BadBoyHalo & Skeppy

BadBoyHalo & Skeppy is the pairing between either the real life Minecraft Youtubers/Streamers (MCYT) BadBoyHalo and Skeppy or the fictitious versions of themselves they role play as on various SMPs such as the Dream SMP.
Their canon relationship is as best friends. Their ship name "Happy Duo", created by combining their usernames (the "Ha" from Halo and "ppy" from Skeppy), is often used to refer specifically to their platonic friendship or queerplatonic relationship while their other portmanteau ship name "Skephalo" usually refers to the fictional romantic relationship between them.Reddit post discussing the ship names. Posted Aug 13, 2019. A rarer ship name for them is "Zarryl", which combines their first names Darryl and Zak instead of their usernames, and which can mostly be found used on Wattpad RPF fanfic.
==Canon==
===Real Life===
Their relationship is one of enemies to friends. It started in 2018 with Skeppy deciding to troll fellow content creator BadBoyHalo for a Youtube video by applying to become staff on BadBoyHalo's Minecraft server, MunchyMC.The first video Skeppy made with BadBoyHalo titled "I applied for staff on BadBoyHalo’s server and this was the interview…" The success of these first videos encouraged both to continue to collaborate, and BadBoyHalo's patience and willingness to forgive Skeppy for trolling him and their mutual kindness toward each other caused the two to become best friends. Over the years they've created hundreds of videos and streams together.
Very early on there were also moments that would end up in Skephalo clip compilations, like in their sixth video together where Skeppy asked for and got a virtual kiss from BadBoyHalo.So I Ordered 72 Pizzas to his house and this was his reaction... Skeppy Youtube video.
They have played together on several Minecraft SMPs, including the Dream SMP, as well as competed and won together in popular Minecraft competitions like Minecraft Monday and MCC. Other videos they make together include various trolls and pranks, challenge videos, skits and events. Sometimes they play games other than Minecraft, or they'd do a rare podcast or debate stream. But they are best known for Minecraft content.
====Twitter====
They also have Twitter conversations that are quoted or retweeted in fandom, such as these iconic exchanges:
Also their 2022 'Muffinversary' (date Skeppy uploaded his first video with BadBoyHalo) tweets:
====Meetup====
There were multiple failed attempts over the years by Skeppy to get BadBoyHalo to meet up with him in real life. BadBoyHalo would occasionally try to blame Skeppy for not meeting up or get mad that Skeppy had met up with someone else, to which Skeppy would say something along the lines of, "I'll meet up with you tomorrow, I'll fly out whenever you want!" And Bad would reply, "Oh, well tomorrow's a little soon..."
They got close several times over the years, but their plans always seemed to fall through (which fans called "meetup baiting"). Skeppy made two videos donating $50,000 and then $100,000 to BadBoyHalo asking if they could meet up now and there are numerous clips from streams with their friends asking and trying to pressure Bad into meeting up with Skeppy.I Spoke To Discount Skeppy... posted by Skeppy on Dec 12, 2020; timestamped to an example of BadBoyHalo talking to Puffy and Skeppy about him not meeting up with Skeppy. It seemed to be a clear source of friction in their relationship for a time. A decent chunk of RPF fanfiction focused on their meeting and how that would go.
On February 3rd, 2023, they finally met for the first time in real life. in 2023 by Twitter user itsmoon1e BadBoyHalo hung out with Skeppy for an entire week, they streamed four times together, met up with other Youtubers/Streamers like the Dream Team and streamed with them, and whenever one posted on Snapchat or Twitter the other would post a matching Snap or Tweet. The biggest question that was teased during their meeting was who was taller. BadBoyHalo had been cagey with his exact height,Captain Puffy Goes On E-Date With BadBoyHalo... Clip from one of Puffy's streams mostly talking to Bad about his height and trying to get him to admit he's 5'6". Posted by Cuteboo on April 19, 2021. but always claiming to be taller than Skeppy.TikTok calculating Skeppy and BadBoyHalo's heights by kentai.haven posted on Feb 21, 2021. On Twitter, the duo posted various pictures showing one taller with the other clearly squatting, refusing to stand straight next to each other. But as the week progressed it eventually became clear they were essentially the same height, although fans continued to playfully argue about which was taller (calling themselves things like "tallboyhalo" and "tall skeppy" truthers).
BadBoyHalo had said that he didn't think there had been any need to meet his friends in real life and had refused to meet with anyone (except AntFrostAntfrost Reveals Dream Manhunt SECRETS! posted by the Internet Reject Podcast channel on Dec 25, 2022 timestamped to where Antfrost talks about meeting BadBoyHalo, but that was before either had become too popular). Then after meeting with Skeppy, he compared the difference between online friends and meeting them in real life as all your life knowing someone only by their shadow, and then they walk up to you.Clip of BadBoyHalo "imagine your entire life you'd known someone's shadow"
On March 21st, 2023 they met up for a second time. They trolled the viewers into thinking they were still deciding when to meet up while playing Minecraft, with BadBoyHalo pretending to get mad at Skeppy and leaving the call, before Skeppy turned on facecam and revealed that BadBoyHalo was already there.Tweet with clip of the meetup reveal and also mentioning how this style of reveal was joked about in fandom. They stayed together for a week, again going to Dream's house where more streamer/content creator friends showed up to also visit. They posted more Snapchats, including snaps from a merch tour, as well as Twitter group photos. Back at Dream's house Skeppy and Bad cameoed in several cooking streams the others did. BadBoyHalo also did his usual Saturday MunchyMC stream there, except with facecam so the others could cameo, with Skeppy playfully trying to ruin the event. The last stream was BadBoyHalo hosting a hot wings stream with everyone which ended shortly after he did the One Chip Challenge to get Dream to eat a hot wing. Only BadBoyHalo had to do it, but after Bad ran off camera to recover Skeppy came back and insisted on eating a small part of a chip because, "I have to suffer with him."HOT WINGS STREAM WITH EVERYONE AT DREAM TEAM HOUSE! timestamped to when Skeppy eats a part of the One Chip Challenge chip. Posted on the BadBoyHaloVODS Youtube channel on March 26, 2023.
===Dream SMP===
On the Dream SMP, which took place from 2020-2022, BadBoyHalo and Skeppy lived together and founded The Badlands faction along with Antfrost and Awesamdude. The Dream SMP is a role play server, so Bad and Skeppy are specifically role playing characters even though their characters share their same usernames. In the lore, BadBoyHalo is a demon who shares his canon lives with Skeppy. Only when Skeppy dies does BadBoyHalo lose a life, otherwise he has unlimited canon lives instead of the normal three.
Dream's plan to collect things other members on the server had emotional attachments to in order to control them included a cage labeled specifically for SkeppyBadBoyHalo saying he broke the Skeppy cage on Twitter Posted Jan 20, 2021., saying "[Skeppy] is the one thing that Bad cares about".Clip of the Skeppy cage What if Dream had successfully taken Skeppy hostage is explored in a subset of fanfics.Works Involving Skeppy's Cage & Adjacently Themed Ideas Archive of Our Own Collection Fans also find it a funny gag moment, as to be fair it was clearly meant to be a joke, since in Minecraft the cage would be easy to break out of.Headcanoning about how the conversation might have went when thinking up the Skeppy cage posted by the-final-sif on Jan 20, 2022.
The most prominent lore the duo participated in was the Egg arc, where an alien red egg with brainwashing powers was discovered by BadBoyHalo. Members of the Badlands, including BadBoyHalo, became corrupted by the Egg. Skeppy saw this and broke the mind control connection by covering the Egg in obsidian, also trapping himself in the process. BadBoyHalo freed Skeppy from the obsidian, but Skeppy was now corrupted by the Egg, his skin turning from blue to red and becoming almost emotionless, especially toward BadBoyHalo. BadBoyHalo attempted to cure Skeppy of his corruption, with his other friends urging him to consider killing Skeppy to try cleansing him, but Bad refused. In the end, Bad allowed himself to be re-corrupted by the egg's promise that he could be with Skeppy. However, Skeppy continued to shun BadBoyHalo in favor of the Egg.
Eventually BadBoyHalo lost his temper and killed Skeppy by shoving him in lava. Shortly after, BadBoyHalo and the other members of the Egg cult were defeated. BadBoyHalo fled to where a now cured Skeppy had respawned on their private island. There, Skeppy killed BadBoyHalo in hopes that it would likewise free him from the Egg's mind control. This didn't work, and so Skeppy made a deal in secret with the Egg, agreeing to serve it again by betraying and tricking the other SMP members into killing each other in exchange for BadBoyHalo's freedom.Twitter post from Rurus @sparklingco2 containing the Egg's speech.
In short, it is a selfish codependent relationship where each man would sacrifice everyone else and themselves for their best friend.
===Other SMPs===
Skeppy and BadBoyHalo have made or joined a variety of their friends' SMPs, though the series are usually pretty short lived.
In 2019 the pair was part of the How To Minecraft SMP season 6. They lived together, with Skeppy mostly trying to troll BadBoyHalo in his videos/streams and burning up all their valuables in lava. Mr. Squeegy, Bad's pet salmon, was born (and first died) here, as well as the meme of Skeppy immediately throwing high enchanted picks that Bad gifts him in lava. After seeing Bad's reaction, Skeppy started slaughtering new fish to make Bad think he'd killed his pet fish and bait a reaction without actually killing Bad's pet fish.
A more widely referenced SMP series is the 2020 iDots SMP. On this server they lived very domestically, starting out by running away together to try to protect their pets from the other iDots. They insisted on living together, though sometimes Skeppy would get mad and move out, but Bad would always follow or eventually get Skeppy to come home. They'd joke around on stream, singing, building houses, arguing and making up again. 
Paraphrased conversation from Skeppy's fourth stream:The iDots SMP #4 - Surprising BadBoyHalo With His Horse... on the Skeppy channel posted July 27, 2020.
Skeppy in chat: i just have to sit like a lonely housewife and wait for you while you are out fighting doing the mans work
BadBoyHalo: "Doing the man's work? That's sexist, Skeppy! Skeppy listen, I don't want you to stay at home and be the housewife-"
Skeppy in chat: yes it is
BadBoyHalo: "Unless you want to do that-"
Skeppy in chat: dude
BadBoyHalo: "I will support you in any endeavor."
Probably the most fandom-popular storyline from this server is that of Roberto, Bad's horse that kept dying but which Skeppy kept replacing because he didn't want to see Bad sad, while Bad acted like he didn't know it was happening. Also occasionally seen in fanart is Strawberry and Blueberry, a pair of red and blue parrots they found and tamed together.iDots SMP | Day 11 | Skeppy & MegaPvP Struggle | skeppylive Stream Strawberry & Blueberry. Uploaded on the skeppylive VODs channel, streamed August 14, 2020.
===Discount Skeppys===
Captain Puffy and Quackity were given the titles Discount Skeppy 1 and Discount Skeppy 2 respectively by BadBoyHalo on the Dream SMP. Puffy because she would change her skin to Skeppy and role play as him,BadBoyHalo Misses Skeppy So He Talked With Discount Skeppy clip from Captain Puffy's stream posted by Skoppi on Dec 5, 2020. usually when Bad's character was missing Skeppy (as Skeppy did not play as much on the Dream SMP). Quackity because he would annoy and joke around with Bad and thus reminded him of Skeppy. Quackity said one of his goals on the Dream SMP was to break up couples, including Skeppy and BadBoyHalo, while Puffy's seemed to be to keep them together by occasionally acting as a therapist.
Captain Puffy, Skeppy, and BadBoyHalo are also known as the Hotties Trio,Twitter post by BadBoyHalo with a photo of him, Captain Puffy and Skeppy saying "ME AND MY HOTTIES ALL IN THE SAME PLACE". Posted on March 25, 2023. because they've done Hot Wings streams together.Dream SMP but it's 1.17?! | Apr. 18 2021 Posted on the PuffyVODS channel. Timestamped to when BadBoyHalo is blackmailed into officially calling their group the Hotties instead of Hot Wing Homies.
Conversely, Quackity, Skeppy, and BadBoyHalo are known as the Jealous Trio by fans. Quackity would purposefully try to get between and antagonize them as a joke.An example of Quackity calling Skeppy to antagonize him, clip on Skoppi's channel from Quackity's stream (playing GTA with BadBoyHalo, GeorgeNotFound and KarlJacobs) This behavior also spawned BBQduo, the pairing name for BadBoyHalo and Quackity, and Ducky Duo, which is Skeppy and Quackity.
Skeppy played the part of being possessive of BadBoyHalo and aggressive toward not only Puffy and Quackity, but also BadBoyHalo, occasionally punishing him or starting fights with Bad because of PuffySkeppy gets Jealous because Captain Puffy kissed Badboyhalo posted by Skephalo on Dec 12, 2020 and Quackity.skeppy reacts to hi big daddy posted by Skoppi on Feb 17, 2021big daddy island clip posted by Skoppi on Feb 17, 2021 Fans would participate by sending provocative donations or posting clips on Twitter and tagging Skeppy to rile him up. Skeppy eventually had to clarify that BadBoyHalo was allowed to have other friends. (To be fair, BadBoyHalo also displays plenty of jealousyBadBoyHalo doesn't want Skeppy to marry Vurb, compliation of clips from this Skeppy stream posted by skkepphalo on April 11, 2021.Compliation of Bad being possessive of Skeppy posted by Cas @caspyyay on Twitter. March 16, 2023 and angst towards Skeppy,Fans talking about how jealous Bad is during his stream when Skeppy and Dream were off practicing pvp without him. Posted on Tumblr Aug 21, 2020 such as when Skeppy met up with Quackity in real life,BadBoyHalo’s Reaction to Skeppy & Quackity Meet up... clips from Bad's stream posted by Skuppy on Aug 30, 2021 or when Puffy received a Skeppy merch box.BadBoyHalo GETS VERY JEALOUS Because He Didn't Get SKEPPY'S MERCH BOX clip from Captain Puffy's stream on the Skoppi Youtube Channel.)
BadBoyHalo continued to jokingly call Quackity Discount Skeppy even when they met up in person on Jan 15, 2023.I Met BadBoyHalo in Real Life edited down video on QuackityTwo Youtube channel. Posted Feb 6, 2023Quackity Finally Meets BadBoyHalo And Rat the full vod posted on the QuackityVODS Youtube channel Jan 16, 2023. During their meetup, Quackity roleplayed as Skeppy so BadBoyHalo could practice meeting the real Skeppy.BadBoyHalo @saintsofgames appreciation tweet to Quackity for the meet up practice.
===Skeppy's Love or Host===
During the lead up to Skeppy's appearance on the online dating show Love or HostTumblr post with screenshots from Twitter of reactions from other content creators making Skephalo jokes in response to the announcement of Skeppy's Love or Host. on Jan 31, 2021, BadBoyHalo played up his worry and jealousy about Skeppy finding a potential partner and leaving their friendship behind, and being upset that Skeppy didn't talk to him about being on the show.
Skeppy confronted Bad about it, asking Bad how he thinks he felt with Bad replacing him with discount Skeppys. This was also around the same time that Bad was yet again refusing to meet up in real life with Skeppy.
Skeppy also asked BadBoyHalo to be on the show as a contestant, saying that BadBoyHalo could bypass the female requirement. BadBoyHalo refused to be a contestant, but part way through he showed up as a special guest. Skeppy eliminated him, with BadBoyHalo saying he would have picked love.
Skeppy ended up picking LilChup, who was cosplaying as BadBoyHalo.
Some fans found parts of the arc quite tense and a little too real, worried that Bad and/or Skeppy's feelings were actually hurt. After this, Skeppy fans considered replacement jokes (as in the discount Skeppy jokes) made by fans as against Skeppy's boundaries, even though he never said explicitly that (Skeppy has yet to give a traditional boundaries list like some MCYTers).
==Fandom==
===Fan Commentary===
Dream SMP reactions:
Real life reactions:
===Memes===
Several memes and inside jokes have spawned over the years of their interactions, many of them from Skeppy trolling BadBoyHalo. The following is a partial list:
* Divorce - Skeppy and BadBoyHalo tend to enjoy playfully bickering with one another before making up again. This prompted a meme of saying they were arguing like an old married couple, and referring to their arguments as divorces. Fellow content creators play into this too, with a6d on the iDots SMP asking in chat, "how do they divorce before even starting their wedding",iDots SMP | Day 5 | Media Share & Divorce | skeppylive Stream recorded July 28, 2020 and posted on the skeppylive VODs channel July 31, 2020. Timestamped to a6d asking in chat about them divorcing before marrying. or Quackity bragging about causing their divorce.I Roasted Skeppy on Quackity's second channel New viewers who don't realize why they're called Happy Duo can mistakenly think they're happy all the time and get thrown by their arguments and screaming matches, not realizing that along with their genuine affection for each other, they still have that history rooted in pranks and trolling.
* 14 - Copying the first video, a6d applies to BadBoyHalo's server and Skeppy tells him to answer time related questions by simply saying '14'.So the French Server Owner Finally Trolled Him... video posted by Skeppy on Dec 1, 2018. This is a reoccurring and long lasting meme, such that BadBoyHalo's twitter profile still states "14 Memes are not appreciated" in 2023.
* Thin crust pizza - Skeppy had 72 pizzas delivered to BadBoyHalo's house, thin crust specifically because BadBoyHalo said he didn't like thin crust pizza. There is a conspiracy theory that the video was staged and Skeppy didn't actually send the pizzas to Bad, usually referenced by saying something like, "where's the missing pizzas?"
* 🔰 - Encouraged by Skeppy, people would donate this and other symbols on BadBoyHalo's streams, which when read out by the text to speech voice on stream is "Japanese Symbol for Beginner", a relatively long and annoying phrase to listen to repeatedly.
* Bald - Calling BadBoyHalo bald specifically ie BaldBoyHalo because it annoys him. He did eventually shave his head during a stream where Skeppy donated $10k,I Donated $10,000 to BadBoyHalo to go BALD... posted by Skeppy on Aug 3, 2020 but afterwards grew his hair out.
* Soon - Anytime the word 'soon' is used, the meme is to treat it as though it actually means 'never' or years in the future, and ideally to censor it like 's**n'. BadBoyHalo promised him and Skeppy would meet up "soon" so many times over the years that fans and fellow content creators make fun of this word and act distrustful at just how long 'soon' really is.
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===GoodBoyHalo & Jef===
There is a fannon-made opposites AU where BadBoyHalo becomes GoodBoyHalo, who has a predominately white and blue color scheme and is rude and crude, while Skeppy becomes Jef, who wears brown or dull gold and is weak and introverted. Their pairing name is, predictably, JefHalo.
Jef (sometimes spelled Jeff) is named that because there was a joke that Skeppy got his name from the Skippy peanut butter brand. So then, Jef comes from the Jif peanut butter brand.
===Controversies & Wank===
See 'RPF' for typical controversies around shipping real people. The main discourse is potentially making the duo uncomfortable or awkward around each other/ruining their friendship by romantically shipping them. 
There isn't much of a fourth wall and fans can directly talk to the duo (i.e. through donations, their discords, their stream chats which are constantly spammed with demands for them to call the other) so poor behavior can easily start fandom drama.
====Age Gap====
There is sometimes discourse against romantically shipping them because BadBoyHalo is older than SkeppySkepHaloIsBad @IsSkep twitter post speculating about the age gap between the duo. Posted on July 22, 2019.. Considering it's a fictional romance ship anyway, and BadBoyHalo has yet to reveal his true age, fans can technically headcanon his age as whatever they want. Fans usually speculate that Bad is four to eight years older. But stating the obvious, no matter how old Bad is they are both consenting adults (Skeppy made his first trolling video with Bad when he was almost 19 years old and they did not meet in person until Skeppy was 23 years old). Most importantly, they do not have an adult figure/child relationship history like Bad has with, say, the Dream Team (whom Bad has known since they were ~13 year old children).
On Awesamdude's pizza cooking stream, Dream said that GeorgeNotFound is older than BadBoyHalo, contradicting Awesamdude who thought Bad was older, before Awesamdude gave a little head shake and went, "oh yeah!"Pizza cooking stream hosted by Awesamdude timestamped to where Dream says George is the oldest there, older than Skeppy and older than Bad. Posted on the Youtube channel Dreamnotfound on March 26, 2023. If true then Bad is younger than he's led fans to believe,Trapped In Walmart AGAIN! by BadBoyHalo, timestamped to where he mentions being able to legally buy alcohol, posted on April 5, 2016. since George is only 3 years and 2 months older than Skeppy.
====NSFW====
BadBoyHalo personally tries to maintain a family friendly persona that is contrary to NSFW content, asking fans to please not draw NSFW content of him or his character. He has said he's fine with anything that you "would be comfortable showing to a cool high school teacher." He is fine with blood but not excessive gore and said to check his Twitter likes for examples of fanart he's comfortable with.BadBoyHalo talking about his boundaries with fan content Skeppy hasn't said much about shipping, except in 2019 when he said he regrets some of the things he said to Bad that encouraged it, and in a video where he took quizzes he picked a choice that said, 'shipping is okay but some bits are weird'. Both currently seem to be fine with platonic or romantic Skephalo shipping.
Regardless of BadBoyHalo's wishes, there are still fans who make NSFW content. Fans who create or discuss NSFW content that is anything more graphic than kissing and cuddling are often ostracized for breaking Bad's boundaries. It doesn't matter if it's RPF or the duo's fictional characters.
In the past Bad has said he doesn't read fanfiction and so didn't care what people wrote, as such, some fans don't view NSFW fanfic specifically as boundary breaking. Nevertheless, on AO3, many NSFW stories are published using the anonymous feature. On Twitter when posting NSFW content, where it's much more likely to be accidentally seen, it is customary to either not tag at all or use l33t speak versions of names, i.e. writing 8@d instead of Bad. Content creators are also blocked in an attempt to keep them from seeing NSFW creations and also keep it from the regular SFW and minor fans. That way someone has to purposefully look for it to find it.Twitter post pointing out the hypocrisy of SFW accounts purposefully seeking out and looking at boundary breaking NSFW accounts. Posted on March 17, 2023.
However, even on the SFW side of fandom, there are still controversies skirting the NSFW line. It can be seen as fetishizing to make shipping jokes, such as sexualizing top/bottom claims, just because the two guys are close friends, especially when the fans making the jokes are not mlm (men who love men).Tumblr post from 2020 asking Happytwt to stop @ing the duo with top/bottom jokes and shipping them seriously. On a similar note, purposefully misgendering and calling them girls, princess, etc. happens a lot, as well as outright homophobic jokes, which sometimes seem to cross the line of good taste and that some people might take seriously. Parasocial fans tend to take jokes their close friends make even further, forgetting that they aren't friends at all and are in fact complete strangers just being rude to the duo on the internet.
Fanart on the SFW side can also still be questionable, such as drawing the duo in poses with wandering hands or in skimpy clothing that might not be suitable in the average high school setting.Tweet saying "Wtf is going on in sfvv twt" with a screenshot of a challenge to draw BadBoyHalo's character in a revealing dress that has almost no front. Posted Jan 22, 2023 Technically the duo can be drawn shirtless and still be SFW, since they are men, but how they are drawn, i.e. emphasizing certain body parts or in revealing clothing they've never worn before, could be argued to be sexually objectifying them. Usually the artists say it's really the viewers who are doing the sexualizing.
Exceptions are usually made for fellow content creators/friendsTwitter video from Velvet's Snapchat making a top/bottom joke with BadBoyHalo and Skeppy. Posted March 24, 2023.skeppy and badboyhalo gets traumatized in gartic phone clips from vGumiho posted by Skoppi of mostly Gumi and Velvet making crude NSFW Skephalo drawings/prompts. of BadBoyHalo and Skeppy, and of course for the duo themselves, as Skeppy has made crude jokes toward BadBoyHaloSkeppy MAKES SUS SKEPHALO Jokes While BadBoyHalo Gets ANGRY! clips from Captain Puffy's stream of them playing Quiplash, posted by Skoppi on Jul 5, 2021. (and jokes at himself when Bad's not around.technoblade VS Skeppy: Build Battle posted by Skeppy on Oct 31, 2020. Timestamped to a joke Skeppy makes about himself in regards to Bad)
There are many examples of their friends making Skephalo shipping jokes, sometimes fairly graphic ones, or even outright asking sexual questions to fluster BadBoyHalo and Skeppy. Vurb apologized for it, saying, "I'm sorry for any of my followers that found my "skephalo"/shipping tweets uncomfortable as it was just a joke between me, skeppy and bad and I didn't take into account the follower/viewers feelings on the joke so I'm sorry for any of my mlm followers that found them uncomfortable/disrespectful towards mlm couples/individuals and I have learnt and educated myself and I will not be making those jokes anymore. I'm sorry for taking it too far."Vurb @JustVurb apologizing for their Skephalo jokes on Mar 23, 2021 He went on to say he was super thankful to Skeppy, Bad, Ant and Velvet for being there for him and educating him on the subject.
Jokes should obviously not be taken as tinhatting on the part of their friends, for example AntFrost has explained that he actually views BadBoyHalo and Skeppy as platonic soulmates despite his shipping jokes.
====Queerbaiting & Tinhatting====
Queerbaiting is naturally a topic that has occasionally come up (usually in "my content creator is better than yours" squabbles) since Skeppy and Bad are affectionate toward each other and Skeppy sometimes includes a Skephalo-themed joke or reference in his videos.
Their 2022 Muffinversary tweets, especially, caused an extraordinary amount of confusion and debate specifically about whether Skeppy meant 'bf' to mean 'boyfriend' or 'best friend'. On the slash shipping side of fandom, it prompted some to seriously accuse Skeppy of queerbaiting and debate whether or not real life people can queerbait themselves.
BadBoyHalo, meanwhile, used the phrase 'best bf' and said that people should know what 'bf' means.Clip of BadBoyHalo being a bit ambiguous about his use of 'best bf' Unlike Skeppy he did clarify that it meant best friend, specifically that Skeppy was his best best friend, leading QuackityQuackity tweet about Skeppy being friend zoned on Oct 20, 2022 and fans to joke that BadBoyHalo was friend zoning Skeppy.
The flip side of people who think they are straight but pretending to be LGBT+ are fans who think they're LGBT+ but closeted, aka fans who tinhat their sexuality (which usually seems to be in a joking manner but can easily be taken too far).
Skeppy has said, when asked about his sexuality, that he was "straight as a ruler"Skeppy ruler tweet posted Jan 3, 2021 which prompted fans to tweet him pictures of flexible, bendy rulers and refer to him as such. Skeppy laughed about being called a bendy ruler in a stream with BadBoyHalo and acknowledged it with a tweet saying, "tonight I'm a protractor".Skeppy @skeppyextra protractor tweet posted Apr 5, 2021
BadBoyHalo is usually careful to use gender neutral pronouns whenever he refers to romantic partners and has never clarified his sexuality. The ambiguity leads some to try to dig into his past love life. As an example, when BadBoyHalo and Quackity met in real life, Quackity asked BadBoyHalo repeatedly if he'd ever kissed a guy,Hot Wings Stream w/@Quackity a question which Bad refused to even acknowledge. This prying can annoy fans, not only because BadBoyHalo clearly doesn't want to answer invasive relationship questions, but also because it can feel like watching someone try to force him out of the closet (for those who believe him to be LGBT+).
One of BadBoyHalo's twitch mods, and who also collaborated with him in designing official merch, named Mid_Daze, deactivated their twitter account after getting into arguments with happytwt (the subtwitter dedicated to Happy Duo). It started because a fellow artist photoshopped a picture of BadBoyHalo and Skeppy kissing. Mid_Daze was concerned that photoshopped images, AITwitter post from taylor with example Wombo AI of BadBoyHalo and Skeppy lip syncing to "Airplanes" by B.o.B. ft. Hayley Williams. and deep fakes like it could be used to trick people into thinking Bad and Skeppy were actually a couple.Final message from Mid_Daze. Happytwt took their concern for how it could be boundary crossing to make photorealistic Skephalo art into Mid_Daze simply being against romantic Skephalo shipping in general, calling them homophobic and a hypocrite for having drawn romantic Skephalo art in the past. It also started a brief trend mocking them by tagging Skephalo kissing art with "/p" for platonic. Even after things had calmed down, some people believed Mid_Daze was being overdramatic for deactivating and also for insulting happytwt by saying happytwt's priorities were fucked. People also said Mid_Daze overstepped by assuming and trying to speak for Bad and Skeppy, insisting that Bad or Skeppy needed to be the ones to set any boundaries and that the manip was fine since only explicit NSFW would be breaking Bad's boundaries.Tweet about the Mid_Daze situation saying "they were speaking over bad
bads a grown ass man he can set boundaries by himself lmfao
====Taboo Streams====
In the fandom there are several controversial streams that are a bit taboo to discuss much but the main one is dubbed the 'Skeppy Drunk Stream'. On Skeppy's 21st birthday, he drank on stream and said a bit more personal things than he normally would when he was intoxicated. The stream was deleted and mods asked fans not to share it. Nevertheless, clips from this stream are often included in Skephalo compilations, usually the part where Skeppy asks BadBoyHalo to be a contestant on his Love or Host, telling BadBoyHalo that he can bypass the female requirement. Another relevant part is when a donator asks what Skeppy would do if BadBoyHalo got a girlfriend before him, to which Skeppy replies with confusion, "is Bad straight?"
====Weppy====
Because Skeppy is a POC content creator there is pushback against artists who white wash or 'graywash' (color skin a distinctly gray shade) Skeppy to give him the correct skin color and features in fanworks. On Twitter, 'Weppy' is the nickname for the whitewashed fanart of Skeppy. Artists will sometimes go so far as to recolor or redraw fanart they view as having whitewashed Skeppy if the original artist refuses to do so themselves. Tensions between fans can sometimes be exacerbated by content creators liking fanart that includes an incorrectly colored Skeppy.Go Skeppy!! fanart on Twitter This is an example of Skephalo fanart that the artist acknowledges is whitewashing Skeppy that both Skeppy and Bad liked regardless. Posted by @Kamskii01 on March 15, 2021.
==Example Fanworks==
===Fanfic===
*Unspoken Rules . A popular unlabeled relationship RPF story. The most kudos HappyDuo fic on AO3 as of February 2023.
*Yearn co-written by WORMPRIEST. RPF touch starved fic
*Fifty Kisses to Christmas by 42starsintheuniverse. Asexual romantic RPF.
* Claustrophobic by arachnicality. A popular RPF zombie apocalypse AU.
* When? [skephalo] by skephaloic. Highschool AU.
* Black Roses by Owl1425. Hanahaki Disease RPF
* World of Color by Skepperonipizza. RPF soulmates AU
* Forgive me father for I have sinned by RamenBoi3. Teenage RPF AU
===Fanart===
File:It was like meeting him all over again.jpg|"Imagine your entire life you'd known someone's shadow and that's all you'd ever interacted with... and then meeting someone in person is like they walk up to you... And boom, there's the person." Art by Wiggle
File:Muffinversary.jpg|The duo holding a banner celebrating their muffinversary and wearing HappyDuo merch hoodies. Art by serpenndragon.
File:BBH Skeppy Hug.jpg|In more playful works, fanart of Skeppy sometimes depicts him wearing a box head with the face of his Minecraft character. Art by RC.
File:Advancement Made.jpg|"Best Friends Forever". A typical way the duo are depicted is with a less demonic Bad and Skeppy wearing his Minecraft face on a hat. Art by laikoski_
File:Desserttwt.jpg|Double date with Antfrost and his boyfriend Red Velvet. There is a small subtwt called #desserttwt specifically for this quad.
File:Tango.jpg|Egg possessed BadBoyHalo & red Skeppy from the Dream SMP sets their characters up in an angsty one sided relationship with BadBoyHalo pining for a distant Skeppy. Art by swanfire
File:Do you think that everyone will be able to forgive me.jpg|Fanart of a scene from the Dream SMP. After the Red Banquet, a still Egg possessed BadBoyHalo asks Skeppy, "Do you think everyone will be able to forgive me?" To which Skeppy replies, "yeah, they will," before he kills him. Art by _KuRanberi_.
===Fanvids===
* Best of Trolling BadBoyHalo 2020 by Skep (one of Skeppy's alternate Youtube channels). An hour long compilation vid Skeppy himself made after being friends with BadBoyHalo for two years that documents their friendship from the beginning in 2018 to 2020. The first part of the description reads, "Skeppy loves BadBoyHalo very much and is very thankful for him. BadBoyHalo is the best, that is all." (Dec 31, 2020)
* Ride With U // Complete Skeppy & Badboyhalo MAP hosted by Fumi03. A multi-animator project based around the song Ride With U by Smash Into Pieces, chosen because BadBoyHalo mentioned it was a song that reminded him of Skeppy. (Jan 29, 2021)
* Tongue Tied | Complete Skeppy & BadBoyHalo MAP | hosted by Hoodedjelly. A multi-animator project based around the song Tongue Tied by Grouplove, chosen because Skeppy said it reminded him of BadBoyHalo (specifically the "take me to your best friend's house" lyric, clarifying he didn't mean anything romantic by it). (Jul 14, 2021)
* Dive || Complete Muffinversary MAP hosted by SerPennDragon. Multi-animator project with 27 different fanartists for their five year friendship anniversary.
* you are the only exception <3 by 180hugrat. Edit of BadBoyHalo talking about how he doesn't like hugs, followed by clips of him hugging Skeppy during their Feb 2023 meetup to the song "The Only Exception" by Paramore. (Feb 14, 2023)
* Them with mitski :( by skepphalow. Soundbites over the years overlaid on clips from their meetups. (July 2, 2024)
* Roberto dies [skephalo animatic] by rrararan. On the iDots SMP one of the running threads was how BadBoyHalo's horse Roberto kept dying and being replaced, with Bad acting like he doesn't know the original died. This is an animatic of one of those iconic moments, with BadBoyHalo sad about his horse dying going through a nether portal and Skeppy freaking out doing his best to make him happy again. (Nov 12, 2020)
* Mr. Squeegy by Astrobii. Animatic of the short life of Mr. Squeegy. (Jan 13, 2021)
* Jealousboyhalo sings a song about Skeppy || PLATONIC Skephalo Animatic by Kemso oo. Animation of an impromptu song by Quackity and BadBoyHalo about Skeppy. (Dec 19, 2020)
*Muffin Official Sus Remix by We The Sus Music. A clean SFW parody of BadBoyHalo's song "Muffin" to be a Skephalo ship song. (Nov 21, 2021)
*Rather be | Skeppy and Badboyhalo animation by izethetic. Their Minecraft skins are animated to be dancing to the song "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit. (Dec 18, 2019)
* george vibes to skeppy and badboyhalo's theme song. Fellow content creator GeorgeNotFound fanboying over BadBoyHalo and Skeppy's theme songSkeppy & BadBoyHalo - Theme Song remixed by Faster. and proving he knows all the lyrics, with Sapnap. (July 22, 2021)
*Lookalike || EXTENDED ANIMATIC (Skeppy, Badboyhalo, lilchup, Discount Skeppy’s)(Platonic Skephalo) by Kemso oo. About BadBoyHalo 'replacing' Skeppy with Discount Skeppys Puffy and Quackity, and Skeppy doing the same in his Love or Host with lilchup cosplaying as BadBoyHalo, to the song "Lookalike" by Conan Gray. (Feb 4, 2021)
* Blood Vines- Dream SMP Eggpire [ Animatic ] by Fumi03. The first part of the Egglore backed by the song "The Other Side of Paradise" by Glass Animals. (Jan 19, 2021)
* world's smallest violin - skeppy animatic by spoop!!. The first part of the Egg lore from Skeppy's point of view to the song "World's Smallest Violin" by AJR. (Dec 2, 2021)
* ``It's Just A Stupid Egg, Skeppy" Dream SMP Animatic by Amblerose Moon. The part of the Egglore where Bad accidentally murders Skeppy. (May 1, 2021)
* Making an Eggpire animatic in the year of 2024 😅 I just can’t help my self by Selk. Eggpire Skephalo set to "Dancing on an Empty Floor" by Mothé (Jul 15, 2024)
* skeppy tries genderbend glasses 🤓 (skephalo ig) by ifoundjoy. This is an example of games like Gacha Club being used to recreate the characters to play out stories and AUs. (Aug 4, 2021)
===Fansongs===
* One More Dance- A BadBoyHalo and Skeppy Red Banquet Duet- DREAM SMP by HatorBee. "The SMP does a wonderful job of showing the precarious nature of the bonds we have with those closest to us, and how they can persist despite outside forces trying to destroy them. In and out of the SMP I’ve always enjoyed Skeppy and Bad's friendship so I hope I did them justice and I hope you guys enjoy the song! :D" (April 23, 2021)
* Skeppy & BadBoyHalo - You Are My Sunshine (Faster Remix) by Faster. A song remix of Skeppy and BadBoyHalo singing "You Are My Sunshine" together.
* Emotional (Badboyhalo’s song) // Dream Smp by Creamay. A fan song sung from BadBoyHalo's perspective to Skeppy after he was corrupted by the Egg about how much he misses him. Animatic version by Leegee
===Meta===
* Talking about Bad and Skeppy being a close platonic couple, as compared a bit to DNF by an anon asker and dreamsmp on Tumblr. (Nov 15th, 2020)
* Comparing the 'feel' of various MCYT ships, specifically if they're pandering to the audience or not by an anon asker and shoezuki on Tumblr. (Feb 9th, 2021)
* skeppy and badboyhalo's synastry by leovenus1st on Tumblr. (Feb 18th, 2021)
* BadBoyHalo & paltering about Skeppy by secretsscrutinies on Tumblr. (Feb 20th, 2021)
* Tinhatting a Skeppy stream clip by ambidextrousruler on Tumblr. (April 8th, 2021)
* Why the Dream SMP characters of Bad and Skeppy are wrongly victimized by the fandom. by egg-ace on Reddit (also on Tumblr). (Oct 17th/Nov 20th, 2021)
* Skephalo Thesis discussing how Skeppy and Bad's real life relationship developed by dwtisgay on Tumblr. (Sep 20th, 2022)
* Skeppy's attitude toward Bad by various fans on Tumblr. (~Aug 11, 2020)
===Other Fanworks===
* Skephalo Flag. A combination of the main colors from their Minecraft skins.
* When? [Skephalo] Comic version by imhuman-jk on Wattpad. Highschool AU.
* Cosplay of BadBoyHalo using audio from when he and Skeppy were discussing standing on crafting tables on the iDots SMP by mouse331 on TikTok.
* skephalo.gay managed by a fan, redirects to Skeppy's merch shop
* Twitter video by Kentai Haven calculating Bad and Skeppy's heights from photos. Posted Feb 21, 2021.
==Archives and Communities==
* Zak Ahmed | Skeppy/Darryl Noveschosch | BadBoyHalo tag at Archive of Our Own
* Zak Ahmed & Darryl Noveschosch tag at Archive of Our Own
* Deviantart DreamSMP-MCYT-Fanart group, Skeppy & BadBoyHalo folder.
* General Deviantart Skephalo tag
* #MuffinSelfieDay on Twitter is the 14th of every month. Fans post a selfie alongside a picture of BadBoyHalo and/or Skeppy.
==Other Fannish Resources==
* Skephalo at Shipping Wiki
* Skephalo Week 2021 on Tumblr
* #skephaloctober 2021 on Twitter
* wholesome skephalo moments A compilation video of clips taken from Skeppy and BBH's videos/streams. Posted on Oct 8, 2020.
* Skephalo being a married couple for 9 minutes and 31 seconds... Another popular compilation video of clips taken from various streams/videos. Posted on April 5, 2021.
* the skeppy love or host saga (ft. badboyhalo) Posted Jul 23, 2021.
* the entire twitch community shipping skephalo for almost half an hour compilation video by skeqqy (and part two). Basically their friends & fellow content creators shipping Skephalo. Posted Aug 13, 2021.
* 1h40min Of SkepHalo [feeding happytwt] compilation video by KayKay. Posted July 15, 2024.
* Everyone Dealing with BadBoyHalo's Skeppy Obsession compilation video by Cas. "Bad just constantly talking about Skeppy or being teased for talking about/to Skeppy". Posted May 25, 2022.
* Compilation of Skeppy being head-over-heels for Bad made by Cas @caspyyay. Posted Feb 22, 2023.
* Best Friend by Skeppy. A collaboration song between Skeppy and CG5 directed toward BadBoyHalo. A confusing song that's almost more of a diss track.
==References==
Category:Gen RelationshipsCategory:Slash PairingsCategory:Interracial Pairings
Category:RPF RelationshipsCategory:Dream SMP Relationships