#Answer here - 1 (How did you get into TOP)

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tacit solar
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Answer here - 1 (How did you get into TOP)

low gate
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Concert

delicate wraith
left belfry
ebon nymph
safe slate
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So I was playing video games in the summer in 2016, listening to pandora radio, when tear in my heart came on. I really connected to the part where he was singing about the potholes because it reminded me of when I was a little kid and trying to sleep in the car as it drove on our shitty streets. I didn't really look into them then however, because most of the artists I got on the pandora radio were classic rock and alt artists who were super old now and I never really was that interested in music. It was only when school started that I met a friend who was super into the band and I gradually got into them too. They were the first band where I could relisten to all the songs, and it really resonated with middle school me. Eventually, I would start watching all their interviews during times I couldn't sleep and realized that they were both funny and cool dudes. To this day I find comfort in both their music and in them as people.

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ebon nymph
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its open

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welcome

abstract summit
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omg

scarlet hedge
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i had a really good friend at the time that listened to them and basically forced me to listen to them so i heard message man and just fell in love i cant imagine my life without them they changed everything for me ew i soundlike a clikkie

scarlet hedge
wary gyro
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I heard Ride on the radio and wanted to hear more. I fell in love with Vessel, and I've been an ultra fan since

worthy pendant
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I listened to them when I was younger but then lost interest, saw the ride music vid and then trench came out and i liked it

abstract summit
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I started listening to them in 2018 when Trench came out. Then I started listening to their other albums and just fell in love idk.
The first top song I heard was Stressed Out tho.

shrewd meteor
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I’ve got this one
My friends older sister was into them, I was at my friends house and they were listening to music. One of the songs they played was stressed out and lane boy and I liked them so I asked what it was and listened at home. Since then I’ve been into them (this was during hiatus) also I was like 9 😭

echo sparrow
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i started listening to them during the hiatus :) back when stressed out was blowing up my older brother hated them and would make fun of them so i just pretended not@to like them so he wouldn’t make fun of me too LMAO 😭 then i started listening to them a little bit before trench and got crazy obsessed and it was honestly rlly fun loving the band that much. i was a fuckin sad little 13 year old and they helped me way more than anyone in my personal life. i don’t rlly listen to them anymore but i’m really grateful for the time that i did :]

coarse kettle
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i started listening to them because car radio was popular on music.ly (LMAO). i listened to car radio a lot but i thought they were a one hit wonder so i never listened to their other stuff. flash forward to when blurryface was released, i loved it. i listened to ride, heathens, stressed out, and heavydirtysoul RELIGIOUSLY. then, in march of 2018 (IT TOOK ME THREE YEARS) i was listening to blurryface and i was like “damn. this is good. i wonder if they have other stuff” and i found out that they were the same artist that made car radio and i was so fucking surprised LMAO. and so i stayed up all night just. listening to every tøp song ever made and i fell in love with each and every one and im so so grateful that i did because theyre everything to me and im just. so thankful for them

limpid pier
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Late 2015 I decided to look at the top 10 songs on billboard.com and somehow managed to see Ride and Stressed out on there. I saw the picture of Tyler with his big ass head on a big wheel and was like "what the hell is this". So I clicked the youtube link, watched the music video and afterwards was like "okay that was actually pretty good". So then I played Ride next and was like "damn, that was good too". I spent the rest of that night going through their Youtube music videos and fell in love. Within 3 months I was buying merch and felt like I had a "favorite band" again, after having not had a favorite band in a long time. Over time, their music really helped me through some dark moments in my life. Listening to Migraine, Ode To Sleep, and Truce used to be part of a ritualistic reprieve... after days and days of mental agony, those songs helped me feel like I could make it at least one more day. I came for Blurryface, but Vessel made me stay. It took me a few years to really dive deeper into Self-Titled and Rab, but eventually the entire discography became the soundtrack to my life. (except rab version of ode to sleep, ew).

Since I first discovered twenty one pilots, I've been able to see Heathens, Cancer, TOPxMM, Trench, and now Scaled and Icy be released. I got to go to 3 Bandito tour shows, two of which I worked for them as a stagehand, and one of which I got to run spotlight for (a dream come true). And this year I went to 5 Takeover Tour shows. I feel I am indebted to twenty one pilots because they quite literally saved my life.

royal roost
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found fall out boy back in 2013 (centuries played on the radio), save rock and roll tour happened, and thats where top was introduced to me, but i didnt get into them till a bit later (2014), and then panic! by 2015 and then mcr by 2016/2017

safe slate
coarse kettle
gloomy pulsar
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when i was in 8th grade, we had a day in my theater class where we did karaoke and one of my friends chose Tear In My Heart and i was floored by the song. Went home that day and listened to Blurryface and it opened a third eye for me. at that time i was only listening to radio country so to hear something that wasn’t that…damn dude.

fresh light
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oh its open now

static moat
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i first heard of them when they were touring with fob and p!atd but the first time i heard a song was in like 2014 iirc when they performed at some mtv award show. they performed car radio (of course), and i remember thinking it was so weird and not being that into it. but for some reason i was compelled to look them up on yt right after and i watched the hoty mv behind the scenes and started liking them as people, and then i watched the hoty mv and from there i was hooked. :) seven years later and i've seen them live a handful of times and they're still one of my fav bands.
although i did lose some interest during the hiatus and was kinda absent sometimes during trench era, i reeled myself back in for sai era

marble garden
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Part one: In 2015-2016, the radio got me into twenty one pilots initially, bit only a few songs.

Part two: I was in the hospital for a week in September-October 2018. When I got out, I opened Spotify, and the first thing I saw was Trench. A month later, I saw them live..

radiant oak
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September 10th, 2017, a friend of mine played Ode to Sleep and I was never the same.

dire thicket
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i actually dont really remember how. all i remember was a few years ago i was listening to self titled n really liked the pantaloon and oh ms believer. idk how it happened but thats how i got into them. then i made a friend at school (wow shocking) and she liked em too so thst kinda fueled me to listen to em more. i was in a really dark time finding them. i think its weird how the first stuff i heard from em (besides ride/heathens/stress out) was st.

random harbor
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My dad downloaded a “Top Christian albums of 2013” pack thing and Vessel was on it. He heard Car Radio and liked it and decided to show it to me in the car. I thought Car Radio was okay, but then I heard Semi-Automatic and I loved it so much and began listening to that album on repeat for months.

marble garden
exotic python
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when i was very young i heard one of their early songs, i think it was either johnny boy or the pantaloon
i didnt recognise that it was the band that would one day save my life but i really did like it
whatever song that was, i devoted myself to it
i tried to sing along with it
i tried to learn it
then, as the little kid i was, i eventually sort of forgot about it. i moved on for a while
then, 3 years ago in january, i heard some of their songs on the radio
and they made me feel something
i'm the kinda guy who listens more to lyrics than the general sound of the song. when i first heard songs like ode to sleep and semi-automatic, i really felt something. a lot of the songs i'd been mindlessly listening to on the radio didnt give me that feeling. i couldn't relate to the rich pop stars living their best lives with their hot makeup-choked girlfriends.
but something about these pilot guys really hit me.
'hey, this guy feels. i feel too'

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i really got into blurryface for a while, then i tried some of their older albums
i loved it
i loved the real, raw, depressing-ness of it
then i looked at trench for the first time and oh dang
i was intrigued by the fact these two boys from ohio had created a whole universe with a motive
i started my research on this universe and this motive
it changed my life. it saved me. i'd been going through some tough shit (and to be honest, i still am)
and the message of the whole album, 'you are not alone' really helped me get through this life
and it still does

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im still very into the lore
i stay updated on everything, it keeps me going. i love finding interviews and putting together something either tyler or josh says that reminds me of something in the lore. finding little details, it makes me feel something nice i didnt know i could feel for a long time

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accomplishment.
because of these two pilot boys from ohio

brisk veldt
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There was a post on Reddit (I can’t remember if it was r/AskReddit or r/Music) that was like “what are you listening to currently.

I shared Beartooth, I think, and someone responded they were as well, and we started talking and sharing some bands. One of the bands they shared with me was twenty one pilots.
I started listening though all their stuff (just S/T and Vessel at the time; I didn’t know RaB existed yet).

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And it stuck on me

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We created a kik group. Blurryface started leaking, I was offered subreddit moderators, and I started getting into the band pretty deep

unique geyser
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Ride is on the tracklist of PES 2017 and i used to vibe a lot to it then i searched it up on YouTube and now here i am

brisk veldt
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Fast forward about 2 years, I get a mod mail DM asking if I would like to join this discord server, as they were seeking discord partnership and needed to partner with the subreddit to do so. Joined here and became staff

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Fast forward another year and dmaorg happens, and we blow up in numbers

unique geyser
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🤓

brisk veldt
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Then the mark chat, then the Tyler interview.
Then the ARG, and we double our member count

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Then SAI, where we gained another like 30k

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And here we are

desert dragon
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I am not really sure how to really explain, but i remember the first song I heard was house of gold I think, one of my family friends liked them a lot, I was like 7-8 years old. I actually got into their music in 5th grade and I really started loving them in 7-start of 8th and at the middle/end of 8th I entered my obsession phase. I’m in 9th grade now and they are my favorite band of all time, they are really more than music. Tøp is keeping me alive and I love the boys and their music and pretty much everything about them. (I’m not 100% sure if this is how it went down but it seems right lol)

odd heart
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vessel came out on my birthday, first time listening to hoty… thats it

pallid flint
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My cousin introduced me and my sister to them and then his younger sister continued to force us to listen to TØP every time we came over, so I ended up liking them (my sister does not like them at all) and now I listen to them everyday. I believe the first song I ever heard was House of Gold

whole oyster
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I had heard about them during the bf era but it wasn’t until a nalbis videos that I watched that I listened to trench and fell in love

hexed barn
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older sister was into them around 2014-16ish and i got into them thru osmosis ever since

hollow swan
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I was just looking for some music to listen to when I took my daily walks, came across Stressed Out and wondered what the other songs on the album sounded like. Got sucked into their other music and haven’t come back lol

formal yoke
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my dads friend told me and my dad about a concert in our area, so i started listening to blurryface and i liked it and we went, the rest is history

rancid hound
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idk i was bored

wild briar
coarse kettle
wild briar
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Back in 2015 I found top by stressed out though youtube and I was so into but I stop listening to them in 2017 so eeee

dim wyvern
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I got into top because my local radio is awful. It was the only thing I enjoyed, and I looked them up. Have been a fan since

sudden musk
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I heard them on the radio in bf era and i recently rediscovered them this year. i got super into the lore and now in a full on clikkie. they have helped me with my mental struggles and im so happy they create this amazing music

ebon nymph
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do I need to mute both of you? jenni and morse

sudden musk
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do it port

wild briar
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No

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We are good

ebon nymph
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then behave

pallid lion
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i remember an old friend from middle school showed me Semi-Automatic, but i never really paid much attention cause i didn't know who they were at the time (i did hear them on the radio at that time tho)

once i got into high school though, right after TØP came out with Jumpsuit/NATN, that's when i started to dive deeper, and i'm glad i did! NedHeart

(edit: i remember only downloading Doubt at one point, so it gives me a lot of nostalgia)

west lake
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one. dad
two. unique sound
middle school when i found them

frigid trellis
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I first heard twenty one pilots in 2015 when blurryface was released. I was on my way to a homeschool field trip to a maple syrup farm with my friend, and he was BLASTING fairly local super loud. But the only part he would sing was the “OH OH OH” part. I vividly remember him taping his fingers on the dash board, idk why this memory is burned so deeply in my brain.
Then after that field trip, I didn’t hear anything from them for at least half a year until I went to a summer camp with the same friend, and he showed me the whole album. (Not today was the first song I REALLY enjoyed). Then when I got home I enjoyed it a lot. I got REALLY into the band officially in 2016. It was a really rough time for me, I was 12 and about to move literally all the way across the country. I didn’t feel like I belonged in Arizona, but I had no life for me in New York anymore. So I was very out of place and lonely, got a lot of mental issues, and idk this music really helped me to not feel alone and to find a sense of comfort in knowing I could find meaning in my life even if I didn’t feel like I belonged anywhere.

fallen coral
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The way how I got into twenty-one pilots is basically that I heard about this band from someone and I sort of gotten into the band and then when I listened to more their songs, I actually got into the band, when scaled and Icy came out. I love the songs so much that it makes my heart feel happy all the time

delicate wraith
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funny story, one of my best friends is a clikkie and he was talking about how they were his favorite band so i tried to get into them and i told him to recommend me a song and he gave me his favorite one, the pantaloon.

i hated it 😭 i was like “is this what all their songs are like? 💀” then he moved away and i felt like i sorta owed it to him to get into them because again, best friend moment. this was like in 7th grade and he moved in february of 8th grade, right before lockdown in march

so quarantine happened and i really wanted to get into them for me and my friend so i went and listened to the songs i knew which was basically stressed out and heathens and they were already on my playlist and i was like :0 then i listened to car radio which was also one of the few i knew and i knew that blurryface was their most popular album so i was like “it must be popular for a reason” and i listened to it and literally loved the album 😭

and then i didnt really know where to start so i added chlorine and for the rest i told my friends to recommend songs on instagram 😭

then i listened to everything they didnt recommend

and yes, i love the pantaloon now :)

inner pine
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I started listening to them in 3rd grade when blurryface came out and only listened to tear in my heart, stressed out, and ride. (yes i was that kid) then i stopped listening to them (if you can call that listening) and basically missed the whole hiatus and build up to trench. I loved trench and listened to holding onto you, house of gold, and car radio and listened to those songs a lot. then around December 2018 i fell out of listening to them again and went on a hiatus, i listened to LOC once, and never knew about CSTY. I had no idea about Sai cuz at this point i kind of forgot about them. By the time choker came out my 9 yr old brother (who is a fan of them now but back then only knew about them through me) told me that they made a song called choker, I thought wow a new album! Then I saw Sai and listened to shy away and choker, on repeat for days. I learned about the livestream experience and got tickets for that and knew almost all the songs except, for migraine. I loved Sai and for the next 2 weeks had it on loop. It kind of invigorated my love for Top, but I couldnt stop thinking about that song I heard during the Livestream (Btw I knew minor elements of the lore but not all of it so i knew bout the bishops and stuff) I looked up the song and found out it was actually on Vessel! An album I never listened to (except those 3 songs) because back then I was just a little kid and didn't know about there vast library of songs and albums. So I decided to sit down one day, and binge Vessel. Ended up loving it so much and today I would say its my favorite album of all time. Then after a few weeks of digesting Vessel I started listening to Self TItled. LOVE THAT ALBUM AS WELL. Then listened to Rab on youtube and was iffy about it at first, then I came around to it and loved that whole album. Everyday it felt like I would listen to a song from any of there albums and start loving it. For example I HATED Goner and Not Today at first but then started to LOVE those songs and I love them so much. To be honest today the only songs I dont like by them are probably Bandito, Truce, and Before You Start Your Day. Basically I got obsessed. Went to Hot Topic and got my first shirt, and after Sai came out I got my first Cd. And when the Takeover Tour got announced I IMMEDIATLY told my dad and got tickets (BTW Oct 30th best day of my life). Even last month I listened to No Phun Intended and ended up loving 75% of that album :O. I love this band and I might sound a bit obsessed but trust me I dont go around like a wild monkey singing Top, I just love this band. Wait, I forgot to say why I got interested in them...... Well I love Tyler and Josh's personalities and think they are both really creative. I love the lyrics and how they mean so much, I love the sounds and vibes these songs give off, and I love how theres so many genres so if one day im in a mood for a certain genre, I know theres a song for me! That basically wraps up this Essay :D

real gale
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Someone made a music video thing for another fandom I was in using the song Heathens, and it turned out that I really liked that song. Then I did a ton of try not to sing challenges and Stressed Out, Ride, and Heathens would play in a lot of them. So once I figured out the band that sang Heathens also sang Stressed Out and Ride I looked into them more and started listening to more and more songs, I think I started mostly with Blurryface and Vessel and slowly moved to their other albums. I found that I really liked their music and the messages in it and they quickly became my favorite band. They inspired me to learn more about mental health which I think is what has moved me to consider becoming a therapist.

inner pine
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thats a cool answer :)

real gale
inner pine
strange vale
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i have a couple different stories

initially, when i was probably like 9, my dad downloaded blurryface after hearing ride on the radio, and i remember listening to it with him on the deck and really liking it. then i downloaded it and listened to it on the bus every day. polarize was my favorite. i didnt really have major access to youtube or other internet things yet, so it kind of stopped there.

then my friends at a sleepover were really obsessed with twenty one pilots. we listened to heavydritysoul a ton that night (i was listening to it in the car when my dad had to submit taxes or something that day. idk. i remember being really bored but trying to rap it and failing) that was a really fun sleepiver. 10/10 honeslty. played warrior cats half the time

then a while later, i loved to watch animation videos. i saw an animation meme of fake you out, which i remeber watching over and over for the song.
then i found a wings of fire video about moonwatcher with migraine, and i LOVED it. i watched that video a ton. i still didnt realize how bands worked at the time though, so i just listened to that one song

then i saw the jumpsuit video. i thought the lore was the coolest thing ever and got super into it and then i actually sought out the bands music and yeah. i also realized that they were the ones who wrote blurryface and was like :O these guys!!! i know them!!! sick!!! and then yeah. honestly found them at the perfect time cause stuff started getting kinda rough for me for a little while and they helped a lot, though thats pretty common in the clique

loud badger
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my sister came to me one day and was like, "you have to check out this band!" this must've been early 2016 maybe? and she showed me stressed out. and i thought woah this is a really good song. then ride, and then heavydirtysoul, and i was like woah. this band can do pop, reggae (dont laugh at me calling ride that i was like 14), and rap?? then i forgot about them for a bit. and thought ew, what dick would get his whole neck tattoed black.

then a few months later lol i had a crush on this girl and we were in a gc she was talking about how she really loved the band. and i was like me too!!! and someone else said "ryan stop bullshitting i know you're lying." so then i went to blurryface super quick and clicked on a random song to listen to it super quick so i could have something to talk about. that song was we don't believe whats on tv lol.

and im like, shit, thats actually pretty good. then from then on i actually started listening to them and falling in love like i hadn't ever before with any music. and!! here we are!!!

sometimes ill go months and months without listening to them at all, but even when that happens, i still know they are and probably always will be my favorite band of all time.

and i wont go into why i like em bc its probably the same as many of you and is just so much to get into

deft yarrow
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twenty one pilots was an amazon prime music recommended artist for me 😂😂. i had just finished listening to Imagine Dragons and the app recommended me them… so i was like shoot— why not. i listened to Tear In My Heart and immediately fell in love, and now they are and always will be my favorite band ever ClikkieGangSign

lusty steppe
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i heard them on the radio in 2015 :) i didn’t really get into them at first but then i slowly started listening to more of their music and now i’m in love with them. they’re my all-time favorite bandtrashkiss

thick swift
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I used to watch random people livestream and one day I went into this guys stream and he was playing uke and singing and he started singing house of gold and after I heard him sing it then I looked it up and watched the mv and basically was hooked from there! Another thing that makes me happy about it is the clique and how everyone really looks out for each other and makes sure everyone is safe and doing well and everyone is always there for each other and I have never been in such an amazing community.

manic raptor
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i used to listen to the public radio on the way home from school everyday, back in elementary, and stressed out and ride would come on. i thought they were alright. but my mom went and bought the album, and i loved it so much. they quickly became my favorite band, and as i got older and understood and related to their music more, i grew to love and appreciate them so much, and here we are now

cursive rain
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My dad played car radio one day and the rest was history, they were my first experience with music that have a deeper meaning

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trail shadow
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My friend showed me Car Radio on the school bus one day and I was hooked on them pretty quick after that

minor wadi
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First time my sister introduced me to them i was about 10yrs old i didnt cared too much about music. After 2 or 3 yrs one day i just noticed cholrine and ride was on my playlist and i played them always, so after i got home i searched them up and they grew to me

quiet temple
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heard a song off of vessel in 2014 in a youtube speedpaint video and then listened to the whole album, and i told my dad abt it and he was like. yeah i listen to them. so. here we are.

rancid hound
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Some day in early 2019 the Ride MV "appeared" on my YouTube homepage. I decided to watch it and for some reason decided to listen to more of their songs. Throughout the next months I had listened to their whole discography.

silver lance
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Probably just after bf was released in 2015 but actually the first song I heard was holding on to you, I remember I liked it and listened to a few more right after but what really made it stick is that I had a dream maybe a week after where I was at a rooftop garden party type thing and I had a long deep conversation with Tyler and then when I woke up I was like yep okay I’m all in

dawn flint
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friend got me into it, stayed cos funky beats and good alternative music

real bear
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The first thing I heard from them was stressed out in 2015. I can't remember when exactly I heard it first, i just remember hearing it on the radio over and over again. Of course. I didn't give it too much of a thought but eventually I really listened and I loved the song so I checked out other stuff and fell in love more and more. I loved the sound they had, I never heard songs like this before and I kinda knew, this is my band. This is what I needed all my life. At this point I would say I was just a casual fan. But I got really hyped just before jumpsuit came out. I didn't really know what was happening because I was still a casual fan, not knowing about lore or anything. Loved jumpsuit when they released it and then I was really hyped up for the album and I guess Trench was the era where I morphed into a clikkie. Throughout the era I learned more about the lore, because I wanted to understand and I guess my breaking point to all of this insanity was the ARG last year lol.

violet forge
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heard stressed out playing from my sister's phone in like 2017 i think? she and her friends listened to them back then
i really liked it so i asked her about them and
yep

sharp shard
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found them on spotify recommended. heard 1 song, then another, then another, then another

broken jewel
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in like 2014 or something my brother was in year 6 and they were doing a talent show thing for the end of the year. someone decided to sing i think either taxi cab or ode to sleep so i looked up the songs and here i am

heady rivet
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first listened to stressed out and ride during 2016 if i’m not mistaken, then i really just ditched them. however around 2018 when i moved to florida i listened to stressed out and ride a bit more (they were my favorite songs at the time) and when trench came out a friend introduced me to it. slowly but surely after that i started to really listened to more and more of their music. and here i am now, utterly addicted to them

junior yoke
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Back in 2017, I decided to check out more of TØP's music after really loving Heathens. I listened to Blurryface and became a fan instantly!

honest walrus
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one of my friends showed me them sometime late 2014/early 2015, but i didn’t really get into them until the hiatus

serene urchin
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A couple years ago, i thought about how much i heard them on the radio and how much i liked their songs, so i listened to all of their albums newest to oldest

echo coral
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it was during quarantine and was kinda bored with the music i was listening to at the time, and tried branching onto new bands and ive listened to level of concern and slowly started to listen to more of their music

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inner mantle
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My sister told me about them and i started to like them after a long time i found out both my brother and sister listen to them so i wanted to keep listening and after awhile i listened to them.

old dragon
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i think it was stressed out that made me check them out LOL. but i remember hearing car radio early on and i was like damn that's deep

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i never knew it was something other people thought about (how significant silence can be)

eager shadow
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My sister had hoty playing in her car when we were coming back from the movies precovid and I was like dang I've heard this before, it's good. Then I learned all the words to migraine LMAO

eager shadow
tight gyro
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some random group of people at my school played house of gold during a talent show. thought it was a cool song. listened to some more of them. i loved it. and yea lmao

pale mica
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A friend played car radio in the car one time and to this day remains one of my favorite songs.

brazen agateBOT
hexed pollen
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(i love this new channel, such a good idea)
I started playing ukulele in 2014 and at some point the websites where i look for chords would always recommend top and especially stressed out. uke I was like "who is that" and annoyed to see it everywhere lol, then watched the stressed out mv and the first time i think it was too weird for me. A few days (/weeks?) later i came back to it and then discovered most of their songs and it was amazing. blurryface vessel selftitled rab
So basically i first liked the sound and then when i looked up the lyrics... (i don't really listen to lyrics at first also because english is not my first language)
At the time i was in a bad place mentally and having a lot of social anxiety. I loved finding music about these topics and other important and meaningful ones. Most songs especially a few years ago are about stuff that don't matter to me (or didn't at the time maybe). Anyway, top's music helped me and made me feel so much less lonely. I have been a fan ever since trench scaledandicy ClikkieGangSign

hushed ginkgo
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I first discovered twenty one pilots through my friend. He said his favorite songs from them were Car Radio, Ride and Stressed Out. So, I listened to Car Radio, and I was hooked. This was back in 2015. I was hooked ever since... Once I listened to those 3, I moved to Self Titled, and I fell in love with Isle of Flightless Birds and Trapdoor. Then, I listened to Vessel, and that album is a masterpiece (remains my favorite album to this day), followed by Blurryface, Regional At Best, No Phun Intended. c:

eager shadow
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Also this server was a big part of it. It's nice to have people to talk to about theories and random stuff, yall cool coolio

coral compass
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I got introduced originally by my dad around the time Blurryface came out

uneven star
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i first found out about them when blurryface came out, and i thought their songs sounded really nice, but then i sort of forgot about them for a while; i wasn't super into them back then, i didn't know much about them either, but a few days before the whole loc scavenger hunt came to be, i re-discovered them and a few of their other songs by accident and i was like, 'oh hey! i know these guys!' after that, of course, the whole loc thing happened. i was honestly so confused throughout most of it seeing as i didnt even know what trench was at the time, but i loved interacting with the fanbase and finding out more about the lore, it was really a wonderful experience :)

earnest crater
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I found out fairly recently actually... My good friend introduced them to me right after covid hit and their new album had come out. I didn't listen a whole lot but then I just kinda listened to her whole playlist which had all their released songs so I got a feel. I only kept the ones I liked from the start though and listened to those. After a little while I went back through and found that I liked more of their music then I had thought, still knew nothing about the lore at this point tho so I wasn't too interested. I started listening to every one of their released songs and like clockwork I eventually found evidence of something more then just a bunch of songs so I started researching. I did a whole lot and at this point I basically can't stop listening to them with what I know about the lore. Still pretty new but I did retrace the entire legacy of the dma org site with the wayback machine and practically lived the whole experience in a single day. reading though reddit threads and articles while my mind was blown nearly ever second with the connections I saw was just incredible.

nimble oriole
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LMAO, I saw a video on vine of tyler dancing on stage with a ballerina and decided to look them up and i listened to car radio and did not like it cause it just sounded like he was talking and then months later i listened to other songs off vessel and later on ended up liking car radio

glass spire
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ooh boy timeline time.

2015: heard ride on the radio multiple times, thought it was ok but not great, didn't look any further (i was like 12 then)
2017: my friend showed me Stressed Out [Tomsize Remix] (LOLLLLL) and i yt to mp3'd it on my phone and listened to it a bunch because I liked it, didn't realise that these were the people that made ride.
June-ish 2019: my sister shows me message man (she was into the band) and i think its weird and i didn't like it (HAHAH WHAT)
October 2019: my friends and I are making the school magazine in a computer room at lunchtime and playing songs out of one of the computers. one of them puts on the judge and it rings a bell in my brain like i've heard it before somewhere, i realise that i'd heard it a few years ago on the radio a couple times, and listening to it there in the computer room i really like the song. I go home and listen to it again and I see that its made by twenty one pilots? oh? the band my sister said she likes? hmm, ill go ask her about them then. I found out they made stressed out and ride that i'd heard before (id never heard heathens before for some reason) and a few days later she shows me the jumpsuit, hds, nico, levitate mv's and dmaorg site and explains a lot of the lore and from there on i am absolutely HOOKED. i spend the next month or two going down rabbit holes of lore and listening to their full discography and finding rab, older concert vids of unplayed songs nowadays (shoutout to JacobRobAJ on youtube) and yeah the rest is history.
the LOC ARG really super solidified my place as a massive fan because it was the first sorta band event/cryptic thing i ever got to take part in and wowie i was blown away.
sadly im in aus so i havent seen them live yet

kindred ermine
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i don’t know when was the first time i heard about them exactly. i know my brother listened to them in 2017/2018 and i remember that one day when we were on this road trip he got super excited because he had just got the opening eye email, and he was talking to us about how cool it was and i didn’t really get it. then that year for halloween he dressed up as a bandito and i was like whatever, and even tho he tried to explain the lore and everything it really didn’t get it (i was 12 at the time). then during quarantine i got on tiktok and started listening to music more, especially paramore, and around march or april my sister was like you need to listen to tøp and i didn’t really want to but she kept bugging me about it so i listened to blurry face, and was like, huh this is actually pretty good. then i listened to trench and vessel and eventually listened to the earlier stuff. my brother graduated an moved out, and then in may or whatever he sent me the email that tøp was going on tour, and by this point it was basically my favorite band so i was like i need to do this and got on the server so i could have help with gettin tickets and everything. when sai came out i got super invested in the lore and have been pretty active ever since. i’m so glad my sister pushed me to listen to them.

vestal warren
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I'm not exactly sure how I started to listen them more. Like I knew Stressed Out and Heathens cause duuh.. everyone had heard them. But I think I started get more into them because I listened Paramore and their both released by Fueled By Ramen. I just remember listening many of the songs pretty often and a lot of them ended up in my Spotify Top 100 year... let me check what year... 2019, oh wow, seems like it was 2018 or sth. But it is interesting to think back, because year earlier I didn't listen to them at all but in 2019 I had 19 songs in my Top 100 playlist 😀. And at the very end of 2019 I started to date my gf and after few months she started to listen tøp.. and a lot more than me 😄 and she dragged me down the rabbithole. I started to listen more songs I hadn't listen before and first album from where I knew only few songs. Then a year later we discovered RAB and were baffled and then we discovered this Discord server (2021 March or sth) on a same day without knowing other one did 😄. (I found it through TØP wiki, maybe she also, don't remember). [It also excited me when I found out they're from christian families because I felt connected or sth like it.] Tyler's tattoos and secrecy and personal and cryptic meanings behind them excited me too. And after finding out about all the Dema stuff and storyline behind Trench and when LOC ARG came out, this everything got gradually more and more exciting. And it seems there's so much more things for me to learn and understand about them and band. And it has to be mentioned that it's our thing with my girl. We are both fans and it's thing we're both enjoying and excited about. ❤️

cosmic hound
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i got into them thru a cover of truce and then i looked up the actul version and cried my eyes out, i found that song at the absolute perfect time in my life, i needed that song. i later found a compilation of "twenty one pilots sad songs" LMAO and fell in love with their sound, i later listened to their whole discography and fell in love even more. I've been hooked ever since tbh but their overall message of stay alive was very needed when i found them and even today. and the lore constantly keeps me engaged. but overall they saved my life <3

formal pebble
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I had heard Top music for years before I became a fan. In my freshman year of college, my roommate would put her Trench, blurry face, or vessel record on. I fell asleep to the music every night and eventually learned to love it. We just saw the boys on tour last month and I'm forever grateful that she introduced me to their music.

frank turret
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so basically what had happened was

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shane dawson made a video reacting to them LOL

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so if you think about it shane dawson is the reason i am here today <3

safe slate
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HAHAHAHAHAHA

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Thank u for sharing

frank turret
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so valid

valid rune
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That’s about one of the most cursed ways to find out about this band. You’re so brave

ebon nymph
valid rune
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Oh my god i forgot he was involved air

safe slate
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Did frank know about this server??

frank turret
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that’s not even bad port

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i also joined here from twitter but idrk the exact circumstances i think u guys just replied to one of their tweets

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and i was like hey i have discord

valid rune
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Yeah cat he was here wasn’t he

ebon nymph
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people replied to him saying they were discussing everything in real time in reddit and discord

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idk if he was here

safe slate
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Lolol

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I found us thru instagram cause ppl posted pics of the reddit thread

ebon nymph
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"all roads lead to Rome" something something

valid rune
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I found out ab them through tumblr in 2014 cause some of my mutuals kept reblogging pics of tyler w one of those kinda cringy tags for him (like fluffy haired bean idr) and so i wanted to check them out one day n while i was in the car i put vessel on and ode to sleep’s differently sped parts got me hooked instantly. Still one of my favourite songs to this very day

gloomy pulsar
frank turret
fierce dust
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I found them through tiktok. I started using the app way too much back in 2018 and in the beginning of 2019 this wdbwotv trend of a girl singing started to pop up a bunch on my for you page. At the same time I started to learn ukulele because I wanted to play some sort of instrument. After a week of learning I found a youtuber doing a 4 chord medley and I really liked it. After going through each song at a time I found out they were all from the same band. And since then I have been addicted and pretty much only listen to them on a daily basis.

rain nimbus
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A friend was a pretty big fan so I listened to them cause I had a crush on her and I wanted to share similar interests. After we broke up I was in too deep to the lore. So here I am.

brazen agateBOT
unique briar
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In 2014 through YouTube

light basin
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i let my mom decide what we watched on tv one morning when she got home from work and she said she heard chlorine on the radio and that the dudes who did heathens and stressed out released an album and wanted to hear it. had no idea what i was in for lmao

pliant eagle
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the very first time i ever heard of them was when i saw a lyric video for isle of flightless birds on youtube around 2014ish and listened to maybe 30 seconds before clicking out HAHA
i actually started listening to them when stressed out and ride got really big and they were probably one of my top 5 favorite bands back then
they became my favorite band after i went to the bandito tour in 2018 and now here i am!!

brazen agateBOT
pliant eagle
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stfu nico 🙄

vague finch
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was listening to some music on my cousins phone and stressed out comes on. i dug some more through their music and found their old stuff and really fell in love with it and here we are :D

radiant garden
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Best friend was listening to them and I learned that they were the ones singing songs like Stressed Out, Heathens, and Ride, which I kinda made fun of them but they were also the first music I actually kinda liked. I started looking more into who they were and found songs from vessel that I started connecting to a bit. I got super invested in their music and then all the trench and dema stuff started happening, which dragged me all the way in

halcyon lava
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everyone was listening to ride, I ignored it because I didn't like pop music and considered Michael Jackson superior to all humans. then someone told me to listen to heavydirtysoul and I gained respect for these two musicians who actually made meaningful stuff. trench came and I became a clikkie. rediscovered them from the start and now I hold them dear more than ever.

lilac spoke
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My very first twenty one pilots song was Heathens and tbh I thought it was cool but it wasn't until Migraine came up in my youtube feed that I started paying any attention to them. I'd been going through a bit of a rough time and the little part at the end just stuck with me. I remember trying to keep up with Tyler and I must say I was happy when I could finally sing the whole song. It just made me feel so much better knowing that my feelings weren't unusual and that there were others who had survived so maybe I could too. Now they're my favorite band from this century

fast ember
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First time I heard a twenty one pilots song was around 2016 and I heard heavydirtysoul and then I rlly liked it and then trench came and yea now they're the best band to ever band 🙂

west ruin
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I heard heavy dirty soul on the radio and then my cousins took us to a concert and I've been hooked since then

earnest crater
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yooo you got to a concert before you rlly got into it that's awesome

spring barn
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I don't remember how i got into them exactly but it was the lore that really interested me (i joined beginning of sai era)

brazen agateBOT
dire osprey
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My best friend and my boyfriend got me into Twenty One Pilots around the beginning of Trench era. I knew of them because of Stressed out on the radio and Ride but both my friend and boyfriend had me listen to trench and some older songs from Regional at best and Self titled. After that, I became interested and have listened ever since. Air Catcher is actually the song my boyfriend and I associate as our song and it's one of the first songs other then what was playing on the radio that he showed me.

fallow dew
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i used to hate music but then my friend William got me into Trench and then covid hit so i listened to music more
obviously that music was almost exclusively twenty one pilots
after over a year here i am with a new found fear of silence and a reliance on anime music to keep me from mumbling to myself

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speaking of that my first song that wasnt stressed out or ride was car radio and it is what really got me hooked on twenty one pilots
I think i heard car radio a few months before trench started (as in before the first song was released)

calm remnant
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in high school, a friend was playing migraine in class (we were allowed to request songs to hear altogether for a specific class) and it was a really nice vibe, couple months later found more interest in their music after seeing them at a festival in 2015 and now here we are catvibe

tulip zenith
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an old friend of mine saw them live in late 2014, i fell in love with car radio then and slowly got into them at the beginning of 2015 with the release of fairly local. saw them live for the first time at blurryface seattle and i haven’t stopped going to shows since :’)

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travelled all over for them, saw them at tdc, and am going to see them in january in la for my 13th pilots show hehe

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their lyrics really got me hooked on the music, especially the earlier stuff w/ self titled. their lyrics have always left an impression on me and even though i’m not a huge fan this era with sai, they still got me thru a lot of shit with their music and i heavily thank them for that :)

lavish ember
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i was a panic! fan back in the days. so i found twenty one via panic

deft yarrow
halcyon lava
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maybe 👀

deft yarrow
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ohh snap

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👀

mental dawn
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like most people, i first heard them on the radio in 2015. enjoyed stressed out, ride, heathens yk the cliches. i was pretty much a child then and barely even cared about music besides what i heard on the radio.
fast forward to 2018, i started caring about music and those songs went on my playlist. ride quickly became my favorite song. me and a friend both liked these songs and that made me a little more interested in the actual band. i tried listening to chlorine but i didnt really vibe with it.
two more years and its 2020, im bored during the lockdown and i decide making a lyric video for ride, kinda as a way to train my video editing skills. so i search "twenty one pilots" on youtube in order to download ride's mp3, and the first result that shows is for a new song, released only 4 days ago, called level of concern. i listened to it out of curiosity, and i just absolutely loved it. during the quarantine, i feel in this super deep top rabbit hole lmao and im glad so, it was a hard time in my life and they were there for me
ive been a fan for over a year and a half now, and i actually just placed the order for my second top tshirt. i love them as i much as i did when i first listened

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damn thats a text wall. i told this before but never so extensively lol

tawny osprey
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tumblr meme

undone veldt
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First heard of them through MTV Push with Holding On To You but I didn't pay attention to them
Heard them again with Stressed Out on the radio and from some highschool classmates, again paid no attention to them

but a friend played Heathens on their stream, and another artist who I follow used Ride on their speedpaint video, and I finally gave a chance to listen to their music and boom full-blown clikkie and full of regrets

rancid hound
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radio

royal bobcat
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i got into top when i was in 3rd grade and when i heard stressed out on the radio! what made me love them was their love of their fans, and how down to earth they were, and still are!

frank turret
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3rd grade nomoretoilet

rancid hound
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asking because curious

royal bobcat
rancid hound
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how much classes did you fail

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you were like 11 in 3rd grade

royal bobcat
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2015 i was 9

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i was born in 2006

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2015 is when blurryface came out

rancid hound
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my brain is malfunctioning

frank turret
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mine too grave dw

lusty steppe
royal bobcat
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woop woop Happy

rancid hound
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My sibling listened to stressed out and I was in the room and since then Ive been a fan

spring egret
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I got into them through my sister leaving her laptop open and myspace logged in. I went to the new artist tab and listened to regional at best cause it had just come out. I was really young, around 7-8 ish? I forgot about them until vessel came out in 2013 and fell in love with the music. me having autism, they within a short time became my special interest and now here we are years later and they're still my main spintrest :))

smoky charm
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I saw the lane boy music under free music videos to watch on directv years ago. Watched it and thought it was pretty cool but didn’t get into twenty one pilots until the end of hiatus

loud badge
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my brother used to play house of gold in 2013, and then I listened to the rest of vessel

fallen hound
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i heard them on the radio w/ ride and stressed out primarily, and i started listening some

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i eventually started exploring and branching out to vessel

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then started diving deeper and fell in love with no phun intended and self titled

grim monolith
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i heard them on the radio in spring of 2013 and listened to all of vessel on youtube, same when i heard stressed out and ride two years later the same way. in 2016/2017 i actually started to care about more than just the cool music, and the trench lore was the final massive push into the world of tøp :)

wispy swallow
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i found out about them this year 😄 i listened to stressed out, then i listened to blurryface and trench, got deep into trench lore, listened to vessel and self-titled, scaled and icy released, and i started to listen more to regional at best

crisp palm
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I realized I actually didn't answer this one
Back in 2016 i knew about the band but i thought people who listened to it were kind of embarrassing so i avoided them. Then in the summer suicide squad came out and i loved heathens so i just listened to that while talking about how the band is not good but i just like that one song eisbwjw
It was that way until fall when they had a concert nearby and some of my friends went so I got curious and watched some of their live performance and fell in love with laneboy. I absolutely loved their energy and how they interacted with the crowd so i looked into them more and started listening to their music more aaaaand from them it went downhill

wanton silo
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Kinda embarrassing but I got into them through a Fine Bros React video and I was like "wow this is some good music", showed them to my brother and he was also like "this is good" so yeah :)

strange isle
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I remember hearing Stressed Out at a Roblox restaurant game and thought it was weird. Then a Roblox friend of mine who liked the band played one of their other songs from Blurryface (We Don't Believe What's On TV) and I liked that one. From there I started listening to more of their songs, and I officially considered myself a part of the clique on September 9th, 2016. This was a couple of days after their Sacramento concert for the Emotional Roadshow World Tour was sold out, so I tried to convince my mom to buy us tickets for the Valentine's Day 2017 concert in Fresno, and she did! I got out early from school that day (got to skip P.E.) and my mom drove us 2-3 hours away from home to Fresno for the concert, and I loved it! Tyler and Josh both being Christians and having similar struggles with faith to me made me love this band even more, along with all of their unique songs and the fact that their songs have saved so many people's lives. They are my #1 favorite band and I will always support them! ClikkieGangSign

rancid hound
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isnt stressed out copyrighted

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how it is on roblox

strange isle
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This was years ago before Roblox started removing copyright audio.

wind steppe
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omg i forgot to reply to this !! so it was 2016 spring, ofc stressed out was everywhere, i was ofc like ewww popular music get out !!! but then there was a cute girl........... an internet friend...... and she was a fan and i HAD to check top out smh... and so one day in may of 2016 after school i layed on my bed and started scrolling on the bands yt channel and idk why but i kinda started checking out vessel era stuff ?? i enjoyed it i remember i just randomly listened to songs from vessel and blurryface and my first fav song was migraine and then message man and then it took me almost one whole year to properly get into them and find every album and track LOL and then over the years i made like 5 irls fans :D so this is my amazing story. oh and then later i told that girl that she made me a fan and she was so surprised lol and also she was already not a fan fhgijdfhgijfhgijjifghsghd OK THATS ALL

wind steppe
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that means im like one month older fan than you

crisp palm
brisk veldt
stoic wind
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One of my friends liked them and I started to listen to them

frosty gust
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about 2-3 years ago i got into p!atd (first time i delved actually into an artist), then saw some funny thing called the “emo trinity” so i decided to give fall out boy and mcr a listen. saw a couple yt videos of fob, p!atd, and tøp pranking each other on tour and thought “oh cool they look cool.” also saw the thing that is the “emo quartet” and finally decided, “hey i’ve listened to a couple of their singles before (house of gold/car radio/stressed out/heathens/jumpsuit) and they were pretty good let me actually listen to them,” and the rest is history folks

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funny enough i only began to get invested in their lore right around LOC which was… uh….. very interesting for a newish fan LMAO

royal bobcat
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i mean ive definitely have branched out and have started listening to more genres over the years but i havent stopped listening to the ones that i listened to before

desert hill
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Back in 2015 I was playing drums in a cover band just for fun with my brother and a couple friends. The judge was the first song I had to learn, and that was the beginning for me

rancid hound
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I'm not😃

tropic terrace
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I'm a bit late to this but I heard one of their songs on the radio in early 2015 and I instantly stopped what I was doing because the music intrigued me so much

weary nexus
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really great friend introduced me when i was going through a very tough time in my life. it got me through so much and i am forever grateful of the boys |-/

azure sphinx
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I got kinda bored listening to Imagine Dragons and Kygo all the time so I deided to explore a little on Spotify and bam.. I found Twenty One Pilots

spring lantern
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radio exposure in middle school and hearing about it from friends led me to buying blurryface vinyl pretty soon after the album came out And Now They Are My Life

light basin
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oh i never fully answered this either heh

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idk i got into them bc i wanted answers and couldn't let any of it go without answers i think

gloomy elm
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I discovered “Tear in my Heart” and “Stressed Out” on pandora years ago and really liked them. Never looked into TOP any further though. Earlier this year husband was like hey I just discovered this band “Twenty One Pilots”. I’m like oh I know them! I.had.no.idea….. We binged SAI and I then discovered Trench and Vessel. Can’t stop listening to everything. I still haven’t really clicked with self titled though. Need to give that another go.

wind steppe
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omg:D thats so cool

west hare
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@sour sigil she got me into them and I’m not mad abt it at all

vapid stream
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we were listening to music on a huge public discord server (a lot of ppl were adding different songs) and someone added fairly local. when it played, i freakin loved it sm and thats how it pretty much started

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i had heard ride n stressed out b4 that but i listened to blurry face n fell in love with it becuz of fairly local
then i slowly starting listening to all their other albums yeah thats how it happened

boreal spear
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I saw Tyler dancing on tv to stressed out. I got lucky that day. I heard lane boy after that and I was hooked for life.

fervent torrent
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I hear stressed out on the radio then listened to ride , but it was as soon as I heard message man I was hooked.

royal bobcat
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dookie cuz theres so much going on and theres so many little details but if u look at it as a whole its a nice cover

formal yoke
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wrong answer here thing

royal bobcat
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i think the way they talk about such serious topics like mental health but reassuring their listeners that are struggling with it that everything is gonna be ok is just so special to me

tardy schooner
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my first real contact with twenty one pilots is when i hear "ride", first time i think "that sucks", but, the second time is "OMG THATS SO FUCKING GOOD, JESUUSS"

shut jacinth
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For me idk if it's really that interesting but I heard part of heathens in a youtube video and thought it sounded pretty cool so I looked up more of their music and really liked what I was hearing and ofc the more I listened the more I began to understand the meaning of the lyrics and hearing what Tyler was singing about, especially at that time of my life, has really helped me a lot. This band and this community really mean a lot to me fr NedHeart

static zephyr
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Y friend mentioned them to me lol and I looked it up, then slowly, over three years expanded from stressed out, to stressed out, ride, lane boy and heathens, to just about every top song