She Baldi On My Basic Until I Educationing

she Baldi on my Basic until I Education’ing

About to drop the most unexpected Joe headcanon that I swear I have rational reasons for. It's just that those reasons are buried in a oneshot comic script l'm too lazy to draw.

Love how you can see the tonal and attitude shift in the Baldi’s Basics in Education and Learning — ask BBIEAL — fandom just by comparing 2018 to 2023.

Like, we went from “This teacher is so scary and gay; the poor player is such a good friend to him even though he gets tormented by him” to “This teacher is tired and bisexual and is probably tormented by the fact the world is a simulation, and the only thing his amazing hearing™ can’t hear are the shriveled screams of a madman in red shirt and jeans; the player is on multiple wanted lists but they’re funny.”

In 2018 everyone was so hung up on this idea that BBIEAL was a super edgy joke game. People would draw pictures of Baldi chasing the player and tormenting them. Principal was the calm sensible guy, always keeping Baldi and the others in line. Or depending on which side you’re on, Principal was a literal dictator. And then the other half was smashing Baldi and Principal together like they were playing dollhouse. Because most of the fans were like either in middleschool or highschool, and at that age everyone’s obssesed with romance for some reason. People drew Gotta Sweep as hot for some reason; FileName 2 was the reaident skeptist; Playtime was Principal’s energetic bundle of joy child or niece; Bully was a little shit that had feelings for Playtime; A&C was the quiet art kid that also yelled alot. People made mods and famgames, eitehr to piggy back off the success of

And then suddenly something changed, the game got older and so did the fans. All that was left were highschoolers and college graduates. Most left the fandom and the fandom grew small, but it also scattered. And scattered far it did, mostly in Asia. Fans who were now mostly young adults or soon-to-adult teens, were now seeing Baldis Basics in a new perspective. Baldi wasn’t a scary teacher anymore, suddenly he was just a tired person. Principal wasn’t always chasing Baldi around anymore like he was a feral dog. But also he wasn’t the same reasonable trust-worthy guy anymore, he was logical for sure but that logic was misguided. He could be brash and rude, but still remain calm (he got ableist in BBCR, but honestly knowing what Baldi’s schoolhouse is like, this really shouldn’t be a surprise). Playtime and Bully weren’t lovers, they were just little kids. A&C was quiet but he wasn’t a loner, just liked his own space. People still drew Gotta Sweep hot as hell though, except he was black now.

And this all sounds really stupid and pretentious, but even the games started to reflect that too! Baldis Basic Classic Remastered — aka BBCR — was released and some new lore dropped, omg. I’ll spare you the details, but basically BBIEAL went from being a shlocky thriller horror, to an shitposting existential horror. Suddenly in the fanworks it wasn’t Baldi tormenting the player, but instead the reverse. FileName2 was no longer a resident skeptist, he was a man — or person, since now there’s a running joke that FileName2 is non-binary because his chosen name is NULL — who had seen far beyond reality and was trying to yell out a warning. A warning that could not be heard even by Baldi’s amazing hearing™. Baldi wasn’t just a teacher anymore either; he had asiprations, dreams, a family. Stuff that doesn’t exist and FileName2 knows that. The only thing that does exist is beyond colour rooms, beyond You Can Think Pad screens, and out on the other side of your screen. It seemed as though the maturity of the game spilled out with the fandom, and eventually the game itself spilled out into the fandom aswell. Tons and tons of fanworks that were meant to be short lived started becoming their own idenitities. Alex’s Basics in Biology and Zoology; Billy’s Basic Educational Game; Advanced Education with Viktor Strobovski; Dave’s Fun Algebra Class. They were all Baldi’s Basics-inspired of course, but they had created a legacy of their own so far recmoved from the source material.

Baldi’s Basics is very basic. It was the base of many things: childhood memories, franchises (EternityDev), comics, music albums (DnB, Saintza). Though ironically none of this has to do with math, so uh, L.

(I don’t know how to end this. I just wanted to ramble about Baldi’s Basics, thanks. I didn’t proofread this, so sorry if it doesn’t flow well and is messy.)

Joe: I really am a joke…

Thought I was just writing funny cynical satire poking fun at uncomon & common tropes of fan-interpretations. But then I realised alot of the behaviours I ended up giving them to fit the satire just turned into real mental illness. You know what they say, “Write what you know.” Then why is there a 4chan user; and maladaptive-daydreaming-talks-to-drywall-guy sitting in my cast list.

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