Brendon’s old YFly account
Yfly.com was a social media site for young adults that never really seemed to catch on. Its whole angle was the fact that celebrities were certified/verified, back before that was really a thing (so then you would know that celebrity profiles were actually legit instead of trying to guess which one of the 40 Brendan Uries you had friended on Myspace & Facebook might be real). Nick Lachey was a co-founder of YFly, and a bunch of celebrities signed up in late 2006 to help promote the site (I heard Brendon had to sign up during one of the events surrounding the 2006 VMAs). Brendon didn’t do too much with his YFly account besides dutifully fill out his interests. Idk if he was even the person who added the handful of pictures to his album (the one above was his profile pic at one point – it was taken by Quang Le). I think there was also a song by Silverchair on his profile.
Brendon put “rock?” for the genre of P!ATD and he left the exclamation off of the band’s name (which is noteworthy in hindsight because the exclamation truly wasn’t a big deal until the media turned it into one in 2008 and made the absence of the exclamation mark represent all of the big changes that Panic had made... so then the exclamation mark firmly symbolized the original Fever-era band).Â
Anyways, here are Brendon’s favorites that he listed on his YFly profile:
books: survivor, american psycho, where the wild things are.
movies:Â labyrinth, boogie nights, dark crystal, royal tenanbaums, magnolia.
music:Â queen, counting crows, fleetwood mac, journey, third eye blind.
tv shows:Â family guy, lost, heroes.
actor:Â john cusack, bill murray.
actress:Â scarlett johansson, natalie portman, keira knightley.
food:Â capri sun, pop tarts.
Here’s a picture of Brendon in a gifting suite before the 2006 VMAs with a pile of YFly shirts behind him:
He wore it offstage in late 2006: