So let's just hop right in here, I don't normally do update videos
but the day that we finished editing the Hello Neighbor Theory,
I stumbled onto something HUGE
that started to answer a lot of lingering questions that I had about this game.
I didn't wanna delay that video so we put it up but I also
didn't wanna to wait until the next
update to do a completely new theory
about the thing so here we are.
Hello Internet!
Welcome to Diet Theory.
It's Theory Lite!
In case you missed the Hello Neighbor Theory, watch that first
and come back here. The info there is
gonna be super important.
So real talk as I finished writing that
theory there is one thing that was still
really nagging me.
This picture.
There was something more here that made my
theorist's sense tingle.
The pose was just too specific.
It felt like a clue or reference to
something, But what! What is it? To give
you a sense of what it's like to write
these theories when it comes to
researching images, it's really hard.
Reverse image searching can only get you so far
and when it's a picture referencing some
other famous painting, if you don't
specifically know what you're looking
for, well, you're just out of luck, so knowing that
biblical references were popping up
everywhere in the game we focused our
search around that and started pouring
over just tons of images, and after doing
some really deep dives we struck gold.
Loyal theorists I present you this
picture. Entitled "The Capture of Christ".
A 13th century painting by an artist
from Florence named Cenni de Pepo
Cenni de Pepo- Cenni de Pepo!
it's actually really fun to say, and if it
familiar too it's probably because this
was also a fairly recent but not super
popular meme, it was the "do I smell a
watermelon meme." otherwise known as, "stop
das gay meme." which obviously begs
the question "y is dis gay?".
Let me explain. This painting depicts one
of the most famous moments from the
Bible's Last Supper, the meal before
Jesus is taken to get crucified.
In the painting we see one of Jesus's followers,
Judas Iscariot, kissing Jesus, Das y
dis gay. Now, in case you don't know, Judas is
the one famous for betraying Jesus
giving him a kiss at the
the meal to signify to the Roman guards
that this is the man that they've been
after. To quote from the Gospel of Luke,
Chapter 22, "While he was still speaking a
crowd arrived, led by the man called
Judas, one of the twelve apostles, he
approached Jesus to kiss him, but Jesus
asked him, 'Judas are you betraying the
son of man with the kiss?'" So why'd Judas do it?
Well, some say it was for the money.
He does this in exchange for 30 pieces of
silver -- #Sellout -- but according to
the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of
John, the devil enters into Judas, which
causes him to betray Jesus.
In any of these cases though what we have in Judas
is a man seduced by the devil to commit
an unholy act. Now let's go back and look
at Hello Neighbor's
portrait, the neighbor is in the
position of Judas, turned to the side
giving the kiss
he's the one seduced by, or working with
the devil. Just another point to confirm
this weekend's theory. But these
revelations got us really excited so, we
kept digging. Revelations, get it? It's the last
book of the Bible one where, ah, all hell
breaks loose? Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
Witty, banter joking?
Nope? All right. Great. In the same
promotional picture with the shadowy
picture, and the book of Faust that we
analyzed over the weekend, look at what
the neighbor is drinking out of. A mug
with the golden bull on it. All of us
over here at Theorists HQ had noticed it
as an odd detail in passing, but it
didn't mean much when we first saw it.
But now with all these Bible references
cropping up, the detail finally clicked
into place.
It's not just some overpriced, hipster
coffee mug from Williams-Sonoma.
It's a reference to the Bible's infamous golden
calf. As in baby cow, not lower leg muscles.
So, in the second book of the Bible, Exodus,
God, with the help of a prophet named
Moses, saves the people of Israel from
slavery in Egypt, because they're so
faithful to him. That's a nice guy. It's like an early
Christmas present but no good deed goes
unpunished, because gosh-darn-it wouldn't
you know it, once they have their freedom
they start to go a little wild.
Just like that one all-girls Catholic
school dance I went to back in tenth
grade. That was... an intense night,
definitely a story for another day.
Anyway, while Moses is up on the mountain
chatting it up with God getting the 10
commandments
version 1.0, everyone down below gets sick
of waiting and decides, "Hey, let's make a
golden cow statue and worship that,"
because that's what you do for fun in a
world without video games.
Here the pertinent quotes from Exodus, Chapter 32;
'When the people saw that Moses was so
long in coming down from the mountain
that gathered around Aaron and said, "Come,
make us gods, who will go before us..." Aaron
answered them, "Take off the gold earrings
that your wives, your sons, and your
daughters are wearing, and bring them to
me." So all the people took off their
earrings and brought them to Aaron. He
took what they handed him and made it into an
idol cast in the shape of a calf... Then
the Lord said to Moses, "Go down, because
your people, whom you brought out of
Egypt, have become corrupt..." So Moses went
back to the Lord and said, "Oh what a
great sin these people have committed!
They have made themselves gods of gold." '
So clearly god ain't too thrilled that he's
been replaced by a false idol, a golden
cow of all things, so you think the
golden bull mug is just a coincidence?
Heck no! Just like the Judas painting, the
golden calf is yet another reference to
people who've been seduced by money,
people who are worshiping false gods,
and now that all this devil false god
stuff is cropping, up the picture of our
neighbor's choice of halloween costume
takes on a whole new meaning.
But seriously mind the butt flap. Even
the clown costume we covered in the theory
may have some allusion to the neighbors
deal with the devil. This outfit you see
him wearing isn't just any clown outfit.
It's an exact replica of the costume
worn by the evil clown from the movie
version of Stephen King's "It".
Special thanks to @Fentastic18 on Twitter
for pointing this out to me. Look!
Everything from the color, to the number
of frills matches. Now while I haven't found
any major biblical references in that
movie or it's novel, it is important to
notice the clown's name,
Pennywise, which is a reference to the
classic British saying, 'Pennywise and
pound foolish,' basically it's a saying
that means you're someone who misses the
forest for the trees, that you're so
focused on what's right in front of you
that you missed the bigger picture, like
say for instance Judas, who sells out
Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.
Sure he make some quick cash, but then he gets
himself damned to hell for all eternity...
So bummer there. Or someone else who's
Pennywise and pound-foolish - Faust. Like
we covered last theory who sells his
soul to the devil for unlimited
knowledge and worldly pleasures.
Sure, you're gonna have
a great few years living off your
unlimited diet Cokes and knowledge of
how Game of Thrones ends, but when the
devil comes to collect his part of the deal,
well then, you're outta luck. So what does
all this mean for our theory about the
neighbor? Putting together the story of
Faust, Isaiah 14:14, the Satanic candle
rituals, and the 666 on the neighbor's
shoe from the last video, and the Judas
picture, golden calf, and Pennywise from
today, it seems like our theory is
getting stronger and stronger.
The neighbor appears to be a man who made a
deal with the devil to help him out, but
now in the game, we see the fallout of
that decision, where he's having to
perform satanic rituals in his basement
with a woman and her child, to fulfill
his end of the deal. Where he's having to bury
people alive in order to satisfy the
Devil. Do I think he's actually the Devil?
No, all these references are about
people taken advantage of by the Devil.
Our neighbor is a puppet in a much
larger, much more sinister game; a game
that I cannot wait to see the next
update of, who knows what dynamic pixels
has up their sleeves, but up 'till now it
has been a wild ride. In the meantime
though remember... It's just a theory, a
diet theory! Keeping it tight. And hey
before you go cast your vote on where
you think this theory lands. Do you think
the neighbor is the Devil? Or do you
think the neighbor is working for the
Devil?
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