#milkshakegate

bc if AI was being used in writing the scripts it would surely be drawing from stuff about the series that's been posted online (???) so it wouldn't necessarily differentiate between TFS and the show itself, which could account for the mixup of which iteration of melvald's will is familiar with.

and it would also explain why 'mike the brave' is used to establish holly the heroic and then never mentioned again...

annnnnd the misuse of the word 'innate' if will's powers are understood to only derive from vecna via the hivemind...

and the inconsistency of why will was unharmed when vecna was defeated...

and why the 'melting room' thing is so random and never relevant again after the jancy breakup...

and why it literally doesn't matter that there were 12 kids...

is this why robin explicitly mentioned will's bowlcut TWICE??? bc it gets brought up so often online???

and were the stonathan bait and the 'babes at emerson' line even intentional or were they just there bc it was drawing from scraped fanfiction???

they baited us and now i hate them

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hmm this volume was weirdly cut what if something was missing

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CUTGATE!!CUTGATE!!CUTGATE!!

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oh it was disproven (i personally was not disappointed i would rather the writing potentially be bad than a mass conspiracy that netflix is still massively censoring queer stories in 2025)

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melvalds discovery — what if henry had something to do with the coming out scene?

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hey what if this volume feeling weird was intentional

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oh my god its been weird since will got his powers he’s being controlled by vecna and we’re being manipulated by vecna as the audience as well

and voila now, with the exception of a couple “i love so and so theory, but are the writers smart enough to think of that” sprinkled in here and there, we (at least somewhat) have faith again

So the Duffers might have wasted birthdaygate but this? I don't believe in coincidences, not anymore. Or they still will connect both.

In Will's coming out scene, he says the line:

"We like biking to Melvald's for malted milkshakes"

Canonically, in Stranger Things, Melvald's is the general store Joyce Byers works in, before moving to California.

So Will, milkshakes where? Because we know that it has been a general store since before 1979, when Joyce put Will's drawing of a "rainbow ship" in the Melvald's wall.

Will was two in 1973. He had no friends or would have had memory of a diner. So this doesn't make sense right? Another plot-hole? Or something else?

Well, Melvald's actually was a diner but just way before Will was born.

In the 50's, Melvald's was indeed a diner, as we learn in The First Shadow play.

You know who was there drinking malted milkshakes? None other than Henry Creel himself.

Vecna might still be using Will as a spy (if the duffers are not that stupid).

Will says another thing:

"I need to be there"

Vecna already knows the plan if this is right. And he sent an inside man. A spy. William Byers himself. And he is going to destroy the plan through Will. Will might still have a villain arc, and that would be such a good plot.

How can this relate to birthdaygate? Well, if this is right, they might bring up this other connection between Will and Henry which is their shared birthday.

I'm not smart enough to make this up by myself, so here's the tiktok I saw and was like "NOW HOLD UP"

What are your thoughts?

Listen. Sit down. Turn off your lamps. Put on your emotional seatbelts and your aluminum-foil conspiracy hats because I am having a full body revelation right now. I am vibrating. I am levitating. I am Vecna-floating above the carpet in socks.

I think… I just cracked it.

I’ve heard some people talk about some similar things, but here is my version, that i’ve been thinking about, and i know that i sound crazy, but hear me out!!!!

Like The Duffers said “no one has predicted the ending” and that was cute of them because BABES? I think I just did. And I am screaming into my pillow and my Byler plushies.

Yes… i have Byler plushies…

This isn’t a theory anymore. This is Joyce-Byers-Christmas-Lights-on-the-wall level clarity.

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🧠✨ The Fourth Wall Isn’t Cracking — It’s COLLAPSING

Vecna doesn’t just manipulate memories.

He manipulates narrative reality.

And guess who else experiences the narrative?

US.

We’re not just watching characters lose time and misremember things.

We’re losing scenes.

Milkshake Gate.

Birthday Gate.

Basement Gate.

Electricity Gate.

Color-Wrong-Holly-Carousel Gate.

The Duffers didn’t “mess up.”

They didn’t “forget.”

They didn’t “write inconsistently.”

We were Vecna’d.

Whole moments existed… and then they didn’t.

Dialogue implied events… we never saw.

Characters react to conversations… we never witnessed.

And suddenly we’re all on Tumblr going:

“haha continuity weird right”

NO. The continuity is screaming. The continuity is bleeding through the drywall.

This isn’t plot error.

It’s diegetic memory corruption.

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🌀 Will & Kali: The Unwitting Traitors (Flayed 2.0?)

Will’s memories don’t line up.

Kali’s behavior is… sideways.

Things don’t fit.

And every time we question it, the show just smiles at us.

Will remembers things he could not have experienced.

Kali’s nosebleed doesn’t match the others.

Will leads soldiers into danger without realizing.

Like he’s being piloted.

Like he’s still… connected.

Season 2 wasn’t an arc.

It was a diagnosis.

And the basement scene? The one everyone swears existed?

The one we felt but never saw?

It didn’t get deleted.

It got erased.

From them.

From us.

From the world.

Because Vecna didn’t just break the fourth wall — he stepped through it.

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🕰️ Time Rift Theory: November 6th Is The Key

Why is the Upside Down frozen?

Why is time fractured?

Why does everything wrong trace back to one date?

Because the wormhole didn’t just open space…

It opened chronology.

The story is looping.

The world is misaligned.

Reality has lag.

The show itself is out of sync.

And when it snaps back?

We’re going to see what was missing.

The scenes.

The conversations.

The basement.

The truth.

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⚡ Electricity, Touch, and Mike Byers-Defibrillator Wheeler

Touch = grounding.

Electricity = memory tether.

Will stabilizes through contact.

Except this season?

Mike doesn’t touch him.

Only some quick touch, and a hug.

Because Mike touching him would break the spell early.

They are saving the reveal for when the truth detonates.

Mike’s hand is the anchor.

Just like Season 2.

Just like Henry Creel’s parallel.

Patty couldn’t save Henry.

But Mike can save Will.

And THAT is why Byler isn’t just romantic —

It’s structural to the narrative reality reset.

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🎭 The Show is Meta. Literally.

Millie Bobby Brown once said the show is meta — a story inside a story.

Noah Schnapp even called Vecna “the most misunderstood villain” in an interview — like he accidentally peeked behind the curtain — and Millie literally shushed him like:

“bestie do not unlock the DLC in public.”

They KNOW. The cast KNOWS.

We’re not just watching Stranger Things.

We are inside it.

We’re the kids being manipulated.

We’re the experiment.

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🧩 It Was Never Bad Writing

The Duffers didn’t “forget” things.

The audience did.

Because our memories are being rewritten in-universe.

We didn’t miss the clues.

We were supposed to miss them.

The finale won’t just reveal plot.

It will reveal what we never got to see.

The restoration of time.

The missing moments.

The truth behind Will.

The fourth wall shattering into dust.

And when it happens?

We’re going to realize the story was talking to us the whole time.

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🕯️ Conclusion: Call Me Joyce, I’ve Never Seen Clearer

If I’m wrong, throw me into the Upside Down

But I have never felt a theory click this hard.

November 6th.

The rift.

The erased scenes.

The memory corruption.

It starts with Will.

It ends with Will.

And when the timeline resets?