#conformitygate og

As you all know, we're now in a 'hotspot' month for potential major CG activity- namely July 11th being the date when Cokegate comes together (the culmination of TF85 S1 being released on April 23rd), July 14th being the date S5 was announced last year, and then July 15th being the 10th anniversary of ST (also Finn Wolfhard's new album comes out on the 10th but I'm gonna be respectful to his art and leave that out of the equation even if I do think it's a 🤨 choice of date)

And even is nothing happens at all this month, personally I'm officially staying on the bus until November 26th (ofc, to each your own 'leaving' date) so this definitely won't be my only time posting about it. But, if by some miracle we do get an announcement for new ST content... be it a 'Side B' or 'Act II' of S5, an interactive film (or films), a S6, some combination of these, whatever... the #conformitygate tag will undoubtedly blow up 😩

But we all love the air of community we currently have here, don't we? Plus I'd personally rather not be grouped with the mouth-breathers (lol see what I did there? 🤭) who claim to have "always believed in CG" when in actuality they've been shitting on it, and us. And I know none of you would want to either. So, I propose we start a new tag we can move to in the event of; we could simply go for #conformitygate og or #cg og (credit to @youaremess for this suggestion in a comment from a while ago), maybe #lovewinsgate og or #lwg og (should the original #lovewinsgate tag also get corrupted), or might I also personally suggest #curiosity voyager (referring to the Easter egg found in TF85)

...or, if anyone has something better feel free to suggest one. (Edit: I'll add them to the tags in this post)

Hey CG fam and others!

I've been struggling with audhd paralysis when it comes to writing lately so lets do this! 

I just finished watching The OA and can't recommend it enough for fellow cg'ers! BUT i cant talk about that right now because tomorrow is the 11th and time hasn't slowed down, apparently it has no plans to (thanks time), so I have to get this out before too much craziness happens. I wanted to lay out some thoughts before the 11th and 15th and make a pinned post of all the Stranger Things theories I've been writing since January. 

Here are my past theories and observations over the last 6 months in reverse order of posting:

Still Watching Netflix YouTube channel release analysis Finale Sync Dark Side of the Abyss Tales from BS/85 M83/ST Observations Tape Thoughts MerchGate/What did that shirt say? Finale/General Observations/Rant Documentarygate before its release (lol i didn't know what i was doing)

When people ask about conformitygate and then act like we're crazy (crazy together yall), I like to point out that we have ground to stand on due to the extensive research I and many others have done over the last 6+ months. I think it's important to show all the different readings/viewings/playthroughs I've gone through since falling into this rabbit hole.  

Stranger Things Consumption List

Shows/videos:

All season multiple viewings One Last Adventure (doc) Tales from 85 West End First Shadow (this is my favorite piece of evidence yall) Behind the Curtain First Shadow (doc) Broadway First Shadow  Beyond Stranger Things (Doc) Something Very Bad is Going To Happen The Boroughs All videos related to ST from the youtube channel Still Watching Netflix The OA The Pizza Movie Wsqk radio station 

Comics:

The Other Side Six Into The Fire Science Camp Holiday Special Erica the Great Stranger Things and Dungeons & Dragons The Tomb of Ybwen Kamchatka The Voyage Tales from Hawkins Tales from Hawkins 2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Stranger Things Dungeons & Dragons: The Rise of Hellfire

Books:

Scripts (Seasons 1-4) Worlds Turned Upside Down  Suspicious Minds (Terry) Darkness (Hopper) Runaway Max Rebel Robin Lucas on the Line The Dustin Experiment  The Starcourt Mall Escape (Nina/Jane bs) Flight of Icarus (Eddie) One Way or Another (Nancy) To Be Finished: Heroes and Monsters (currently reading ⅓ in) Hawkins Horror (currently listening to audiobook 2 hours left)

Games:

1984 Mobile game- Play thru completed Vr watched play thru 2/3rd in playing ST3TG

The more I “consume” the more I:

See that lies of omission are abound and are an underlying theme for all our heroes

Am positive that we are seeing multiple (at least 3) timelines playing out in the show

FEEL IT'S HELLA SUS THAT WILL AND MIKE HAVE NO BOOKS (which are all first person narratives) 

Believe that this month we're probably going to get the netflix first shadow play trailer or, if we're lucky (which i tell myself we're not so it wont hurt as bad lol) the play will drop. I think this version will be different, resulting in a third version of the play.  

Think that the "a or b side" of season 5 might come out this year following the structure of last year's release with maybe films to finish. Idk but the pull of the 11th anniversary next year is too strong to ignore. 

See that Brenner is probably the main villain via mind control/Nina project; distorting and recreating memories (I'm looking at you ai and the Backrooms)

Am convinced that this real ending will be an event to show how human creation can rival the tide of ai garbage currently sweeping the entertainment world.

I love the community this has given us and I look forward to finding so much more together on this curiosity voyage.

Also this dropped today and im like. . . Hey merchgate i see you. . . Game over with no Jane 🙄 sureeee. Come on Mike and Wake Up!