THE TORTURED FEDERMAN INCIDENT
Introduction
Hello, we're assuming that you are a long-term tally hall fan and already know what a "tortured federman" is, if not, we'll give you some overview. Around sometime from the mid 2000s, presumabaly after Marvin's Marvelous Mechnical Museum's 2008 release to 2011(the year of good and evil's release), numerous photos, both physical and digital, of Ross Federman, the drummer, appears to be "corrupted" of some sort, as first, it looks like a child's poor attempt of making a creepypasta, looking very MSpainted esque. But as time goes by, the photographs starts to become more "realistic" of some sort, eventually looking extreamly disturbing. It gained the nickname "tortured federman" as an inside-joke between fans on the hits forums
Basic information
For a while, it was thought to be an elaborate hoax, due to little to no proof of the incident and the fact that it went on for only ~3 years. But thanks to Apollo's (one of our team member's) longtivity in the fandom, they mannage to collect just enough proof to show that "tortured federman" was a thing that really happend.
As of why this event occured is still unknown, as from what we know of old blog snippets and (acessable) interviews, none of the members of Tally Hall ever mentioned this incident on live tv. The closest thing that we could get from this is one video of a fan asking them about "tortured federman", but the clip arruptedly cut off before we could hear a glimpse of the band's response. Whatsmore, is that after the photos started to appear, ross himself disapered from the public ,with the exepction of a few? shows. For the most part, he refused to come up to perform to live shows and instead hires a doppelganger of him to play on stage, fans only notice when they see that one of ross's moles were on the wrong spot.
Timeline
- ∙ 1/10/08: First recorded sighting of the anomaly
- ∙ 1/30/08: Ross failled to show up the the Denison University show (doppelganger's first apperance)
- ∙ 3/2/08: Concertgoers at Rickshaw Stop recalled seeing a "black aura" around ross(presumably the real one)
- ∙ 4/5/08: Images begin to spread across the forums
- ∙ 8/3/08: Ross shows up at Lollapalooza, but his movement is, "unatural" and "mechnical-like"
- ∙ 1/19/09: Images online gets corrupted bt the anomaly
- ∙ 3/22/09: A few users claim that digital fanart is also being affected, showing various images of theirs, whether this is true or false is still unknown
- ∙ 5/15/09: Ross shows up at the Blind Pig Concert
- ∙ 19/11/09: A now-deleted video of ross's face with his mouth hanging, eyes wide was uploaded on the tally hall youtube channel
- ∙ 3/9/10: Ross shows up at the Blind Pig Concert
- ∙ 3/18-20/10: Ross appears in SXSW, those who come into contact with him report a "pugent smell" and "uncanny" eye movements
- ∙ 7/20/11: Ross started to re-appear at concerts, looking normal
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-note: photos and videos previously taken of him (including the ones in T.H.I.S) also seems corrupted, but after the day of Good & Evil's release, they return back to normal