a petekey video essay. 

hey friends just posted a new video that includes a section talking about updates about this situation and some faq’s i’ve been getting: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-55h3Uhnt-bw.html

This was randomly recommended to me and now I'm a petekey truther.

i'm here 3 days after fall out boy played bang the doldrums live for the first time and mikey came on stage to play bass during the show. my brain is on fire over it

Pete Wentz wouldn't know subtlety if it hit him in the face with his own bass

This feels like a history lecture and I'm living for it 😭

i know i'm unhinged about this entire situation but no one is more unhinged about this situation than peter kingston wentz the third

"unimportant others"? they have have to play pete's little loverboy songs about a situationship from 2005 that he isn't over, and this is the thanks they get? -my sister

Shit, I've never been a shipper of them, just love both groups, but all this story feels SO real to me, 'cause I totally behaved just like Pete did. I had a very short but intense and somewhat unresolved relationship with some guy and it messed with my brain in a very similar way. I was obsessing, overthinking every little moment we had together, writing dramatic posts and desperately trying to get his attention again and again. I was a mess and it all meant almost nothing to him. One day I felt like it was over and the very next day I felt like I missed him so much I couldn't even breath. It took me 7 YEARS to stop having these feelings. Three summer (yeah me too) days together, seven years of deep longing afterwards. I feel for you, Pete, I feel for you.

This gives me the energy of sitting on the end of your friend’s bed during a sleepover and listening to them explain some complex video game lore while you watch them playing Kingdom Hearts and I love it.

This looks like a literal school presentation I'm living for it

Your one of those people who definitely said "I could do a whole essay about this" then actually just straight up proved it.

Since Love From The Other Side just dropped I'm here to say, Pete is most definitely still validating us Peteky truthers. With lyrics like 'you were the sunshine of my lifetime,' 'we were a hammer to the statue of David,' and the most condemning evidence: 'summer falling through our fingers again,' it's safe to say he's still in the same hole he dug us all into.

So I'm rewatching this again and two things 1. HeyChris's post in September of 2022. Manz is a MENACE 2. I wonder if when Pete was writing (any album after Infinity) he'd be with Patrick and be like: Pete:"Okay just one more song about him then I'll stop-" Pat: YOU SAID THAT TWO ALBUMS AGO

i never liked to ship real ppl, i always thought it was rlly weird especially saying my classmates would ship me with my friend which made both of us uncomfortable, but this literally has 2 much information 2 back it up on. It makes to much sense

The time and dedication that went into this is so fucking cool. Also I can't believe I found this a whole ass month later. Worth all the time

Happy fourth of July! Last night, FOB played Bang The Duldrums live, the night before that Mikey Way played Pete's bass on stage. I've been a fan of FOB for some years now but never really went down the Petekey rabbit hole until right now because the evidence is evidencing. Thanks for the explanation :)

i am definitely in my pete wentz 2005 era

I've been part of the online petekey community (basically us devoted fans right here) for nearly a decade now and I literally mean this next part with all my heart: Pete and Mikey are the biggest love story I have ever known imo. Seriously, I never meant anything more. What really killed me exactly 5 years ago on this day (happy birthday mania!!!!) was when I first listened to Bishops Knife Trick, that song fcking broke me because it reflected literally !!!everything!!!!. Pete keeps breaking my heart whenever fob drops new music, because it's so easy to put the pieces together after all these years and with all the (very obvious) evidence we have. The Sweet Little Dudes have a gigantic place in my heart, whenever the temperature rises outside and the seasons change from spring to summer, I think of the Summer of Like, and (nearly) every fall out boy song takes me back to warped. I love you Mikeyway, I love you Peter Wentz.

at 38:21, "kaleidoscope eyes" is a song sung by panic! at the disco on their vices and virtues album from 2011. in the chorus, there's these lines: "kaleidoscope eyes sparkle at the world / my emerald city downtown girl", which. mikey way has heterochromia, so his eyes are literally green and brown "kaleidoscope" eyes. also, "summer's on its deathbed" is a line from another panic! song off the same album called "the calendar". "the calendar" contains the following lines: "pray I could replace her, forget the way her tears taste", "put another x on the calendar, summer's on its deathbed / there is simply nothing worse than knowing how it ends / and i meant everything i said that night / i will come back to life / but only for you, only for you", and "anticipation's on the other line / and obsession called while you were out". both songs also reference cannibalism, but, like, with this sexual/romantic context. also, the song "electric touch" off of taylor swift's most recent album (her re-release of speak now) featured fall out boy and had the lines "i've gotten used to no one calling my phone / i've grown accustomed to sleeping alone" and "all i know is this could either break my heart or bring me back to life / got a feeling your electric touch could fill this ghost town up with life". the idea of, like, wanting someone and "coming back to life" for someone is present in both "the calendar" and "electric touch". that being said, while credited as a writer for both panic! songs (and multiple others on the album, which is a really good album, and i don't endorse brendon urie but i do endorse all panic! at the disco music from before 2016, so you should listen to vices and virtues on youtube so you can also experience the bonus tracks) pete wentz was not credited as a writer on "electric touch", and, as far as i can tell, the only member of fob that actually had anything to do with "electric touch" was patrick stump, but it's enough of a connection to feel relevant. anyways. that was my contribution! loved the video

This is possibly the most amazing thing ever. I had no idea anyone cared anymore. This gives me existential hope. I’ve been quoting amazing New Mexico sunset and tormenting my friends for years. I’m so glad this exists.

okay but the sweet little dudes shirt being a PINK GUN is crazy

As someone who is REALLY into mcr AND fob and the whole petekey situation, (I also was in the heychris Livestreams) u got most of it right. It was amazing

decided to learn abt petekey after being into fob for like. 8 years but not knowing anything abt the members. i am now 110% convinced and also completely devastated amazing video thank u

I will not take the Patrick, Andy, and Joe slander!!!! 😭

an hour of my life missing but surely not wasted I love hearing about petekey lore

i put this video in my watch later a few weeks ago, and i end up watching it start to finish two days after mikey way plays with fob during so much for (tour)dust. the impact from this video eassy after having seen those videos of them publically interacting again after 6 years on top of the agony of not being at any of those concerts really takes the cake

This whole slideshow is just amazing. Outstanding performance. I now believe in Petekey. Thank You.

the most embarrassing fact about me is that the petekey lore has been my spin for over a year.

the way this threw me back to 2014 tumblr... i think the kids are alright

I always loved the albums even though I couldnt make sense half of the tracks. Now that I know of this context EVERYTHING MAKES LITERAL FUCKING SENSE. Its like all this time I HAD BEEN LISTENING WITH ONLY ONE EARPHONE ON.

I’ve been in Pete’s shoes before except I journaled all my feelings in a notebook. Once I got over them, I crumbled up all the pages and threw them away out of embarrassment. Doesn’t mean the memories are gone though.

6:51 I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY PERSON WHO FOUND QUESTION 2 ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS WHILE READING PETES LIVEJOURNAL

SO EXCITED TO WATCH THIS LATER THANK U FOR MAKING THIS

"Joe who's the drummer" "the rest of them don't matter" *angry fob fan noises* (like Patrick technically you could say was the drummer, Andy is the official drummer! Joe is the lead guitarist with the fro like Ray 😭)

This lore is incredible and thank you for organizing it. Bless you for this essay. 10/10

I just came to say that yesterday I was telling a girl from another fandom about Petekey for 8 hours with lyric analysis and all of that and well, today my RU-vid suggested me your video. I just love the fact that you made the presentation. Just love it. ...Joe definitely isn't a fob's drummer, darling :D

17:44 “the drummer of Fall Out Boy” 🥲🥲🥲 (Andy Hurley is the drummer. Joe Trohman is guitar) It’s ok I forgive. I’ve been waiting for someone to give a complete history in a way that’s actually comprehensible and easy to access. Keep up the good work, soldier 🙏🖤

this feels like it should have been made 5 years ago BUT ITS NOT AND I LOVE IT

34:08 the auto-generated captions here calling mikey way microwave has me in tears lmaoooo i know auto captions can be silly always but this one really got me

Thank you so much for taking the time to make this! And setting up the Playlist ♡

Fall Out Boy = Andy Hurley, Patrick Stump, Joe Trohman, Pete Wentz. There are no "unimportant others". Hope that helps. 👍

The amount of heartbreak my man Peter Kingston Wentz the third went through due to some twink that it lasted a DECADE is crazy. If I loved someone like that and that happened to me I would probably also write about for 10+ years

Every few month i fall back down the petekey rabbithole and I love you sm for making this in a video-format. P.S. lover your energy and keep up the good work!!

bless you for putting this all together

convinced pete watching this

ive never been a shipper of anything but the sheer effort put into this holy shit. massive respect my dude

JOE HURLY😭

ten minutes in and i’m already a petekey truther 😭 lord

Absolutely wonderful presentation! The content was very interesting and fun, but beyond that, you are a wonderful presenter. Very well researched, well spoken, and you were very passionate too! Keep up the great work.

You can tell you really care about this, like i can hear your voice shake like mine does when i get really excited and it takes a lot to make the words go right.

i need to get my sleep schedule back on track so ik saving this for the morning

a video essay about this is WILDD 😭🙏

this was so much fun! I also went to the las MCR concert ( the one in mexico) and it literally changed my brain chemistry 😭🖤

thank you thank you thank you thank you literally thank u, this is glorious I needed this like oxygen

It's insane to me how long this has gone on. This shit started when I was a baby emo, and people young enough to be my children are down the SAME rabbit hole, and it's getting DEEPER!

I’m in love with the background with the crooked tv next to a basketball hoop and above tiny radiator. ur Frank Iero best combined with all this makes for the perfect learning environment

This is literally devastating Jesus freakin Christ. The most dramatic love story of our time.

i loved this video so much dude

most of this is right just felt the need to add that GINASFS is about patrick and not mikey!

lifechanging video essay, i'm never going to be the same after this. seriously though, a surprising amount of new info in here, great stuff!! clearly a lot of effort put into it too. the clipart emojis were a cherry on top XD

only presentation ive ever sat through paying full attention

thank you for this :3

Just watched this entire thing and it is now 10:30 pm. I was so invested for this entire video, literally one of the best video essays I’ve sat all the way through!

the only time ill pay attention in class

no because i've been a casual fan of fob ever since i was 12, but i never really got into their lore. then, when i was 15, my first major breakup happened and fall out boy singlehandedly got me through it, specifically infinity on high. my go to songs to bawl my eyes out were bang the doldrums (ofc) and fourth of july (because me and my ex had literally started officially dating on the fourth of july lol). during that time, i started noticing a pattern in the songs i was listening to the most, (like miss missing you, i'm like a lawyer, irresistible, i've got all this ringing in my ears, etc) and that got me into the petekey rabbit hole. i think the reason i'm so attached to this story is, i see myself in pete and my ex gf in mikey so much. we had one perfect, glorious summer, one seemingly calm autumn and half a freezing winter. then she dumped me and got with someone else just as spring was starting, and i was left there, still not over her, trying so hard to pretend this all meant nothing to me, that it was just a typical teenage summer fling. two years later, i'm pretty much over it, but most of my art and writing is still about my ex and that beautiful, shining summer we shared, so very young and intense. peter lewis kingston wentz III, no one understands me like you do 😔🙏

this was an hour and twenty minutes well spent

HELP THIS IS SO AWESOME i know what i'll be watching for an hour 😭

This was absolutely incredible thank you so much. Also guess who has now interacted publicly in the year of our lord 2023 :)))) Really though spectacular video you seem awesome and explained everything very very well I am now officially a petekey truther

this is the stuff i expect to be taught in history classes

i have watched this 3 times. i cry more every time i watch it,

I just watched this whole thing and it's crazy to think I had no idea about the connection between Pete Wentz and Mikey Way a few hours ago and now I will forever get sad and think about mikey way while listening to the songs pete wrote about him

This is the quality content I've been asking for

do i have a shit ton of hw due within the next few hours? yes. am i continuing to watch this anyway ? absolutely

this is a fxxking MASTERPIECE，thank you so much for your excellent job

thank you for your service

ngl i dont like that you said "who cares about them" about fob bc theyre very much important to a lot of petekey lore and outside of that theyre very talented

this is fucking iconic thank you for your service

this deserves so much attention the amount of work you put in is insane 😭😭

i love this video sm i love ur vibe

this is amazing bro

THANK YOU loved this lol

The way i went to a FOB concert last year and they played GINASFS at my show and then bang the doldrums at the next one, almost cried LMAO

Nice video, very informative, thank you

A friend of mine asked me about the petekey lore™️ and now I’ll force them to watch this video with me

DID U SEE MIKEY FUCKING WAY WITH FALL OUT BOY???? BAMBOOZLED

How??? How OLD are you??? because my god? i've known the petekey lore since i was??? YOUNGER than you are now surely? I used to fucking devOUR pete wentz' LIVEJOURNAL back in '05/'06 like WERE YOU ALIVE BACK THEN!? 😫 and now this NEW GENERATION IS SPREADING THE GOOD WORD OF PETEKEY i am deceased throw me off a cliff plz and thankyou 💀✌

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thx i needed this

Whenever I’m bored I just come here and watch this

I just made some time to see this and damn,,, it all makes sense now, that's why it's so important that they sung Bang The Doldrums live the day right after Mikey was there, it was a conmemoration,,, it was the first time they were in the same stage in YEARS and and,,, oh my god I'm fucking crying. This is true, this is all true, I believe it. Who wouldn't fall in love with Mikey Way, I mean...

FOB brought Mikey Way on stage on the 1st of July in San Diego

OMG I LOVE THISD

i clicked on this and then reALIZED IT WAS AN HOUR AND 20 MINUTES LONG

I saw a random post once that said, 'Do you think Mikey Way listens to FoB songs and thinks "Ah, this one is abt me"?' And I was cackling Also I love your headturns whenever you're pointing out the lack of subtlety in anyone's posts/ lyrics. Really added to the whole essence

You won’t believe what just happened 😭

This was such well spent time/srs A for petekey lore

Thank u for informing me 🫡🖤

so i just saw FOB live and i haven't been a part of the shipping/emo trinity fandom for maybe 6-7 years, but this video got recommended to me and despite the fact that back then, i was wayyyy more into panic!, twenty one pilots and then into the girls more (halsey, marina, melanie, lana etc), this has really brought so much from when i was 14 to 15 years old, even though i never cared much about FOB and MCR as much. at twenty-one years old, i think it is time for me to revisit my emo phase full on, and this is the scariest realisation (and i am so ready for this rabbithole to start again)

im watching this as a really big panic at the disco fan but a casual mcr and fob fan,, so like when u were talking about fourth of july i was like "is that your northern downpour?" also i really like the vid, very informative and your jokes are very similar to my sense of humor lol. i liked the slideshow format also (:

please i NEED an updated ver with how mikey played with fob and they played bang the doldrums live