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Hayley was Mal's college roommate during their days at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. They, too, met on starmen.net and decided to live together. She and Alex recently got engaged.

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Hayley was Mal's college roommate during their days at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. They, too, met on starmen.net and decided to live together. She and Alex recently got engaged.are married.



* OneHeadShorter: Than ''everyone''. She's 4' 11".

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* OneHeadShorter: Than ''everyone''. She's 4' 11".4'11".
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** CharacterDevelopment: She has slowly grown much less shy since Breakfast Stream began, especially since she often has to cover the start of it single-handedly when Stephen is late.

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** CharacterDevelopment: She has slowly grown much less shy since Breakfast Stream began, especially since she often has to cover the start of it single-handedly when Stephen is late. By 2024 she was even able to do Breakfast Stream alone when Stephen was ill.
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* ThatOnePlayer: Trained up on playing ''Puyo Puyo'' for Extra Life 2023, but became so good at it that everyone else was scared to play against her.

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*** A NASA tape with a strange second-person narration that said "YOU are Alan Shepard" is also sometimes referenced.

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*** A NASA tape with a strange second-person narration that said "YOU are Alan Shepard" is also sometimes referenced. Alex's audience decide that they are all collectively Alan Shepard whenever space is mentioned.
*** Alex uses an AI art generator to produce 'ghost of (prompt)' - which is surprisingly good specifically at [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot penguins in sunglasses and tuxedoes playing jazz on the saxophone]] - and later 'friend (prompt)' in the style of 90s clipart - which seems oddly obsessed with naming most of the results "Sunny" (or occasionally "Perry" or "Buddy").
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** An oddly specific, but fairly frequently referenced, one is that he supposedly takes an inordinately long time to eat a salad.

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* RunningGag: Complaining about Stephen filming him (and everything), usually in an exaggerated way.

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* RunningGag: Complaining In the early days, complaining about Stephen filming him (and everything), usually in an exaggerated way.way.
** His Golden VCR streams have also led to several specific to them:
*** Music/PeterGabriel's WorldOfChaos music video for "Steam", which Alex's chat took a liking to after it appeared on a computer animation awards tape.
*** Claiming that ''every'' city, town and village in British Columbia (and elsewhere is 'the capital of British Columbia'), after a tape about a Scottish bagpipe band tour misidentified Vancouver as BC's capital.
*** A NASA tape with a strange second-person narration that said "YOU are Alan Shepard" is also sometimes referenced.
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* FanOfThePast: Besides being interested in history in general, he now also runs the Golden VCR Twitch and Youtube channel, showing off old documentaries and the like found on VHS tapes.


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* RunningGag: Her obsession with ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' and attempting to get Stephen to play it on stream.

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* DeadpanSnarker: Competes with her fiancé, Alex, over the title of Snarkiest.

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* BornUnlucky: During ''Wheel of Fortune'' streams, an unfortunate RunningGag is Hayley constantly hitting Bankrupt and rarely getting a chance to actually play.
* DeadpanSnarker: Competes with her fiancé, husband;, Alex, over the title of Snarkiest.
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* MadLibsCatchphrase: In the Breakfast Stream chat from 2022 onwards, "I'll (Y) your (X)!" in response to any two-part X Y phrase being said by Stephen or others.


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* ExtremeOmnivore: Him eating ''sand'' as a child is frequently referenced, and he also jokes about eating paint when Mal's art comes up.
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* {{Otaku}}: He is ''obsessed'' with space and VideoGame/EarthBound. Also quite passionate about filmmaking and cameras, to the point that his streams have a counter for how many days it's been since he's talked about cameras on stream.

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* {{Otaku}}: He is ''obsessed'' with space and VideoGame/EarthBound.VideoGame/EarthBound1994. Also quite passionate about filmmaking and cameras, to the point that his streams have a counter for how many days it's been since he's talked about cameras on stream.
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* {{Otaku}}: He is ''obsessed'' with space and VideoGame/EarthBound.

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* {{Otaku}}: He is ''obsessed'' with space and VideoGame/EarthBound. Also quite passionate about filmmaking and cameras, to the point that his streams have a counter for how many days it's been since he's talked about cameras on stream.
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** A long-running, but only occasionally-mentioned one is the conspiracy theory that Stephen's vlogs are actually a scripted reality show and the scripts are written by Thomas.

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* ReversePsychology: Whereas Stephen's other friends try to sincerely talk him out of his workaholic habit of embarking on long and overly ambitious projects at the expense of his own sleep and work-like balance, Alex instead faux-enthusiastically suggests Stephen do activities such as marathonning every Creator/JohnCandy movie every day for the foreseeable future, just to make Stephen say no to it.

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* ReversePsychology: Whereas Stephen's other friends try to sincerely talk him out of his workaholic habit of embarking on long and overly ambitious projects at the expense of his own sleep and work-like work-life balance, Alex instead faux-enthusiastically suggests Stephen do similarly time-consuming activities such as marathonning every Creator/JohnCandy movie every day for the foreseeable future, just to make Stephen say no to it.


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** He once declared that he would have to stop playing video games when he turned 40 as though it was a law, which the others often reference.
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* ReversePsychology: Whereas Stephen's other friends try to sincerely talk him out of his workaholic habit of embarking on long and overly ambitious projects at the expense of his own sleep and work-like balance, Alex instead faux-enthusiastically suggests Stephen do activities such as marathonning every Creator/JohnCandy movie every day for the foreseeable future, just to make Stephen say no to it.
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* IllBoy: He has a severe physical disability--a heart defect--but he doesn't let it affect the quality of his life.

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** Any time Stephen and Mal celebrate a birthday with Stephen's parents, expect some form of {{Hilarity Ensues}} when "Happy Birthday" is sung. Taken {{Up To Eleven}} during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsALvf05IbQ&list=PLkOr2vuFTeuU-CupD37uHlfv8z-ZwAebW&index=19&ab_channel=StephenVlog Stephen's 30th birthday celebration]], where Stephen's parents have ''Alexa'' sing "Happy Birthday."

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** Any time Stephen and Mal celebrate a birthday with Stephen's parents, expect some form of {{Hilarity Ensues}} antics when "Happy Birthday" is sung. Taken {{Up To Eleven}} Especially during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsALvf05IbQ&list=PLkOr2vuFTeuU-CupD37uHlfv8z-ZwAebW&index=19&ab_channel=StephenVlog Stephen's 30th birthday celebration]], where Stephen's parents have ''Alexa'' sing "Happy Birthday."

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