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[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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It's their website that started this. They have to be responsible for stopping it.

legally, that's unlikely, if every website was liable for the actions of the users on it, no one would host it.

but responsibility aside, it'd be impossible for them to stop the spread of information. Even if they take down that post, the people who have seen it and saved it will put it back up themselves, for any number of reasons. And the more you publicly decry it, the more people are going to share it, specifically because you told them you shouldn't.

Best to just let your dignity die a quiet death.

Great. So what you're saying is it took us less than 3 weeks to screw up our career? And there's nothing we can do to fix this?

it's just a dumb costume, your career will be fine

if anything this'll boost it.

your dignity's dead and buried though, rip

We're serious musicians. Our dignity's kind of important.

[Min, please. You are from the 80s. There are several bands who wear dumb costumes on a regular basis and still have their music taken seriously.]

...you are a performer

no, it super is not.

[YOU DO THINGS ON STAGE FOR MONEY AND ATTENTION, MIN-GI, WHAT DIGNITY?]

[HE HAS PLENTY OF DIGNITY. Or at least he thought he did before the whole Torchic thing.]

It can be. There are plenty of performers out there with dignity.

Sure, whatever you say.

[MISAKI casts DOUBT.]

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