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Then add in how bizarre and completely incompetent the execution of said statement would be, and it just becomes even more laughable.

Look, I know there's a lot of weird shit that doesn't add about this show, and I completely understand that denial is a very real stage of grief, but there are plausible explanations for all of the weird shit, yes, some people in the biz are literally that untalented and there *were* skilled writers working on the show that we know walked out during the WGA strikes or shortly thereafter, and none of this excuses the harm done to queer audiences.

I do believe that the characters lost to Vecna in the end. I do believe that they’re trapped in some sort of facsimile of reality meant to keep them complacent. I do not believe Byler has anything to do with any of it, and it annoys the fuck out of me how every theory revolves around that. Maybe I’m the weird one for not foaming at the mouth over a relationship between two teenagers 🤷‍♀️ But in any case, I don’t think that is, nor was it ever going to happen.

I’m starting to become resentful of everyone in that community. I have been let down too many times.

I posted this on Twitter before, but here is my Stranger Things conspiracy wall from December! Someday I'll work through it again, because I haven't added anything since the day before Vol 2.

Hi Anonymous!

It's very interesting for you to assume that, because I've dealt with a LOT of mental health struggles in my life, and you don't know me. I never coined the term Mass Byler Psychosis, and was implicated in it due to the people who coined it (and then changed it to Mass Byler Canon). I never found a problem with it because 1) It was from Milevens making fun of it and it was reclaiming, and 2) I actually HAVE dealt with psychosis and knew how close my stress levels since Christmas matched those previous mental health episodes.

As a person who has been through psychosis and mental health issues, I DO actually think that a fair amount of people genuinely entered psychosis from this whole situation. Just 2 days of missed sleep can lead to psychosis, and it's a lot more prevalent than people think. I did go and change the tag that jokingly apologized for my involvement causing mass hysteria, so I am sorry for that comment making it seem dismissive.

However.

I think you should reexamine how you've chosen to interact with me here. I had to do trauma work following Vol 2 related to my experience of CSA and being triggered by the show, while I was dealing with people telling me I should be "helped" for my theories.

I legit was dealing with paranoid stress delusions due to this, and had to get on a SWAT warning list just in case somebody found my address (including some dedicated haters I'd gotten from my involvement on the Twitter side of Conformitygate). So yes, I did go through some mental health struggles due to all of it.

This is not a normal fan theory. I fully believe the ending of the show purposefully orchestrated to test the mental fortitude of an audience, and our ability to understand messages in media and reject propaganda. Everybody else treats us like we're insane for our ideas, which I greatly disagree with. However, to deny that this seriously affected people's mental health and actually put them into mental anguish is not doing what you think it is.

I still believe, and I don't think it makes myself or anyone crazy for still believing. And if it does? Then fuck it, we're all crazy together. I don't know where you got the idea I don't believe.

Hey, it's okay. I will admit I was not specific in how I spoke of my experience. It's my first time back actually engaging with a fandom space on Tumblr since the December 2018, so I'm not used to the vibes yet. I also just came from Twitter where I was on calls and involved with some of the worst of the fandom/CG over there. I'm rather jaded, so I apologize for any way I came off in return.

It's absolutely understandable to be on edge about it. I've gotten so many people telling me to commit myself somewhere or that they hope I get the help I "need", even when I explicitly say I am currently getting said help? Actually unrealistic and impossible these people wanna seem so smart and aloof that they literally forget to read the very words people have said. I've gotten dogged on SO hard for how I've discussed my more outlandish theories, but I popularized We (The Audience) Got Vecna'd on Twitter on Dec 26th, so I don't think these people can hurt me ATP. Lol. 67gate literally threw me under the bus and blamed the "more content" aspect of Conformitygate onto me and called me delusional. They need to rethink their concept of empathy from the ground up, and that's what I focus on now.

On the internet it can be hard to discern what people mean sometimes, and I just hope that one lesson we can take from this entire experience is to take things in better faith. Both one another, as well as ourselves.

I was just clarifying that it’s not a plant that started it, even though it was hinted towards. I love the rest of your timeline idea sm though

(There’s the screenshot of it being brought to TikTok below, with all three videos being mine not from a plant )

Congrats on being the first to bring the idea to TikTok, that's so cool! 🎊 (Also, wow reaching out to me of all people, thanks? I'm glad you like my timeline prediction!) I didn't want to discredit anyone that came up with it themselves organically, thanks for clarifying!

I am pretty sure if nobody had come up with it, that they would have planted it though. It seems to have been a very coordinated social experiment from the start, so they definitely helped it spread.

I wonder what name they would have given the theory, conformitygate is very byler-coded.