I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, PKMN and Jay are two different people. Jay is the real person behind the screen. PKMN is, for lack of a better word, a character. I’ve always been an actor. I am in love with the idea of being a different person. Because of this, when I made this account, I knew it was going to be not me. I want to clear some things up and get things off my chest. For the sake of simplicity and clarity, I will be speaking in the third person, using Jay when I’m referring to me IRL and PKMN when I’m referring to the online persona.
-Jay and PKMN are not the same age. As you all know by now, PKMN is 20. I will admit I have lied about my age, though I won’t admit in what way nor how drastically. It’s all a part of the character.
-Jay was never suicidal. I originally made the first suicide post as a test, see who cared about me, and then just made it part of the character.
-Jay’s life is not nearly as bad as PKMN makes it out to be. There are some aspects of my life are rather shitty, but it’s not nearly as bad as I imply. I originally wrote that into the character of PKMN for sympathy, something I regret, and can’t go back on now without admitting that it’s all an act.
-This one will be hard to admit. Jay is not actually bilingual. Again, one thing I wrote into PKMN’s character for the sake of making him cooler and more interesting is being Spanish, and therefore speaking Spanish. Jay has to use a translator. Though I am taking lessons for both Spanish and Japanese if that’s worth anything.
-Jay is not in college to be a criminal justice major like PKMN. I’ve said before that PKMN’s dream job is comedian but is taking steps to be a cop because it’s not easy to make a living out of comedy. While making people laugh is a real motivation for Jay, I’d rather be a musician and am taking steps to be so. My fallback plan if being a musician or composer doesn’t pan out is music teacher, and I’m majoring in music theory.
-Lastly, while Jay does in fact have cancer irl, it’s not as bad as I’ve lead it to be. In truth, I’m actually likely to survive, but I said that I will probably die in case I ever want to leave imgflip. It will be my discreet way of leaving and one last swing for the Monke fan.
I hope none of yall think of me differently because of this. End of the day, I just want to be a different person online then irl and have fun doing it. I will continue to be in character on imgflip, and I ask yall play along. Thanks for reading.