#ftwillz

Oh, thank you for this ask babes because I am unapologetically rabid about everything FtWillz. This one might be a bit long, brace yourself

First of all, FtWillz is Frank Iero. It’s not ‘speculated’, it’s not ‘hinted at’, it’s not ‘alleged’. Ftwillz is Frank and it’s been in the open since 2013. Unless you’d rather he be a shameless plagiarising liar, of course. But I’ll touch upon that a bit later.

A little preface:

In the mid-to-late 00s, Frank had a record label, Skeleton Crew, that he ran with Jamia & friends. You can still access their website through the good old Wayback machine, its skeletoncrewonline.com.

Some info about the label from its MySpace page

The members' nicknames are funny as hell, Cerebellum - Latin for "little brain", Dendrite (spelled incorrectly) - tree-like extension of neurons that receives information and Medulla (the one I’m losing right now) Oblongata - long stem-like structure inferior to Cerebellum. Thanks for the vivid illustration of power dynamics, Frankie. That was fun!

Moving on from the hilarity, Skeleton Crew is where we first discover FtWillz.

And here you can see the layout of his works

FtWillz also had a MySpace page where he, of course, posted his poetry that you can access here.

Now, If you’re even tangentially familiar with ‘Frank is Ftwillz’ speculation then you’ll know about this infamous screenshot, no doubt. As this little thing is responsible for around 97% of ‘Frank and Jamia were swingers/had an open relationship’ rumours. Our dear author is naughty like that

Finally, for the real fun part!! Poetry!

Please note that poems written on soiled parchment background were posted on the Skeleton Crew website, everything else was posted on either MySpace or Livejournal.

Ta-ta-ta, i won’t analyse anything but I will say this.

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Genius! GENIUS GENIUS GENIUS GENIUS GENIUS!

His poetry invokes a very specific vision of a court jester, a king’s fool draped in garish clothes that hang loose from his frame as he, trying to catch his breath, stands at the very centre of a town square, a cornered animal pierced by a thousand eyes and, facing all of them, both young and old, in his last stand he sneers, ripping his garments, finding his chest and slicing it wide open, then digging deep, then digging deeper still, rough fingers soaked in fever of his blood that , dripping, fills the grainy gaps between grey cobblestones beneath his feet. And then he finds it, then he rips it out, thrumming red hot in his gaunt, greying hand. And, smiling, proud, he shows it to the world, as countless hungry eyes devour his gift - his beating, living heart. And then he falls.

Having had my little moment here, I want to say that I unironically consider Ftwillz to be a contemporary genius poet. He should have a book published already, he absolutely must. Oh well, here’s praying, hypnotising, pleading, hoping - whatever works

Now, time for something even more fun! Remember how I mentioned that it’s confirmed that Frank is Ftwillz?

It’s 2013 and we’re on Frank Iero’s very own website. What ever do we find there?

Reminds you of something? Perhaps a poem that was posted by one very prominent MySpace-er on April 4, 2008?

How about this one?

Signed with his own name, by the way!

In short, come 2013, Frank would post several revised Ftwillz poems (you can compare them poem-to-poem to spot the slight changes he’d made) to his own website, once again, signed with his own name.

So, whats the conclusion? Is Mr. Iero nothing more than a dull, uninspired plagiarist? Or was he just posting his own works, now adjusted for however he was feeling at the time (remember, the official announcement of MCR breaking up came out March 21, 2013) Oh, what a time to be alive.

P. S. There was a tumblr blog @f-t-willz-must-die-blog that was posting poetry in similar style but wether it was Frank himself or, what is more likely, an anonymous inspired devotee of his is largely debated and, to this day, unknown.

i wanted to ask if you had anything else to add on the ft willz front-

i have been digging and ive seen a lot of stuff attributed to ftw without a source? I looked through your links post and i met a lot of dead ends on the myspace page, and i have seen that the skeleton crew versions are different from the original myspace versions??? please let me know if im missing anything other than the three(?) that have proof!

i literally went to college for roman poetry and archaeology and i WILL be using my skills for evil (frnk research) LMAO

Thank you for giving this a read!

That is so amazing you have a background in formal archeology. I can't imagine the weapons of technique & research you have. I too have noticed differences in the myspace vs skeletoncrewonline entries particularaly in the digital signatures. sometimes it's "F.T. WillZ" and others "F.T.Willz"

and of course the main ftwillz speculation revolves around this screenshot below. here you can see the unsourced screenshot doesn't match the lettercase. so i'm wary of rouge screenshots (without a capture)

I do have a video with most of what solid proof I have.

I only trust ft willz from 5 sources (captures of anything ft willz said on)

1. ftw myspace

2. skeletoncrewonline 2008

3. the ft willz tumblr (yes I think it's real and i have theories here -> (1 , 2, 3, 4)

4. sometimes tidbits from frank tweets that match ft willz text.

5. poetry from frank-iero.com 2013.

(everything else is kinda hearsay in terms of solid ground truth.)

There's a ftw subreddit  that conider "frank and ft willz pdf" to be authentic but there is no evidence and I could only find 3 poems I could match to any official ft willz captures. so I don't trust the pdf in short.

ftw myspace on has only 7 captures so you'll see 404s when you try to "view blog" or some entries only show the title. I did find a few copy/paste ft willz myspace entries posted by fans on livejournal.

which is fine we still caught frank. heres the title "shit's bananas"

left image from ft willz mypace, right image (by the same title) on frank-iero.com 2013

ft willz myspace blog poem “shits bananas when you’re disinterested” exactly matches the one posted on franks 2013 website– crediting himself at the end. a very unique title for it to be coincidental.

I am convinced that this eyeball is new to the internet. digging through fan theories, I have never seen mention of this eyeball image. below is the original ft willz eyeball image from skeletoncrewonline 2008 writers page that I rotated and put beside franks eyeball for comparison.

eyeball links: jpg, jpg with text, authors page with thumbnail “writings”- link is dumb and old)

ftw myspace

frank iero 2013 website

hopefully I got you some links for obsessing! that's all I know

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......ah man. and just when i was getting so good at fucking everything up too.

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