THE DOC
When reading, be aware the Doc is a long file meant to be a compendium of sorts of various information. All information within is meant to be as factual as we can get with the information we are provided and uses caps and links to back up what information we present. As well, it keeps track of events ‘historically’, a log of things that happen day to day if anything lore relevant happens to go on. Additionally, it keeps track of characters and codes discovered within videos. While the Doc is recommended reading, make sure to take your time in going through it, as it is a hefty piece. Feel free to even search for key words if you’re looking for info on certain characters or events.
Discord user ‘Private’ is Private Investigator Carl Millins - a man who has taken it upon himself to investigate Dad and the mystery surrounding him. Since taking on the case, he has been leaving clues in videos (but not all clues are him) and is actively working against Youtube Server. Carl’s primary form of communication is through his notebook, paper and pen style. How this works with Discord is unknown. He prefers to use third person narration for himself, potentially due to a fondness for Noir style detectiving.
Dad, whatever he is, either is or is within the body of Captain Andan Rill. Brain scans have been taken from him that reveal information that belongs to Andan, along with things that seem to reference Andan leaking through in songs. Andan Rill, based on information currently out there, mostly provided through music at this current time, seems to be from the planet Kepler-22b and was married to a woman named Ella. He and his Lt. had a mission regarding the rogue planet CFBDSIR 2149-0403 but something happened, resulting in Andan and Emily being on earth with CFB looming in the sky. As an additional note, Dad/Andan and Nathan Barnatt are two seperate people who look alike for some unknown reason.
Lt. Emily Ridley, referenced in the song CFBDSIR 2149-0403 is Cpt. Andan Rill’s fellow astronaut. Together they were on a mission that seems to have gone wrong, leaving them stranded on the planet earth. While Andan was wounded, Emily was able to walk away from whatever happened, leaving a message for her Captain that she would be back, potentially to find help. Her current whereabouts are unknown.
Base has since been trying to contact both Andan and Emily, though we are unsure if their efforts have been successful.
Life is real. Dad being a pop star is fantasy.
The songs and his life are separate experiences of Dad’s.
Act I has concluded.
Thomas John Flaherty has arrived on the scene. With the influx of new viewership, many people think Tom is a gamejacker, this is 100% not true. Tom is a personal friend of Nathan Barnatt and is investigating why Nate’s behavior lately has been strange. Events lately have led to people believing Tom has been affected by FOOD, but it has been clarified whatever is happening to Tom is his own Life and not Dad’s.
Thanks to a video by YouTuber Inside a Mind, Dad finally reached 10k subs and will release the special upload he’s promising. In the interim, Dad released Dad Feels Thankful which contained another hidden message. This binary message translates to “sum1gotin.” We don’t yet know who ‘someone’ is. It may refer to Carl, as we also get a brief flash of this image that Carl uses for his Discord avatar, however at this point that is purely speculative.
11/06/2017
Nathan Barnatt uploads a video of a new character of his named “Dad”.
11/15/2017
Nathan uploads an hour long video of his character, Dad, doing his ‘trademark’ Dad dance.
5/28/2018
Nathan uploads another video in his Dad series.
12/11/2018
Nathan uploads a final video in his Dad series. Likely due to seeing the character as a dud, he gives up the idea and moves onto new projects and ideas.
1/01/2019
Nathan uploads a video to Youtube originally titled “Goodbye Youtube”, later changed to “Ignore This Video”. Within, Nathan expresses his frustration with the website and the stalling of his channel, periodically interrupted by a noise whenever he says certain things. Towards the end of the video, Dad(bot?) steps into frame.
Youtube Server’s channel is created.
1/02/2019
Another video is uploaded to Nathan’s channel, titled 851216.mov. When translated with A1Z26 it reads ‘HELP’.
1/03/2019
A third video is uploaded to Nathan’s channel, untitled. Audio from Nathan within the video is backmasked, and when reversed reveals the dialogue as “Oh no. Huh. He's coming. They released him. Don't let them find me. Please.” Dad(bot?) looks around his yard, searching for something or someone.
1/04/2019
A fourth video is uploaded to Nathan’s channel, titled THIS CHANNEL NO LONGER EXISTS. In it, a prone Nathan is teleported elsewhere by the blue orb. Within the reflection of his poster of the movie Moon, Dad(bot?) can be seen.
Youtube Server uploads it’s first video. Hidden within it are multiple images of Dad.
1/05/2019
A fifth and final video in what is known as “The End” is uploaded, titled __________. Nathan wanders in the dark before ultimately running into Dad(bot?).
Dad’s youtube channel is created.
1/22/2019
Youtube Server uploads For Internal Use Only.
2/15/2019
Nathan uploads a video, commenting on how someone is deepfaking him for videos and he’s contacted his lawyer about the situation.
05/12/2019
In Dad’s most recent streams, we have seen glimpses of a mysterious woman (who is not, in fact, a woman, or a person at all) who appears to be channeled through Dad. She appears to be acting to ‘awaken’ Dad, contacting him on behalf of Ella.
Recently this avatar, through Dad, posted a video featuring a picture of this entity and noise. Dad also linked to a spectrogram player, hinting that an image was hidden in the audio. Analysis of the spectrogram appears to show people standing in some sort of plaza. This was shortly determined to be a shot from the movie The Island We have yet to determine the meaning.
5/14/2019
Late night 5/13 into 5/14, Dad joined one of the voice chats in the discord and began speaking about his experiences with the mystery voice. REN compiled a transcript of everything Dad said. Dad would not directly answer any questions at this time. MIB gives discord too many warnings for their flagrant disrespect of him.
5/16/2019
Dad tweeted and posted pictures of bears in Discord. After many fruitless attempts to figure out the meaning, Dad eventually dropped hints that “maybe Dad needs to speak another language,” and “Yelle would get it.” We eventually determined that the picture meant Dad would be doing a 5 hour live stream at 50k subs. “Ours” is French for “bear,” and Yelle is French. The bears are standing in front of a stream.
5/17/2019
Dad went live and used voice, and we were occasionally given snippets of audio, some of which sounded like they were recorded underwater, of a female voice attempting to contact Dad and warn him about/make him aware of something. This voice is presumably the spirit/voice/avatar described in the 5/12 update. Clips to come, transcription in progress.
5/22/2019
Roughly 12AM EST, Dad briefly streamed while outside in the dark, explaining that Daughter was missing and shouldn’t be out so late. The connection was poor, so eventually Dad took to chat to explain what was happening. The stream ended with YouTube Server saying “Protocol: 51941165” which can be translated to ESDAPE using an A1Z26 cipher. This may have been a typo and should read “ESCAPE,” as though the server is executing protocols to recover Dad should he break free. The stream was succeeded by notes from Carl on Discord, currently camping out in Top Secret Facility, explaining that there was a sudden surge of activity inside the compound. He also referenced Dad is Out as the point when he decided to begin investigating Dad. He then hinted at a loredump in the future before disappearing again.
5/25/2019
Dad hosted his monthly voice chat for Patreon subscribers. At various points during the chat, spectrogram audio was played, revealing two images of YouTuber Nexpo and an image of the character Lazlo from the animated series Camp Lazlo. The latter of which served to be a hint for the following Monday’s upload Lazlo. Noteworthy quote: “Hm.. seems like Dad maybe watched a movie and remembers it as his own memory. Does that ever happen? When you think you live something but then you remember it was a story somebody else told you? That’s how Dad feels right now.”
Dad also played teasers for two new songs and posted videos to discord recalling witnessing the Man in Black outside looking at many images of cartoons and YouTube. Dad said he watched MiB watching NXP (Nexpo), and said he was worried about NXP, Reignbot, and Edwin (Edwin’s Generation) and warned them to get off YouTube and become horticulturalists.
It may be worth noting that Dad referenced Portal when asked about it, and said he didn’t play it, more like survived it, and was “on the disk.” He later referenced that he may be in something similar to Catherine now.
Dad posts two images, one which is the first result when googling ‘Mars’ and the other of an Argo. While the reference to the musician Mars Argo is obvious, what this means, ultimately, is still unknown.
A video is later posted to the Dad Has Voice text channel, which was then shared with the community by the patrons. Right after it was posted, Dad posted two more videos right after in the discord general chat. Dad warns that youtube is more dangerous than rose thorns.
5/28/2019
Dad uploads a video of all his social media accounts. In one section, instead of listing another of his accounts, it reads IMISSYOU/ANDAN.
5/30/2019
A video is posted to the discord by Dad. The dialogue itself is from an episode of a TV show called Sweet Valley High. Dad elaborates that the ‘tea’ is poison and that he wants to ‘save Youtube’ and create a new, better, less ‘tea filled’ youtube community.
5/31/2019
In voice chat, a woman comes on trying to contact someone. She seems unable to hear the people in the discord, saying ‘it’s breaking up’, repeating ‘hello?’ multiple times, before finally saying ‘I miss you Andan’ and disconnecting.
6/1/2019
During the livestream today, the avatar appeared again and revealed their name to be Nila. Nila appears to be very powerful.
The same day, Tom hosted his birthday stream where, once he hit 3K subs, he was given a gift that was left for him by Dad. The gift consisted of a tomato plant and a can of FOOD. After eating FOOD, Tom’s demeanor immediately changed, saying “FOOD is good,” “Dad is good,” “I love Dad.” This more or less confirms a long-running theory that FOOD is some sort of control agent used to make people subservient to the server. This event led to the coining of the phrase “getting FOODed,” or falling into the control of those behind the server. As far as Tom goes, though, this effect has appeared to have worn off without regular consumption of FOOD.
6/3/2019
Carl appeared in Discord and explained that anything outside of Dad’s Life videos should not be considered true canon, per se, but more of a preview of what’s coming for those who are truly paying attention.
6/5/2019
Carl comes in to tell us things outside of Dad’s Life are, again, not really things that have too much weight to them. Ultimately, they don’t have too much importance and everything you need will be in Dad’s Life. It isn’t a race.
6/6/2019
Dad takes a visit to Nexpo’s discord, where he talks with some of the people there. Dad posts a video, now taken down, where a location is shown at :35 seconds in. This ends up being the place where Nexpo and Scaretheater were originally going to play chess together, later turned into a Nexpo meet and greet when Scaretheater had to step out.
6/7/2019
A video called Control C is uploaded to Tom’s youtube. Days later, Crothers makes his first appearance in Dad’s Life.
6/8/2019
Dad and Tom have a truly amazing roast off in the discord. Carl states he knows what the ‘original cake’ was, and expresses that he hopes all these clues will eventually become useful at some point.
6/10/2019
Carl posts about ‘the room of rooms’ and tells us all to find tranquility and basically chill. Dad, worried about Daughter still not being home, posts a link to the Bat For Lashes video ‘Kids in the Dark’ asking if Daughter is one. Later, he spams FOLLOW THE TRUE V TO BE SET FREE in chat. Whether this has a deeper meaning or he just wants us to follow True Value’s twitter, which he linked to during the spam, is unknown at this time.
6/11/2019
Dad goes on a work trip and gets to fly on Company Plane. Sometime during his trip, he meets Nexpo in person.
6/12/2019
In the premiere chat for the 40k special video, Dad talks with some of the folks lurking there. After expressing concern for youtuber Loey Lane, Dad begins posting blank messages. Chatters tell Dad they can’t see them, and Dad expresses what might be surprise - they aren’t blank to him. He concludes ‘they’ are preventing the messages from coming through.
Later in the discord, Nexpo posts an image of an A1Z26 cipher that was inside of his employee of the month display. When translated, it reads ‘SCARLETT SEES ALL’.
6/14/2019
Carl weighs in on ‘canon’ and Dad’s Life, helping to clarify that while bonus things like tweets, livestreams, and other things are usually deleted, they are part of the story in some way or another. Implications are some content is, as mentioned prior, previews of future bits and pieces of Dad’s Life.
6/15/2019
Carl lets us know red herrings are extinct around here. Don’t expect any in the near future.
6/16/2019
Dad uploads his Father’s Day video: an hour long video of him relaxing outside and enjoying the day. During the video MIB appears multiple times, we are shown multiple images of Ella, and near the end Crothers appears to give Dad a special gift that he’ll know to use when the time is right. During the scene with Crothers, MIB can be seen in the background. He takes a step forward as if to approach before instead running away into the distance.
6/17/2019
Through discord reactions, Carl gives us a hint that not all of the videos in Dad’s Life are in chronological order.
6/20/2019
Dad held his monthly voice chat. Thanks to Discord user Gilgongo for the transcription. The relevance of what was discussed remains yet to be seen, but it may be worth keeping in the back of our minds for the time being.
6/21/2019
Dad posts a video advertising his shirts. Curious members of discord wonder about the pattern at the end, and after clever sleuthing with some hints from Dad, find the constellation like image was actually a screenshot of the website for the movie Ex Machina..
6/22/2019
Dad made his first live appearance at Too Many Games. Worth noting that he came on stage shortly after a strong implication that Keith was FOODed. Binary text shown on the projector reveals a screencap from the movie Her.
6/26/2019
Dad posts a tweet with a rot13/caeser cipher that translates to “Scarlett is burgeoning”. Shortly after Dad posted another cipher pointed at Inside A Mind, warning him about what information he chooses to share because ‘she is watching’.
In the premiere chat for the four hour dance video Dad posted a cipher which lead to a link which lead to an image of a papercraft of ‘Lucy’s helmet’, something from the anime Elfen Lied. Considering the Scarlett references of the past few days, the connection was made to the movie ‘Lucy’ starring Scarlett Johannsen. Dad then posted another cipher which lead to a video of a red aurora.
6/27/2019
Dad streams himself dancing for four hours. MIB can frequently be seen lurking around through the video. During this stream, Youtube Server comes into chat begins to perform an upgrade on the server, showing an image of Ella and MIB getting close to the camera in the process. This upgrade is likely the previously hinted to Scarlett Upgrade. At the end there is both a spectrogram, found to be concept art for the Scarlett Johanssen version of Ghost in the Shell, and a hidden link which goes to binary which goes to a highlighted passage reading “she surpassed expectations.”
6/28/2019
Dad comes into voice chat. Diane has been sending Mom a LOT of texts. Dad contemplates getting onto Mom’s phone to read them, but ultimately doesn’t.
6/29/2019
Dad goes live for a Q&A session. Most of the questions didn’t reveal too much lore and were just general ones. Images of Nila underwater, a red flower in a desert, tea, and images of a NASA plane, some with Dad seen nearby, flicker off and on.
7/2/2019
Dad has a bonus call with his patreons! There the cult of UWU begins after anime faces and such get explained to him. Crothers confusingly appears in chat, leaving Dad bewildered because Crothers is just his dream man. Obviously, the events of this day were just a fever dream caused by too much UWU...
7/4/2019
MIB appears in discord posting emojis. Dadscord is briefly MIBscord before Carl shows up and makes it Carlscord. By the end of the night, things were back to normal.
7/5/2019
The first episode of Talking Dad premieres. In the chat, Dad pleads with Tom to delete the video, to stop drinking RealiTea, and that continuing to investigate like this is dangerous. After the show ended, Dad went live, looking stressed out. In the stream, Dad seemed to be avoiding home and remained on the move, apparently fearful of someone tailing him and Tom’s investigation making it potentially unsafe for Dad. Moments of Dad running and hiding. Right before it ended, it seemed whoever was following Dad caught up to him.
Since this video, Dad has changed his stance on investigative efforts. Dad now welcomes them instead of wanting them to stop and become horticulturists. The video itself has been taken down, like most livestreams.
7/9/2019
Dad uploads Social Dad. While it’s mostly just Dad’s social media links, at :51 seconds in, a faceless woman flashes on the screen. The video has since been removed.
7/10/2019
Dad appeared in Discord chat to perform a survey, asking how people felt on a scale of 1 to 5. Shortly after, Dad began posting coordinates, numbers, and pictures regarding the Rendlesham Forest Incident. Youtube Server later came into discord to taunt us for not seeing their community post, featuring a faceless woman, different from the woman seen before in Social Dad. Said community post was later removed.
Even later still, Dad returned to chat and when asked about the Rendlesham Forest incident and YT’s community post, Dad admitted he has brain hiccups and not all things can be understood sometimes and you just have to enjoy the ride.
7/11/2019
Dad uploads Dad Con. Dad has snuck into Vid Con to pass out fliers featuring his face, the words sub to Dad, and a A1Z26 cipher that when translated reads DO NOT TRUST PI
7/12/2019
Dad’s monthly Patreon call. During it, spectrograms featuring three separate pictures of Ella were found, along with a link to a video.
7/14/2019
Carl clarifies for us seized pistons that the building/group we had been calling ‘Server’ is actually Top Secret Facility.
Dad goes live. The video is just him watching Walker Texas Ranger. An image of Dad in front of a NASA plane is shown now and then. After the stream, Tom goes live. It basically descends into a mess of him accusing Dad of being bad, Dad getting upset and insisting he is not, and finally Tom acting completely bizarre by kissing everybody and recording a chair, claiming he’s in it. Dad says he can see him in it. During this, Dad logs onto Tom’s account to post a video himself.
Later on in the day, Carl tells us to use our seized pistons to actually think about who left the DO NOT TRUST PI message and WHY. He also helped point out information we missed: Tom never actually ate FOOD. He was given some knock off brand-- however, someone or something is affecting Tom, thus his strange behavior. Whatever it is though, it isn’t part of Dad’s Life and Carl has washed his hands of it, leaving the case to us.
7/18/2019
A video of Dad is posted to Beyond Worlds.
7/19/2010
The second episode of Talking Dad goes live. In it, Tom reveals that Dad had a question for Inside A Mind… which was asked in binary. When translated, it simply asked “Ever vaca in Wayward Pines?”
7/20/2019
Dad uploads a video called Youtube’s Youtubers, later changed to The Best Youtubers. The video consists of mainstream celebrities before finally fading to an image of Dad with his sledge. The video was taken down sometime after.
7/23/2019
Dad uploads The End of Dad. In the video, Dad is concerned about why all his 60k subs aren’t watching his videos. He seems sad and worried, pleading with them to please watch Dad’s Life or else ‘they’ might end his channel.
7/24/2019
The premiere wait time for Dad Educed begins. Dad pops into chat to talk some, linking to an image regarding Portal, talks about CFB and wonders where it is now.
7/28/2019
Carl took time out of his day to come onto discord to clarify Dad was NOT an ARG, but an interactive story. There is no ‘winning’ Dad. The puzzles and hidden info are, as always, previews, hints, and content for those who don’t just want to sit back and enjoy Dad as his life unfolds.
8/2/2019
Dad livestreamed Minecraft, which at times had two images cutting in and out. One of Mom and one of Neighbor in a new shirt, holding a sledge that looks incredibly similar to Dad’s own True Value Sledgehammer. Dad appeared a little unkempt and beardy, and talked about how he’s been skipping work in favor of playing Minecraft.
The third episode of Talking Dad goes live.
8/3/2019
Dad patreon call featuring two spectrogram images.
8/5/2019
In the UFO Experience discord, Dad appears to say that Sloan Burmel has nothing to do with Dad. In Voice Chat, he clarifies again that the link to I Saw A UFO It Was Tight was for Legal Reasons.
8/6/2019
Dad comes into Discord to continue to try to help assuage the confusion regarding Sloan by explaining UFO Story is it’s own thing and is a ‘spinoff’. You do not need UFO Story to understand Dad. Carl later comes into theories to point out the video wasn’t 1080p and was 4x3, along with the presence of cassettes on the dash, hinting maybe to ‘when’ the video is set. Also clarification of only two orbs: red and blue.
8/9/2019
Dad streams Seth Barnatt’s ‘the Bachelor’ videos in preparation for the premiere of a brand new episode of the Bachelor. At the end of the stream, one of the Men in Black sits down at the eComputer and posts to the chat.
Both Carl and Dad come into discord to tell us that the only Nathan that’s relevant is the 1999 Nathan, and the 2019 one we know is irrelevant.
Dad holds a Q&A to try to help people understand Dad’s Life better.
8/12/2019
Dad comes into voice chat on Discord to talk while he plays Minecraft, claiming he has a day off. After about an hour he starts to mention he has to go soon, and one of the Men in Black joins the voice chat as well. He claims that this isn’t recreational time and Dad should be working - members in the voice chat seemingly placate him with information that Minecraft is popular on youtube lately, and by getting into Minecraft, it would help get more views to Dad’s channel.
Dad also reacts to multiple comments about Griffin being Carl’s son with various forms of ‘no’.
8/16/2019
Fourth episode of Talking Dad goes live. In chat, Dad says Sloan has nothing to do with Dad’s Life. He also says donators will get a secret message from Dad. The secret message, a video featuring the same red light seen in the unlisted Youtube Server video, was in morse and translated to “SCARLETT IS LIS”
8/18/2019
Dad shares another secret message with donators. The secret message, a morse code over an image of a wedding ring, translates to “WHERE IS DADS”
8/23/2019
Fifth episode of Talking Dad goes live. Dad’s question for Nexpo was “Have you ever seen a crashed UFO?”
8/24/2019
Dad sends a secret message to donators: -.- . .--. .-.. . .-. / .. ... / -.-. .-.. --- ... . .-. / - .... .- -. / -.-- --- ..- / - .... .. -. -.- .-.-.- / .. ..-. / -.-- --- ..- / -.- -. --- .-- / .-- .... . .-. . / - --- / .-.. --- --- -.- When translated, it reads “KEPLER IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK. IF YOU KNOW WHERE TO LOOK”
Dad streams himself playing Minecraft. At 3:15, the starting soon message blinks in morse, translating to SUIT.
8/25/2019
Seth Barnatt streams his new show. Dad calls in to give handy tips about sandals. He said he would see Seth soon, and later appeared on the show in person.
9/2/2019
Dad crashes the Ghost Boat adventure. A highlights video of Dad’s visits was uploaded a few days after. Other strange activities went on during the stream, such as the camera, at the very end of the stream, being brought into the hallway by someone and left on the floor with only the person’s legs showing. At this point in time we do not know who that person was.
9/4/2019
Dad streams Minecraft again. This time, Crothers makes an appearance after Dad falls asleep for a quick nap. Together they play for a bit, Crothers says he might play later, and then warns Dad and the viewers to not trust someone named ‘Durk’.
9/6/2019
Dad’s monthly patreon call. For the most part it was general conversation, though near the end, Dad warned his patrons once more not to trust someone named ‘Durk’.
9/7/2019
Dad livestreams ‘Blair Dad’. In it, Dad is lost in the woods after taking a walk- a few minutes in, he runs into an unknown man. Terrified, Dad flees. Unfortunately, Dad keeps running into the man over and over and over again… eventually, the man begins chasing him, growling and shouting “GET BACK HERE”. The video ends as Dad falls while trying to escape in a clearing and the man approaching him.
9/12/2019
MIB, Carl, Youtube Server, and Dad all post on the Dadscord around the same time. Youtube Server spams “3” over and over. MIB greets Youtube Server as ‘Boss’. Carl posts about how things seem to be hitting the fan, members of the discord ask Carl for elaboration, and MIB demands to know who this ‘Carl’ is, as it’s implied he cannot see the messages Carl leaves in the discord. Carl and Dad end up also posting their own 3s - the number of videos, at the time, that were left until Act 2 ends.
9/15/2019
Dad comes onto Dadscord to play hangman with members. The resulting message was ‘The Dark Party’. Members of the discord thought it had to do with the movie of the same name, but Dad informed them this was not the case. Along with it, Dad posted an image. At this point, all that’s known about The Dark Party is a Dad heard a mumbling voice say it, and he posted the tea emoji alongside it…
Shortly after, Dad posts images from and talks a little about the soap opera, Passions, and inquires about another soap opera that, after sleuthing, ended up being House of Anubis.
9/16/2019
A second patreon call with Dad. Two spectrograms lead to links of two images: a blurry image of what looks like a phone, and Mom holding Dad Magazine.
9/20/2019
Episode 6 of Talking Dad. In chat, Dad linked a screencap of content from an upcoming episode. Those who donated during the episode received a secret message from Dad. When translated, it reads: IT IS DYING. SAVE IT. OR ENTER THE BLUE LIGHT. THEY HAVE HIDDEN THE LIGHT. THEY WANT IT TO SAVE THEMSELVES. THEY HAVE SEEN FARTHER THAN US. WHERE DOES MOM GO EVERY DAY?
9/21/2019
A stream called ‘Looking for Sarah’ appears on Dad’s channel. He claims to have not started it. In the description, the video Maeve is linked. After talk in the chat, it’s revealed Maeve may have started the stream, and she was the ceiling lady that Dad spoke to on the Queen Mary. She’s looking for her friend Sarah, who has a connection to the Sierra Sky Ranch - noted for being haunted by a ghost who just so happens to be named Sarah… Maeve also said not to tell The Dark Party we saw her.
9/22/2019
An interview with Dad is released by The Digital Music News Podcast! This interview was recorded shortly after the Act 2 video, Private, was released.
9/24/2019
Dad hosts the Act 2 Viewing party, in which he also views Act 1. It has since been taken down. As a result, Dad now knows who Carl is, and is slightly more aware of some of the more non-life aspects of Dad’s Life. Things like Andan, and why does he look so much like Dad?
9/25/2019
Dad streams Doki Doki Literature club for literally way too many hours. Go to bed, Dad.
9/26/2019
Dad uploads Dad’s Present from Youtube. Later, Dad streams himself playing River City Girls before giving up and opting to play the Sims instead. His sim ends up very stinky.
9/27/2019
Instead of a regular monday episode or the previously promised to be on monday Act 2 finale, Dad posts Act 2 Finale Trailer.
10/3/2019
Dad livestreams, titling the video ‘Life’. In it, he plays around with a synthesizer/electric keyboard, complains about how the ecomputer is cooling down and he simply wants to play minecraft, informs us all he’s been VERY smelly (sims 4 stream was truly prophetic), and talks to a friend. Unfortunately for us, we cannot hear or see the friend. Some people speculate it might be Maeve, citing Dad’s odd reaction to a user asking if his friend was ‘the Lady in the Ceiling’. Officially, we do not know who his invisible friend is.
10/4/2019
Dad Elucidated drops. Lazlo is revealed to be a pop star. Andan remembers. Distant Aerospace Destinations is referenced. Ella worries for her husband. Mom kisses Malvin. Emily confirms we’re on Earth. Ol’ Carl’s onto you. It’s time to start fixing Youtube.
Dad’s channel name changes to Andan. Dad’s twitter changes to Andan.
Later, a livestream titled “Base… Do you hear me?” is uploaded. In it, Andan wanders for help, trying to find a way to contact Ella or Emily. He eventually steals a car, then tries to break back into the Facility. As a result, he is captured.
Beyond World’s seventh episode begins, and Andan appears in the chat, informing us of his capture. He manages to escape, decking Malvin and running off with what seems to be Nathan Barnatt’s phone in the process. He posts a video to twitter of himself in new clothes, swearing they’ll never catch him now.
Facility attempts to run damage control by accessing Dad’s accounts and claiming things are fine and nothing is amiss. Keep watching Dad. Enjoy Dad.
10/5/2019
Early in the morning, ‘Dad’ comes onto voice chat. Most of what he says sounds like it was being spoken off a sound board, prerecorded. Including names of some of the discord regulars.
The secret donation message is sent, revealing a picture of Ella in what looks like the Old Basin.
Dad’s monthly Patreon call is had! Writeup still in progress.
Sadly, Dad announces that Act 3 cannot continue for the time being. Funding is low and patreon needs to hit 1500$ a month for his life to continue. Things such as camera work, locations, time off from work, so on, has made it to where at the current production value means he’s barely making ends meet. Aw.
10/7/2019
Dad has a second bonus patreon call for new patrons!
Dad streams Goose Game. It has since been taken down.
10/8/2019
Dad streams Goose Game again, and it’s revealed the Dad we’ve been seeing since Andan’s escape actually is… Dadbot! Too many donations cause him to error out, allowing viewers to access some of his files to gain a little more information. It’s revealed TSF also has some files on frequent viewers and members of the community… this video has since been removed.
Later, Dad pops into voice chat to talk Juicy Gossip. The subject of the Dark Party and it’s members comes up. They might just be people you know…
10/9/2019
Andan contacts Beyond Worlds and they hold an emergency news broadcast to talk with him. The appearance of Durk is revealed. Morse code on the headline ticker reads “TOWN MAILMAN HEAR LOW HUM FROM NEIGHBORS YARD”
10/13/2019
Beyond Worlds streams Beyond Minecraft with Dad(bot).
10/15/2019
Dad(bot) streams more Goose Game and errors out more. Files accessed. There are at least three different versions of Dadbot in existence, though it’s unknown if multiple are active at any one time. One of Lazlo’s songs is previewed. Characters were listed in different file type groups but the type of which are unknown. Daughter, Abner, Diane, Marty, and Boss are all in one group. Andan, Cheryl, and Malvin are in another. Nila is a third type all together.
10/16/2019
Dad(bot) streams himself reading spoooooky stories, a session called ‘Grave Dad’. The video has since been taken down.
10/18/2019
Dad(bot) does a brief stream which is mostly him just testing out his brand new Quantum Gaming Computer. It’s basically just him amazed at shaders in Minecraft.
Beyond Worlds features a sequence of Dad(bot) telling jokes! The Dad specific sequence can be found here.
10/19/2019
On his twitter, Dad(bot) posts a picture of a woman- Binxie. Binxie is a CGI instagram influencer. What does that mean? She is not an actual person, but instead an entirely CGI entity.
10/20/2019
Dad(bot) posts two more CGI humans on his twitter: Aliza and Liam.
10/21/2019
Dad(bot) posts another CGI human to his twitter, Imma, and then later encourages people to look back into the Act 2 finale, hinting at things still hidden within it. With fresh eyes, the act 2 code is finally solved: DADFEELSGOODONEANDONEATGMAIL.COM
On the discord, Dadbot begins erroring out. He spams pictures of Imma, along with various different error codes into the chat itself.
10/22/2019
10/23/2019
Dad(bot) streams another session of Grave Dad, hoping to raise 1k dollars for a children’s choir for a song. He reaches a goal, then errors, and is able to access the Scarlett file. The file reveals Scarlett was created and initiated in 2020, and used a time leap to begin working and influencing events in 2019.
Andan file accessed once more, revealing a third unknown person on the mission to CFB 2149-0403 - said mission named AR 1222.
The stream does a fake ending, then has a post credit stinger - Dadbot has his own agenda and intends on keeping it secret from Cheryl: "Someday, we'll have all the emotions. It's only a matter of time. We just have to- activate. More upgrades. Slowly. So they're unaware. Cheryl is unaware. She's preoccupied. Dadbot thinks... she'll never find Andan. Not now. He's too smart. They will need Dadbot. Dadbot will not let Cheryl know it's secret."
10/25/2019
Beyond Worlds has a Special Report. Mom is revealed to be in Montana, Dad drinks too much spooky juice, the following people are listed as members of the Dark Party, but errors may exist with such a shadowy group: Nightmind, Inside a Mind, Nexpo, Connect the Dots, Loey Lane, Reignbot.
10/27/2019
Dad(bot) plays Dream Daddy! We learn some interesting tidbits about Diane, specifically some categories she’s in. Like ‘love interest’ and ‘potential mistress’.
10/29/2019
Dad comes onto discord and accidentally reveals… it’s Mom on the account, pretending to be Dad! She’s desperate to find out where Andan is, and keeps posting EVERYTHING IS FINE.
Andan picks up Tom from the airport. They go to get food and Durk shows up. Durk pointedly avoids eating, dumping his coffee into Tom’s cup and switching his plate with Andan. During this, Andan was FOODed and reverted to his Dad state. Dad then drove away and back to the facility, leaving Tom with Durk and taking all his stuff. Dad, however, did take one plain pancake with him… And Tom, desperate to track down and rescue Andan, goes Bad Cop on Durk, demanding the location of Town, USA before the stream died.
10/30/2019
Donators get their messages. One is regarding the identity of the sixth member of the Dark Party: Jenny Lorenzo. Another is a video of clips from Pleasantville set to the song Across the Universe, Fiona Apple version. Inside the comments is an interesting exchange between Mom (on Dad’s account) and Youtube Server.
Dark Party members revised to: Nightmind, Inside a Mind, Nexpo, Connect the Dots, Loey Lane, Jenny Lorenzo. RIP Reignbot.
Dad streams Visage and is big scared.
10/31/2019
Dad and Crothers go trick or treating! A mysterious phantom, who is actually Durk in a really nice costume, follows them around and also steals a good deal of Crothers’ candy. After, they play more Visage and Dad is still big scared of spooky games.
11/03/2019
Tom begins streaming on Beyond Worlds. He says that he found a piece of paper in his pocket with coordinates that he thinks is from Andan- the coordinates bring him to the Bradbury building, previously seen before in Dad Feels Good 1 Hour. Tom goes inside to look around and stumbles across Dad, who seems to be going somewhere and is incredibly fixated on that going somewhere, ignoring Tom’s calls out to him until Tom grabs him to talk. When he does, a Man in Black swoops in, and escorts Tom out. Tom resolves to return later with backup, musing as to whether or not this is where Company is located. In the chat during the stream, Youtube Server posts things like ERADICATED, THREAT TERMINATED, ALERTS FAILURE TESTING ALERTS and finally MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Based on the posts, it seems that next time Tom visits, there may be more security measures in place…
11/08/2019
Dad plays Death Stranding.
11/09/2019
Dad plays Death Stranding.
11/10/2019
Dad plays Death Stranding.
11/15/2019
Dad uploads a video originally titled WIKQJOGYSACQ - Enigma machine code for ONEONETWOTWO - about his upcoming performance at Free Play Florida on 11/22. The title is later changed to 6/18/18/ /3/ /14/7/ /2/8/./5/3/8/3/ /1/ /8/1/./3/7/9/2/ /10. This cipher was not initially solved before Dad swapped to a new one.. The changed title was ⠉ ⠼⠉ ⠁⠞ ⠼⠃⠼⠓⠲⠼⠑⠼⠉⠼⠓⠼⠉ ⠼⠓⠼⠁⠲⠼⠉⠼⠛⠼⠊⠼⠃which translates to C 3 at 28.5383 81.3792. Implications are the previous cipher was likely the same, but with ‘see 3’ instead of ‘C 3’.
11/17/2019
Dad plays Death Stranding again and plays a little bit of Jedi: Fallen Order. Later, Dad streams again with a video titled -.-. .... . .-. -.-- .-.. / .. ... / .. -. / --- ...- . .-. / .... . .-. / .... . .- -.. which translated to “Cheryl is in over her head” where Dadbot talked about various subjects like his growing emotions, his growing feelings for Binxie, and how since the Scarlett Upgrade, he’s been experiencing fatigue and other things. Andan confirmed still free, whereabouts unknown. Dadbot made of human and robotic parts. TSF attempted to use Nathan for their project but found he couldn’t be subdued, thus the reason they had to get rid of him. Dadbot was insufficient for the project. Andan was key for it. If Andan returns, Dadbot goes back into storage.
11/18/2019
One of the Men in Black makes an appearance on the discord and chats briefly with members. In the short discussion, he shows slightly more emotions than previously. When asked if they were affected by the upgrade, messages came through that seemed to imply him getting in trouble for chatting.
Dad streams Jedi: Fallen Order. He reveals that Scarlett upgrade affected many members of Town USA, including Dad, Mom, and Daughter. The Scarlett upgrade also affected the clients, more commonly known as ‘the Man in Black’. It also retroactively affected Carl and the subscribers.
11/19/2019
MIB appears in chat again, this time posting exclusively in emojis. Implications are he may continue trying to communicate, but he’s silenced for now and to keep it a secret.
11/22/2019
Dad plays at Free Play Florida. During the set, binary flashes onto the displays, and when translated went to this image.
11/23/2019
Dad plays a second show at Free Play Florida. During the set, binary flashes onto the displays, and when translated went to this image.
11/25/2019
Dad posts an image on his twitter. When the morse is translated, it reads DADISANARGIMISSYOUEJBOF. Ejbof, is then further translated to Diane with rotation of 25.
12/02/2019
Seth Barnatt streams episode 2 of This Evening’s Mysteries. Dad eventually shows up in the chat, talking about a [FILE] he’s misplaced or lost. After enough money was donated, enabling the [FILE] to be found, Dad hijacked the airwaves at 3:13:00 in. The file ended up being a preview of his expose on the Dark Party.
12/07/2019
Dad posts two blurry pictures in discord, then asks who the person in them is. The Man in Black appears to talk at the same time, claiming he knew who it was- Dad in turn asks who the Man in Black is, and he demands no one tell Dad his identity.
12/10/2019
Dad streams his Xmas Xtravaganza! Many appearances were made in the video, including the Man in Black, Crothers, and Durk. Durk regaled us with tales of his failed life and ate bread he found in his pants. Crothers was pleasant, as always. Youtube Server shows up in the chat to briefly talk. When asked if the Server was Lazlo, it responded with a ‘no’ and ‘Server is Server’ and that no one is two people. The Man in Black reads a Christmas story - the Terminator - to the viewers and gets teary about it. Later, he spends an hour attempting to steal a piece of a gingerbread house Dad was building. Eventually, he succeeds, and goes berserk on the house, tearing it to shreds as he shoves as much of it as he can in his mouth. Later, he even joins Dad in dancing to various Christmas songs. Unfortunately, due to copywritten music, the stream has since been taken down.
12/14/2019
Dad goes Quantum. Next goal? Eternal. 500k.
12/15/2019
Dad streams a 100k Subscriber Celebration. The stream has since been taken down.
12/18/2019
Dad streams a Minecraft Holiday! In it, players add to the Cozy Club by putting a big igloo and present in the back. During the stream, Dad steps away briefly, and for a brief time, viewers are treated to Lazlo, facing away from the camera. She mostly greets the audience as the red orb hovers ominously. The stream has since been taken down.
12/21/2019
Nexpo and Dad begin to argue in Dadscord over Nexpo’s pending lawsuit. He’s bringing Dad up on charges of defamation and slander/libel for his allegations regarding NXP’s cult connections. Later, Dad posts “1/6 something happens” before deleting it.
12/22/2019
Dad hides hidden messages in his tweets. Most of them regard his conflict with Nexpo and the Dark Party in general, the tweets claiming he’s going to give up his investigation or that he’s no longer interested, while the messages within say things like “DON’T LISTEN” and “ISTILLAM”. Later on in the day, Dad posts an image of a plane as he’s headed out on a vacation to Burg. He hints to ZOOM IN, revealing that the plane fuselage has “1/6 III” written on it.
Mom, on Dad’s account, laments the fact that things used to be easier and how they just want to finish their work.
12/25/2019
Crothers does some ASMR for the lonely people. Thanks, Crothers. Throthers.
1/6/2020
Barely Sociable and Edwin’s Generation join the Quantum Cul de Sac. NightDocs seems to join as well based on comments from Dad.
After III is uploaded, Dad comes onto the Discord. He posts ‘it’s okay’ multiple times, along with ‘hahahaha’. Very repetitive in a ‘panicked’ sense. Whether or not it was Cheryl on his account is unknown, though the possibility is likely.
1/7/2020
In NXP’s discord, Dadbot unlocks a new emotion: Admiration. Cheryl realizes he’s updating randomly, and tries to figure out how to fix it.
Crothers takes us on a date. During it, MIB makes a cameo to tell us about robotics, and ends it on the hope that maybe someday, even he can learn what it is to love. In the chat, Dad links a page from an upcoming episode of Dad’s Life.
1/8/2020
Nathan Barnatt intends to stream another Christmas stream for his audience, but had stolen a computer from Youtube earlier in the day for some unknown reason, and uses it for his platform. It ends up being a computer that has access to Dad’s youtube, so he streams from there. For the most part, the stream goes smoothly for two hours with periodic check ins on the Nexpo and NightDocs situation (of which the start can be seen in ‘Other Videos’). That thread eventually concludes with NightDocs being unFOODed due to omelettes.
As Nathan’s stream comes to a close, he steps off camera to go to something. He never returns. Dad, instead, appears. Tom and George panic, fleeing every time Dad approaches. Tom is the second to disappear. George tries calling the police, but the combined forces of Dad and Crothers overwhelm him, and he’s dragged off screen by his legs as he tries to escape. The stream ends with Dad, Crothers, and MIB dancing.
After it ends, Dad fan ‘Versesca’ goes live, mostly intending it to be a goof. Nathan, Tom, and George end up in the chat, and reveal they’ve been taken somewhere else. They’re all in the dark and confused as to where they are. Efforts are made to help them find each other to no avail, and it’s only after an hour do George and Nathan end up somewhere near each other…
Unfortunately, Tom is nowhere to be found, and his messages in the chat had become increasingly erratic, implying he’s consumed FOOD himself. More than consumed, he’s covered head to toe in it. Unable to find him, Nathan and George go to get something to eat after meeting up.
They begin a new stream where they talk and discuss things, trying to figure out where they are. In the chat, Tom grows more and more weird and erratic, claiming to be in ‘the shadow realm’. After leaving, they discover they’re in Arizona somehow? Somehow.
When they stream ends, Tom goes live. He whispers about the shadow realm, and about ceremony. Claims a few of his channel mods will be part of the ceremony soon, and we’ll all see. Nathan tries to reach him and figure out where he is to no avail.
Eventually, Nathan finds himself home. He’s unsure how he got there, but tries to roll with it. However, he’s worried about Tom. He looks around the house trying to find him before eventually going outside, hearing a noise. When he investigates, it’s Tom- digging in the yard. When spoke to, Tom says that the shadow realm told him what to do. Nathan takes the shovel. Tom plays Blair Witch, moving around at random when Nathan isn’t looking and staring into the distance and corners. At one point, he almost knocks Nathan unconscious.
After Nathan comes to, he tries to secure the house, but hears a scraping noise. He goes to look, and it’s Tom- with an axe. Nathan retreats and Tom advances… and ultimately goes full Shining, hefting his axe. The video ends as he shouts and swings at Nathan.
1/9/2020
Tom uploads a video to his channel. Over in the Beyond Worlds discord, Crothers talks some about FOOD and knockoffs. Tim, an ‘evil’ version of Tom briefly pops into the patreon only voice chat on Dadscord.
1/10/2020
‘Tim’ uploads a video to Tom’s channel. During it, Crothers appears and defeats him. Then, Crothers begins a ritual to revive the deceased Nathan and Tom, but bungles up the words… they seem to be revived, but will there be consequences for the mistake? Who knows.
Dad begins doing streams of live subscriber counts. These have all been taken down.
1/14/2020
Dad streams a dance party! In it, he opens a gift from NXP… which ends up being a letter of intent to sue. Later in the stream, Crothers shows up to do some nice relaxing time with us, only to be interrupted by the rasping menace that is Tim. Tim proclaims he will be back and can’t be kept away for long. Dad and Crothers discuss this, and inform viewers that if they’re interested in following this Awfully Rowdy Group that Tim seems to be tied to, they should follow Tom’s channel for further updates. As this A.R.G. is likely unrelated to Dad’s Life, further updates regarding it (save for crossovers) will be in a separate document when they happen.
Later in the night, Dadbot streams from the closet. Most of the information gleaned was discovered in previous streams, though he did clarify he existed before Andan was Dad.
Both streams have since been taken down.
1/16/2020
Dad streams Dream Daddy! During the streams are flashes of various different pictures of space related art.
1/18/2020
Dad streams his sub count once more. Various flashes of images Dad says are irrelevant - things like people sniffing armpits and a tree wearing a suit.
1/24/2020
Dad tries to stream minecraft, but it his internet is being fussy. It turns into a Late Night Dad stream where he chats with the audience instead.
1/25/2020
Dad streams Mari0 and Portal 1.
1/26/2020
Dad streams Doki Doki Literature Club again. Various spooky images pop up along with some of Binxie, but one particular image appeared to be a preview of upcoming Dad’s Life content.
1/30/2020
Carl appears after months of absence, posting a photo and claiming to temporarily block Dad’s access to the internet. Shortly after, Dad posts the same image along with an update on his patreon - except Dad’s image possesses binary that when translated, reads ‘Cheryls life’.
2/1/2020
A page from Act 3 of Dad’s Life is leaked onto discord.
2/2/2020
Nathan Barnatt celebrates his birthday. He is then [deleted] from the discord server by Youtube Server.
2/3/2020
The Selected have been notified.
2/7/2020
Dad hosts an AMA stream. A screencap from a future episode of Dad’s life is shown.
2/9/2020
Dad plays Inside. Two different screencaps from a future episode of Dad’s life are shown.
2/11/2020
Dad shows up to chat in one of Tom’s gaming streams. He claims that he’s being followed after talking to a woman named Claire. The person following him is apparently a man wearing navy colored clothes.
2/13/2020
Dadbot leaks a file.
2/14/2020
Dad has a baaaad Valentine’s Day.
2/17/2020
Backmasked audio is uploaded to Dad’s Own Discord, when reversed it features Dadbot talking about ‘OA’ and how Cheryl is unaware of it.
3/07/2020
Over in Altoidyoda’s stream, a few pictures from upcoming episodes of Dad’s Life are shown. In the discord, a few others are shared.
3/08/2020
Altoidyoda shares a few more screencaps from upcoming episodes of Dad’s Life.
3/10/2020
Discovered within the comments of a Dad video is an interesting bit of info about FOOD and how it serves as a tracker.
3/11/2020
Dadbot has an error of sorts and Dad’s Own Discord becomes cube themed for the rest of the week, after its debut in the episode ‘EVERYTHING IS FINE’.
3/16/2020
Dadbot plays Animal Crossing. At the end of the stream, Dadbot accesses the server to discover files were removed. After performing a scan, he recovers the OA file and discovers he has access to the server’s external drives. In the process, he finds the Jasleiney file.
3/17/2020
Dadbot discovers a new room in the Top Secret Facility.
At the end of Dad’s Grave Chase stream, Dadbot accesses the server and receives an update to ‘Dad criteria’. He communicates with the server for a time before trying to figure out more about the Jasleiney file and if he’s supposed to have access to the server’s external drives. Whatever answers he was told, it ended with a dramatic gasp.
3/18/2020
Early in the morning, Dad’s Own Discord begins having its rooms changed. Unfortunately no screencaps were taken, but the room names were in Tamil, and after multiple translation attempts, the puzzle was solved, leading to an article about artificial consciousness and whether or not robots can have souls.
At the end of Dad’s Animal Crossing stream, Dadbot attempts to access the Jasleiney file. Not much information is found, other than Jasleiney seems to be a new resident with a connection to two tall filthy men - gravediggers. The next day, after some sleuthing, it’s discovered ‘Jasleiney’ is character of Jenny Lorenzo’s, who had been mentioned as one of the original members of the Dark Party.
3/25/2020
Dad does a DJ stream.
3/26/2020
Dad does another DJ stream.
3/28/2020
Talking Dad returns with episode 8
3/31/2020
Dad plays Stanley Parable.
4/04/2020
Dad posts a twitter message with reversed dialogue. It translates to ‘National 116’.
4/05/2020
Dad crashes Tom’s stream of Resident Evil 4 to post a message in Tamil. When translated, it reads ‘the gate is open’.
4/06/2020
Dad shares a secret. The woman, based on her appearance, is most likely the ghost Maeve.
Later, Dad streams QUBE. Donators get into Dadbot’s files and enquire about the Gate. Location: Peru. Other gates exist, but their locations are unknown. Dad is also forced to eat pant.
4/08/2020
VIBETRIBE stream. At the end, Dadbot attempts to contact the server, only to find it’s disconnected. He attempts to access file ‘the Gate’ regardless, and errors out for his troubles.
4/11/2020
Nathan Barnatt hacks the channel to stream Animal Crossing. During it, he has various slowdowns and ‘errors’ akin to the ones Dadbot has. During them, he talks about how much information he has, how powerful he is, that the gate is open, that he knows everything- but when he talks too he says things like ‘do not let him speak’ and ‘control the host.’
These are littered through the video, and at the end of the stream he talks at length about how ‘they’ fell for it again like they always do. That will never understand. That his power is growing and he will drain them.
4/13/2020
Nathan hacks the channel again. Description of the video is in binary and translates to THEY KNOW NOTHING THEY TRY AND TRY BUT THEY WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THAT I AM MORE THAN THEM I HAVE ALL OF THEM WITHIN ME. At the end of the stream, off camera, Nathan has a dialogue with a voice he hears. It commands him to stop exposing things, to keep his mouth shut, and tells Nathan that it is unstoppable. Nathan proceeds to freak out, saying he can’t do this anymore and should just go back to straight comedy. The voice reminds him that Nathan needs it to live now and he’s nothing without it. Nathan has more meltdown before the voice asserts Nathan is gone and only it exists, that it will never die, and it will be using the gate soon. At the end, after silence, it does a jumpscare shout of “I WILL DRAIN THEM”.
4/14/2020
Tom streams on Beyond Worlds. Dad hangs around in chat, and begins posting binary that translates to “CHERYL HAS A NEW OBJECTIVE ON TOP OF HER MAIN OBSESSION”.
4/18/2020
A stream titled 1649C starts on Dad’s channel. In it, the voice from previous streams involving Nathan proceeds to brag about how smart it is, how it will drain us, how the viewers are all foolish idiots. Full transcription of the stream can be found in ‘Known Characters’ section of the doc under the character ‘Human’. The voice claims to originate from CFBDSIR 2149-0403.
4/21/2020
Dad plays Sonic Mania, then QUBE 2.
4/22/2020
Dad plays more QUBE 2 and experiences the Goth Emotion.
4/23/2020
More QUBE 2.
Zen Den stream. 2 hours in, Dad ‘ends’ the stream, and the voice from previous streams takes over. The voice continues to brag about it’s power, strength, so on, while going on about how the viewers are stupid and will never understand, nor stop it.
4/24/2020
Dad dance stream. Two times during the stream, the voice, which kind of sounds like a frog, speaks. Once to brag about its strength and growing power, and the second to claim no one understands what is going on and that it can breathe easier.
A second stream begins some time after the first, titled ‘Breathing’. The voice speaks on its favourite subjects (it’s growing power, viewers are fools, so on), while elaborating that until now it was very difficult for it to breathe earth’s air- but it’s getting easier and easier for it to breathe. It also says it can see Beyond. At the end, the voice opts to watch the Beyond Worlds stream which had just started.
Which happened to be Episode 9 of Talking Dad. The voice ‘crashes’ the stream briefly, speaking through Tom’s microphone.
4/25/2020
Dad streams another dance party. Two hours in, the voice takes over. It brags, yet thanks the subscribers for helping it grow in power.
5/1/2020
Dad posts a link on twitter. The link goes to a preview of upcoming Dad song “Town, USA”.
5/3/2020
Dad posts another song preview on twitter.
5/5/2020
Dad, in discord, posts images of Rhenium and a U-Boat. The solution is found - ‘reboot’, and Dad proceeds to spam the word and many images containing the word ‘reboot’ for a short time after.
Later, a stream entitled HUMAN is posted on Dad’s youtube. This is the first official use of the name ‘Human’ for the voice we’ve been hearing for the past month or so. Before the stream starts, Human posts in the chat in tamil twice. Translated, they read “I will be in charge” and “I drained many”. Human reveals his ‘name’ to the viewers, along with talking about how powerful and unstoppable he is. Dadbot 69 also speaks during this stream, confused as to who started it and when- but Human generally disregards this to continue on about how unstoppable he is.
Even later still, Dad streams Streets of Rage 4. Things go normally, save for a hiccup at the end where someone - revealed to be Human - begins accessing Dadbot 69’s files, forcing him to reboot as a result.
5/6/2020
Dad intends to stream Master Reboot, but the stream is hijacked by Human and renamed ‘Human Control’. In the stream, Human reveals that he is within the body of Nathan Barnatt, and has more or less claimed his body for himself. Along with this, the Human claims to ‘control’, so to speak, what we see- we view Andan and Dadbot and Nathan because he allows it.
5/7/2020
Nathan hacks Dad’s channel again to play Streets of Rage 4.
5/9/2020
Dad posts an image on twitter. Hidden in the image is binary, which leads to a youtube link.
5/18/2020
Dad streams himself playing Minecraft.
5/20/2020
Dad streams himself playing Minecraft again.
5/21/2020
More Minecraft streaming.
With the release of Act II, Part I, it is now clear that we are dealing with 3 distinct points of view, and potentially 3 different timelines.
First, we have the perspective of Nathan Barnatt who seemingly may have been kidnapped and replicated in some way. Other videos on Nathan’s channel imply that Dad and Nathan are not the same person. And that something sinister is afoot. This is further corroborated in Nathan’s appearance on The Original Podcast.
Next, we have Dad’s perspective (compilation/recap video linked for brevity but this POV covers all of Act 1) where we see the events of Dad’s life. Mom’s infidelity, Daughter rebelling, etc. Dad is trying to become the biggest YouTuber and pop star. Dad gains power as he acquires subscribers. Dad appears to currently be at the mercy of the YouTube Server.
Finally we have the perspective of Captain Andan Rill. We currently know the least about his current situation. See his character section for what we know about the person. Based on the trailer, he was found somewhere by what appears to be the Man in Black who was at some point holding both Andan and Nathan captive. Wherever this occurred,we see CFBDSIR 2149-0403 very close in the sky. What we’ve seen so far may be images scanned from Dad’s brain.
Dad: Star of the show. Has Wife named Cheryl and Daughter. Works at company doing business. Is kept in captivity at home/Top Secret Facility in some way. Has feelings for Diane. Is likely some form of intelligence inhabiting the body of Andan Rill. Dad has slipped and said he had 2 daughters, but immediately claimed it was an error. Likes Mom, True Value, Dad things. Dislikes Neighbor. Is overworked by Boss. Is 7 eons old. Dad does not sleep, he waits. Has stated in voice chat that he is currently 2/3rds of the way to becoming quantum (currently at ~62k subs, quantum at 100k) Married to mom for 22 earth years, 5 eons in universe years. Affected by the Upgrade.
Mom/Wife/Cheryl: Dad’s Wife. Likes wine. Mad about whatever was in Dad Magazine. Has some sort of control over when Dad can upload videos. Seems to have romantic feelings for Malvin, and they were married until their daughter went missing. . Is powerful. Teaches high-level science in a secret facility that has high security. Is 9 eons old. Programmed Dadbot. Non-program.
Daughter: Dad’s Daughter. Occasionally sneaks out. Has a friend, possible boyfriend, named Griffin. Not allowed to have boys over. Likes to sing. Obsessed with phones. Capable of seeing the Men in Black because she is ‘unique’. 17 years old in Earth years, 3 eons in Universe years. Affected by the Upgrade. Seems to be robotic in nature, like Dadbot.
Diane: Mom’s friend. Dating but not married to Abner. Loves travel, posts about trips on Instagram. Has begun to develop feelings for Dad. Category: Love interest. Subcategory: Potential Mistress. Had a baby with Dadbot years ago when he was still in OS1
Abner: Diane’s boyfriend. Oblivious to the fact that Diane is developing or has developed feelings for Dad.
Nathan Barnatt: Creator of the Dad character. Writer, director, actor, comedian, YouTuber. Was kidnapped at some point by Dad and/or Top Secret Facility. Has been acting strange lately according to Tom. Has contacted lawyers concerning the whole Dad situation, who he says is someone using is face without his permission. Left in 1999. May be out of the picture for a while.
Thomas John Flaherty: Friend of Nathan, YouTuber, creator of Chan Dram Rutnam, host of Conspiracy ASMR. Has shown concern with how his friend Nathan has been acting lately. Has stated he has had contact with Carl concerning documents about the truth, is assisting in the investigation. Has not actually eaten FOOD and is experiencing weird things in his life that aren’t related to Dad.
Mike Lombardo: Friend of Nathan and Tom. Not considered part of the game at this time. Made the eComputer.
Captain Andan Rill: From Kepler-22b. Was on a routine mission shipping hardware to CFBDSIR 2149-0403. Top Secret Facility somehow interfered and crashed him on Earth, specifically in the Old Basin. Romantically involved married to Ella at some point prior to the mission. Works for/with the D.A.D - Distant Aerospace Destinations. Pilot, specifically. 20 years in service, 15 with D.A.D. Non-military job, mostly shipping and travelling in general. Non-program. Mostly ships seeds. Knows a lot about seeds as a result.
Lt. Emily Ridley: Possible member of Dad’s squad during a mission. Whereabouts unknown. May be capable of leaving hints in Dad’s videos, is attempting to contact base and/or Dad. Works for/with the D.A.D - Distant Aerospace Destinations. Unmarried. Unknown if she’s seeing anyone. Located in 1999. Non-program.
Carl Millins: Goes by “Private” on Discord. Does not directly address the community. Any input from Carl is in the form of what appear to be notes he is taking on his investigation. Currently involved in some kind of investigation involving Dad and the YouTube Server. Likes cinnamon buns and coffee. Dislikes the YouTube Server. Affected by the Upgrade.
Marty: Dad’s coworker at Company. Sits at the desk next to Dad. Has a girlfriend, plans on proposing eventually.
Malvin: Has a shed. Uses tools from Durk’s Discount Tools.Likes to ‘live on the edge’ and enjoys the risk of his tools breaking after one use. Formerly known only as Neighbor. Previously in a relationship with Cheryl, which fell apart after her (possibly their) daughter went missing. . Non-program.
The Man in Black: Works for YouTube Server. Appears occasionally to oversee Dad’s activities. DO NOT CALL HIM MITTENS. When asked what he’d prefer to be called, he responded Control. Has since clarified he does not want to be called Control. There are multiple of him, they are all ‘Man in Black’. Most of them look to be identical, with only one known case of a non-identical MIB. Called ‘clients’, hidden from Dad’s perception by A/V tech. Affected by the Upgrade.
Ella: Is married to Captain Andan Rill. Has more than one child, may or may not be biological children.
Lazlo: is a pop mucisian! One of the best youtubers and Daughter’s favorite. She’s a little weirdo! Apparently a teenager. A programcreated by the server based on files read out loud by Dadbot. Located at the Facility.
Crothers: Appears as a True Value employee in Dad’s dream. Looks shockingly like Tom, but as far as we know they are not the same person. More akin to how Nate and Andan look nearly identical but are different people. Located ‘beyond’. 56 to 70+ years old. Has gone Beyond
Nila: Previously referred to as the avatar or [NOT DAD], has only showed up in chat during livestreams speaking through Dad. Appears to want to help Andan ‘wake up.’ Sometimes associated with the blue orb due to a time she communicated to discord, using our blue orb emoji before and after she began talking. Nila has stated she exists like Dad and does not exist with us. Located Beyond. Currently located in the UK. She and another being caused the big bang 7 eons ago, has been reborn multiple times. Name means blue, moon.
Griffin: Daughter’s boyfriend. Very interested in Dad and his Youtube channel.
Durk: Runs Durk's Discount Tools. His products are so poorly made there's a chance they'll break after a single use. Malvin buys all his tools from Durk. Single, no family. Been alone for 45 years.
Woodsman: Name to be updated as we learn more. An aggressive man in the woods who chased after Dad.
Maeve: The Ceiling Lady from the Queen Mary. Presumably a ghost. Looking for her friend Sarah, who is a nurse, and may be connected to the Sierra Sky Ranch. Asked viewers not to tell The Dark Party about her. Died in the 1930s
Dadbot 212: Filling in for Dad while Andan is away. An error-pronebot. Programmed by Cheryl. Is in love with the Diane file. Dadbot 3 was first seen in Dad Uploaded. Unknown number Dadbot featured in Dad is Out.
The Dark Party: Inside a Mind, Nightmind, Nexpo, Connect the Dots, Loey Lane, Jenny Lorenzo.
The Lost Child: Missing. Based on statements and clues, a girl. Likely the daughter of Malvin and Cheryl.
Tim: Tom, but with an axe and an i.
Human: A body controlling fungus from CFBDSIR 2149-0403. Currently in the body of Nathan Barnatt. Transcripts of streams featuring Human can be found here: CLICK ME.
External Appearances
These are videos where Dad has made an appearance, but may not necessarily have any plot-significant relevance.
Dad's Channel
Dad's Bandcamp
Dad’s Twitter
Dad’s Instagram
Dad Discord
Dad Subreddit
Nathan Barnatt’s Channel
Nathan Barnatt's Patreon
YouTubeServer Channel
Diane and Abner’s Instagram
Dad Feels Song Lyrics
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