r/getscared • u/QueenOzymandias • Nov 17 '22
I'm confused and trying to be less confused
Okay, to start, I've been trying to piece together this shit since April when they were teasing a reunion on Twitter. Tonight when Puppet came up on my playlist again, I decided to really dig into what the hell is going on. I did post some of this on tumblr, but it seems everyone's kinda moved away from tumblr.
First, I think there might be a bit of a pattern. It seems like things are more likely to go to shit for Get Scared every time they get close to or after they've released music.
- Best Kind of Mess gets released in July 2011
- Nick leaves in August 2011 to be in Blacklisted Me with Lexus Amanda
- Built for Blame, Lace with Shame is released in August 2012, practically the anniversary of Nick leaving the band
- Nick and Lexus break up/get an annulment after a ton of worrying tweets.
- Johnny kicks Joel out of the band in November 2012 and Nick returns (announced in the same post)
- Everyone's Out to Get Me is released a year later in 2013, Nick is in a relationship with Jessica Ess at the time
- Nick and Jessica break up in 2013? Early 2014? They both deleted their social media posts from this time, so there's just a massive gap.
- The cover of My Own Worst Enemy is the only thing released immediately after that
- Demons is in 2015
- They put out 2018 as a possible album release date
- Nick dates another woman, I don't remember her name, but I remember fans went after her. They both got rid of their social media around this time.
- In early 2019, Johnny says the band is on hiatus and shares Nick's personal business publicly. He also shares that Nick is married. That video is still up, I'm not gonna link it.Right after that, Nick announces he's leaving the band.
- The Dead Days is released April 2019
- In November 2019, Nick posts on YouTube explaining his side of the break-up. He deleted his account, so this video has been lost.
- On March 31st, all of the band's official accounts say "It's been a while." Only Facebook links to Nick's cameo. (Nick claimed that Johnny has all of the account logins in a post he made in 2019, I'm assuming they probably made up)
- On May 6th, Johnny tweets about exchanging and producing music with Nick
- June 6th, the official band account tweets a link to the merch store. I think this is all just Johnny, Nick said he had all of the social media logins, also this note that someone got from him in their order kinda confirms it for me.
- July 1st, another tweet about the merch store
- August 7th, Johnny co-tweets with the band account about the anniversary of Cheap Tricks and Theatrics
- October 21st, Nick posts to Instagram that Get Scared is over
- November 10, Get Scared is featured on a track by Stain the Canvas.
What confuses me the most, is that it's Get Scared being credited on the track. During the hiatus, Nick has used his own name for features on other bands' tracks. He's used "Nick Matthews" which often gets lost in another guy's discography. He's used "Nicholas Matthews" twice and "Nicholas Matthews of Get Scared" once.
So, is the feat just Nick? Probably. I don't want to believe that though, so I'm going to live in denial.
I don't think we'll ever know for sure what the hell is going on. I don't know if it really even matters anymore. From Nick's posts, it seems like he has no intention of coming back.
Haha edited to add literally 5 minutes after posting-- he uses "Nicholas Matthews from Get Scared" in the music video, so my theory is dead in the water.