  We present studies of strange particle yields and correlations in $pp$
collisions in the PYTHIA8 event generator by studying forward-backward
correlations. Several key processes that give rise to these correlative effects
are identified and manipulated to probe the fundamental properties of strange
particle emitting sources. The sensitivity of strange particle production and
correlations to PYTHIA's multiparton interaction, color reconnection, and
explicit strangeness suppression are shown.
