hollycrowned:

cipher hunt update: Bill has his hat back! he’s still up the tree at Confusion Hill (for safety reasons), and he’s looking much more like his old self. 

read this post if you want to know how Bill ended up at Confusion Hill. it’ll be updated soon with this new info. ∆

Please dont erase the efforts of Alex and the artist that made the replacement hat. Bill does NOT have his old hat back. This is a NEW HAT. Confusion Hill has had a NEW, REPLACEMENT hat for MONTHS. Theyve been SHOWING it to people, it has not been a secret. They had to wait to install it because of the weather.

The old hat was infested by ants and stolen. Its really annoying to see this story going around social media saying that by some miracle, the hat was returned to Confusion Hill (and somehow fixed). That hat was not returned. Alex commissioned a new hat, and sent it to Confusion Hill. This was not a secret, theyve shown it to anyone whos asked. Ive tweeted about it. Momo has tweeted about it. Others have tweeted about it. (In fact, Im pretty sure I told Holly about it at some point too.)

If I seem heated about it, its because some artist has made an entirely new hat, Alex had it shipped up there (its HUGE), and CH has held onto this huge thing for months waiting for a good time to put it up… and all of you are pretending that by some miracle of fandom goodwill, the old hat was returned, and completely ignoring the hard work Alex and the artist did to get a replacement. Despite many fans saying for the past few months that CH has had a replacement sent by Alex. Which you all conveniently forgot.

Also here is a picture comparison just to nail in the fact that this is not his original hat. It was never returned. People are not nice.