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IVE JUST. I GOTTA SHOW THIS FUCKING COMM MAN. OH MY GOD ITS SO FUCKING CUTE IM GONNA EXPLODE IM GONNA START SPINNING AROUND IN A MICROWAVE

THIS COMM IS FROM

-> https://www.tumblr.com/rassblerry <-

holyy fucking shit

i just spent like 20 minutes scrolling the tag and i think all of you are stupid, actually. I thought tumblr had more literacy than this so lemme go down my list of elements

The characters. This is the one everyone is wrong on. I think that Clark is INCREDIBLY written to be honest, even if he is a bit of an angry asshole. I think that's truly a trauma response for him (he did get kicked out of his own house and is stuck working a dead end job and is clearly depressed and defending himself in the worst way possible), and I think him losing his mind is really what the backrooms is about!!!! Mary is also a good example of trauma response- even as a therapist, she shuts down. I love Kat and Bobby's inclusion, and I think that it's a good opportunity to show a sane person with little to no significant trauma in reaction to these events, and killing them is the killing of sanity. They aren't nothing burgers get over yourselves

The sound design. HOLY SHIT THE SOUND DESIGN DUDE. the ambience, the long silences, even the noises of the clone of Clark are just SO incredible. I was in that theatre trying not to puke it was so incredibly disgusting

The shot design. OHHHHHHH MY GOODNESS I LOVED EM. one of those "hate it so much its so good" UGHHHHH the scenes with the longer hallways and the lighting design of the blue being the real world and making it seem almost foreign still while the backrooms has such warm lighting it becomes genuinely alienating. DUDE.

The SFX. THOSE GORE SHOTS ARE INSANE. THE BITE. THE BITE THAT CLONE CLARK DOES. OH MY GOD? OH MY GOD. I. OMG

The confusing points. I think it's good that so much was left up to interpretation!!! THATS WHAT THE BACKROOMS IS ABOUT. NOTHING IS CANON. HAVE ALL OF YOU FORGOTTEN YOUR ROOTS ALL OF THIS IS BULLSHIT!!!!!!! ITS ALL MADE UP!!!!!! NOTHINGS REAL!!!!!! FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

keep in mind that im not a superfan of this series and if i get anything wrong or miss a piece of evidence that says otherwise lmk

I am in the almost 90% belief that the player in Poppy Playtime is another toy like the others. Walk with me here. Spoilers for chapter 5 but idk if that matters anymore

The biggest pieces of evidence that I have are the beginning of Chapter 1 and the end of Chapter 5. In the beginning of Chapter 1, we're told that "Everyone thinks the staff disappeared 10 years ago. We're still here. Find the flower." Though I don't know who actually wrote the letter, it'd be likely that whoever sent it to bring the player back to the factory wouldn't write it the way they did if it were going to an actual adult, FROM an adult. Obviously, one of the toys/children wrote it (leading to the misspelling of "we're"), and the implication through the simplicity of the note itself that the recipient already knows something of the situation tells us that the player was a resident or staff at Playtime; however, this deviates when thinking of the hatred most toys have concerning staff members. They wouldn't call on a staff member to help them- they'd only trust another toy. In Chapter 5, this is a bit more obvious. There's No Fucking Way that a human being would be able to survive all of that bullshit. We can see from Poppy that you can get attacked by the Prototype and live just fine; potentially even living through that goop and still live. The difference being, Poppy is a toy. Therefore, our player would likely have to be a toy to survive all that.

I do have other pieces of evidence that are a bit more of a stretch. these include

The player only being referred to as "from the outside-" never as a "human" or "staff" by other toys

Player doesn't speak or think; while this could be blank slate protagonist, it might actually be a similar situation to Huggy, Kissy, and Chum, among others who can't speak. The lack of thought may be similar to one of the little gerbers that attack you, like those little mini Smiling Critters, who don't seem to have full autonomy

Player is only represented by Generic Yellow Guy, who tbh does kind of look like some sort of mannequin toy

Outside of surviving the Prototype, player also survives insane fall damage on the regular with no sign of injury

Lily Lovebraids calls you a "good toy," not a staff member, which she should recognize as such despite being isolated

Player is able to view Huggy's memories, which could be difficult to do as a human. Not for a toy with barely a brain left tho

A tape in Chapter 5 has the Prototype talking with a toy post-Hour of Joy (bars?) about 2 toys that had escaped the factory entirely; one of which could be the player, as we haven't seen it mentioned before

Mostly unfazed by the abilities of other toys, potentially having already seen them before

Mommy Longleg's goddamn obsession with us as if we're her own child. She likely views many toys as if they are her children, given she's one of the only maternal-adjacent toys in the factory