21 April 1950: Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip celebrating the princess’s 24th birthday at their home in Malta, Villa Guardamangia, by Frank Attard.
why did the return drumheads go so absolutely insane like for real they were just writing beautiful beautiful (and occasionally unhinged) notes to themselves and each other on the motherfrickin drums every night and I feel like this hasn't been talked about enough
hbd frank, here’s to the time i was so enchanted by how great your hair look irl that it took me until they started actually singing to realize that gerard was wearing a skeleton suit
(y es all my frixels are actually mank bc mixels were the main objective of the evening, what about it?)
omg just realized today is also the three year anniversary of me meeting frank weird that i made that post abt it earlier without even realizing it LMAO
oct 31st 2019 was such a ridiculous day for me because i was gonna have my birthday party that night but then my guinea pig died and then mcr came back and so i cancelled all of my plans and just sat on the floor
Wanted to give them a gift as a thanks for everything ...no, for the BIGGEST inspiration for their arstyle, poses, to love Spooky Month more than ever and how they're drawing Frank is 😏
hiii it's @ellieschair! my name's sofia and i'm 17 (soon to be 18 on may 15, say hbd). i'm black brazilian, born in brazil and i've been living in portugal since i was 10 <<33. i'm a lesbian!
i'm a senior in hs, in the languages n humanities course, i plan on majoring in modern languages in college (english and german).
i kinda put some things i like on the collage up there.
my current favorite song is "the perfect pair" by beabadoobee, but my favorite music artist overall is frank ocean
my favorite movies are coraline, alice in wonderland '51 and the perks of being an wallflower.
i love coffee and fruit to a crazy extent, my favorite animals are different bugs and different fish.
i'm v much the worst at videogames but i love watching ppl play (gameplays are so cool, tryna get into life is strange).
alsoooo not important at all but i've worn the same type of converse since i was 13.
Were you the person in the secret annex online rip?
For obvious reasons I don't want to be drawing attention to this video, so I will not be tagging this post with my usual tags for Q&A stuff, but it turns out I do have a lot to say.
Content warning for nazi stuff.
Yes, this was me! Let me tell you the full story of how this rip came to be:
At the time, backroom was trying to think of what to do for 4/20 the second time around, since we already celebrated weed the first time. 2017 was kind of the height of SiIva backroom considering "edgy" humour really really funny so it was quickly decided that we would be celebrating Adolf Hitler's birthday. The twist, however, was that only a small number of rips uploaded would be relevant at all, and that they would all be implicit references. AKA, you wouldn't think that these rips are connected to Hitler if not for the fact that they were all uploaded on his birthday. The only exception to this was to be the planned finale rip, a character-dedicated Snow halation rip featuring the tyrannical dictator himself. This ended up going up on Flustered Fernando, I believe, under the title "Mein Theme - World War II".
On the day itself, I happened to be on my way home from school, and we had some balloons there, I think leftover from someone's birthday the day before. It was then that I got the idea to make this video, since the Anne Frank house was pretty easy to reach. After checking whether there was some possible viable metadata I could upload it under, I wrote "HBD 4/20" on the balloon, walked next to the Anne Frank house and put it down on the ground, filming all of it. When I got home I quickly edited it all together and posted the video.
At the time, I don't think I was very worried about the way this video would be seen. I considered it to be pretty tame even for an offensive joke, because noone had even seen it happen. Nobody but me would know what was on that balloon or what it even meant, and I didn't take it very seriously, because in my eyes it wasn't.
But when it's uploaded to a YouTube channel with (at the time) 156 thousand subscribers, it sends a different message. A message saying "yes, we're okay with celebrating someone who represents the murder of 6 million jews," and "we're willing to take our jokes offline," which is a VERY dangerous message to send. I consider us lucky the video mostly went under the radar and didn't attract the kind of people who would be down with that to our community.
And that's where the video stayed for the next 3 years; under the radar. After I stopped caring about impressing my "edgy" friends, I wasn't very happy about the video staying up, but I didn't exactly want to draw attention to it by taking it down. A bit unreasonable, I really should have just taken it down at that point, even if that meant it would have turned into one of those notorious SiIva lost media cases. Anyway, I removed the video in 2020, and that's the end of the story.
While the contents of the video may have been fairly tame, only depicting minor criminal activity (at least, I don't think littering counts as a hate crime??), it was a lot more about the message it sent than the events it depicted, and I'm happy it's gone. I've been speaking pretty objectively and retrospectively about it up until now, but I feel it would be remiss of me not to say how I feel about it now: I'm sorry to anyone who saw this video, recognized the message it was sending, and felt any degree of uncomfortable. If this video or any of the culture surrounding it put you off SiIvaGunner or made you feel like you wouldn't belong in the community around the channel, I'm really sorry. I hope you'll give it a second chance. If you saw this video and wish SiIva would go back to its former "edgy" glory, kindly fuck off.
Lastly, a few closing remarks. You may be wondering why I even bothered answering this ask instead of just ignoring it and letting the video rest in obscurity. Well, I don't like shying away from or hiding parts of my past. I much prefer to acknowledge that it happened, what I learned from it and how I improved. However, please don't take this as an invitation to highlight this as one of my contributions on the SiIvaGunner Wiki. I'd rather not see my name in the little infobox on the article, so I guess consider the video disowned.
hbd frank, thank you for everything you have done for the community. you have saved lives that you don’t even know of. i wouldn’t be here with out you and mcr’s help. we love you frank. happy 43rd. spend it well 💞