#top update

Jul 1, 2025

My Drifter and Operator.

I wonder how they will compare after the update tomorrow.

So heres the post I promised. Sorry it took so long, but hopefully it’ll cover everything else on the DEMA website before tøp’s official return. 

When the DEMA website first went up, they were updating it periodically over the course of a couple months with cryptic information and letters from their new character, Clancy. I made posts about these updates when they were less frequent. In this post i’m going to pick up where I left off, staring with this photo:

This photo shows 21 people standing at the top of a cliff, looking down at the camera. At the time of the release it was speculated that these were people outside of dema. We now know that these are actually edited screenshots of the Jumpsuit video, where these people outside of the Trench are looking down on Tyler, who is still in the Trench. Also, the figure 8th from the left is Josh and it’s speculated that the figure to the right of him (the one turned away from the camera) is Jenna. 

The next update was this gif of a vulture:

At the time this was posted, not much sense was made of it other than the connection to a previous update with photos of vultures. However, now we know that vultures will be playing an important thematic role in the new album, with them even going as far as to put a vulture on the new album cover. Also, it’s speculated that the eye opening back up is that of a vulture (I’ll discuss that more in a different post).

The second update in that 24 hour period was this letter from Clancy:

In brief, it expresses Clancy’s desire to escape while also giving us some more information as to how the residents of Dema got there and are being controlled. 

The next update, although less exciting, also contained some important information. 

This photo is titled “_o__ut_”, which I believe means that it’s a photo taken by Clancy of his first look outside of Dema. The horizontal dark bar at the bottom looks like a wall that the viewer is looking over, showing mountains in the background (similar to those seen in the Jumpsuit video).

Next was another letter from Clancy, this time titled “_he_a_vy_”

This briefly chronicles Clancy’s plan escape from Dema. However, the use of the word “we” implies that Clancy is alone. He also mentions waiting for the torches, which makes sense seeing the next update:

I believe that this GIF of people carrying torches through what appears to be an underground tunnel acts as confirmation that Clancy has escaped Dema as he planned to. 

This is further confirmed by this last letter by Clancy, stating that he has successfully escaped:

In summary, this note is reflecting on his escape as well as thoughts of the future and life in general. It ends with the words “Cover Me!”, which we now know is part of the chorus to jumpsuit. 

The final update to the Dema website was this photo here:

As the photo is inverted, it’s hard to make out what it shows, but flipping it back to normal shows a body lying in a river:

Immediately it was pointed out that the figure looks like Tyler wearing some sort of mask, like his death drops in the blurryface era. (Example:)

It was assumed that Clancy had died while escaping Dema. However, with the release of the Jumpsuit video soon after, it was shown that he was simply lying in the river as if he had woken up there. An interesting connection as well is this post from Jenna on instagram, which says that in Iceland (where the video was filmed), water is cherished and protected, which may explain why he as laying in it. 

Late last night this gif was posted on the Dema website 

The letters at the top spell out “UNSTILLIDONTCKNOWOHISNREALINAMECDOOU”, or “U N STILL I DONT C KNOW O HIS N REAL I NAME C DO O U”, or “You still don’t know his real name, do you?” with the word “Nico” spelled out twice. 

I believe that this means that the bishop we know as Nigo is actually Nico. Looking more closely at the album cover we see that it really does look more like NICO than NIGO (which, may I add, was what I read it as at first, but couldn’t find lyrics to support)

So, if this is the case, many of my translations are wrong and I am planning on going back through and redoing all of them. However, I would like to make note that this update to the website may support my theory about Forest, discussed in this post here. In this theory, I pointed out that the next update to the website most likely will have something to do with the song Forest. Indeed, “you still dont know his real name, do you?” is undoubtedly similar to “Does it bother anyone else that someone else has your name?”

Although this update to the website may only be there to clarify the Nico vs. Nigo debate, it does seem to fit with the pattern of relating to the photos of the eye closing on twitter. If this is the case, the next update to the Dema site should be related to the line “I will fear the night again,” or just Truce in general. 

I know I’m a little late, as @ discordclique on twitter discovered this yesterday, but of course I still need to share. On the PPL website (for those who don’t know, PPL is a reputable company that registers music and collects royalties, wiki here) there are two new songs by twenty one pilots with the release date of 2018. The first is titled “Jumpsuit”

and the other is titled “Nico and the Niners”