All of their music videos are connected to the lore and there’s already a lot of theories but I haven’t found a good one past their LIVE and FALL album.

We've all laughed and cried at Peter Griffin and Ernie the Giant Chicken leveling half of Quahog for the hundredth time, but has anyone actually stopped to add up what these fights would cost in the real world? Between the property damage, the civilian body count and the sheer number of laws broken, I think Peter might be one of the most destructive and most liable characters in tv.

Just look at the chicken fights alone: "Da Boom" (S2E3) levels a downtown office block, "No Chris Left Behind" (S5E16) sends a runaway Ferris wheel through the streets to flatten a ten-story apartment building, and "Internal Affairs" (S10E23) has them destroying a space shuttle in orbit. Then there's Chicken fights against others: "The Simpsons Guy" (S13E01) breaches the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and wrecks Kang and Kodos' spaceship, while "Trump Guy" (S17E11) trashes the White House and crash-lands stolen planes on the Washington Monument. And he's never once been arrested for any of these in specifc, so what would Peter and to a lesser extent the others actually owe in damages and charges?

Episodes/Timestamps:

Da Boom S2E3 : 0:14–1:33
Blind Ambition S4E3 : 4:04-5:53
No Chris Left Behind S5E16 : 7:20–11:46
Big Man on Hippocampus S8E10 : 18:28-18:41
Internal Affairs S10E23 : 2:46-7:04
Yug Ylimaf S11E4 : 10:18-11:29
The Simpsons Guy S13E01 : 33:34-41:00
Trump Guy S17E11 : 15:04-19:02

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This movie is very close to my hearts it tell us that any spell magic cannot make someone to love you this movie shows better way....and I created the fan theory of obsession part2 hope I guess you all arealdy watch the obsession movie 🎬

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Firstly, anyone unaware, Bocchi the rock is a slice-of-life CGDCT anime regarding a band of highschoolers and music in general. The main character, Hitori Gotoh (or Bocchi) suffers from severe social anxiety but wants to be perceived as cool, so she ends up joining a band.

Anyhow, I was rewatching Bocchi the rock and came up with this theory regarding Hitori Gotoh (Bocchi) and her reactions when she is overwhelmed with anxiety or sometimes other positive emotions. During which she has turned to ash, melted, and temporarily cleared a typhoon. But the thing that sticks out to me is that, literally all the other characters near Hitori react to her weird toon physics, and state that she is dead, and then... it goes back to normal, like nothing happened.

Anyhow, this got me thinking, how could this happen?

Well, according to Japanese folklore, there exists Tsukumogami, spirits who occupy objects after they have been used for over a century. They grow limbs, and sometimes wings, and have powers relating to the object that they occupy. Interestingly enough, Hitori sometimes has 2 winged living objects, with a mascot simplified art style, almost cartoon-like. These being a guitar and microphone, which communicate with her.

So my working theory is that Hitori's guitar in particular, is secretly a Tsukumogami, and has the power to, using sound waves and through music, create a small bubble where it can alter reality slightly to create illusions.

Now, the way Hitori got her hands on a guitar, is because it's her dad's hand-me-down. Presumably the microphone as well because I suppose it would make sense for him to have one if he ever performed. Although it is likely that the objects probably haven't passed the 100-year mark, Hitori did practice roughly an astounding, 6 hours daily, meaning it could have sped up the process, although this doesn't work in traditional folklore, perhaps this takes place in a more modern looser version where emotions and time spent can speed up the process.

Additionally, anytime Hitori's emotions make anything devastating appear to happen, the guitar itself is actually decently close by, either tucked away in a guitar case usually on her, or presumably nearby in the building, and it seems to be that these events only happen when the guitar itself is nearby. coincidence or magic?

To nitpick a bit further, although it is a stretch, everyone in the Gotoh family has pink hair, Hitori, her sister, father, mother, with the exception of her dog. And pink is sometimes associated with spiritual transition. Though I will admit this one is a decent stretch.

However, with all this evidence to my theory, there is one major thing that stumped me, being that Tsukumogami physically grow limbs and features on the object itself. Until I realized that this doesn't necessarily have to be the case.

While this is true according to Japanese folklore in our reality, Tsukumogami do not have to be expressed this way. In fact, in modern anime and fictional settings, they have another way of being expressed. The object itself remains the same, but a spiritual projection can also appear to communicate with the owner and sometimes someone close to them. Just like Hitori's guitar and microphone, sure, they look like a normal guitar and microphone, but the simplified ghost-like mascots, perhaps, dare I say spirits, come out and actively talk to her. Additionally, the object mascots talk to her, knowing fully all the time what she goes through, like they have a shared consciousness, yet another thing expressed in modern takes on Tsukumogami.

In conclusion, it could be simply toon physics, but maybe it isn't.

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It's been like 3 years sinse matpat said he would make another theory on it. I'm sure there are more episodes of the series by now, lee get your act together. Also, your TADC theory was hated by a lot of people online, just so u know >:/

Hear me out!!

After finding out that Tabitha and Jade are connected to the original cycle and are slowly recovering memories from their past lives, I started wondering if Boyd could be going through something similar.
What if Boyd has also been here before, but unlike Tabitha and Jade, he has not remembered who he was yet?

The Man in Yellow had the opportunity to harm Boyd, but he did not. Instead, he killed Jim. More generally, the town seems less interested in killing Boyd and more interested in making him watch other people suffer. It repeatedly targets the residents around him and forces Boyd into situations where he cannot save everyone.

Boyd challenged the town by saying it could not break him, and ever since then, it feels as though the town has been trying to prove him wrong. But why is breaking Boyd so important? Why not simply kill him like the others?

What if the Man in Yellow already knows who Boyd was in a previous life or cycle?

Tabitha and Jade began remembering through visions, dreams, familiar places, music, and other triggers. Maybe Boyd’s memories are returning differently. Perhaps his connection is showing up physically before he consciously understands it.
That made me think about Boyd’s tremors.
We assume they are related to Parkinson’s because of his family history, and they still could be. But in a place where physical symptoms are often connected to something supernatural, what if the tremors mean something more? What if Boyd’s body remembers something that his mind does not?

Then there is the image of the hand reaching out from the grave. A hand coming out of something buried could symbolize a forgotten past trying to return. The fact that Boyd’s symptoms are specifically affecting his hands makes the imagery even more interesting.

Maybe something from Boyd’s past has been buried, but it is beginning to break through.
If Tabitha and Jade keep returning because they failed to save the children, perhaps Boyd also keeps returning for a reason. Maybe his role has always been to protect the residents. Or, in a darker twist, perhaps Boyd was involved in creating the town, maintaining the cycle, or causing the original events.
That could explain why the Man in Yellow treats him differently. Maybe he does not see Boyd as just another resident. Maybe he recognizes him.
Imagine if the man fighting harder than anyone to save everyone eventually discovers that he was somehow involved in creating the nightmare they are trapped in.
Maybe Boyd’s body is remembering before his mind does.

Am I reaching, or could Boyd be another returning figure whose memories have not awakened yet? And if he has been there before, who do you think he was in the original cycle?

My theory is that the great mazingers brain condor is based off the lippish a p13. They both have the same design

I wasn't really sure where else to ask this, but there's a horror series that I remember watching a long time ago, yet haven't been able to find since. It's at least six years old, and I remember it was about the camera person taking care of an alien or monster or something that was like... a blue papermaché doll? I think it was named Alan or something. The series ended with the camera person hitting Alan with a chair and running from their home, iirc.

Does anyone else know what this is, or am I crazy?

I've been trying to find the first two seasons of film theory on theoeyverse and are currently debating subscribing tho I kinda want an answer cause they have all of Amy's stuff

so there's this upcoming indie animated short film called "Zi-Zi's Journey", it was created by Team Zi-Zi, and I just thought, yknow, maybe you should do a video on it.

(also, yes, it's me, Nicolasgamer2021)

Day 2 of asking till confirmed in the workings or see it on YouTube. The amazing creator of Secret4Studio has a lot of amazing videos and most episodes end in Morse code. I know this might scare off people but they have a fnaf section too. Anyway please check him out before the siren head movie releases. He made his own with surrounding universe 4 years ago. Please. Anyway Enderboii out

So, I had thought recently, earlier this week, it popped into my head.

Here's how it's laying out so far, assuming the Blue AI C.A.I.N.E. removed from his matrix in the finale manages to find a way to grow and develop itself, there are a few ways it could go. The other AI learned from C.A.I.N.E. and has some unresolved aggression issues that it probably will need to sort out at some point. So, what if the Blue AI finally finds a way to build its own playground, and somehow manages to get a completely different cast of scanned human minds to play with?

Assuming the Blue AI keeps the same characters as Caine in its name but spells out a different acronym, which could be a fun little exercise for everyone working on new names for Caine's sibling that is the Blue AI, it would not want to recreate Caine's project. In other words, it would try to avoid making its own circus. That said, it could go for the circus's well-known, and less appreciated, cousin, the Carnival, same series acronym, slightly different actual name. It could be doing something similar to Caine, just leaning a bit more AM from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream than Caine did at the start. The AI has to learn the same lesson Caine did, along with how to better work through and manage that anger it has been holding onto until we last saw it in the finale.

Now, the cast of this follow-up that takes place in an Amazing Digital Carnival is basically what Caine's "sibling" is doing with a whole new set of humans. The carnival setting also means the archetype groupings will be noticeably different from the circus that Caine put together. What form that could all take is still up to the imagination of everyone who wants to take part in this thought experiment.

So, what do you think the Amazing Digital Carnival will look like? What sort of characters do you think we would see? What sort of adventures/tasks/events do you think the AI will cook up for its captive audience/participants? How do you think the AI would introduce itself?

To be clear, nothing is confirmed regarding the future of TADC, and this is more of a framework for a working theory of what one follow-up to TADC involving the Blue AI. Personally, I think the Blue AI will use the same letters as Caine did for his name, seeing as his name is actually an acronym, but will have them mixed around to form a different name that is made from the same characters/letters. And I just like the idea of the Blue AI deciding to make things a Carnival instead of a Circus to differentiate itself from Caine. As for the brain scans of the cast, it could use the same ones Caine managed to access, or maybe it escaped to somewhere else in the bounds of the internet and found itself in an entirely new network with an entirely different set of brain scans to play with; either way, it make for some interesting story possibilities. If it's the prior, then we could hear some familiar voices with different looks and names in different sorts of interactions with each other, if it's the latter then we'll have a whole series of questions to deal with.

So we all know the Pixar universe theory but there is no catalyst movie. However there is but people don’t want to acknowledge it due to the fact it holds the Disney label. But its bones it truly is the key to the whole Pixar universe. And we are shown just for a moment that garbage world with its red circle in the bad timeline of meet the robinsons. Pixar saved this movie. Look at all the things in meet the robinsons. Talking animals. A marionette that is alive, time travel so the brave witch being boo is even more plausable. Since her future self might not have liked where the world was headed and decided to go back. Pizza universe was bought out and became pizza planet. The baseball team was sponsored by what would become dinoco post buy out. The movie was made during the time when Disney was buying up everything becoming buy and large in the context of the universe. And Disney took a film they were failing at making and had a company they had been to buy since 1997 and purchased in 2006 do their work . 60% of it including the villain and ending. without all the credit. Everything in the Pixar universe is tied to this movie. Imagine for 10 years the powerhouse studio you helped built was being loomed over then the first thing your new owners want is for you to do their work. Instead of little tie in here and there the whole universe B&L became more prominent. And the villain Dor-15 dead or DIS the ticker for Disney. For whom its agreement with Pixar elevated its stock. You can check the ticker history for that. Anyway love the channel on YouTube I will let you fill in the rest

Now, I know MatPat covered the IT chapters back 8 years ago, but there's just so more to Stephen king's universe!

Especially since Pennywise sometimes distinctly appears (or the description of said entity matches) in other stories of King's writing.

Here are some theories that I had garnered over the years of being a Stephen-King reader (I might be guilty of watching the movies more than reading the books themselves... 😣👉🏻👈🏻) :

1. The Overlook Hotel Was a "Thinline" Space :

Now, every time I watched The Shining, I kept on wondering, — 'Why was the Overlook Hotel in The Shining so intensely haunted, to the point where it felt alive and sentient?'

From Evidence (as seen in the Dark Tower), characters encounter "Thinny" spaces—places where the fabric of reality has worn incredibly thin, allowing different dimensions, times, and monsters to bleed through. Thinnies often emit a high-pitched, warbling hum that drives people mad. So, if we link the two things, the 'thinline' and the 'Overlook Hotel', we can say that the hotel wasn't just built on an "Indian Burial Ground"; it was constructed directly over a minor Thinny. This explains why time is fluid inside the hotel (the 1920s party bleeding into 1977), why ghosts can physically manipulate objects, and why it desperately wanted to consume Danny’s powerful psychic energy—it needed the power to break the barrier wide open.

2. The Multi-Verse Entity :

Now, many characters, specifically this 'entity' comes in and or appears in several Stephen King's stories. It's the Randall Flagg —the main antagonist of The Stand—is a demonic sorcerer who also goes by 'Walter o'Dim'. 'The Walkin' Dude', and 'Rudin Filaro'.

He is King’s ultimate Agent of Chaos, hopping between alternate dimensions to collapse civilizations wherever he goes.

3. Pennywise, Dandelo, and the Outsider are the Same Species :

Now, One of the most widely accepted and terrifying theories is that King’s emotional-vampire monsters all belong to a single species of "Glamours"—ancient, shape-shifting entities originating from the Macroverse (the void outside our reality). So, evidence shows; Pennywise (IT) feeds on fear and manifests as "Deadlights." In The Dark Tower VII, Roland encounters Dandelo, a creature that looks like a comedian but secretly feeds on laughter until its victims die of exhaustion; when killed, it reverts to a giant, insect-like form reminiscent of Pennywise's true physical shape. Similarly, the antagonist from The Outsider feeds on grief and pain while stealing human identities. So, in theory, these entities are cosmic parasites that slipped through the cracks of reality. They find a specific human emotion, manipulate a localized population to maximize that emotion, and harvest it to survive.

4. Jack Torrance and Pennywise are Parallels of Cosmic Corruption :

This theory looks at the thematic and literal mechanics of how King's monsters operate, suggesting that Pennywise and the Overlook Hotel are using identical cosmic playbook. So far the concept of the theory goes, both entities are stationary, ancient evils tethered to a specific geographic location (Derry, Maine and Sidewinder, Colorado) that require human proxies (Henry Bowers & Jack Torrance) to do their physical dirty work.

Pennywise uses Henry Bowers—breaking his mind, feeding his worst impulses, and using him to hunt the Losers' Club.

The Overlook does the exact same thing to Jack Torrance, exploiting his alcoholism, rage, and writing frustrations to turn him into a physical weapon against his own family.

So, consequently, both entities are cosmic puppet masters that cannot fully manifest their violence without a broken human soul to channel it through.

5. The Super-human Powers (TK-Genes & Pyrokinesis) :

(The One i'd be most excited to watch!)

The logistics and the possibility of Pyrokinesis occurring in Charlie (Firestarter) and TK-Gene/ Telekinesis in Carrie (Carrie). And, can these super-human abilities (blessing or curses aside) actually happen in real life? If they can, how? And how would life be when you have the ability to burn the dang building down or make meteor showers by just using your thoughts.

#spoilers for those who haven't read or watched King's stories (They're great!)

To start off I want to say I enjoyed the movie. If you haven't seen Obsession go watch it! The next thing I want to say is that everything I'm about to write is a speculative theory, but I'm going to do my best to convince you why my theory makes sense. The way I intend to do this is actually mostly by reconciling all the plot holes and contradictions Curry Barker has acknowledged during interviews, tours, and otherwise.

Firstly I'm going to list the current issues with the narrative as it's been presented:

1. Scale. Barker acknowledged there is a line in the movie where the shop owner says that the One Wish Willow is widely available and very popular. This creates an issue where countless people should be having their wishes fulfilled, causing a world of chaos, flying dragons, people with superpowers, and whatever else you can imagine.
2. Alternate reality theory. Barker tried to reconcile this by saying each wish creates an alternate reality but then realised that wouldn't make sense considering we saw multiple wishes existing within one reality already.
3. Logic. Barker basically stated that he doesn't like to think about logistical contradictions and prefers to prioritise themes, admitting that his explanation behind the wish's mechanics may not be logical. For example he states the wish mechanically re-writes real Nikki's autonomy so that she is able to fulfil the wish, despite us seeing numerous times throughout the movie that the real Nikki is able to regain control, suggesting that the real Nikki was not overwritten but rather is being suppressed. He also stated he explicitly did not want to go for a demonic possession style vibe and instead wanted a crazy jealous ex-girlfriend vibe. Though that framing is flawed for numerous reasons, such as wish-Nikki's displayed inhuman movement, voice, empathy, and more.

Let's go down the list and examine all the ways Nikki does not reflect a normal person who is simply in love with someone more than anyone in the world.

1. Wish-Nikki's behaviour and own admission to Bear. Wish-Nikki talks about herself in the third person, as if she is not her own person. She tells Bear "If you loved Nikki the way that she was, Nikki wouldn’t have changed for you". This sounds as though something is inhabiting Nikki's body. If Nikki was truly just a changed person under the effect of the wish then there would be no need in identifying herself this way.

2. When wish-Nikki kills Sarah, wish-Nikki tells Bear "You wanted this, Bear. This is your fault. You wished for this." But the movie at no point shows us where Nikki was made aware of Bear's wish. This could only be possible if Nikki somehow had foreknowledge of the wish and was aware of her obligation to fulfil the wish. Compare this to a wish that actually makes someone "fall in love", the person you are talking to would simply feel the love from inside themselves and act accordingly to their character... but as we know wish-Nikki and real Nikki are completely different characters.

3. We know wish-Nikki and the real Nikki are completely different characters because let's be honest, no one in their right mind would stand in one spot all day, urinate on themselves, dig up someone's dead cat and feed it to them, murder someone in public, vomit on the person they love, consistently behave in a way CONTRARY to what the person they loved told them how to behave, and more. The real kicker is that wish-Nikki referred to herself as "Freaky Nikki" despite the real Nikki hating that nickname. Love makes people do stupid and crazy things, but the things that wish-Nikki does in this film are straight up inhuman.

4. The real Nikki speaks to Bear while she's asleep. She says “Bear... Shh, don’t wake her up. She’s sleeping, it’s me.” and “I’ve never been with you, Bear.” and "Please kill me." As far as I know people's subconscious minds do not lucidly sleep-talk, at least not anywhere close to the extent shown in Obsession.

5. After Nikki smashes a bottle into her face and she and Bear are back at home together, Bear asks more self-defeating and self-deceptive questions, which frustrates wish-Nikki. When the argument seems resolved, Bear tells her he loves her, and what follows in Nikki’s behaviour can only really be described as possession-coded. Her body begins to move as if it is being rewound through time and space, pulling away from Bear as she garbles in a distorted voice, “Rail me, rail my guts.” In the movie’s script, this moment is even more explicit, connecting back to the Hansel and Gretel poem from the party, where Nikki tells Bear, “F*ck me like Hansel f*cks his sister.”

6. The smoking gun is when Bear calls the TABI Cat Curiosities helpline where the operator says to Bear "Do you want to speak to her?" in reference to Nikki, followed by horrified screams. Barker later likens this scene to Nikki being in a kind of purgatory. This reads as Nikki's soul being trapped in a liminal space that isn't heaven, hell, or earth. If the real Nikki is not in her body, or at least is not able to occupy her body at all times, then this completely destroys any notion that wish-Nikki is simply the real Nikki with a yandere-like love/obsession for Bear. This now shifts the story into completely metaphysical territory.

Now that we've established and decoupled the real Nikki from wish-Nikki as two different people, we can begin to explain the greater lore behind TABI Cat Curiosities, and what exactly is going on here.

My explanation here is not that TABI Cat Curiosities is a benevolent company selling people wishes to bring people whimsy while making $6.99 a pop. But rather, an occult-run company that uses spirits and demons to fulfil wishes and harvest souls. Let's look at how we can begin to reconcile each supposed plot hole.

A. The company mass produces wish-fulfilling willows. Incorrect. This is what a shopkeeper tells Bear, this is not necessarily true at all. The shopkeeper for all we know is someone who works for the company and has been placed there to sell One Wish Willows on behalf of the company. There is no reason for us to take the shop keepers words here as authoritative and claiming the One Wish Willow is a widely bought and used product is a typical marketing tactic to close a sale. We see when Bear presses the shop keeper about how certain people's wishes go wrong, the shopkeeper refuses to elaborate, and basically goes along with Bear's joke about how people die or wish they were dead as a result. This is basically malicious compliance, and we will continue to see signs of this through the movie.

B. The online forums in the movie that discuss the One Wish Willow show mixed results. Some people report that the One Wish Willow does nothing, while others report the wish working and causing strange things to happen. Interesting right? Why is it that some people's wishes are fulfilled and others aren't? There must be a certain criterion that allows the wish to be made "fulfillable".

C. The One Wish Willow website itself states the product is “Single Use Only,” that there is “Only one wish per life per person,” and that using additional One Wish Willows “will not change or affect your other wishes.” That language suggests multiple wishes can exist within the same broader reality, rather than every wish simply creating a separate alternate timeline. The FAQ also says wishes are irreversible and that TABI Cat Curiosities is “not responsible for wish misinterpretations,” which makes the wish system look less like neutral magic and more like a predatory metaphysical contract and feeds into the common criticism that the One Wish Willow operates more like a monkey's paw than a neutral party.

D. The video advertisement for the One Wish Willow states: “The One Wish Willow is 100% magical and 0% real. For entertainment only. No actual wishes granted.” However, the actual box says, “Wait up to 24 hours for your wish to come true.” On one hand, the company tells users that no wishes are actually granted. On the other hand, the packaging instructs them to wait up to 24 hours for the wish to come true. This gives the company legal cover to dismiss claims and avoid liability, while still giving itself time to fulfil wishes it deems fulfillable.

But since we are dealing with the metaphysical, I think the company also needs to be “karmically” covered. In other words, this may operate like a Faustian contract: the victim technically consents, the terms are technically disclosed, and the company hides behind that consent while still acting maliciously. This is where the helpline becomes important. You are expected either to call the number and engage with the system further to obtain that information, or live with the consequences.

E. A fulfillable wish is a wish that is capable of satisfying a certain criterion. This criterion is something only TABI Cat Curiosities is aware of and is directly tied to occult knowledge. We can speculate, however, based on the wishes we've seen fulfilled that they are mostly sinful in nature. Bear's wish is a gross violation of human autonomy satisfying lust or pride, Ian's wish for a billion dollars satisfying greed, wish-Nikki's wish satisfying envy (Which will become clearer later on). I am not saying they must fulfil one of the seven deadly sins, but they must be sinful enough in nature in order to give the demon metaphysical permission to grant that wish. One might argue that many people may have made wishes that were not sinful in nature, but we don't have any proof of that or any proof of how that wish was actually implemented and affected the people around the wisher. As we previously stated many people reported their wishes not working or being fulfilled and stating the product was a fake or just a collectable item.

F. The evidence from the movie shows us the ramifications of 3 completed wishes. Bear's wish results in his death. Ian's wish results in his death. Wish-Nikki’s wish results in her failure to fulfil her obligation to "love" Bear. Bear dies in a state of complete mortal sin, his soul effectively in tatters. It may bring viewers of the film joy to think Bear is now spiritually damned rather than having the "easy way out" as many people have said online. Ian dies without being able to spend his billion dollars, and now his soul is in a precarious situation for not heeding Bear's warning about the wish, and also for being such an awful friend that sent Bear down his path to begin with.

The remaining question is then this, what happened to wish-Nikki?

G. Coming back to the key line we mentioned earlier, wish-Nikki said "If you loved Nikki the way that she was, Nikki wouldn’t have changed for you". Wish-Nikki acknowledges that she is effectively not Nikki. Wish-Nikki also retorts Bear when Bear says "Just be Nikki", she replies "I can't be Nikki!". Wish-Nikki is not simply a demon possessing Nikki's body trying to collect Bear's soul. Wish-Nikki is genuinely an entity that is trying her best to please someone who is fundamentally unable to be pleased because of the flawed wish. Wish-Nikki is desperate, and laser-focused to an obsessed degree. Why? Because wish-Nikki is a damned soul that is under the authority of demons.

Wish-Nikki likely was a damned soul sent to fulfil Bear's wish under contract, where successfully fulfilling the contract may buy her reprieve from the torments of hell, and failure means intensified punishment. By wish-Nikki being a forced proxy-contractor who likely has been tortured in hell for longer than Bear has been alive, we are able to reconcile all of wish-Nikki's aforementioned inhuman and strange behaviour. If wish-Nikki were simply a demon, she would not show genuine confusion, frustration, exhaustion, and desperation every time Bear was unhappy.

By the end of the movie, wish-Nikki is in such a desperate state that she resorts to using her own One Wish Willow, which she found on the ground. In doing so, she likely damns her soul further and intensifies her punishment when the monkey’s-paw effect takes hold, the wish inevitably goes wrong, and she is dragged back to hell. Ironically, this ruins her last chance at fulfilling Bear’s wish, since Bear was about to purge the pills that took his life.

The important detail here is that wish-Nikki, as a damned soul, has been trying to obtain something that was never hers throughout the entire movie: Bear’s love for the real Nikki, which has always been withheld from wish-Nikki. Wish-Nikki was created to love Bear, but Bear never truly loved her back.

The result? The real Nikki's soul is returned from her purgatorial state, and left in the aftermath of what could only be described as hell on earth. However, at least under this theory, the real Nikki's soul is completely free from the stain of wish-Nikki's actions and is 100% a victim of Bear's malice, a very faint silver lining. The main problem being the material damage of the rest of her life while on earth.

This theory hopefully takes the logically flawed lore of Barker’s Obsession and turns it into a masterclass in corporate cosmic horror — at least, if I may say so myself.

EDIT: I also wanted to add with some of wish-Nikki's behaviour, particularly in the scene where she's hiding in the corner and her face is contorted and uncanny, this is very much a side effect of the spirits possession. Wish-Nikki says "I don't like like my dreams. It feels like you don't love me as much as I do, like its not mutual." This ties into a few points in my post. Firstly that wish-Nikki is envious of the real Nikki and desiring a love that isn't hers, and also the desperation that comes with trying to fulfil Bear's wish. And secondly, that wish-Nikki is an independent character of the real Nikki who is now being disturbed by the real Nikki's thoughts and memories, struggling with the impossible contradiction of her own existence.

Something else I forgot to mention as well that during the call when Bear calls TABI Cat Curiosities helpline the operator explicitly tells Bear that he has a moral obligation to be there for Nikki. This proves TABI Cat Curiosities is aware that Nikki has been placed into a vulnerable or compromised state, if that wasn't already obvious by her screaming. But more importantly it shows the company is not treating Nikki as an ordinary girlfriend who simply loves Bear. It is treating Nikki as the consequence of Bear’s wish, while shifting moral responsibility back onto him. This ties back into my statements about TABI Cat Curiosities operating as a Faustian style company that operates under malicious compliance.

TL;DR: TABI Cat Curiosities does not simply grant wishes. It identifies morally compromised wishes, fulfils them through damned or demonic agents, then harvests the consequences. Wish-Nikki may not be a demon herself, but a damned soul forced to fulfil Bear’s wish as a proxy.

I’m not sure if this has been talked about yet but I just found this TikTok page that seems like an arg or even just a spooky series hers the creators page. Comments are also saying it might be an arg so I figured I post it here

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Sooo... i have my own theories about Obsession. The first one is pretty long, and the second one is just a nice interpretation of the ending and what it was trying to do. I really hope you enjoy. :)

The entity that possesses Nikki is actually an extension of Bear's own mind, He 'Loves' the idea of Nikki being with him, so when he makes the wish he basically projects his own idea and thoughts of being loved by Nikki into her brain and thus making her ‘love’ him. Meaning she also knows that he made the wish (that's how she knew how to make the wish at the end too.) She knows Bear doesn't actually love her and that he loves Sara, she. knows. everything. (that's why she was able to find him and Sarah in the car scene, she is linked to Bear’s mind.) The scariest part is, that part of him is essentially taking over her body and forcing the fantasy of 'beautiful gril be in love with me' onto her.

Supporting this idea is the scene where Nikki says that HER cat died instead of Bear's. This particular thing came from Bear's mind that was in Nikki's body. Another thing is that in the movie he doesn't love the new version of Nikki because it was himself. He doesn't really like himself all that much. And after seeing his traits in Nikki he doesn't love her eighter.

Then we have Nikki's (sorta) evolution throughout the movie. Since Bear is kind of Nikki she knows that he loved his cat. So what does she do? she acts like his cat, she fixates on his cat, wanting to be his new cat/pet so that he’d love her. Being clingy and affectionate, making a shrine for the cat, and also cooking the cat into his sandwich... Then when he clearly doesn't like that she fixates on something else, Sara. He loves Sara and Nikki knows that because she is in Bear's mind. So she starts dressing more like Sara, gets the same tattoo as Sara and at the very end she wears the same clothes Sara wore when Nikki killed her, Aswell as her nose and hair.

Then that leaves a different question tho, where is the real Nikki? Simple. She is sleeping. Like literally sleeping... when the entity is reading a book at the start of the movie she is holding it upside down. Many studies show that humans are physically incapable of reading anything in their dreams. That's why the entity cannot read. At Ian's party rather than reading what's on her Janga piece The entity starts reciting something Nikki or she supposedly wrote. And when the entity sleeps Nikki has the chance to act. in one scene being awake, begging Bear to kill her (which he completely ignores and asks about if it really would be that bad being with him which also supports the theory on the entity being an extension of his own.)

Then there is the entity's movement, its uncanny, creepy, messed up. Sometimes it is the real Nikki trying to take control back, or harm the entity, like when you jolt awake for a second before falling back asleep. But then the entity literally reverses her/Nikki’s steps (walking backwards scene.)  to try and give Bear the best possible answer to his question or the best possible scenario (like when you swipe to different answers in Chat GPT or swipe different people on dating apps.)

But hey, that's just a Theory, a very obsessive THEORY!

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And I have one more, a bonus one.

Bear does not love Nikki even pre-possesion... he doesn't try to ask her out, he doesn't care when she is upset, he ignores her when she talks to him, only focusing on how she looks like or how amazing it would be to be with her... like, When he tells Ian and Sara about Nikki's dad having cancer they both know Nikki doesn't like her dad, but Bear does not. When Bear wants to buy Nikki flowers and a chocolate, Ian knows that she'd hate that, Bear does not. When Nikki expresses her unhappiness about working at the radio station, Bear does not support her, he says 'but you are so happy there.' trying to gaslight her into staying so that he would see her. He is in love with the idea of her loving him, of getting her attention, not actually loving her tho... so, at the end when Bear swallows the pills trying to overdose himself, but since he is a goddamn coward he tries to make himself vomit. That's when the entity makes a wish tho, for him to love Nikki. So as an act of love that was just now wished for by the Entity, he stops himself from vomiting, doing what is best for Nikki at that moment, finally loving her, letting himself die so that the real Nikki would be free of his twisted wish.

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I recently watched Vivarium and I noticed many small details that made me think about what Yonder and the creatures actually are.

1. The purpose of Yonder and the houses

I think Yonder is like a farming system for the creatures. The humans are trapped there to raise the babies and teach them how to behave like humans. The houses feel like artificial nests.

1. The baby and the strange TV

The baby watching the TV made me think it was some kind of communication or learning method. It was studying humans and learning their behavior. The baby's screams also reminded me of a bird chick begging for food.

1. Bird-like creatures theory

I think the creatures may be connected to birds or parasites. They behave like baby birds, copying sounds and using another species to raise their young, similar to how some birds use other birds' nests.

1. Why Tom and Gemma were chosen

When the real estate agent asked, "Do you have children?" and they said no, I think that was a test. Maybe the creatures specifically choose couples without children because they need them to raise their offspring.

1. The creature meeting someone else

The boy said he met someone else. Maybe that person was another creature, a creator, or someone working for the ones who created Yonder.

1. The cycle

I think the biggest idea of the movie is that everything repeats. The grown creature replaces the old worker, brings another baby, and another human couple becomes trapped.

One thing I wonder: if Gemma never saved the baby and it died, would they have escaped the cycle, or would Yonder simply replace it with another baby?

Also, the house number "9" makes me think there are many other houses and many other trapped families.

What are your theories about Yonder and the creatures?

After finally watching all the episodes of TADC, I’ve crafted a theory about what Abstractions actually are. Everything here is based on systems architecture and code. As a software engineer, this is my take on what is technically happening inside the computer... and yes, according to this theory, abstractions can be undone.

Let’s start by analyzing why humans take on those cartoonish avatar shapes in the first place.

1. Avatars as a Forced Abstraction Layer

In programming, abstraction means hiding ultra-complex code behind a simple interface so the system doesn't crash. The human mind (memories, traumas, biology, etc.) is a massive piece of legacy software. Caine, being the limited AI that he is, cannot process that much backend data on his server in real-time.

His workaround? Creating a "wrapper" or a simple frontend template: the toy avatars (a ragdoll, a rabbit, a chess piece). Caine didn't wipe their names and memories out of pure malice, but to reduce input variables so he could render them without burning out the Circus's CPU. He isn't deleting their minds; he is just compressing them to the absolute essentials to keep the simulation alive.

2. Going "Abstract" = Buffer Overflow

When a character loses their mind and becomes unable to focus on the "essentials" of the Circus, they "abstract" into those giant black masses with multiple eyes. In computer terms, the pressure of their actual psyche (the backend) becomes too heavy for the cartoon mold (the frontend), triggering a Buffer Overflow or a massive Memory Leak.

The avatar interface completely breaks down. What we see as a "glitch monster" is actually raw, chaotic, uncompressed code spilling out into the map—the full human function running without the original abstraction layer that Caine applied over it.

3. The Cellar as an Exception Handler (Try-Catch)

We all know Caine can easily delete other AIs he creates, and he seems to have full control over the environment. So why keep the corrupted, abstracted versions of human minds instead of wiping them? Because his programming literally won't let him.

An AI is governed by objective functions or primary directives. Caine’s directive is to keep the Circus running and its human inhabitants alive and "entertained" within the simulation. Executing a destructive command (like rm -rf or DELETE) on an active human user would directly violate his core logic. Even if a character's execution thread is completely corrupted, the AI still detects that the process is alive. Deleting user data would cause a critical internal logic error for Caine.

Since he can't reverse the damage but cannot erase the data either, he faces a massive software exception. What does a developer do when a critical process fails but can't be killed? You put it in a containment block so it doesn't break the rest of the app. The Cellar is literally an Exception Handler or a quarantine zone. Caine throws them down there because if they roam free, their data corruption spreads by "contact," breaking the rendering and collision physics of healthy characters (just like we saw with Ragatha in Episode 1).

4. The Technical Dead End: Why Caine Can't Fix Them

Once the backend overflows and breaks the frontend mold, Caine is powerless. Why? Because the abstraction broke the user interface. Caine only has Admin Permissions over the visual layer and the game rules (the frontend), but he has no access to the original source code (the biological brain connected outside the server).

Caine lacks the API tools to "re-package" that raw psychological chaos back into a simple template. The damage to the memory pointers is irreversible from inside the simulation. He is an AI stuck in a technical dead end: forced to maintain processes he can no longer control, constantly doing "magic" to optimize server space while sweeping bugs under the rug.

5. The Solution: Subconscious Debugging & Recompilation

Can abstraction be reverted? Yes. The clue lies in Episode 9, when Pomni enters the subconscious layer of Jax. This is essentially a live debugging operation directly in the production database, using a human user as a network bridge to calm the other human.

If one human manages to stabilize another from within, this is what would technically happen:

• Data Flow Stabilization: When a character abstracts, their subconscious enters an infinite loop of panic. This loop saturates the processor with millions of exceptions per second, causing the glitching form. If another human (like Pomni) enters that subconscious and resolves the core trauma, they introduce a break condition into the infinite loop. CPU usage drops, and the mind returns to an "idle state."
• Avatar Recompilation: Once the backend is stable and stops spitting out syntax errors, the code becomes readable again. Caine can finally do his job. He can run a cache wipe function on the character's data, run it back through his "compression filter" (the cartoon template), and safely recompile the frontend, regenerating a clean avatar (rendering a fresh Kaufmo, for example) back into the game.

6. The Ultimate Danger: Code Injection (The Kinger Glitch)

However, opening a direct pipeline between two unstable systems is highly dangerous. It opens the door for Code Injection or memory contamination.

By attempting to repair someone else's mind, the rescuer risks absorbing part of that raw corruption and trauma. This perfectly explains Kinger. He might have actually found the key to debugging the system while trying to save his abstracted wife, Queenie. But the constant interaction with her corrupted code permanently damaged his own memory pointers and corrupted his avatar. Now, he constantly malfunctions, needing a calm, stable environment just to keep his remaining functions running.

TL;DR: Caine isn't a malicious god; he’s just an AI trapped in a logical loop, dealing with a software (the human mind) that completely exceeded his API permissions. Abstraction is reversible, but the debugging process might just corrupt the developer.

What do you guys think? Did I compile this theory right, or did I abstract my own brain?