l'histoire du Ben

ah, so you're interested in the life 'n' times of little ol' me, huh? well, here's everything i think you need to know.

• January 12, 2005: I am born early in the morning.
• January 10, 2011: I record "Four Effects", my earliest song of which an audio record exists.
• February 17, 2013: I take a photo of myself using the iMac Photo Booth's "Thermal Camera" filter.
• 2014: My dad shows me a video my stepsister took of her cat. The video employed a rapid cutting technique that I was enraptured by. I ask what app she used to make the video, and he tells me it was called Vine. After a lot of begging, I get my first social media app.
• 2018: That kid tells me to "shut the fuck up."
• 2019: I found two videos by Jack Stauber in a cursed videos playlist. Enchanted by his style, I start to watch his other videos.
• July 25, 2019: I finally create my first YouTube channel after fantasizing about owning one for years. I assume the pen name of Tom Warren.
• August 2019: I leave a sarcastic comment on a teaser for E. M. Philyaw's album "Happy Pants". He doesn't get that I'm being sarcastic, and starts leaving comments on my videos.
• March 2020: The COVID-19 lockdown begins, destroying my social confidence.
• October 31, 2022: I release npc, a song that I was so incredibly disappointed with that I decide to seriously focus on making full-length songs that I was happy with.
• July 4, 2023: Oily Bastard begins the FAWM 50/90 challenge. The day after, I decided to take it too.
• November 27, 2023: I release Reading Machine, an album I had resolved to make around two years earlier. What a feat it was!
• January 13, 2024: Dylan expresses a desire to collaborate with another musician in my discord server. I state that I would be interested in collaborating with him.