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If you look at theories of a cartoons, TV shows, and movies, you'll start to notice that each has 3 most common theories:
◆ It's all a dream
◆ A character(s) has a mental disorder
◆ A character(s) is dead
Has anyone else noticed that?
◆ It's all a dream
◆ A character(s) has a mental disorder
◆ A character(s) is dead
Has anyone else noticed that?
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I do enjoy genuine fan theories... what channels like The Game Theorist and that sort of click-bait channels do isn't fan theories. It's a formulaic calculated attempt to get easy clicks and therefore revenue. They have no connection to logic, or any sort of evidence. Indeed: the Game Theorist himself basically said as much "I make the rules: I can ignore stuff if I want to.".
The steps:
1) Find a well known franchise, doesn't matter what, as shown by the Game Theorist branching out into movies and comics with basically an identical formula
2) Create a massively inflamitory or shocking title that will get people to click on it, and "debate" (ie: scream at each other) in the comments to drive views... let's see: "Is Mario MUSSOLINI!?"
3) Waffle about some nonsense for about 5-19 minutes, inserting random things that you've picked from the body of work. This part is easy: because if you can cherry pick as you like you can basically make anything say anything you want.
4) Call it a day.
Genuine fan theories are interesting: because they extrapolate elements from a setting or work in a logical way, and provide interesting potential insights or just fun stuff to speculate on, example: Are the Blood Ravens secretly descended from the Thousand Sons, The Legend of Zelda Timeline split timeline theory (later canonized by Nintendo it was so good), the TOmmy Wesphal Universe Hypothesis and so on.
These sort of Click-bait "theories" just clog up the internet with so much noise because there's nothing to them. "Theory" doesn't just mean "some shit I made up": it actually takes work to generate one that means anything.
The steps:
1) Find a well known franchise, doesn't matter what, as shown by the Game Theorist branching out into movies and comics with basically an identical formula
2) Create a massively inflamitory or shocking title that will get people to click on it, and "debate" (ie: scream at each other) in the comments to drive views... let's see: "Is Mario MUSSOLINI!?"
3) Waffle about some nonsense for about 5-19 minutes, inserting random things that you've picked from the body of work. This part is easy: because if you can cherry pick as you like you can basically make anything say anything you want.
4) Call it a day.
Genuine fan theories are interesting: because they extrapolate elements from a setting or work in a logical way, and provide interesting potential insights or just fun stuff to speculate on, example: Are the Blood Ravens secretly descended from the Thousand Sons, The Legend of Zelda Timeline split timeline theory (later canonized by Nintendo it was so good), the TOmmy Wesphal Universe Hypothesis and so on.
These sort of Click-bait "theories" just clog up the internet with so much noise because there's nothing to them. "Theory" doesn't just mean "some shit I made up": it actually takes work to generate one that means anything.
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