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Several fans have speculated that The Microphone contains the voice of the [[NaN|original Wyatt Mason]], based on The Microphone's sudden appearance as a direct reaction to [[The Wyatt Masoning#The Unmasoning|The Unmasoning]], as well as the account's mysterious use of the word "Wyatt."
 
Several fans have speculated that The Microphone contains the voice of the [[NaN|original Wyatt Mason]], based on The Microphone's sudden appearance as a direct reaction to [[The Wyatt Masoning#The Unmasoning|The Unmasoning]], as well as the account's mysterious use of the word "Wyatt."
  
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According to some{{cite}}, The Microphone has not seemed to speak with one consistent voice - instead speaking in various, heavily reverberating voices heavily reminiscent of many of Blaseball's announcers. Many debates have taken place as to whether The Microphone mimics voices spoken into its replicas, whether it captures a small fragment of the being of casters it finds worthy, or if these happen to be some sort of shared blaseball reverie. Some of the voices that have been reported as being utilized by The Microphone are:
 
According to some{{cite}}, The Microphone has not seemed to speak with one consistent voice - instead speaking in various, heavily reverberating voices heavily reminiscent of many of Blaseball's announcers. Many debates have taken place as to whether The Microphone mimics voices spoken into its replicas, whether it captures a small fragment of the being of casters it finds worthy, or if these happen to be some sort of shared blaseball reverie. Some of the voices that have been reported as being utilized by The Microphone are:
  
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Revision as of 04:08, 9 September 2020

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The Microphone is an entity that first appeared at the end of Season 3, and was first mentioned in the description of the Interviews decree.

In the days before Season 4, a Twitter account called The Microphone (@BlaseballMic) appeared. It is not fully confirmed if @BlaseballMic is also an official Blaseball account, but fans strongly suspect this to be the case.


History

The Season 3 elections saw the successful passing of the Interviews decree, which was described like so:

  • The microphone lifts
  • ERROR: The Grand Unslam Weakened The Bridge
  • Spacetime Tears over Los Angeles
  • The Infinite cit(ies) shine
  • Platonic Form Corrupted
  • You've looked too close...

The first line is the first mention of The Microphone; a description that was especially cryptic at the time with no noticeable effect. However, past seasons have set the precedent that all of the descriptive text in a decree is meaningful.

On August 20, the official Blaseball account (@Blaseball) was found to be following an unknown Blaseball-related account, called The Microphone (@BlaseballMic). The Microphone was discovered to be posting cryptic messages suggesting it's a sentient entity that had recently come into existence (such as "hello?" "where am i?" "who am i?"). In the following days, the account tweeted: "I can see everything" and, "why can't they hear me" "it's me" "wyatts".

On the opening day of Season 4, The Microphone tweeted, "they don't know" "it's all happening".

Feedback

The icon for feedback weather, a magenta microphone.

Season 4 introduced a new weather condition called feedback: a word that may partially refer to audio feedback, such as from a microphone. During feedback weather, there is a chance reality will "flicker in the feedback"[1] and cause two players to permanently swap team membership.

As feedback incidents continued to occur, The Microphone also continued to tweet ominous phrases such as: "help them" "save them". Whether or not The Microphone is referring to victims of feedback is thus far open to interpretation.

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Wyatt Theory

Several fans have speculated that The Microphone contains the voice of the original Wyatt Mason, based on The Microphone's sudden appearance as a direct reaction to The Unmasoning, as well as the account's mysterious use of the word "Wyatt."

Vocalization Theory

According to some[citation needed], The Microphone has not seemed to speak with one consistent voice - instead speaking in various, heavily reverberating voices heavily reminiscent of many of Blaseball's announcers. Many debates have taken place as to whether The Microphone mimics voices spoken into its replicas, whether it captures a small fragment of the being of casters it finds worthy, or if these happen to be some sort of shared blaseball reverie. Some of the voices that have been reported as being utilized by The Microphone are:

It is speculated that the different fonts used by @BlaseballMic are meant to represent these various voices, but nothing conclusive has been determined to either confirm or deny this theory.


  1. Game Log. Blaseball.com.