Insert Something Intelligent Here

-despite his efforts to keep all the toys in the factory, gentle john and all the joyless managed to escape, and he's like "oh shit" and covers it up with a fake story in his little newspaper

-genuine fear isn't the only method he's used to keep his people in line but also making up random shit, like stories about the toys in safe haven eating each other to make them be like "ew"

-instead of boarding up the door to poppy's room or something to keep people out, he just painted cryptic warning signs on the wall which the player later ignores and waltzes in anyway

-his plan to make poppy see things his way by locking her in the case COMPLETELY backfired on him, and instead she emerged from the case as a homicidal little menace trying to blow everything up

-accidentally crushing the living hell out of his sister's face

The adults failed themselves, each other and the children (I can’t prove it yet but Gracie Green was seriously embezzling money from this company. Trust.)

The children more or less carry on this failure by not really breaking the cycle and then turning on each other.

The player (and poppy) themselves has failed a lot too.

everyone in this game is taking Ls, i don't really see anyone talk about this but poppy fucked up BIG time by exposing her true identity to leith pierre. that's what made the man realize that reanimating/immortality was possible

I think between trusting Leith when Ollie wouldn’t talk, starting the toy war, abandoning her allies, trusting Ollie (trusting a body less voice over the phone when you’re living in the factory with an entity that constantly mimics voices is- a CHOICE) and coming up with a plan that eventually led to the death of safe haven Poppy’s unmatched in the amount of tragic L’s she’s taken - she’s 0-4 against herself + her allies (the poor girl can’t catch a break 😭)

FOUND IT- tho I think it’s an email between 2 conspirators - I wonder what kind of deal the prototype made lol

https://poppy-playtime.fandom.com/wiki/An_Intercepted_Communique

-despite his efforts to keep all the toys in the factory, gentle john and all the joyless managed to escape, and he's like "oh shit" and covers it up with a fake story in his little newspaper

-genuine fear isn't the only method he's used to keep his people in line but also making up random shit, like stories about the toys in safe haven eating each other to make them be like "ew"

-instead of boarding up the door to poppy's room or something to keep people out, he just painted cryptic warning signs on the wall which the player later ignores and waltzes in anyway

-his plan to make poppy see things his way by locking her in the case COMPLETELY backfired on him, and instead she emerged from the case as a homicidal little menace trying to blow everything up

-accidentally crushing the living hell out of his sister's face

The adults failed themselves, each other and the children (I can’t prove it yet but Gracie Green was seriously embezzling money from this company. Trust.)

The children more or less carry on this failure by not really breaking the cycle and then turning on each other.

The player (and poppy) themselves has failed a lot too.

My biggest issue is that the higher ups/ conservatives never acts like they understands self-preservation. Actual real systems built around hierarchy, control and tradition usually work hard to manage powerful people. They reward loyalty, keep important members dependent on the system, and make sure dangerous individuals don’t become threats. But the higher-ups in JJK barely do any of that.

Gojo is the clearest example. The story says his birth changed the balance of the entire world. If that’s true, then logically the higher-ups should constantly be trying to keep him under their thumb. They didn’t even try make him loyal, limit his influence, or even build systems around the fact that he’s basically untouchable. Instead, they mostly just complain about him or try to kill his students while relying on him for practical everything. They fear him, but not enough to seriously adapt to the reality that he could destroy their entire system whenever he wants even when it’s explicitly obivous he wants reform of their system.

Even with someone like Geto, there’s barely any sign that the system tried to keep one of its strongest sorcerers bonded to him it before things completely fell apart. Even after he went off the deep end, they have no practical response that one of their most powerful sorcerers went crazy and massacred an entire village. For a society supposedly obsessed with maintaining their power and their way of approaching sorcery, they don’t even try to prevent any more Getos or even use him as a propaganda tool for the system. 

That’s the main issue: the higher-ups are more told about than they’re actually developed. The story says they’re powerful conservatives protecting the status quo, but they rarely act like rulers who genuinely know how to hold onto power or even try to. They don’t manipulate powerful sorcerers, they don’t build loyalty, and they don’t respond intelligently to threats inside their own system.