#jsed

(Pic and idea from Egg knight on discord, i have permission to post this, and what follows is my fleshing out of the theory) here's their tumblr @mx-raven-angel / @egg-knight

Welp. The egg may have cracked it. Lets get started.

The creepypasta wiki says this about zalgo:

The community created anti. We "corrupted" jack. Hmm. Let alone anti's favourite font, zalgo itself. And he can be recognized in any context with 2 words? Maybe Always watching?

And we were asked at the end of observation to "bring him"... is zalgo the him?

Back to the wiki, we see this:

"A creature of utmost terror," is one way to describe anti. "He who waits behind the wall", or you could say, always there, always watching.

An eyeless abomination with seven mouths? Well, we know anti can be eyeless, but seven mouths? How about 7 characters/egos/people... chase, schneep, marvin, jj, jackie, anti, sean..

The dead star and a candle stained with blood? Anti prefers a knife, actually. He's classy like that.

Six of the seven speak in different tongues? Well, of course they do. They arent the same person--you've got chase speaking the language of a "trickshot artist", jackie the tongue of a hero, marvin the mutterings of a magician, schneep in his accent, anti in his actual zalgo, and sean in his irish accent.

The seventh will speak when the world will end? JJ.

But right now, time is broken...

Anti's only infected online social media, as we know thus far...

-thanks to all the jse discord theorists (not all of them are tagged here, just some)

@n-anon @jayofsunight @pumpkin-demon @wyverwithy @ninjasinsocks @homoheteroidunno @mx-raven-angel <-(originator of the zalgo idea in chat!) @lilylipanthera @that-one-innocent-child @son-of-a-septiceye @i-am-fear @egg-knight

Now, let me explain.

Firstly, traffic lights have one function. To control traffic. Specifically, to stop, start, and regulate the flow of vehicles. You could almost say that so many people's lives are impacted by traffic lights--they can slow down or speed up a commute, ultimately deciding when someone is somewhere. We as a society created traffic lights, and we as a community created anti. One of his more poignant lines is that he's "in control, now." Traffic lights control our actions. They decide when we go and stop.

Many of us are not traffic light operators. We don't know all of the goings on behind the scenes of the grid they run on. But its made of code, and even though we program it, we can still hit that very same light when we're late to work. They directly influence us, constantly guiding us through life.

Traffic lights have three options: green for go, yellow for slow down, and red for stop. How does this help us? Well, when we see green anti, its a go. We're okay, its small fries compared to some of the other stuff we've seen. Green anti is okay. Green anti is the anti we have fun with (ie, i am a turtle, compared to games like red light green light) Green anti is when we're crusing down the road, appreciating life and the fact that the light didnt change from green. We know what to expect, this is routine.

The second anti is the "yellow" anti, or the "no-filter" anti. He's there, staring us down. Daring us to challenge him. We have to be cautious, who knows when he'll turn into red anti.

Red anti is stop. Stop at all costs. This is not good. As evidenced in dark silence, as well as a few other moments where sean uses his lovely lighting to illuminate his face with the red, if we see red anti or red lighting, its game over. Something is happening. We all stop dead and start paying attention. As soon as the traffic light turns red, everyone pays attention.

Now, other than the main lights for a traffic light, the other thing they are used for is monitoring speed. There's cameras and sensors and radars on them, and they're found in most communities. As Anti claims he's "always watching," its curious to think how he can. But if he's got access to all of the traffic lights in the world, he truly is always there.

Traffic is constantly a part of our lives. We talk about how many lights we stopped at on the way to school/work. "Such good little puppets, obeying me almost religiously. Some of you break the rules now.. but,, we dont take kindly to those who try to take control."

If i havent convinced you yet, here's the pièce de résistance. In the pax intro video, Anti claims that he's "been replaced, thrown aside." But also that he "isnt going anywhere." This is peculiar--what could be threatening traffic lights?

Traffic circles. fucking circles.

In conclusion, anti is a sentient traffic light.

(Inspired by this discussion in the discord:)

we tend to have discussions like this often in that chat, but i just had to flesh this one out

(A response to @kasper-the-ghost 's post (this post), where i didnt want to flood your notifs with this just in case)

The line that follows is this: "now lets move on to the next pha[se]," which is really interesting, for reasons i'll get to in a minute.

Now, what other tests do we know about? Well, in "You're Not Ready for These Scary Games," we see Dr. Schneep running some tests. He's scrapping countless sheets of paper with failed equations and attempts--he hasn't passed any test yet. He keeps going and going, and, as some theorists have connected, we recall back to that JSE Ego Week post from Seán that got corrupted: "test failure"

But what if he didn't fail? He's doing exactly what anti asked of us, don't take your eyes off the screen, and deep down, Anti knows he can't quit even if he wanted to. What if Henrik figured it out? But he just didn't realize it, or maybe he hasn't made it there quite yet, because how do you really know if you've solved time travel?

If someone in the past answers your question before it's asked.

Anti isn't talking to us in the famed "Quit the Game to Win" video--he's talking to Schneep. He figures it out.

And this is why the second half of the quotation matters:

Now we know too. Henrik didn't quit the game to win, and that means the next phase is coming.

A new month means we need a new title!

(Also, this word is being used by the definition of "childish/immature" as a reflection of how much the discord theory channel loves its memes. [Traffic light anti, for example] Not the other 2 definitions, so please dont use it like that. Also sean, there are literally no other english words i know of that contain the word "june". So please, no jejune 2 ;D)

Created by: me

Now, let me explain.

A disco ball is an object that reflects light directed at it in many directions, producing a complex display. Anti himself is constantly redirecting any sort of light we try to shine on him, creating a complex and distorted version of himself--the deranged, greenish glitch version; the orange, kjse version; the red, dark silence version; and the neutral, quit the game to win version. We can never get a good look at him--he's constantly shifting, misdirecting us. Not only that, but a discoball is fixed to the middle of a room--just as anti tells us, he's eternal. No matter what side he shows us, no matter which light he manipulates, he's a constant. People are known to lose track of time while they're around, as they alter your perceived reality. We know that time is broken, and anti is surely to follow.

Usually a disco ball is mounted well above the heads of people--just out of reach. Always there, always watching. But no matter how close we think we get, we can never get close enough to him.

One of anti's main grievances with us is that we've thrown him aside--replaced him. And disco balls were created in the 1920s, and have been on the decline in popularity in the last several years. People just dont use them anymore.

Disco balls are often the only light in the room, and once it goes out, everything goes dark. Whenever anti makes an appearance, he often turns out the lights, or messes with them in some way. He is the center of attention, and if you arent looking, he'll make sure you can't see. Case in point: chase brody. "Dark" silence, anyone? How he "cant see anything?"

Discoballs have been described as "the safest hallucinogenic around." And thats "probably why they've stuck around so long." They're "like a big voice in the sky, telling people to dance and forget about their problems." How many times have we heard anti giving us "suggestions", telling us that we're just "sitting there"--he wants us to dance. make like good puppets and dance

Articles claim that "when a room is filled with a good amount of haze [from a discoball], it creates the sense of being in outerspace." And what happens in outerspace? You're at the mercy of the void. You are no longer in control. One wrong footing, and its all over. Instead, the thing putting you there is in control--anti.

But the question remains: why are discoballs still surviving? For most folks, its down to nostalgia. We simply wont let them die. Almost how we insisted anti existed before he actually did, and how we are constantly clamouring for more anti content--we wont let him die. We need more. Its like we're addicted to the safest hallucinogenic drug. "Disco balls remind everyone of a ... simpler and purer time," 2016. When anti made his first appearance. Where all we were concerned about was the mysterious being himself--not the entangling lore surrounding our other egos. Disco balls fill our rooms with just enough light to dance to. We like to dance--any new information given to us, and we "dance" like mad, theorizing, searching, decoding. No matter what happens, we know that "the disco ball will always be there for us." Always there. Always watching. You cant look away.

Mirrors have a tendency to be really appealing to humans. And if you put a bunch of em on a circling sphere, and shine a little light on it--boom. We can't take our eyes (crossed: off the screen) away. Not only that, but disco balls are often used as a complex symbol. A metaphor for community, escapism.. witnessing. And whats one thing anti always does when he shows up? Unites the comminuty. He's a witness for everything we do. The theories, the analyzing--he's constantly there. Always there. "The mirror ball would always reflect the energy of the room," so when we're active and restless, so is anti. Hence the actions taken in mayhem 2018. We were so ready for him to show up after a few hints--and he granted our wish.

And yet, disco balls do not merely reflect light. They have "catalyzed a new notion of social sphere, creating a flux of people, shaping them into tightly knit, and mobile masses.. they describe a provisional social ecology." So basically, anti has created a space, where many people gather... (the discord)

"Clubs are often essential to for people to experiment and try on different identities, personalities,... personae." So not only is anti a disco ball, but he resides somewhere where it is common to try out new personalities, identities, and personas. Almost like... other.. alter egos... and none of them would exist without anti. Without the disco ball.

"The disco ball becomes a symbolic part of that space, creating hallucinatory image of these huddles masses of people moving as one on the dance floor." Anti is a part of our community, he is the one who forces us to jump through hoops for him--creating masses of people following his lead.

Anti's got a strange fascination with control. He's always claiming that he's "in control" now, and why would that be? "A disco ball that cannot spin seen during the day is a forlorn sight." Anti needs to be in control--he's terrified of what will happen to him if he isnt.

And what about his most hated enemy? Fucking circles. Wouldnt you be tired of them if you were constantly spinning in them? Forced to entertain? Constantly in the spotlight?

I leave you with an excerpt from a poem in an art exhibition featuring disco balls:

"Above them all is a silent observer

The moon hanging heavy in the sky

Slowly spinning, reflecting back to us,

bearing witness to it all."

Always there. Always watching.

(References here, here, and here)

Based off of this:

For @pyranoia

Someone please photoshop anti onto a disco ball

it me again