Spotify global artist. Jack announced YLM was written in December 2021. Her plane flew to London for Beyonce's premiere and left for the US before movie started it was there for 15 hours. She and Blake share what looks like after party photos. TS plane arrives in Maine 10:30pm, Taylor not seen, it arrives in KC at 1:30am. Taylor not seen since premiere.

1 December - Deux Moi reports that Harry and TR are expecting, Taylor and Joe had a ceremony. Tree ends Deux. Taylor later seen in KC at Christmas party wearing a squirrel sweater to address meme that TK can't spell.... because he can't. Taylor likes tweet implying sweet nothing was about Paul McCartney

2 December - Harry and TR rumoured split. Article deleted the next day possibly as it identifies TRs hotel

3 December Taylor dresses like as it was MV wears Cartier necklace from May. Plane parked at KC again not seen again. Daily Mail reports TR and HS are in crisis then takes the article down.

6 December - Taylor time person of year, slays, reputation hinting. Mentioned Paul McCartney again. Spoke about TK and made some pointed remarks about not being hidden, described time dating Joe as lost tine. Returns to NY and walks in jimmy choos with an Eiffel Tower and Big Ben in heels

7 December - Make my day and Only Angel demo with different lyrics leaked.

11 December - distant photo of Harry and Taylor Russell in Italy from the 7th posted to HS news. Rumored to have been in Italy for weeks with Alessandro Michelle

13 December - Taylor has birthday celebrations with Selena day before then part with Jack, Blake, Zoe and many others on birthday. Wears opal ring said to be from TK who couldn’t travel from KC. Harry leaks Jesus Christ Happy New Year and lights up demo. LK tweets lyrics to Juice by a Bristol band called Mount Zooka, an unknown artist. Taylor wears an opal and topaz ring she shows off in photos. Pap photos of Keleigh admiring the ring on the street.

21 December fans/People/Deux Moi had speculated the opal ring was from TK. Keleigh Teller posts a video of her giving Taylor the ring, people immediately corrects the record.

25 December - Taylor and her family including Andrea go to watch TK play football. TK loses and throws his helmet near bystanders. Jack shares an IG story of Taylor in an Eagles Shirt and another snippet of Merry Christmas Please don't call

26 December - Harry seen with TR at a pond in England wearing only underpants and a Eagles beanie

31 December Taylor at KC NYE game and party, PDA. Scott Swift's email insanity resurfaces on Reddit. The emails are from a 2005 court case. Emails are in that link and also covered here. Lots of discussion on Twitter.

Continue to 2024

#haylor #Youtube #haylor timeline #2023

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workingforitallthetime · 2 years

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Every UMich Monday question 2021-22, ranked

God bless umich social for giving us every single one of these gems of pure distilled characterization. To celebrate, I watched all of them in order. The most interesting season-long trends were Eddy’s suggestibility (consistently willing to agree with whatever anybody else tells him), GVW’s obvious belief that every single one of his answers is supremely clever (when in fact they are just as dumb if not dumber than everyone else’s), and the way that Truss always cherubically looks at the ceiling instead of the camera.

20. What’s your favorite Coach Pearson saying? (January 26, 2022)

Charming question but provided minimal character information.

Best answer: Whoever says “Breathe, Truss!” in the background. Worst answer: Everybody who says “Nothing more, nothing less” but fails to use the appropriate hand gesture as demonstrated by GVW, Beech, and Jimmy.

19. Who’s going to win the Superbowl? (February 13, 2022)

It would have been cooler if they’d skipped this question and just posted more pics from their Joe Burrow cosplay party.

Best answer: Loyal Michigan boys the Nicks (“Detroit Rams.”) Worst answer: Eh, there’s only two options, can’t ding anybody here.

18. Who has the weirdest and the best pregame rituals? (January 20, 2022)

All of the other questions that encouraged chirping scored high in these rankings, but the guys really whiffed on this one. They mostly just made up lies about each other, and they weren’t even funny lies.

Best answer: Bords. (“Matty Beniers. We leave for the rink, me and Truss, and he’s going to take his nap. I think that’s pretty weird.”) Thanks, Thom, for the reminder that you live in throuple bliss, as if any of us forgot for even one second. Worst answer: Everyone who roasts Dylan. Leave Dylan alone!

17. If you could play one other sport besides hockey, what would it be? (February 16, 2022)

Honestly, Monday question content went through a dim era while the Olympians were gone.

Best answer: Noah (Chess) Worst answer: Jimmy (Quidditch)

16. What is your guilty pleasure song? (November 24, 2021)

A strong early entry in the series, but it falls down the ranking due to the absence of chirping.

Best answer: Mackie singing California Gurls. Worst answer: Eddy (“Supermarket Flowers, by Ed Sheeran.”)

15. Who would play you in a movie? (November 2, 2021)

At the time, this appeared to be a strong start to the series. But the content trended sharply uphill over the course of the season, and when reviewed in context, this one has too many boring repeat answers. Sorry, but this is not a team full of Bradley Coopers, Brad Pitts, Will Ferrells, and the cast of Happy Gilmore.

Best answer: Mackie (Zac Efron) Worst answer: The first of Brendan’s three increasingly terrible answers is Jack Sparrow, which, while an apt comparison, is not an actor.

14. Who will have the most points at World Juniors? (December 17, 2021)

The questions with the most potential are the ones where they’re asked about their teammates, but this one suffers from its breakdown along predictable USA/Canada lines.

Best answer: GVW. (“I plead the Fifth.” [exits frame] [remembers where he’s from] [runs back into frame] “Just joking, I think it’s gonna be Matt Beniers. Go Seattle Kraken!”) Worst answer: Owen. (“Kent Johnson.”) Owen we KNOW, okay. We know you’re obsessed with him.

13. Wheels or doors? (March 16, 2022)

The blank canvas of this query ends up shedding a surprising amount of light on their idiotic thought processes. “I started with doors, but I think wheels now,” Truss says, looking aimlessly upwards. “I’ve had a lot of good cases brought to me.”

Best answer: Nick. (Coach: “How many mullets are in this building?” Nick: “How many mullets? Not enough.”) Worst answer: Matty, guessing that there are probably a lot of wheels in a hotel only to later prove himself wrong.

12. Who has the best/weirdest tape job? (February 1, 2022)

I am very intrigued by the deep respect that everyone has for Owen’s tape jobs. This is also the video in which we learned that Mark’s nickname was Stahp Sign.

Best answer: Bords, because his accent’s unusually prominent. Worst answer: Steve Holtz, who cannot figure out how to explain his two sticks.

11. If you could have one superpower, what would it be? (January 11, 2022)

A classic question. Too many Spidermen on this team, but I remain very curious about why Owen’s desired superpower is to read minds.

Best answer: Truss. (“A power that makes you big, like Owen.”) Worst answer: Brendan. Sweetie, Tobey McGuire is the worst possible Spiderman to be.

10. Is a hot dog a sandwich? (November 30, 2021)

There are so many varieties of idiocy on display as these guys vehemently defend their answers without making a single coherent argument. Loses a point due to everyone eventually reaching consensus.

Best answer: Jimmy (“I mean, the world isn’t going to change if a hot dog’s a sandwich.”) Worst answer: Owen (“It’s gotta have sandwich meat.”)

9. What’s your favorite holiday tradition? (December 17, 2021)

This one scores high for the background heckling, especially the howls of “Going back to Saskatoon!”

Best answer: Brendan. (“Going up north and hunting with Morgs and Jay.”) Worst answer: Nick Granowicz. (“Spending time with family.”) Give us something better, Grano.

8. Who on the team would you call in case of emergency? (April 6, 2022)

Thanks to this video for finally giving us a Nick Granowicz characterization! It also features Truss sweetly disarmed by Owen and Kent telling him they would obviously pick him, quickly followed by Thom’s indignation at Matty picking Truss too. However: why would not a single member of this team call their captain in case of emergency?

Best answer: Jimmy. (“Definitely not Briss.”) Worst answer: Dylan choosing the teammate who was ready to cook and eat him.

7. What is your favorite memory or the funniest moment from this season so far? (March 25, 2022)

It is extremely tempting to rank this video higher due to Thom looking like a figure skater in his tank top and warmup jacket while gazing adoringly at Brendan. However, too many guys had boring-ass answers like “Winning the B1G championship” instead of expanding on the time Moyle pantsed Phil at BD’s Mongolian Grill.

Best answer: Thom, sweetly noting Jack Leavy's first game. Worst answer: All the other serious ones.

6. What’s your ideal date? (February 9, 2022)

This video ranks high on the strength of Mackie’s answer alone. (“It’d be Duker if he looked like a girl.”) Just serve me up a ship on a silver platter and sauce it with gender feelings, thanks.

Best answer: Dylan. (“Swipe into the dining hall. South Quad.”) Worst answer: Luke. (“It would definitely be, like, taking me to a Lakers game. Or like a Knicks game.”) Luke Hughes does not woo you, you woo him.

5. What New Year’s resolution would you make for your teammates? (January 6, 2022)

This is a perfect question, since it not only asks them about their teammates, it encourages roasting them. This is the video that revealed Matty’s gummy bear habit, and foreshadowed more fascinating/horrifying content about the state of the seniors’ house.

Best answer: Dylan. (“Luke Hughes. Wear headphones when he watches Harry Potter.”) Worst answer: Jay. (“My New Year’s solution… My New Year’s revolution… I am going to revolutionize 2022.”)

4. What breed of dog would you be? (March 10, 2022)

Quality content from top to bottom, from ever-suggestible Eddy affirming TikTok’s opinion of him as a golden retriever to the brutal roasting of hairless cat Luke Hughes.

Best answer: Owen. (Beniers Mountain Dog.) Worst answer: Brendan. (Brissbese Mountain Dog.)

3. What’s your hidden talent? (February 23, 2022)

10/10. 100/10. Infinity/10. There is no score high enough for the casually entitled way Brendan tugs up Matty’s jersey, Brendan’s indignation when confronted with the possibility that there is something he does not know about Matty’s body, or Brendan’s delight at Matty’s dumb talent as compared to his indifference to Phil’s objectively much more impressive talent.

Best answer: Luke. (“You can ask Truscott for my hidden talent.”) Worst answer: GVW failing to wiggle his ears.

2. If you were a kitchen appliance, what would you be? (April 1, 2022)

This question delivers personal insight while also offering broad opportunities for chirping. The resulting video captures so many themes of the whole season: Luke’s inability to run with a joke, Thom being cool as hell, Dylan “Panface” Duke, minifridge Kent embracing his identity as a tiny little guy, Brendan seizing the spotlight and running his mouth. I considered awarding one million bonus points for the sound of Brendan smacking his chest, but I recognize that is important only to me.

Best answer: Noah, pretending to crank a pasta machine with his blocker. Worst answer: Luke’s fragile masculinity.

1. If you were stranded on an island with one teammate, who would you want it to be? (November 17, 2021)

The top of the list has to be the video that launched so many important characterizations for this crew. Terrifying cannibal Morgs! Helpful Truss! Poor crestfallen Dylan!

Best answer: Owen (“Jacob Truscott. He knows why.”) Worst answer: None. Every single moment of this video is golden.

* Unranked (November 9, 2021)

Unranked due to cultural insensitivity, which is a shame, because if this video was accurately titled “What Animal Would You Be?” Bordy’s announcement that he would be a unicorn would vault this into the top tier. (Also showing excellent self-awareness: Dylan as a panda.)

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strandnreyes · 7 months

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Hello! I would love to know - when and how did you discover Lone Star, and when did it click that you wanted to write fanfic for it? As this is my first fandom experience, I'm always so interested in how people started off in this fandom and how they feel when they reflect on their own early days of it.

Hi! this is also my first fandom that I've really dived into. this is kind of anti-tumblr culture, but it actually takes a lot for me to get really hooked on something asdfas

I first discovered lone star when watching the superbowl in 2020 lol and there was preview on (that included this... i get why it wasn't included in the final cut but rip)

and at the time, I wanted a new weekly show to watch and so I binged the first few episodes and starting watching live during 1x04. It was a long few weeks to get more tarlos content, but I had also started to enjoy a lot of the other characters and dynamics by that point and by the time 1x10 rolled around, I was hooked and the world was shutting down and I was suffering from not knowing when the next season would ever come back (a familiar feeling now...). which prompted a full rewatch and a lot of fic reading.

But I didn't start writing my own fic until August of 2021 because it was something I'd never done before and didn't think I'd be interested in it at all. it seemed like it would be such a tedious process and I didn't know how to make a character feel in character (shoutout to the people who watch one episode of something and can write a fic). but then it was hiatus and once again, I missed them and took a shot at writing my own fic. and here I am two years later!

#nice ask day

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Hello, I have a question, maybe you'll know. I've seen that this year theme is "in america: an anthology of fashion" and now the only theme I see is "gilded era"... Was there a change or just a specification? Thank you for your reviews btw, I LOVE THEM

technically this years is part 2 of a 2-part gala. 2020's was obviously canceled due to covid, and 2021 was delayed until September because of Covid, and 2021 was In America: a Lexicon of Fashion. 2021 was the worst fucking met gala ever because nobody knew how to do the theme beyond patriotic red white and blue and you ended up with a lot of incredibly dull looks and people mostly just straight up fucking ignoring the theme

So my guess is they tried to get more people to dress on-theme by coming up with "gilded elegance," specifying one of the most opulent and legendary eras of fashion history, the era that was the birth of couture and..... you ended up with a bunch of incredibly dull looks and people mostly just straight up ignoring the theme.

I can only guess that "the gilded era," like the equally disastrous "punk" gala of 2013, was just far enough out of most people's fashion comfort zone that instead of taking a risk, which is what you're fucking supposed to do at the Met Gala, most people just settled for pretty and did nothing to rise to the fucking superbowl of fashion challenge that the Met Gala is.

And the Met Gala needs to start enforcing the theme and disinviting people who don't honor it. YES I will die angry about this.

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Hi Skippy & Friends-Pilgrim here discussing EARS again. I have not wanted to stray into this quagmire for a while but this photo made me sit up and question again if they have used Eugenie’s son as a stand in for Archie. They needed a younger actor while filming…hmmm.Check out the photos at Getty Images- type in her name and get to page 5…after the funeral photos. The ears on her son are like this…low on his head. Also, the ears on the child they use for Lilibet are also very low on the side of his/her head. The color of the hair is similar…reddish brown with grey blue eyes. August was born Feb 2021. The cousins were seen a year later at the Feb 2022 Superbowl in CA when she, Jack and I think they said August went to L. A.

I checked the other images of boys the Harkle’s have presented and their ears are not this low. The boy sitting in his diaper when she rushed though reading the book for older kids…his ears are above this line as are those on the child with Rev. Tutu. The little boy at the 4th of July parade last year has much higher ear placement. So, perhaps this was a moment when Uncle Harold was keeping his guest’s child happy as they packed, explaining bags at the door and it was “conveniently” presented otherwise in the Netflix series. Just a thought…have a great day.

Over and out from a lovely Cape Cod.

Very interesting…great catch in suitcase….thank you😂😂😂😂😂

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_ Bom dia, Uclers! Como estamos nessa manhã de 2013? - a voz que ressoava pelos alto falantes da universidade era carregada de sedução, calma, saboreando cada palavra, cada sílaba. - Tenho notícias de última hora... de última década.

Girava a cópia da chave que tinha da rádio no indicador enquanto perambulava pela sala com um dos microfones em mãos. Tinha escolhido um horário entre as aulas que ninguém estava por lá.

Queria estar fazendo aquilo? Queria foder com a linha temporal de todo mundo, incluindo a sua? Na verdade, não. Mas, porra, ele deu uma festa tão boa e ainda assim só tomou pedrada.

_ Eu sei que eu vou parecer louco falando essas coisas porque, bem, viagem no tempo realmente parece uma coisa absurda e, depois que eu abri a minha sessão de previsão do futuro, pode mesmo ter parecido uma piada. Mas eu não voltei sozinho e... desculpe Nate, eu menti pra você. Não deveria sair por aí confiando em qualquer pessoa numa festa regada à álcool e alucinógenos. Se bem que eu tava sóbrio, né? - disse a última parte pensativo, demorando uns 5 segundos pra voltar a falar. Se sentou na cadeira e trocou o microfone de mão, colocando os pés sobre a mesa. - Bom, por onde eu começo então? Ah, sim, a acho que dá pra começar com o principal. A grande pandemia de covid que começou na China em 2019. É, a gente ficou uns dois anos em casa e coisa uma merda. As lives de música, que coisa horrorosa. - soltou um riso nasalado e colocou um cigarro na boca. Donald Trump, sim, ele mesmo, o bilionário laranja esquisito, vai ser nosso presidente em 2017 e... Puta que pariu, a gente só se fode. Em 2021 quem ganhar é o Joe Biden. E ele não move um dedo pra acabar com a guerra na Palestina que começou em 2023 e é o principal responsável pela guerra da Ucrânia em 2022. A Rihanna vai engravidar. Duas vezes. A Britney vai escrever um livro e foder com o Justin Timberlake porque ela engravidou e ele forçou ela a engravidar. Depois ela saiu da tutela abusiva do pai. O Chiefs ganha o Superbowls de 2024 e o show é do Usher. Mas... por que eu to falando dessas coisas se eu posso ir para assuntos mais importantes como o futuro dos nossos queridos colegas de faculdade? Afinal as anomalias temporais que tudo isso causou são hilárias. Como a festa de Coraline Parton e o fato de que agora a Riley tem um pau. Desculpe, amigo, mas se você gostou disso, acho que eu acabei de te fazer uma cirurgia espectral de redesignação sexual. Se fodeu, Vincent!

Jawie acendeu o cigarro com o isqueiro de Ollie que ainda guardava. - Bom, acho interessante começar com quem vos fala porque assim não tem como usarem qualquer coisa contra mim, né? Em 2020 quando começar de fato a pandemia, eu vou levar os cassinos pra internet e criar a Blaze, patrocinar uma cacetada de influencer, incluindo os Kingsley. Vincent, seus pais não mandaram beijo. Bem, deu um puta problema. - riu e assoprou a fumaça pra longe. Começou a girar a cadeira no próprio eixo. - Eu fui preso, fui esfaqueado, contrai tétano, fiquei meses internado e perdi boa parte do movimento das minhas pernas. Depois disso consegui liberdade condicional.

Se tivesse calculado certo, a sala mais próxima estava há uma boa distância, se qualquer um que estivesse nessa corresse pra rádio, deveria estar há uns 10 minutos de distância pelo tempo do discurso. Agora precisava agilizar.

_ Não adianta correr, a sala tá trancada e, sinceramente, o que pode ser feito? Se me deixarem falar, isso pode ferrar com a linha temporal de vocês. O que garante que tudo o que eu disse agora não vai alterar só pelo fato de eu ter dito? Mas, é claro, se vierem me impedir de falar, vocês confirmam tudo o que eu to dizendo. Poxa, o pessoal poderia fácil continuar achando que eu sou louco e só ignorar o que eu digo. Então... quem aqui vai poder dizer que o Marcelo Dragna não enlouquece e pula pelado de paraquedas, que a Olivia Priestly não atuou com o Leonardo DiCaprio e é super famosa, que a Katherine Lewis não ajudou o Trump a vencer as eleições, que Coraline Parton não vira uma esposa troféu, que Vincent Kingsley não operou a Kim Kardashian, que a Harper Wang não vira uma cozinheira famosa de um programa de TV, que Lara não vire uma psicóloga de sucesso, que Lucien Dragna não perde um olho e uma perna... bem vindo ao clube. Que Bella largou a atuação, que a Gwen não é professora da UCLA,que o Ben não largou a faculdade porque engravidou alguém, que o Nate não é um cientista renomado, que Sabine não larga o ativismo pra virar uma patricinha, que Celeste não abre uma loja de vestidos de noiva, que a gente não perde o campeonato esse ano e que o Jacob Harris não morre na mesma noite. - completou mais rapidamente, terminando o cigarro e jogando ele apagado no lixo. Parou de girar na cadeira percebendo que estava começando a se enrolar no fio do microfone. - Mas eu não sou o único viajante no tempo aqui e espero que Ollie, Nate, Vince, Theo, Kath, Harvey, Bella, Ben, Sabine, Celeste, Riley, Jenna, Donna, Lara e Noah sejam bons corredores pra me alcançar, porque pode ser que eu tenha acabado de destruir o futuro de vocês... e salvo a vida de Jacob Harris. Afinal, se você sabe que vai levar um soco, então você não vai mais levar o soco.

Dito isso, devolveu o microfone pro lugar. Ainda faltava um minuto. É, teria que correr. Pelo menos agora ele tinha o movimento das pernas. Quando passou pela porta da rádio, correu o mais longe que podia da UCLA.

#sei lá #starter?#NÃO É UM POV

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