Here is a comprehensive analysis to the psychonetwork (Psychnet) found in the Collinlock16/Gridworlds/Speedrunner arg.
I will be taking you through each Psychnet memeber whom are believed to make up Andre's counciousness. If you have any questions please feel free to leave me a comment and id be more than happy to nerd out and ramble on about my ideas. Thank you :)
When i began watching this series I became fixated on the psychnet which I quickly caught on to be something more meaningful than a simple stream chat. As im studying psychology we gave had the PLEASURE (sarc) to go through the work and theories of the nutcase we know as Sigmund Frued...
See, Frued is a key figure in our understanding of psychology and how we "work" today. Originally being a neurologist, Frued's work focused on our brain and how we operate, essentially (don't quote me on this, im getting a D as of now is psych)
Now we know about this man, let's get into his theory of personality. Ill make this short because I don't want you all to need to research in order to understand my research, but in simple terms, Frued theorised that our personality is made up of THREE different "characters", so to speak.
The super ego: This is our moralistic, self sacrificing "good". Their goal is to, basically, assure we are disciplined and follow the "rules" to a tee. They are very ANTI impulse. Sound familiar?
Example if you don't quite understand: You find a £100 left behind on the bus. Your super ego tells you to find and return this money to whoever lost it. Taking matters into its own hands to assure morality is followed.
The Id: This is the exact OPPOSITE of the super ego. The Id is a hedonistic, self-indulgent "character" focused on our immediate pleasure and gain, also incredibly impulsive as impulses often rely on the here and now. I wonder who this could be... The id and super ego are in a constant tug of war battle as they're always at opposite ends of the spectrum trying to decide who is to take the victory in terms of our behaviour and personality.
Example: You're on that same bus, and that £100 has been left behind. The id makes you take it before anyone else can.
Starting to make sense?
Ego: The ego is what you can think of as a mediator. Between your id and superego constantly arguing, there must be spemthing to calm this fight. And thats the ego. They will choose a either one to side with, or create a new middle ground to attempt to satiate the id and super ego.
Example: You're on the bus, that £100 looks tempting but you decide to leave it there. You are not in the wrong for stealing, but you made no attempt to help whoever lost this money.
Now lets get into the actual psychnet, which I'm sure you've all been waiting for. Why bother bringing up the nutcase, Sigmund Frued?
Welp.
SOUPBEGONE31: Here we have Andre's super ego. why? Well this is very simple. You'll see as we go down the list that each of the psychnet members have their role directly stated in their name. In the case of Soup, the word SOUP. And BE GONE contains the word EGO. Can't see it? SOUPbEGOne31.
Now that's all well and great, but how can we be so sure? Well, Soup can often be found in Andre's "chat" to become fixated with Andre's speed running. According to Andre's internal moral system, which as a machine has been coded by the admins, the most moral thing Andre can do is speedrun. Which Soup constantly encourages Andre to do. Soup grows annoyed when the focus is taken off speedrunning, snd are shown to keep intense track of gains and losses in time. Soup also shows a great distaste for SIDIsquish when Sidi decides to go off on impulsive tangents of emoticon spamming.
SIDIsquish: Sidi clearly represents the id of Andre. Why, you may ask? Well besides the obvious word id, in the name sIDi, throughout our "stream" Sidi can be found to show little care to Andre's goal of speedrunning. Often times Sidi will be napping or showcasing an erratic vibrancy whilst attacking the chat with waffles. I've also recently found that Sidi originally was rather indifferent to speedrunning, occasionally even encouraging it... until Assimilation. When they meet him Sidi takes on a backseat role in the spead running, taking more interest in the new character who they impulsively become focused on. This change in goal can showcase how Andre's internal goal has shifted to a want for change, as before his internal morality system, and desires seem to be aligned, but later this shift causes a rift between his wants and needs. This rift is also shown as Sidi and Soup begin to argue more often, soup becoming hyper fixated on the run whilst Sidi goes off on waffle tangents and emojis.
Also, to add, we saw a previous first run (run 1) in the facility. We can assume this first run was when Assimilation and Andre decided to try and escape, rather than conform to the admins rules. This run in which Sidi has a greater power (as Andre chases his desires rather than moral codin), as well as the witnessed run which we see throughout the video may be an indication as to why Sidi is seemingly difficult to ban by the admins. Because Andre is paying more attention to his id rather than the other psychnet members. Because Sidi is much more brash and loud than the others.
xx_E-G-O_xx: Ego is simply the Ego. The word is ever so prominent in Ego's name, but we have a multitude of other reasoning. Sidi and Soup's never ending conflict is always seemingly resolved by Ego's more rational and calmed personality. Ego tries to find a middle ground and quiet each of the loud members by resolving their issues.
A great example of Sidi and Soup arguing, and Ego attempting to deal with them
Feargeyt6774: FearG is actually one if the more interesting psychnet's to me. Obviously representing Andre's fearful response tk the world and whay he experiences, FearG is known to spam :pepefear:. I really can't figure FearG out, however... Could it be as simple as representing fear? How.. when all the other psychnet members are so specific... we only have one emotion. Fear.
Conzercheez: Another very interesting case, Conzer. Originally I believed Conzer may be the concern of Andre, but I've scraped that theory as I'm CERTAIN Conzer is conscious. Why? Well lets get into this. Conzer as a character id blatantly aware of what happens around Andre. They are the very first to question what no one else does. The first to take notice of Assimialtions writing on signs. The only one to even blink when Assimilation reads Andre's "chat". "You can see us?" He askes when Assimilation views them. "My god man, you are being tracked, throw that out." There both sell the idea that whilst the other's may be aware to some degree, Conzer understands. Everyone else goes oblivious, but Conzer takes note (as he is able to clip the stream), and voices his concern. To further this the fact that Conzer states that the mods have ot out for him may showcase that the mods/admins do NOT want Andre to grow his consciousness. This is why he is frequently banned. Why he takes account of FearGs spamming behaviour and why, in the end, Andre cannot reach true sentience.
Further more in arguement to Conzer being the consciousness. If you remove the "zer" from the name Conzercheez, you are left with Concheez. Say it. Sounds like conscious.