ULTIMATE CUCKOO TIN FOIL HAT MOMENT
My latest unhinged suspicion is that there are currently multiple active Stranger Things ✌️“fan”✌️accounts in various social media (INCLUDING Tumblr, Twitter, & even AO3) that are actually a disguised, deliberate & coordinated marketing/production effort with the goal of pushing certain very specific ideas/hints/“headcanons”/“leaks” into the larger fandom’s collective consciousness.
One of these “headcanons”/“leaks” being the ✨Bychance✨ one. (Credit to @ven0moir)
These accounts purposefully speak & write in a common “fangirl”, “stan culture” style full of “jokes”, while simultaneously delivering bizarre & overly sus cryptic subliminal messaging.
Some very recent AO3 ✌️“fan”✌️ fics I’ve been reading (specifically bychance fics) are way too dangerously close to the canon timeline, characterization, metaphorical subtext, narrative patterns & mythological lore of the actual show.
Coincidence? It gets to a point…
Like an insane, elaborate, insidious ruse or conspiracy from the source itself lmfaoo.
Call it narrative cryptic astroturfing sock puppets. 🤪🎭