Falling Apart

The LP cover for "Falling Apart"

**Falling Apart** is an LP written, preformed, and created by Famskiis. Falling Apart was released on the 25th of February, 2022, via the TG Media discord, and was met with very positive reception. The LP contains two songs, Note Block Man and Gaming Nights. Falling Apart is the first LP and album released by Famskiis under his own name, including past affilations with The Yeetles and The Yeastie Boys it is the 6th album released by Famskiis.

## Songs

- **1. Note Block Man**

Note Block Man (A parody of Billy Joel's "*Piano Man*") is one of the two songs on the album, and retells the events of the End of TeenagersGaming from Famskiis' perspective. The song starts off with a player receiving a discord ping from an announcement in the r/teenagers discord announcing the closure of the r/teenagers server on New Years Day (despite the fact that this announcement was made, and the server was shut down, both on the 30th of December, 2021, two days before New Years Day). The song quotes Vilhu from the announcement saying "Thanks for the memories", with the narrator complaining that Vilhu never actually played on the server. (although Vilhu would often moderate TG and even attended player-made events like the 1.16 Swag Awards, it is disputed whether Vilhu actually played on the server outside of god-mode.)

The song then states that Vilhu "only wanted to do just what Caro tried to", referencing Modgate, when Caro, the Community Director of r/teenagers who presided before Vilhu, shut down TGN, a move that according to the TGN Master Document, was made in an attempt to kill off the TGN community in order to make a new server that would be less toxic. As the exact motives Vilhu had to shut down TG are unknown, this lyric is either stating that Vilhu shut down TG for the same reasons as Caro (something briefly mentioned by Vilhu in the Teenagers Gaming Transparency Report), or could be referencing a popular conspiracy theory that Vilhu only shut down TG because Caro had shut down a Minecraft server before Vilhu, and Vilhu wanted to do the same only to mimic Caro.

The song then references the creation of TGForever (TGF), transitioning into the chorus, which talks about the more agitated nature of the community post-shut down. Famskiis then speaks with AncientBlade, said to be a friend of Famskiis, who tells him about TG's shutdown, and how members of the community have either come together or simply left entirely. The song goes on to go more into the beginnings of TGF, calling the naming of the server "a royal pain in the ass" (possibly in reference to how starts on discussions of more important topics like PvP Toggle or world generation were halted in order to decide on a name in the first several days of TGF), also stating that "TG now stands for Touch Grass" (an idea that was often discussed on the TGF discord, but an idea that was inevitably rejected by moderators, with the TG in TGF officially not standing for anything).

Famskiis then goes into the subject of PVP Toggle on TGF, a heated debate subject usually between old players from TGN and newer players from TG, a subject Famskiis often advocated for on the side of the removal of PvP Toggle, stating that a middle ground was never reached, referencing the finalized addition of PvP Toggle to TGF with no compromise between the two sides. The song then talks about the moderators striking down players who spammed suggestions, referencing a change that was made a few weeks into TGF's life where rules on the suggestions channel were changed from slack to strick, ending in several players being pointed for misusing the channel.

After another chorus, Famskiis finishes his discussion with the general audience by ending on a positive note, stating that although TG is gone, the memories of the server will last forever. Famskiis then goes into a short speech written towards Vilhu, asking him to step down, mentioning Vilhu taking psycho-pharmaceuticals, in reference to the TG Transparency Report, where Vilhu is quoted saying "holy shit i am glad my new meds have killed my emotions", stating this after stating that he does not need feedback from the r/teenagers Minecraft Moderator Team on the subject of completely shutting down the r/teenagers Minecraft server. The song goes into it's final chorus before ending.

**- 2. Gaming Nights**

Gaming Nights (a parody of Glen Campbells's "*Southern Nights*") is one of two songs on the Falling Apart LP, stating that TGN is superior to TG, citing that TG players lack PvP skills compared to TGN players, saying that TG players use Reddit for combat rather than in-game weapons, possibly referencing the Propaganda Wars between Superiority and Spirit City. The song states that if Muzak23, the admin of TG and an ex-moderator of TGN, "did his job", the entire player base "every city from Perry, all the way to The Stack", would sob for joy. (On the TG 1.17 server, there were 0 towns or cities inbetween Prosperity and The Stack, in fact, there was only about a 200 block distance between the two towns, one of if not the shortest distances between towns on 1.17). The song finishes with Famskiis concerned for "the server splitting", in reference to the end of TGN and the creation of TG, which at the time split the player base of TGN between TGN and TG.