Mainly for my own benefit, I've compiled here a (by no means complete) list of questions I've asked on AskHistorians over the years that never got answered, or where the answer was either only a partial one or unsatisfactory to me for any other reason. If you'd like me to repost one because you might have something for it, give me a shout! Much as I'd like to group these by theme, I've just gone in reverse order of submission.

• In 1997, Egon Krenz, the last leader of East Germany, was jailed for six and a half years on manslaughter charges. Why did Krenz's prosecution come so late after reunification, and was it at all typical for former senior members of the Socialist Unity Party to be charged in post-unification Germany?
  
• In September 1989 protests broke out in East Germany seemingly calling for liberal reforms ('Wir sind das Volk'). How did these morph into calls for reunification ('Wir sind ein Volk') with the West so quickly by October? How far did supporters of the reforms align with supporters of reunification?
  
• In 1921, Emperor Hirohito of Japan apparently said that "Mexico and Japan are children of the same mother”. What were relations between Mexico and Japan like in the interwar period, and what prompted this comment in particular, assuming it was real?
  
  • The post where I came across this alleged quote: https://x.com/Reyhan_Silingastatus/1797531194525204534
• Did Herbert Morrison try to replace Clement Attlee as Labour leader just two days before they won the 1945 general election?
  
  • This is a claim that seems to have popped up on a couple of my feeds, coupled with the related claim that Ernest Bevin rushed Attlee to the palace to ensure he secured the premiership before party shenanigans occurred. Is there any substance to this?
• Looking through Wikipedia's page on home console generations, it seems shocking how well the PlayStation 1 and 2 sold compared to their competitors. How did Sony so quickly dominate the market compared to its more established competitors in Nintendo and Sega?
  
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_video_game_console_generations#Sales_comparison
• What were relations like between Lesotho and apartheid South Africa?
  
• How did political and religious leaders in the Ottoman Empire view the Protestant Reformation?
  
• Plains Indian Sign Language was once used across much of North America west of the Missisippi, but how many people knew it? Would there only ever be a few 'speakers' in any given community, or would most Native people, at least in the 'core' area where PIST was used, have had a working knowledge?
  
• How accurate is the music video (linked in the post text) for Merriman Weir's 'Gallows Man' as a depiction of 17th and/or possibly early 18th century duelling and honour culture?
  
  • The music video in question, just under 2 minutes long: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8zj9c8FGxhg Poor Merriman, taken from us far too late.
• Alexander's early successors really seemed to like screwing over their eldest sons in favour of other heirs (Antipatros with Polyperchon vs Kassandros, Ptolemy I putting Philadelphos before Keraunos, Lysimachos killing Agathokles). Why does it seem like only Antigonos and Demetrios got along?
  
• During the Sengoku period, armies often had pavise-like shields for their archers and arquebusiers, but how, specifically, were they used? Were they carried by the archers or by specialised porters? Were they used individually or in lines? And how often were they moved during battles or sieges?
  
• What is the history of the seemingly ubiquitous roofed shopping arcade in Japanese cities?
  
• Why did Japan choose to migrate entirely to the Gregorian calendar in 1873, rather than adopting a hybrid system like China's where the Gregorian system is used for daily affairs but the ritual calendar continued to follow the Chinese lunisolar system?
  
• What was the public response to Arnold Schwarzenegger becoming Governor of California in 2003?
  
• Was Nepal ever majority-Buddhist, and if so, when and why did it end up becoming majority-Hindu?
  
• From 1979 to 1982, Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, served as Foreign Secretary under Margaret Thatcher while also being part of the House of Lords. Were there concerns at the time that as a peer, Carrington was not accountable to the Commons and could not be questioned by MPs?
  
• How was Scotland governed during the Interregnum of 1649-60? Discussions of the Commonwealth (at least, that I've seen) seem to focus exclusively on England and Wales.
  
• How Hellenistic was Hellenistic Judaism? Does the term simply refer to Judaism as it existed during the Hellenistic period, or were there considerable Greek influences on Jewish belief and practice, and if so, how much of these influences continue to the present?
  
• In 1916, Life Magazine published a map depicting North America if the Central Powers won the Great War, with the US partitioned between Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and... Japan. Except Japan was an Allied power. What might have led to the map's creators including it among the victors?
  
  • The map in question. For what it's worth, Romania (another Allied power, albeit not involved until half a year after the map's publication) also seems to have nommed Jamaica.
• The Peelites seem to have emerged suddenly on the British political scene in the 1840s, and then to have vanished about as quickly and folded into the Liberals in the 1850s. Why did they split, and why did they then merge so soon after?
  
• How rapidly did the Imperial Russian Navy attempt to rebuild after the Russo-Japanese War, and what sorts of doctrinal and design lessons did it draw from the conflict?
  
• What sort of military honours were issued both to units and individual soldiers in Mughal/pre-colonial India, and did these influence the issuing of battle honours and campaign medals by the British after the 1790s?
  
  • I ask because as far as I am aware, the first campaign medals issued in British or Empire forces were made by the East India Company for Indian troops in the eighteenth century, with the first medals for British troops being issued in 1801 for service during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War. It is also my understanding that while a specific honour was issued for the defence of Gibraltar during the American War of Independence, the first 'generic' honour consisting only of the name of a battle on a ribbon, with no associated emblem, was for the siege of Mangalore in 1783-4, though I may well be wrong. What I am reasonably sure of is that regiments did not start claiming battles before the 1780s for honours until after the mergers caused by the Childers Reforms in 1881. Anyway, rambling aside – were these ostensibly British military traditions something that they in fact absorbed from similar or even identical practices in India?
• What were relations like between immigrant African-Americans in Liberia and indigenous peoples within claimed Liberian territory? And what were Liberian relations like with other African polities in its vicinity?
  
• In 1977, Patricia Crone and Michael Cook wrote Hagarism, proposing that Islam began as a branch of messianic Judaism before becoming its own religion. While much has been walked back over the years, how much still holds true? And what value does Hagarism still hold for historians of religion today?
  
• How much resistance was there to American overlordship of the Philippines, and what form did it take? How did anti-American movements interact with the Japanese occupation in 1941-5? And how much did formal independence in 1946 owe to pre-war developments?
  
• Why did Florence Foster Jenkins sing Mozart's Queen of Night aria in Italian rather than in German? Was Italian considered preferable to German for American audiences in 1944, or had an alternative Italian libretto been in use for some time already?
  
• 'There died that day...the finest flower of French chivalry.' So wrote Froissart of the Battle of Poitiers in 1356. But what impact did this loss have on French society? Did the 5000 or so knights killed or captured constitute a big enough chunk of the French elite to lead to radical effects?
  
  • And indeed, were those 5000 losses particularly impactful relative to, say, the Black Death just a few years before?
• Freemasonry features heavily in some of Rudyard Kipling's most famous 'India Stories', including 'The Man Who Would be King' and 'Kim', but how prevalent were Freemasonry and Masonic institutions in British India, and what sorts of public activities did Masons in India get up to?
  
• The Tale of Genji is sometimes said to be the world's first novel, but how much of a splash did it make at the time? How did it influence Japanese literature, and how did it, or its derivatives, impact literature in other parts of Asia?
  
• After the execution of Charles I in 1649, what was the basis for the continuation of the peerage and knighthood in the British Isles? Did the Commonwealth and Protectorate governments have the ability to create and confer titles? And did other states in Europe recognise them?
  
• The Sudanese Mahdists seem to have been continuously at war with neighbouring regional powers, especially Egypt, from 1882 to 1899. Why was this conflict so protracted? Was there any prospect of a peace deal being brokered?
  
  • The length of the conflict strikes me as especially notable given the public reaction in Britain to the fall of Khartoum in 1884, which doesn't seem to have translated into an immediate military re-escalation by Britain, which would not dispatch another expeditionary force until 1896. Which isn't to say that I'm presuming that a British expeditionary force would necessarily have triumphed by default, but more that I'm surprised Britain, with its imperial ambitions and effective control over Egypt, seems to have been content to live with an ongoing state of war between Egypt and Sudan for over a decade.
• Japan's military contribution to the First World War seems to have been limited to mainly naval action in the Pacific in 1914 and in the Mediterranean in 1917-18. Was the deployment of Japanese ground forces in Europe or the Middle East ever considered? If so, why did it not take place?
  
• Hellenistic Jewish scholars such as Josephus and Philo often wrote in Greek. Did this help bring Jewish writing and scholarship to a wider audience? How was their work received in the classical Mediterranean world in Greek and Roman circles?
  
• How did Prohibition in the US affect the alcohol industry in Canada?
  
• The Japanese wolf seems to have had a notable place in Shinto belief and folklore, yet was hunted to extinction in the early 20th century. Were there attempts to prevent the wolf's extinction, on religious grounds or otherwise? And how if at all did the extinction affect the wolf's place in Shinto?
  
• During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, 54 out of 74 regiments of the Bengal army mutinied and joined the uprising against British rule. What led the other 20 to side with the British instead?
  
  • Did the division between rebel and pro-British regiments correlate significantly with caste and/or religion? Did some regiments pick sides cynically, i.e. gambling on the prospect of reward in the event of a British victory?
• How did maple syrup come to be the quintessentially Canadian staple it is today? Is its history largely post-colonisation, or was it already seeing widespread use in First Nations cuisines?
  
• Did Claudius have any part in the assassination of Caligula? Why did the Praetorians appoint him emperor? Had he cultivated good relations with them in the past?
  
  • I'm aware this question has been asked a few times before, but one dimension that hasn't come up is that of whether Claudius was already a significant known entity to the Praetorian Guard. Given that he had been married to Sejanus' sister Aelia Paetina, and that Sejanus had been engaged to Claudius' sister Livilla, is it plausible that Claudius had been favoured among some of Sejanus' old allies who had survived his fall? Or is this a case where, even if plausible, it's unprovable?
• In 1920, British author John Hargrave founded a camping and hiking group called the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, which by 1932 had morphed into the Green Shirt Movement and then in 1935 into the Social Credit Party. How did a group of vaguely neo-pagan outdoorspeople end up going political?
  
• Did Puritans during the reign of King Charles I actually boycott soap for being 'popish'? Was this purely an issue in England or did hardline Calvinists in Scotland act similarly?
  
• In the Hornblower adaptation 'The Frogs and the Lobsters', the naval officer Hornblower is largely antagonistic towards the aristocratic army officers and is jokingly accused of Republican sympathies. Did the Navy's relative egalitarianism lead to any real affection for republicanism?
  
• For all intents and purposes, William of Orange conquered England in 1689 by sailing from the Netherlands with an army. When, how, and why did this become euphemised as the 'Glorious Revolution' by English and British historians?
  
• Queen Victoria is supposed to never have actually uttered the phrase, 'we are not amused', but it has become indelibly associated with her in popular culture. When and how did Victoria come to be associated with this turn of phrase?
  
• In the closing stages of the Boshin War, the Imperial army that landed on Hokkaido had to deal with two modern forts that had been built in the 1860s: a high-walled coastal for (the Benten Daiba) and a Vauban-style star fort (the Goryokaku). Why and how were they built?
  
• According to Wikipedia, the Garibaldi biscuit was 'first manufactured by the Bermondsey biscuit company Peek Freans in 1861 following the recruitment of Jonathan Carr, one of the great biscuit makers of Carlisle.' Why was Carr's recruitment important? Why was a London company after a Carlisle baker?
  
• The chi-rho Christogram (☧) appeared regularly in Late Roman imagery, but why? How did this symbol become so popular, and when and why did it die out?
  
• What is up with this letter Elvis Presley wrote to Richard Nixon about wanting to become a federal agent? Why did he write it? Was he serious? Did anyone try to stop him? How did Nixon or his staff respond, if at all?
  
  • The letter itself is here: https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/nixon-met-elvis/assets/doc_1.1_transcript.html But I came across it thanks to this reading of it by Matt Berry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaZj7MiDwUY
• The Clint Eastwood film 'Unforgiven' prominently features 'English Bob', a British gunslinger who, according to dialogue, 'works for the railroad shooting Chinamen'. How much of this is, if not accurate, at least authentic – the European immigrant gunslinger, the railroad hiring hitmen, and the specifically racist targeting?
  
• Who was the Syagrius that was made prefect of Provence in 568? Was there any relation to the Syagrius based at Soissons who was defeated by the Franks under Clovis in 486?
  
• In 'A Fistful of Dollars' and 'For a Few Dollars More', set in the 1870s/80s, the characters tend to move pretty easily between the US and Mexico. How permeable was the US-Mexico border at this time?
  
• What happened to the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim in 1021? Why and how did he just 'disappear'?
  
  • I was reading a recent answer on the sub by sunagainstgold and came across the tidbit that the Caliph Al-Hakim
  • > "vanished" (as it were) in 1021
  • How does a Caliph, the (nominal) leader of the Muslim world, simply vanish? Was this a voluntary decision, or was he 'disappeared', and by whom for what reason, if we know?
• Was there a significant opposition on religious grounds to the British invasion of Ethiopia/Abyssinia in 1868, given that the Ethiopians were also Christian?
  
• Why were scythed chariots developed, and why were they retained despite what seem to be quite high-profile failures at Kounaxa in 401 BCE and Gaugamela in 331?
  
  • Apparently there are only two explicitly recorded instances of scythed chariots being used successfully, once during the Spartan campaigns in Anatolia in the 390s and once during the First Mithridatic War between Pontus and Rome. Do we have much evidence at all for how and why these were employed? Is their apparently poor record a result largely of selection bias on the part of Greek (and latterly Roman) sources?
• How did the Emu War become the memetic event in Australian history that it has?
  
  • Was it recognised as an embarrassment at the time? Was its infamy resurrected by popular press books? Or was it the Internet that spawned the Emu War meme?
• I'm a cold-blooded old fart who wants the kids off my lawn. But what am I doing with this lawn, anyway? What were typical home leisure activities for the elderly in, say, late 19th/early 20th century America?
  
• The bishop in modern chess evolved from the elephant in Indian chaturanga, while in Chinese xiangqi, the piece that moves like the chaturanga elephant is called an elephant for one side but a minister for the other. How did elephants become ministers and bishops on opposite sides of Eurasia?
  
• In the TV episode 'Sharpe's Siege', French Brigadier Calvet, who survived the Russian campaign, speaks disparagingly of Major Ducos, who was in Spain in 1812. Was there actually an internal enmity in the French army from those who had fought in Russia, directed at those who hadn't?
  
• Bearing in mind the 2000 cutoff date, how have Chick Tracts been received in the US? Have they always been viewed as insane, fringe items, or were they successful in appealing to whatever audience they were intended for (indeed, what was that audience)?
  
• How were the territories controlled by military orders like the Teutonic and Livonian Orders or the Knights of St. John administered?
  
• How did the trope in late 20th century British comedy of the promiscuous milkman come about? How much truth was there behind the stereotype?
  
• After the adoption of Christianity in the Roman Empire, did deified emperors like Augustus and Vespasian continue to be referred to as 'Divus', or if not did they still retain some special elevation compared to other deceased emperors?
  
• How was gunpowder used in Japan prior to the introduction of arquebuses by the Portuguese?
  
• Apparently, British cavalry officer Louis Edward Nolan, who was killed in the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1854, was not struck off the Austrian Army payroll until 1899. Was he actually getting paid, if so who got the money, and why did it take so long to stop?
  
• How were Chinggis (Genghis) Khan and the Mongol Empire more generally depicted during Soviet rule in Mongolia?
  
• The Taiwanese and Japanese governments seem to have generally had quite warm relations, but how has the general public in Taiwan viewed its colonial past? Is there a noticeable difference in alignment with party or linguistic distinctions?
  
• What were relations like between the Golden Horde and the Teutonic Order?
  
• Why has Xenophon's reputation among classicists been so terrible?
  
  • He tried so very, very hard, and evidently pretty much everything he wrote has survived, to the point that for a time the Old Oligarch was assumed to be him even though he wasn't old enough to have written it when it was. Yet it seems like there's some competition between classicists to just dump on Xenophon in increasingly verbose fashion. Why can't they just leave Xenophon alone?
• How far were elephants actually effective in ancient battles as opposed to just an expensive gimmick with a tendency to backfire?
  
• Romania was almost completely overrun within months of entering the First World War. Why did the Romanian government join the war in the first place?
  
• Looking at footage of the Japanese surrender at the end of WW2, the civilian representatives are all dressed in top hats. When and why did Japanese civil officials begin to wear them, why were they still wearing them in 1945, and when did they stop?
  
• I have often heard the Church of the East colloquially called the 'Nestorian Church', but also that its doctrines were never Nestorian at all. So, what was Nestorianism anyway, and more importantly how did the Church of the East come to be so associated with it?
  
• What was the reaction of East Germans outside Berlin to the fall of the Berlin Wall?
  
• What were Mary Whitehouse and the Nationwide Festival of Light actually aiming to achieve, if anything? Were they at all successful in doing so?
  
• Many of Charlemagne's capitularies say that when mobilised for war, lords had to bring with them six months' clothing for themselves and their retinues. How much clothing would this have been? How long did clothes last more generally?
  
• How did Queen gain such a substantial Japanese following that within two years of their first album in 1973, they were able to release a single, 'Teo Toriatte', which was sung partly in Japanese and made it into the top 50 on the charts in Japan?
  
• Gilbert and Sullivan operettas see a whole lot of people engaged to their wards (that is, people they are the legal guardians of). Was this a common practice in Victorian Britain, or would a typical operagoer of the time have found it weird as well?
  
  • Examples include Ko-Ko being engaged to his ward Yum-Yum at the start of The Mikado and the Lord Chancellor almost marrying his ward Phyllis in Iolanthe. In neither case does there seem to be any objection to their getting married other than that the man is not the romantic lead. An inversion happens in The Pirates of Penzance with Frederic nearly getting engaged to his nurse Ruth, yet the age difference between them is here accepted as comical, and in any case Ruth would not have had guardian status.
• How would spectators at the Panhellenic Games know who was competing? Would there be lists of names put up? Would there be announcers of some sort?
  
• Did the creation of Rajneeshpuram and, later on, the discovery of the salmonella poisonings by the Rajneeshi, significantly affect mainstream American opinion of Indian religion?
  
• In Mozart's 'The Magic Flute', the opera ends with the leads being inducted into a cult of Isis and Osiris. How the hell did it manage to get so popular in Catholic Vienna in 1791? Was the libretto just not seen as that important? Did they just not care that much about the pagan cultism? What gives?
  
• Tacitus' Annals claims that Roman legionaries were more effective than the Germans in forests because it was easier for them to use their weapons in confined spaces. Is this a conclusion corroborated by anyone else?
  
• There are apparently a number of seemingly absurd tactical formations described in ancient Indian texts. Was there a particular style of warfare that resulted in their existence, or were these largely the products of myth?
  
  • These formations, or vyuha include some especially weird examples like the rotating labyrinthine Padmavyuha. From my rather presentist perspective it seems that these would be incredibly difficult to maintain owing to both their geometrical complexity and (in some cases) moving parts, but presumably there was some reason for their being mentioned.
• Did Britain consider using Indian troops in Europe during the Napoleonic Wars or the Crimea? If they did, why wasn't it done?
  
• Stalin once quipped that Anastas Mikoyan 'loved ice cream more than Communism.' Did the quality and/or availability of ice cream in the Soviet Union see a marked improvement under Mikoyan's auspices?
  
• It is an oft-repeated piece of trivia that the first German casualty of WW2 was killed by the Japanese in 1937. Do we know anything else about him, such as if he was affiliated with von Seeckt's military mission? If he was, why would he have been in the line of fire? How did Japan react (if at all)?
  
• What did other artists think of Bob Ross and Bill Alexander when they were active?
  
• What led to the Covenanters siding with Charles II, having been Parliamentary allies during the First English Civil War?
  
• What were soldiers doing at night during multi-day battles in the Napoleonic Wars?
  

FFIE stock is rallying with meme stocks today
By William White, InvestorPlace Writer May 14, 2024, 11:25 am EDT

• Faraday Future (FFIE) stock is up on Tuesday in what could be a major short squeeze for the shares.
• This would make sense considering short interest in the stock is sitting at about 95%.
• That also comes alongside a meme stock rally this week.

5 A.I. Stocks to Buy Before They Skyrocket
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Faraday Future (NASDAQ:FFIE) stock is rising higher on Tuesday as investors wonder whether a massive short squeeze is coming for the electric vehicle (EV) company’s shares.
Investors will note that FFIE’s short interest is sitting at 36.34 million shares. That represents 95.33% of the company’s float. This makes it a prime target for a short squeeze.
One reason the rise could be happening is the recent meme stock rally. This has several shares that were short squeezed in 2021 taking off recently. This is thanks to the return of Roaring Kitty, who started the prior meme rally in 2021. FFIE may be a new target that could get caught up in all of the action.Is a Giant Short Squeeze Brewing in Faraday Future (FFIE) Stock?
FFIE stock is rallying with meme stocks today
https://investorplace.com/2024/05/is-a-giant-short-squeeze-brewing-in-faraday-future-ffie-stock/

I’m about to burst with some of the stuff in this movie. It’s the one with Bruce Willis in the train station with all the blue chairs. You won’t believe the foil! I don’t even believe it and I’ve watched it twice. Stuff that can’t possibly relate to what’s going on but does! When you watch it, I promise you that the lightbulbs are going to light up your mind.
You can watch it for free right now on Tubi and a couple other places. Look on IMDb for other sources. It explains the Kansas City Shuffle and SO much more! I’m excited about the foil, but the real value in watching this movie, IMO, is understanding the Shuffle. So many people are misunderstanding what the KCS actually is. I sure did! Unless you’ve seen it, it’s probably not at all what you think. And the tin.. omg it’s so great. But I am 100% POSITIVE that I’ve only recognized a small portion of it. I need wayyy more brains than I have on my own.
Ugh. Ok, that’s it. I’m posting a couple pieces of tin. I’ll try to keep in generic so it doesn’t completely spoil things, and I’ll try to make use of the Spoilers thingy, but if you haven’t seen the movie yet, DON’T LOOK! You’ll be sad to miss the romp. It’s an amazing flick. Just scroll down to “end spoilers” and watch the movie.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD
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Smith (Willis) wears a wrist brace in the posted meme scene. RK wore one on Friday’s stream. Knowing what happens right after the clip ends makes that a million times more relevant.
It all starts with a horse.
The main character, Slevin, stays in apartment 47.
In the first twenty or so minutes of the movie, Slevin is wearing nothing but a towel.
Chess, and certain tactics, plays a big role in the movie.
Watches and time play another significant part. (tick tock)
DEFINITE SPOILERS AHEAD (DON’T READ IF YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED)
In the scene from RK’s post, when the man turns to look at “this is the KCS”… Smith, aka GoodKat (Willis) silently gets out of the wheelchair and breaks the man’s neck. “You can’t have a Kansas City Shuffle without a body.” (Remembered quote; may not be exact.)
Slevin is the name of the horse.
Slevin’s last name (Kelevra) is roughly “Bad Dog” in Hebrew. 🐶
At the end of the movie, Slevin is wearing a black hoodie as he sits in the same train station where GoodKat is introduced at the beginning.
There is indeed a reckoning, and the best part is.. Love fucking wins.
There are a few take-aways from the story that I think anyone will recognize, but are worth pointing out. First two aren’t spoilers, but the last four might ruin your experience of the movie if you haven’t seen it yet.

• The KCS is a very long game and the catalyst (inciting incident) is something big. Ours did not happen in this decade. Maybe not even this century.
• Everything in the KCS happens for a reason and is a necessary and integral part of the Shuffle.

- (I think) Lindsey… is us. - Not all the players are what they seem. Some who seem to be good are bad and vice versa. - Not everyone who acts like a dorky idiot is remotely so. - This one may be most important of all: the Black Hats doing Black Hat things are absolutely necessary to the KCS. I have come to realize that trying to stop or hinder them from their BH behavior while the KCS is in play could have a detrimental impact on the Shuffle.
END SPOILERS
I’m not even going to tell you this last one. It’s the stickiest, stinkiest, blackest tar in the history of this whole play, I swear. But when you watch the movie (RIGHT NOW) pay attention to the parking lot near the end when the detective is sitting in his car talking on the phone. When I saw it on my second watch, my eyes almost popped outa my head. If it’s not proof of time traveling and or simulation, I don’t know what is.
That’s it for now. I’m going to try and watch it again tonight and see what more I can find. For now, I’ll leave you with this little tidbit that caught my eye when I was searching for screenshots from the movie. It’s just from the intro/credits, so no spoilers. To me, it looks like the spelling of another number (besides seven). But I don’t know nothin and I admit my brain is beginning to get a sheen with all the foil chomping. Just thought I’d include it for fun. It is tomorrow, after all.😉
https://i.imgur.com/wrgxVJ6.jpeg
Peace💜

re: https://www.reddit.com/GenX/comments/1dbd7y5/least_favorite_song_from_the_80s_ill_go_first/
First of all, the worst song of the 80s is almost unanimously We Built This City, by Starship
But also, I made a playlist
[https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1xTbfEtQ6oHFc3kXO0mOFj?si=88ab685e44cd4cd3\](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1xTbfEtQ6oHFc3kXO...
I actually went through all 1700+ fucking comments -- with some help from my computer skillz -- and pulled out the commonly voted ...
This playlist only has songs that received two or more mentions.
I also did a very basic breakdown of all the comments and put them into a few buckets. Here's the results:
👈🏻 makes a playlist with every song in this comment section. OK!! I WILL

THE WINNERS

5 VOTES

• every breath you take by sting, while it sounds good if youre not paying attention to the lyrics, basically it is about a stalke...
• every breath you take
• every breath you take. synchronicity is my least favourite police album and this song literally haunted me through the summer of...
• every breath you take by the police. and i know what its about but ive hated it even before i knew
• every breathe you take - police this song gives me the creeps. stalker much??

22 VOTES -- no question, this song wins this contest

• we built this city!
• ah,i cant stand we built this city, it literally is like nails on a chalk board for me.
• came here to say we built this city on rock and roll. ugh, that is the worst song ever.
• hey, i like that song, we built this city on rock ‘n roll!! and im not ashamed to say it either
• how dare a band that made the masterpiece, white rabbit, puke we built this city on us. the worst part is that my local radio st...
• i find the hate for we built this city ironic. it reached #1 on the billboard hot 100. it won a grammy. it was a really popular ...
• i would listen to we built this city every day if it meant never having to hear unskinny bop again.
• jefferson starship we built this city, and the rest of their album.
• nope. nope. nope. its we built this city by starship. its so terrible.
• the question should be what‘s the second worst song of the ‘80s. because we built this city is the most powerful emetic agent ev...
• we built this city
• we built this city by starship. just awful.
• we built this city is proof that even rock bands can make truly awful songs.
• we built this city on rock and roll
• we built this city!
• we built this city, hated it. was greaseman on in the mornings on dc101? i cant remember.
• we built this city- starship... i hate that effin song.
• we built this city by starship! the worst
• we built this city is atop many lists of the worst rock and roll songs of all time
• we built this city. worst song of all time.
• we built this city…
• i hate we built this city too, but the my special loathing is for all the steve winwood singles from his mid 80s comeback. they ...

3 VOTES

• tainted love by soft cell. it doesnt help that i heard the song for the first time while watching the pedobear cringe worthy vid...
• tainted love
• tainted love. get fucked this song is so bad

3 VOTES

• the final countdown by europe
• final countdown- europ- - most annoying song and always gets stuck in my head...the whole song thet literally repeat the same li...
• the final countdown by europe. shite, i just caught it just by typing it. i loathe that song.

2 VOTES

• 867-5309
• 867-5309 jenny. total shit one hit wonder.

4 VOTES

• 99 luftballons. i really, really cant stand that song. my husband loves it.
• 99 luftballons. so annoying, i change the station immediately.
• 99 luft balloons
• i really cant stand 99 red balloons

3 VOTES

• abracada was early 80s, so take the w.
• abracadabra by the steve miller band. i get irrationally mad when i hear that song.
• the 80s song i hate the most is abracadabra, steve miller band.

19 VOTES -- A bit of a cheat since I primed it, but BoS wins 2nd place

• also i feel the same way about boys of summer
• boys of summer by don henley
• boys of summer by don henley. everyone likes that song for no understandable reason, but for me, just hearing the opening few se...
• boys of summer by don henley....i am not alone
• boys of summer is shite, i will give you that. its actually hard to pick as there were many many many rubbish songs.
• boys of summer sucks ass, ill raise you summer of 69 by bryan adams
• boys of summer takes me back to middle school. and not in a good way.
• boys of summer, musically, was written by mike campbell of the heartbreakers, if that helps any. don henley, who is the devil in...
• boys of summer, straight up, rhythm is gonna get you, thats what friends are for, anything sung by peter cetera
• ditto on boys of summer. here i was, entering my tween years and that song was putting me in the the good days of youth are over...
• freaking hated boys of summer
• i agree i have never liked that song boys of summer i just dont get the appeal
• i dont hate boys of summer, but i absolutely loathe henleys all she wants to do is dance.
• i had a cubemate who played this song (boys of summer) and the entire coldplay album wistfully on repeat for a year, i swear tha...
• i hate the boys of summer hate it!
• i think don henley is a boomer thing. i hate that song too
• i ♥️ you, op. i hated boys of summer too, and it drove me mad that everyone loved it. never been a don henley fan. thank you for ...
• im with ya on boys of summer though. maybe insipid is the right word.
• yeah, boys of summer is a terrible song. i agree.

6 VOTES

• come on eileen
• come on eileen 🤮
• come on eileen 😝😖
• come on eileen. oh i swear. at this moment. i fucking hate this song.
• come on, eileen... i hear that stupid fiddle at the beginning and cant get to the remote fast enough.. and then i think of the ...
• easy : come on eileen

5 VOTES

• kokomo
• kokomo - the beach boys
• kokomo by the beach boys
• kokomo by the beach boys fucking sucked then and now
• kokomo by the beach boys. if ice picks were at hand id shive in my ears just to not hear that piece of absolute garbage. this on...

3 VOTES

• bette davis eyes by kim carnes in 1981
• bette davis eyes ~ kim carnes
• bettie davis eyes. two reasons: 1. that voice. theres raspy and then theres laryngitis. 2. theres no discernible melody.

3 VOTES

• blister in the stupid annoying sun
• blister in the sun
• this is my unpopular opinion, but i absolutely hate blister in the sun. its like nails on a chalkboard to me.

2 VOTES

• eternal flame - bangles
• eternal flame the bangles makes me unreasonably angry.

3 VOTES

• when i was a kid, i thought owner of a lonely heart by yes was the most boring song. if that song were a color, itd be miles and...
• i like a lot of the songs mentioned in this thread, including boys of summer which i was actually listening to earlier today in ...
• owner of a lonely heart or any other yes song from that time/album. anything from the following bands:

4 VOTES

• take my breath away
• take my breath away by berlin. i get annoyed with the first note. worst song ever and ill die on that hill.
• take my breath away is on the top gun soundtrack. but, yes, dirty dancing, especially time of my life, became really annoying re...
• anything from the dirty dancing soundtrack, but especially take my breath away. barf.

2 VOTES

• i had the time of my life - god, i hate it so much. and we built this city. 😖
• (ive had) the time of my life by bill medley/jennifer warnes

3 VOTES

• total eclipse of the heart - bonnie tyler.
• total eclipse of the heart - bonnie tyler. hated it.
• total eclipse of the heart.

4 VOTES

• africa
• africa by toto.
• band aid....do they know its christmas...literally the most tone deaf song about the famine in africa. in africa, the most pract...
• toto africa

4 VOTES

• a higher love by steve winwood. i change the channel whenever that song comes on.
• but i especially hated steve winwood. his songs got played so much at college parties, especially the ones that were heavy on th...
• higher love by steve winwood. i freaking hate that song.
• steve winwood

2 VOTES

• caribbean queen- billy ocean
• carribean queen

3 VOTES

• centerfold
• centerfold. centerfield. forever young by rod stewart.
• j geils band - centrefold (and misogynistic crap to boot)

5 VOTES

• could not agree more on safety dance. some stupid songs can be campy and fun...and some are just stupid and hard to listen to
• for whatever reason, i hate the safety dance and cone on eileen so much
• safety dance. i thought it was so annoying. everyone else at school seemed to love it.
• the original mix of the safety dance was tolerable, but the remix version they play on 80s radio is ear bleeding.
• the safety dance by men without hats

3 VOTES

• dirty laundry is actively annoying. the keyboard part, the backing vocals, the guitar solo, all truly terrible. oh and the lyric...
• don henley dirty laundry
• oh man dirty laundry is so much worse than boys of summer. at least that song has a vibe and some cool mike campbell (tom pettys...

5 VOTES

• dire straits, i want my mtv
• dire straits, i want my mtv. cool guitar riff but the song is irritating as hell.
• hating this song as much as i do is a bummer = im a big dire straits/knoffler fan
• i cant stand dire straits - money for nothing. it feels like being trapped in a toothless, carny hellhole.
• money for nothin. dire straits.

9 VOTES

• edit: ugh, just remembered love shack by the b-52s.
• fucking love shack. is that early 90s? still counts:awful
• i love this song. and im not ashamed.
• love shack
• love shack by the b-52s.
• love shack, b-52s. barf.
• love shack-its just horrible noise.
• love shack. as soon as it comes on the radio i change the channel.
• you had me til that edit. love shack is a banger (on the dooor, baby!).

3 VOTES

• everybody wants to rule the world , i love tears for fears, but this song is just sing song crap.
• everybody wants to rule the world. no, they dont, some of us are fine just coexisting
• tears for fears - everybody wants to rule the world 🤮

2 VOTES

• 100% worst song was cum on feel the noize. it was our high schools senior year song.
• feel the noise.

2 VOTES

• is love in an elevator 80s? if so its definitely that. least favorite song of all time.
• aerosmith anything but especially love in an elevator

6 VOTES

• do we look like the kind of store that sells i just called to say i love you?
• i just called to say i love you, stevie wonder. was on the radio ad nauseum and it was sooo repetitive and trite.
• i just called to say i love you.
• i just called to say i love...
• stevie wonder i just called to say i love you, it came out around january and our local station played it constantly, so tired o...
• stevie wonders, i just called to say i love you. this might be the worst song of any decade.

3 VOTES

• dont stop believin. journey is the wooorst.
• journey dont stop believing
• dont stop believing 🤮

2 VOTES

• eye of the tiger by survivor. my unit was nick named the bold tigers and the higher ups played it before every deployment....
• eye of the tiger. cringe.

3 VOTES

• i love rock ‘n roll. i didnt hate it when i was a kid, it just has not stood the test of time for me, and i get annoyed when i h...
• i would be happy for the rest of my life if i never heard joan jett and the blackhearts i love rock n roll ever again. so much ...
• yeah its a show tune about how awesome rock and roll is!

3 VOTES

• i wanna be a cowboy
• i wanna be a cowboy - boys dont cry
• i wanna be a cowboy by boys dont cry

4 VOTES

• jesses girl. what a load of trash. she is a human being with her own name rick! not that we will ever know what it was.
• jesses girl. idk why but this always irritated me
• jessies girl by rick springfield is probably the only song to use the word moot, and its stupid for that fact alone.
• was jessies girl from the 80s? i die everytime it comes on its so cringe

13 VOTES -- And Walking on Sunshine gets 3rd (or 2nd if you don't count BoS)

• i hate walking on sunshine by katrina and the waves, and its raining men by the weather girls.
• im walkin on sunshine!!!!!
• katrina and the waves, walkin on sunshine. fight me.
• walkin on sunshine. that song drives me into a murderous rage.
• walking on fucking sunshine. hate that song
• walking on sunshine
• walking on sunshine by katrina and the waves is an auditory torture device
• walking on sunshine by katrina and the waves. cant stand that song.
• walking on sunshine.
• walking on sunshine. and somehow its been included in every 80s era or feel good movie in the decades since. i loathed that song...
• walking on sunshine. i hate its toxic positivity, horns, bassline, spastic rhythm and that bitch katrina who wont shut up about ...
• walking on sunshine. its just obnoxious.
• walking on sunshine. thats my first name and that song made my middle school existence total hell. one day, i will find katrina ...

4 VOTES

• jack and diane
• jack and diane by john cougar mellencamp. the walls and cherry bomb are way better but j&d is the one that always gets played on...
• jack and diane, most overplayed song for me, every time i hear it on radio i turn off.
• i dont know why, but ive always hated john mellencamps jack and diane. immediately button push. and celebrate by kool and the ga...

2 VOTES

• karma chameleon, too shy, oh sheila, rock lobster
• karma fucking chameleon.

3 VOTES

• lady in red haters, fight me!
• lady in red.
• i strongly dislike lady in red, but i have a memory of my auntie and uncle dancing to it, still deeply in love after decades of ...

3 VOTES

• late to the game, but i hated i wear my sunglasses at night. or really anything by corey hart.
• sunglasses at night
• i wear my sunglasses at night. i swear every time i got in my car that song was playing on the radio.

2 VOTES

• lets hear it for the boy - deniece williams
• lets here it for the boys

3 VOTES

• like a virgin - madonna
• like a virgin by madonna. typing those words pisses me off.
• like a virgin, hated that song since the 1st time i heard it

2 VOTES

• little pink houses
• little pink houses pisses me the fuck off.

2 VOTES

• i wanna know what love is by foreigner.
• maybe not the single worst, but certainly a contender: i want to know what love is, by foreigner.

6 VOTES

• mickey
• mickey - toni basil
• mickey by toni basil
• mickey. oh mickey was top ten one of the most annoying songs of all time. really good song to sing when you wanted to punish a f...
• the only time ill say hey mickey
• hey mickey

2 VOTES

• mr roboto
• mr roboto by styx

3 VOTES

• my husband says jump by van halen.
• van halen. jump. dont get me wrong, i like vh. but that song just sucks imo
• jump by van halen. hate it so much.

2 VOTES

• patio lanterns
• patio lanterns by kim mitchell!

2 VOTES

• pour some sugar on me.
• pour some sugar on me. fucking hate this song.

8 VOTES

• red red wine by ub40.
• red red wine, nails/chalkboard
• red red wine, you make me feel so fine you keep me rockin all of the time red red wine, you make me feel so grand i feel a milli...
• red red wine- ub40. hate that song.
• red red wine. fingernails on the chalkboard to me.
• red red wine. i dont even know who its by, but its like nails on a chalk board.
• red red wine. its in my head now. thanks.
• red, red wine by ub40. cant stand it, will instantly change to something else anytime it comes on.

2 VOTES

• relax from fgth. i would die happy if i never had to hear that ever again.
• relax. fg2h.

2 VOTES

• roxanne is up there in my rank of hate as well. the worst though is actually from the 70s: rain drops keep falling on my head. m...
• roxanne. i hate that song. stings voice in that song is like nails on a black board. so annoying! and its just a stupid song ful...

4 VOTES

• she drives me crazy - fine young cannibals
• she drives me crazy - fine young cannibals.
• she drives me crazy by fine young cannibals ugh. so much falsetto
• she drives me crazy. the song drives me crazy.

2 VOTES

• sledgehammer by peter gabriel
• sledgehammer...i hated it then and more now

4 VOTES

• somehow sweet dreams and there must be an angel from the eurythmics were disliked by me as a child (and still are).i guess it wa...
• sweet dreams (are made of this). best case, its just a boring mid-tempo song. however, she sings are made of these so it will rh...
• sweet dreams by the eurythmics. so repetitive and overplayed. if i never hear it again itll be too soon. really all of their son...
• sweet dreams -erythmics it is like nails on a chalkboard for me.

4 VOTES

• spandau ballets true should carry a trigger warning for nausea.
• spandau ballet—true. this song activates my fight or flight response like no other
• true by spandau ballet. it gives me an instant migraine.
• i fucking hate spandau ballet true.

2 VOTES

• sugar walls by sheena easton.
• sugar walls by sheena easton. 🤮

2 VOTES

• i got sick of that kid luka who lived on the second floor. yeah, i know, its probably a 90s song and i know its a heartbreaking ...
• that song my name is luka, i live on the second floor... was the worst freegon song all decade. just a waste of radio airtime....

2 VOTES

• turning japanese is pretty darn annoying
• turning japanese; i hated it then and still hate it now

2 VOTES

• two of hearts-stacey q
• two of hearts. an inane annoyance played over and over. stacy q. perpetrator

3 VOTES

• walk like an egyptian side eye
• walk like an egyptian.
• walk like an eqyptian

4 VOTES

• we are the world
• we are the world got so much airtime that i remember it being the first song i ever rolled my eyes to when it came on the radio ...
• we are the world? (i know, different artist, still terrible)
• i nominate we are the world.

3 VOTES

• we didnt start the fire makes me want to set fires
• we didnt start the fire.
• we didnt start the fire. i know every word of every song on every album, and have seen billy joel live at least ten times, but ...

MORE THAN ONE SONG -- Comment listed more than one song; too much work to split these up

• i ran and china girl.
• a couple other songs that come to mind off the top of my head as being terrible are bonnie tylers total eclipse of the heart and...
• all night long by lionel richie has to be a contender here. i dont think it beats we built this city but i think its way worse t...
• any song where they left some extra time in there so your local radio station could inject their own djs prattling about your ci...
• boys of summer is strangely triggering for me, too! its....creepy. i sort of stick it on the same playlist with drive (the cars)...
• cant pick, so many terrors, and we built this shitty and kokomo are well represented, here, but here are the top ones: mr. robot...
• come on eileen by dexys midnight runners broken wings by mr. mister sunglasses at night by cory hart
• dont worry be happy and puttin on the ritz
• i agree with boys of summer, and ill add mickey by toni basil and walking on sunshine. oh, and anything by twisted sister. they ...
• i hate wake me up before you go go more than we built this city. i also hate we are the world more. this thread also jogged my m...
• money for nothing and dont worry be happy
• never going to give you up by rick astley and small town by mellencamp. hate both of them equally.
• rio one more night mr roboto
• rock me amadeus by falco, and wild, wild west by escape club.
• rock me amadeusgot my mind set on you
• stand and shiny happy people by rem
• the two that come to mind immediately are kokomo and dont worry, be happy. but im sure there are many worse that ive suppressed ...
• there are two, and i think both are because of the videos: land of confusion by genesis (played into my nuclear war fears, and t...
• tie between lets hear it for the boy and bette davis eyes. may i never hear either of them again.
• toss up between never been to me(80s trad wife song) and first thing that popped into my mind black velvet. and thats taking in...
• we built this city. mr roboto.
• welp, i love that song but i get it if you woke up to it everyday. walk the dinosaur or dont worry be happy makes me volatile a...

SINGLE VOTE -- Only listed once in the comments

• venus, by bananarama. utter drivel.
• dont worry be happy 😣
• aint nothing going to break my stride by matthew wilder. please make it stop.
• all i want to do is make love to you is the worst.
• all she wants to do is dance
• and then for a great stalker song based on real events, theres one way or another by blondie.
• angel of the morning, juice newton
• back in black - acdc - i loved that song when it first came out. skip 20 years. that song is so overplayed. i change the station...
• beat it. sorry to michael jackson fans but that song sucked arse.
• beds are burning by midnight oil. i know what its about, im not against its message, but i just always hated it.
• billie jean. i really didnt appreciate michael jacksons music enough in general, but especially when i first heard it.
• bryan adams, everything i do. hated it as a child still hate it to this day.
• cant believe no one has mentioned gloria by laura branigan yet.
• centerfield by john fogerty..they overplayed it too..just stepped all over nerves
• dont you want me baby by human league.
• ebony and ivory?
• eddie moneys take me home tonight. what is up with the off-key or random key changes? it annoys me so much that ill change it wh...
• edge of seventeen. i fucking hate that song. no reason, just do.
• electric avenue by eddy grant. hate that song.
• everybody have fun tonight everybody wang chung tonight — i dont know if its my least favorite, but i do find it annoying.
• everything she wants is actually a pretty good tune if you pay attention to the lyrics. not georges standard bubblegum fare of t...
• fame! in part because the show was so bad and my sister always wanted to watch it, but the song just has a lot of build up to a ...
• fast car by tracy chapman .. hate, hate, hate, loathe entirely!!! 😖
• fight for your right
• finally a mj mention!! this and bad, ugh bad was so bad
• funky town, like nails on a chalkboard
• genesis- invisible touch
• georgia satellites - keep your hands to yourself.
• get out if my dreams, get into my car. cringe
• got my mind set on you - george harrison
• great list! i nominate missing you by john waite. egads that song is terrible
• gunter glieben glauchen globen
• harden my heart by quarterflash is terrible-i hate the line swallow my tears.
• hello by lionel ritchie - and that fucking video gag
• here in my car i feel safest of all i swear it hurts my brain
• hot hot hot - buster poindexter. the video is even worse
• how am i supposed to live without you - michael bolton. when i see you smile - bad english.
• how has no one said rosanna by toto yet?
• human by human league.
• hungry like the wolf. ugh.
• i aint missin you
• i apologize in advance for reminding you of this – never gonna let you go by sérgio mendes 💩
• i come to you,
• i drove all night
• i have vivid memories of going to sleep at night with the radio on and having to hear kyrie by mr mister every time, couldnt sta...
• i like madonna, but lucky star rubs me the wrong way. i dont know why.
• i like you!
• i want to kiss you all over, by exile
• i was born in a small town, came from a small town, small towned in a small town, small town my big town girl in the small town,...
• i will also put the heat is on in this same category 40 years later and i still become enraged if i hear it.
• id give the silver medal to dancing in the streets by jagger and bowie. its like getting stabbed in the eye with an ice pick. m...
• ill also throw in benny mardones (under the bus) for into the night. yuck.
• im going with eddie murphy party all the time.
• im gonna rock and roll all night….
• is it me youre looking for?
• isnt rico suave from the 80s?
• it doesnt suck, but youre certainly allowed to be annoyed by it. my least favorite is she blinded me with science. that one anno...
• it is called cancon (canadian content).
• its also a bit pitchy all around
• just between you and me, april wine
• just no. makes me ragey.
• keep on lovin you, reo
• keep your hands to yourself has always filled me with rage. ok, hyperbolic. but i do intensely dislike it
• kiss by prince. id rather have ice picks shoved in my ears.
• land down under by men at work
• least favorite is you got lucky by tom petty and the heartbreakers. it was in heavy rotation on mtv, and was such a beating when...
• lets get physical. physical. i wanna get physicaaa-aal. i wanna punch the radio. radio.
• liked it for a bit, but rock me amadeus is pretty bad!
• loverboy workin for the weekend
• manic monday and anything else by the bangles.
• many years later i heard a saying that sums up the last song, its always sunny in doucheville.
• mexican radio by wall of voodoo 🤦🏼♀️
• missing you by john waite. there are a lot of songs i detest more but missing you was so overplayed i wanted to cry every time i...
• mony mony
• mostly everything listed here, but mccartneys simply having a wonderful christmas time is the winner for worst songever!
• my 10 year old listens to rick astleys never gonna give you up.
• never going to let you go by one sergio mendes.
• no friends of mine by men without hats.
• oh yeah, and mony, mony. overplayed then and now
• oh, there is a reason, alright. melancholia
• one night in bangkok- the way hes not really singing, just talking in that sarcastic tone of voice! hate it!! 🤮 and west end gir...
• open arms - journey
• patience by guns n roses
• paul simon, you can call me al. 🤮
• phil collins in air tonight
• police - walking on the moon
• pretty young thing - michael jackson
• puttin on the ritz-taco
• queen of hearts by juice newton. i am kind of disappointed at how this whole thread is pretty surface level stuff. we built this...
• radar love
• riding the storm out, reo speedwagon.
• running up that hill. i hated it then and i hate it now.
• rush tom sawyer
• russians by sting. tries to be deep and thought provoking but its so trite.
• same here. i dont really like that paul mccartney xmas song, but the other songs are just the background music of my teenage yea...
• seasons in the sun. goodbye papa its hard to die with all the birds singing in the sky. … ugh!
• separate ways - journey.
• shook me all night long - acdc
• should i stay or should i go
• shout by tears for fears! the absolute worst song of the 80s!
• simply the best by tina turner makes me reach for the tv remote to fast forward past the advert.
• sister christian
• so many but i had to pick one its shes hot legs by zz top.
• stepping out by joe jackson reminds me of the orthodontists waiting room.
• steve pretty- oh sherrie 🤮🤮
• surprised no one has said this, but tarzan boy. just all around stupid.
• sweet memories of the movie mannequin
• take on me. hated it then and it has not aged well.
• that stupid i want candy song
• thats funny u picked don henley. i have been saying for years that sunset grill has to be the dumbest fucking song i have ever h...
• thats what friends are for - dionne warwick. keep smilin, keep shinin no!!
• the curly shuffle - jump n the saddle band
• the futures so bright i gotta wear shades by timbuk 3. just yucko.
• the tide is high
• this songs just six words long -weird al
• time after time by cyndi lauper, hated it!!
• toms diner by suzanne vega. ugh. that do_do_dat_todo_do
• turn up the radio by autograph
• uptown girl by billy joel. just annoying and reminds me of feeling stressed as a kid.
• van hagar - love walks in
• wake me up before you go go - its just too damned catchy
• walking on broken glass, annie lennox. all time awful song.
• what about dude looks like a lady yuk
• when the children cry white lion, so sappy and awful, its nauseating.
• while we were apart, i was human too!
• whip it - devo
• white wedding - billy idol
• who can it be now
• wild wild west - the escape club
• wonderful christmas time is the worst song that i can ever think of.
• working for the weekend, or really anything by loverboy. couldnt stand their music.
• worse than nothings gonna stop us now?
• worst would probably be hangin tough by nkotb. that song sucks balls.
• you can call me al.
• you can dance if you want to
• you give love a bad name, or whatever other shit song that shit band came up with.
• you spin me round by dead or alive. hated it, still hate it.
• young turks by rod stewart. hated it then, hate it now, sing the whole damn thing when i cant escape it. (like rod stewart well ...
• your love - outfield
• youre the inspiration by chicago.

THE ANYTHINGS -- Comments that listed "Any song by artist XYZ"

• anything by flock of seagulls. the safety dance also sucks.
• rock lobster, love shack, anything b-52s. legit do not understand the appeal of the music. i get the early lgbt representation a...
• there are some singers you either love or you hate. ozzy. tom petty.
• there are so many shit song from back then i cant even name. all the gated snares and glassy electric pianos would cause me to f...
• the entire decades output of phil collins/genesis. the case rests...
• talk dirty to me, or any other effing poisson song. (intentional misspelling.)
• summer of ‘69, or whatever its called. that and anything by john mellencamp.
• steve milller band
• simply irresistible or anything else by that guy.
• reo speedwagon
• really, almost everything that was popular rock in the 80s, i hated. still do now, tbh. may they never come again.
• quite a few queen songs suck balls tbh. youre my best friend killer queen dont stop me now . nails on a chalkboard for me
• pretty much anything by the pointer sisters
• pick any song by randy newman
• other contenders: most the 80s hits by kenny loggins, rod stewart, inxs, robert palmer, huey lewis and the news, miami sound mac...
• my husbands vote is anything reo speedwagon
• least favorite? something from a hair metal band probably.
• kenny gs entire discography!
• im queer, and cant fucking stand boy george or the cure.
• ill have to throw in christopher cross and all the yacht rock genre. i was recently reminded of him. hes actually a great guitar...
• i never understood the popularity of ac/dc
• i loathe bon jovi.
• i like pretty much every song everyone is mentioning lol.
• huey lewis and the news. hip to be square and power of love. these havent even grown on me with age
• for me, almost anything by phil collins. i didnt used to mind him, but now its like nails on a chalkboard. im not talking genesi...
• everything by brian adams.
• anything gloria estefan
• name any song by journey after steve perry joined. that one.
• most songs by journey.
• journey
• any song by journey
• dancing on the ceiling. made worse by an idiotic video. also rem stand and i like rem
• da ha made me angry.
• da da da by trio.
• cheesier than welfare cheddar.
• buffalo stance - neneh cherry
• broken wings. ugh. hate that song.
• broken arms.
• i didnt care much for anything by def leopard, guns and roses, or poison.
• i can not stand def leapord. they are so over rated imo.
• the entire discography of both aerosmith and metallica. i know the first ten seconds on every song of their that gets regular ...
• anything by aerosmith just shits me. steve tyler needs to shut his big, stupid gob permanently!
• any song by aerosmith or elvis costello. barf!
• every song in huey lewis catalog, but ill go with the heart of rock and roll.
• every song by rod stewart. nothing against him personally, i just cannot stand his voice. i also cant believe no one has menti...
• every one sung by axyl rose. his voice just grates on my nerves.
• edited to add: every metal ballad. slow, sappy songs in general. if its slow, it had better be weird. the chauffeur is acceptabl...
• edit: also any eddie murphy song. going through the eddies now. still thinking.
• culture club, their entire catalog. yes boy george, i really do want to hurt you.
• bryan adams entire music catalog. every second song played on canadian radio was bryan adams. it was a law passed by parliament....
• breakout by swing out sister that womans voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me.
• boys are back in town. i can not stand that song.
• born in the usa is an awful song and springsteen cant sing
• blame it on the rain!
• black velvet. way over played on radio. i cringe when i hear it.
• billy idol. specifically white wedding, but really anything by him gets on my nerves pretty quickly.
• being an early genxer, i really thought 90%+ of the 80s music sucked. i know many see this era as our heyday, but musically the ...
• all songs released by former beatles members. they needed to stay in the 60s. e.g. ebony and ivory, i got my mind set on you, t...
• all songs by jason donovan
• 2nd that. bob seger sucks!
• 2nd place, straight up, paula abdul
• any acdc. its like nails on a chalkboard to me.
• any bob seger song, his music is the worst. a lot of them are 70s songs, but they were always playing in the 80s.
• any david lee roth. any. also kiss.
• any eddie money song.
• any madonna or michael jackson song from the 80s
• any wham song. any nkotb song
• anything by bruce hornsby. they overplayed the hell out of it.
• anything by bryan adams or loverboy. blame canada!
• anything by dj bobo.
• anything by foreigner but i want to know what love is takes the cake for worst song of all time.
• anything by huey lewis and the news
• anything by michael bolton is vile.
• anything by michael jackson. never liked his music.
• anything by paula abdul.
• anything by phil collins
• anything by richard marx or kenny loggins. just put ice picks in my ears.
• anything by simple minds. can not stand his voice.
• anything by soft cell or depeche mode
• anything by springsteen. that goes for everything in every decade hes recorded, except nebraska.
• anything by tiffany
• anything by u2
• anything by van morrison?
• anything by whitney fucking houston. and hair metal lol
• anything from def leppard.
• anything from hearts big comeback in the mid-80s: what about love, these dreams, etc.
• anything played by kiss108 or 92pro fm. if you lived in massachusetts or rhode island, you know what im talking about.
• anything that paula abdul made.
• anything with phil collins vocals
• gloria estefan/miami sound machine, conga. or get on your feet. or really anything else they put out and the radio way overplaye...
• ACTUALLY FROM THE 70S -- Hey, bruh, these aren't 80s songs
• lean on me. ugh!!!!
• lean on me - it was my navy recruiters favorite song, and by the time i was a week into boot camp o hated the song and the recru...
• baby, i love your way/freebird medley by will to power
• baby i love your way/ freebird medley. just horrific butchering of two good songs.
• feel like making love by bad company.
• take the money and run by the steve miller band. i know it is mid-70s and not 80s, but it gets played along that don henley cra...
• my sharona by the knack, panama(-a-a-a-oh-oh-oh) by van halen, freeze frame by the j geils band, and absolutely everything by th...
• kung-fu fighting. as an asian person, this song makes me fucking cringe every time i hear it.
• jungle love. oheeoheeoh. ugh.
• and they hated walk this way
• another brick in the wall. every morning on the school bus. i still remember every word and hate it.
• barracuda. hate it.
• how can no one have mentioned old time rock and roll? the worst!! (ugh!! so rolling my 80s eyes and gagging myself with a spoon....
• technically released in 1979 but played to death in the early 80s, old time rock and roll (bob seger).
• babe by styx. its actually from 1979, but i feel like i was hearing it all through high school. hated that song!
• when my friend got married in 04 she specifically told the dj do not play old time rock n roll. sure enough, he did. she actuall...

ACTUALLY FROM THE 90S -- Hey, bruh, these aren't 80s songs

• wind of change. its some kind of a hymn of the german reunification and radio station played it all day. which means, every year...
• wind of change - scorpion
• okay, maybe not, but unskinny bop is undeniably terrible.
• more than words- extreme. was it the late 80s? ive managed to never hear it all the way through. and if im lucky, ill die that w...
• ice ice baby...
• i think it was from 1990, but heard extremes more than words last night at a restaurant, which i havent heard for years. i had ...
• 22 positions in a one night stand. 💜
• 1990, but unskinny bop by poison. what? why??
• friday im in love
• easily cherry pie by warrant. absolute garbage of a song that made the whole genre look stupid. thanks jani!
• despite all my rage, i ended up an old lady in a magnetic cage with that $%#?¥ song. fml 4 evr
• cherry pie

ALSO HATE BOYS OF SUMMER -- My people!

• aww so sorry. also dc 101 fan at that time and for me this song brings back soooo many great memories! also i cruised a lot at ...
• gotta throw in a little regional rivalry for hfs as superior to 101.
• lol. boys of summer was awesome. dc 101 was awesome too back in the day.
• i think waking up to it every morning in 9th grade on dc101 as the clock radio clicked on is what did it. but also because this ...
• dc101 in the morning. the greaseman probably brought on some of the queasy.
• dc101! where are you from? i grew up in bethesda
• dc101? the greaseman in the morning?
• well your mistake was listening to dc101. the better music was whsf
• you and me, my friend. just hearing the dc101 name makes me shudder and hear haba-do-gee! ugh.

ACTUALLY LIKE BOYS OF SUMMER -- Buncha weirdos

• i too love boys of summer and that exact lyric!
• i will always love boys of summer.
• i like boys of summer.
• hmm, i love boys of summer.
• boys of summer is one of my facourite songs haha. though i do like the ataris version a little better.
• (i love boys of summer - i like the bittersweet feel to it) i liked boys of summer, but mostly because its a pretty funny take o...

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"Star Trek traditionally celebrates friendship and the makeshift family a starship Captain finds with his crew above all else. To wit, a Star Trek Captain actually achieving love and family after saving the galaxy - and wanting to keep it or not be robbed of it - is a rare sight. Audiences have been conditioned to accept this bittersweet scenario as de rigueur for Star Trek. After all, Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) dies alone in Star Trek Generations, Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) gives up his new wife and son to become a god in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and after Star Trek: Voyager ended, Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) didn't find love or start a family.
Even the marriage of Captain Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) nearly broke before they reconciled in Star Trek: Picard season 3.
Star Trek: Discovery's series finale ending is unapologetically sentimental and romantic. Even better, Captain Burnham and Cleveland Booker's reunion brilliantly harkens back to their unusual first meeting. Book tells Michael that he planted his Kwejian world root on Sanctuary Four, the planet they brought Molly the trance worm to after they met at the start of Star Trek: Discovery season 3. When Michael confesses that she "never stopped" loving Book, she also added he was "annoying as hell back then". But Book and Michael both knew the truth - "You still love me". Star Trek: Discovery knows this truth as well, and Burnham and Book got to live in this sweet moment of understanding that they loved each other since the moment they met, and they are meant to be together.
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Is there such a thing as finding too much treasure?
The Jonsie Burrows: Help Wanted 2: Tables of contents
Previous part: 8.9.
​
The new room could only be described as unfinished, you thought to yourself. You were passing under an arch of a building on your way through here and saw that hanging from it were supposed to be two drooping ropes with flags(or whatever this is supposed to be), but instead, you saw a purple digital polygonal imitation of it.
Other purple digital polygonal objects took the appearance of other real things in the area, but they lacked the what?-factor of the digital floating purple particles or what was going on with the ceiling of the room as it was a just purple grid. (Welcome to the AR world Jeremy. Glitchtrap's twisted wonderland.)
But this was all a distraction from the newly introduced threat in the form of Moon, as now you sought targets that prevent his deadly approach to your ride, all while you heard his chuckles.
In the next room, the situation was the same, except you saw different varieties of purple digital things pouring into the area. (Nice! it's the Princess Quest 3 purple pattern from Vanny's room and the purple arching energy from the wrecking ball in Roxy Raceway! I didn't notice them on the first watchthrough of the game, so it's nice to see and know what that connection is. Though now that I'm thinking about it, it's so weird that Princess Quest 4 shows no connection to anything, unlike its prequel.
Is it because the FNAF6's Pizzeria is so digitally distorted by Glitchtrap in the network that it doesn't show the tell-tale signs of the AR world or is it because the Pizzeria's sub-network isn't as connected to the greater network. Hmm... Something to look into later.)
As you continued to move through the area you saw more and more purple things just crawling throughout as you kept alert for specific targets to stall Moon. (Where in the world is this place? There's no such location we visit in Ruin that has this much wrecking ball energy flowing through it.)
But as you gazed about, you immediately spotted a blue blast-shaped button ahead and above on an arch. It's just like what the "message" depicted! Quickly you pointed your hand cannon at it and shot a couple times until you hit it. You were definitely on the right track now.
Passing under it, you were getting close to the double doors that lead to the next area, though curiously you saw purple digital particles that unlike before, were dripping from the ceiling like the floor above you was flooded.
(Okay, the only place that had to drip purple particles like this was the Upper East Server. That in addition to the purple grid on the ceiling above us, tells me we're directly under it, or really near to it. That sorta makes sense, because Foxy Log Ride is in/next to Glamrock Salon which is right next to the Upper East Server. It's so cool to be able to piece that together!)
But surprisingly, after going through those double doors, you were right back on the track heading towards a familiar area you had been to the first time you did this. Did the alternate paths weave in and out of the standard path? That must be it, you thought as you got all of the targets and headed to the next area where the train robbery scene takes place.
Immediately, after the lights flickered back on from the transitional darkness but before you enter the train robbery. You spotted another Helpy cutout and quickly shot it before you passed it.
Passed the train robbery scene is where you expected the path to diverge to the glitched route as you had taken to calling them, and lo and behold, as soon as you had gone through the train and through the double door at the end of it, you found yourself in a new area.
You heard Captain Foxy's voice once again as you entered the new route. "We be not responsible for any maimings that might happen on this here path." If you haven't already had a trip through an alternate path before, you're sure you'll be questioning how you would be maimed during the ride.
Your ride strolled ahead and entered chambers where you now had to shoot the targets to closed doors and block the Moon, rather than to earn points. However, as you did this, you heard people's laughter replacing the general ambiance of the ride. (I wonder if there's something with this.)
In these chambers, you shot another blue blast-shape button that you saw above near the ceiling, while you defended yourself from Moon's relentless drive to get to you on the ride.
But you eventually persevered through it all and made it back to the normal track again where you collected yourself by shooting at targets without worrying about the threat of Moon. But too soon to you, you found another Helpy cutout, which you shot of course, and was once again heading towards the dangerous alternate path. (Oh, I forgot to mention that these specific Helpy cutouts can be found in the original Pirate Ride in Help Wanted. And in Monty Golf and Superstar Daycare in Ruin. I wonder if Vanny had moved them there after the Help Wanted 2?)
This time noted by Captain Foxt with a simple "Overboard!"
The alternate path this time had no laughing ambiance and had you getting up close and personal with a dancing Moon unless you shot all the targets to make him go away from the platforms near where your ride gets the closest to them by turning on the lights. (Hmm... could this be a point against 1983 Moon? Why would 83 Moon be affected by light still? Also, is the laughing important? A hint to something?)
Another blue blast-shaped button was found and shot while on this path of constant danger, but with skill, awareness, and luck, you managed to get through it all. (Yeah I know there are gravestones in this specific area, but I'm not sure if it's referencing the missing 5 plus Charlie gravestone or if it's just props.)
Now you were back on the normal track, and as went through the next two areas you knew that the ride was coming to an end as you came upon the familiar comforting scene of Foxy and Chica along with other animals surrounding a cake and celebrating as you heard Captain Foxy say, "And the real treasure was friendship along."
(Both the scene and Captain Foxy's exact words are a call back to the original Pirate Ride in the first Help Wanted)
But as you stared at the scene, you finally realized that the cake itself had a blue blast-shaped button on it and proceeded to shoot it. To think that you were looking at it and didn't even realize it the first time you came through here. But now it's all over and you can finally see your improved score and get back to the restaurant.
Yet, as the lights flickered off and you moved forward in the darkness, you noticed something was wrong. The western-theme ambiance that was always there on the normal path came to an abrupt halt and left only silence and the everpresent noise of shifting water in its departure.
Suddenly the three spotlights lit up the path ahead of you, revealing to you a treasure chest on a miniscule island under the third one. As your ride got close to it, you noticed a couple of broken wooden boards on the side of the island, next to a crumple Pirate Foxy Flag.
As your ride came to a stop right next to the wooden box, it unexpectedly opened. (waaaaaaaait a minute! ITS THE CORN MAZE BOX!!! It's redesigned, but it's definitely it! Coincidently or is it Intentional? It has to be, they could have used an actual treasure chest for this, so it has to be intentional. Why? Memory Dolls... memories... William's Mask! It's the key to Glitchtrap!)
Gently, softly, the box's lid came open and a green costumed hand came out from the darkness within. The hand smoothly snaked out of the box until it was outstretched to you, revealing to you the treasure that it held in its palm. It was a doll, an unusual one at that, as it looked to be made by crocheting some wool into a human figure plushie. But stranger than that was the fact that it was wearing a Foxy mask.
You didn't know why, but you reached out to the hand, and hesitantly, grabbed the doll and watched as it poofed into purple smoke. The hand, with no doll in its grasp, sleeked backed into the box as the lid closed itself and your surroundings plunged into darkness.
Next thing you knew, the sound of celebrating cries filled your ears as you were back into the GAME WON! void. Stunned by the sudden change in your surroundings, you automatically hit the button for the crane machine to receive your prize with no thought. Your prize this time was a poster for Ballora titled DANCE!
Yet even though it was something new and interesting, your mind refused to be distracted from the bizarre event that just happened seconds ago. But no matter how much you tried to wrap your head around it, no matter how many times you tried to make sense of it, all you could blankly think is, what?
You felt strange, but you knew you had to keep moving forward. So you pressed the RETURN TO HUB button and returned to darkness to go back to the restaurant. Still, the sight of the Foxy doll never once left your mind.
Remember Jeremy? (the achievement for collecting the memory doll)
​
The achievement has twisted this Help Wanted phrase into a question. And finally, an answer was given to another. Everything is starting to make sense, but joy am I finding too much stuff! I reached my limit a couple Parts ago and now I'm beyond that!
But thankfully. Thankfully! we reached the end of Foxy Log Ride and now I can talk about Vanny, Vanessa, Jeremy, the Memory dolls, and even Glitchtrap now, because why not. What other discoveries while mentally exhausted from this stuff!
Don't worry, I know not to burn myself and take breaks. But still, I eventually have to come back to finish this, and that in itself creates mental fatigue. So let's finish this by starting with the long overdue conclusion of Double-V!
The last time we talked about this, I ended it by saying we'll go through the contradictions of Vanny's and Vanessa's character hinted in Ruin and Help Wanted 2. However, I want to go back a bit to when we were first introduced to Vanny as a character in Help Wanted the Curse of Dreabear.
It's only a few lines of dialogue, so it won't be long. Besides, Vanny apparently being a different person than Vanessa, means we can't exactly apply one's characteristics to the other. With Vanny only having so few lines and cameos in Security Breach, she is basically, completely unknown to us.
So what dialogue we know comes from her, needs to be under even heavy scrutiny for any hints of the personality and characteristics of our new villain.
Before we even start with her dialogue, something interesting has already happened in the preceding events. By finding and resembling the secret tapes and doing exactly what Tape Girl says in the final tape we attain the glitchy Glitchtrap plushie
"There is a way to kill it. It wants to escape. To escape through someone. Someone plugged into this game. That's you now. You have to let it begin the process of leaving through you, then use the disconnect switch that I've embedded by the main stage. Let it approach you. Let it begin to merge with you. Play the music and flip the switch. That will cause a hard restart of the game and flush the memory, effectively killing it, I hope. I don't know when it will come for you." -Tape 16
Now, we already know that this does not work at all in the slightest, as this method instead has Glitchtrap trapping and locking you up as he is let out of the game through the player's body that he now has control of. Digital Consciousness Transfer.
Next with the installment of the DLC, we acquire William Afton's old mask from the Corn Maze minigame after finding all four keys and the secret glitchy fifth key and head to the cellar where we discover the mask on a table on a candle.
With both of the items together worn and held respectively, we can hear the secret dialogue and the voice of Vanny for the very first time.
“Yes, I hear you. I know... No. There's no miscommunication... I understand... Yes, I have it. I made it myself. I think you would like it... No, no one suspects anything... Don't worry, I'll be ready, and I won't let you down. It will be fun.”
This means that the event that Vanny met Glitchtrap was, in fact, the ending of Help Wanted where you follow through on Tape Girl's deceptive instructions on digital transferring with Glitchtrap!
But right here, is where a slight problem occurs in the narrative of Vanny's story in the games. Vanny still has control of her body, she's still capable of defying Glitchtrap. Something that's been made clear to me through both Ruin and Help Wanted 2, is that Glitchtrap doesn't control Vanny at all.
Does he influence her? Yes. We see that in the way her costume is directly referencing him and the way she moves and dances.
Does he control her, however, that is where things get shaky. Because at this point in time, there hasn't been a single instance where Vanny is seen as someone being controlled.
Remember, we can't use anything that has to do with Vanessa to show that Vanny is being manipulated or controlled. So where in the new era games can you find Glitchtrap controlling Vanny?
You can't.
Does this mean she's doing this out of her own will? That is something that might've been more nuanced than what we all had perceived. Because I did it again, I've found more stuff! This time, it's something important that everyone has missed in Help Wanted and it might well be the true origins of Vanny.
You see the base game of Help Wanted actually has a third ending to it. Or at least something that should be an ending. Besides, just completing all the minigames to get stuffed inside Freddy and following Tape Girl's 16th tape instruction, there's something else you can do that involves Glitchtrap.
That is let Glitchtrap complete the process of leaving through you.
I'm sure some of you are confused by what I'm talking about, but it's the sequence where you press the button and flip the switch, leading to the ending where Glitchtrap locks you up. I'm saying instead of doing that, do nothing and watch what happens next.
A blaring noise could be heard asGlitchtrap stretched his hand out to you. He spoke distortedly and unintelligible, while green cones of energy flowed out from him and toward you. In seconds, Glitchtrap's eyes turned red, the blaring noise increased its volume, and the energy cones became purple while your view became clouded in a purple haze. Soon purple spots began to appear on Glitchtrap's body, as the noise became too loud to your ears, and the energy cones became red as your vision was almost nothing but purple. Soon even Glitchtrap started to disappear into the purple as his body became pixelated by the purple, leaving only his general outline until even that became purple.
Finally, after your purple vision grew flickering bright and the blaring noise ceased, your vision slowly returned to you, accompanied by music and the sound of static from a monitor. (That's the same music that plays if you press the button on the side of the monitor and the static sound you're hearing is specifically from FNAF's 2 game over static.)
At first, your purple view distorted itself with pixels before the purple started to fade slightly as you could see the hub world. But your perspective was wrong, you were staring from the opposite side of where you were sitting, while the place you once stood at was empty.
Your vision, still overlayed with purple while distorted and pixelated, looked down as you brought your hands up. Your hands which were always outlined and seethrough, now looked solid and were covered by gloves of a familiar costume that you were just staring at a couple seconds ago.
As the purple started to overwhelm your distorted and pixelated vision again as you stared at your— Glitchtrap's hands, your mind was finally able to recognize the words that were being spoken to you by him.
"Can you hear me?"
If you want to see this for yourself, then I have two Youtubers that I managed to find, that did this. 99TH VR and 8-bitRyan.
After this, you're taken to the GAME OVER void. But what's unique about this void is that the monitor here never displays any quotes, no matter how many times you do this.
This ending that should've been, along with what "Tape Girl" said before finally reveal what exactly Vanny is.
"—Let it approach you. Let it begin to merge with you. —." -Tape 16
A merger, a fusion of two different beings, that's what Vanny is! This is why I was having so much trouble trying to figure out how Vanny came to be from the two "endings" we get from Help Wanted. The answer is neither of the two. She came from the failed Tape Girl instructions scenario where Glitchtrap completes his merger with someone to get out of the game.
It also explains why we see gigantic Vanny in Help Wanted 2's consequences ending and adds even more reason why an altered EnemyBasic appears on her wall in the AR world! Vanny herself is not infected as we first believed, but rather a fused entity between Glitchtrap and someone else.
With this origin, she would still be able to traverse and interact with things connected to the network if she's plunged into it.
And considering what she's wearing in Security Breach and that the Security Mask and the occipital transponder are a technology that exists now in the current FNAF lore. She has every way she needs to stay connected to the Pizzaplex's network. But let's get back to her dialogue and dissect it.
"Yes, I hear you. I know... No. There's no miscommunication... I understand... Yes, I have it. I made it myself. I think you would like it... No, no one suspects anything... Don't worry, I'll be ready, and I won't let you down. It will be fun.”
We can immediately pinpoint a characteristic of Vanny with the entirety of this dialogue, willing and eager to please. I would also put young in that description, but I don't if it's because she's actually young here or that the voice actress has a bit of a youth tone to their voice.
Anyway, the "Yes, I have it. I made it myself. I think you would like it" part of her dialogue was already analyzed by me before, but let me elaborate on something I've been thinking about.
William's Mask has to be in the current Fazbear Entertainment's possession because the pizzaplex hasn't been built yet or is in the middle of being constructed by the time of Help Wanted's development or release since Cassie herself refers to it as an "old headset game", so the Security Mask isn't around just yet.
What I'm thinking here is that Vanny had come across it sometime to use as a reference for her costume. And make no mistake, Vanny's mask is making a callback to it as it's only a slight redesign and recolor to make it her own. Even Cassie makes notes of Vanny's mask being similar to the Security Mask by how she mistakes them for being the same.
But that doesn't sound right. Vanny wasn't working with Fazbear Entertainment when she met Glitchtrap, just under them through the second development team. Plus, most of the game was developed under a different team until it was in its beta version while Vanny's team had just come in to finish it to release it.
We have already seen what an object created solely by Glitchtrap looks like in Help Wanted in the form of his plushies, so we already know that he didn't recreate the mask in the game.
So maybe I'm thinking about this the wrong way. Both the mask and Grimm Foxy show up in Princess Quest, and we have already established how both important relate to William and Glitchtrap. And both are what are needed to destroy Glitchtrap.
Where did we first see that Mask? Not in the Help Wanted base game but in the Halloween DLC. That means the game was still being worked on even after its release, so Vanny would've had time to model this mask into the game. But why? I think these game-over quotes that show up only in Dreadbear are a clue.

• Report glitches before they spread.
• Don't look behind you.
• It's only a dream.
• Where am I?
• Purging system...

The report glitches quote, easily fits with what Vanny is talking about in with the "No, no one suspects anything." The "Where am I" part is intriguing, but I don't think I can pin that to Vanny. Hmm... I wonder if this is where our Golden Princess comes to be. It's something to look into later.
It's the "Purging system" part that is what I want to focus on here. This provides the needed explanation for things being the way they are now. Glitchtrap, the one that's not merged into Vanny, might've started running rampant during the DLC development, causing either Fazbear Entertainment or Vanny's development team to focus entirely on shutting him down.
The purging of the system might've been their solution for him. This might've worked too if Vanny wasn't already created by the time of the purging. And since Vanny is working under Glitchtrap here, she would've been in the perfect position to take Glitchtrap and everything he contains out of Help Wanted and into a developing game called Princess Quest(Working Title). Though, Vanny might've rushed the job under such circumstances, taking part of The Curse of Dreadbear's code along with Glitchtraps into the new game.
But that's all for now, I'll talk about that more when we get Princess Quest 4.
"I'll be ready, and I won't let you down. It will be fun.” This right here, more than anything, tells us that Vanny is not so much reluctant but more following in the Glitchtrap's order than we all first believed. But we shouldn't be so surprised about it.
Vanny's previous alias, "Reluctant Follwer", didn't come from any of the games, books, or even Scott's website but instead came from voices.com, a website Scott uses to find voice actors. The name is used as a guide for the actor and a descriptor for how the voice should be toned and acted.
The name is an oversimplification of a character for how they're going to sound in the one game they appear in, not all. So the name "Reluctant Follwer" would've only applied to Vanny in this game.
And as we see from Security Breach, Vanny is anything but reluctant to follow Glitchtrap's order. Yet after that game and as of Ruin and HW2, that name might been more appropriate now than it was back then as there appears to be a rift now between the two. But more on that at a later.
One last thing. With this origin in place, we now have another explanation for why we only hear Vanny's side of the conversation and not Glitchtrap's. We are hearing Glitchtrap's side of that conversation, he is her. It's the reason why her voice becomes echoey in her final word, fun.
Now let's finally get into the ties between Vanessa and the villains. Though... Shoot! I made it too big again! Continue on here Part 8.999!

In the Epilogue to her book, the author includes quotes from posts and comments here on SGIWhistleblowers! WOW! She prefaces this section with THIS statement:

What follows here are not my words, but those of former SGI members and leaders who have posted on the SGI Whistleblowers [sic] site. I found this information to be sometimes misleading but for the most part quite interesting. Since these excerpts were anonymously written, I am unable to give credit to any authos. Nor to totally agree or disagree with their criticism of Mr. Ikeda.

In this phrasing, I'm seeing "I don't want to believe what I'm reading; it makes me feel uncomfortable, but I can't confidently deny it, not any more." I'm sure many, if not most, of us were astonished and shocked the first time we ran across disconfirming evidence. The incident I remember most strongly was when I first saw THIS report:

In the 1980's, the current SGI-USA General Director Emeritus George Williams claimed a membership of 500,000 and a World Tribune subscription base of 100,000. However, it is a certainty that today in 1994, there are 20,000 World Tribune subscriptions. This is a surprising decrease. Furthermore, Vice-General Director McCloskey tells the mass media that the SGI-USA has 350,000 believers, but recently, he admitted to a certain group of people that the actual number of members is close to 20,000, the same number as World Tribune subscriptions. Source

I couldn't believe it! I didn't dare believe it! It was a bridge too far at that point, so I just set it aside for now, as I did with so much that I have heard and seen inside the Ikeda cult during my membership.
When I left SGI-USA, it was still claiming "350,000 members". In fact, it's still claiming around that number - see here:
Archive copy of today's info on Soka Global
Thumbnail from google search - referenced "Soka Global Media Room"
You can BUY A COPY for your wall!!!
You get the picture.
THIS is what SGI-USA continues to claim even when their own internal statistics show less than HALF that number (as of a few years ago), SGI-USA didn't change their claimed membership total OR their map.
Anyhow, I had taken for granted SGI-USA's (then NSA's) CLAIMED membership of "350,000" as a confirmation of SGI's strength, vitality, AND positive prospects for taking over as the top world religion - however pipsqueak-y "350K" is against the 333.3 MILLION population of the USA - it's a paltry 1/10th of 1%. "350,000" sounds BIG! It sounds STRONG! Who bothers to calculate how much that actually is as a percentage of the US population, anyhow??
By the year 2000, Ikeda cult thought they'd have 10 million members in USA
Even then, if SOMEHOW the unappealing, off-putting, awkward, and deeply weird Ikeda cult had managed to hit that goal, that's STILL only 3.5 SGI-USA members for every 100,000 people in the population! To put it another way, each SGI-USA member could expect to have to proselytize over 28,500 people just to find ONE who would agree to join. No wonder "shakubuku" is so unpopular within the SGI!
And WHY should I expect or even suspect that my religious organization would LIE to me??
It turns out that even this wildly exaggerated membership number simply showed the Ikeda cult's impotence and failure - after some 75 years in the USA (no, it did not "begin" from nothing in 1960 with DIcky-boi swanning in to declare "I hereby name you 'Chapter'!!") - this is the BEST it can do, and even that has to be made up! As former national-level SGI-USA leader Brad Nixon said decades ago,

NSA is a flop in the U.S., Nixon says, with membership plummeting and 30 times as many former members as current adherents. "They're amateurish," according to Nixon. "Only people with a real dependency complex stay."

SGI-USA's situation has NOT improved. The evidence is out there, but who, left to their own devices, could be expected to search it out and gather it on their own?? That's why we need a site like SGIWhistleblowers. It's such a VALUABLE resource!

11:18 PM, December 24^th, 1952, Mayflower Hotel
Did Phil not do enough? Was locking up the fat old man and that crazy Cuban not enough to please the Blackshirts? Did the stress finally reach him? How could I have known that this would be the future that I would create? I can’t hide anymore, I must confront the monster I unleashed. I need to find a radio station…

12:00 AM, December 25^th, 1952, WTOP Studios
“Mr. Lindbergh, I’ll count you down from 10 seconds until we are live, then the light will turn red and you will be able to speak. Remember, you only have five minutes. Good luck sir.”

10,9,8… How did it come to this? 7,6,5… Where did it all go wrong? 4,3,2… Why has God made my cross so heavy? 1…

“Good evening America, I wish I could wish you all a Merry Christmas, however certain events that have transpired in the last two hours have cast a shadow over our holiday season. One of the events I am referring to is the tragic shooting of President La Follette, who I pray is able to recover. The other event is the Vice President’s ongoing attempt to seize power and freeze the system. I know that this must come as a shock to many, but I abhor the rising tide of violence we have seen in this nation. For too long have I hid away, afraid to confront the demons I unleashed. Now, I must attempt to put things right, both with God and my fellow man.
When I assumed the office of President fifteen years ago, I could not have imagined what the fascist movement would turn into. Once a vessel for the strengthening of American government and society, a noble patriotic endeavor, it has become corrupted by ego and evil. I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. In the same way, fascism is now being used to destroy the America it is meant to serve. Musmanno, Tolbert, and the rest of the Blackshirts do not represent the best of us, no, they represent the worst of us, the basest and lowest of human emotions. They have shown that we Americans are a primitive people, that we seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.
Never was fascism supposed to lead to the destruction of those elements of American society that make us what we are. Never was there supposed to be thuggery and intimidation. For fascism to truly come about, it must come as the will of the people. Did I obstruct the counting of the votes when I lost to ABH? Did I refuse to concede the election? Did I attempt to call on misguided cultists to march on the Capitol? No, I accepted that the people, albeit narrowly, rejected my mandate, and so I left with my honor intact. This was the same course I urged my dear friend Phil to take, a course which I know the Vice President was not in favor of.
God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. The Lord has shown us the way to live our lives in peace and brotherhood, yet we choose to disobey, and by our disobedience, death and destruction continues to come into the world. When I saw the horrors of nuclear war, the newfound capacity that modern man has found to destroy their brothers and the Earth, I finally broke down and dedicated my life to the Lord. I am proud to name the Reverend Billy Graham as one of my closest friends. However, other friends, older friends, have been killed or nearly killed due to the monsters I have unleashed. Will lies dead because of an assassination carried out in the name of the ideology I brought to the fore of America’s consciousness, and Phil, our President, remains in critical condition because, in the end, despite all else he may have done during the last eight years, he was going to do the right thing and concede the election. The ghosts of the past haunt my mind, regret makes my soul shake and shiver, just as America’s soul cries out in despair as the daggers of partisanship are plunged deep inside it. Yet I remember, ‘for Godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.’
I have thought it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most. Such has been the case for me over the last eight years, however I cannot allow my most pervasive thoughts to go unspoken anymore. When the Blackshirts called for violence and let their inner beasts out at the ’48 Farmer-Labor convention, I hid away in my home, a coward. I could have said something then but chose not to. When the Blackshirts intimidated the opposition in the lead up to this now contested election, I once again chose to not confront the ugliness I helped create. This time I will stand up, and if I, in doing so, must rejoin the friends that I have lost amongst the ruins of my dreams, then let it be done. The Bible says, ‘Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One who goes with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you.’ My sins are many, my virtues fewer, but when I meet the Maker, he will say to me ‘Well done, good and faithful servant,’ because in the end I finally stood up to evil. To all who hear me now, do not let our nation fall into the hands of thugs and madmen, do not let our nation’s spirit be torn asunder. ‘The Lord tests the righteous, but the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.’ Have we forgotten the lessons that the Communist Revolution taught us? That violence is not the answer to political dissatisfaction. I implore the American people to not let this nation get ripped apart yet again because of the destructive words and actions of a wild few. I close with this quote from the late William Jennings Bryan: ‘These revolutionaries live and die by the creed of “might makes right,” but I present to you another creed, a creed that I hope you all will remember and retell to everyone you meet as we stand against these revolutionaries; Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.’”

12:05 AM, White House
“Turn the damn radio off!”
“Yes, Mr. President.”
Sigh, “Et tu, Brute?”

I have tumblr and I post things on it, but this is what I noticed recently which is pissing me off.
A lot of dsmp fans are huge dteam haters, they say it's "morally correct" to hate on them and other stuff like that, which bothers me and it's wrong. It's obvious that the Dream accusations are false, and most dsmp fans SHOULD know about this.
It's like they are completely uneducated on the topic! The amount of times I had to comment about proof and the "The Truth" video is insane.....
Then there's the thing with William Gold coming back and people should be glad that he (probably) became a better person and that he won't do it again, and then some fans are still saying stuff like "it's June why tf did he come back now it's homoph0bic" and still sending him death threats. I get why they would send him death threats but I thought most of us moved on and what the hell was with the other thing?? Is he even homoph0bic??
Some of the dsmp fans are pissing me off nearly as much as the fucking antis are.... :(
(i know nobody asked but i'm ranting about this since it's annoying tf out of me.)