Stranger Things

[Frogki]

I'd also like to add that the social media team is clearly playing along now, there have been some pretty fun posts on their Instagram. It's all very sly and plausibly deniable but also this kind of feels like it's supposed to be part of the fun of the show?

Again I don't think there's some secret episode but I do think that some people involved in the media department are having fun with this because it's clearly spread all over the Internet.

 

[Brian G.]

 

[Parkscope Joe]

We live in an unreality where magical thinking takes hold. Not a fan.

 

[Clive]

That this even needs to be said...

 

[Lucky Planet]

I mean, I get fan theories and stuff like that. That can be fun. This has blown way beyond that into some genuinely unhinged behavior on social media (not calling anyone here out). It's genuinely concerning to watch.

Like do we also think the several instances of them forgetting to edit out the actors’ Under Armour is a grand conspiracy? Or is there a chance that it’s just a show riddled with continuity errors? And a shop selling milkshakes in a time when it was more period accurate and not selling them in the ‘80s is… normal? A character that wasn’t present at all in the season (Suzie) not being in the epilogue is expected?

Every single thing presented has been kinda nothingness. I honestly don’t even get what could possibly be presented in one episode that can both be this massive twist people want while also being able to still end the series.

I'd also like to add that the social media team is clearly playing along now, there have been some pretty fun posts on their Instagram. It's all very sly and plausibly deniable but also this kind of feels like it's supposed to be part of the fun of the show?

Again I don't think there's some secret episode but I do think that some people involved in the media department are having fun with this because it's clearly spread all over the Internet.

it crossed my mind that the entire theory came from their social media team or from Netflix itself as some kind of online free promotion. sounds cynical,
but it reminds me of when the first IT movie was coming out some years ago and people were seeing creepy clowns in the streets and it went viral.
no one knows how that clown stuff started or who started it, but some people did speculate about a viral marketing campaign that went wrong

 

[Brian G.]

it crossed my mind that the entire theory came from their social media team or from Netflix itself as some kind of online free promotion. sounds cynical,
but it reminds me of when the first IT movie was coming out some years ago and people were seeing creepy clowns in the streets and it went viral.
no one knows how that clown stuff started or who started it, but some people did speculate about a viral marketing campaign that went wrong

No, it's people who wrote their own fan-fic ending for the finale, and it didn't go their way.

A large subsection of the fandom hates the finale solely for this reason and they're coping in extreme ways. Welcome to the age of the internet in 2026.

 

[Legacy]

even if there's no new episode, and if their story is fully finished, they definitely wrote it in a way that makes it feel like something changed in their universe. like if they became an alternate universe or something

Spoiler

These are silly in a desperately preposterous way.