The Artist Formerly Known as thedude11111 My interest in mind control started at a really young age, introduced to me through Saturday morning cartoons and afternoon Toonami blocks. It started as a trope that I loved. Yu-Gi-Oh!, Archie's Weird Mysteries, Ben Ten, Code Lyoko, Codename Kids Next Door, The Justice League, Teen Titans, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and of course Totally fucking Spies all played their own roles in bringing me here. In high school I started exploring the internet for whatever mind control related content I could find. I browsed sketchy GeoCities sites and Blogger pages. I joined Yahoo Groups dedicated to cataloging incidents of mind control in popular culture until eventually a watermark from a fanart gallery led me here to this weird little community on Deviantart. I took the username thedude11111 because I was a young teenager with taste and had recently decided to make The Big Lebowski my personality. In my pre-content creation era I was mostly here to