In 1946 a notorious gang called “The Yellows” started breaking into occupied homes, terrorising those who lived there and robbing them of all their belongings. The reason why ‘The Yellows’ robbed the innocent was to get money and to see people suffer. Society has exiled them due to their criminal history, no one wants to hire them so they can’t work normal jobs. They resort to stealing to survive.
Over time the people started fighting back and attacking ‘The Yellows’, in an attempt to protect themselves and keep ‘The Yellows’ from causing major losses. One unfortunate evening, the gang broke into a wealthy home, prepared for whatever stood before them. The Yellows discovered that their screaming and yelling had the ability to cause sleep paralysis in anyone who was not a ‘Yellow’. After realizing the physically paralyzing effect this had on everyone, the gang started to use their abilities to break into any homes they wanted.
A few years later the ‘Yellows’ decided to rebrand themselves as ‘Yellers’ and yelling became an epidemic. People were terrified, fearful and traumatized. Due to lack of sleep, the suicide rate skyrocketed and led to a dramatic drop in the population and people's quality of life.
The community started working on ways to stop the yellers and after many hours spent in a lab, a scientist named Mr. Meyer cracked the code. He discovered that some plants, when yelled at by a ‘Yeller’, emitted a unique tone that could snap people out of sleep paralysis. Mr. Meyer gave these special plants more mercury than normal to make them more sensitive. With the increased amounts of mercury, he dubbed this the ‘Anti-Yelling Plant’. Mr. Meyer kept working on ways to protect the innocent by putting the ‘Anti-Yelling Plant’ into people's houses.
On his desk was a thermometer, with a big ‘may contain mercury’ warning on it. He decided to empty out the thermometer and put an ‘Anti-Yelling Plant’ inside. Mr.Meyer added more mercury to it. It got more sensitive and responded to the ‘Yellers’ screams. Mr. Meyer has just made the first-ever yelling metre, a way for the innocent to defend against Yellers. With a constant mercury supply, the ‘Anti-Yelling Metres’ would stay alive and keep people safe. Mr. Meyer kept working on the plant to perfect it and eventually made a new version that was less likely to explode. A problem with the first version was that if it was yelled at too much, there was a likelihood it might explode.
Over time, Mr. Meyer started a mercury company that would install mercury pipes in people’s homes. The idea of the pipes is to give all the ‘Anti-Yelling Metres’ a constant supply of mercury. People were sceptical about this at first, but eventually the ‘Anti-Yelling Metres’ caught on and they became commonplace in all non-yeller households.
Eventually, all non-yellers had a yelling metre in their house. Due to this, the demand for ‘Anti-Yelling Metres’ was through the roof. Because of the increased demand whole farms were dedicated to growing ‘Anti-Yelling Plants’ and they started popping up all over the place. The Yellers took note and started destroying the crops. The farmers only had guns to defend against the Yelling onslaught. Most of the farmers' ‘Anti-Yelling Plants’ were destroyed in the battles. This was a problem because an ‘Anti-Yelling Plants’ can only produce 100 offspring per year. This was not enough to keep up with the demand from Mr.Meyer and his Anti-Yelling Metre company.
One day, one of these ‘Anti-Yelling Plant’ farmers, named Andrew, big fan of Mr. Meyer, was working on splicing plants together. He was trying to make the ‘Anti-Yelling Plants’ more resistant to Yeller's screams. Andrew also tried to make the ‘Anti-Yelling Plants’ more rapid in their reproductive cycles. He noticed that some plants in his personal garden were more resistant to Yelling attacks, like the Venus Fly Trap he had on his porch. Andrew decided to splice the ‘Anti-Yelling Plant’ with a Venus Fly Trap to see what might happen. The new plant was a freakishly huge Venus Fly Trap. Andrew thought it was a failure, so he decided to go to bed, depressed with his work.
Andrew is awoken later in the night, hearing yelling and screaming in his garden. He feared the worst, thinking the Yellers were attacking his crops. He ran outside, brandishing his gun, but was surprised to see a Yeller being consumed by the newly spliced Venus Fly Trap. By the time Andrew reached the plant, it had fully devoured the Yeller. Andrew had done it, he had created a new ‘Anti-Yelling Plant’; ‘The Anti-Yelling Chomper’. Andrew went to work on splice other things with the ‘Anti-Yelling Chomper’ and found that splicing grass with the plant made it a raid breeding version and that it made the ‘Anti-Yelling Chomper’ more resilient to yelling attacks. Andrew shared this new breed with Mr.Meyer, who was so delighted with Andrew's discoveries that he made him his lab assistant.
After some time ‘Anti-Yelling Chompers’ were commonplace as the number one defence on ‘Anti-Yelling Farms’. The Yellers have started to work on a new way to deal with the yelling metres and ‘Anti-Yelling Chompers’. The Yellers have captured some ‘Anti-Yelling Chompers’ and yelled and yelled at them until their seeds mutated and became a new strain of ‘Yelling Chompers’. By taking the seeds of the newly mutated ‘Yelling Chompers’ and mixing it with fruit, the Yellers figured out how to make ‘Yellie-Jelly’! ‘Yellie-Jelly’ is a substance that the Yellers use to get so strong they can make buildings collapse. It makes their yells so strong, and if they eat enough ‘Yellie-Jelly’ their yells could become deadly to Anti-Yellers.
Now, the Anti-Yellers needed to come up with a solution.
Times were terrible as the Yellers had been ravaging everything for the last few months. From destroying farms, both normal and full of ‘Anti-Yelling Plants’ and ‘Anti-Yelling Chompers’ as well as destroying cities and homes. But, a gillmer of hope.
A rogue Yeller stole the ‘Yellie-Jelly’ formula and gave the recipe to Mr.Meyer and Andrew, in the hopes that they would be able to make ‘Anti-Yellie-Jelly’. Mr. Meyer creates the new ‘Anti-Yellie-Jelly’ and distributes it to the farmers first, so they can restart their farms. After that, Mr. Meyer sells the ‘Anti-Yellie-Jelly’ to the public, and it is sold in every corner store. The ‘Anti-Yellie-Jelly’ makes Anti-Yellers on the same playing field as the Yellers, making them resilient to the yelling. They put the ‘Anti-Yellie-Jelly’ into concrete to make buildings more resistant to yelling.
Currently, The war between yellers and anti-yellers has been going on for many decades. Many Anti-Yellers, innocent people and Yellers have died in battles across the land. Mr. Meyer was creating new inventions to protect against the Yellers, but we haven’t heard from him in the last few years. Some say the Yellers have kidnapped him and kept him in their own secret base, but we don’t know for sure.
“This is an emergency broadcast. This is an emergency broadcast”
Andrew looks at the camera, he sighs.
“This work must be continued. Without inventors like you, the world will come to a screeching halt. You never know when a Yeller could break in and paralyse you or plunder your home. Don’t Yell!” Andrew turns off the camera and the video ends.