Game Theory: Don't BREATHE! (Poppy Playtime Chapter 3)

there is nothing more gratifying to my soul than being the reason for a theorist smile to be the one that inspires creativity and critical thinking that is why it is with enormous pleasure that i am announcing a new theory a theory based on the poppy playtime chapter 3 teaser trailer because while this trailer may seem vague and unspecific it reveals even more of the horrific experiments that went on inside playtime co may this theory terrify and disturb every theorist that chooses to click hello internet welcome to game theory the show that encourages you to wake up and smell the poppies and i mean that quite literally friends because today we're diving nose first back into the world of poppy playtime which has been suspiciously quiet since the release of chapter 2 back in may then all of a sudden out of nowhere we got ourselves this little surprise last week a teaser trailer for chapter 3 coming out according to the video sometime next year and let me tell you friends if you haven't seen this teaser yet it gets dark starts off with a slow panning shot of the toys that we've already defeated huggy woogie lying on the ground mommy longlegs ripped into brawn the dinosaur's head for some reason all while we listen to elliot ludwig founder of playtime co giving an announcement about play care the adoption initiative that playtime co is starting he states that playtime owes everything to these children and then the trailer ends as the camera moves up to reveal a creepy looking gas mask all while the sounds of audience applause mix with the horrifying cries of children [Music] yay this is a video game that's going to be played by kids clearly they went hard for this one the chapter 2 teaser was creepy child singing itsy bitsy spider in a minor key classic horror trope but there's something about the sound of screaming children that just hits different and that's coming from a guy who talks about dead kids way more regularly than a person probably should however behind those screams is the thing we're really looking for the lore for a few episodes now we've suspected that playtime co used children to make these living breathing bleeding toys and now having the founder of the company outright say we owe everything to these children well i'm thinking he means that literally but there's a lot more in here than just hints to past theories i suspect that there's enough in this single minute of content to get a sense of most of what chapter 3 is gonna reveal to us from the next big bad toy we're gonna face to perhaps the most disturbing lore drop to happen yet so let's take another slide down into the depths of elliot ludwig's monster factory shall we probably the best place to start off is by addressing the severed dinosaur head in the room in my live reaction to the teaser over on gt live where you'll notice i'm wearing some stellar new theory wear by the way link for that's down below this video if you're interested in that nice long-sleeved t-shirt or you know maybe an awesome new futuristic backpack or shoulder bag right in time for the new school year let me tell you they're the perfect size for any killer toys you might want to cram in there or you know maybe just a pack of our new click bait green playing cards i promise they won't come to life and chase you through the ventilation system anyway where was i again sorry merch push got me all confused oh yeah in my reaction seeing braun the dinosaur here immediately set off some theory alarms is that the dinosaur what is that brawn braun the brawn bron the dinosaur his appearance here seems very intentional the trailer begins by panning up from the remains of our first two bosses and then we land on him implying that he then is gonna be our chapter three big bad this feels especially true when you consider that the rest of the less important characters from past chapters like pugapillar and bunzo appear behind the gas mask at the end of the trailer if we're to believe this motif that they're setting up here right it seems to be indicating that chapter one boss huggy chapter two papi chapter three then is braun going to be the boss or kind of like the big bad of chapter 3. it's also worth pointing out that the gas mask at the end of the teaser is red and yellow exactly like braun the dinosaur's color palette no other toy we've been introduced to at this point matches that coloring so it does seem like an odd coincidence like again it's purposefully trying to hint at bronze importance in this upcoming chapter and then you have yourself the cardboard cutouts throughout chapter 2 you find these cardboard cutouts of the various characters from playtime code scattered throughout the map if you push the buttons multiple times they say various phrases some of them harmless some of them disturbing you need to get out of here just kidding go have fun and if you keep on pressing most of them end up as a glitchy mess now i gotta be honest when i first saw these things i really wanted to do a theory just on these cardboard cutouts expecting there to be some sort of hidden lore inside the glitchy audio like it is the perfect place to hide lore the perfect place to hide some lore mob games wink wink nudge nudge i tried pitch shifting reversing the audio spectrograms basically everything i could think of you know what i got nothing maybe there'll be something that happens in chapter three who knows mob games but that doesn't necessarily mean that they were totally useless because brawn does actually give us some interesting information by pressing his cutout button once we get a setup for a joke do you call a dino with one eye and then pressing it again we get the punch line uh do you think he saw us slow clap there braun slow clap that is the type of humor that's kept me alive on youtube for the past decade however keep pressing the button and you get this what do you call the scariest dinosaur braun is outright telling us that he's a scary dinosaur the other toy cutouts even the ones that do try to kill us within this very chapter aren't nearly that overt some of them have ominous lines but none of them are outright warning us about how scary they can be in short all the signs are pointing at braun being the toy that we're gonna face next which is why i don't believe it i suspect that this might be a big misdirect on the part of mob games i think it's theory bait it's meant to get little theorist fishies like me interested in the hook and then i get lured in and served up on a platter you see this isn't the first time that we've had braun shoved into the spotlight only to be relegated as a mere background character when the chapter ultimately comes out all the way back in the first trailer for poppy playtime there's this wonderful shot of a giant toy brawn whose head suddenly turns around on its own and reveals its cold dead eyes and then the chapter came out and he was a poster cool cool cool he reappears in chapter two but again he's nothing more than just a prop in a puzzle sequence and from a business perspective too it just doesn't make sense for brawn to star in chapter three mob games have had such success in creating new big scary villains like huggy and mommy the third chapter just going back to a character that's existed since the beginning it loses a lot of the hype of a big teaser reveal and they not only lose hype but also a good merchandising opportunity people have loved braun catbey and all the other toys since chapter one new chapters means the opportunity for new characters which means more new merch and the last thing about this is that mob games's strength really seems to be flexible characters things that bend feel softer or rubbery i mean kissy missy try and pull this switch in the middle of chapter two not only is it hilarious but it also just shows the strength of the team's animation of softer stuffed characters it is a huge and welcome departure from the monster designs of a certain other indie franchise that's dominated the scene for the past eight years ron is hard he's heavy he's robotic again pushing away from the monster aesthetic that's worked so well for poppy playtime up to this point so call it a hunch from the past decade of doing this but i don't think brawn is gonna be our big bad i think they're gonna reveal more about our big bad in october or november as they get closer to next year's release but hey that's just a theory a mini theory that exists within this one larger theory because i am nowhere near done with this teaser but if i am gonna keep going to reveal the big lore drop that i expect is gonna happen in chapter three i'm gonna need you to do one thing for me right now and that is click the subscribe button you guys know i know a lot about youtube right well here's a little known fact about how it works your clicks on the subscribe button actually wind up a crank over at youtube headquarters and give the algorithm the power that it needs to play the various videos so i'm gonna need you to wind that crank but you can't click the subscribe button before i count down to zero 59 58 okay obviously it was a joke thank you for the sub youtube is all powered up let's get back to the video shall we while it would certainly be cool to be able to figure out the next monster that we're going up against in chapter three considering they all seem to die by the end of the chapter anyway the more intriguing part is the underlying lore about playtime co and the experiments that they've been running we've got a lot of hints throughout chapter two that the company was trying to revive dead rats using gel made from poppy flowers and that now they were looking for quote unquote larger subjects aka children we also saw paperwork where members of the staff were raiding children's physical abilities in order to best pair them with the appropriate toy enter the setting for this newest chapter playcare as the teaser says i announce playcam our very own on-site orphanage having an on-site orphanage would give them plenty of larger subjects to dip into poppy gel kids forgotten by a system kids that are untraceable but then what what did they do here that led him to becoming the horrifying monsters that we've now come to expect from the franchise well i suspect the answer to that question lies with this teaser but not in the teaser rather the thumbnail you see the thumbnail obviously puts the gas mask front and center as you'd expect but there's a detail here that isn't present in the actual video surrounding everything is this red mist it looks cool and it definitely works nicely with the gas mask theme but as someone who spends way too much time in thumbnail design meetings i can tell you that this detail is more than just a it looks cool moment this detail is intentional it reveals way more than anything in the teaser itself it reveals the usage of poppy gas i mean poppies are red flowers after all so it just seems to make sense i do think that the poppy gas i think that's probably where they're headed with this right is making the poppy into a gas that then is converting the kids immediately after i filmed this over on gt live i jumped on the computer and started looking into the idea of poppy gas and you know what i found nothing zilch nada turns out nobody is interested in turning an odorless flower into a gas but then i remembered this moment from the opening seconds of the game her hair is sturdy and won't come out when you brush it and smells just like a poppy flower her hair smells like poppy flower but puppies aren't supposed to have a smell right well they don't unless you're talking about a specific type of poppy opium poppies this is actually something that i casually tossed out there in our first ever theory on poppy playtime side note i looked into and it turns out that poppies don't really have that much of a smell unless of course you're talking about opium poppies in which case you're opening up a whole lot of messed up there you see normal poppies don't have a smell and don't have much of a narcotic effect because they have low levels of alkaloids basically just a naturally occurring compound in the plant opium poppies though have higher alkaloid levels resulting in a stronger smell and more physiological effects on humans what do they do well look no further than the wizard of oz i can't run anymore i'm so sleepy you can't rest now we're nearly there opium has been used throughout history as a painkiller and sleep inducer thanks to some of the chemicals found within it namely morphine and codeine drugs that you might be familiar with because they're still used today as painkillers now obviously there are more and more regulations than using opiates like these for medical purposes in fact my partner steph in her former life before youtube worked on helping educate doctors about the medical uses and dangers of opiates and opioids however that sort of knowledge didn't exist in the early 1900s and this stuff was totally unregulated opium would commonly be mixed with sugar and water to make syrups balms and soups which would then be given to children that couldn't sleep these balms could then be applied to women's chests to help babies wean faster or they would be put on babies gums to soothe them while they were teething in fact they were marketed as soothers and could be purchased in pretty much any grocery store at the time you know it was just common practice for perfectly normal kids to be given highly addictive drugs at least until regulations finally came down in 1912 but as disturbing as that may be it actually connects directly back to poppy playtime playtime co using opium poppies and poppy's hair follows this trend of subduing kids who are in pain or just a bit restless using a drug it also means that they were probably able to skirt around regulations who would suspect a toy company putting opium in a doll's hair and considering they weren't a medical center they probably were even less likely to fall into suspicion but how does all of this relate back to our creepy gas mask and the red fumes surrounding the toys a gas mask to me implies that the gas is covering a large area and that the gas is more concentrated in my research i found this carfentanyl a narcotic gas that's in the same category as opiates and opioids which is 10 000 times stronger than morphine which itself is 100 times stronger than opium and carfentanil has been weaponized as a gas before in russia back in 2002 a group of rebels took a theater of 800 people hostage since i already seem to be doing movie references in today's episode it's basically like this opening scene from tennis after three long days the russian authorities were suddenly faced with a difficult choice of how to possibly end the standoff they decided to use a carfentanil-based gas to knock out the rebels thereby allowing the troops to get into the building safely except there was one problem with the plan carfentanil is too strong again stuff is ten thousand times stronger than morphine well sure the carfentanil did indeed knock out the insurgents so the authorities could get in it also killed 130 of the hostages who are also in the building breathing the stuff in the gas fills your lungs replacing the oxygen that you should be breathing in meaning that no oxygen is getting into your bloodstream but instead this deadly chemical eventually causing your body to shut down which then brings us all the way back around to playtime co and their experiments with poppy flowers and rats the experiment that we read about in chapter two shows that elliot and his team killed a rat and submerged it into a poppy flower gel mixture before trying to revive it the process didn't work which they figured was because of the size of the test subject but what if it was more than that what if part of the problem was that it was only coated in a poppy gel mixture i mean i could go swimming for hours but i can't then claim that i'm suddenly hydrated the water is only effective once it's inside of my body i'm wondering if that's actually what we're seeing here puppy gel didn't work but what if you breathed in poppy gas suddenly you'd have it in your system immediately as the lungs transfer the gas into the bloodstream if playtime co is trying to activate the elements of the poppy it being in the body in the blood that's keeping people alive well it feels like that's gonna get you more consistent results when trying to revive someone making it a gas would also make the experimentation process easier could you imagine having to submerge one child into a gel mixture and then having to fish them out before putting the next one in putting a child in a room filled with gas however is a way easier way to do it and far less messy and yes at this point i think i need to make the obvious disclaimer here this is dark very dark i think we can all very easily see the parallels to world war ii gas chambers but the reason that i'm talking about these very disturbing things and these very tragic events is because it seems like this is where the game's headed to with the upcoming third chapter this is a toy factory after all mass production is their name of the game around the factory we see dozens of broken and bloody cat bees bronze boogie bots and candy cats these weren't special one-offs like mommy long legs or a giant huggy these were everyday toys that were being sold out to the masses so there are lots of bloody candy cats laying around the factory and we've seen children assigned to that specific toy then it stands to reason that you need a lot of kids ready to be converted the gas allows you to get a big group of children together in one room drug them all at once and then walk in with your colorful gas mask and remove them all ready for mass production however i don't think they're just shoving kids into a room to be converted they're using the entire play care facility and i believe that to be the case because of the main focus of the teaser the mask this gas mask is not just the same color as bronze it's the same color as real life gas masks that were created during world war ii while most masks were neutral colors like black brown gray or green those colors made the gas masks look unappealing and scary especially to children you can imagine why in walked walt disney yep at walt disney believe it or not he decided to help the issue out by manufacturing the mickey mouse mask which had the face of the iconic mouse to make it more appealing to kids in the uk they also have the mickey mouse mask but it didn't look like anything coming out of the old house a mouse instead these masks were bright red and that was it just red sometimes they had a flappy nose to make them seem more fun but overall it was just about making the colors bright so they were less scary and remind me again what color the mask in the teaser is these masks are bright and colorful because they're being worn around children all in an effort to make them and the scientists that wear them less scary which of course they have to do so they don't get high off the fumes that are being pumped into play care if these gas masks were only necessary while kids were being shoved into a testing room to be transferred into a toy then they could have just had them as a standard black color no kids would be conscious enough to see them being worn it makes a lot more sense that they're this color though because the children are seeing them being worn regularly which you'd have to do if the entire play care facility was slowly being gassed and then all we're left with is a bunch of screaming children chapter three of poppy play time promises to lean heavy into the twisted backstory of the factory i'm just not sure any of us realized how dark they were willing to go with this story thanks to this new teaser i think we have an idea now the question is are we gonna be brave enough to keep going but hey that's just a theory a game theory thanks for watching here's a quick reminder that new theory where merch is available right now while we might not have ourselves game theory branded gas masks yet we do have ourselves switch cases pencil cases and suitcases one of those is a lie i'll let you guess which one and while playtime co seems to be going all in on red and yellow game theory's latest tech t is green and black and blue all over dear viewer i understand you cannot feel this shirt for yourself feel-a-vision is not yet a thing that's been built into the product of youtube and to prioritize youtube shorts first but if you could just feel this thing you too would want to wear it every day like apparently i have every single day i've been filming lately and yes uh that one right there is me with one sock on no i will not be taking any further questions want something warmer as we quickly approach the fall check out the space racer quilted jacket this thing is like wearing a blanket but it's fashionable and cozier and while you're at it why not complete the look with a brand new backpack i mean you can see what the chalk mark says above my head much wow need i say more seriously this thing has a ton of room and so many compartments for your research papers your toys the memories of what you did to all those kids a decade ago [Music] so if you want to get your hands on any of these items before they disappear faster than an employee in an indie horror game head on over to theoryware.com that's theoryware.com or just click the link in the top line of description and as always remember friends it's just a theory a game theory thanks for watching

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Length: 18min 40sec (1120 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 30 2022

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I know Matpat often reaches but I’m scared about the potential gas stuff he put a disclaimer but I’m worried it really is an allegory for the Holocaust.

[u/moothermeme]

I genuinely thought he was going to talk about how the gas mask looks like Bron’s face, like his actual face, with the eyes missing and a gas mask melded onto his mouth

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When MatPat started talking about the Gas Masks, I immediately thought about Room Zero by Slimebeast