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Film Theory: Stranger Things is LYING to You! (ConformityGate)

2026-01-25 Film & Animation
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Top Comments (10)

@JustinY. 2026-01-25

You know Stranger Things is cooked when we have fans hallucinating entirely different endings to it

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@raven_zoe 2026-01-25

I like to imagine that the Duffer brothers see videos like these and think to themselves “oh no, why didn’t we think of that?”

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@thewritingrowlet2980 2026-01-25

Finale so mid it gave the fanbase psychosis

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@hjohnson966 2026-01-25

They had 3 years to write an ending and they procrastinated until the literal end 🤦

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@pkmntrainermark8881 2026-01-25

"It's so bad and inconsistent that it HAS to be fake." Love it.

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@shaggy6727 2026-01-25

I bet one day in like 10 years Netflix will release another series confirming this theory was real just to make more money

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@FilmTheory 2026-01-23

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@the24thcapricorn 2026-01-26

I never hear the "Mike wake up" This is next level delusion

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@ipekbarak8987 2026-01-26

i love how you acknowledged that this theory came out because the ending was bad and not because “fans can’t say goodbye to the show” like what they’re trying to turn it into

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@senoritamazapan 2026-01-26

Sad that the fact that Byler fans are the original creators of the theory wasn't mentioned

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