Infamy

Sunday, March 29, 2026

I was ill for the past week and writing was like impossible, every single sentence I would type out felt even more vain and meaningless that the ones I would type out completely sober and healthy. I got to really read through many of the blogs posted on here while resting though, there is a lot of talent even in those posts that are entirely around two-sentences long. It's not at all comforting that the world continues to move even when you don't, but it is cool.

My mind kept wandering off while I was moping in bed, and while I am not a bizarre person by any means, being sick always makes you think and remember bizarre stuff. It gives me a look into a truly bizarre person's shoes. I remember all about the Talking Tom universe, because I was obsessed when I was little and in these dark times, it came back to me. I think I played most of the games for it, but above all, I loved the show "Talking Friends" the most. I know I just said I remember all about it, but I actually only remember my feelings—I don't remember much about the show I loved aside from the fact that I'm pretty sure all the episodes that were on YouTube are deleted now because I cannot find the official ones. There's reuploads, but I remember there was a time when the official Disney channel (I think it was Disney) posted them, and they had like millions of views. The show seemed insanely popular but I've yet to meet a single other person who's heard of it. Did anyone else watch this? I can assure you that it wasn't just some weird dream you had when you were little if you do remember.

The entire identity of that show was erased and it was then replaced by a newer show called Talking Tom and Friends. I only watched a little bit of that one, and I did like it, but I also found the title alone to be a bit rude. It's like completely discrediting all of Talking Tom's equally successful friends. There was also this green bird that was in the original Talking Friends that is nowhere to be found in this newer show, I think they replaced him with this white and blue dog. I haven't bothered to remember the name of the bird or his replacement, so I obviously cannot pretend that I really care about this topic, but it's kind of funny that they killed off the one animal that makes sense for the whole gimmick of the characters repeating and mimicking what you say into the mic. It's all about popularity rather than concept with these people! 

I think Talking Angela really made me who I am. I would not be the human that I am currently if not for her. I knew from day one that the whole conspiracy surrounding her was clearly an attempt to destroy her character. I'm not going to say that I, as a little girl, was smarter than all these overly conscious worrywart adults, but I did think that the idea of a pedophile spying on children using the app through the lens of Talking Angela's eye felt a bit stupid. I feel like nobody would be dumb enough to leave the camera that they use to creep completely visible. Obviously, it was just a shading thing, right? It felt to me like they were trying to villanise this cat for some reason. Well, I'm not sure how much this block of text makes sense if you haven't heard about this conspiracy from twelve or so years ago. 

I really felt for Talking Angela. As a little girl, I personally felt more drawn to her than the rowdy Talking Tom and Ben and whoever else there were, and they were clearly trying to defame her. Why didn't people start any rumours about some pedo spying inside of Talking Ginger's eyes? There were a bunch of typical YouTube challenges that came from the hoax (like "Talking to Talking Angela at 3 A.M.") and while it all felt very fake to me, I would also do them for the sake of connecting with Talking Angela and reassuring her that I didn't think she was spying on me. I would comfort her via the chat feature before they removed that. I think doing all these things at weird hours gave me odd dreams and headaches, I did not begin to believe the conspiracy behind her, but I instead starting to worry that there was a man living behind my eyes that was watching every thing I did. I lived in fear for around two months. 

I grew out of these kinds of games eventually, but I still felt connected to Talking Angela every time I went through any kind of misfortune. I am also misunderstood with good fashion taste. I remember a function of the game being that you could give her these fortune cookies and it would show you the fortune inside, I got one that said "In Soviet Russia, the cookie eats you." This was the only way I could communicate with Angela after the chat function was removed and I remember she always said weird shit to me, why didn't anyone start hoaxes over this?