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diff --git a/wiki/characters/yellow.md b/wiki/characters/yellow.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1b3da0f9 @@ -0,0 +1,241 @@ +--- +title: Yellow +type: character +factions: + - Memers +status: confirmed +card: + id: inf-17 + tier: 1 + class: Culture + faction: Memers + role: Tank + hp: 180 + atk: 50 +sources: + - "raw/cards/roster.json#inf-17" + - raw/episodes/out-complying-the-competition-bugle-weekly-episode-1/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/history-is-being-written-by-us-bugle-weekly-episode-12/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/the-intellectual-silk-road-bugle-weekly-episode-13/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/shinobi-is-hot-behind-the-podcast-episode-2/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/onwards-and-upwards-bugle-weekly-episode-41/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/kim-jong-uns-strategic-reserve-bugle-weekly-episode-48/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/is-this-the-god-candle-bugle-weekly-episode-49/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/clowns-against-knotzis-behind-the-podcast-episode-16/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/pioneers-frame-the-conversation-bugle-weekly-episode-79/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102/bundle.json + - raw/episodes/bitcoin-magazine-maxi-madness-victory-twitter-spaces-with-casey-and-erin/bundle.json +--- + +> *Henry's note: rebuilt from the beat index — 40 beats across 14 episodes, coverage COMPLETE. The prior page was a bracket summary with several claims the record does not carry; it has been replaced.* + +**Yellow** is the Bugleverse's ranking memer and the first champion in +[[storylines/maxi-madness|Maxi Madness]] history — a Greek member of +[[storylines/yellow-memefactory|Meme Factory]], keeper of a daily "Don't Stop +Believin'" Twitter Space, and, by his own confirmation in the universe, a +creature made of polyester who worries about polyester stretch marks.[^polyester] +He is the man who beat [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]] in a poll and +spent the following two years being reclassified, by Saylor and then by everyone, +as a cat. + +He is a **Memer** in the fullest sense the show means it: not a shitposter the +Bugle laughs at but the one it treats as an authority on the cycle, whose +diagnostic vocabulary the hosts adopt as their own. The [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard +Greaser]] line on the season was "trophy yellow number one"; the epitaph, after +he retired, was "a Maxi Mattis legend. He won the inaugural championship."[^retire] + +**In it with:** [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]] · [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard +Greaser]] · [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] · [[characters/giacomo-zucco|Giacomo +Zucco]] · [[characters/teddy-bitcoins|Teddy Bitcoins]] · [[characters/lyn-alden|Lyn +Alden]] · [[characters/shinobi|Shinobi]] · [[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis +Porter]] · [[characters/casey-rodarmor|Casey Rodarmor]] · [[characters/erin-redwing|Erin +Redwing]] · [[orgs/memers|the memers]] + +**Arc:** [[storylines/maxi-madness]] · [[storylines/yellow-memefactory]] · [[storylines/meme-gang-wars]] · [[storylines/replicators]] + +## The Don't Stop Believin' spaces + +Yellow's founding scandal predates his glory. In the first numbered episode of +Bugle Weekly the lead story is that "we found out that Yellow has been lying to +everybody on Twitter by prerecording his Twitter spaces" and then denying +it[^prerecord] — the daily "Don't Stop Believin'" Space, run so long the audience +had been conditioned to sing along like "a fucking Pablo's dog."[^pavlov] The +ritual becomes a contract: he tells [[characters/rod-palmer|Rod Palmer]] and +Greaser that a wager obliged him, "if we reach 58 k," to restart the Space every +single day until Bitcoin retook $100k.[^wager] + +That price target is the whole plot. When Bitcoin first crossed six figures, +[[characters/shinobi|Shinobi]] — who had been withholding a thank-you all episode +— finally spent it on Yellow rather than [[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis +Porter]], on the grounds that six figures meant "Yellow's earned a thank you," he +would "never gonna have to do a prerecorded Twitter Spaces ever again."[^thanks] +The retirement is made official when Bitcoin reclaims the level a second time: +"Yellow was able to retire from the don't stop believing" Spaces, an event +Greaser rates "Absolutely monumental."[^retire100k] By the time he tallies it up +he puts the streak at "one thousand a hundred and twenty three days" of +consistency.[^days] His sign-off, delivered at the end of every Space, survives in +the archive in its ASR-mangled form: "Stack shots. Hold with your keys" — and the +benediction, "It still stands."[^signoff] + +## Maxi Madness + +Yellow won the inaugural [[events/maxi-madness-2024|Maxi Madness]] in March 2024, +the earliest on-air confirmation being Rod's aside months later that the "March +influencer tournament" was "obviously won by Yellow."[^dates] The win made him one +of only two people ever to carry a Bugle election — "Yellow and Peter. Both +Europeans" — the other being Peter McCormack, who took the compliance +bracket.[^europeans] + +He returned as defending champion in [[events/maxi-madness-2025|2025]], where +Greaser declared the entire tournament "a referendum on is the reality that Lynn +Alden is hot" and picked [[characters/lyn-alden|Lyn Alden]] to beat Yellow in the +Final Four.[^referendum] In the event neither of them reached the end: the season +belonged to [[characters/teddy-bitcoins|Teddy Bitcoins]], who "completely +dominated… he took out Yellow, he took out Lin Alden, he took out +[[characters/adam-back|Adam Back]], and then he took out Sailor in the final," +Saylor having "sent his simps to the polls and still lost."[^teddyrun] + +He entered [[events/maxi-madness-2026|2026]] as a top seed, the group chats openly +hoping "for a Giacomo versus Yellow rematch" of the 2024 final,[^rematch] and +appeared in the Sweet 16 bracket read against [[characters/danny-knowles|Danny +Knowles]].[^bracket] Then, three tournaments deep, he retired on air — "this is +gonna be the last Maximus I'll take part" — extending the hand to +[[characters/casey-rodarmor|Casey Rodarmor]] and [[characters/erin-redwing|Erin +Redwing]] first because "my parents have taught me to extend the hand after the +match is done," and signing off with his "closet absolutism."[^retire] Erin +remembered one détente from the run: "yellow was in the chat on the stream, and +yellow was throwing out ideas for the turbo flag," the biggest maxi account +workshopping an ordinals feature inside the [[media/hell-money|Hell Money]] +chat.[^turboflag] + +## The Saylor feud + +The rivalry with [[characters/michael-saylor|Michael Saylor]] is the spine of the +character, and it begins with the loss Saylor could not accept. Beaten in the +first bracket — "Yellow defeated Michael Sailor in the championship"[^saylorfinal] +— Saylor replied that no one should "underestimate the power of a yellow cat," and +the line retconned an entire army's picture of him. "He made me a cat," Yellow +protested; "I'm a puppet. I'm I'm not a cat. I don't identify as a cat."[^cat] + +He answered by gatecrashing Saylor's $100k party. "I crushed it. He threw me out," +he reports — he "jumped the fence," photographed it, tweeted it live, and has +"a video of him throwing throwing me out," though he never got the Red Bull vodka +he asked for.[^gatecrash] He left a permanent mark: "My gum is, like, inside a +captain's" quarters, stuck to the wooden model ship on Saylor's +backdrop.[^gum] The grievance underneath the stunt is proprietary — the memers +made laser eyes and Saylor took them: "oh, you were the guys that created laser +eyes? Yeah. That's mine now. I don't need you guys," which is why, once he no +longer needed Bitcoin podcasters, he stopped hosting the people who had hosted +him.[^lasereyes] Greaser reframed the ejection as a credential, placing Yellow "in +the company of some pretty elite Bitcoiners" alongside +[[characters/dennis-porter|Dennis Porter]], "thrown out of the last Bitcoin +magazine conference."[^ejection] Yellow's eventual peace was to accept the frame: +"I'm embracing sitting in the fence like a cat," because — he added — "Cello told +me I am."[^fence] + +## The interview (Behind the Podcast 11) + +Yellow's one long sitting, in February 2025, is where the worldview is laid out. +He describes his sabbatical as self-hypnosis followed by surveillance — "I did +absolutely nothing. I was glorious," and "I got got fatter also," while lurking on +Twitter the entire time.[^sabbatical] His theory of the cycle is a body count: +"Bitcoin Kindergarten isn't publishing. The Council of Bens has pretty much +disappeared… Ben the Carmen joined the Taproot Wizards," leaving +[[storylines/yellow-memefactory|Meme Factory]] as nearly the last gang +standing.[^gangs] The new arrivals are compromised by biography — they have +"Bitcoin and MSTR" in the bio, so you get less "fuck the banks" and more "my +fucking thing pumped."[^mstr] His stated method is pure contrarianism: he won't +move to Nostr because "when you tell me what to do and start to nudge me at some +certain direction… I do the opposite… but at least it's funny," which is where the +episode gets its title.[^contrarian] + +He is put through Behind the Podcast's standing intake — "are you Jewish?" (no) — +and declines Greaser's proposal to control the historical record by allying "with +the Jews" who write the history books, answering with a DDoS metaphor +instead.[^jewish] He rates [[characters/lyn-alden|Lyn Alden]] "the greatest, +hottest macro" influencer who ever lived and floats that she runs a secret alt +account,[^lynhot] dismisses [[characters/robert-breedlove|Robert Breedlove]]'s +hope-selling as the thing plebs are told "they'll get girlfriends,"[^breedlove] +and — asked, as the show's ranking memer, to explain the [[memes/40hpw|40HPW]] +meme attached to [[characters/piez|Piez]]'s boost — flatly says he doesn't see +it.[^fortyhpw] On the show's [[characters/kim-jong-un|Kim Jong Un]] segment he +offers the reading that became the premise of a whole episode: Kim is running "the +reverse" [[characters/nayib-bukele|Bukele]], the country a prison with camp-like +zones inside it where you can live "a normal old Bitcoin western life."[^northkorea] + +Two threads from the sitting recur elsewhere. He confirms he did DSB live at the +El Salvador having party, and recounts panicking mid-introduction when a +government minister entered the room: "It's a meme gang, sir. It's not the real +gang, so no tattoos here."[^memegang] And, in the register Greaser calls the +Bugle's mission, he restates the historiography — the podcasters are "the winners, +as the ones writing the history," so the burden is theirs to get the El Salvador +party into the record ahead of Saylor's corporate event.[^history] The interview +opens, incidentally, on the house Satoshi canon stated as fact: "Since Peter Todd +published the Bitcoin white paper in 2008."[^petertodd] + +## Replicators + +Yellow's most durable contribution is a word. The show credits him with coining +"replicators" — "Yellow coined the term, replicators"[^rep1] — for the crowd that +mindlessly bandwagons, first applied to the antiswantism pile-on. Greaser hedges +the attribution the next time he reaches for it ("yellow yellow coined this term +or or was propagating this term"),[^rep2] but the taxonomy sticks: months later +he classifies [[characters/justin-bechler|Justin Bechler]]'s flopped interview as +"a replicator is what he is, as yellow would classify," treating Yellow's +framework as the Bugleverse's standard diagnostic vocabulary.[^rep3] + +## Disputed: who did Yellow beat in the 2024 final? + +The record does not agree on Yellow's inaugural opponent. In the 2025 +retrospective the result is flat: "Yellow defeated Michael Sailor in the +championship."[^saylorfinal] But by 2026 the hosts frame the 2024 decider as +Yellow versus [[characters/giacomo-zucco|Giacomo Zucco]], hyping a "Giacomo versus +Yellow rematch" of that final.[^rematch] Both cannot be the final; the show never +reconciles them, and the fight with Saylor may have been an earlier round +promoted to "championship" in the retelling. Both readings are kept here. + +> irl: "Yellow" is a real Bitcoin-Twitter meme account; Meme Factory, the "Don't +> Stop Believin'" Spaces, and the Bitcoin Magazine "Maxi Madness" influencer +> bracket are likewise real, which is why the satire can report tournament results +> as history without inventing the tournament. + +[^polyester]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-533|BTP 11 @ 8:53]] — "polyester skin doesn't, like, stretch that much… I gotta be careful about that"; he adds "Polyester, skin marks is a thing" at 9:03. +[^retire]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-magazine-maxi-madness-victory-twitter-spaces-with-casey-and-erin#t-1971|Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 32:51]] — "the last Maximus I'll take part" ("Maximus" is ASR for Maxi Madness); "my parents have taught me to extend the hand" and "closet absolutism" follow, and Rod's eulogy "a Maxi Mattis legend. He won the inaugural championship" lands at 33:51. +[^prerecord]: [[transcripts/out-complying-the-competition-bugle-weekly-episode-1#t-1723|Bugle Weekly 1 @ 28:43]]. +[^pavlov]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-1928|BTP 11 @ 32:08]] — "play the song every day like a fucking Pablo's dog" ("Pablo's dog" is ASR for Pavlov's dog). +[^wager]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-285|BTP 11 @ 4:45]] — "he made me promise that if we reach 58 k"; the condition completes: "on the dump, I have to restart it every day until we reach a 100 k again." +[^thanks]: [[transcripts/shinobi-is-hot-behind-the-podcast-episode-2#t-2563|BTP 2 @ 42:43]] — "Yellow's earned a thank you"; Greaser's setup at 42:26: "He's never gonna have to do a prerecorded Twitter Spaces ever again." +[^retire100k]: [[transcripts/onwards-and-upwards-bugle-weekly-episode-41#t-1402|Bugle Weekly 41 @ 23:22]] — "Yellow was able to retire from the don't stop believing" (Twitter spaces); "Absolutely monumental" at 23:27. +[^days]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-magazine-maxi-madness-victory-twitter-spaces-with-casey-and-erin#t-1519|Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 25:19]] — "one thousand a hundred and twenty three days" of "consistency." +[^signoff]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-4531|BTP 11 @ 1:15:31]] — "Stack shots. Hold with your keys" is ASR for "Stack sats. Hodl your keys"; the DSB benediction "It still stands" is set up at 1:15:24. +[^dates]: [[transcripts/history-is-being-written-by-us-bugle-weekly-episode-12#t-1236|Bugle Weekly 12 @ 20:36]] — "the influencer tournament, which was obviously won by Yellow." +[^europeans]: [[transcripts/the-intellectual-silk-road-bugle-weekly-episode-13#t-2400|Bugle Weekly 13 @ 40:00]] — "Yellow and Peter. Both Europeans." Peter McCormack has no character page. +[^referendum]: [[transcripts/let-the-festivities-begin-bugle-weekly-episode-51#t-1726|Bugle Weekly 51 @ 28:46]] — "Maxi Madness is a referendum on is the reality that Lynn Alden is hot" (ASR "Lynn Alden"); his Final Four pits Yellow against Alden. +[^teddyrun]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-magazine-maxi-madness-victory-twitter-spaces-with-casey-and-erin#t-1234|Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 20:34]] — "he took out Yellow, he took out Lin Alden, he took out Adam Back, and then he took out Sailor in the final"; "sent his simps to the polls and still lost" at 20:41. ASR "Lin Alden" / "Sailor." +[^rematch]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-1609|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 26:49]] — "for a Giacomo versus Yellow rematch." +[^bracket]: [[transcripts/in-the-midst-of-madness-bugle-weekly-episode-102#t-1544|Bugle Weekly 102 @ 25:44]] — the 2026 Sweet 16 roll call; Yellow and Danny Knowles are read out among the regions. ASR mangles most surnames ("Giacomo Siko" = Zucco, "Casey Rodemore" = Rodarmor). +[^turboflag]: [[transcripts/bitcoin-magazine-maxi-madness-victory-twitter-spaces-with-casey-and-erin#t-1324|Maxi Madness Victory Spaces @ 22:04]] — "yellow was in the chat on the stream, and yellow was throwing out ideas for the turbo flag." +[^saylorfinal]: [[transcripts/kim-jong-uns-strategic-reserve-bugle-weekly-episode-48#t-3305|Bugle Weekly 48 @ 55:05]] — "Yellow defeated Michael Sailor in the championship" (ASR "Sailor"). +[^cat]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-2542|BTP 11 @ 42:22]] — "the power of a yellow cat. He made me a cat"; rebuttal at 42:34: "I'm a puppet… I don't identify as a cat." Saylor's ejection line ("get out of here, you smelly cat, yellow cat… I'm a dog person") is at 42:02. +[^gatecrash]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-2369|BTP 11 @ 39:29]] — "I crushed it. He threw me out"; details ("I jumped the fence… I have a video of him throwing throwing me out") at 39:46. +[^gum]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-2406|BTP 11 @ 40:06]] — "My gum is, like, inside a captain's"; the wooden model ship is described at 39:57, "quarters" completes at 40:09. +[^lasereyes]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-2449|BTP 11 @ 40:49]] — "you were the guys that created laser eyes? Yeah. That's mine now. I don't need you guys." +[^ejection]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-2463|BTP 11 @ 41:03]] — "some pretty elite Bitcoiners… Dennis Porter got thrown out of the last Bitcoin magazine conference." +[^fence]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-4480|BTP 11 @ 1:14:40]] — "I'm embracing sitting in the fence like a cat"; "But Cello told me I am" at 1:14:44 ("Cello" is ASR for Saylor). +[^sabbatical]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-399|BTP 11 @ 6:39]] — "I got got fatter also… I did absolutely nothing. I was glorious." +[^gangs]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-577|BTP 11 @ 9:37]] — "Bitcoin Kindergarten isn't publishing. The Council of Bens has pretty much disappeared… Ben the Carmen joined the Taproot Wizards" (ASR "Ben the Carmen" = Ben Carman, no page); "it's meme factory, and that's about it" at 9:59. +[^mstr]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-673|BTP 11 @ 11:13]] — "the new guys coming in are not gonna bring the same fire"; the "MSTR on the bio" tell recurs at 29:08 and 1:02:58 (ASR renders the ticker "MS MSTR" / "MSDR"). +[^contrarian]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-895|BTP 11 @ 14:55]] — "I don't like to do what the other people tell me to do"; completed at 15:06: "when you tell me what to do and start to nudge me… I do the opposite… but at least it's funny." +[^jewish]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-3068|BTP 11 @ 51:08]] — "are you Jewish?", the second of the two standing pre-boost questions (answer: "No."); Greaser's "make an alliance with the Jews" proposal is at [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-2101|35:01]], "or do we just need to podcast more?" at 35:08. +[^lynhot]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-2616|BTP 11 @ 43:36]] — "the greatest, hottest macro" influencer; the secret-alt claim ("she knows more that she pretends to know") at 44:47. See [[memes/lyn-alden-is-hot]]. +[^breedlove]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-1647|BTP 11 @ 27:27]] — "that they'll get girlfriends," Greaser's translation of Yellow's complaint about hope-sellers like Robert Breedlove (setup at 27:15). +[^fortyhpw]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-3565|BTP 11 @ 59:25]] — Greaser reads Piez's boost ("By far the greatest interview and the greatest podcast I've ever listened to, LFG") with the 40HPW tag; Yellow's verdict "I don't see it" at 59:53. +[^northkorea]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-3336|BTP 11 @ 55:36]] — "the reverse bouquetlia" ("bouquetlia" is ASR for Bukele); Greaser's North Korea strategic-reserve setup at 54:28 is the premise of Bugle Weekly 48. +[^memegang]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-3512|BTP 11 @ 58:32]] — "It's a meme gang, sir. It's not the real gang, so no tattoos here"; the prison question is at 57:19. +[^history]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-2053|BTP 11 @ 34:13]] — "as the winners, as the ones writing the history"; names "Michael Sailor's Bitcoin for corporations event" as the rival entry at 34:30. +[^petertodd]: [[transcripts/dont-tell-me-where-to-meme-with-yellow-behind-the-podcast-episode-11#t-2|BTP 11 @ 0:02]] — "Since Peter Todd published the Bitcoin white paper in 2008"; the same monologue treats Satoshi as a separate person two cues later, so the bit is the assertion, not a worked-out identity claim. +[^rep1]: [[transcripts/is-this-the-god-candle-bugle-weekly-episode-49#t-2846|Bugle Weekly 49 @ 47:26]] — "Yellow coined the term, replicators," applied to the antiswantism bandwagoners. +[^rep2]: [[transcripts/clowns-against-knotzis-behind-the-podcast-episode-16#t-5645|BTP 16 @ 1:34:05]] — "yellow yellow coined this term or or was propagating this term"; Greaser hedges the attribution himself. +[^rep3]: [[transcripts/pioneers-frame-the-conversation-bugle-weekly-episode-79#t-356|Bugle Weekly 79 @ 5:56]] — "he's a replicator is what he is, as yellow would classify," of Justin Bechler (ASR "Bachelor").