Tweet to Reveal, Pt. 1

On Thursday afternoon, AFireInside.net went blank. Since then, much has happened. We were shown a new song title: “Darling, I Want To Destroy You.” Now we are on the verge of discovering more. What follows is a comprehensive documentation of the crazy past 9 hours. Start at the bottom for the oldest updates; the latest updates will be at the top. All times are Eastern Standard Time.

8/1 2:21 a.m. - The 5th track becomes yet another tweet counter. This time we need 1000 tweets before our next title is revealed. Follow along on the tweet counter above.

8/1 2:17 a.m. - The 4th song title, “I Am Trying Very Hard To Be Here” becomes a link to a YouTube video. As expected, it is a 30-second clip of the Begin Transmission winners singing the backing vocals to the chorus of IATVHTBH in the studio.
8/1 2:05 a.m. - The 4th song title changes from the incorrect “Trying Very Hard To Be Here” to the correct “I Am Trying Very Hard To Be Here.”
7/31 9:43 p.m. - We have reached 2,000 tweets for the 4th song title and we have revealed “Trying Very Hard To Be Here.” This title is different in that there is no “I Am.” Stay tuned for more.
7/31 1:52 p.m. - AFI has made a Twitter update. The link leads to a video still of the Begin Transmission winners singing. Both the tweet and the picture are labeled with a “+” sign, referencing the symbols currently on AFireInside.net.
7/31 11:20 a.m. - The page at AFireInside.net has been updated to show the first three song titles. The fourth title had a “+” symbol representing it and will require 2,000 tweets to unlock. This suggests that it is a new track.

7/31 3:00 a.m. - The 1,000 tweets required for the 3rd song title have been reached. This title is Beautiful Thieves. It’s not a new one. But the background image has changed to reveal something in black and white.


7/31 12:59 a.m. - Theory makes two posts in the thread on the OMB. The first one is “mush mush.” The second one is “What does plus mean to you?” He is referring to the plus symbols that have been added to the site.

7/31 12:50 a.m. - AFireInside.net is updated. We now have a string of + symbols and . symbols running down the area that is presumably the tracklist area for Crash Love.

7/31 12:33 a.m. - The number of tweets required to reveal the 3rd song is lowered from 2,000 to 1,000, undoubtedly due to the massive amount of complaining from the board.

7/31 12:00 a.m. - Below the new song title, we see yet another “Tweet to Reveal” button, and the cycle of tweeting begins all over again to find the 3rd song title. Yet again we must achieve 2,000 tweets.

7/30 11:46 p.m. - After 6 hours of tweeting, we finally achieve our goal of 2,000 tweets. What do we receive? A new song title: “Darling, I Want To Destroy You.” There is a significant backlash from board members complaining that they tweeted for 6 hours to get one song title.

7/30 7:29 p.m. - A line in the identification for the AFI Crash Love Twitter App from theory reads “Tweet to Reveal AFI Crash Love tracklisting and More.” So now we know that we will be getting the tracklisting, as well as something more, for tweeting.
7/30 6:00 p.m. - The people in the OMB thread finally realize that theory’s App will only accept 1 tweet from each account. People start creating extra Twitter accounts to get around this issue, and the number of tweets steadily climbs.

7/30 5:45 p.m. - The AFireInside.net page changes to show this image with the words “Tweet to Reveal.” When you first visit the page, you see a “Login” button below the title Medicate. Clicking that will take you to a Login screen in theory’s AFI Crash Love Twitter App. Once you have logged in using your Twitter username and password, and have granted the app access to your account, you are redirected back to AFireInside.net. You are prompted to click “Tweet to Reveal.” When you click that, you automatically tweet the following update: “Tweeting to reveal @AFI #CrashLove at http://afireinside.net.”

After that, you will see the counter, which tells you how many tweets have been completed out of 2,000 required tweets. At this point it is not known what we will get once we reach 2,000 tweets.

7/30 5:22 p.m. - Theory, AFI’s site webmaster, posts a Twitter update saying “SO MUCH WORK TODAY @AFI kids, get ready to Tweet!”

7/30 5:08 p.m. – The site title changes from “C R A S H” to “A F I / C R A S H” with spaces still in between each letter.

7/30 3:50 p.m. – AFireInside.net is changed from the splash page of Wednesday to a blank, black screen with a very sparse source code. The title is “C R A S H” with spaces between each letter.

Hunter Makes Two Twitter Updates

On Thursday evening, Hunter made two Twitter updates regarding AFI. His first one says, “Sweating in a warehouse in the valley, looking through all the AFI gear. EW&F and Manilow have their gear here too.”

The second update says, “Working on bonus (non-music) material for the AFI record all week, and getting
The first update suggests that the merchandise for the new album is sitting in a warehouse, waiting to be shipped to stores. Are there any thoughts about the second update?

Camille Rose García makes Crash Love art?

According to her website, Camille Rose made a “secret project with AFI” that we’ll be able to find with the release of the album. This most likely means she made the art for Crash Love.

You can browse through her gallery to get to know her work and probably imagine what the Crash Love art will look like. Her other works include stuff for Deathcab For Cutie and a book of Alice in Wonderland.

This means Alan Forbes, after more than 5 releases, most likely didn’t do the cover for AFI. We are not claiming fact here; this is just a rumor at the moment.

Crash Love Title Revealed: "Darling, I Want To Destroy You"

At 11:46 p.m. on Thursday night, the tweet counter on AFireInside.net reached its goal of 2,000 tweets. A song title from Crash Love, “Darling, I Want To Destroy You,” was revealed. So far, we have Medicate and Darling, I Want To Destroy You as song titles.

Possible Crash Love Cover

You can find a collage of images that appear when run through SWF programs here. This is now the rumored album artwork for Crash Love, or the much-spoken-of limited edition tin box version of Crash Love. I am posting this not because it is officially true, but to provide an explanation of a series of images that will likely cause much confusion among those not closely following the OMB threads on Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

New Splash Page Up At AFireInside.net

A new splash page is now up on AFI’s Official site. It appeared this afternoon and showed a brown square with paint-like lines dripping downward. Instructions appeared telling everybody to “Tweet #Medicate to reveal more.” After an impressive amount of tweeting, the square filled up to reveal the image below.

UPDATE! When you open the splash page, the square appears with the silver image already in place. The top is an orange sort of yellow, and it drips down the screen. To make what looks like an image of the sun.

AFI Sends Email Blast With Ticket Details

AFI has sent out the e-mail blast to everybody on their mailing list. Included in the blast is a link to the new splash page that went up Wednesday night, along with information about the October shows announced yesterday.
Inexplicably, the e-mail also includes the password for the Despair Faction presales that are beginning tomorrow at 10 A.M. The e-mail went to many non-DF members, and there are many DF members who are not signed up for the mailing list.
The DF presales tomorrow will be for the Minneapolis show, the Columbus show, and the Cincinatti show.

Expect AFI Email Blast Soon

Theory has just made a Twitter update telling us that he is building an AFI email blast. It will be sent to those on the AFI mailing list.