I'm MatPat.
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Hello internet, Welcome to Film Theory
Where first and foremost, shoutout to Isabella Taylor from the Notification Squad™.
Thank you so much for ringing the bell and officially being the "First" on the 'Golden Globes' video.
Now, even though this is technically a "film" theory, every once in a while
I'll dip into the wild and weird stuff that you see on YouTube
Salad Fingers, Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
and today we welcome another member into the hallowed halls of weird YouTube channels
that will haunt your dreams
but instead of me saying anything, I'll just let her introduce herself.
She's quite good at it.
"I'm Poppy"
"Poppy" *repeats*
"I'm Poppy"
"Pop" *repeats*
Alright! Alright! Enough! We get it. Point taken.
In case you haven't seen this channel on either Pewds or Fine Bros.
Let me introduce you to "Poppy,"
an aspiring singer who has both a Vevo channel for her original songs
and a personal channel where she posts frequent short videos of herself
and you might think that this sounds perfectly straightforward
and wonder why this would EVER, EVER merit a Film Theory,™
Instead of, say, I don't know, a third part of Doctor Who.
Well, it's because the content of the videos on her personal channel
are... a bit more than what they appear.
Sure! She might inflate and deflate a rabbit toy over and over again
or cryptically talk about what time it is
or just read the Bible straight from the beginning for a solid 49 minutes
and at first glance you might be thinking that
Poppy's videos are just random for the sake of being random.
There are plenty of other channels on YouTube guilty of exactly that.
But Poppy's aren't.
I've gone through every one of that Poppy's videos,
and there are a BUNCH of them.
As well as all her social feeds and
websites, and there is definitely
a much more sinister narrative going on here.
Poppy, and the other people behind these videos,
most notably, their director, named
Titanic Sinclair, yes,
you heard me right, his name is Titanic
Sinclair like the boat and
the author of the most famous muckraking novel
of all time, The Jungle, Upton Sinclair,
are using these videos to comment on what it takes
to be a pop star in the modern age.
And I don't mean struggling your way through the ranks
from humble beginnings,
I mean being churned out by a cold
corporate machine and selling your soul
to the Illuminati™.
You heard that right.
Poppy equals
Illuminati, confirmed! Now that might
sound like a far-fetched conclusion to draw,
but the evidence is there.
So, strap in everybody, because the
road to hell is paved in pastel
pinks, has a really catchy reggae
beat and occurs in four
quick phases.
Phase Number One:
Innocent, but sexual.
One of the first things you'll notice about Poppy is that she appears
very young,
but how old is she really?
Is she around sixteen?
Or maybe she's just a
young looking twenty-something?
It's hard to tell and the people behind the channel are
certainly interested in keeping her age a secret.
As Poppy said in an interview
with 'Racked.com', quote,
"I don't want people to talk about how old I am;
I want to talk about what I'm making."
Either way, the clues to Poppy's youth are
everywhere in her early videos.
Her very first video shows her eating cotton candy.
In another, she's playing
'He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not' with a flower.
Yet another shows her hula hooping
and the name of her first extended play is
called 'Bubble Bath'. These choices
are clearly no accident, because when asked in an
interview to describe her style in three words,
Poppy states,
"Barbie, Kawaii, Child."
Barbie explains the pink clothes and blonde hair
and Kawaii, the Japanese concept of cuteness,
exemplified by things like Hello Kitty™,
is also pretty obvious.
One look at her music video for 'Money' and you see
that Japanese aesthetic everywhere, but
Child is the important one,
because it connects her to so many young blonde
pop stars that we've seen over the past twenty years.
For comparison, consider Britney Spears.
We're all probably somewhat
familiar with 21st century Britney,
the one who wore a snake to the BMAs,
made-out with Madonna and shaved her head,
but I'm sure that those of you who can't tell a
jennxpenn from an RclBeauty can
also remember late 90s Britney as
well, when she first hit the scene.
In the video for her first major hit, '...Baby One More Time',
Spears' teenage-ness is
on blatant display through her Catholic school
girl outfit, which, of course, comes with
plenty of sexualization on it's own.
I mean, I've been invited to Catholic school dances before,
and I have seen some pretty wild
things at them, but those moves
that Britney's doing aren't leaving any room for Jesus.
Now, in those early days, she was
an undeniable sex symbol,
but in interviews would outright
deny it, telling Esquire in 2003
that, quote,
"Look, if you want me to be some kind of sex thing, that's not me."
Are you sure, Britney?
Because she said this to a magazine that ran pictures
like this of her next to
the very same interview!
Yeah, 'cuz all the innocent girls I know are are doing photo shoots
topless, pulling down their
panties and covering up their private parts
with giant strands of pearls!
What did you think those pictures were for?
*mocking Britney* "It's not sexual, it's just artwork"
DEAR BRITNEY,
when the lyrics to your big song outright say
"I'm not that innocent,"
forgive people
for being a little skeptical
when you say that you
"are so innocent."
That is ALL I'm saying.
But back to 2017.
It's hard to deny that Poppy is drawing
some parallels here.
Just compare this still of Poppy from the video
where she introduces herself to the cover
of Britney Spears' first album.
Poppy also expresses the same kind of
aversion to sexuality as early era
Britney did, albeit in subtler ways.
Take a moment from the video
for Poppy's biggest single 'Lowlife.'
She's seated at a table with the devil,
more on that one later, who peels a banana,
puts it in his mouth, and, um,
doesn't start to eat it.
That, sir, is a choking hazard, Mr. Satan.
Didn't anyone ever tell you to chew your food?
Sure, we don't see anything particularly graphic going on here,
but Poppy's reaction tells us pretty much
everything that we need to know.
Sex is not a part of Poppy or her message,
but the companies that manage, publicize,
and basically create popstars
don't care what your message is.
In the words of another pop star,
Pink, and her song "Don't Let Me Get Me,"
quote, "LA told me, you'll be a pop star.
All you have to change is everything you are."
They want their stars to be sexually appealing
because it gets them attention
and helps them sell to adults,
whilst still staying innocuous enough
that parents don't find them too harmful
for the younger fans.
And if they're able to pull of this balancing act,
that leads them to
Phase 2:
Dallah, Dallah bills.
Admittedly , this is the most self-explanatory of the phases,
but it's one that the creators of the Poppy channel
definitely want to acknowledge in their story.
The first indication of money that we get
is in the video, "I made 500 dollars."
In which, Poppy gleefully examines
and counts a stack of five 100 dollar bills she received.
How she earned that money isn't entirely clear though
perhaps, it's the result of the video titled,
"Tide Commercial,"
in which Poppy declares her love for Tide
and talks about how much better her life is
as a result of the detergent.
But even more egregious than that is the song, "Money,"
which shamelessly promotes
materialism with lyrics like,
"If money can't buy happiness then why is it so fabulous?"
You can draw parallels to pop music here,
but it's pretty obvious
"With fame, comes money."
But, of course, with fame and money
there come some drawbacks
and that takes us to
Phase 3:
Losing control of your message.
If there's one way to make
your fan base turn on you is becoming a
#
#Sellout
>:(
Once the celebrity gets hot,
their list of responsibility goes way beyond
just making music.
At one point, Lady Gaga considered quitting
music all together citing that she was unhappy
with a variety of things but especially
being used to make other people money
by doing things like selling fragrances
or standing around taking pictures.
When she stopped doing those things,
she says she remembered who she was.
As though taking away everything behind the scenes
restored her individuality.
Similarly, there are outside forces that try
to control what Poppy has to say in a lot of her videos
In "Lowlife," the first music video I talked about earlier,
we see men in suits in breathing masks and wheelchairs.
The men behind the scenes, pulling the strings
and trying to get Poppy to sell out.
The devil, and his, um,
banana.
Poppy in this video is able to reject their control,
as shown by her shoving them off-stage
but fast-forward to more recent videos,
and this tide is starting to change
In the video titled, "Shirt,"
Poppy is holding a t-shirt containing her lyric,
"If money can't buy happiness then why is it so fabulous?"
Poppy looks off camera and asks,
"What do you want me to say?"
The answer we get is garble and mechanical
(garbled mechanical audio)
but if you alter the pitch using audio manipulation tools,
you get this:
"Just read what is on the shirt."
Just read what's on the shirt.
At which point, Poppy reads the slogan.
Later in the video, the voice tells Poppy
to tell the people to buy the t-shirts.
"Tell them to buy the t-shirt."
And she complies again.
This represent the time recently
after a pop star becomes famous
and is being pushed around doing sale
promote everything that other people wants.
In a more recent video called, "I'm Not Lying To You,"
we get another crypted message from a skull
that speaks to Poppy in reverse,
*DEMONIC VOICE*
Decoded, it says,
"The next word I'm going to say is yes,"
but only before, this time,
Poppy doesn't follow instructions claiming that,
"I used to be more honest but now they won't let me."
In fact, Poppy makes a lot of references
to an unseen but powerful
"THEY,"
in many of her videos
so, who are "They,"?
Are "They" the businessmen
who we saw on set with her?
Well,
yes,
but it's also far more dangerous than that.
And here's when things start to go off the rail.
In "Japan", we get the typical Poppy-esq
statements like,
"What is the difference between Hollywood and Japan?"
and,
"Will you come to Japan with me?"
but towards the end of the video,
the tone shifts
as Poppy urgently says to the camera,
"Don't tell them I'm here,"
"I need to escape,"
"They don't want me to go."
And then the video cuts out.
It's not just that Poppy is unhappy with her music career.
It's that she fears she's in danger
and that's because she's a product of
Phase 4:
The Illuminati
Yup, the same group that
causes videos to have more likes than views
and is single-handedly
keeping Half-Life 3 off the market,
is also keeping Poppy under their collective thumb.
Okay, so, seriously,
this may feel like it's coming out of left field
but let me explain.
Those who believe in The Illuminati,
which is, according to theories,
an all powerful secret society that controls politics
and media and also occasionally
practices in the occult and brain-washing,
believe that many of the
most famous pop stars in history are members.
Britney Spears
Check!
Christina Aguilera
Check!
Lady Gaga
Check!
Taylor Swift
Check!
Beyonce
Check!
Double check!
AND TRIPLE CHECK!!
So if Poppy is truly the tale of the modern female pop idol,
then The Illuminati being involved
actually makes a lot of sense.
"Well, how can you tell when someone's in The Illuminati?"
Those of you whose heads
aren't wrapped in tin foil might be wondering
and there's essentially two different qualifications.
1. The person must be famous, rich and/or influential.
and 2. They use The Illuminati symbols,
since as this very scholarly looking website puts it,
the Illuminati loves taunting the Profane,
that's uh, us normal non-Illuminati people, by putting their symbols in plain sight for all to see.
There are a lot of these symbols,
but some of the most prominent include things like a single eye,
also known as the all seeing eye or the eye of providence,
triangles or pyramids, skulls and any other satanic images or symbols
like the number 666,
and you don't have to look very far to come across
all of these in Poppy's videos.
For a very prominent triangle symbol look no further than Poppy's video entitled "Membership Ring,"
which simply features a triangular ring and some dramatic music.
Of course, the fact that it's even called a "membership ring" is pretty telling.
As it would seem to indicate that Poppy's membership is in the Illuminati,
or remember that video with the skull form earlier?
Well, not only is Poppy talking to an Illuminati symbol,
but that symbol is speaking to her
sdrawkcab
and there are tons of theories about satanic messages being hidden in famous songs
that are revealed when they're played
sdrawkcab
so keep a listen for that in Poppy's next music track.
Next there are the eyes, and boy is the Illuminati watching in Poppy's videos.
Some are obvious, like this still from Poppy's video for money.
Others are a bit more subtle like a dress that she wore to the iHeartRadio Music Awards
that's covered in eyeballs,
or this moment from one of her early videos
in which she puts her eye behind a hole in a donut,
and if you're still not convinced, here's the bombshell.
If you go to Poppy's homepage, impoppy.com and view the source code
just take a look at what comes up at the top of the page:
That my friends is the Eye of Providence,
with the subtitle Poppy knows all.
Just there, written into the code not doing anything on the webpage,
but hidden just beneath the surface for theorists like us to find.
Damn you Illuminati taunting me with your imagery!
I as a lowly Profaned are so ... I don't know what feeling is this supposed to invoke in me?
Uhhh ... Jealous!
.... Beleaguered!
Feel so beleaguered!
So obviously, there's plenty of Illuminati imagery hidden throughout all of this,
but that brings us to the occult symbols and references.
Again, some are obvious, and some are less so.
Of course, we've got the devil as the main character in Poppy's video for Lowlife,
but also throughout that video,
we see Poppy in a very specific pose
seated in a chair with one arm pointed up and the other arm pointed downward.
Her fingers in a very specific position.
This is a clear reference to Baphomet,
a demon allegedly worshiped by the Illuminati and various other secret societies,
that allows them to harness the powers of heaven and hell.
Even the seemingly random products that Poppy "endorses"
have a satanic connection.
Poppy's most recent product video promotes both Doritos and Monster Energy Drink.
Doritos could be construed as Illuminati symbols here both because they're triangular,
and because Poppy awkwardly holds one over her eye for a moment.
Again creating the eye of Providence.
As for Monster Energy Drink, there are some who claim that the drink
is a symbol for Satan, and we're not just talking about the taste.
(INTENSE AIR HORN) OOOOOOOOOOOH
(INTENSE EXPLOSION) BOOM
(INTENSE GUNFIRE) SHOTS FIRED!
I'll be here all week, actually Monster Energy Drink's alright.
The logo for Monster is an M made up of three lines,
which each bear a decent resemblance to the Hebrew letter Vav or six.
Put the three together and BINGO! The mark of the beast,
Vav Vav Vav, The monster, 666.
Tell you what, I'm never looking at Monster Energy Drink the same way again.
But there's another element here that I haven't addressed.
Poppy isn't just a cute singer under the thumb of the Illuminati.
There's a lot of evidence in these videos pointing to Poppy being
a computer program created by the Illuminati.
The video "Transmission" shows Poppy's personality speaking through a computer,
which in and of itself wouldn't mean a whole lot,
but in videos like "They Have Taken Control,"
it's like she's literally upgrading her software to have new lines and emotions.
"Poppy loves you and will always love you."
Even the title of 'They Have Taken Control" shows that Poppy's personality is no longer her own.
Add to this the fact that, in real life, the girl who plays Poppy refers to Poppy in the third person,
like another person or personality.
But what really gives it away is one of her latest videos,
"Some People."
A video that prompted me to literally re-write this whole episode's conclusion,
right before we finished editing it.
Because in it, she makes her usual general statements about different types of people,
there's tall people, there are short people, blah blah blah blah blah ...
but it's the last statements of this video that confirm her as something not quite human.
She says, "Some people have skin and some people are made of plastic,"
before turning to the camera and saying,
"It feels so good to be a human being."
That turn to the camera tells us everything that we need to know.
It's the director's way of signalling to the audience that Poppy isn't what she says she is,
but another point of evidence supporting all of this
is that if one Poppy steps out of line,
it appears as though she gets replaced
by another one.
Consider the video titled "Oh No!"
which features Poppy staring at the camera before a second identical Poppy appears,
and the first starts to bleed from her mouth.
It's a continuation of ten episodes earlier titled "Am I Okay?"
a largely non-important episode in this series until the final frames
which shows her nose bleeding.
It's as though Poppy is deteriorating, falling apart,
and new Poppies are having to take her place.
In fact, it's probably Poppy getting replaced that's caused the other characters in the series
a skeleton, a plant, and Charlotte the mannequin, to have this conversation:
"Oh, she definitely changed."
"See, I told you."
"What do you mean she didn't change?"
And it's worth noting that this Illuminati programing doesn't just apply
to the blonde girl that we know as Poppy.
It applies to us too.
In both "Step 1" and "Step 2,"
we're instructed to look into the computer
as digital sound effects play in the background,
and Poppy encourages us to keep going.
"You're doing great."
It's as though by watching this video,
we're the ones getting reprogrammed.
We're the ones getting brainwashed.
Because in the end, that's what Poppy's true purpose is here.
She's not just some other young aspiring pop singer;
she's the embodiment of all the conspiracy theorists' fears online.
Another pop star and media icon manufactured by the Illuminati
to distract us with catchy songs and bland phrases,
a means of keeping us normal folk in line,
distracted with consumerism, fashion, Monster Energy Drink, Tide detergent,
Blissfully ignorant of the real things that matter.
The Illuminati's continued dominance over world power.
Now, am I arguing that Poppy and Titanic Sinclair believe in all these things?
No. Not at all.
Poppy is a channel that wants to satirically portray elements of the life of a pop star,
from the dehumanizing to the downright bizarre,
and hey ...
If they get popular along the way from people like us and Reddit theorizing about them well ...
that's a weird twist isn't it. The music is pretty darn catchy.
I've been finding myself watching more and more of Poppy every day in fact. (subliminal messaging)
It's one of my favorite channels on YouTube. (subliminal messaging)
I tune in every single day to her videos. (subliminal messaging)
Every Poppy upload that I see in my notification feed is one that I watch. (subliminal messaging)
So ... sorry. Sorry. I got distracted there for a second.
In the mean time, remember that's just a
Poppy
a
Poppy Poppy
AAAAAANNND
Poppy
(subliminal Illuminati messages)
And in case you were wondering, no don't worry these videos aren't products of the Illuminati
to keep you distracted from their continued dominance either.
(LAUGHING)
Why would you think something like that?
(LAUGHING)
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