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Anything that goes "This character is having a dream and all of the show is fake!" is terrible. It can barely be called a theory. There are some specific media where it makes sense to speculate what was real and what wasn't but "Ash is a kid in a coma and is dreaming up Pokémon" no you wanted to post an edgy thing and couldn't get better material.

That Jar Jar is a sith lord. He's the cartoon bunny that steps in the poop and is a racist caricature. Stop trying to say that George Lucas is some kind of mastermind.

Pretty much any of the ones that are like "Grumblesmatch secretly takes place in the the Pooburger universe"

Game of Thrones had really wild ones, personal favourite is that via some kind of magic the embryo created from Jon and Dany having sex would be transported back in time into Joanna Lannister's womb and it became Tyrion, who is the real chosen one

The three seashells. All of them.

My ex was weirdly convinced that Idiocracy was actually secretly about how Brando (and all energy drinks by extension) cause massive IQ drops in people.

That kamala would win

anything on jujutsufolk

Any and all Undertale theories. Gaster is just Toby Fox nerdsniping.

"Javi is Pit Girl" or "Callie is Pit Girl" for Yellowjackets. Stupid time travel nonsense often accompanies the latter.

"Tabitha is Eloise" she is clearly Miranda.

This is kinda an answer to this I suppose?

I've been trying to figure out the indie horror game Fran Bow, it feels like there's meaning to it but it's so deliberately obtuse that I haven't been able to decipher what it's actually saying. And the thing is, it seems like nobody else has either. There are so many "theory" and "analysis" videos on it and they are all dogshit. I'll give you an example:

This is a FIFTY-SIX minute video making the bold statement that Fran Bow is "about lobotomy" and their evidence for this is that Chapter 1 takes place in a 1940s mental asylum and that there are indeed lobotomized characters in that asylum. The game has 5 chapters, by the way, and lobotomy or any other mental health practices never come up again.

The game is full of random shit and it's really hard to tell what parts of it are obscure metaphor and what parts are just shock factor or pure vibes, so this clown doesn't even try and pretty much all he even attempts to analyze are the freaking chapter titles. (Woah dude, chapter 3 is titled "vegetative state", what if that means Fran is like, in a vegetative state) This video has nearly 800k views and all the comments are like "Wow, you're cooking" and "Great insight" when he doesn't even mention the journal.

For reference: At the very end of chapter 2, a giant toad hands you a journal from a character named León Castillo. León Castillo never appears in the game in person, is only mentioned one other time and is depicted on a hidden photo in chapter 5. The journal itself serves no gameplay purpose, it's never used to progress anything nor does it contain any information that helps you progress, it serves purely as a vehicle for exposition and... artistic expression of the writers, I suppose? To illustrate the point further, every other item you are given is used for gameplay progress at some point, there are no other books or anything like that in the game. The 40-page journal is the only exception to this, therefore I am very certain that its contents are essential to understanding what the game is actually about.

Anyway, I have watched quite a few "analysis" videos about Fran Bow now and less than half of them even acknowledge that the journal exists. Nobody has an explanation for all the obscure and weird parts of the game, so they just pretend those don't exist and only talk about the parts that they can interpret, like the chapter titles. The theories in the comments are also bad and wrong, but at least they're trying to be creative. Most videos only come up with "it was all in her head" (it wasn't).

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