Hot Topic
This green cartoon character is a staple of scene and emo culture, usually featured on hoodies.
This Soviet cosmonaut was the first man in space.
Yuri Gagarin
This game series is known for having multiple ARGs used to advertise it's games, most notably for it's second and fifth entries.
What is Halo?
This rhythm game's tagline (and main gameplay loop) is "Click the Circles"
What is Osu!?
This creature goes "YIPPEEEEEE", and is a little guy and popular reaction image in online circles.
What is the Autism Creature?
This store is commonly located next to Hot Topic locations, and is a staple of malls everywhere.
What is Spencer's?
This yaoi anime took the internet by storm in the late 2010s, getting people interested in a winter Olympic sport.
What is Yuri on Ice?
This creepypasta was the basis for the ARG featured in the Marble Hornets series of videos.
What is Slenderman?
This series is known for popularizing the plastic instrument-based wave of rhythm games from the mid-late 2000s.
This Pokemon has, according to pokedex entries, the ability to open black holes in order to protect it's trainer.
What is Gardevoir?
This American tragedy directly led to the formation of the band My Chemical Romance, and thus, the writing of Twilight.
What is 9/11?
The manga "The Guy She Likes Wasn't A Guy At All" unusually uses this color for it's art, as well as the pages of the physical printing.
What is Green?
This youtuber made a video discussing Cicada 3301, an online cryptography mystery.
One entry in this game series features a song by Fall Out Boy, which has an extremely fitting name.
What is Dance Dance Revolution?
This anime/manga originally started as a horror manga based around a cruel spirit that punishes bad people through twisted versions of games, but went a wildly different direction once a card game was introduced.
What is Yu-Gi-Oh!?
This extremely toxic ship between two of Batman's most famous rogues used to be the face of all Hot Topic Valentine's Day sales.
What is Joker x Harley Quinn?
This Fire Emblem title had DLC that focuses on an underground group led by Yuri, a loveable rogue pretty-boy.
This Creepypasta is known for it's first part, in which the POV character finds a haunted game cartridge at a garage sale, however, it has an ARG after that section involving an internet forum that is stuck in a 3-day time loop, much like the setting of the game it is based off.
What is Ben Drowned?
This plastic game controller that I own was signed by famous EDM musician Deadmau5.
What is DJ Hero?
This 1997 franchise was created to be the masculine counterpart of Tamagotchi, having creatures that, at least in the anime, only temporarily evolve.
What is Digimon?
This hair dye brand is a staple of the emo and scene communities, usually purchased in Hot Topic.
What is Arctic Fox?
This web animation, featuring a girl in a red hood wielding an oversized scythe, was my first foray into fandom, and thus first exposure to Yuri ships.
What is RWBY?
This metalcore band used an ARG as part of their release cycle of 2024 album "Post-Human: NexGen", featuring Cynthoni as a producer.
Who are Bring Me the Horizon?
This rhythm game features a music video for the song "Trust" using the anime Gurren Lagann for it's visuals?
What is Dance Dance Revolution?
This Yugioh deck is known for being a pile of fusion cards, focused around one twink and his friends.
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What is Branded?