Hello and welcome to the special edition of The Fandom Times in Substack where we'll share our observations on one of the most important people in our times that originated from the Gacha community: Beowulf. Or Senpai Wolfie if you have sticked around longer than the rather short era of “a funny bartender emo hybrid spirit girl roasting Gacha cringe with angsty colour palette”. It's going to be an observation more than one aspect at a time so, let's get started.

Beowulf The Showrunner

Let's be honest, Beowulf wasn't exactly the “saviour” of the Gacha community what was on the brink of collapsing altogether with poorly made porn made by paedophiles; obnoxious kids with unsupervised internet access, groomers, Luni's own reluctance to actively fight against them; in the state of being addicted to constantly change themselves like crystal methamphetamine. We already saw the rather unpleasant outcome of this, in the form of the one who portrayed her jumping through project after project (even before their Beowulf era) and ultimately scamming thousands of dollars from innocent people who just wanted to get their hands on a much bigger chibi character customization game than Lunime’s Gacha series’ offerings ever are.

Quite a personality erosion that the one who portrayed her got from their constant retcons and lore revamps. Is it unpleasant? Quite. Is it not overcomeable? Absolutely yes, for those who want to see more of her having to make their own derivative characters involving what they like about her without leaning too much into the copyright infringement territories.

Though to give the devil his due, she did have some knacks of delivering a finesse pun or two each time, only to kill them all with the beforementioned project addiction.

Beowulf The Original Character

As an original character with a settled design and gimmickry, Beowulf had the core character premise of “a spooky bartending hybrid spirit girl with angsty and emo colour palette that looks for the ultimate hobby”, and besides the “looking the ultimate hobby” part, it was the perfect recipe of parodying your everyday 2018-2020 “hated hybrid” type of Mary Sue characters created by some basic kids with (much shockers, I know) unsupervised technology access and without proper parental upbringings.

With this mystic and intriguing combination, it was bound for her to become one of the most renowned original character (or the perfect “hated hybrid” parody) in the Gacha community.

After all, we absolutely love someone who comes across and expresses themselves with their own voice.

Thank you for not giving up for eight years, Beowulf.

For descriptive issues, the mentioned publications in this article will be censored with their utmost descriptive adjectives in this series of observations.

Ah, it seems like you have decided to stay and read all about the most detestable side of the ‘Stack where it's populated mostly by neo-Nazis and American fascists. Well then, let's give it an end once for all.

To be honest, I could shape my algorithm for the better but the For You lists in the leaderboards have been ruined like damn from all of this. Guess that I'll have to work on it separately by giving more engagement to the publications that I actually regularly read after this for the sake of this investigation.

Here's the list of the key points of the structure of Nazistack and how it operates.

1. Keywords and Profile Pictures: Primary keywords like “Wojak, goy/goyim, America, patriot, nazi, nationalist, white supermacy, soy/soyboy, cuck, nigga/nigger, ‘thunder emoji’ (an algospeak version of SS troops of Hitler), tradwife” are a few common dogwhistles to attract and internally communicate with each other without anyone external to interfere and leak some important documents here and there. Plus, the profile and/or publication pictures like 4chan’s Wojaks, Nazi symbols not limited to German Nazi swastika, Italian fasces, ethno-Nazi (absolute circular) swastika, Roman Empire/SPQR, USA flag are a big give out, too. The Zionist Nazi variant use David's Star and Zionism too.

2. About Page: Them Nazis literally has nothing to say about themselves except for how much they hate anyone and everyone who's not themselves. No likes, nothing about what they do in their time, nothing. As if their content was generated by some Nazi AI, potentially Grok.

3. Topics: Topics like anti-vaxxing, an overinflated sense of masculinity, conspiracy theories, nationalism, blatant racism, American conservativism, promoting pseudoscience practices, anti-communism are some common topics in these publications, while some of them can claim that they're free-thinkers or one hundred percent Aryan people that actually don't exist. Fake Christians/Judaists who spreads lies about the COVID-19 can also be found.

4. The Reads tab/Subscription networks: The publications they're subscribed to is a very big indicator of their affiliations. Publications like [supposed new age media company] and [supposed progressive news network] for luring some gullible into the rabbithole, [that one hedonistic bastard with stereotypical surfer dude vibes] and [that one performative and quote-unquote “fictional” prick who appropriates Ikari Shinji from Anno Hideaki’s Evangelion series] for the incels seeking out to dominate over girls, [a Nazi “historian” who has a literal Wojak on his profile picture] for the chronically online wehraboo Nazis who jerk off to their distorted idea of who Hitler was as a dictator and to serve as a revisionist history propaganda, some “fanstacks” from the popular far-rigth fringe podcast bros from other platforms like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, the assassinated Charlie Kirk, and Nick Fuentes that serve to nothing but bring in more Nazi/MAGA people from other social media platforms in Substack without the efforts of the beforementioned people to debut there by themselves. Some prominent rightwing people like Laura Loomer and Marjorie Taylor Greene do write in there too. Often, if not always, they subscribe to each other to boost each other’s engagement; just like the President Plump/some random Welsh guy that's so desperate for selling gay porn on Amazon controversy at the beginning of the year. They also subscribe to some leftist publications like Kamala Harris’ to appear balanced.

5. Notes:They post each other's notes for also boosting their engagement.

6. Subscriber Counts: By average, a Nazi in the Substack has 50-1500 subscribers, due to the very low traffic they receive for their stuff that only Elon Musk likes in his Twitter to boost his site traffic and bring him more and more money. Some successful ones go beyond 10.000 or 100.000 subscribers, of course most of them are Russian bot accounts commissioned by none other, Vladimir Putin.

7. Hierarchy: The bigger ones are to be at the top amongst each other.

8. Outer Socials: Beyond Substack, Nazis tend to have a Twitter account if not accompanied by a YouTube account, just like their beforementioned contemporary leader after Hitler who “gives his heart” out by a literal Nazi salute.

9. Restore Britain, a psyop of Reform UK: One of the prominent British Nazi Substacks, named Restore Britain, is run by Rupert Lowe, an MP of the British parliament under the prominent neo-Nazi Reform UK party, with a following of smaller British Nazis with United Kingdom/England flags and Christian cross emojis.

10. Islamophobia:Zionist Nazis hate Muslims without any discrimination (terrorist or not) just because their “Likud Daddy” Binyamin Nethanyahu wants the entirety of Palestine for himself and his BFF Trump.

11. Anonymous:Once highly known as a group of decentralised hackers who defends the freedom of speech against the totalitarian countries and people, the name of Anonymous in Substack has been used as a mere shell to cover some random tinfoil hat maniacs’ fringe conspiracy theories as some valuable leaks done by the group. Absolutely no one with the name Anonymous in here is to be fully trusted as the hackers.

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Personal Notes During The Investigation

1. I have found a two Nazi goldmine during the investigation, each having over 100 publications in their Reads tab. One that claims that they're going to expose the lies of the medicine. With donning a freakin' Wojak avatar on its profile and the fine garnish of “trust me bro, I'm a one hundred percent real doctor with a diploma” to add up to the feeling of trust of the clueless. In this logic, I should also be graduated from a journalism school just because I write trendy things on Substack with a smartphone too. With their paid articles, it's easy to classify that they're just some grifter preying on the health maniacs, though, one can't be sure about how much of their claims can be protected by the First Amendment they hide behind and claim to be protected by it's functionality as a nationwide warrant of preserving free speech without any censorship, especially how serious they sound on the first glance of a unknowing person who doesn't know about. I found a genuine anti-vaxxer in their Reads tab though, so their mere “protected by First Amendment” claim of theirs immediately contradicts itself.

2. The other Nazi goldmine proudly describes itself as a white nationalist while using the blackletter font named Fraktur found on the official Nazi paper Völkischer Beobachter until their collapse, in order to evade the automatic publication moderation. Under it's own Reads tab, I found a fringe far-Nazi ideology named National Salvationism that’s only comparable to the Ingsoc described by George Orwell, without the vanity socialist motifs.

3. A lot of Nazis there are literally hell-bent on shitting on communists, as their leader has literally killed himself after Soviet Union’s Red Army was about to enter into Berlin. They also adopt 4chan talking points like “Jew conspiracy” or “kikes/kike puppets”. They also urge one to do their own research, though the unbiased results are often unpleasant for their sick beliefs. Plus, they tend to call anyone and anything they don't like a “Jew”, either when world becoming more and more shit, or when they don't get laid.

4. The most extremist ones lack an About page for their publication, as an indicator of either lack of profession/enthusiasm of owning your own writing space instead of spreading sick beliefs, or they're just some automated bot accounts.

5. It's not to be trusted when they claim what they are writing is satire content, as they're too vile and lack the proper warning for their each post.

6. It's never Nazism, it's “National Socialism” in their words as it's much more fancier and presentable to the gullible, and has literally nothing in common with the normal principles of socialism.

7. There's a fuckton of ethno-Nazis with the absolute circular swastika, but I must continue to complete the investigation.

8. English Nazis emphasize on Anglo-Saxon roots, genuinely surprised that someone didn't take the name Beowulf yet to invoke the national pride through the legend on their fellow gullible/clueless people or alt-rigth Swedish incels who do nothing but post unfunny memes about the African people gangbanging their own women while they're not able to.

9. They really did my boy White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland so dirty like that. Just like an evil 4chan addict fascist twin or something like that.

10. Just found an amalgamation of everything I've found out in the investigation: a Nazi with 766 publications in it's Reads tab that subscribes to everyone that I have came across up until as I write this note. Went and blocked a few more Nazis there, and blocked itself as well. Then found another and repeated the drill. Then a few more, then a few more, and then a few more.

11. There's NO woman that is stupid enough to support Trump on whatever he does, especially when he's a convicted serial rapist, misogynist, and a pedophile working with Jeffrey Epstein. If one does, this is most likely because they're no woman, instead a bot account in an Vietnamese botfarm/some guy in Pakistan pretending to be woman/a Russian bot/a Musk simp who’s DEFINITELY not a woman.

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So, off to fix my For You list as you read this edition, dear readers. And in below, this is an advice for those Russian bots who exist for nothing but spew hate and division among the people of the world:

Don't be afraid to speak out the truth in front of a paid army of Nazi goons and until next time, peace.

Bari Weiss, the founder of one of the most prominent and independent Substack publications of all time: The Free Press. On the paper, it upholds the very bare minimum of the ethics and the values of a journalist who has some dignity and a working spine. It publishes articles and videos, and recently it had been bought by Paramount through one of it's subsidiaries, with Weiss being appointed as the defacto head of the CBS News, an equally prominent legacy media outlet of the United States of America after being paid a really handsome amount of money for the takeover. Since then, she and her parent company Paramount has been very complicit with the latest outrages done by a very psychotic and irrational version of Donald Trump in his second term, in order to not being called as “fake news”, instead of actually upholding the beforementioned journalistic values and dignity; following his official line of blatant white supremacism and very ill-fated and jingoistic Make America Great Again ideology of his and the incumbent Republican Party's (also known as the Guardians of Paedophiles by the public). This distorted sense of journalism executed by Weiss and the other prominent mainstream media outlets run by the conventional billionaire fatcats can easily be officially classified as a contemporary version of Nazism; though, let's observe deeper and deeper about the reach and the impact of the contemporary Nazism commencing on Substack. This, is the Nazistack, observed by The Fandom Times.

Traffic Issues? Just Mute And Block.

In order to not purposefully pouring water on these propagandists, we'll refrain from namedropping any active publications in this edition of the paper, except for the beforementioned The Free Press as an introduction of the article. To note, this publication and everyone involved with it (including Bari Weiss herself) have been blocked by The Times from executing any smearing campaign on this observation paper.

First things first, it appears to be that a handful of users with certain point of views ranging from the involuntary celibacy, right-wing politics, conservative lifestyle, had been grouped by the subscribed publications. Other than some ones with absurdly low subscription count (potential Russian trolls or native bot accounts hired by Paramount's revenue and investment money) being subbed to Weiss’ The Free Press in unison, it's pretty much possible to find someone who literally has the Nazi swastika on their profile picture and proudly dons the term “National Socialism” on their About paragraph. Or some botnets that are ordered to smear the bigger anti-capitalist and anti-MAGA publications in the collective Substack ecosystem, failing to gain much traffic to amplify their fringe lies to a wider audience, potential believers to spoon-feed to; just like how Fox News continues to fry the brains of the elder and uneducated for decades.

The Times could have been able to identify someone that has the balls to literally accuse Democrats as the party of Ku Klux Klan, an infamous white supermacist cult in their name in the blocklist, an executive of one of the legacy media outlet besides CBS that failed to uphold the journalism ethics as well, some jingoistic MAGA-friendly named bot accounts, and some general bot accounts who are automated to spew at the time of writing this edition.

As usual, if someone acts too much like a Nazi, just mute and block, that we would suggest.

It's pretty much possible for any of us to come across some politically motivated people in the wake of major events like the Charlie Kirk assassination in Utah, the Republicans’ years long reluctance to fully release the Epstein files (that we at The Times have taken the liberty to comment on it and semi-parodied it as ‘the Chibimation files’, based after the real-life controversies caused by the once universally beloved Gacha styled content creator named Senpai Wolfie/Beowulf/Pluropup/Howell, though we can only hope that they're not a disgusting pedo like Jeffrey Epstein is on top of the scamming people) as it is without any redactions and factual spins to save Trump's and his sycophants’ faces, the illegal and contemporary Trumpian version of Gestapo/Blackshirts (named ICE) freely roaming around like a bunch of feral animals in Minneapolis and killing innocent people, things like that. While most of them are genuinely concerned online citizens (like Oliver Marcus Malloy, The Mouthy Renegade, and The Opinionated Ogre from their respective publications that I could genuinely name a few) sharing their opinions on how things are going on in their country, some that smells like AI powered clanker-run accounts trained to preach absolute totalitarianism through MAGA or not can be seen popping their heads under the posts of the said genuinely concerned online citizens.

We have already talked about how Russian Federation under their draconian fascist dictator Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was using Internet Research Agency run by the late Yevgeny Prigozhin in order to manipulate public opinion in not just America, but practically every country that he can reach to, including developing countries like Türkiye and (Mesmerizing Memes P2 at The Fandom Times #63) Arabian countries. Yup, Russian trolls and vatniks do share a similarity with Aktrolls and “kanzi” crew, too.

And it's no secret that they're run by a few big botnets in India, Nigeria, and practically any other third world country that is poor and corrupt enough to practically allow them to operate. We can't block them, for sure, especially when they're on the practically opaque and big social medias run by billionaire fatcats that prioritize profits over the user experience like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and so on. But there are some smaller places where you can have the ABSOLUTE control on what you truly want to see and drop the banhammer on the clanker-run slop to the oblivion, like your own Substack attached to the global app.

Using the banhammer is pretty much easier after you get to know how to use it: Mute and block. Let your muted and blocked user lists to grow so long that you’ll eventually bored while scrolling through this personalized cyber blacklist of yours. Give your algorithm the message that you don't want to see people like them, ever.

See? It's easy, always free, and always has more room for more slop of various genres. If you don't like it, block it.

What a way to close the year, isn't it? 2020 had COVID-19, 2023 had Turkiye-Syria earthquakes, and now in 2025; like all the good things must come to an end, the Beowulf (the convicted fraud/conman that once was a genuinely entertaining content creator) era, without any shadow of a doubt; is over.

Yep, you heard me right, dear readers. Over. O-V-E-R. But, it doesn't mean that I will fire her (as the abandoned/adopted OC of theirs) due to all that happened with her creator; she doesn't deserve to be treated this horribly just because she was just so happened to be created by a con. Besides, it's just the biggest fans giving the first stabs into their (now revealed to be) false idols. Each and every day, I get to know that they don't have any intent to go back to their roots as a Gacha styled virtual content creator and reuse Beo as their face, now that they can't go back anyway and their real face have been revealed by themselves for their new Pluro persona. Such resemblance to Day from Substack, I would say without the Harry Potter glasses and the neurodivergence they have.

So now, we have a clearer scope of the nearly 10K dollars of Ko-fi funds of Chibimation and it's Roblox spin-off ChibiHigh that have been quickly vanished in the hands of theirs, thanks to the new document made by the development team: Beowulf (thereby will be referred as Howell from here, derived from their own words) had spent NOTHING on the development of the game, some unrelated expenses for the (supposed) code guy of the team named Femlol Studios (who got red-handed with paedophilia later on), and DELETED the receipt emails due to the sheer unexpectations of someone looking for the said receipts. If not more, Howell have refused to share their often personal PayPal logs for them being uncomfortable with.

At the end of the day, Howell (or Beowulf, or a scammer prick, however you want to refer them) have been basically kicked out from the Chibimation team from their ass; after deleting the ChibiHigh/Gacha Shop servers and don't explaining why. And that was the very last adieu of Beowulf, as we know.

For the situation regarding to our adopted version of Beo, we can indeed rest easy as we know that they have NO intentions/any rights to come back and try to rebottle the lightning by reclaiming her as their OC. Even if they did, it wouldn't be the same and people would know it. So, stay safe and don't give them any more money in any occasion.

-Random The Random Fox, the founder and owner of The Fandom Times Media Group

I can SWEAR that I saw a bunnyboy Beowulf (the last and illegitimate YouTube one) somewhere in the tavern server but, it seems like the new owner of the server named Lady Ishtar had deleted EVERYTHING related to them off without any hopes to recovering them back. Glad that I have looked at EVERY meme to get some inspirations for her before the start of the madness in the form of the debut of Lyric. Guess that I have missed a big chance of a genuine leak here but, it would be indeed funny to behold once again.

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Wait a fucking minute, it now seems like Howell made their Pluro Instagram account private so, if they don't like you, they won't let you see their posts and stories from now.

It seems like they're FULLY abandoned the floof as she is even without words to say, as no signs of any cease and desist notice is on the horizon by now. They didn't also reply to my constructive business mail whatsoever, it seems like the business email address isn't something that they use regularly any longer. Well yeah, of course after all these controversies, they weren't expecting someone (ANYone) to do business with them whatsoever after all. At all stakes, Beowulf will remain as an OFFICIALLY adopted OC that I got and gave a new and exciting life to her beyond being someone's (former) virtual face they come in front of the camera and say their funny lines with. Discord is also a lost cause, they're well protected by a team of mods, and they're pretty much absent from there as well. They have changed their online persona name to Pluro as well as demoted Beowulf (the third OC) into a mere alter personality of theirs. Plus, Mario from SMG4’s videos are literally Nintendo’s own Mario except he's more stupid than Nintendo (to note, they're way more valuable than a mere Youtuber that Pluro are)'s canonic version. If Luke can get away with using him in his content without monetising, then why shouldn't I use Beowulf as well with much more fleshed lore that I came up to her than her own creator did?

-The official statement made by Random regarding the reluctance the owner of the “Beowulf & Friends” channel have about replying their official email and getting to contact about the copyrights they have for her, 15.12.2025

The Paper With Responsibility: The Second Year With Beo

Happy (belated) second anniversary of The Times, dear readers. A LOT has happened in both online and offline worlds, indeed. First of all, we have updated our look into more closer to the provisional prototype that the forerunner of the paper and the Japanese pop culture dedicated brand named The WeebTurks Times had for it's second (and the first proper newspaper edition of it, after the first ever prototype newspaper) edition with now incorporating Cocomat Pro as the unified wordmark/masthead font of the every brand related to The Times, including The Times itself; and Codec Pro as the subheading font of each new edition on the covers.

Not to mention that Beowulf (the original one that's famous with her roasts) joined into the paper as a columnist and a standalone content creator, hooray! We also have memed so much about the occasion and the debut of the first ever long-feature parody project that we are making and starring herself in the Notes section of the paper. Maybe we could venture into the “The Hated Hybrid Falls in Love with the Emotionless Mafia Boss| Gacha Life Mini Movie” that she is said to be debuted in one of the editions of the next year, who knows?

Villain of The Year: Vincent Whittman/Vox

Surprisingly, with the release of the second season of Hazbin Hotel on Prime Video, Vox (formerly known as Vincent Whittman during his life) had shined through amongst the villains with his enormous god complex that could be only compared to Donald Trump or Elon Musk, who was in fact going to be the initial Villain of the Year for this year for all that he done under his stupid larping of a minister in the cabinet filled with unquestioning bootlickers/fascistically programmed blonde bimbo Barbies who isn't constitutionally appointed of the country that he resides. Or in a more pop cultural sense that we focus on more, he tried to pose as a “hip and rad new gen billionaire who posts dank memes for shits and giggles” (read: a shameless culture vulture, someone who doesn't give a flying fuck about the culture they're appropriating) in front of millions of people who have a sentimental connection with the good memories they have made in Twitter; it wasn't like they unconditionally like his ass whatsoever, they'd terminate their own account if it wasn't for it being historically Twitter they know and love; and the really talented Japanese artists sharing their fanart and such for their favourite anime series and other types of media they consume.

Vox/Vincent's villain origin song in the second season, “Brighter”, had singlehandedly surpassed his own showdown with Alastor in “Stayed Gone” from the first season, accompanied by his beforementioned god complex making him look like a showy posh twat like he was supposed to be as an (former) owner of the largest technology conglomerate dedicated to spew lies and biased views for his and the other Vees’ favour in all of Hell.

It was nice while it lasted but, time shall continue to march on and we shall find someone else that's equally despicable as him for Villain of the Year 2026.

Let's be honest here, you DEFINITELY wanted the activist Pikachu from the İmamoğlu protests as The Person of the Year, but he had lost the competition of becoming the one by a VERY narrow margin by İmamoğlu himself as the VERY topic subject of the rather topsy-turvy atmosphere of Turkish politics.

Let's just say that you don't know what the hubbub is about, or didn’t have any kind of connection to what happens in the capital city Ankara, or even know who İmamoğlu is even by reading this paper. Luckily, we have closely watched the events from the very start up until the time of writing this edition.

The Gamebreaker:How Türkiye Had Endured America's Bullshit For Decades

For a VERY long time, the very idea of revolution and revolutionaries has been almost (for some instances, literally) chased away with a stick with ruthless campaigns of NATOist and American propaganda since (then president) Adnan Menderes had sent soldiers for the Korean War to appear beneficial to joining for the “stronger” Western countries’ “cool kids club” NATO from the Iskenderun Port, Hatay (the southernmost province of then his country), paving the way of a “everlasting friendship” between South Koreans and Turks costing like, 721 innocent soldiers from the Turkish brigade dying in obvious vain. How suiting for two countries’ next generation being bigoted and capitalistic as hell.

Just like their big daddy ‘Murica who can't do any bad for the world and it's defacto greedy/cultural imperialist principles can't be challenged nor questioned in ANY TIMES. Often, they used the radical Islamists and the pretentious Turkish fascists who call themselves as Grey Wolves (led by Alparslan Türkeş’s Nationalist Movement Party since the 70’s) to target the Alevis (and Alawites in an extent) who are known to have revolutionary ideas for centuries like the other sects that's not the Sunni Islam and the members/leaders of the political parties with socialist/communist ideologies. Remember the 1978 Kahramanmaraş massacre mainly perpetuated by the fascist Grey Wolves mentioned before? Or, the 1993 Sivas Madımak Hotel massacre perpetuated by the radical Sunni Islamists and mobs? Even, the entire run of the coup plotter president Kenan Evren in the early 1980’s that basically butchered the very idea of revolution in the favor of his NATO daddies?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

As such, the Turks has long been alienated to the concept of raising their voice to get what they deserve by force. It's very ironic because they're the very same nation that battled against to the Western imperialists to not become their worthless slaves with a REVOLUTIONARY leader that Atatürk was. Or Vladimir Lenin (Ulyanov) was to Russians too. So, they were fearing from Atatürk or Ulyanov would influence their colonized countries to rise against themselves and their geopolitical benefits like he led Turks to do just that, they're still fearing from the third world countries would overthrow the decoy puppets disguised as politicians that they deployed to get the power for themselves and no one else. Therefore, they had burst at the second world countries that are under the influence of Soviet Union with an utter freakshow built on lies and deceptions called Red Scare.

As such, being a late stage capitalist bootlicking Islamic fundamentalist or a sellout fascist that hates their origins became the hippest thing to find the quick success and live a good life.

Everything Will Be Fine, Again and Again

With that dirty order ruling the country for decades, the provincial elections of the year 2019 had came to Türkiye. Priorly described as a “meek and activism lacking main opposition” due to then pacifist party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the main opposition party named Republician People's Party/CHP had appointed Ekrem İmamoğlu who was priorly the mayor of Beylikdüzü since the year 2014, against the ruling Justice and Development Party/AKP’s Binali Yıldırım (the last prime minister at the time before the 2018 referendum abolishing the prime ministry in the favor of Erdoğan’s presidential rule) for the mayoral race of Istanbul. The elections took place and İmamoğlu won over Yıldırım by the vote margin of 0.10 percent. For the first time it came to power, AKP was lost the mayoral election in Istanbul, and also Ankara to CHP's Mansur Yavaş.

Of course Erdoğan and his drones didn't like İmamoğlu taking Istanbul away from their dirty paws so, they annulled the election to repeat it in their favor. This second time, İmamoğlu had won once again with an even greater margin, a whooping 9.22 percent.

2023 was the WORST year of Turks without any attempt of arguments to prove otherwise, Erdoğan had literally stole the votes to illegally keep himself in the presidency for five more years against his ill-fated opponent Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, alongside with the devastating earthquake from February 6th hitting 10 provinces and northern Syria. The non Erdoğanist people (mostly the common folk getting squeezed down to their very last penny by the government's abysmal tax rates and shrinkflation) were rightfully devastated after working too hard for saving their future after the one treacherous incident (then) CHP’s presidential candidate Muharrem İnce had orchestrated on 2018’s presidential election, on top of that, failing spectacularly ON the centennial anniversary of the foundation of Türkiye, ruining that year's October 29th celebrations forever with priorly boasting and lying about himself “Making Türkiye Great Again” (just like his ‘Murican buddy Trump does all the time to his people) and beating Kılıçdaroğlu up by himself and his loyal people in the ballot box when his political subordinate Supreme Election Council’s president Ahmet Yener had declared that he won the presidential term, officially allowing him to continue his draconian rule until 2028 to date.

The next year after İmamoğlu’s first term consisting four years as the mayor of Istanbul had been officially expired, AKP/Erdoğan had put the Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change named Murat Kurum against him as their own mayoral candidate. To compare, Kurum was even more timid and cowardice than Binali Yıldırım during his own candidacy for Istanbul with people joking about Kurum’s lack of speaking by himself.

İmamoğlu also won against Kurum by the vote margin of 11.62 percent in 2024’s mayoral with the good deeds he did to the common and mostly broke/poor citizens of Istanbul during his first term. Thus, he had won over who had tried to prevent him from for not just once, not even twice, but THRICE in total like no one else in the modern multiparty political scenery of Türkiye, if you don't count Mustafa Kemal Atatürk himself being chosen thrice as well as the state's president and the leader of (then only legal political party in power by the state constitution) CHP for his fifteen years of leadership until his death in November 10th, 1938.

Meaner, Gruffer, Madder!

This year, İmamoğlu (and the current party leader Özgür Özel in an extent) had been targeted by the government and it's paid goons like, NOTHING ever before in the country's history. His university diploma has been illegally revoked to preventing him to become a legally recognized president by the state constitution in the next scheduled presidential election in 2028 and sooner if an early election takes place, he has been detained/arrested in the Silivri Prison (or Marmara Penitentiaries Campus as in it's current officially recognized name) for some baseless claims of him getting into corruption and financing the terrorists, his party leader Özel getting punched by a sorry excuse of a human who killed his two children and released on parole during his leave after attending the funeral of Sırrı Süreyya Önder, a close friend of his from the national assembly. As everyone said, it was nothing other than a threat coming from Erdoğan/Bahçeli duo doesn't wanting him to be more activist than his meek and reactionary predecessor Kılıçdaroğlu was up until he lost the party leadership election in the 38th Republican People's Party Ordinary Convention that took place in November 4th, 2024.

Since the peaceful protests began this year, there was only İmamoğlu who’s unlawfully detained in Silivri, Özel who had also led the people's uprising into a full movement, and as a honorable mention; there was a one particular activist whose name was reported as Hasan Taşkın who had joined in the protests with wearing a Pikachu costume and running away from the police on the streets, paving the way to the İmamoğlu protests being known worldwide and people making memes in Instagram/Tiktok/Reddit and fanarts of Pikachu being an protester or a revolutionary on social media. And even the story appearing in news outlets like:

India Today,

New Delhi Television,

Times of India,

The Indian Express,

Business Standard,

Ynetnews,

The Australian,

The Jerusalem Post,

The Free Press Journal,

Thomson Reuters’ factchecking service

and even the Murdochs’ The New York Post. <Read the NYP article here to see it by yourself.:”https://nypost.com/2025/03/27/world-news/pikachu-joins-turkey-street-protests-against-opposition-leaders-arrest/”>]

After Pikachu, Joker and Batman had joined in too, rather, not easily identified than Pikachu did. But noooo, “Pikachu must be a foreign agent sent for swaying people's opinions.” the Erdoğanist TV “news” channel CNN Türk said, just like their original American counterpart CNN being played like a fiddle by Trump-Musk duo after his second election. “It must be an psyop to paint the evil protesters as something good and admirable to the young people.”, they said. The outcome you might be asking? They're obliged to broadcast the Maltepe rally as the final instance of weeklong rallies taking place in Saraçhane on live due to the overwhelming financial impact of the boycott Özel had pushed since the protests began.

There's No Going Back!

A recurring theme of protests is İmamoğlu being sentenced to prison, if he isn't ALREADY serving his jailtime from the initial sentence given to him in March.

While he's in jail, Özel had made a series of rallies in select districts of Istanbul in every Wednesday and select provinces of Türkiye in weekends. To remind that after attending the funeral of Sırrı Süreyya Önder, the national assembly’s vice president and a close friend of his, he briefly got physically attacked by some random goon who is priorly sentenced to prison due to killing his wife and daughter, and bailed out five years ago.

One by one, the young who's imprisoned due to joining the protests has been released, with the former mayor of Hatay province Lütfü Savaş and a few CHP delegates suing the party with (alleged) corruption practices that supposedly took place in last party convention that led to Özel’s election as the party leader. They're still yet to find any evidence for any of the accusations, though. The state controlled “justice” kept pushing the trial dates back to back to gain some more time until they find something to use for cheating through their way into the next presidential elections.

Surprisingly unlike the Gezi protests, there wasn't anything like a decoy terrorist to throw mud in the protests since the first day, which is a good sign for the people trying to retain their right to live. It's almost admirable for Erdoğan to ALWAYS find something in fact, unimportant by it's nature to distract his supporters from the protests against himself and his despotic rule alike, accusing the widely renowned national satire/humor magazine Leman to publish a caricature that's “Islamophobic and mocking Prophet Muhammad”, followed by the arrests. Or vowing to make the Kanal İstanbul project (it's reason later revealed as pleasing it's Arab shareholders by airing informercials on the Arabic/Middle Eastern television channels.)

And this chapter closes with Erdoğan and Bahçeli agreeing with Özel’s long lasted demands to broadcast the İmamoğlu trials live on the public broadcaster TRT, changing the needed laws accordingly and replacing Fahrettin Altun/Turkish Goebbels with Burhanettin Duran, a diplomat.

Their Nature Never Change

As expected, AKP and it's wingnuts is trying to stay in power as long as they can, proven by the fact that Erdoğan-Bahçeli duo is presenting the symbolical the laying down of arms ceremony of the terrorist organization Workers' Party of Kurdistan as some historical achievement that their own efforts led it to happen, to gain support from the Kurdish movement and it's members to change (or ruin much further) the national constitution to pave the way for Erdoğan to be elected INFINITELY, akin to the theocratic Ottoman sultanate under the guise of a free and a democratic country. Despite all the efforts they pull out to forcefully take the local municipalities that are won by CHP, the members had voted for the vice candidates they have declared, every single time. Or now that they're trying to use Gaza as a political propaganda to retain their conservative and Islamist base to sheepishly vote for them to date.

Although, there's some Judases that betray the cause of liberty and national stability, proven by the elected mayor of Aydın, Özlem Çerçioğlu suddenly joining AKP without any confirmed reason and her locals protesting about it. Overall, she and the subsequential resignees did a terrible job, as expected. Like, they were basically threatened by jail time and so if they stayed against Erdoğan. Alongside with this, Istanbul Provincial Directorate of CHP got a trustee that's appointed by the government, named Gürsel Tekin. With the efforts of people's protests and Özel moving the directorate’s location into somewhere else, the very functionality of Tekin as a trustee was rendered as moot by a provincial court, then being officially thrown out from the party alongside with five other (now former) party members who got openly opposed with Özgür Özel’s leadership during these critical times.

Lütfü Savaş, the former mayor of the Province of Hatay alongside with his attorney had seemed like he has a huge hate boner with Özel in particular, trying to block his actions and reinstate Kılıçdaroğlu back as the party leader. As of October 24, 2025, the trial of 38th and 39th party conventions (the ones that Özgür Özel has been elected as the party’s leader twice) has been declined from being judged due to the lack of a proper subject.

Over in south, Northern Cyprus had their own presidential elections before Türkiye, with it's main opposition leader Tufan Erhürman of Cumhuriyetçi Türk Partisi/Republican Turk Party winning over the latest president Ersin Tatar (who's been widely supported by the Erdoğan regime to the point of unofficially intervening the international affairs of the island), by an over 61 percent vote margin.

You Don't Stop, Do You?

After months upon months, the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality indictment has been completed by the regime, signalling that the trials will be extended to 2026. In brief, over 2400 years in prison and political ban for Ekrem İmamoğlu has been demanded by the, the longest jail time ever been demanded for anyone in Türkiye. And the first trial had been scheduled for March 9, 2026.

To be continued…

The first season of Project Beowulf streaming on TFT Originals brand is over. While I'm preparing and sorting out the new materials from the paper's archive to declassify for the new editions in the upcoming second season, and the new material about not just Beo herself; instead more minor occurrences of other cryptids and supernatural entities like Sammy (remember that salty dumdum ghost that's a bit of a nugget freak, banished by Beo from an TV hijacking covered by The Times in an past edition?) coming along the way. In the season finale edition, it's been revealed that she got fed up with the antics of her creator and voice actor, and she began to showcase her fiddling skills as an attempt to find her own voice

And, will we see more on her musicality and her otherworldly talent? Of course we will, there's a whole archive of Italian newspapers from the pre-Renaissance era run by the Papal States that have covered her… VERY disfavorably and biased due to her being half-demon and plays with a fiddle (Shiver me timbers, the devil's instrument! (!)-Beo) way too much better than the normal humans can. Just to give you a heads up about the Italian paper archives, they have accused her to possess Niccólo Paganini for his skills before they went after the big boss of hell, Lucifer himself, to continue their own Big Lie throughout the ages. Classic stuff about the powerful being xenophobic and anti-intellectualist and such to the things they don't personally like, that is.

Or you might be asking that if we're going to delve into more and more into her backstory and people that she knew/see her finally regain her own memories, too. For that, I can't exactly say anything definite about her mental recovery, hence we're far from over, but I can confirm that she's making progress by baby steps with her otherworldly fiddle tunes and hanging around us at the paper like a family friend character from a family sitcom series. Not to mention that The Rift, her tavern located in the underworld, had been given back to it's rightful owner, Grim Reaper, ever since as she didn't need or wanted to be so close with alcoholic drinks any longer for her mental health combined to her eternal physical life.

In short, we still have A LOT to do with her in this investigation in the second season. And in the paper in a general sense overall.

-Random the Random Fox, the founder and owner of The Fandom Times Media Group

Let's be honest with you dear readers: We were expecting this to happen. After the indefinite boycott of the content released by Beowulf & Friends that we took and resorted to their very first OC that's not an alter of theirs, the Vocaloid songs that features the voicebank of Kagamine Len also gets under the boycott hammer as well.

“But, aren't you The Fandom Times? A paper that covers pop culture and fandoms while giving out the original works of yours?” you might ask.

Well, what you were asking for a voicebank with a bland anime boy as it's avatar that's often characterized as a bland, horny, worthless scum that's sole reason to exist seemingly being due to Crypton’s desires to make a “revolutionary” pack of 2 voicebanks in one alongside with Rin back in the day? That we cover yet another cheaply made Len song that's laced with horniness, and dying? Or some lazy Vocaloid memes where Len gets shoehorned just because there's a fuckton of Len fangirls out there ready to give free engagement to their “fAvOrItE bAnAnA bOi”, including a wholeass goddamn Utauloid at some point until Crypton themselves officially intervened and demanded her creators to erase that from her character canon? And no, all of this is not a joke, google “Sukone Tei” if you want further explanation.

No thanks, we're good here.

Hello and welcome to The Fandom Times' 77th edition, well past beyond our 2nd anniversary of the rebooted paper (as The WeebTurks Times during the day) while delivering the newest issues of the paper EXCLUSIVELY on Substack for over one whole year.

We know, we know, it's well belated to make a horror series in the paper by over a month and we still have a lot to explore with Beowulf, the spirit of the eponymous poem that debuted in a Gacha Life skit as a perfect parody of the emo hybrid OCs.

And that begs the question: Can Beowulf be recreated in Gacha Life without any custom art skills to showcase, just like that skit? To find out, we have a spare Xiaomi Redmi 12 operating on HyperOS 2/Android 15, downloading the app via a safe third party APK (hence still, Google don’t let anyone to download it legally due to Luni forgetting to update the app for the newer devices for TWO YEARS to date) website. Once we get through the brief mandatory malware check that Xiaomi does to ensure user safety for each time an user installs an app from either Play Store or third party websites, Gacha Life finally opens up.

Maybe without being properly optimized for Redmi 12’s somewhat bigger screen than the app’s dimensions, appearing like a full screen YouTube video than an functional app. Pushing all these aside, the first thing that we notice is that the lacking customization, after being accustomed to much bigger apps like Gacha Club or Gacha Life 2 for years than it is. After a good fifteen minutes, the result on the cover gets materialized, it being somewhat a far fetch than she is.

So, it's time, huh? Okay, then let's begin.

If you spend a good chunk of your life with everything anime like we did, it's pretty much bound for you to come across a pattern to be observed: which is about the female anime characters who play violin (mostly because yet, fiddle music isn't too popular in Japan to be widely played like the Western countries) getting their life to be horribly ruined at the end of their respective series. Or outright dying, explicitly. Cue Kaori Miyazono from Your Lie in April/ as the most famous examples of this tropey pattern, if you would with acknowledging that you just have been spoiled without noticing that.

So, why these anime girls get their lives ruined while regularly playing with a weirdass potato with two holes and strings? Are they… stupid?

Besides the aslume jokes, this pattern can be attributed to the fact that the series these unlucky ones are often seasonal, which means that they are initially programmed to end as quickly as possible, making the most quick money before hopping on the next trend between shitty homemade Japanese isekai, shitty Korean made isekai, shitty Chinese made isekai (often streamed on China’s natively developed platform iQiyi than Sony’s Crunchyroll or Netflix), and cute girls doing cute things (for snatching on that easy coomer money) regardless of the bleak borders between the genres. The more longer the girl lives on, chances of invoking a cheap tragedy effect before finishing off diminishes. And obviously, that's something that fatcats behind the anime studios and manga publishing companies doesn't want to happen.

And that means, you have been unmistakably played like a fiddle by Kodansha, thinking that Kaori had died honourably, instead of dying in vain to pursue a generic asspatted and dense twat with five pairs of wonky piano fingers.

At the side of creators though, please don't kill off your characters without any valid reason to invoke a cheap tragedy; or without any chance on the horizon to take the story further beyond their finite lives. And check on their health regularly as their gods or something.

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Prelude: An Open Letter, And An Statement

Dear Beowulf, and every other alter that inhabits their body whose this letter may concern,

Or Senpai Wolfie, or the voice behind the character, or anything else that you prefer to go by in this online scenery. It's me, Random; a person that used to be your fan since like, around the time when you have unveiled that first OC with a hoodie and a pair of will-o'-the-wisps around the time you have uploaded the three videos of roasting Gacha Tiktok compilations and dramatically read the titles twice. I know, I know, no need to begin with the formal delicacies so, I'll begin to explain why I'm writing this to you.

Naturally as a virtual YouTuber with a Gacha styled OC that you once used to be, the videos are of course expected to come between somewhat long gaps in a relaxed schedule filled with motion capturing tech and the process of actually planning out the videos and streams. Naturally, I have joined into your Discord server to engage with the awesome fan-made content made with yourself, such as fanart and memes that are exclusive to the server unless their creators decides to upload them elsewhere. I have observed the changes since the second OC/an alter on your system, (then named as Beowulf 2.0) Lyric, and the initial third one that you have announced as

“Beo’s depression has been cured, she is no longer emo (pleading face emoji)??”

-Beowulf, at #announcements text channel of The Moonstone Tavern (formerly The Rift), accompanied by a pair of footage of a seemingly third OC in development, posted on March 29,2024.

before, she was going to look something like this:

[Exhibit A:The first publicly released footage of the initially planned third avatar OC that’s described as “Beowulf who is no longer depressed”, initially announced on The Moonstone Tavern (formerly The Rift) Discord server, in March 29, 2024; and this very footage being released on the May 8.]

Remember this? This one that isn't given ANY chance in life other than being a material of a Dhar Mann joke? Of course you don't, ye silly goose. Or duck, however you like it. As if you want us to truly forget her and focus on you venting about your problems instead in the form of remaking her into a guy.

Think that I'm joking about the Dhar Mann thing? So, here's the foolproof evidence to prove otherwise:

[Exhibit B: Beowulf's “Reacting to ‘The ALPHA is MY ROOMATE?! P2’(anxious emoji)” video as the only public sighting of the initially planned third avatar OC (used in a “generic Dhar Mann video thumbnail” joke) during the last days of Lyric as the second avatar OC, posted in Beowulf & Friends YouTube channel on June 15, 2024.]

But bad news, buddy: Internet NEVER forgets, and your little private playground that the unspokenly sycophantic Discord server of yours filled with fellow those in need asspatting yourself in any circumstance isn't any exception.

[Exhibit C:The first publicly released key visual of the RELEASED third avatar OC that the person behind the Beowulf persona had debuted after their transition into a transgender male, taken from The Moonstone Tavern (formerly The Rift) Discord server, initially posted in September 25, 2024.]

Yeah, the second one right here didn't really age well since it's debut, compared to the first two OCs you had as your avatars being a body to your voice. And I could understand if you did have a topsy-turvy life behind the camera that you get on with your OCs that's no short of moving in, moving out, breaking up with your boyfriend, coming out in the spite of your homophobic family, getting heavily sick at times, transitioning your entire gender, yadda yadda yadda, life happens.

But when your entire personality becomes autism, ADHD, dissociative identity disorder, mobility aids, and overall an obvious erosion of your settled personality; that's where you become blatantly dishonest to your audience (that you built on NOT bringing up these diseases of you seemingly had for a long time before the revelations to the fellow autistics/system people/crippled people needing mobility aids to function alike, instead of entertaining them and whole lot more people with your original sense of humour) and who you was before all these… let's just put it as a constant barrage of madness that other people can't exactly put out what is exactly happening at your side. Spreading awareness for such heavy topics is indeed a good thing to do, but yet again, you are not something like a “professional autistic”/”DID hotline” that can educate the other autistics and systems about their conditions through a YouTube channel that's more known known with entertainment. Like, this channel of yours ain't like a homebrew version of Mayo Clinic Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, fam. And you can be dead sure about I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognise that last one with a small duck (what was his name again, Honk? Something like that, I can't exactly remember at the moment) and mobility aids as a legitimate third update of your avatar OC, and not a poster child of a failed promise that Chibimation was and you are as it’s (now former) director with so much controversies you are up to your neck in them (which is something that I don't have any words by myself to add, but you can look it up in your own page in the Gachatubers Fandom page), just like Yandere Simulator that has been revealed as a scam developed by a group led by a scummy pedo and a groomer years ago. Simple as that. And don't you think that I overlooked your vain attempts to rebottle the lighting by trying to roast the user submitted Gacha OCs once again like you did in your Lyric personality during her time, that train has already run away years ago for you, buddy.

In fact, the only publicly recognized and legitimate Beowulf that is between the three would be this one (without any shadow of a doubt), despite that one officially made Lyric plush made by Youtooz as the only merch that you could ever get by playing as your own OC named Beowulf:

[Exhibit D: Beowulf 1.0 drawn in anime style, by “@Ridd_08” on Twitter, original version has not been found.]

The very first OC with the perfect 10/10 Gacha badboy rating that you set on her during her character design with the premise of “a spirit of the Beowulf poem’s manuscript that looks for the ultimate hobby after haunting people after being bored with haunting people who dares to translate the poem”, if you would fancy to remember in a day or two in your finite life filled with online sycophants and people that doesn't exist beyond your head. So, if I talk about or draw someone named Beowulf besides the famous Geatish guy that killed a beast and the same beast’s mom/this very paper’s namesake head editor and the correspondent of anime and music, it would be this one with the turtleneck dress and an oversized hoodie coat with an ambition to serve her fellow ghosts and spirits in her tavern well with the best drinks and chatting she could ever do, and no one else. Kill your heroes, they say, a rather underworded saying that should be expanded into killing their wrongdoings and focusing on what they can do best instead.

Am I being too hyperfixated on a random mystical character with demon horns and quite a way of words that is well unlikely to meet me in real life up until by the time I die, let alone be aware of my existence, due to you not letting me (or anyone else who were equally willing to) be your close friend during my stay on Discord before all these transition stuff and you getting a girlfriend (after breaking up with Koda, still if to fully believe in your words after so many controversies that you caused with your hands) that could support you during the hard times that you experienced, instead of nuking your reputation with teaming up with a pedo for years to make a fanmade chibi character customisation app based on Lunime’s Gacha series? Maybe, if you, the one whose body behaves like an undiscovered gold mine of alters as I'm writing this letter were the case. But obviously, I'm not interested in either you or any of your alters, only the very first OC that you had before retconning her out from the existence without any explanation. Besides that one time when I openly defended you in the drama of one of your Discord mods banning a user due to them talking about the Israel-Palestine War and the banned user getting too salty about that, (all documented in here)

you can be sure about that I don't owe you any shit or something like a blind devotion just because you (just so) happened to create the perfect parody of those emo hybrid Gacha characters roaming around through the years 2018-2019. It would of course be equal to be a blindly devoted cult member of Butch Hartman, a narcissist art thief that just happened to create a dumb and pretentious looking cartoon for Nickelodeon that's watched by millions of children during it's run so he can lie and boast about that he created a lot of people's childhood as if the same people didn't watch ANYTHING else than that like an army of programmed robots. “The Cult of Beowulf”, yeesh. Or “Beowulf and Their Friends”… yeah, no, nope.

At the end of the day, you, or any of your alters that just…exist for the sake of existing, that won't be featured in this very paper; only the 1.0 are welcome here as she's the only one without any significant controversies and letdowns amongst the fans; as it should be. At this point, I wouldn't get surprised if you stole the very idea of Beowulf from someone else's OC that debuted way before than you did (a lá Walt Disney and Performo Toy Company over the idea of an animated mouse in the 1920’s), that would be less than catastrophic to those who once were a fan of yours.

Let this be known as such.

-Random The Random Fox, the founder and owner of The Fandom Times Media Group.

+What Was The Exact Problem?

Beowulf's, or at least the one behind her as their old OC and so many alters of theirs including Lyric, problem was failing to manage their OCs as a bunch of creations that can be expanded into new horizons by each word or sentence they write into her lore. It was also evident by the way that they write the OCs’ lores. Here are the abridged versions of each OC created by the person behind the Beowulf persona after rebranding themselves from the much longer lasted Senpai Wolfie persona, staying true to their own wording:

Beowulf Prototype Build(a more animeish girl with a dragon tail, instead of the Gacha style that they'll adopt later on.)

“A spirit of Beowulf's (the famous Geatish guy) wife that wrote all about her husband after his death from the shadows, manifesting a spirit with a dragon tail. She gives illnesses like the dragon gave to him to whoever she haunts, and resorts to chasing and screaming those who she can't touch or haunt. She speaks Old English by default, naturally being able to speak whatever language the poem has been translated into.”

Beowulf 1.0 (Floof)

“A spirit of the Beowulf poem who was born in 700 AD, spent hundreds of years haunting people who translates the poem into their language. Then she opened her own tavern named The Rift for the spirits and ghosts to rest in their eternal afterlife and have a drink prepared by her.”

Disputed Lore Points Between Beowulf 1.0 and 2.0, taken from the 600K art contest results they have publicly announced in between the change of the avatar OCs.

1. When encountered by the humans, Beowulf gets into a very distorted and frightening form. (Honestly, it looks like it has been made by the early versions of Wombo Dream, accessible on the account “@beo.psd” on Instagram)

2. Beowulf can't remember her past due to drinking too much over time.

3. Beowulf is the God/Goddess of Wine.

4. Beowulf is too drunk at times to function normally.

5. Beowulf occasionally declares karaoke battles to the tavern guests, with her voice being like Gacha singing battles.

6. Beowulf has a peculiar taste of music, looping one song that she likes for days to end.

Beowulf 2.0(now retconned as Lyric, an alter of the one behind the character.)

“Beowulf was a human girl that tended her garden diligently, up until the day when she finds a tavern in her town run by a guy named Clarence, and everyone including him is impressed with her natural bartending skills. After dying by an (unspecified) fatal illness, The Grim Reaper gets to find Beowulf as the new bartender of The Rift due to him needing some rest after having to be in there at all times, where behaves like a purgatory between the heaven or hell for the dead people. At first, things were peachy with her preparing drinks and chatting with the patrons about what they saw in their finite lives. But over time, Beowulf began to feel lonely since all souls has to go whenever their time comes, and also that she couldn't leave the tavern by herself. With that, she slowly began to become clinically depressed, beyond repairable. In one day, a guy who died in a plane crash named Ezren comes through the tavern, slowly beginning to enjoy Beo's company (and Beowulf beginning to enjoy his company too). As usual, Ezren’s time comes too after his stay in The Rift and he's verdicted to go to hell. To save the only person that she could feel less alone with, Beowulf had finally opened the only door that the tavern has, saving Ezren and becoming the next Grim Reaper as the consequence of entering the hell. But, that didn't help her, as they began to argue even over the smallest things. And, as it was the final straw on her already fragile sanity, Beowulf finally snapped and sent him back to hell. Plus, she slayed everyone in hell, blocking anyone to enter in The Rift for years. In response of this, God had sent an angel named Ramiel to defeat Beowulf due to her rebellious actions.”

Beowulf (Released) 3.0

“A cult kid who died by their parents’ negligence, eventually ending up the tavern and hearing things at times.”

Besides that incompetence they have, they have also stated in their debut stream with 1.0 that they have project addiction (which is not officially and medically classified as a destructive addiction like alcohol, porn, drugs, or technology) driving them to constantly try new things in a timeframe. Variety is of course good, but too much variety without some unbreakable ties between your content can erode your personality and the style of doing your thing, eventually paving the way for becoming a husk of who you once were; exhibited by Beowulf.

Singlehandedly, the best comic Merry had ever done in our eyes at The Fandom Times is… Spookman.

“Spookman? Why not ‘Virgin vs Chad’ or ‘Internet Explorer-chan’, or anything like that? Don't you guys at the paper have any artistic tastes?” you might be asking. Why yes, we have. You're looking at the covers made by our graphic designer lately, including this and the future ones.

We've reviewed the series made by his team in a past article under the Remastered miniseries, and literally, any of them had gave out some faults in a critical sense.

So, there's nothing much to say about him anymore, just a shameless slug that feeds on an average r/Animemes user that goons to most generic anime waifus.

That's about it.

On our latest edition, we have questioned why upon the previously credible corporates media in the likes of the The New York Times and the BBC nuking themselves too hard in the hands of rising fascism among the first world countries. As a matter of being concerned about getting the independent and factual news, people would look for the outlets who publishes just that.

And, the outlet they find to take their much valued factual news go with something like this:

[Editorial Note:Image with the courtesy of “@chinky” from Memedroid.]

Although there's no naked waitresses or waitresses as a whole, depending on the publication being Playboy or Penthouse (or any other porn/adult entertainment mag being published today) or not, the main idea of this image is the people behind the said media outlets often rely on the fine prints to get away with whatever kinds of exploitative practices they want to exercise on the users. Why, you might ask? Because, they just know that a very vast majority of people just doesn't bother to read those fine prints before they decide to engage with the said news outlets.

It’s definitely not to affirm what they're doing, hence these claims are entirely not relying to pivotal necessities to continue operating, contrasting to what they can claim to make their practices sound legitimate in front of the average user's eyes. Which means that %100 of the times they want people to subscribe to their publication, are out of pure greed seeing the users as fat wallets, not people. Quite evident when their owner urges it's “consumers” (to speak in their “Moneyese" language’s Fiscal dialect that they love to use to the public) to spend more, in the shape of either subscribing or buying as much merchandise as possible, why do you think that Alex Jones has a both shamelessy conspiracy spewing disinformation machine (despite an obviously bribed federal judge blocking The Onion from acquiring it with the help of the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims.) and a scam vitamin&supplement brand that has practically pharmacologically no positive effect on those digesting them? Or Jeff Bezos acquiring The Washington Post on the behalf of having the most shopped online store that Amazon is under his hands; and the most wealth of the entire world he had at the time?

Or the venture capitalists, backing the promising looking projects, then enshittifying the said projects for getting their “much precious” money back in the fashion of Gollum from The Lord of The Rings. The world definitely doesn't need to get any more subscription based businesses to satisfy the greedy CEOs, in ANY medium.

And thanks for listening to my TED talk.

The New York Times, arguably the MOST famous and trusted American newspaper with their efforts to preserve their First Amendment protecting the freedom of speech.

If only, they did not fallen for the in fact poisonous and deceivingly beautiful looking cake since Trump on his second presidential term aiming to blatantly implement fascism with American characteristics, from their guts.

Or the BBC, who's beginning to resemble more like Benjamin Netanyahu’s Kan(Here) with failing to deliver the updates about the ongoing Israel-Palestine war and the role of United Kingdom during all of this madness without any impartiality they've known with since their transition from a private company to the sole public broadcaster of United Kingdom led by the late Sir Reith. All because a member of management committee with Zionist connections named Robbie Gibb, even. Without any questions or valid counterarguments to present, people like him must be fired for maintaining the impartiality and pragmatism the credited news outlets must achieve.

So, first The Washington Post became bollocks of a newspaper under Bezos’ ownership, then cable news channels like CNN followed the money, now even The Gray Lady and Auntie Beeb is coming out as a fascist and Zionist respectively. Therefore, is there anything left to follow other than MAGA puppets the vast majority of GOP Republicians religiously follow without any questions?

The answer is yes, there's still a lot of indie news sources and podcast series, like The Onion and The Guardian. But still, it begs a question to be asked:Why corporate media is destined to suck so hard?

Due to their structure and the capitalistic economy they belong to, media companies need money WHEREVER they can get, which means that if they need to pander to the ideologies they're openly against to, they'll make up an excuse to sound convincing to their gullible consumers (not readers, readers can question and find the problem with their news sources by themselves.) to save their faces and keep their moneyflow coming. No company is exempt from this, even those run by the state (evident by the BBC with employing a clear Zionist mentioned above to mess with it's impartiality.).

At all stakes, independent media is clearly more important than ever to not get a news desert around your community. If that happens, radicalization (mostly racist) and total chaos are bound (and proved) to be happening.

Public Watch/Special Flash Edition:Kan

Unscheduledly, we have a flash Public Watch edition for this edition of the paper, solely dedicated to Israel's state media, Kan, or Here in Hebrew.

Kan’s origins can be traced back with Israel Broadcasting Authority, what's founded in the same year of 1948 when the country had established itself from a British colony in Middle East up until it's transformation into Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation in 2017, which Kan is the main national Hebrew output of alongside Makan (place, a place in Arabic) as the main national Arabic output. As IBA, there was only Channel 1 for the Israeli community and Channel 33 for the Arab community alongside with Network A-E (E is being for Israeli diaspora and immigrants mostly in Russia) and three other stations for the culture and music for the radio operations.

Back to Kan, there's Kan 11 (due to it being on the channel 11 of the Israeli TV structure) the main Hebrew channel, Makan 33 (formerly Channel 33) the main Arabic channel, and Kan Hinuchit; which is the educational/kids channel founded as the first ever Israeli TV channel under IBA’s Israeli Educational TV that shares the same frequency with Channel 1.

For the radio: there's Network A/Aleph turned Kan Culture, Network B/Bet derived into Kan B as a speech station, Network C/Gimel as Kan Gimel that broadcast hourly news and music as most, a dedicated station to Makan derived from Network D/Daleth, a Persian station derived from Network E/Hei and Kan’s own Persian service, REKA/Immigrant Network being brought back under Kan's ownership, and the same three music stations continuing to air with some more online dedicated music stations.

Online, Kan has its own mobile streaming app consisting news articles in Hebrew, Kan and Makan content both on demand and live, a special 360° viewing corner dedicated to Israel-Palestine war and pretty much everything you'd expect from a state media publishing a mobile app.

As an end note, Kan gets the “dP for Disinformation Inducing Propaganda” rating due to Netanyahu's efforts to make the war as something like “a method to exterminate unnecessary insects” in the eyes of the world.

Part 1: History Told by People Alike

[Testimony: Anonymous #1]

I have heard about this app for the first ever since, like, two years before the pandemic swept up the world. Back then, it's name wasn't even TikTok, something weird like… “Musical Ally” with the adding a dot where the space must be there fad? Yeah, that must be it. They literally infiltrated the YouTube ads with random “handsome” boys and “attractive” girls pretending to dance and sing whatever is playing on the background, maybe it was that app's whole premise, to shamelessly embarrass oneself in front of everyone for getting fake validation from total strangers. I thought it would die down after a year or two but, here we are.

[Testimony: Anonymous #2]

I can't sleep anymore. The cringe levels are too high in there, they're literally emblazoned in my eyes, playing on my head on an endless loop. Everywhere I go, everything I do, is filled with weird old people behaving like little kids and little kids doing cringe for attention and clicks. Everyday, they come up with something even more cringe than the last. Please, save me from this hell! I can't stand anymore!

Editorial Note: After giving this testimony, Anonymous #2 had been neurotically neutered due to their unbearable psychological struggles upon being exposed to too much cringe on a daily basis.

Part 2: The Other Type of a Pandemic

Shameless Ripoffs and Thieves

And TikTok is said to harvest personal data from its users to sell them all to Chinese Communist Party in exchange to show pro-China propaganda, as if they're not already have been to NSA/FBI duo by the likes of the conventionally classic American social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to show extreme right-wing Republican/Putinist Russian propaganda in a way of another. Remember the controversy of Cambridge Analytica and targeted political ads?

Le gasp! This would cause TikTok to lose a huge chunk of users. Act fast!

If not the moneyflow TikTok gets from stupid people trying to rally in a dick measuring contest under equally stupid people's livestreams via donating the most money in guises of “gifts”, then it would be the personal data harvesting controversy that could cause the American social media platforms to make their own TikTok clone to pander the short attention spanned audience, like Youtube Shorts, Meta (Facebook-Instagram) Reels, Netflix's short-lived Fast Laughs, even whatever the hell Spotify does with it's songs’ MVs in a TikTok-like near endless scrolling system. Or even outright standalone apps from China like Kwai or Rednote.

Or downloading TikTok videos to bleed the other platforms’ faulty algorithms dry. That's why actually nine of every ten Facebook video feels like “how do you do, fellow kids?” with the heavy flavor of “Elsagate 2.0 or later” classified brainrot in the perspective of a young millennial or Gen Z, deepening the disdain they have for Zuckerberg’s guts and the mass online migration the internet had ever seen since the Myspace days.

Some had make their voice heard by making videos about how TikTok is bad on Youtube, only to oppositely causing TikTok to gain even more engagement instead of their aim to spread more awareness about the cringe ecosystem it emits.

After some futile attempts Joe Biden and Donald Trump made to ban TikTok from operating in the United States, it only grew bigger and bigger thanks for the idiocracy taking over the globe.

Who knows, maybe we'd have to survive a Weirdmageddon caused by the worldwide brainrot and biased chauvinist info leading into a fourth or fifth World War from there, hence WW3 is already up since Ukraine.

You would know when you see one:Top hat, monocle, tuxedo, and a belly that doesn't lack any robustness with a tough diet filled with stolen and laundered money.

Yep, it's the capitalists we're talking about, we always did talked about them and their greedy schemes in a form or another on this paper, and there's no absolutely no chance in the horizon that we would stop anytime.

Briefing:Porky the Capitalist Bourgeois

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, the Soviet futurist poet and playwright, plus an illustrator. Also the unknowing creator of the most famous capitalist in the world, Porky in the year 1921.

Created as the 838th edition of a pro-Soviet agitprop poster series called ROSTA windows (“Окна Сатиры РОСТА”) commissioned by the state's Russian Telegraph Agency, Porky has served his part for the union as a representative propagandic caricature of bourgeoisie and overall capitalist production mean owners, although Mayakovsky or the Soviet Union didn't give him an initial name for him, just like any other capitalist character in the windows, possibly them being Porky and his dirty and greedy gang as well in other times in the windows’ potential cosmological lore.

“каждый прогул радость врагу, а герой труда - для буржуев удар./Every absence is a joy to the enemy, but a labor hero is a blow to the bourgeoisie.”, the poster reads, to encourage the union's workers to never skip the work. On it, there's Porky, with the fashion of the ever so mutated Drake meme (by being happy and grinning about the workers skipping the workdays and being scared by the workers diligently working.) nearly a one hundred years before the meme's birth.

Other than him giving the laughing Beavis from the adult animation Beavis and Butt-Head vibes, Porky has been rediscovered by the Western internet in 2014 (at earliest) by the 8chan users to serve his duty as the capitalist caricature as well, earning his name due to his piggish face and overweight build, unlike his distant peer Happy Merchant with stereotypically Jewish heritage.

+Capitalism in Pop Culture

Your Not So Friendly Neighbor, Capitalist

As such with Porky, all capitalists in pop culture is depicted with pseudo-English (since the very idea of capitalism is actually born in the United Kingdom, not America) attire consisting some expensive looking tuxedo, top hat, optionally monocle, and a robust bodybuild as a result of a diet consisting caviar, a horde of roasted turkeys, and only the most expensive/poshest alcohol they consume of a daily basis.

Of course, God forbid them fatcats if they have to pay taxes like a peasant or the ever so clueless lumpenproletariat working under them learn about socialism and how much their nepobaby fatcat boss are sucking on their hard-earned money and their right of taking vacation.

Flip City Magazine: Substack's Very Own Boomer Comics Provider

With the likes of Ben Garrison and the Wall Street pundits being paid by the fatcats mentioned above to advocate for the literal terrorists (like Afghanistan's Mujahideen turned Taliban against the Soviet Union during the times of them being in there under Brezhnev’s rule) and fringe fascists like Trump in order to make the left look bad and not aspirable to emulate, in order to protect their rule over people, paving the way to a politically driven comic genre in (mostly) the United States of America to be born and stay for decades thanks to the deadbeat newspaper content syndication runners: Boomer comics.

Often parodied by The Onion’s metafictional cartoonist Stan Kelly, the boomer comics often runs with the idea of “old good, new bad", or the incel husband being an insatiable monkey to his wife that views her as a nagging old hag.

Of course, they also hate their kids because they're more open-minded about the new stuff popping up, such as technology and changing the societal norms the past generations’ conservatives had tailored for each and every one in their community. Every new thing among the community and the world is a mere fad for them, except for the fads happening in their so-called “good ol' days”.

“Show th’ Star-spangled Banner to Those Librul Commies!” -A redneck during the July 4th celebrations, probably

Here in The Fandom Times, we had tried to document the “overly chauvinist/blindly patriotic white American” trope on the “Freedom Brainrot” entry of The File section. In there, we have outlined the general patterns and created a more specific term for it other than the more inclusive “Eagleland" of non-blindly patriotic white Americans inhabiting it as well as the more, brainrotted rural folk who vote for whoever their “precious” GOP/Republician Party throws for the presidential or local elections without thinking twice. Or thrice.

It's pretty much plausible action to love the flag of your country, it invokes a feeling of some belonging to where you live. But if you're going to plaster it to places it shouldn't like an “anti-woke humor magazine” or such vain projects, that's where one should draw the line.

Enter, The Flip City Magazine. Or self proclaimed as, “America’s Last Laugh”. They have a Substack publication where they digitize pieces of their work published in their print magazine for free, although their sense of humor (if there's any, honestly) smells like the answer of the question: “what if Mad had been owned by an ignorant anti-woke grifter religiously following what kinds of bullshittery their local glossy supermarket tabloid and Elon Musk spews on his Twitter?”

Just like Mad, TFCM has some stripped stories serving as satirical parodies to lampoon on pop culture topics protected by the First Amendment, like The Regressives for example: A pair of socially awkward dorks consisting of a so-called “feminist” with the stereotype of a wackily dyed hair wielding morbidly obese hag that gets triggered over everything and nothing at the same time, and a so-called ”transsexual male” that gets to wear a red shirt with hammer and sickle during their Halloween special strip (because yes, “commies bad” for them).

If there's something to laugh from them as a fairly decent human being, it only would be their so-called “fair warning”, from one's ass off. In there, they declare that anyone who's not agreeing with them a “moronic mongoloid” and such insults we don't even want to repeat, painting with the stereotype of a “marginalized woke with wackily dyed hair”, all in the name of “savage humor” and “undeniably the most inclusive PRINT magazine on the market”, from their own words.

At most, The Flip City Magazine would be considered as a practice of black propaganda for the woke folk, if not for the small American flag being sported on the cover of nearly every print issue it unearths from the depths of capitalism hell.

The Economist: The Compact Briton Cousin of Wall Street Journal

Despite the British “newspaper” The Economist being not publicly owned by Murdochs (but an equally bad family of Rothschilds by a little over the one fourth stake and the Italian Agnelli family by nearly the half of the entire stake via their investment company), it basically works as a more generalist and newsworthy relative of Rupert's Wall Street Journal, advocating for the neoliberalism and irregularly throwing some small pop cultural articles for each continent here and there.

This Holiday Doesn't Exist:The Quick List of All Made-up Holidays by Brands

January

February

March:Mario Day(3/10) Miku Day (3/9)

April

May

June:Rotisserie Chicken Day(6/2)

July:Seven-Eleven Day(7/11) National Drive-Thru Day(7/24)

August: Underwear Day(8/2)

September: National Coffee Day(9/29)

October:Cyber Monday (First Monday after Thanksgiving) Black Friday (First Friday after Thanksgiving)

November

December

“When will it stop?”, what a vast question you might be thinking. You definitely can put A LOT of things in the place of “it” like Elsagate being literally turbocharged by today’s latest techbro fad of AI powered image generators (we have a burning passion to slam them on the ground after the AI Ghibli controversy), brainrot roaming on Tiktok, or overall nepobaby boomer bosses led by Trump running the Earth over with the money they stole from the hardworking and honest people, sky's the limit here. And before you're asking, we don't know when it's going to stop.

And let us ponder on the question instead like a philosopher, or our best selves as a faux philosopher if we can't become exactly like a genuine one.

First things first, we're going to dissect a brainrot like some of you guys might have done so in the science classes with a lab frog. Such, we have that one brainrot log creature that beats people up with a baseball bat if they fail to wake up in time for sahur, (or predawn meal before the time of fajr prayer comes for the Muslims who are grown enough and healthy to being qualified for fasting in the holy month of Ramadan) after thrice attempts.

As it's guts, there's nothing but pure wooden limbs and a primitive eyeball. Well expected, it's just a dumb brainrot with no useful information, wasting all the related Islamic knowledge for no reason in this insight issue.

As such, there's still a vast amount of things to put in the place of “it” in this question. Like when will Koreans stop trying to make the next cashcow Sung Jinwoo with their shitty gacha RPG game powered isekai slop accompanied by an aura farming, pretentious douchebag MC that solely exists as a cheap power fantasy for the bullied wimps and incels; plus dumping billions upon billions of Korean wons for creating unheard studios for making these cheap power fantasies in the expense of painting Korean webtoons/manhwas as inferior to Japanese’s manga equivalents that has nothing other than isekai slop and adult women targeted softcore porn wielding smut disguised as “romance stories” filled with partners cuckolding each other ALL. THE. TIME. No wonder why Korean women doesn't want to marry and make kids with men anymore.

As an end note, there's still so much for putting in the place of “it” in this question but, we'd be here for the eternity.

Before you say, yes, this is Adolf Hitler, one of the evilest people in history and the leader of the National Socialist Workers’ Party of Germany/ the Nazis. But why he's censored from his eyes like a Japanese parody comedy manga avoiding any copyright claim from the material it parodies with a goofy ahh looking caption and his mouth crossed out, you might ask?

That's because the TikTok algorithm wouldn't let him be openly shown in a user’s content, or even merely mentioned. So is Youtube, with their ruthless demonetization practices and an obviously broken AI run security system that's supposed to protect the users from neonazis, groomers, pedophiles, scammers, and other types of insufferable scums of the earth from EVER interacting with each other and preventing any more crime to take place. So, the history focused content creators of TikTok and Youtube had found a way to make videos on WW2 and the Nazi Germany prior to that without any problems: Calling Hitler the “funny Austrian painter” (reflecting his failed attempt to enroll in the art school with failing to pass the exam) instead of spelling his name out loud.

Nobody had suspected anything particular back then, thinking it as some zany artificial fad made by TikTokers like “sigma male” or “rizzing someone up”, only to be replaced by equally weird meme. But, it didn't stop there; it mutated into something new, fueled by the ambition of being picked up by the algorithm for being more known.

Enter, the algospeak: a portmanteau of the words “algorithm” and “Newspeak” from George Orwell's cult classic novel Nineteen Eigthy-Four, which is about The Party/English Socialism eradicating the Standard English into a state approved, narrower husk of it’s former self for decades since it took the power to prevent so-called “thoughtcrime” taking place. Algospeak smells like Big Brother's Newspeak, but it's TOTALLY voluntary and gives nothing considerable in return for the process of reducing the thinking space/vocabulary, only some few more fake likes and useless shots of dopamine compared to a O’Brien type of more relaxed life in return for obeying the Big Brother and Thought Police EVEN in their sleep, which is objectively worse than an extremely oppressive and dystopian regime that can be eradicated with the efforts of it's people. With the basic equation, when people like to do something without any signs of being forced, there's no chance of them getting sick of it, which fuels the cultural impact of the algospeak.

As such, there's some efforts of countering the influence of algospeak, with people opening their own spaces to share their uncensored voice like a blog, a website, or even an obscured BBS board with a Telnet client; or choosing platforms that are confirmed as more free to express their ideas and opinions without any public practices of harassment or unnecessary censorship.

And no algorithm boost, or the wealth of a greedy multimillionare and their weird ambitions, or any amount of fame can censor one's ideas to make them fit any narrative or a political agenda of any country.

Useless red circles and arrows pointing out to nothing. Yep, the harbingers of a clickbait YouTube video made for the feebleminded/clueless netizens to click and garner some sweet sweet ad revenue dollars for their greedy bigwigs. Scummy, we know.

And also, a rather undiscovered topic to digest as a publication that's all about pop culture and trends so, let's get through it.

Clickbait comes through in different shapes and sizes, with the main goal of making most people engage with whatever the content provider serves in their domain. In below, there's is a list of common type of clickbaits:

1. Monke See Booba, Monke Click: Whether it's an ad disguised as a gossipy news article from one of those gossip websites or a scantily clad anime bimbo involving YouTube ad for a shitty ChatGPT/Character.AI clone (that are definitely not made as a cover-up to steal personal data, trust us :) ), clickbait pandering to the untold sexual desires of the netizens is nearly peer to the existence of the Internet 2.0, the more graphical and engagement focused era than it's previous text based first era of Talkomat, local BBSes, and the first version of the WorldWideWeb browser. Often incorporating a sexy-coded chick that's %99 of the time not present in the actual content due to them being often originated from porn and other types of deep web content scattered around in the internet, this type of clickbait is often easy and free to make, especially in the dawn of generative AI making convincing imagery to the artistically untrained netizens.

2. [Stretchy]box iz gret, yuo jus hatrz- 3 y/o brainrotted Timmy with his mom’s iPad: If The Fandom Times doesn't pronounce the blasphemous L-word that describes the things are both long and thin in it's articles and editions AT ALL, it's reason would be a one particular brainrot content farm run by (or at least starred by) two greedy crackheads that milks the latest trends and TikTok memes for the sake of easy views, including “Verbalase gooning to Charlie Morningstar from Hazbin Hotel and bankrupting because of it” from mid-to-late February of last year before the Amazon Prime Video series in question’s debut. (before you say anything, yes, they had done it too. And it’s way more blasphemous than the original Hazbin Hotel would be.-Random)

   This type of clickbait is classified as the host of the clickbait doing the first thirty seconds of the clickbait video ADHD pleasing as possible to keep the kids sticking until the end, before the actual content of boring gameplay begins to last for the rest of the video, without kids realizing they're been clickbaited. Or some weirdass dude acting as a well known pop culture character like Sonic the Hedgehog, Miriam the weirdass questioning girl who’s totally not related to the (nonexistent) Blue Whale “game”, or Freddy Fazbear from Five Nights at Freddy's is calling them in person at 3 AM (A trivia for you dear readers:NOTHING zany or demonic EVER happens at 3 AM in the morning, it's just a marketing stunts for the clickbait content farms to make their videos spoopy and “interesting” for the clueless kids to click on. -Random), in fact, you can find ALL the characters’ numbers on Google Play Store/App Store, called as “prank video call” apps. (At the time of writing, all the apps featuring known characters had been taken down from Play Store, only the “original character” involving ones and an app featuring IRL idols with off brand names to avoid any lawsuits, BTS, Blackpink, famous football player Kylian Mbappé, plus a few different apps featuring Sprunki characters with off brand names also, and Santa Claus. Seriously? -Beo)

3. More Classically, Mainstream: To much people's surprise, classic/legacy mainstream media uses clickbaits too, often for their upcoming programmes/movies they're broadcasting or some shallowly scandalous gossip for raking some cheap ratings in to gain some money for their greedy executives.

4. Nothing to Be Shocked About Will Shock You!:

Visual Investigations: The Current State of “Calling [X] at 3 AM”

With that, The Fandom Times had conducted an investigation on the “calling [a fictional character that has nothing to do with the real world and the caller other than being an eye candy to the clueless kids who recognize the character in question.] at 3 AM” type of clickbait after it's peak times of approximately 2013 through 2019, typing “Prank video call” on Google Play Store.

As shown in here, The Fandom Times had unearthed a total amount of fourteen apps made by smaller publishers that can be classified as “Calling in 3 AM” apps , five of them based on Sprunki characters and other two of them for Lady Diana, and seven of them being for Santa alone as of March 2025.

Tested by our head editor Mrs. Redwood, “Vladimir Putin” of one particular “idol chatting” app had gave out uncharacteristic presettled responses like his favorite “cartoon” being Family Guy or excessive amount of flirting with very much broken English than a normal ESL Russian person that Mr. Putin actually is in real life. And once you finish the presettled phrase options, it pushes the same messages again.

Until next time, stay safe folks.