Alright, I guess that this story needs to be told. More than once, in fact. I guess I am adding something to it by showing how I perceive things. Time will tell if I actually contributed to the telling of this story.

Let's begin with an introduction, shall we?

I am Mike Teavee, one of the winners of Golden Tickets for Willy Wonka's factory. I am the one who hacked the system to get my ticket, and I am the one who got shrunk down by television (makes sense, right?) and then stretched by the Taffy Puller. And yeah, that is about the only interesting fact about me.

No, wait, it isn't. Some people also consider the fact that I work for Google now interesting. But I see it this way: with my genius, I was bound to wind up somewhere high-profile. So, that is two definite facts about me. As I've said, I'm not that interesting.

In fact, among the Golden Ticket winners, I am most likely the least interesting one. So that is an anti-award pinned to me. And its polar opposite, the award for the most interesting Golden Ticket winner, probably would go to Violet Beauregarde. So that is a prize she can add to the hundreds that she owns already.

Seriously. After work, I was checking on social media, and I discovered that Violet had uploaded a new YouTube video, delightfully called "France Gall feat. Violet Beauregarde - Poupée de cire, poupée de son (50th Anniversary Edition)".

How does Violet even come up with this stuff? I wondered in my head, remembering the previous collaborations she did. Off the top of my head, there's Veruca Salt (the band, not one of the other Golden Ticket winners), Jacksepticeye and some European girl I am not even going to bother spelling the name of here.

Just for shits and giggles, I decided to check out the comment section for the video. I know, YouTube comment sections are the ultimate cesspool of the Internet, but for this one time, I couldn't resist. I thus put on the song (which, by the way, was also in French, which I can't understand and never will) on repeat and read on.

Right off the bat, I could see that Violet- excuse me, "Vi 'Garde" (a name which I can immediately tell has been ripped off Vi Hart) had been responding to some of those comments. Her style of commenting usually involved proper spelling and capitalization, which I appreciated, but also not really, since she was interacting with some of the dumbest people on the planet.

There were also comments from pretty much everyone you'd expect, including myself. Well, I didn't comment, but someone else took my name and did. They, of course, said something about how they like chocolate, which I still don't like and especially not after Wonka's tour.

Overall, after reading the comments for way longer than necessary, I had two takeaways. One, there was an intrinsic link between Violet and an European country by the name of Lithuania, and two, there was another story behind this all, called Spectators of the Show or something- er, sorry, I meant to say Spectators of the Host.

I thus decided to explore both of those takeaways further, because they were complete mysteries to me, who only believed Violet to be a gum-chewing champion. Without further thinking, I entered "violet beauregarde lithuania" into Google and searched on.

The first thing that came up was a news article from some Lithuanian (of course) news site, posted in September of 2013, called "Incident at the Kaunas Akropolis - false sixth Golden Ticket announcement, Lithuanian man claims to be Violet Beauregarde". The news article is fairly short, so I might as well copy and paste all of it here.

KAUNAS, LITHUANIA - A commotion in the local mall, the "Akropolis", on September 2nd, 2013, has caught the public eye's attention for a brief moment.

The onlookers claimed that the commotion started when a woman in a purple coat (later identified as Violet Beauregarde, the winner of the third Golden Ticket of the 2005 Willy Wonka contest) bought a Wonka bar at the mall's largest shop, a Maxima XXX. Violet then put the Wonka bar away and pulled out something golden out of her coat.

This was misinterpreted by security as the finding of another Golden Ticket, and as such, soon thereafter, an announcement was made via the public announcement system. The announcement was as follows:

"The second Wonka's Golden Ticket rush, which has lasted for a year now, finally paid off, as the sixth Golden Ticket was found right here, in the Kaunas Akropolis. So far, the lucky winner hasn't been recognized, but now she stands on the first floor, having just exited the Maxima XXX, and wears a purple coat. By the way, I quickly remind you of the first five Golden Ticket winners: a German, on whom no data has been found in the future, Augustus Gloop, a British nut sheller Veruca Salt, an American Olympic champion Violet Beauregarde, an American hacker Mike Teavee and a Canadian current chocolate factory co-owner Charlie Bucket."

This caused a group of people to gather around Violet, wishing to see the Golden Ticket for themselves. As the crowd grew, Violet walked away, leading the crowd to follow her. Eventually, one Lithuanian man went up to Violet and asked something. While Violet was conversing with him, he made the claim that he was Violet as well, causing another commotion.

The two then walked away from the crowd into a remote place. There, for reasons unknown, Violet fainted in the man's arms. There, the two were found by the man's parents, and the group then left the mall, not followed by anyone of interest. The man's real identity remains unknown.

Willy Wonka and Charlie Bucket have commented on the incident, claiming that no Golden Tickets have been released since the initial contest. They also claim that they might have a lead on the man who purported to be Violet.

Well, if you can't find data on where Augustus is in the future, then you haven't been looking hard enough. He is the manager of some local butcher business, since his father is apparently a butcher himself. Also, the best you could do on me was "an American hacker"? Really? With the amount of research you did, it would not have been out of place for you to report that Veruca is somehow the band.

At any rate, fantastic. So apparently, there is a Lithuanian man who is convinced that he is Violet. And if that wasn't enough, out of all people, Wonka and Charlie might know what is going on. This might just call for me to organize another visit to the Chocolate Factory. I know, the gates will probably be locked, but I will sneak in through the ventillation system if I need to.

Anyway, there still was another takeaway to explore. I went back to my YouTube tab, scrolled a bit through the comment section, selected "Skepness Man Beauregarde" and selected the context menu option to Google that, and the first result was for a story named "Post-SCrash Session 3: Spectators of the Host".