ok ive noticed some confusion within the fandom, so im gonna clear it up. formatted with proper grammar so it's more readable
Who is Bennette?
Bennette is an interpretation of Benrey as a trans girl, which has been an extremely pervasive headcanon on HLVRAI Twitter for the last couple of months. Bennette's name comes from this clip
GORDON: Isn't this your passport?
BENREY: uhhh no. it says "bennette".
The modern, suddenly popular incarnation of this headcanon originated with a fanfic. I'm not actually sure what it is but I think it's this.
Why am I suddenly hearing so much about Bennette?
For his 30th birthday, Wayner AdioTV hid a box of signed Toblerones near the legendary Toblerone Cave of Point Lobos, San Francisco. The first person to find one, when jokingly asked what they'd do as the "new HLVRAI 2 author", responded that they'd declare Bennette to be real, invoking Wayne in the tweet.
Shockingly, Wayne made an incredibly rare social media appearance and responded "you were the first to find my treasure, and so it will be done". This endorsement of the Bennette headcanon is what got all the attention, leading to word of Bennette getting to our relatively insular part of the fandom.
This also lead to the biggest misconception about this whole situation-- no, WayneRadioTV did not actually canonize a headcanon because someone found a box of Toblerones. Before any of this happened, there was evidence that Wayne liked the idea of Bennette, to the point that, according to Baaulp (at 32:42 of this part of the HLVRAI Cast Commentary), "The only headcanon I've ever seen Wayne get excited about is Bennette." It's clear he's a fan and just took the opportunity of someone "declaring Bennette real" to nod his approval.
