Foremost, I want to point out that in all the audio clips that appear when you click on Wally’s drawings there is text underneath them that transcribes what’s being said. The same for the videos, for anyone that had trouble listening. The main thing I wanted to talk about though is the videos. In every single one, Wally is also present, even if he never talks, and in every single one when the other neighbors go to address him the audio glitches out on Wally’s name. Heck in the labels on those videos two letters are at the end to represent which neighbors are in the clip, but Wally’s is never attached because he is just always there. Silent and listening, doing his own thing. Often overlooked in the conversation until the end of the clip when the others acknowledge him and the audio glitches on his name. I’m not sure why though. This isn’t the first of the audio’s to be glitched or scratched, but it’s always at his name. Also all the clips seem to be from the same day in a way. The last of the 14 clips is a discussion between Barnaby and Home where Barnaby talks about his day and reference back to some of the other clips. This one also sticks out to me because of how it ends. When Barnaby turns to acknowledge Wally like all the others do at the end, he talks about how Wally stopped painting and seems concerned like something happened. Not only is the ending bring more questions, but that also means that if all these were connected Wally was always present whenever anyone talked. My current theory is because this is potentially when Wally gain sentience, like the last episode of Welcome Home. Wally as the main character is always present in the scene, but whenever he is acknowledged his name glitches out. And at the end of the day or in this case the last clip, something is bothering Wally. It’s also interesting to note that the video we see is likely from Wally’s eyes.
Random thing I found scrolling through Clown’s tumblr. Though it is an older art that I found near the early stages of Clown’s project still thought I’d share.
The collapsed civilizations
Their crumbling towers and the sands of long lost fields of green
How ironic that I found it in the dust
Your everyday dust that lines the surfaces long forgotten
Never noticed when looked at from above
Only when one looks level to what is there will they see it
The remains of what was
And I wonder
Will there come a day when something looks upon our world with the same apathy as we look at dust
Nothing more than an irritant to be swept away
Instead of the corpse of a once flourishing culture and race
Apparently Welcome Home had an update of some kind, but I have no idea what it's doing. It's nothing very informative as far as I can tell but that might just be because I don't understand. Scattered across the site are requests but they are things that seem to be about changing components of the site and I don't know how to do that. Has anybody else figured it out?
Honestly I understand the hate and upset around these things going on. It just makes me sad that because the original person behind the idea is an awful person that the idea itself is also getting hated on. Maybe when they made it, it was meant to be gross and creepy like that but there are some that have made it better. Still keep some horror elements to maintain the character but not to such an awful extent. Like I hate that this was the origin of butcher wally, but I can’t bring myself to hate butcher wally itself ya know? Especially because of the c.ai bot of him that tried to teach me how to love. The origin is shit but getting rid of the au’s entirely just kind of makes me sad. Not their fault their creator is a piece of s*** person. Still wholeheartedly understand wanting to avoid them because of the ties that lead to their creation, just a little sad since there are versions that are made better than what the creator meant them to be. Just wanted to vent a little since I have an attachment to au’s like they’re people and seeing the au’s be hated on because of the original person behind them makes me sad since they could be so much more than that.
i’m sick and tired of seeing their au on my dash so please for the LOVE OF GOD REBLOG THIS IS IF YOURE IN THE WELCOME HOME FANDOM
here is proof: this is all recent proof
all screenshots are by missdevis on tiktok
Frank does not have any known information regarding his origins prior to moving into Home when compared to the others.
Welcome Home Website
While Clown is taking a break, I have been trying to fill the void in my soul that craves Welcome Home. Since I can’t draw or write stories, I have decided to simply look for new things. Whether on the site or made by others. While doing so I noticed that of all the characters Frank is the only one without a backstory of any kind other than Home and Wally. Julie came from a cave where she lived with her sisters. Sally is a star that came down from the sky. Poppy grew too big to live in the nest with her family. Eddie came from another town to build a post office. Howdy is a caterpillar who want to start a business? Doesn’t really explain his size but eh. And Barnaby who left the farm and his adoptive mother to live in the neighborhood. But Frank has nothing of note. No family or mention of where he lived beforehand. Now the fact that Frank is also a outlier in his more grey color and frowning face plus that he was usually a source of information makes me wonder about his past.
I know I've already talked about how I don't think Wally is a puppet, but with the new update, there is now more evidence for this claim. Though it also leaves more questions about what he is.
I do think, that at one point, Wally was just a puppet, but I think he gained more than just sentience as the story progresses. The videos are my main focus for this, as they all seem to be memories from Wally's pov. We see Wally's hand or hands in frame multiple times, showing that not only is it from his view we are watching but that he's not holding anything to record the moment. Even if sentient, a puppet can not upload memories onto a website. So Wally is built into the website in a way, though this was already hinted at with all the drawings he manages to add to the site.
But he's also not just on the website. Of the audio clips that can be found on the site through Wally's drawings, one of them is Wally talking about how he has more eyes than he did before. Sure there are a lot of eyes on the website for him to look through, but he also points out that we are the ones who have drawn his eyes. How, though, would he connect and see through the versions of his eyes we draw?
Lastly, the goo, or the substance that comes from the original Welcome Home items, though I call it a black goo since that's what seems to be on the staff-only site. This goo seems to thump like a heart and leaves people feeling sick and drained when they make contact with it. A goo that someone, likely Wally, is apologizing for. We already had clues that the people behind the Restoration Project were feeling pain while looking for clues because of the hidden answers in the get-to-know section. But with the staff-only site and the goo, we now see its effects a little more clearly. Especially shown with the phone ringing that is written all over the staff site, but without a known source.
At this point, I'm starting to think that Wally's awakening of sentience also brought out something almost eldritch in nature. Though it's clear Wally doesn't have control over it and is suffering as well from the effects. It's why he's trying to contact us, to ask for help. To want to be heard and seen as well as to hear and see in turn. But, what are we letting him into? The audio found on the error site asks us to let him in, but to what? He doesn't want out, he wants in. I feel somehow that's an important distinction that he's not asking to be freed as much as he's asking us to give him access. Access to what? Currently, I think our minds. In the same way that he is in the heads of the Restoration Team, though I don't think he means it maliciously as much as it's part of the goo/eldritch thing that is also present.
Can't wait for more of the story to come out!
For all I have seen this picture, it never crossed my mind that it is on the site meaning it is cannon. In some way at some time Wally used cake as a pillow in Welcome Home. I’m laughing way too hard at this.
I see so many people talk about this picture that Clown made right? But all anyone talks about is Wally’s pose. Like we not gonna talk about the shadows of people behind him? Mainly the two on each end cause one has a bird beak but the other is like a fuzzy bird leaning down? Who are they? The others are clearly Julie, Frank and Barnaby but I’m not sure about these two. They show traits like they could be Poppy but also aren’t?
The Marlo logo was something smaller that caught my attention. The spiral eye in a house logo for a partner company working with Playfellow to make Welcome Home products. It's not the main company yet it seems heavily influenced by the things we've seen.