#tellex

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humaniterra - a tellex related to humanity and/or being human

existechra - a tellex related to technology and/or being a robot/artificial/technological/etc

a tellex is an existerra (link) gender!

After about 2 months of work, I have finally finished my Razzmatazz-inspired sweater! I’m very proud of how this turned out, considering it’s my first time making a sweater. Sizing is super difficult (I had to start over a few times).

Pattern (I made a few adjustments): 

so im just gonna use this to chuck some ideas me and my friend had on facetime about _SRCHPRTY_’s latest video diary that sent me into a rabbit hole of thinking: what if the iDKHOW lore is that dallon and ryan are androids? i’ll be starting my essay with a quick timeline for the music videos (or at least the ones with dates attached...)

Do It All The Time - 1964

Social Climb - 1975(ish)

Choke - 1980(ish)

Nobody Likes The Opening Band - 1983

Modern Day Cain - 1983

now, let’s look at the themes from these music videos. “do it all the time” is about robots/machinery making music. both of their movements are very stiff, one might even say unnatural. “social climb” is a propaganda film about fitting it with posh, rich people and winning them over to be your friends. “choke” is the band performing in a club on a TV show, something mirrored in “modern day cain.” sandwiched between them is “opening band,” where the two perform at a talent show and receive less than stellar reviews.

my thinking goes like this:

do it all the time: Tellex creates robots that can create music with some sort of sinister goal that involves infiltrating the music industry. the iDKHOW-droids are good musicians, but not good at pretending to be humans. leading to...

social climb: the iDKHOW-droids are sent to controlled parties where their AI can learn how to be, well, social. they learn how to move in a more natural way and maybe even some basic conversation skills. it’s a very lengthy process teaching androids how to look and act human, hence there being such long gaps between the music video dates here. this takes us to...

choke: a new musical duo is introduced to the public via the European show “Pop Time Live.” their episode doesn’t air tho because they can’t “properly pantomime to their own song.” well, of course they can’t pantomime to their own song, that wasn’t part of their programming! the iDKHOW-droids are sent back to Tellex for a little more testing before going back to the public.

nobody likes the opening band: finally, the iDKHOW-droids are successfully programmed! they sing, they dance, they play the bass and the drums and are ready to be the perfectly engineered pop stars that the world needs! however, the public doesn’t like them. maybe they don’t like the music, maybe this particular town they were in knew about Tellex’s plan and didn’t approve. dallon gives the ghost an “oh well” look, and things keep moving.

modern day cain: at last, Tellex gets their perfectly programmed boys on TV! there might still be a bug or two to work out, but it’s time at last to introduce them to the public as the new hit musical duo, ready to take over the world... one kiss at a time.

this theory explains the recurring theme of ryan looking very deadpan in all the videos--his AI learned human cues a little differently than dallon’s did. this also explains their photoshoots theme of simply staring off into space--they’re turned off. we can also tie the ghost into it--Tellex can’t send an employee out with them to monitor their battery life, so it sends another droid with them. it also explain’s _SRCHPRTY_’s point of them looking the exact same in all of the tapes. they’re robots, they can’t physically age.