Chase Floyd

== Foreword ==
I am writing this page on 2/10/2023 (coincidentally, on the 4 year anniversary of my time as a memeber). I graduated from that middle school in June 2018. That's almost 5 frickin years ago. I'm finally writing this because I realize that my memory will decay further over time, as the entropy of the universe always increases. There's some stuff I'm gonna have to reference saved documents for that I used to remember. Yeah, I probably should've written this some time ago, but I truly hate writing with a burning passion. Deal with it, cowpoke. I also intend for this to be a comprehensive detail of my time with the man for not only the Council's historical records, but my own as if I'll be reading this in 70 years. So, uh, this is gonna be a long one.
== Humble Beginnings ==
September 12th 2017. Teachers go on strike. 8th grade blue team scienceAbington Heights Middle School teacher Mr. Bearadelli is a science teacher that exists. Strike ends 2 weeks later I think. Whereadelli is Bearadelli? He is no where to be found. Eventually, he returns and the students are told that he will be retiring shortly. A few weeks later, after having a substitute, Mr. Bearadelli again, and another substitute, the school found someone to fill the science teacher-shaped hole left in 8th grade blue team. Enter, Chase Floyd. 
== "The imaginary bell has rung ==
the work has thus begun! The time right now is approximately <insert time>, and I will give you students about 2 minutes before I come around and check todayyy's Do Now, yyyesterdayyyy's QP, and last night's, H DUUUB!!! **Waits 2 seconds** So judging by the volume, I'll assume just about everybody's wrapping up toooday's Do Now. " -Word for word what Mr. Floyd said at the start of every class
Mr. Floyd immediately established himself as a quirky fellow. Every day when we walked into class, we had to do the Do Now and the Qualitative Prompt. The Do Now was a science-based math problem (usually just a unit conversion type thing, or a simple equation plug-n-chug), where you had to copy down what you Know (the provided conversions, each conversion written 3 ways as 16oz=1lb, 1=16oz/1lb, and 1=1lb/16oz), what you were Asked (the question), and obviously your Answer. This was referred to as KA^2 format. You gotta watch out for those Red Herrings! While this initially seemed like the most pointless thing in the world, I legitimately give the man a lot of credit when we spent way too long in chemistry learning how to do the same basic conversion math that we had done every day with the Chef. The Qualitative Prompt (QP) was a pretty straight-forward science question, that was always a non-math type question asking to explain, draw, describe, etc. whatever we were currently learning (except i vividly remember one day where he gave a math question for it and I said "but mr floyd, would this be a quantitative prompt?????????????" (i was the funniest guy ever)). Every class's plans would be a different category of class plans. There were Quick Labs (normal science labs), Jot This Down (notes), Technology Chex (web-based activity), Bring-ins Lab (lab but you bring in a thing from home), Game Town (some variety of a game), and probably more. I remember there was one lab we did in there called the Turtle Theory, where around the room were different turtles, ranging from a TMNT action figure to Mr. Floyd's very own pet turtle Tokka. The point of this lab was to observe that all turtles have shells, in a manner similar to how scientists observed the pieces of the Cell Theory. I have a decent bit I respect about the man, but that was one of the most pointless things I've ever done. 
I'm not sure how exactly to fit this in, but uh... Chef Floyardee 
== The greatest academic activity of All time ==
Of all of the Chef's wacky antics, none surpass the Cell Saga. For a solid week I believe, we did nothing but act read aloud a play about the organelles of a cell. Unfortunately, the original script is lost to the sands of time. However, the schman himself uploaded a series of videos to his channel of reading the full script, using students' illustrations. Act 2 can be found here, but was never actually finished in class because people were sussy crungi and didn't want to do it. I don't remember actually seeing the full thing online, but there were rumors that the Chef just stole it. Regardless, it's heavily based off a thing from Dragonball of the same name. I don't really have much to add about the Cell Saga because you can just watch/read it yourself, but it's still so incredibly funny. 
== The Hero's Journey ==
On May 17th, 2010, the world was forever changed by the first upload on Chase Floyd's Youtube Channel, ChaseFloydInc. A humble beginning for his channel, Tony y Drew Van al Restaurante Part 1 focused on "a boy with a lust for life and a dark abyss for a soul" and his bizarre adventures. This video single handedly changed the meta for the high school Spanish 3 class genre. 
Chase Floyd of ChaseFloydInc then spent the next years of his Youtube career honing his skills on the piano. He would go on to perform various musical covers on the piano, including this, this, and this🤯! Around this time, Mr. Floyd also decided to spice things up a bit with variety content like My Best Friend Plank (Tribute to Plank from Ed, Edd n Eddy). 
Things changed forever though when he showed the world his grindset. Chase Floyd was clearly training for something. He demonstrated his superhuman abilities in this video by punching a building down. Luckily, no one was hurt, but only because they had exited the building to watch Chase Floyd flex. He then shocked the world by revealing that he had mastered the ability of flight. While the flight was unstable, it was a proof of concept that he could in fact fly. But this flight, was weak, primitive; he needed something to hold his weight so he could use his powers of flight for balance. Suddenly, he thought of the perfect vessel to complement his power. It was so simple, only one wheel on the ground to keep high mobility, yet the stability allowed him to use his flight powers for balance, power, and speed, rather than holding himself in the air. He went to his local Unicycles 'R' Us© to acquire his trusted steed, and became... THE WHEEL. With his newfound power, he became a force for good. Wherever evil was afoot, justice was awheel. 
== A Tragic Fall from Grace ==
Naturally, Abington couldn't let a superhero, let alone someone even remotely talented, continue employment. Those stupid bozos frickin decided to frickin fire Mr. Floyd for no good reason. I was shocked, bewildered, downright befuddled. How could the school let the greatest man ever to grace this planet just walk out? Like a boomerang though, Chase Floyd never gave up. 
Mr. Floyd did the only reasonable thing that anyone would do after being fired from their job: work at Weis. Yep, he worked at Weis alongside NaBrO3's sister, which is pretty funny. Mr. Floyd eventually got a new teaching job at Tunkhannock I think, not sure what grade he taught though. I know he definitely has a teaching job now... somewhere. That's not that funny though. What's really funny is that he set up his website to "sell one thing; 'Chase Floyd'." The main CFI page is more or less just a different organization of stuff on his Youtube channel, but there are some gems here if you dig around on the actual Github repository for the website.
On the front of the ChaseFloydInc Youtube channel, his content has revolutionized since a certain virus of unknown origins happened. Like the cream of the crop, Chase Floyd rose to the top. He started creating educational content, for presumably his students I think, that feel just like Chase Floyd is teachin you again. After his certain virus of unknown origins science lessons, he started two new series called $ci FAX with Chef Floyardee and NAME THAT SPECIES. Things got a lil goofy though on NAME THAT SPECIES #9 where he's covering "THE ABOMINABLE FLOYD-SQUATCH". Okay yeah that's not a little goofy, that's very goofy (in the best way possible). He started uploading a bunch of random videos like I FOUND A REAL GLOCKENSPIEL, and eventually return to doing a lot of piano covers, but there was one video hidden in there that blew up a bit bigger than the rest. 
== The Proof is Among Us ==
May 1st, 2020. Chase Floyd uploads never before-seen footage of a rare encounter with Bigfoot, titled "👣 2022 BIGFOOT SASQUATCH TROOP ATTACKED ME WITH INFRA-SOUND! Sighting + Noises + Trailcam! #OHMAWING". Ohmawing refers to the power bigfoot has to inflict pain on people using his spooky sound powers or somethin. Chase Floyd claims to have felt these mysterious pains and heard whooping in the forest. And by "claim", I mean take these with absolute certainty, because Chase would never lie. This video amassed 1.2 million views as of writing this.
Season 2, episode 25 of History Channel's The Proof is Out There. Yep. Chase Floyd himself is on national TV for his Bigfoot encounter. Watch the clip, it's so funny. Even better watch the bit of the episode of it's convenient for you. The expert team at The Proof is Out There decided that Chase's video was faked, because the frickin whoops in his video are identical to whoops from some other famous recording, down to some effect in the audio file. That makes this even funnnier. But they still brought him on and stuff! 
== Moment? ==
I should briefly mention the Google Classroom. It's not too exciting, but it became my pretty much personal floyd "meme" dungeon, but the word meme is used very loosely there. After floyd was fired, I started posting bad "floyd head on x" funny images and went to posting F tier impact font memes. By F tier I mean like embarrassingly bad, I'm not bringing those back up.
== Misc. Catchphrases ==
* "What the J?!"
*"Trey, please read rule number 3 for the class"
* "So WOAH, get excited, it's time for a QUICK LAB!!!"
* (sung in the tune of the nickelodeon theme) "Tech tech t-tech, t-tech tech tech, tech-knawlogy chex"
* "It's time to head down to Game Town!"
* "Bah-ring, bring it in, bring, BRING-INS LAB!"
* "Just multiply by the fraction with the units you want on top"
* "Where in the world is Akila?"
* (in a deep voice) "DEMO DOWN!!@!" "VID CITY!!@!"
*"Re-re-re-REcord That!"
*"Sci-ence Art-work!"
*(in the tune of Who Let The Dogs Out) "Lab Experiement UP...up...up..!"
* "What do we work in this class?" (students say:) "Bell 2 Bell!"
*"Blue Marks" "SO!...for a little BLUE!..." "Blue Mark Special #BlueIsAtSTEAK" (bonus points)
*"Don't be a time-slave!"
I could not be happier that he has a page of Floydisms (catchphrases) on his website
== In the Council ==
Hello, Meme Lord here, we'll be switching back to The Snazzmaster shortly, but just for relevancy, this section will focus on Floyd's history with the Council.
Floyd was not known at all by the Council prior to The Snazzmaster's involvement. The teacher Floyd replayed, Berardelli, was the 8th grade science teacher at AHMS during the Class of 2021's time there. The next year, Berardelli would quit following the teacher strike, thus the district desperately sought to replace his position, and chose Floyd. There was no way for the memebers to know this had happened until later. Floyd's presence would not be acknowledged until Meme Lord and Mike Kachowski would meet The Snazzmaster in their CS 1 class, and quickly discover his obsession with Floyd. Thus, Floyd's first message on the Council was related to him getting fired, and The Snazzmaster's obsession with him.
The Snazzmaster's first ever message was, naturally, a meme he made with Chase Floyd front and center. The day hadn't even ended when the Floyd emoji was requested and added. The Snazzmaster was given a Floyd role as well. For whatever reason, The Rare Meme Lord of Cinder took up a dislike for Floyd, possibly to just stir up a bit of drama like the old days with The Snazzmaster, but he never gave any solid reasoning to disliking Floyd, so the "arguments" were a bit pathetic at best.
Besides the Google Classroom, channel, and other oddities and memes being shared, Floyd's relevance more or less stayed tied to The Snazzmaster. Megamind had a few commands added specifically for Floyd, such as a command that will instantly link you to the Classroom. Additionally, Meme Lord made Floyd.mp4 as part of the Teacher.mp4 Special Collector's Edition, where at the time, he was the last ".mp4" made, and #50 overall. Floyd has also been made into the protagonist in the Garf Lore, using his "Wheel" persona as a base. I bring it back to you, Snazzmaster.
== Postface ==
"Cringe" and "based" are meaningless words. All they express is "I do/don't like that". If I had to pin down a definition, I'd argue that "cringe" is most similar to the classical definition of "gay" as an insult, while "based" is the opposite. Yet, I think most people, myself included, would agree if they met Mr. Floyd that he was the personification of "cringe". I however think that all it takes is a change of perspective to realize just how based he truly was. "Writing a play about the organelles of a cell based on Dragonball" that's cringe. "Sharing his love for science with his students" that's based as heck. "Roleplaying as a superhero who rides a unicycle" that's cringe. "Learning to not only ride a unicycle, but doing cool tricks and stuff on it" that's frickin based. "100 challenge? Vlogging a bunch of stupid little 'challenges'?" that's cringe. "100 challenge? Wow, a structured way to try and learn a variety of unique skills. How many people can say they can solve a Rubik's cube while riding a unicycle?" that's super based. 
As for his actual science class, it was super slow. It was often childish. Frankly, it felt beneath me. But two things are for sure: First, Mr. Floyd brought real passion and enthusiasm to the classroom. I completely understand his pacing and style failed to motivate most students; but that's a flaw from inexperience, not from a lack of heart. Mr. Floyd was not a teacher who was clearly just there for a paycheck; everyday he had the same goal of making us enjoy science. Second, I will never forget some of the things I learned in that class, like the hydrophilic head and hydrophobic tail of a phospholipid, or the structure of the rough endoplasmic reticulum (mostly because of the Cell Saga). Mr. Floyd has permanently engraved these facts into my brain space, which is something few teachers have accomplished. 
During my time with him, my opinions of Mr. Floyd oscillated between ironic worshipping, and (excuse my language Meme Lord(haha get 1984'd)) unironic stick riding. Now my opinions have tempered a bit, but I still hold a similar sentiment that all he needed was some proper training and temperance, or maybe just a change of environment, to truly become an excellent teacher. I will always remember him as not only one of the science teachers of all time, but the simultaneously coolest and cringiest person I have ever met. If you ever read this Chase Floyd, then I give you one final message: SCIENCE ON!!@!
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