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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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We didn't think that mattered.

Can't they implement something in hindsight? We can't be the first ones to have problems with people spreading around their private pictures.

You aren't. But you vastly underestimate the size of the internet. And its ability not only to remember, but also work around limitations.

Everyone keeps talking about it like it's its own entity, but it's just a bunch of people.

Right?

[Just checkin'.]

Yes and no. It is run by people, yes. However, it is human beings. Occasionally very bored human beings who are well-versed in technology. There are also programs, scripts, data working behind the scenes. It's become something of its own entity, in a way.

I see.

[He did not understand a good chunk of that, but he also doesn't want to admit to it.]

Do you, truly?

[O-oh... called out.]

I got some of it.

Excellent. In that case, best of luck with your newfound fame.

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