#toby on twitter

[olincino]

TOBY ON TWITTER / BLACK SAILS

part 16

#vln #toby on twitter #flinttweets #bs crack #happy bd toby stephens

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Toby Fox was going around in Twitter and he was like, 'Tell me your headcanons for [this character] and tomorrow I'll make some of them canon!!' And the only thing he canonized for Papyrus was that, 'He likes to touch tall grass.'

#dream #toby fox #twitter #headcanon #papyrus

[maramarabum]

forgiveness

#sans is ness #life is good #matpat leaving #toby fox #twitter screenshot #matpat #undertale #goodbye matpat #i'll miss you

[the-meme-monarch]

christmas is in a week! woohoo! i am so happy about this information. christmas just a week away, oh wow. can you believe it? christmas! just in a week. it got here so fast. christmas

#the art gallery #deltarune #sprite from toby fox's twitter bc he forgot to put it in the newsletter

[sopuu]

WHAT TIMELINE AM I ON

#OF COURSE HE WON BY 0.1% #LITERALLY EXPLODING #i’m so happy to have watched this battle unfold in real time #context for those who don’t know it’s the tumblr sexyman poll on twitter. internet history was made today #and also toby fox writing fanfic is absolutely the very last thing i expected this year #dw sans likes it #mp100 #mob psycho 100 #reigen arataka #undertale #sans #sanssweep #reigensweep #my doodles #edit: ​i’m glad this is my legacy #sopuuart

[insanelyadd]

You KNOW the twitter situation is dire when TOBY “barely tweets” FOX is clowning on it

#undertale #deltarune #toby fox #twitter

[cyberghouleo]

Proxy twitter au

part 2

#THESE ARE SO FUN TO MAKE AHHH #marble hornets #tim marble hornets #creepypasta #masky x reader #brian thomas x reader #ticci toby x reader #tim masky #creepypasta x reader #brian marble hornets #masky marble hornets #hoodie marble hornets #twitter au #incorrect tweets #also if anyone gets butthurt abt me tagging them proxies idc its easier for tags #ik brian and tim hate the operator but its a mouthful to tag

[bonetrousledbones]

hey is papyrus undertale about to be in fucking among us

#ALSO UNDYNE AND MAYBE NAPSTABLOOK ? AS WELL #AND DOG #UNDERTALE #FOR CONTEXT LOOK AT AMONG US TWITTER AND/OR TOBY FOX'S MOST RECENT REPLY

[theriverdraws]

HEY UH, TOBY FOX VOICED A CHARACTER IN "WE BABY BEARS"???

OKAY????

#undertale #deltarune #toby fox #utdr #TOBY MOTHERFUCKING FOX #OK THEN DIDNT EXPECT THAT #never heard this man's voice besides in deltarune before #actually there was the mpreg rock opera #nvm #second time #someone on Twitter theorized a writer on the show knew toby some years ago online and asked if he wanted fo join in now #to voice a character in this ep #good theory #hope we get some more info on how this happened next “”“deltarune email update”“” #truck freaaaakkk

[a-man-for-hire-and-his-archives]

From Toby Schmitz's tweet!

#black sails #luke arnold #toby schmitz #twitter #john silver #jack rackham #playing cards against humanity

[the-political-one]

I see it, honestly

#meme #humor #memes #funny #lol #twitter #toby fox #yandere dev #undertale memes #deltarune meme #utdr memes #yandere simulator memes #utdr #yandere simulator #yan sim

[olincino]

TOBY ON TWITTER / BLACK SAILS

part 13

#black sails #vln #toby on twitter #flinttweets #bs crack #toby stephens #happy bd to me

[shopkeeps]

shoutout to toby fox for making sans x reigen fanart for valentines day on january 9th

#i had to triple check that this was actually toby’s twitter account LMAO #undertale #utdr #sans #sans undertale #reigen #reigen arataka #mp100 #mob psycho 100 #toby fox #sans x reigen

[mintivee]

thank you sans undertale for stopping this menace

#REIGENSWEEP #SANSSWEEP #Best time of my life #im far too anxious to ever touch twitter seriously but it was a fun few days #well done undertale fandom #touche toby fox #you deserved it all #undertale #mp100

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

#toby keith #chief keef #music #twitter #meme #memes #tweets #tweet #funny #lol #humor

[under-lore]

About "Tweets aren't canon"

One misconception that one seems to be nearly guaranteed to see brought up by someone whenever discussing Undertale/Deltarune lore with people who are not particularly invested in it is that "Toby Fox said tweets weren't canon".

And, when you first hear it, it actually sounds quite convincing, because this tweet is in fact real and does seem to say that.

So... What's actually going on here with tweets and with this one in particular ?

The actual status of tweets

Before mentioning what's really going on with that specific tweet, i'd like to lay some groundwork first.

For instance, regarding the fact that this tweet dates back from November 2016. And that if the tweet were to be taken seriously, it would mean that no tweets especially after that date are to be treated as canon.

Something that is rather explicitely not the case.

There are several examples for this, although the Gaster tweets which introduced us to Deltarune and directly link up to the game's "Goner Maker" introduction sequence are i would say prime offenders.

Here in these tweets, we are not yet connected, then we are given a way to connect.

Then, we pick this back up where we left it in Deltarune, where we are then asked wether the connection was a success.

This has of course been pointed out to Toby (although he never responded to those messages), and yet it did not prevent him from re-doing the exact same thing a few years later for chapter 2.

In short, the situation is that, to this day, Toby Fox still purposely uses tweets in order to provide important canon-accurate information about his games, with the Spamton Q&A as recently as last year.

In light of that, using that one tweet to say that any information coming from tweets is invalid just can't be right... So one might wonder :

But then, why did Toby say that ?

The problem comes from the fact that this quote is usually cropped like this when people try to share it around :

Which is greatly misleading !

Obviously, Toby Fox's popularity comes mainly from Undertale and later Deltarune. Due to this, and due to the majority of the fandom nowadays being teenagers, many in the fandom are not aware that ever since his own teenage years, Toby Fox has been for the lack of a better term, a massive shitposter. A habit that only started to die out after Undertale's release and in the year that followed. (Though he still shows glimpses of it from time to time)

I mean, we are talking about the person who kept on posting memes on twitter for nearly a decade and who made "a goast poot on u" at the end of the Earthbound Halloween Hack, his first semi-serious game project.

Why ?

Because he's just that kind of "funny guy" and felt like it. His words, not mine.

This was, up until not so long ago, the kind of person that Toby was online.

When taking all this into account and looking back at the un-cropped version of that quote, it becomes pretty obvious what's going on here.

Toby Fox found a bootleg nursery rhyme video of Undertale characters, found that hilarious (As the "funny guy" that he is), and decided to make a shitpost about it. Joking about how this weird thing that he found, right here, was the peak of official Undertale material and might just be more canon in his book than the kickstarter or tweets were.

The post that started this whole thing in the first place was just that, a shitpost, a joke, not something that Toby ever actually meant. Which honestly should have been pretty obvious in the first place, i mean, this is still a post about Toby trolling bootleg nursery rhymes, people. It wasn't meant to be taken seriously...

Besides, that tweet's statement would have been self-contradictory anyways. If tweets weren't canon, then this tweet would not be canon either, etc... Leading to one of those silly paradoxical loops rather than to an actual statement about tweet canonicity.

So then, that brings the question : Why ?

Why do so many people still claim that tweets aren't canon ?

The reason is likely the same as the reason why this misconception was created in the first place : It is a rope to cling on to for some people to defend certain headcanons that Toby had debunked via tweets.

Because yes, between late 2015 and late 2016 Toby used to once in a while answer a question about the lore of the game on tweeter. Leaving some people with their headcanons turning out to be wrong.

(A few examples of headcanons that Toby denied on twitter were that Undyne killed the green soul human, or that ghost monsters used to be humans, for example.)

It was some of those people, in the first place, who started cropping this tweet to make it seem like their headcanons were still on the table and started the mess in the first place.

This rumor, at its origins, was not just a mere misconception but rather a deliberate attempt at misinformation from some fans that weren't happy with the way Toby had taken the game, which is unfortunately still being shared around to this day due to how sensible it seems at first sight.

#toby fox #undertale #deltarune #twitter #undertale theory #deltarune theory