OVERVIEW
This shrine is going to be dedicated to the timeline, ARG and story that surrounds the album of Wallsocket by Underscores.
The specific shrine for the album is
here.
Majority of what I was able to find about the ARG and timeline was found using the Wall"Doc"et, big thanks to the creators of it! There were many details that I would have missed without it. Several images used in the timeline section can be found in the Wall"Doc"et!
Content warnings are the same as before, there will be mentions of grooming so please be aware!
LIST OF IMPORTANT CHARACTERS IN THE WALLSOCKET UNIVERSE
Name
Significance
Other Notes
April Harper Grey aka Underscores
"Mysterious musician" of Wallsocket.
Visited Wallsocket, observed the town and didn't directly engage with characters.
S*nny Domingo
One of the main characters in Wallsocket, daughter of Joshua Domingo.
Transgender girl. The story of Wallsocket revolves around her and the situation of her father's scandal of robbing the bank.
Mara Albright
One of the main characters in Wallsocket, stalks S*nny throughout the story as she romanticizes her life and wishes to be her.
She is the copy editor for Waterworks Weekly. Potentially was also obsessed with Old Money Bitch at one point.
Old Money Bitch
One of the main characters in Wallsocket, best friends with Jack.
One of the weathly people in Wallsocket, has gotten into arguements with Mara. Potential name could be Samantha, as stated in Jack's section in My Guy (Corporate Shuffle): "Samantha says I need a therapist."
Joshua Domingo
Father of S*nny Domingo, Robbed Wallsocket's bank, causing a huge scandal in the town.
Can be found in the Cops and Robbers MV.
Jack
Old Money Bitch's best friend who joined the army.
Dies in the end. Can be found in many MVs for the album.
Jerry Bowman
Founder of Secretariat.
Also a previous mayor of Wallsocket in 2016. Secretariat is the company who opperates arm reduction surgeries.
Ashley
Daughter of Secretariat's founder.
She only shows up in CCTV, the prologue for Wallsocket. Assumed to be dead.
Darlene W.
One of the moms of Wallsocket.
Shown in the Cops and Robbers MV, her perspective of the robbery is shown in My Guy (Corporate Shuffle) and she can also be found in a Townofwallscocket TikTok.
Jordan
S*nny's friend who helps her come to a realization about her faith.
Only is mentioned in the description for the SoundCloud upload of Geez Louise.
Johnny
Older man,
groomed S*nny.
Potentially is shown in the MV for You don't even know who I am.
- Sidenote: I'm not listing every single character in the Wallsocket universe, I think I would lose my mind if I did that. So instead I'm only mentioning characters I think are important for the main story of Wallsocket.
- TikTok account that displays interviews of miscellaneous Wallsocket characters.
TIMELINE OF WALLSOCKET ERA
- Sidenote: I am not going to go over every single thing that was updated/posted for the Wallsocket era, just mostly things that i think are important to note and things mentioned in the Wall"Doc"et. Example, I won't talk about every single time that the Moms of Wallsocket website updates. Just only important things. That is all!
4/21/2023
On her birthday, Underscores releases a video titled "underscores 'Wallsocket era-Trailer" on all of her platforms. The video displays various clips from the then unreleased music videos for the album. Underscores can be heard asking 12 questions to an unknown person:
"What are you thinking?"
"What are you feeling?"
"What do you have?"
"Where does your money come from?"
"What allows you to exist?"
"Where did you grow up?"
"Who are you forgetting?"
"What are you obsessing over?"
"What community do you belong to?"
"Are you ashamed?"
"What's your circumstance?"
"Do you wrap back around?"
Not long after the realease of the trailer, Underscores posts this image to both her Twitter and Instagram.
The text reads: "I got to take the past year off, I stayed in this town called Wallsocket for a while by myself. It's a super small town in Michigan, and the longer I stayed there, the more inspired I got.
I started to write from the perspective of the people I saw there, trying to imagine what they were thinking and feeling, and the circumstances that allowed them to exist. Everyone is such a character.
Welcome to Wallsocket."
Next to the green text, shows a tiny image of a green horseshoe, a prominent image that would be shown throughout the album. The background image itself is of a two-story house, with each level being labeled on the side.
Not long after, would fans begin to realize, that Wallsocket, MI was not a real place in Michigan.
According to the town's main website, Wallsocket is described to be a small town that is also known for being a horse town as well. However, at some point industrialization took a massive toll on the town, and eventually afterwards Secretariat "emerged" from Wallsocket. With Secretariat's headquarters being so close to Wallsocket, many people started to move into the town, thus leading to Wallsocket becoming a victim to gentrification.
4/22/23
The very next day, Underscores would post a QnA on her Instagram, I was only able to find two answers from it, and those two answers intruiged many fans:
The text on this answer reads:
"Q: IS the new album theme green?"
"sorta :)
I've got a crazy image about the Color Theory for this era but I can't show you yet."
The text on this answer reads:
"Q: did you make any friends in wallsocket?"
"I wish I was that outgoing to strangers
Got some weird looks but also got some smiles :)"
This would lead fans to speculate on the color theory for the album. Many noticed that from the Wallsocket reveal from the previous day, the "Welcome to Wallsocket" was in green, alongside the main website for it, while Secretariat was primarily associated with blue.
This QnA would also reveal Underscore's role in the Wallsocket universe, as mostly a background character. Her character can be mentioned in one of the town hall meeting posts as a "mysterious musician loitering in the downtown area".
4/26/23
The Moms of Wallsocket would occasionally update in between. As mothers in the universe of Wallsocket would use the website, one such post would spark some interest. The post would be screenshots of an news article disussing the robbery of Wallsocket's Bank.
The title for the post reads: "**URGENT** COLUMBIA BANK ROBBERY" with the caption "This is horrific!!!!! Please tell me y’all saw this!"
The text for the article reads:
"..by FBI for $425,000 theft
∣ April 26, 2023
Residents of Freedom Couny are advised to keep watch for 54-year-old Wallsocket native joshua M. Domingo. Domingo had been employed at Colombia Bank for over a decade when it was alleged that he had been gradually siphoning money from the accounts of elderly customers. Domingo has also been alleged to have stolen from the deceased, usually those with little to no family.
"We had no idea [Domingo] had been stealing..." "She would send checks out every month made to our brother. We didn't realize until years later that our brother was not receiving them."
Days after Linda P. Romero met an untiely death, Domingo uncharacteristically nearly emptied her account, provoking Linda's son William to call the branch manager on Saturday afternoon. Domingo was suspected to have fled that night as he failed to show up for work on Monday.
"[Domingo] said he was from a family of immigrants as well," says Romero. "we figured that he knew first-hand what working [one's] way up in this country was like. We trusted him — he hand been at the same branch for so long."
Joshua M. Domingo is 5'8", weighs around 160 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes. Domingo is suspected to be driving a red 2004 Toyota Tacoma. A Freedom County resident claims they may have seen him thirty minutes out of Wallsocket yesterday. Those who may have any information regarding Domingo's whereabouts are advised to contact the nearest FBI office."
Fans would then notice that the picture of the man in the article resembled that of a man that appeared in the Wallsocket era trailer. This would confirm his importance as a character to the Wallsocket universe.
4/27/23
Underscores would release the first out of three different teasers for the Cops and Robbers music video, the first being titled "underscores 'Cops and robbers' teaser A".
The teaser displays many different images of people living their lives, with an unknown person talking over the video.
4/29/23
Underscores would release the second teaser for Cops and Robbers titled "underscores 'Cops and robbers' teaser B."
the teaser shows different clips of Joshua Domingo, alongside pictures of evidence of his robbery. Paired with the audio over it, this appears to be snippets from his court trial.
4/30/23
The Townofwallsocket TikTok account would upload a video, where the account owner "interviews" the "bank robbers daughter" aka S*nny Domingo.
The account owner asks S*nny if she has any opinions on the new Underscores album,where she dismisses the question, saying that its whatever.
The interviewer also asks her if she has heard anything about the recent bank robbery, to which she doesn't reply and walks away from the account owner.
This would solidify Underscores as the "mysterious musician" that has been noticed in the town.
5/1/23
Undersocres would release the final teaser for Cops and Robbers titled "underscores 'Cops and robbers' teaser C
".
The teaser shows a view of what appears to be the twon of Wallsocket, showing a neighborhood and a town before entering a market. Underscores is seen in one of the shots, in possibly the security room as the camera cuts to people in the market, who are screaming.
She would also reveal the date when the music video releases, that being May 3rd.
5/3/23
Underscores would finally release the Cops and Robbers music video:
For an in-depth description of the music video in relation to the story, check here.
A link to this board contains noticeable characters for the story, locations and frames of interest.
5/11/23
The town of Wallsocket website would update with a new town meeting note. The town hall meeting would disucss the news involving Joshua Domingo's bank robbery. Many residents were shocked and disappointed, some saying that they couldn't even believe that he would do something like that.
5/18/23
Oxbows Market would announce that they were hiring through the Wallsocket Email newsletter. Only two people applied and were hired for Oxbows Market.
The Email that they would receive would include a video, displaying corporate-style visuals that were captioned. The most important thing though, was the background audio for an unreleased song at the time.
At the time, fans dubbed this song "Northwest Zombie Girl", which would later be the offical name for the song as well when it released.
6/4/23
Underscores would post a teaser trailer for the next singles music video: You don't even know who I am.
The teaser shows various images, primarily images of gun targets. After the images it cuts to a house, then showing us different frames of Mara, S*nny and Old Money Bitch.
6/7/23
Underscores would release the music video for You don't even know who I am.
For an in-depth description of the music video and it's story go here.
6/9/23
Underscores would announce her "hometown tour", with her uploading a poster for it.
The poster shows many different scenes, somen highlighting specific things in the story, like Joshua Domingo running away with the money in the top section and Mara stalking S*nny in the section below.
Things worth highlighting about this poster is it going from Secretariat blue to a Wallsocket green.
Another thing that fans noticed was that the license plate in the image to the right of the second row says "JOHN13", which a fan commented on the religous meaning of John 13:
“John 13 is the chapter when Jesus washes the feet of his disciples and then predicts that Judas will betray them and Peter will deny that they knew Jesus”.
This would leave fans creating more theories for the album's story.
7/10/23
On her Twitter, Underscores would post another teaser, this time for the next single Locals (Girls like us). She would also announce the date for when the music video for it releases.
The teaser has nothing relevent to the Wallsocket story, but it does show Underscores and Gabby Start at some sort of event.
7/12/23
The release date for the album and details for it were announced:
“Wallsocket is a loose concept album about the American town of Wallsocket and the people that live in it. I first started making music purely on the computer, so my challenge for this album was writing the songs acoustically first and adding production afterwards. A lot of the themes of the project can be summed up by taking something natural and trying to sterilize it.
At the time of writing, I was obsessed with using the 'horseshoe theory' in an apolitical context. Where in our lives are we so one thing that we wrap back around and become its opposite? That theory is riddled throughout the album.” - underscores
7/15/23
The music video for Locals (Girls like us) would be released.
For an in-depth description of the music video and it's story go here.
8/14/23
Underscores would post a fancam teaser for Old Money Bitch's music video. The release date for it was also announced.
The fancam shows different clips that can be found in the upcoming music video. the trailer mainly focuses of Mara and Old Money Bitch herself, a clip of S*nny is also shown.
8/15/23
The next day, Underscores would post a a tracklist reveal to all of her socials.
Fans would notice that there were 12 songs, which meant that the 12 questions asked in the Wallsocket era-trailer could be connected, with each song possibly aligning with a question asked.
8/16/23
The ery next day would be when the music video for Old Money Bitch would release.
For an in-depth description of the music video in relation to the story, check here.
9/22/23
Wallsocket would be offically released this day! History was made. Alongside the album's release, Underscores posted an album video.
The video has each song of the album, with Underscores singing along with it in the back of a truck.
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The title for the post reads: "**URGENT** COLUMBIA BANK ROBBERY" with the caption "This is horrific!!!!! Please tell me y’all saw this!"
The poster shows many different scenes, somen highlighting specific things in the story, like Joshua Domingo running away with the money in the top section and Mara stalking S*nny in the section below.