Jaidlyn

@jaidlyn.wakeupbuttons.com

Host, interviewer, commentator, creator, and musician. She/her. | Games Done Quick Interview and Interstitial Team | Team Arc Creator | PlayStation Playmaker | wakeupbuttons.com | Inquiries: jaidlyngaming@gmail.com

Home from Flame Fatales 2026! It was a great event benefiting Malala Fund and we raised over $132K for girl's education around the world. Keeping the road trip going a bit longer with some delicious Flame '26 themed @dragonroast.coffee ! Thanks for all your support and see you at the next event!

A Frame Fatales coffee mug filled with "Road Trip" coffee from Dragon Roast. A postcard is on the table next to a sticker

🏁 TIME 🏁 #FlameFatales 2026 has raised a total amount of $132,100 for Malala Fund! Thank you to everyone behind-the-scenes who made this marathon possible, and to all of YOU for your incredible support of girls' education. See you at #FrostFatales 2027 from March 14-20, 2027!! 💜💛 STAY WIGGLY!!

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Dear Zeldathon Fans and Friends: TLDR: We need your help. We have a whole slate of content coming to help raise funds for our operational costs to keep our marathons going strong. If you have ever enjoyed Zeldathon content consider tuning in, sharing, and/or subscribing to the twitch or patreon.

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Do I have anyone in my friends/colleagues network that would consider themselves adept/advanced with DaVinci Resolve workflows related to motion graphics? I would love to get some 1-on-1 time to talk through my use cases and get some direct guidance. Will pay for your time.

Flame Fatales 2026 a commencé ce week-end, et Il y a tous les soirs de la semaine à savourer ! Quelques un.e.s de nos membres sont sur le planning, dont certain.e.s sont en train de vendre du rêve ! 👀 Pas de restream, mais full love et soutien à #FlameFatales ! OUI MISS YOU FATALES!!! gdq.gg/live

Three Fast & Fabs logos ("F&F" in black over a circle of merging turquoise and fushia smoke) are getting ready to watch the Flame Fatales live on a big TV, sitting on a couch and bean bag.
"Zis is much less tiring, oui oui..." says the first.
The 2nd is already focused on the TV.
"Ze popcorn iz done, oui are ready tou watch!", says the third.

The second much smaller image shows the three, sat in front of the TV, with a big "..." over them.

Third part is back to normal size, the three are yelling while moving tiny arms drawn over their round bodies.
"I MISS ZEM SO MUCH!!!"
"I OUISH WE HAD THE ENERGY!"
"OUIN! AT LEAST SOME OF OUR FABS ARE THERE"
and in a tinier writing: "where are ze gyozas??".
All of this, drawn in Paint.
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Everyone get your hiking gear ready, because #FlameFatales 2026 is officially LIVE, supporting Malala Fund! Join us ALL WEEK at both gdq.gg/live AND youtube.com/gamesdonequick to support an incredible cause, as well as all of the amazing women and femmes in speedrunning!

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New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.


I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

Flame Fatales 2026 benefiting Malala Fund is live! Tune in the entire week for great speedruns, showcases, skits, interviews, prizes, and more! gdq.gg (/schedule, /donate, and /prizes for more info!)

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