At the risk of touching peak internet ragebait I think was just meant to be a very niche joke if at all:
I was wondering why they taped over the words 'AI' on Will's chest. I don't know how text identification works on YouTube these days but they have AI just with a prohibition sign over it on the other shirts shown in the office, so I was wondering why the dramatic change for Will's and if covering it entirely was a joke that got cut or something they were doing for Ad Revenue or something else.
But, as I'm piecing together going back through the catalog, they have a lot of very subtle coded jokes, only a couple like the lesbian keychains which I think have been picked up on, and this is one I'm flip-flopping on if it was one?
So, TL; DR: anyone else notice/remember Will was wearing an 'ANTI' shirt under his sweater when he got in the little ship at the end? (As in, he claims to be anti-ship)
On hiding the shirt:
"Where'd you get that, the skeleton closet?"
"All I can think about is that you have an elephant's trunk cradling your penis."
On the Little Pirate Ship:
"You know the massive pirate ship that's behind the camera right now." (I'm immediately jumping to #1 Shipper Editor Mikey and all the rest of the crew)
"It doesn't look like that. I can see it. It also doesn't come with the people-" *James is interrupted*
"Do you reckon it actually floats?" "Nah there is holes in the bottom of it"
There is no explanation for the 'Me waters are stormy James' bit that is Not sexual innuendo/flirting.
"If that actually floats? 10/10."
"Like relative to the shit we've seen, this is good."
"It doesn't look like the Ad though does it."
And like... This basically is a recurring themed conversation in their coding and you know what, I can't disagree with it.
'If wnj is real, we're 10/10. If we're queerbaiting, we're so much better than most of the shitty shows out there rn that either have queer rep or are queerbaiting because we've been putting in a long-term storyline since 2019 that actually cares and has representation, even if it's not in the way you think you're going to get it.
We've been working on this long enough and it means a lot to us personally, but the world has changed around us and our audience is changing and not connecting in quite the same ways, so we're just gonna keep going.
You're gonna get an inflatable pirate ship that can hold five people. Just maybe not the way you thought or wanted.
