UPDATE!!!
Ok so as of this evening (about 5pm May 9th), a new photo appears at the top of the Dema website. It is a different Clancy letter:
However, as you can probably tell, there are a handful of letters missing, and, when the missing letters are written out in order, it spells âyou are still sleepingâÂ
Iâm interpreting this as another message that Clancy is trying to get across, similar to âThe compass liesâ and âeast is upâ, but as for what it means, I only have speculations.Â
1)âYouâ could refer to tøp themselves, as in âtøp is still sleeping.â However, I find this unlikely as if that were what they were trying to say, they most likely would have said âweâ instead. The use of âYouâ leads me to
2) Clancy is trying to warn the reader that things are not what they seem. The content of the letter itself is reflective and mildly speculative, but the message seems to be more critical. I suspect that he may be trying to warn the reader that they arenât fully conscious and are still being controlled by Dema.
3) Finally, and I once again owe this to @top_today on twitter, but âyou are still sleepingâ may be a reference to the line in oh, ms. believer âMy pretty sleeper.â The reason that this is important is that they point out that back when tøp went on hiatus the second eye they posted was also âmy pretty sleeper.â But what was the first? The line from Polarize âyouâll have to come and find meâ and @top_today points out that we had to find the Dema site through the gif.Â
Long story short, I think each new thing they post will follow the order of the eye, meaning that I suspect that the next thing they post will relate to the line âwouldnât it be great if we could just lay down?,â or Forest in general. This theory also means that there will be at least 4 more updates corresponding to the eyes (5 if you count âand now I just sit in silenceâ, but I think that using that one to reveal the album would be more dramatic.Â
















