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February 1

We support regardless…

As fans we can only respect and support them all.

ahomeboyslife:

i dont know the future of fall out boy. its embarrassing to say one thing and then have the future dictate another. as far as i know fall out boy is on break. (no one wants to say the “h” word). as much as i dont have a solo project, i also cant predict that id ever play in fall out boy again. not due to personal relationships as much as a band we grew apart. in this statement id like to include there is the possibility that fob will play again with out me or i will be a part of it when everyone is on the same page. it is no ones fault and there is no animosity about the decision. i felt as fans you deserve to know. there is no singular reason for this. the side projects or bands are supported by all members of the band. i am the single biggest fan of fob and if this is our legacy than so be it. i am proud of it.

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November 15
Looks like cfobmania got thanked in the Fall Out Boy greatest hits album! Thanks to everyone who has emailed with clues, pictures, news, comments, or has been there to share all the shenanigans we have all been apart of in the past year or so. This blog wouldn’t be anything without any of you. You’re all as much as part of this as I am, so congrats to you! Of course thanks to @Princessp1193 for giving me the heads up about it and of course our wonderful friends over at ICH for posting scans of the booklet.

Looks like cfobmania got thanked in the Fall Out Boy greatest hits album! Thanks to everyone who has emailed with clues, pictures, news, comments, or has been there to share all the shenanigans we have all been apart of in the past year or so. This blog wouldn’t be anything without any of you. You’re all as much as part of this as I am, so congrats to you!

Of course thanks to @Princessp1193 for giving me the heads up about it and of course our wonderful friends over at ICH for posting scans of the booklet.

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October 2

Abracadabra Update!

Commenter TheNeonJesus pointed this out:

The comments on “You’re A Magician…” are quotes from The Prestige. One of the characters in the movie does say “Abracadabra” at some point, but I can’t remember when and what it was related to. In The Prestige there is a key to the illusion, and the word is “TESLA” though this is incorrect when you type it into intelligenceisartificial.com…

In The Prestige the key is unlocked using a transposition cipher which this postcard could turn out to be in it’s entirety?

Hmmmm…interesting. 

How many of you have seen this movie?  I absolutely loved it, but it didn’t even occur to me when I was reading over the blogspot.  But with this, I’m wondering if the whole thing has to do with the explanation of a magic trick:

Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called “The Pledge”. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course… it probably isn’t. The second act is called “The Turn”. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you’re looking for the secret… but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn’t clap yet. Because making something disappear isn’t enough; you have to bring it back. That’s why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call “The Prestige”.”

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October 1

Just When You Thought It Was Safe…

…more shenanigans!

The newest post at Pete’s Tumblr is a photo of a postcard, apparently for Patrick Stump.  Underneath is a warning:

dont click this. it will only make things worse for some of us and better for the rest.

Of course, you’ll want to click it, because it sends you to another sign-up sheet at intelligenceisartificial.com.  There’s also instructions to Twitter with the tag #abracadabra if you receive something.  And apparently we should be watching that tag as well, might be a password or something involved.

Hmmm…”only make things worse for some of us and better for the rest of us?”  Sounds strangely MVP-esque, doesn’t it?

UPDATE: The image of the postcard is apparently a slightly zoomed out version of the one from here.  Also, “You’re a magician, not a wizard” ties in with #abracadabra.

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New Shenanigans?

Thanks to patrickstumpluvr for submitting this to us!  Sorry we missed it before!

I don’t know if you already heard but If you call fall out boy’s saynow # (312-651-6600) there is a new message directing you to this site www.intelligenceisartificial.com where you can sign up to recieve something.

Just thought Id let you know! :D

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September 26
If you click the link above it takes you to that one blogspot. We’ll leave it at that for now. ahomeboyslife: a couple of weeks ago my friend zack (panics nanny) tried to cut a quarter in a half. totally thrashed the scissors. now out on tour he sends me this. he needs to sing that one kanye song to himself “im amazing so amazing” cause he is.

If you click the link above it takes you to that one blogspot. We’ll leave it at that for now.

ahomeboyslife:

a couple of weeks ago my friend zack (panics nanny) tried to cut a quarter in a half. totally thrashed the scissors. now out on tour he sends me this. he needs to sing that one kanye song to himself “im amazing so amazing” cause he is.
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September 23

Shenanigan Scavenger hunt tonight?

If you check http://damoncarltonandapolarbear.com’s hub page again it has been updated with the following pictures:

X marks the spot? I think so. Whomever is there I suggest you keep a close eye on this one.

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September 22
Remember http://damoncarltonandapolarbear.com? If you’re not familiar it’s a poster collaboration project for LOST featuring tons of various designers and artists. Well the picture below links to the picture above. There’s also a paragraph at the top of the page which you can see below. So, these are “hints.” Some will lead to physical places, some just take you to another website. But the end result, a.k.a. the coolest part of the fun, can be achieved just by s taying in your house. No need to stand up, get dressed and start flailing your arms to your waiting car, because everyone will have a chance to get to the end result, as long a s you’re online and stay tuned to this website. We’ll give you everything you need to know… and soon. Looks like FOB is doing something tomorrow at the show regarding the show LOST. More viral marketing perhaps? Or maybe just another poster? LOST is vastly known for it’s elaborate online viral presence and extensive interactive worlds. Maybe they will be channeling even more shenanigans perhaps? If anyone is going tomorrow to the show make sure to report back. In the meantime, everyone go follow @pacesoilchange. The Twitter has this picture as the user profile. The only tweet is this: Fall Out Boy to channel LOST during their opening set for Blink 182, Wednesday night in Dallas, TX at the Superpages.com Center Thanks to uhnet for the heads up!

Remember http://damoncarltonandapolarbear.com? If you’re not familiar it’s a poster collaboration project for LOST featuring tons of various designers and artists. Well the picture below links to the picture above. There’s also a paragraph at the top of the page which you can see below.

So, these are “hints.” Some will lead to physical places, some just take you to another website. But the end result, a.k.a. the coolest part of the fun, can be achieved just by s taying in your house. No need to stand up, get dressed and start flailing your arms to your waiting car, because everyone will have a chance to get to the end result, as long a s you’re online and stay tuned to this website. We’ll give you everything you need to know… and soon.

Looks like FOB is doing something tomorrow at the show regarding the show LOST. More viral marketing perhaps? Or maybe just another poster? LOST is vastly known for it’s elaborate online viral presence and extensive interactive worlds. Maybe they will be channeling even more shenanigans perhaps?

If anyone is going tomorrow to the show make sure to report back. In the meantime, everyone go follow @pacesoilchange. The Twitter has this picture as the user profile. The only tweet is this:

Fall Out Boy to channel LOST during their opening set for Blink 182, Wednesday night in Dallas, TX at the Superpages.com Center

Thanks to uhnet for the heads up!

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Shenanigans Update

As speculated before the shenanigans the happened this past week were in fact revolving around Mr. Gabe Saporta and The Academy Is. Looks like someone is auctioning off one of Gabe’s Overnight Sensation t-shirts on eBay and Saporta tweeted asking people NOT to bid. But we all know that isn’t going to happen. And of course welc0metothenewhate.com was updated with the picture above and another sign-up form that was revealed to be giving out to the “First 100 people that signed up will receive a signed and numbered The Academy Is… lyric lithograph.” Also upon clicking the image you can listen to, what was also speculated, TAI’s new song “Sputter” with Andrew McMahon of Jack’s Mannequin. Of course the letter are the lyrics to this song too.

Thanks to everyone who sent in info and ICH for being awesome. Even if these shenanigans were not FOB focused I had fun. Nothing will ever top CFOB though.

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September 20
Looks like SupJustin is confirming that Overnight Sensation is in fact Gabe’s clothing line (as we all speculated) however Justin brings to light that it’s a collaboration with Glamour Kills. Interesting. Now someone send me a shirt! Yes, Glamour Kills. I am talking to you. :) justinstumblr: Gabe Saporta X Glamour Kills X Viral Marketing? Click here to find out what’s going on.

Looks like SupJustin is confirming that Overnight Sensation is in fact Gabe’s clothing line (as we all speculated) however Justin brings to light that it’s a collaboration with Glamour Kills. Interesting. Now someone send me a shirt! Yes, Glamour Kills. I am talking to you. :)

justinstumblr:

Gabe Saporta X Glamour Kills X Viral Marketing? Click here to find out what’s going on.
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September 18

First letter

First letter

Second letter

Second letter

Let’s compare letters! Thanks to katokat for spotting this but if you look at both letters from the past two updates the blurred out letters are different. The blurred out letters spell out Welcome To The New Hate in the second one. No wonder Pete said in this tweet “taking apart the words in the letter. one single letter at a time.”

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There’s a new video up on theovernightsensation.com that features Andrew McMahon of Jack’s Mannequin receiving a bottle of Flinstone vitamins. Inside a letter says:

I wish Flinstones
had banana flavor
www.welc0metothenewhate.com

That takes you to another site that has this picture:

This shit is bananas…
(You can see TAI in the background)

Which ultimately lets you sign-up for something again similar to the first phase of CFOB.

NOTE: Jack from All Time Low posted a Twitter update with a link to the site. Are they involved now too?! It’s also been brought up that “overnight sensation” is part of an ATL lyric.

ANOTHER NOTE: We know TAI has an upcoming EP that is coming out soon. Beckett sai in a interview that he wrote a song with McMahon, so that could be the link? Kudos to rawiyaparand over at ICH for bringing that up.

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Overnight Sensation...literally!

Overnight Sensation...literally!

Letter from the doc

Letter from the doc

The overnight sensation continues! Mark from GK updated his Twitter and if you look closely all those people are wearing t-shirts that say Overnight Sensation. Thanks to Chamie for letting us know. A few comments by canadiankracka on ICH also mentions that when they were on Gabe’s party bus they were told to wear the shirts and that it was Gabe’s new clothing line. SO that’s one possibility.

Also included above is the letter that is currently up at theovernightsensation.com which is what William Beckett (WB which you can see at the bottom of the letter) was referring to when he said he was the doctor. What is most intriguing is the blurred out words. Why blur them out? In addition, one of the ICHers has dug deeper and found that indeed Crush purchased that domain and Gabe is the main contact. You can see it yourself here too since it’s Public information. However, it should be noted that the domain was acquired May 4th, 2009.

Now people are speculating since there have been numerous references to Midtown that they might reunite, but being a long-time and huge Midtown fan myself I really don’t see that happening anytime soon. Don’t get me wrong, I am totally for it but it seems unlikely. What I would like to point out is remember this picture?

Looks a lot like the picture that went up first on theovernightsensation.com seen below where he’s wearing the same shirt he tweeted about:

Could it be a new song perhaps? A new mixtape? A clothing line? Another band that Gabe has signed? Or just a demonstration of their power in making things an overnight sensation?! What we do know is that Pete, Gabe, Beckett and Crush are in on the shenanigans. I also don’t think the recent Ashbury shenanigans are connected anymore but seems like they are using that momentum as a platform to launch their own. Regardless, let’s discuss!

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September 17
It’s our masked shenanigator again. Only this time Mr. William Beckett is this proposed Doctor that was on that package Pete was carrying. If you head to the new site we had been sent to theovernightsensation.com you can see a letter that one can assume was in te package. What does this all mean? We have yet to find out but I smell new shenanians brewing. Maybe Pete got inspired? thewilliambeckett: PETE- This whole time the Doctor has been me.  I’m glad I finally have your attention, and right when they need it most.
It’s our masked shenanigator again. Only this time Mr. William Beckett is this proposed Doctor that was on that package Pete was carrying. If you head to the new site we had been sent to theovernightsensation.com you can see a letter that one can assume was in te package. What does this all mean? We have yet to find out but I smell new shenanians brewing. Maybe Pete got inspired?

thewilliambeckett:

PETE-

This whole time the Doctor has been me.  I’m glad I finally have your attention, and right when they need it most.

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Just when we thought it was safe: apparently there’s more shenanigans to be had!  Any idea where this is going?  Discuss in the comments! ahomeboyslife: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime….. viral ideas are the same. the clues are all there. we have the start and the end. the middle is up to you. dont eat the red herring. it will make you sick with false ideas.

Just when we thought it was safe: apparently there’s more shenanigans to be had!  Any idea where this is going?  Discuss in the comments!

ahomeboyslife:

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime….. viral ideas are the same. the clues are all there. we have the start and the end. the middle is up to you. dont eat the red herring. it will make you sick with false ideas.
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