#addispam blog theories

[fairdelirium1898]

The Black Album - Nothing is as it seems

I'm calling it that, as I can't figure out how in the world to pronounce DCEOLMTPAUTTEECRHS, so I'll start with the track titles, then look at the album cover.

Putting a cut here for length reasons.

Erratum - AddiFell

Looking up the definition on google, Erratum is a noun meaning an error in printing or writing. I think this fits with AddiFell perfectly. He is shown through the art and his theme to have common errors and glitches, through Strikethrough still tops the list on that. The word Erratum may also describe how AddiFell feels about himself - a mistake.

It has been shown in a previous post that he would welcome death, or some form of it, which combined with DOS Strikethrough's hinted and explicit treatment of him, leads me to believe he has very low self-esteem. Poor guy. Still, the theme is more than his insecurities. The beginning is a light, Windows 95 startup sound. This relates to the soft spot he has, for Addispam and others. The rest of the song is very harsh, which I believe relates to how he presents himself - as a threat. A big threat. Looking at previous posts, it shows that his attacks are weak, but his defence is massive, which doesn't exactly line up with being a threat.

But it does line up with AddiFell's outward cruelty. It's all a show to protect himself. Likely from DOS Strikethrough the most.

Simulated Sympathy - DOS Strikethrough

Next up we have DOS Strikethrough's theme "Simulated Sympathy". What better way to describe her. She has been consistently shown as two-faced and manipulative, and the title of her theme is just a further reinforcement of that. She's faking sympathy for everyone and everything.

Her theme, like AddiFell's, is heavy, but hers has a more urgent tone to it, along with a much more melodical synth throughout. I think this lines up with how she wants to be seen as someone to trust, but that there is an underlying threat throughout, right down to her core. Essentially, her theme is trying to be the opposite of AddiFell's theme and she's succeeding at it.

But we know better.

Glamorous Overload - Addispam

Next up is the theme of who I used to think was the main character, Addispam! His theme sure screams for attention though! With a heavy mix of Mettaton's Death by Glamour and hints of Big Shot, it is easily the most attention grabbing song of the lot, which fits with his character perfectly. I mean, why wear a bright yellow suit if you aren't trying to be seen? "Glamorous Overload" is a perfect title, the song is exactly what it says on the tin!

His theme is the most moderate of the four, being a balanced mix of heavy bass and light synths. This fits with what we have seen of Addispam so far, he doesn't really hide who he is, he shows everything, even the less than favourable sides. Overall, I think his theme shows that while yes, he is capable of violence, he is also capable of sweetness, similar to Mettaton, whose bassline he borrows.

Connection Pending - Brackets

Finally, the newest theme of all, Brackets' theme "Connection Pending" is easily the oddest of all four themes so far. It has the lighter synth as the focus, however there is a consistent bassline and doubling of notes that can make the song feel heavier in parts without changing the song structure in the slightest. This leads me to believe that like Strikethrough, he is hiding his real threat level, along with the Freedom motif being present in his theme only.

The dial up sounds make a return here along with hints of Big Shot and the main focus, the Freedom motif. Honestly, Brackets is giving off the same feeling for me as the secret bosses of Deltarune do when compared to the other characters. He's someone we specifically had to seek out, and now that we've found him, he's the odd one out in the group. I think we need to look into him deeper, there's something we're missing.

DCEOLMTPAUTTEECRHS - The Album Name

Mun Atari, I mean this in the most respectful way possible, HOW DO YOU INTEND US TO PRONOUNCE THIS???

Now that I've got that out of my system, let's look at the obvious. It's a mashup of the words Deltatech Computers, just alternating every other letter. What is catching my attention is the album cover itself. So its the logo for Deltatech, along with the name, but it looks like there is binary code behind the text and logo. On desktop, it's barely visible, but it's visible enough to see the binary is most likely:

01001110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 01111001 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01110011 01100101 01100101 01101101 01110011 00101110

Which when translated comes out to "Not everything is as it seems."

Deltatech Computers is clearly integral to the plot of this blog, and by extension, Randy Spamton. I want to know where this is going so badly!!!

Deltatech Computers - Nothing is as it seems.

[grandfairdelirium1898]

OH MY GOD

I JUST GOT DM'ED BY @addispam AND GOT SENT THIS

Clicked to see the full image so here's better quality but MUN ATARI WHAT??!?!??

THE GUY LOOKS TERRIFIED WHAT--

WHO'S HAND IS THAT!???

OKAY I'M DAMN CERTAIN SOMETHING HAPPENED TO HIM NOW AT DELTATECH HOLY SHIT

[fairdelirium1898]

Again, for having fully fleshed-out designs, these guys seem suspiciously underutilized to me. Also, Pink has a heart pin, Yellow has a star, Blue has an inverted triangle, which AddiFell also got in his lenses at one point, and Orange has a circle, which we have yet to see on anyone. I'm wondering if these symbols have more significance.

Bonus art!

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Motifs on the Addispam blog

So there are certain things I've noticed repeated on the blog a lot, which I'm going to try and break down here.

The patterns of four

The heart, star, hourglass, sickle and triangle symbols

The player connecting screens

The eye and glasses colors

The phones

The bugs

The other characters

The bonus art

The other blog

Putting a cut here to keep the post from being too long.

The patterns of four

So one of the things that keeps repeating on the blog is four. This shows the easiest with the characters, three guys and a girl. There's Addispam, AddiFell, DOS Strikethrough, and now Brackets. We also have Randy, Bean and two unnamed cousins, which appear to be another guy and a girl. There is also Beauregarde, Austin, Randall and Lena. Beatrice seems to be the outlier, unless I'm missing something, or there's more characters coming, which has been mentioned by mun in the past. Regardless, this pattern keeps repeating, and with the introduction of Blackout as one of the horsemen of the apocalypse, I imagine we will be getting two more guys and a girl soon if the pattern is correct.

The shape symbols

Next up are the various shapes we see repeated in the art constantly. A heart, star and triangle show up most, but in Beauregarde Spamton's letter, we also see an hourglass and a sickle. I believe the four shown in the letter, excluding the triangle relate directly to the horsemen of the apocalypse, with Blackout, confirmed horseman, having a heart shape for his eye. The hearts have also shown up with Addispams eye shapes, upside down hearts near DOS Strikethrough and Blackout, and in the heart shaped crack on Addispam's chest in the bonus art.

The star and upside down triangle seem the closest connected to AddiFell, showing up on his glasses lens multiple times. The star must also be connected to a horseman as it was in Beauregarde's letter. However, the star is also connected to DOS Strikethrough, as it is literally the shape of her glasses lenses. The sickle and hourglass have yet to show up on anyone, but I think that one or both will show up on Brackets as we get to know him more.

The player connecting screens

This one caught my interest with DOS Strikethrough. We didn't get a player connecting screen with Addispam at the very start of the blog, the screens only showing up with AddiFell Blackout and DOS Strikethrough. Brackets didn't get one, which leads me to believe that like Addispam, he's been here the whole time and we just didn't know it. AddiFell loaded in on his own, which makes me believe he has more willpower, or Determination than DOS Strikethrough, who had to be called on multiple times to load in. This could also relate to her being a DOS program, and possible older than the rest of them. I don't think she's too much older than the rest though, since Blackout was canonically loaded in through a floppy disk, a very old form of file storage.

The eye and glasses colors

I don't know why this wasn't brought up, but there seems to be some meaning to the color changes on the characters aside from just aesthetic choices. What made me start thinking this was when Addispam was panicking about his boss visiting. His eyes went fully red. Who else has red eyes? Blackout. Blackout was also hinted at much earlier in the blog with the offer of a commemorative ring, and with Addispam dressing like him when prompted with "Dressing how a shady salesman would".

Then, Addispam's glasses went blue when he was extremely stressed out. Who else has glasses that go blue under extreme stress? AddiFell. Who has blue glasses constantly? DOS Strikethrough. She also happens to have had her eyes turn red when in great distress as well, which happened shortly before she overloaded and crashed completely. I believe that the blue glasses are a representation of bluescreening, especially since Addispams glasses actually did bluescreen in an older post, and that the red eyes might be horseman related, considering Blackout, in his new Spamtony body, has naturally red eyes.

The phones

Throughout the blog, phones are surprisingly underused, but when they are used, they're very important. There have been four types of phone on the blog, a black phone like on Spamtons shop screen (Used only once), a red phone of the same type (Used only once in the same art), a red 80's style brick cellphone (Used constantly), and what appears to be a black modern cellphone (Used by Randy and Bean).

The red 80's brick cellphone is used the most often, shown with both Addispam and Bean which draws a connection between the two. It also draws a connection between Addispam, Bean and Randy, who judging by the fact he worked for Deltatech, a computer company seemingly based in the 80's and 90's, lines up perfectly. I'm not fully certain what the symbolism is for the phone, but it is most commonly shown during times where the characters are stressed, afraid or alone.

The bugs

And I don't mean computer bugs. On the blog, we've had two direct connections between the characters and bugs, Blackout being directly connected to spiders in multiple posts, and AddiFell oddly enough being connected to cockroaches in two posts. I feel like there's something more to this, especially when we also have Addispam being compared to a butterfly in one assk in the past. There might be some bug symbolism to look into here, and with how DOS Strikethrough acts with AddiFell, I won't be surprised if she gets connected to a black widow or praying mantis later on.

The other characters

This is where things start to get a bit foggy. We know for certain that there are more characters than what we have seen on the blog. We know about Beauregarde Spamton through his letters, and his great-grandfather is hinted about in that same letter as well. Mike, Tenna, Florence and Beatrice are also hinted at in those letters. We have seen one picture of Lena Gaster and Austin Spamton. Austin is brothers with Beauregarde, but Lena is still more of a mystery. We have also had Bean and Randy's cousins hinted at, a man and woman, and we have seen Randy's dad Randall in one post.

I believe that there are both more Spamton's and Gasters coming, and I also believe that these two possible families are in some sort of ongoing fight, which has trickled down to Addispam and the others. Here's why.

Addispam and AddiFell definitely seem more connected to the Spamtons, with AddiFell having the exact same white hair streak as both Beauregarde and Bean Spamton. His design is also a mirror of Addispam, with his suit being red, black and yellow, mirroring Addispams yellow, red and white. AddiFells suit also shares similarities with Austin Spamton's suit. Addispam and AddiFell seem to get along very well, unlike AddiFell, and DOS Strikethrough.

I believe DOS Strikethrough falls into the Gaster family, the most important visual indicator being her eyelashes, which match the cracks on Gaster's original sprite. Her attitude and cruelty are opposite to Addispam and AddiFell, which I believe must come from Lena Gaster, and whichever other Gasters exist. There is also the other visual indicator of her hair matching Lena Gaster's hair.

The bonus art

This is where the stealthiest, most unlikely lore tends to keep popping up. We got to see Addispams cracks and Randy Spamton both through bonus art long before either were properly introduced on the blog, which leads me to believe there might be even more hidden lore in the bonus art to look at.

The other blog

Finally, we come to my last analysis point for now, the other blog. "@poorlydesignedads" is the name of the sideblog, and while it has been inactive for a while, the few questions it has answered along with the pinned post tell us a lot of stuff. First off, when you go to the blog, you are welcomed to your "QUEEN personal home computer" which seems to already have software installed. The software? Adware (Addispam), Ransomeware (AddiFell), Cleanware (DOS Strikethrough), and Shareware (Brackets).

They all sport much more simplified designs reminiscent of early digital helpers you could download on computers and the types of software line up with the Deltatech tape that was posted on the main blog. Well, all except for AddiFell. AddiFell is not computer software you would intentionally download, and isn't shown in the Deltatech tape either, which makes me believe he was developed to mimic the others for malicious purposes.

Well, I would say that, if it wasn't for DOS Strikethrough. In the Addispam blog header, right as you first click into the blog, it lists out "[[Used]] Car salesman", "[[Black market]] Dealer", "[[Rogue]] Cleanware", and [[OpenSource]] Friend."

I believe that we have been misled. I think that DOS Strikethrough is the real Ransomware, and that AddiFell is the original Cleanware. DOS Strikethrough, as we already know, lies, covers up things she doesn't want shared around, and puts up a cover for everyone she meets until she hits a breaking point. AddiFell doesn't do that, he is who he is, for better and for worse. With the sheer amount of control DOS Strikethrough seems to have over him, it's not that hard to believe that she's the real malware.

But what about the Deltatech tape? It shows DOS Strikethrough right in the video! Well, that's very easy to answer. We have seen Addispam hop back and forth between a more masculine and feminine appearance easily on the blog and even in the Deltatech tape, we see a male and female Addispam. It's not that farfetched to believe that as malicious software, DOS Strikethrough could change her appearance, and change AddiFell's appearance. She could make herself look like the official cleaning software, and make him look more like a virus.

We already know she's altered his appearance already with the large cracks covering the left side of his face and his neck as said by both Addispam and AddiFell, so it's only a small leap to assume she might have done even more.

Finally, the last noteworthy thing on the sideblog, is Brackets himself. He was introduced here a long time before he showed up on the main blog, and it supports my earlier belief that he is mute, as he uses sign language to communicate on the blog. It just goes to show, he might have been here far longer than we realize.

Analysis to be continued later!

[grandfairdelirium1898]

What this is

So I just noticed everything I've been posting about @addispam has gone on my sideblog and not my main. I'm mad. Anyway, here's the link to the sideblog, all theory posts will be on here now lol.

[fairdelirium1898]

Was it ever established where he got the cracks, or what the fluid inside him even is? It says it's Viscoelastic fluid but doesn't go into any more depth than that. Also, the upside down heart crack on his chest reminds me of the more recent Blackout posts, who happens to have that in his eye sometimes.

Bonus art!

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Randy first appears here, and now he's canon on the blog. I think this means the other bonus art might be canon, and that we should look back through it. Maybe other characters have been hinted at without us realizing it. Also, what does the G. stand for?

Bonus art!

I just wanted to share, this is Rancid Spamton (Randy G. Spamton), he's disgusting, has few to no redeeming qualities, and I love him.

[fairdelirium1898]

Why is he so big. Why is this never talked about either? So Addispam can go NEO, and it was never talked about after? Also, the six wings, that feels like it might have some kind of significance.

Bonus art!

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Love how this, and the previous commemorative ring post foreshadowed Blackout. I wonder how connected those two actually are?

Wear the kind of outfit that someone who lives in a dumpster selling shady rings would wear >:)

"Well, I don't get why you'd want me in this... But here ya go toots?"

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We haven't really learned much about Mike either it seems, and recently with the letter from Beauregard Spamton, Mike seems to be some kind of entity.

Do you know a guy named Mike by any chance? Need to have a word with him.

Also have some Kromer! I dan give 50,000 for that car!

"Sold! Thank you for your patronage!"

"And about Mike... I don't know any [[Criminals]] like him."

Spamton's smug level remained at 20%.

Spamton's stress level rose to 15%.

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Is this also hinting at Blackout with the glasses at the end? Also I think it's kind of odd that we don't know much of Addispam's early life in Cyber city, same goes for the other characters. We should look into this.

Fluster 100% Finale!

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[fairdelirium1898]

Alright so Beauregarde Spamton had not only the same hair streak as AddiFell, but he also has the same glasses as Blackout? And Bean Spamton also has that hair streak, but Randy doesn't. What's all that about? Is it a family thing? If so, why doesn't Randy have it?

BEAU SIGHTED

BEAU SIGHTED

"You ah, talking about my great-grand-uncle or my cousin?"

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I swear, wasn't a carnival type thing mentioned again recently??? Also, why is Addispam immediately enraged just from the mention of a carnival. I think we should look into this.

Yo boss, there's a carnival happening a little away from the shop! It's got a carousel and everything! Don't we deserve a break?

“A FFFFFFF[[IFTY PERCENT OFF!!!]ING WHAT!?”

Spamton's fluster level dropped to 20%.

Spamton's bloodlust level rose to 20%.

Spamton's stress level remained at 5%.

[fairdelirium1898]

Why does AddiFell have MiniFells? It seems like he's the only one, I don't remember seeing any MiniAddi's, or MiniStrikes, aside from that one post. Also, why does AddiFell have a heart on his shoulder here?

Bonus art!

[fairdelirium1898]

So Addi crashes, AddiFell overheats and Strikethrough overloads. What happens to Brackets? Does he disconnect or something? That would fit with his whole "Ghost" persona.

So you two are [one and the same]! [All alone on a Friday night] with yourself, you are? So you really are [all alone] aren't you! Puppet! Puppet! Puppet! Puppet!

"I AM NO [[Redacted]] PUPPET!!"

• Addifell's temperature has gone up a few degrees. Be careful, you wouldn't want him to overheat.

[fairdelirium1898]

I think Brackets is mute. Even right here, he doesn't say anything, which makes me wonder why, if it's by choice or not. In the recent posts it seems like he's mute as well. Also, I noticed that his glasses share the same colors as Swatch's glasses. I don't know if that's important or not.

youre spamton, hes spamton, im spamton- are there any other spamtons we should know about!!!!!

"None worth mentioning."