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[chickenchoicejudy]

[By now, you've probably seen it. It started on a teenager's Instantlergram, and then migrated over to Chatter, Timbr, and you might have even seen a video or two on your For You Page on Joltiktok about it. The Daily Dottler ran an article about it sourced by no one.

About what? About how the hot new band Chicken Choice Judy was recently "caught in the wild" at a child's birthday party dressed head to toe as giant torchics.



And the internet, as it often does, has been having a field day with it:

"guess there's one entertaining thing at my brother's dumb party. #chickenchoicejudy #torchic #canileavenow" - Original Poster MimiKissyKyuutie

"cake is very bad for torchics this is completely irresponsible" - Chatter user badbreedertipsonly, famed meme account.

"what the heck is a chicken anyway" - Timbr user newgearhoothootdis, followed by hundreds of replies of increasingly bad guesses.

"this isn't news, call me when the torchics kiss" - Joltiktok user luvdisco, with a filter that adds sparkles to the picture and a music clip that seems to be Celine Brionne's My Heart Ball Will Go On played badly on a Pokéflute.

And so on and so forth. So it probably isn't a surprise when Ryan pops up after a day or so of this.]

hey so

i get how things go on the internet but how do you take them off

like forever

is just deleting the whole internet an option, or...?

you know, for no reason whatsoever.

[Except you know exactly what reason it's for. Because everyone in all of Johto and Kanto has seen it somewhere recently.]

[ooc: Thank you to knuxiechan, who Joey commissioned this art from!]

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[outofsynth]

I can't believe people are just allowed to put whatever they want on there.

No one has any respect for privacy these days.

[This is why people on the internet think you're sixty unless they already know who you are, Min.]

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[chickenchoicejudy]

[It's okay, Min-Gi. For once, Ryan will gripe with you.]

Right??? and then anyone can say whatever about it! it's so messed, man.

I didn't even see anyone take our picture?????? It's not like we were fighting off paparazzi

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[outofsynth]

Apparently it's not the paparazzi anymore. It's regular people.

We still shouldn't have to worry about it at a private party when we're in the middle of a private conversation.

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[thetombkeeper]

I don't think you can?

But uh. Congrats on the gig. I don't get why everyone's dissing the costumes though...

[This is coming from a guy who wore a lilac tank top hoodie and actively dressed some emotionally dead mindslave himself for years.

Don't take fashion advice from him.]

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[chickenchoicejudy]

because they're bad costumes, dude. they were kinda mandatory.

we didn't know the gig was gonna be like that until we got there and then whoops, now we're the weird torchic band forever I guess???

[thetombkeeper]

They're not that bad. Kind of silly but cute in a way. That is rather rude of them to have sprung that on you though.

But you know what they say: No publicity is bad publicity. Right? It's at least getting your name out there.

[outofsynth]

Because the costumes are ridiculous. No one's ever going to take our band seriously again.

[thetombkeeper]

You never know. I'm sure there's people out there that appreciate the sound of your music despite the costumes.

[They could have had footage of their other personality being creepy and shitty shared publicly instead. A Torchic costume is rather tame in Marik's eyes.]

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[torinoko]

So that's the neat part

you don't

it's there forever

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[chickenchoicejudy]

that's not neat, that sucks!!!!!!!!!!!

there's gotta be some way

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[torinoko]

can't be. Even if only 1% of people who saw that saved the pictures to their own devices, that's still thousands of people. And if they share it, and 1% of the people who see their post save it, then...

[How good are you at math, Ryan?]

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[outofsynth]

We'll see about that when I finally get through to Instantlergram support.

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[torinoko]

oh, they have no way to solve this either, you may as well use that time on something else.

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[sassymaru]

Oh you poor children.

Didn't you know? The internet is eternal.

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[chickenchoicejudy]

what does that even MEAN?!

there has to be some way to take them down

who do we have to bribe

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[sassymaru]

Once something is posted to the vast informational web, it exists forever.

The chances this image has already been copied, saved, and posted across its many sites is extremely high.

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[outofsynth]

We're not children. We're 20 years old.

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[chickenchoicejudy]

Yeah, that too!!!!

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[sassymaru]

Ah, my mistake.

I had assumed adults would be more familiar with the concept of the internet and its permanence.

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[crystalmaster]

Honestly, the Internet is full of immature idiots. And it's sadly permanent.

At least within a week or two they'll probably find some other gossip they like more.

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[chickenchoicejudy]

are the immature idiots permanent too?

ugh this sucks, a week or two is FOREVER and it's not like people will just forget!

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[crystalmaster]

Oh yeah.

It could be worse. And honestly, no matter what you do, there'll always be hecklers who don't like one thing or another. You either learn to ignore it or roll with it.

[ironchef]

For your sake, I hope you don't become a meme. Then you're really boned.

Otherwise people will probably forget.

[outofsynth]

What do we do to avoid becoming a meme?

[chickenchoicejudy]

What IS a meme?