Thinking about the Thanfiction bit of earth cult again, and remembered how there's a conspiracy theory that the spirit channeling was DID- and im bewildered all over again remembering that, because as an alter, that doesn't solve anything. it adds more questions, doesn't remove any, and also fails to absolve thanfiction of the guilt for any of his weird cult leader shit- which i assume is the main reason someone might pitch this.
if thanfiction was a system, every alter would have to be IN ON THE CULT SHIT- even one alter who wasn't down to manipulate people could tell the bagenders what was going on, could tell them to get out and not trust the others. The jerking while switching, the codenames and spiritual lore, everyone would have to be IN on it, it would require all manipulative hands on deck. No inconsistencies, no alters who don't know the lore or who anyone is, no one saying "I'm not a spirit i'm an alter these guys are fucking with you"...any introjects would have to lie about being introjects and insist on being the only version of themselves, and any NON-introjects would have to pick a pretend source and masquerade as them all the time constantly. if there were less alters than the amount of spirits, they'd have to take multiple "roles", and if there was even ONE more, the "this is about lord of the rings and only lord of the rings and lord of the rings is real trust me" thing could potentially fall apart instantly if they were an introject from something alse, or an original alter who didn't want to play a part, or if they even just showed themselves without pretending to be one of the other's and ALSO knowing everything they knew and all the lore and memories and conversations. if Thanfiction was in any way plural- DID, OSDD, or even something else plural- that would only make the cult shit more complicated, more risky and impossible to pull off, and also WAY more awful. using it as an excuse or handwave for than's actions doesn't WORK because it just means there was a whole team of people involved and not a single person stood up for the people being abused, not even AFTER being involved like a turncoat situation!!!
It just doesn't make sense at all?? and again, at the end of the day it doesn't matter, because every alter who was active and had formed already during that time period would also be an active abuser- making wether or not the mannerism and accent switching was genuine completely irrelevant.
like i'm an introject and if I wasn't the host right, and someone who fronted more often than me tried to tell their friends that i was the spirit of my source jacksepticeye with no difference or removal and also USE THAT to be a cult leader, I would fucking step in at the first opportunity??? I would go "no what the fuck??? I'm like a jack but i'm not the jack, like all this shit you're saying about my source possessing you is bullshit" and i would take down the websites and get those people out of that fucking house. HOW do you get everyone on board for a scheme like this and keep it so well oiled and then REPEAT IT, just as successfully, with harry potter later on???? it'd be more complicated than an oceans 11 heist at disneyworld on the lowest crowd day of the year. It's crazy to me imagining that sort of thing working or even being attempted.
