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I feel now more than ever, with FNAF in a chaotic state with Matpat gone and Scott dealing with the Talbert hoax, that it might be a good idea to take a step back and do a reflection video on something where we know the right and wrong answers. Steven Universe. We know where the show ended up. We know what did and didn’t happen. We know what’s in the text as fact when it was all over. I very much enjoyed your monologue regarding it in the Afton Horcruxes video. You were prepared for the twist in a way most weren’t. But, and this is being critical as a fan… at the time you were riding the high just a bit too much. The video exactly a ‘total success’ and ‘proven correct.’ That’s a bit over generous. I’d argue the video is somewhere roughly in the 40%-40%-20% bucket, maybe 45%-45%-10%. You got a little under half bang on completely correct, in a way no one else did. You got a little under half completely and utterly wrong and were not on the right page. And there’s a small chunk that’s a little of both. Maybe the right conclusions with wrong evidence or circumstances? Or the right evidence taken in the wrong way due to a reading clues that didn’t exist? You absolutely deserve a victory lap for the entire first 10 minutes of the video. It’s 100% correct and could have saved the community a ton of strife. You can talk about how your methods lead to you coming to the correct ideas when so many others missed it. But, then you’d discuss the things you got wrong. And more importantly, why you think you did? Why didn’t you go straight to Pink Diamond IS Rose, straight up, and instead think power absorption was going on? Why assume floating meant a sapphire had been absorbed when it was simply a Diamond power we hadn’t seen yet outside of Steven/Pink. Why assume diamonds were held to the same shape shifting restrictions? Why take the events of Answer(being told by a biased source) as 100% fact and then assume Sapphire no longer being able to 100% predict the future was because of Rose having future powers(when in actuality it’s because Homeworld is so vigid and predictable there’s little room for variable, while the Earth idealized rebels broke the mold and so does just being on Earth). Or what you called fandom mindsets. Everyone in the SU fandom was solidly against Rose being Pink and had their own vision of her arc in their mind. You broke free of that, and saw the truth behind the specks. But… another extremely sweeping fandom mindset was that the Diamonds would have to be beaten by force and that Steven would soon cure the corrupted gems and get their help. This guided your conclusions as to the story’s direction. Unfortunately this time you fell into the fandom trap and it was wrong. The diamonds were reasoned with. Blue almost immediately and Yellow after getting her ship wrecked. Took less than 15 minutes. That was incorrect, though you were hardly alone here. Same with Sneeple being a thing that either fought or created the gems. Very popular among fans, turned out to not be true. Those mistakes were ones everyone was making, as apposed to stuff like Rose absorbing gems which was your thing and kind of leaned a bit too hard on the FNAF influence. That also might be a good set of things to discuss. In the ‘to be fair’ side of things, Steven Universe was not being run well behind the scenes. Infighting was a problem. There are numerous stories of writers trying to hijack things. Is it really you, and the community at larges fault for assuming the Diamonds had to be defeated with force and perhaps a whole rebel army when you had no real way of knowing half the clues were invalid and the result of writers and artists taking things in their own direction? That leads into the final inverse. How does one look at a story? Not every story with a mystery in it is a full blown mystery story per se, and not every mystery story is quite on the same tier. Full blown mystery stories where EVERYTHING ties into the lore absolutely exist. See Twin Peaks, FNAF, point and click detective games. But you’ve also got stuff like Gravity Falls and Deltarune, where the mystery is prominent, perhaps central, but its control isn’t total. Character and Comedy have their time to shine, and while they often overlap, this is not total. There are character moments in Gravity Falls that have nothing to do with the mystery and just exist to deepen the characters. There are moments in Deltarune that are just jokes or Toby Fox referencing his older works. That is perfectly allowed. Steven Universe I’d argue had two central mysteries. The S1 reveal of Garnet that was built up all season, and the S5 reveal of Pink Diamond that was mainly built up in S4 and S5, with smaller more sporadic hints earlier. These were not the full focus of the show, not even on a Gravity Falls level. S2 especially had basically no known major mystery to the fandom, it was about Peridot’s character arc and the cluster story. The problem is you need to adjust the size of your comb to the detail level of the work. Assuming everything is intentional and planned works great for Scott Cawthom and David Lynch. But the less and less central and dominating the mystery is, the more stuff there will be that isn’t for that. Gravity Falls even being mostly centralized to the mystery still occasionally had fans go down wild goose chases for things with no intent behind them. (Such as the NFPA 704 debacle). Steven Universe was even less centralized than Gravity Falls. One must perhaps ask themselves if the information they’re looking at is a clue to the mystery, a character development moment, a reference, or a comedic moment. This was further effected by the fact Steven Universe even moreso than Gravity Falls had a ton of different staff coming in and out. The series lasted over 150 episodes, artists and writers came and went, people with different ideas leaving and entering. This ALWAYs happens on large projects with this many people. To expect a Cawthon level of consistency would be impossible. Even David Lynch had things in Twin Peaks not always go to plan. If he can’t do it, Rebecca Sugar couldn’t. Especially since she had a notably hands off approach as usually joked about with the character scaling, but this lead to the issues of writers deviating that was brought up earlier. The fine toothed comb approach worked fantastically when you were sluezing in water with those gold nuggets, but when you strayed away from that things went awry. In the end, we all have bias. No one can get rid of them all. You came in willing to look at Pink Diamond and Steven’s powers with fresh eyes, and found patterns no one else had. But you also came in with bias from being neck deep in FNAF theorizing, and brought over tactics not built for a less mystery centered far less controlled and top down series like Steven Universe. The rules of the game are not quite the same. Rebecca Sugar never had a total monopoly on the series, that wasn’t her style for better and for worse. Outside of the core cast many writers especially earlier on had zero clue where the story was going. Pilot era lore that was abandoned and retconned showed up in S1A. Hints about the diamonds were invalid due to writers inventing them. Assuming everything meant something and every clue could genuinely be trusted was not the entirely right approach for a big series that lasted years with hundreds of people involved that wasn’t even a full blown mystery series. Those bias don’t make you better or worse than other SU theorists. You avoided one or two big ones they had and basically confirmed Steven had Pink’s powers in the first 10 minutes. Your FNAF oriented biases and expectations in story telling lead to you using that wrong and making mistakes a more SU centric theorist might not. And there are mistakes and biases you both made. Everyone thought the Diamonds would have to be taken by force. Everyone was wrong. How much of this is on fandom bias and how much on poor writer Managment? Impossible to say. No one is blameless. And hey, sometimes it’s a little of everything. The Cookie Cat evidence was not planned. It’s not on the official list of hints. But it pointed you in the right direction regardless. Steven floating was MASSIVE evidence, but not of Rose snacking on Sapphires. Stuff happens.

hi BlackfootFerret. have you ever heard of ShatterVictim? basically: ShatterVictim is the theory centered around the idea that the Bite Victim's soul/memories are split between the 5 MCI kids. Under this theory, BV's soul splits apart due to the head trauma inflicted by Fredbear - his head literally being crushed causes his consciousness to also shatter

Well Matpat retired. There isn't a single dominant theorist at the moment and people are open to new ideas, so if you want to get anyone to listen to your stuff now is the time. DPT is rapidly taking over the fandom with their theory so the window is closing

Peak 👍

Have you seen the Bible? There is a lot of strange mysteries people have refused to acknowledge from it. There’s a guy called Mud Fossil University that is a lot like you who uncovers some of the grand mysteries that the Bible mentions.

hey Blackfoot. have you ever consider the theory that dreadbear is an version of Fredbear ?

Keep up the good work! ( ﾐ @ ω @ﾐ)

hello BlackfootFerret. can you do an deltarune theory ( AN real theory. not an radio show) ?