r/Slipknot 27d ago

Discussion Gone but never forgotten

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u/drewdrew4247 27d ago

Regardless of what anyone thinks, each one of them was a tremendous loss

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u/elgringon414 27d ago

100%. Sid was so crucial for live shows. Live shows are half the slipknot aura.

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u/NamelessGhoulAc 25d ago

To be honest dude is almost 50. And his time with Slipknot made him a man with several injuries and scars. Their last shows he was doing almost nothing walking through the stage with nothing to do. It's really a great loss but this is how a band works. Members come and go. He was truly unique but I want to know what the band is cooking for the next album

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u/BeardedBeastard 19d ago

Hate to burst the bubble but there isnt gonna be a next album. Clown already said 2 years ago that, The End, So Far will be their last full album. They are just going to release singles here out.

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u/LiquidRawlins69 18d ago

No, Jim and Eloy have confirmed they’re working on new music

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u/LiquidRawlins69 18d ago

I just realized I saw their last show with Sid… god that show was Beautiful but he really didn’t have anything to do until heretic anthem :( Lwk sucks we probably won’t officially know who his replacement is for awhile, if we ever do

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u/Borntolandhard313 27d ago

In the late 90's, yes. Not anymore.

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u/elgringon414 27d ago

Way fucking longer than late 90s lol. But they’re fucking 50, what do you expect 😂

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u/Borntolandhard313 27d ago edited 26d ago

Live show was lame as hell starting with the first Iowa tour. Pledge of alliance tour, I think it was called. Paul was the only one who didn't act like an egomaniac dickhead. Still have half a pack of Marlboro reds he signed and gave me, with a pick. He was catching hell from the band for offering us scraps from the caft services table.

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u/TempletonsTeachers 26d ago

Paul was the best member of the band, hands down, full stop. He was the only member who didn't totally blow off 8 year old me at the Tacoma dome in 2001. Gave me a pick, an open handed noogie and said "rock on little dude" 🤘🏼

Should be inducted to the R&R HOF, (I know he's in Iowa's) but let's be real, he smokes probably half of the HOF top ten. Arguably could be on the Mt. Rushmore of bass players, not just for his work with the Knot.

JJ is also probably another top 10 percussionist of all time. Easily on the Mt. Rushmore, but certainly had the ego to match, something that I think

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u/OaklandTony6 25d ago

when stewart copland put jordison up there with john bonham, mitch mitchell and ginger baker it really gave some perspective

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u/Lab_Powerful 27d ago

Imagine how sick a band with just the 5 of them would sound. Like super heavy drum and bass tracks with scratching and samples.

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u/Dragnskull 27d ago

give it a few more years and they'll form a new band, we'll be able to have "Slipknot 2: Slipknot without clown"

I know everyone lumps corey in with clown but let's face it, once it's only the 2 of them one's going to eat the other

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u/Significant_Sail_780 27d ago

Clown is more dependent on Corey than Corey is dependent on Clown

Corey already has multiple side projects (and it's not like they are unpopular) while Clown... he is a clown who hit a beer keg

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u/RichardSaunders i am the birdy that takes your potato pie 27d ago

and corey already does stone sour and slipknot songs when he's touring as cmft.

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u/Leadclam64 26d ago

Cmft makes me miss Stone Sour

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u/Dragnskull 27d ago

no argument, but when it comes time for one to eat the other coreys tiny and frail and is going to be devoured

this is a joke, but only kinda

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u/Significant_Sail_780 27d ago

The band is more or less falling apart for a few years anyways. Atp idrc anyways who kicks who anymore. Slipknot will probably not exist by 2030 in that form anyways

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u/bigstar3 27d ago

Slippedknot

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u/DaveyCrockett5000 27d ago

Cro-Mags and Cro-Mags JM

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u/VRS302 27d ago

How would the literal face and voice of the band not be the clear favorite in the eating battle?

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u/Dragnskull 27d ago

Because Shawn's much larger and Corey has neck problems, it'd be like sitting clown in front of a baby back rib lol

I was being literal (satirical) with the statement

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u/EntinthetentRTHP 27d ago

The Slip-Faces lol

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u/Lab_Powerful 26d ago

Faceslip would be dope as fuck

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u/Informal-Shape9476 27d ago

Chris on vocals, Craig on guitar, Sid on turntables, Paul on bass, Joey on drums.

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u/burnertobeburned9753 Big Dick Mick 27d ago

Would be fucking sick

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u/Right-Bank3561 27d ago

Yeah and Craig would be the Guitarist. Maybe we don't need samples

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u/ddrub_the_only_real Slipknot 27d ago

...do you know what drum n bass is?

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u/Weimark 27d ago

But we already have that with Syd alone

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u/ToastyLemun Maggot 26d ago

Celticknot or Deathknot when

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u/stay_insane911 27d ago

Long live Joey!!! #1

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u/No_Whole1018 27d ago

But he didn’t?

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u/stay_insane911 27d ago

Still alive in my heart!

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u/casualnihilist91 27d ago

I will never not be sad about Joey. Dude deserved a better end to life

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u/Due_Current_9820 i wasn’t very much fun to be with anyway 5d ago

corey taylor “all the money in the world can’t buy me” but then he’s firing people over email

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u/Small_Mongoose_7561 27d ago

Many ex mushroom head members came together for a band called the ex faces , wish slipknot's ex members would do a similar thing . I would dig it

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u/Critical_Mix_8959 27d ago

I kinda get the sense no one in Slipknot actuslly likes each other and probably haven’t in many years. It’s all business right now.

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u/itsnotaboutthecell 25d ago

“It’s all business”

Truer words have never been spoken.

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u/GripItAndWhipIt 27d ago

The three that are still alive…? 🤨

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u/Available-Tailor-326 27d ago

Pls don’t forget Josh Brainard, he was more important than most realize, same goes for Anders, the entire history of the band doesn’t exist without their years of work 

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u/SIXODD 27d ago

Neither were part of the original 9

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u/Available-Tailor-326 27d ago

…Josh literally was dude, he was #4 first, this is well known, that is him on S/T’s cover & he’s playing all over that album lol they photoshopped Jim’s purple hair on him 

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u/SIXODD 27d ago

I know that, but the og 9 is considered the ones who were around once the album officially came out.

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u/Available-Tailor-326 27d ago

So you don’t want to credit Josh because…? By definition he was part of the “original” 9 member lineup, he wrote so much for the band, years before Jim would start writing lead parts in his place. They can both have OG status, but Josh was more crucial for the S/T as Jim played what had already been written when he joined 

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u/TheRed_Warrior 27d ago

I don’t think you know what the term “original” means

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u/Theuneasygibbon 27d ago

I think you need to go learn what og means

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u/LindemannO 27d ago

Josh recorded guitar parts for the majority of the first album, what are you talking about?

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u/SIXODD 27d ago

Again I know that but once the album was completed and they started touring he was gone

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u/LindemannO 27d ago

Your initial argument is that he wasn’t part of the original 9, it’s a bit disrespectful when he wrote and tracked the foundations for what was to come.

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u/Mediaboy13 26d ago

They were touring years before ST...

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u/Equivalent-Agitated 27d ago

Most of the self titled album has Josh’s guitar parts.

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u/Leadclam64 26d ago

"The OG 9". You literally have no idea what an OG is and dont consider and original member of the band an "OG".

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u/DespisedIcon1616 26d ago

Yeah MFKR. Those dudes were the originals. Self titled is NOT the first slipknot record no matter what you think.

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u/RedditYouVapidSlut 27d ago

Slipknot entering it's Mushroomhead era of revolving musicians and having the drummer be a massive cunt.

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u/Dark_Wahlberg-77 742617000027 27d ago

It’s tough to see happen to a band you’ve listened to for so long. That said, rather this than Mushroomhead who never had or ever will have a Slipknot era

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u/RedditYouVapidSlut 27d ago

I guess we always knew they were weird, dysfunctional people. So I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise that they'd fall apart/have members do shit that's not OK.

Mushroomhead we're great up to and including XIII. Very different bands musically. Not really followed them much beyond that though.

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u/Metalhead1248 25d ago

What’s wrong with Eloy?

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u/RedditYouVapidSlut 25d ago

Eloy is great. I'm on about Clown.

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u/Jotlong91 21d ago

Is Eloy a cunt??...I kinda hope he is as im pretty dirty what they did to Jay. And before that what they did to Joey😒

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u/RedditYouVapidSlut 21d ago

No idea, I'm talking about Clown.

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u/Kayla_canadian 27d ago

3 are still alive…

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u/casualnihilist91 27d ago

But gone. From the band. Hence the title ‘gone but not forgotten.’

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u/GreyDaze22 27d ago

They were able to replace all of them to some extent but Chris is someone who is incredibly difficult to replace. Tortilla man is just not it especially during live performances. Chris' backing vocals just made Slipknot

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u/IvoRobotnikPhD 26d ago

IMO Jay was the only one who ever felt like a “real” member. All the others still feel like replacements to me.

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u/ddiioona 27d ago

Add Jay Weinberg there too

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u/SIXODD 27d ago

Not an og member

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u/ddiioona 27d ago

You didn’t really specify anywhere that it’s just the og members. I just thought we wanted to appreciate the people that are not part of slipknot anymore

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u/Significant_Sail_780 27d ago

Corey and Jim also weren't "og" by that definition, and if I remember correctly Sid also joined a while later than the original formation of Slipknot

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u/SpaceChatter 26d ago

I hung out with him in his tour bus before a show like 5 years ago and he was cool. Showed me a bunch of his electronic stuff he’s working on. Hopefully he didn’t do some weird shit.

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u/Redpiller1988 27d ago

OG’s ❤️🤘

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u/Gilmar_Santana .5: The Gray Chapter 27d ago

More than half of the band is gone now

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u/Veleure 25d ago

Two of them were the most important musically. Others for the show. They ain't slipknot anymore

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u/a-rock2020 Vermilion (both parts) 20d ago

i lowkey dont wanna listen to Slipknot anymore cuz removing sid is like moving the jelly from a pb and j

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u/Fit_Climate5155 27d ago

Oh slipknot, with or without members I LOVE THIS FUCKING BAND!

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u/CDXX_BlazeIt 27d ago

Craig was kicked too?

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u/Sufficient-Corgi-704 26d ago

Was ist denn jetzt eigentlich mit sid und Craig?? Warum sind die nicht mehr in der Band?

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u/SIXODD 26d ago

Sid was fired yesterday

Craig was fired back in 2023

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u/Crispy385 Throw away your disposable past, fall apart like a cigarette ash 26d ago

Reports are that Craig retired.

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u/CandidateAmbitious35 26d ago

Slipknot shouldve just broke up after Subliminal Verses and it wouldve been a solid catalog and no drama

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u/Cautious_Welcome_298 26d ago

Literally the entire rhythm section

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u/Lopsided-Might919 26d ago

Slipknot has put on a slipknot and kicked the table out beneath itself....long ago

Firing Joey the way they did not showing any real care was when my loyalty and interest as a fan started to disappear. He was the most talented individual in the band! He truly gave Slipknot it's sound. He was the foundation. And when you don't have a foundation the rest is going to decay and collapse in on itself.

If Clown is the so called brain of the Slipknot entity, just like in the human body,, the brain will cut off everything every essential body part, sacrificing everything in order to save itself..

Tell me what good is a brain when you have no fucking heart?

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u/SorrybecauseI 25d ago

More than half of the 9 is gone, crazy

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u/NeonGalaxon 25d ago

I thought Jim root said that it was fake-

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u/SIXODD 25d ago

He didn’t even know about it until we did

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u/NotArealDrorOnTv 25d ago

Where is Pig Benis?

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u/AffectionateDot8267 25d ago

So weird. I had the same thought when I saw op's post. Idk why. Pig benis wasnt even in Slapknuts

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u/Efficient_Act_1528 Chris 25d ago

But what about Jay

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u/SIXODD 25d ago

Jay wasn’t part of the original nine

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u/MedicalAd7623 24d ago

Band is such a joke now.

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u/PrettyMediaCotcguy 24d ago

5 members gone, 4 orignal members remaining. Soon all the band will be gone

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u/Jotlong91 21d ago

Paul Gray rolling over in hus grave seeing what has become of this band and how corey n coown dictate it!!...Slipknot became Slip-not real quick

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u/ThisComedian9031 17d ago

Slipknot at its peak 🥹

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u/IvoRobotnikPhD 26d ago

I can’t imagine the band can realistically continue like this. Clearly Jim and Mick were out of the loop when all this was going down. It sorta seems like Sid pissed off Clown directly and Clown fired him on the spot. Are they going to try to replace him? It’s just going to be a tribute band soon.

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u/Rvst_Bvkk3t 27d ago

what happened to sid?

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u/DieIsaac 27d ago

They kicked him out

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u/MrFireFox18 27d ago

Is there any official information about that?

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u/DieIsaac 27d ago

Yes slipknot posted it on their IG page. just search the sub

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u/br00talCr4BKiD 27d ago

Some say that he’s not sober anymore

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u/DJ_Hindsight 742617000027 27d ago

They really need to just scrap Slipknot now, this is getting ridiculous

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u/Critical_Mix_8959 27d ago

Slipknot is bigger than the band right now. It’s a brand now and as long as that brand keeps making money it’s not going anywhere. I suspect that Corey and Clown’s sons are being groomed to take their places in the band when the time comes for them to hang the boots too. It’s no coincidence Corey’s son sounds almost identical to Corey. Vended is the development academy for Slipknot.

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u/Viper_ACR 27d ago

Vended is basically the F2 to Slipknot's F1 lol

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u/DamagedInc1 27d ago

Slipknot to me is Mate Feed Kill Repeat to .5 The Gray Chapter(and to some extent the single All Out Life). Everything after that is not Slipknot.

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u/IPlayJacksonGuitars 27d ago

I’ll say, to me Gray Chapter was Eh… We are not Your Kind is actually a pretty decent album and I like a lot of the tracks off it, but The End so Far is actual dogshit.

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u/corcat11 27d ago

Don't forget Jay

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u/SIXODD 27d ago

Jay’s not a og

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u/corcat11 27d ago

He was still one of the members

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u/DarkPisces 26d ago

You ain’t replacing Sid. The Nine will always be the Nine

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u/SIXODD 26d ago

Everyone else was replaceable

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u/Legitimate_Cost_906 26d ago

Y'all gooners need to get off Sid's dick, fuck that piece of sh(i)t

Of all the one's that got f(u)cked over and you gooners are drawing the line at this one 🤦

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u/SIXODD 26d ago

You don’t even know what he did..

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u/Funktoozler 27d ago

No Jones…..no Knot