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I really like this idea!

Hey so Mark made a point of reminding us that we the viewer are an active participant and character in this thing, and we were “there” for the events of WKM and WMLW, yeah? So maybe this wasn’t just spooky clues for the next installment, but also Dark interfering with us after we witnessed the events with Wilford and Abe?

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So I saw the video in my notifications list and my first thought was just

‘no.’

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Yep! time to hide out in my room with all the lights on and barricade my door for the next 24 hours

“Go back to sleep”

Uh, pretty sure the whole fandom, no matter where they are in the world, will now be wide awake

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very ominous, I like it!

Go back to sleep. 

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In all seriousness I took a death and dying course in college for fun and that’s when I fell in love with, and began to seriously study, spontaneous or “street shrines”. These are the organic, unplanned placements of items when someone is killed, generally, and the community almost descends on a spot. I am fascinated by that interfaith, inter-spirit moment of connection fostered. What drives someone to leave the first item? Who guides them there? What do we, as humans, seek from the leaving of a memorial on a place that now hallowed? And we know it is, to some extent, even if we’re not spirit-workers. We have this human need to bear witness, no matter who we are, and over and over again it manifests as this need to build some space, some monument that says “they were here, and now they aren’t here, and we, collectively, of all faiths and walks of life, strangers to each other, will remember them”

We take comfort in, and protect to some measure, that space we create with tea-light candles and stuffed bears and flowers and it just feels like the Right Thing to Do. We rebuild these spaces when they are torn down by authority and we keep building them up and that’s beautiful

Street shrines are TRULY universal, too. They are largely non-verbal but it’s like we just KNOW what to do, like something moves inside all of us and it doesn’t fucking matter if we can’t understand anyone else standing at the site, it’s just a Knowing. It’s phenomenal 

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Spent 8 wonderful hours a couple days ago painting four of my wonderful characters from the Starheart kingdom! I tried painting on wood panels for the first time and it was such a cool experience.

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This Latest Livestream

The title and description is a bit... ominous if you ask me. Maybe a bit too familiar.

“Oh what a happy day haha! Let's spread some joy today haha! We're going to have some fun haha!”

And the masks are a bit familiar as well. Basically, I’m a very suspicious human right now.

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“Hello, Darkness, my old friend.”

Please do not repost, reprint, trace or edit. Thank you!

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Healing

Speedpaint : X

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me while watching the breakdown while mark is in those circle specs™: so what i’m getting is that one of the colonel’s aliases was a mad professor, got it 👌

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Hey, this is really nice!

I’m surprised,I didn’t think I would be able to do the red/blue Dark does. 

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Mark: you’re too focused on the minutiae of it

also Mark: isn’t it strange that this one scene has the detective looking at a vape even though it’s film noir? if you think about it, isn’t it strange that the detective is surprised by this one name Wilford had if he were obsessed with it for so long? Never ever ever forget that the viewer is a character in this universe!!!!

it’s almost like someone’s telling us we need to wake up while someone else is telling us to go back to sleep, Mark. 

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When the whole mask thing happened here a long time ago, Mark never really commented on those existing there, either. One day it was just... over and it was never really brought up again. 

I feel like there’s something going on here.

Mark was disappointed seeimg us talk about the martini rather than write theories on the mask so that’s why he acted like he didn’t see them.So people would start thinking about the masks.Maybe he gave a hint too.Maybe only Abe or Wilford could see the masks.

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Yes I am so interested in this myself! While my ideas are all very far out there, the viewer could possibly have escaped the mirror?

Personally (while almost certainly not true because there’s zero evidence) I like to think that the viewer made a deal with Dark to get back out of the mirror and went to find Mark in the van videos, but realized he wasn’t the same Mark. So that’s why all the spooky ‘go back to sleep’ things happen - Dark’s trying to get at Mark but the viewer is in the way.

Possibly they were a ghost for a while in between escaping the mirror and the van videos? And that’s how they were able to watch the events of Wilford ‘Motherloving’ Warfstache? 

Alternatively Wilford or Abe could be telling the viewer about this whole thing after it all took place, but I don’t know quite how that would work.

Anyway those are my silly ideas because I love just thinking about things in my head even though I don’t really know what I’m doing.

So, I got a question for you nerds

And, stop me if I’m remembering this wrong but in the Warfstache analysis video, didn’t Mark take a minute to make it very super duper clear that in the Who Killed Markiplier universe the viewer is a character? And we see that in Date With Markiplier and Who Killed Markiplier but….

There was no interaction with the ‘viewer’ in the Warfstache video. Like at ALL. I didn’t originally think anything of it and assumed it was just a style change, but he made SUCH a POINT of stating the viewer is a character in the analysis of that SPECIFIC video.

Am I reading too much into this?? I just wanna hear everyone’s thoughts!

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it’s been ages, my dear colonel

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If your day is not the best at the moment. Have pictures of Mark from the ATV video (Along with Subtitles)

Have a great day along with Positive Mental Attitude coming your way! 😊💚