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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Warning(s) for: death wishes. After I invaded @rottingcoffee.bsky.social and @clownsgohonk.bsky.social in FlyKnight, Coffee told me to die repeatedly, and Clowns continued to play it off like it was nothing. Abusers and enablers like them should be run off of any platform that they have.

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The wonderful @ushilotus.bsky.social illustrated my low-poly fursona from Webfishing in a real-ish style with humanoid proportions AND a chibi style! #FurryArt #Furry #Art

For reference, a screenshot of the original low-poly version of my fursona from Webfishing.

They have red ears that are pointy and long; a head that's red on the top, sides, and bottom and white in the center; a face with black eyes with white pupils, a downward-facing pointy nose, and a slight smile that's paired with two fangs sticking out of their mouth at downward angles; a medium-sized body; and red paws.

Around them are white sparkles. Behind them is the spherical boundary of an area that has been exited using unintended means. This all is meant to make it seem like that they're in a snow globe.

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

"June 25, 2026 Update" Warning(s) for: sexual harassment, threats of rape, rape apology, wishes for acts of violence, and strong language. Tumblr version: www.tumblr.com/active-hoper... BlueSky version: #PSA #DbD #DeadByDaylight #CompDbD #CompetitiveDeadByDaylight #Team6ix #VideoGames

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

After reading what these motherfuckers said, I urge you to leave comments that warn others of who they are on their below Steam profiles. Not only that, but also to report "Juicy" to Team 6ix from the competitive Dead by Daylight scene, as they state that they're a player for the team: (3/5)

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Judge me all you want for the violent messages that I respond to "Juicy," the sexual harasser, and "sea," the rape apologist, with; I will not remain silent about evil out of a fear of being perceived as immoral: (2/5)

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Can someone kindly tell me what this flag in #FinalFantasyVIIRemake is meant to represent?:

A screenshot from FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE shows a graffiti-style flag on a dirty concrete wall. Said flag is attached to a metal pole; it itself has a design with a red top and bottom that surround a middle portion that has blue rhombi outlined by white lines and backgrounded by the color black.

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

“Who Knew Kril Knows of *UNDERTALE*? - A Clip From *Another Crab’s Treasure*” #AnotherCrab'sTreasure #UNDERTALE #IndieGames #Video-Games

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

On another note, I encountered a bug that caused me to get stuck in a door leading to the outside after being in a doorway while a wave began:

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

"Exposing Evil: 'shnoopie'" **Warning(s) for: mature topics pertaining to suicide.** Tumblr version: www.tumblr.com/active-hoper.... Below is the BlueSky version: #psa #deadbydaylight #dbd #videogames

Two paragraphs made up of white text that are in front of a dark-grey background are viewable.

The first paragraph reads:

"Telling someone to kill themself should come with a damn good reason. Were they abusive and/or prejudiced, for example? If so, then expressing the opinion that the world would be a better place without them is not unjustified."

The second paragraph reads:

"It is unjustified when such an opinion is held for a shallow reason, like because an opponent played a video-game in a supposedly unfun way:"

The phrase "It is..." is emboldened.

White text that's in front of a transparent black background reads:

"shnoopie: its like ur trying to make the game as boring as possible bro

shnoopie: just play the game

shnoopie: js kill irself tbh."

A paragraph made up of white text that's in front of a dark-grey background reads:

"Keep in mind that I did not bm shnoopie, nor did I perform any action in the match that was not meant to win. What happened here is that this player internalized mere strategies, and then, or so that, they could devalue my life. Before they can do that to someone who may act on their words, it is imperative that their online presence gets reduced by reporting them on any and all social media accounts that they may have, including those on Steam and TikTok."

The words "Steam" and "TikTok" are underlined and, when clicked on the page this screenshot is from, lead to shnoopie's following respective accounts.

Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198433545672/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@shnoopie_

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

"Exposing Evil: 'Victor'sHusband'" **Warning(s) for: blood and topics pertaining to pedophilia.** Tumblr version: www.tumblr.com/active-hoper.... Below is the BlueSky version. (1/2) #psa #deadbydaylight #videogames

For context, here is Victor's appearance:

In a foggy, rainy forest, Victor from Dead by Daylight is seen scurrying through grass that is almost as tall as him. His appearance is that of a child who has grey, veiny skin that's covered in blood in different areas, such as his head and hands. Some physical abnormalities can be seen on his face, including a small third eye above his right one and an exposed jaw. The lower half of his body is either covered by torn brown or green pants or thick layers of dirt. It is also worth noting that Victor is incapable of talking and can only communicate via grunts and screams.

Image source: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1474030/Dead_by_Daylight__A_Binding_of_Kin_Chapter/.

White text in front of a grey background that mainly lists previous usernames reads:

"This user has also played as:

Victor'sHusband

Leon'sRightPinkyToe

Leon'sRightThumbKnuckle

Victor's Husband

Victor's Umbilical Cord

StoicSelf

Dwight and Victor's Adoptive Son

Dwight and Victor's Son

Dwight's Husband."

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

"Eviscerate Censorship, Not Art - My Thoughts on *Soul Sorter: A Morality Personality Test*" **Warning(s) for: spoilers, mature themes of morality, and topics pertaining to a school shooting, child sexual grooming and rape, and drug addiction.** T: www.tumblr.com/active-hoper.... B. is below.

The first paragraph, which is made up of white text that's in front of a dark-grey background, reads:

"Payment processors' policies continue to cause cowardly storefronts to censor games that tackle mature themes with classist prejudice. As that is happening, the importance of indie titles that responsibly uphold player agency to have them grapple with heavy subject matter with purpose continue to increase in tandem."

That first sentence is underlined, indicating that clicking on it in the Tumblr version of these thoughts will lead to the following article written by Chris Person for aftermath entitled "Horses Is Tame" that discusses how another game, HORSES, has been affected by censorship, an article that Person notes "...features images and plot details from the game Horses which some people may find disturbing...": https://aftermath.site/horses-indie-game-banned-steam-epic-review-impressions-santa-ragione/.

The second paragraph reads:

"Soul Sorter is of this ilk, tasking the player -- who controls a deceased, meaning-seeking, angel-employed person -- with hearing out souls that have questionable morals, then deciding if they deserve punishment or forgiveness. Of these cases, some are deceptively simple: a remorseful school shooter, who took the lives of peers of his who relentlessly bullied him - without regret in life and after death - and also murdered a teacher who abused her position of authority to sexually groom and rape minors, deserves forgiveness. Other cases are less clear-cut: a suffering drug addict, who killed two other people while driving under the influence and refused to even try engaging with recovery programs beforehand, deserves punishment. What comes from these judgments is, in turn, a judgment of the player's case."

The title of the game in question, in this paragraph and all of the other paragraphs that it's mentioned in, is italicized.

The third paragraph reads:

"Where the player's morality stands, according to this game's fourteen tracked morality and personality traits, depends on how many and which questions they asked each soul, as well as whether they doled out more forgivenesses or punishments. I received partial ratings in multiple traits after mostly doling out punishments with some forgivenesses here and there after asking as many questions as possible, resulting in me getting deemed as having a diverse morality and personality, which are befitting of a soul sorter. Now, there were," the word "were" is emboldened, "also traits that I received full or empty ratings in that spoke to whom I am as much as that diversity, if not more. Unfortunately, Soul Sorter does not currently let me refer back to my traits in order to reflect on their individual descriptions."

The fourth paragraph reads:

"Does that hopefully updatable oversight ruin the entirety of this game or completely detract from its aforementioned importance as a gutsy creation in a censorship-heavy climate? No. What it does do is make disappointing an ending that could have both acted as a long-term mirror for me to see if I am living up to my desired self and, in turn, a means for Soul Sorter to fully achieve its purpose as a test of morality and personality."

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I already shared my submission to this project via a reply to the post announcing its release, but, seeing as it's been a day since it was released, I want to share said submission via a proper post now that spoiling it for others is no longer a concern of mine: #undertale #indiegames #videogames

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

"Asinine Inaccessibility: *Indigo Park: Chapter 1*" **Warning(s) for: intense violence, blood, gore, and spoilers.** Here's the Tumblr, account-required version of these thoughts with past (and future) edits: www.tumblr.com/active-hoper.... Below is the BlueSky version of them. (1/2)

A paragraph made up of white text that's in front of a dark-grey background reads:

"Despite how developer UniqueGeese deserves some credit for keeping players prone to motion sickness in mind by including options in Chapter 1 for them to disable the first-person camera's bobbing and a 'camera delay effect' that moves the camera and the protagonist's flashlight at different speeds, the omission of a content warning on its store page for its mature content is too egregious for it to be written about positively."

All past and future mentions of titles of pieces of art have been italicized.

The decapitated head of Indigo Park mascot Mollie Macaw lies in front of the vertical-moving silver, slightly rusted metallic door that was shut on her. Large splatters of blood are on said door and the grey floor near Macaw's head. All this is has a light shined on it by the protagonist's black flashlight.

A paragraph made up of white text that's in front of a dark-grey background reads:

"Specifically, Chapter 1 contains intense violence, blood, and gore which rear their ugly heads the most in a scene where an antagonist gets bloodily decapitated shockingly, shock that could have caused me, someone with heart problems, to experience chest pain -- as has happened when playing other titles with unexpected levels of horror like Minecraft -- and could trigger players who are sensitive to seeing such content."

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

"Age Is **Not** Just a Number - My Thoughts on *Life is Strange*" **Warning(s) for: topics pertaining to drug abuse, sexual abuse, and age-ranges as they pertain to romantic relationships; and spoilers.** The Tumblr version of these thoughts: www.tumblr.com/active-hoper.... The BlueSky version:

A paragraph made up of white text in front of a dark-grey background reads:

"Why that title is the case largely comes down to three different factors: Studies about brain development that generally agree upon how the brain tends to fully physically develop in multiple regions at the age of twenty-five while having the noticeable chance to do so earlier or later by a few years. Legal statuses enforced by restrictions on gambling and the consumption of alcohol that differentiate inexperienced adults ages eighteen to twenty from experienced adults ages twenty-one and up. And, society's trust in those studies and subsequent restrictions."

A paragraph made up of white text in front of a dark-grey background reads:

"Life is Strange recognizes this all, spending so much of its time on letting the player unravel a conspiracy that leads to the discovery of how a famed photographer turned teacher has drugged then exploited the looks of multiple senior students - vulnerable inexperienced adults - to create what he deems to be special works of art. He has even manipulated a male high-schooler with father issues into viewing him, an experienced male adult, as a trusted father figure, all to victimize more students and have a scapegoat in case of failure. Showing how easily status, experience, and trust can be abused, Life is Strange has powerful messaging. But, that's no excuse for it perpetuating a form of the very abuse it justifiably villifies."

All prior and to-come mentions of the title of the video-game in question are italicized.

A paragraph made up of white text in front of a dark-grey background reads:

"Max, the protagonist of Life is Strange's October, two thousand thirteen-set events, is an eighteen-year-old high-school student born on September twenty-first, nineteen ninety-five who the player is given the option to romance with two other people: Warren, a seventeen-year-old student born on November twentieth, nineteen ninety-six, or Chloe, a would-be-expelled graduate born on March eleventh, nineteen ninety-four. Assuming the player does not decide to have Max friend-zone Warren and Chloe, her options are to enter into a romantic relationship with a minor or a more-experienced inexperienced adult who is no longer bound by the same institutional structures and dynamics as Max."

A paragraph made up of white text in front of a dark-grey background reads:

"To see Life is Strange, a sentimentally, inclusively told story about the dangers of abuse and the hidden forms it can take, romantically support variations in age in age-ranges where such variations are inherently abuse or, at the very least, easily lead to it, is a hurtful betrayal from a piece of art that I care about deeply."

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

"The Answer Is '**Yes!**' - My Very Lengthy Thoughts on *Slave Zero X*" **Warning(s) for: topics pertaining to abuse, mature themes of mental health, and the intersection between fictional violence's and real-world violence's places in the world; and blood.** T: www.tumblr.com/active-hoper.... B:

Two paragraphs made up of white text in front of a dark-grey background are shown.

The first paragraph reads, "'You are a slave who needs a master.' These are the paraphrased words from an exchange with my abusive father from years ago that preceded a physical confrontation between us that left me with deep mental cuts. The most relevant of them are the worsenings of my depression and previously-undiagnosed PTSD and a dramatic increase in once-misunderstood intrusive thoughts that imagined brutal fates for those who harmed me and enabled that harming to be done, confusing me as to whom I was and what I wanted."

The second paragraph reads, "Attempts to heal through therapy sessions tragically ended in a corrupt hospitalization due to my therapist contacting my abusive family after I got fed up with them while saying, 'Fine, I'm not gonna kill myself,'" with the word "not" being emboldened, "...and them mishearing it as, 'Fine, I'm gonna kill myself.' What followed is an agonizingly slow, shame-inducing loss of control over my life where I had no one to talk to outside of patients I empathized with yet felt isolated from because of why I was with them to begin with... as well as my therapist and family."

A paragraph made up of white text in front of a dark-grey background is shown. It reads:

"In spite of this and over the course of a few years, I somehow very slowly but surely navigated the mental fog I was lost in toward a clearer-skied headspace that promoted agency and assertiveness. Yet now, with actions such as the Trump administration's efforts to erase LGBTQI+ people from existence by even shortening the written representation of that community to 'LGB,' I'm left feeling like I'm slowly but surely regressing into '...a slave who needs a master,' though not without a fight, and, most pertinently, not without having happened across motivators that keep fighting back an option, like Slave Zero X."

The section that reads, "...by even shortening the written representation of that community to 'LGB,'" is underlined and links to the following source from MSN entitled "Trump administration removes transgender references from federal government websites": https://nypost.com/2025/01/31/us-news/trump-admin-removes-transgender-references-from-federal-government-websites/.

All prior and to-come mentions of the title of the video-game in question are italicized.

Shou/X, the symbiotic, red bio-armor-clad, and detailed pixelated protagonists of Slave Zero X with long white hair and a silver sword, slash through a fascist -- who is in dark blue and black armor and wielding a mace and shield -- from up above with a downward slash by the right side of the screen, causing a moderate amount of blood to spill out from where that monster was positioned in a low-fidelity, predominantly grey, run-down city. Other fascists stand to the left in darker shades of the same colors, waiting to be slaughtered as dark blue, black, and grey drones with golden mantis-like claws fly by.

At the bottom of the screen, a line of dialogue from an antagonist named Thorman reads, "He will not escape justice. The blood of the Great American Empire surges through my veins!"

Two paragraphs made up of white text in front of a dark-grey background are shown.

The first paragraph reads, "This deeply cathartic experience is, at its core, about a rebel warrior who was well past tired of waiting for change to occur in the fascist society he inhabited and so took it upon himself to cut down the oppressors who have made the lives of so many be without hope. Difficult as it may be due to the opposition being able to easily overwhelm him, and, by extension, me, with one misstep, so too could I overwhelm them, inviting me to a test of will, with the incentive for passing it comprising the emotional release it gave me. All at once, I was capable of both vicariously surpassing the growing limits my disabilities place on how I can resist against fascism in real life and temporarily pausing the resentment I feel toward those of the able-bodied and minded demographic who are not pushing themselves to do more despite having no such limits and thus needing to be relied on.

The second paragraph reads, "And then it ended. And desperation started to creep in. It gets harder and harder to keep it at bay as people are seen resisting by following the rules that fascists break. But, whenever my memories of playing Slave Zero X are recalled, a small amount of hope gets restored with the accompanying rememberance of the question it posed to me through the emotions it let a victim of abuse and oppression who doesn't want to fulfill that role again feel: 'Violence?'

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

"Emotional Spiraling - My Thoughts on *Longlegs*" **Warning(s) for: references to fictional intense violence, topics pertaining to real-world violence, the morality of it, and ethics in art; and spoilers. Tumblr version: www.tumblr.com/active-hoper.... Below is the BlueSky version. #Longlegs

White text in front of a dark-grey background reads:

"Is it right for an actor who is a minor to be allowed to play a character in a scene where strong language is used by an adult-played character who, in addition to another character of that sort, are bloodily shot in the head, even after an earlier scene where said minor's character expresses that the film industry 'messes up kids' has played?"

White text in front of a dark-grey background reads:

"Did those adult-played characters deserve to die as a consequence of individually sparing one life at the violent cost of many others while being subjected to a higher power's whims and upholding selective yet existent aggressive apathy? Do people in real life who must make impossible choices that nevertheless come at the expense of others or choose to not care about the former persons' decisions and their need to engage with them deserve to die as a consequence of their actions?"

White text in front of a dark-grey background reads:

"Am I a bad person for crediting the subliminal cuts and nonlinear narrative of the film in question that both mirror the distressed mental state of its special-agent protagonist who's working a troubling case of a serial killer with bringing this stream of consciousness out of me when considering my first question?"

White text in front of a dark-grey background reads:

"I don't know, so I'm gonna stop writing about this film now that this post has run its cathartic course before I attempt to answer these queries and who knows what else all at once."

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

"Self-Indulgent Rubbish - My Brief Thoughts on *Alien: Romulus*" **Warning(s) for: violence, blood, and spoilers.** Here's the Tumblr version of these thoughts with past (and future) edits: www.tumblr.com/active-hoper.... Below is the BlueSky version of them as they are as of 03/19/2025. #film

White text in front of a dark-grey background reads:

"Imagine an archer preparing to shoot three personally significant arrows crafted from the finest of materials at a person standing still with an apple on their head. Upon shooting their arrows, the archer misses that apple and instead hits the person with all three arrows, causing them to slump over and blood to start dripping from where the arrows hit them. Then, the archer walks up to the person, rips out all of the arrows from their body, tosses those arrows aside, and watches as blood sprays out of the openings they left in the person's flesh. That's Alien: Romulus."

The title "Alien: Romulus" is italicized.

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

"So Many Players, So Few Lobbies - My Thoughts on *Lethal Company*" **Warning(s) for: strong language.** Here's the Tumblr, account-required version of these thoughts with past (and future) edits: www.tumblr.com/active-hoper.... Below is the BlueSky version of them as they are as of 03/19/2025.

Lethal Company's "Community Hub" page on Steam is shown. Relatively close-ish to the top-right corner of said page is, in green text, Lethal Company's player count at the time this screenshot was taken, which reads, "8,656 In-Game."

White text in front of a dark-grey background reads:

"I've seen the player count for this game range from ~8,500 to ~21,000 players, and still there haven't been enough lobbies when I've played it to entirely fill the lobby-search box. Not to mention, when lobbies seem like they'll be worth joining, I end up getting barred from connecting to them. So, in actuality, there are fewer lobbies than the meager ones already on display. I'm fed up with feeling stuck with prejudiced cunts and repugnant freaks due to how such a severe lack of alternative lobbies exists. Suffice to say, this problem eclipses any desire I may have otherwise had to really engage with Lethal Company's contents, be it as a player or a writer."

The title "Lethal Company" is italicized.

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Gaming is often employed by me to reach out to others because of my anxiety. In that regard, WEBFISHING, a low-poly Animal Crossing-themed social space that disarms me with its modest visuals, relaxed ambiance, and humor with just enough edge to safely challenge its casual atmosphere, aids me well.

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

This scene from Riku's story in KINGDOM HEARTS Dream Drop Distance draws parallels between the in-game concept of Sleeping Worlds remaining in dream-like states due to succumbing to darkness, never realizing its absence, and persons' traumas' tendency to mask the past as an endless present. (1/3)

Riku, after defeating the Nightmare that was helping to keep their world stuck in perpetual sleep, sees Geppetto and Pinnochio joyously reunite with one another.

Image source: CGInferno. "Kingdom Hearts 2.8 FCP - KH Dream Drop Distance HD: English - All Cutscenes - Riku." YouTube, release date: 22 Jan. 2017, access date: 22 Sep. 2024, relevant timestamp: ~32:00, https://youtu.be/OfRpOti0Y30?si=ll8qYQmM3wyrUazv.

Riku then thinks about his journey thus far aloud and remarks that, like another Sleeping World before this one, this "...world was freed from darkness, but has yet to wake from it."

Image source: All information is identical, except for: relevant timestamp: ~32:20.

He finishes his thoughts by realizing that this world is, "...trapped in a never-ending dream."

Image source: All information is identical, except for: relevant timestamp: ~32:24.

With nothing else left to say, Riku uses his Keyblade to seal this Sleeping World's Keyhole, supporting it and giving it the chance to recover.

Image source: All information is identical, except for: relevant timestamp: ~32:41.

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

However, since this game is currently set to be delisted on 07/15/2024, I would much rather defend its right to exist by contextualizing my negative remarks on it as one example of how it still has life than say nothing about a growing trend that is affecting multiple Adult Swim Games titles. (2/5)

An announcement on Steam from Adult Swim Games that reads, "Adult Swim is no longer able to continue as publisher for this game and the developer is not available to take over as publisher at this time. As a result, Mega Coin Squad will be shut down on July 15th, 2024."

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Active Hoper @activehoper.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

Happy Pride Month! I celebrated it this year by playing a few games with LGBTQIA+ aspects. One was Frogsong, which casually represents that community, helping me feel normal in my own skin. The other was Sticky Business, which I used to celebrate myself and those in said community. Details in ALT.

I call this sticker, "Worldwide Pride." Along its sides are all of the pride flags that I had unlocked at release time. In the center of it is a globe -- the globe's oceans are yellow, and some of its land is blue while the rest of it is magenta. Below said globe is yellow text that reads, "love wins." All that has been mentioned thus far has black outlines. In the bottom-right corner of the screen is outline-less lavender text that reads, "made with STICKY BUSINESS." There is a small yellow star to the right of said corner text. Everything that has been mentioned is on white paper.

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