THIS PICTURE IS NOT A FUNERAL:
I need people to please stop saying that this is from Ryan's father's funeral because genuinely wtf.
The band is clearly standing around at the KROQ Weenie Roast on May 13, 2006 surrounded by guys in casual clothes (their booking agent Andrew is between Brendon & Ryan). Here are some other pictures from that day:
The picture at the top of this post used to be a very normal picture. Fans used to make jokes about what shocking thing the guys were realizing in that moment or what they were contemplating (ex: how they shouldn’t have kicked Brent out lol since this was the first show without him).
Ryan's father's funeral was almost 3 MONTHS later, followed by Lollapalooza the next day on August 4th:
I am begging y'all to just look at the pictures and notice how several months had passed between the "funeral" picture and Lollapalooza. And while we're at it, maybe stop exploiting Ryan's personal pain in order to invent an emotional Ryden story or a dramatic narrative or whatever idk
