Film Theory: Who’s REALLY in Control?! (DHMIS)

While we’re waiting on Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared season 2, I’m cranking out the THEORIES! In the last DHMIS video I uncovered the TRUTH about Yellow Guy. Spoiler alert: he’s actually dead! But I skipped over one unsolved mystery. . . the strange symbols on the mysterious book. There’s something SUPER weird about it, so I invited @RemGames to help me solve the mystery. Let’s figure this out once and for all!

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[DieselWeasel]

MASSIVE respect for not only watching Rem's videos, but opting to INVITE HIM TO COLLABORATE rather than just rehashing his own theories.

[damiondraws]

Something I just realized is that in the death episode, red guy thinks he should be the one who’s dead instead of duck. And then in the family episode, duck is so sure that he should be able to open the chips. Maybe then being confident in what should be is another sign of how things should happen for the story to free them.

[BigTiredDog]

it’s very nice to watch matpat bring in a smaller creator instead of repeating their theory. big respect matpat

[twiggy]

Rem got the highest honor : getting to say the end line with MatPat

he seemed so excited

completely valid, i would've died on the spot

[Hitomora]

I feel that Leslie (being a screenwriter) is writing for the DHMIS Show but after her accident that killed her son her writing has been drastically affected by it. She has an idea for the show but dealing with her grief makes it nearly impossible to write out a full story which is why she constantly has to "reset" the story and start new.

[SalKhayer]

Editors deserve a lot of credit for these videos featuring guests. Using their unique style to adapt between Mat's cadence and Remy's cadence to deliver an excellent visual story is just so masterful.

[bobnrobplush]

I love how Leslie isn’t a villain
She’s just a woman in grief ANF trying to build her family back

[austingolightly]

My Theory:

The items represent what each of the characters want in some way. And to take it 1 step further, Red Guy represents the future, duck is the present and yellow guy is the past (more below):

Yellow Guy: Wants to understand what is going on and what had happened before. Also, tying in the above video, he's the dead son of Leslie and is what keeps her stuck in the past, he's a physical manifestation of that past. He's stuck trying to piece together what had happened to bring us here, and he needs the batteries to do this.

Duck: He is in the present and always is content to just be present with the current status quo. He wants the Cheddar Dollops and to share them with his current community or family. He's happy to be stuck in this loop and doesn't want for things to change, he is here for the now.

Red Guy: He most wants to break the cycle. He wants out, wants tomorrow. Even if that means he has to die. In the death episode he fetishized death the whole episode, because it represents an escape from their current nightmare. He is ready to escape, even if escape means dying.

[awstenm]

I love seeing all the new people matpat is inviting to his videos and his team, they’re so talented and definitely deserve a place at the theorist table

[leftyjoness]

I'm so glad you're still covering DHMIS because the show deserves every bit of attention it can get and I hope more than anything that it gets a season 2. It seriously blows my mind how much effort and passion went into it. It's hilarious, it's unsettling, and it stays true to the original series' tone while also fleshing out all of the wonderful characters we've grown to love.

[gavingrant]

i love how matpat doesn’t colonize ideas and allows those who came up with these theories vocalize it for themselves

[phantompyro]

One thing that supports the loop theory is there are several periods where the characters regain some level of consciousness about the correct order of events, but once they've happened there's nothing they can do. Like the, now heavily memed, clip of Red saying "I'm more the kind of person who should be dead". He's recognizing that he was supposed to be selected to die, but he wasn't.

[Endzonee]

I love seeing smaller creators like Film Theory getting the recognition they deserve

[TinyWarriorAnimations]

Game theory and MatPat has entered the decade where they start to promote even more creators and small theories that get a chance to shine. I'm all for it!

[kylepeters]

It's fun seeing videos like this with a guest, especially with how excited most of them are to say the "but hey, that's just a theory" line. It's just adorable

[deacon]

I think the book says "Don't Hug Me I'm Sca Red" (going from top left to top right, then center left, then center right, etc)

Yellow guy's symbol is "Don't" which is maybe what he meant when he said his name has a hyphen (maybe he meant apostrophe)

Duck's symbol is "Me" which in the show's intro, when it says "There's him and you and me" when it says "me" it shows Duck.

Red's symbol is on "Red" for obvious reasons.

[SophiesTheDevilOverlordLady]

Well, first off, the thing is that I love how Lesley's not an antagonist. Especially in the DHMIS universe. Like imagine the action that would go down for the entire Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared conspiracy and Yellow Guy himself, and second off, I can see both MatPat and Rem solving mysteries over a couple of books and some strange, gory lore behind it in the hands. Plus, I find it fun that whenever a new video comes out you just have this new, special guest featured in it.

[daviddeans]

I was actually worried Rem's work would be missed or only briefly mentioned as inspiration but inviting him in is a HUGE win for a budding theorist channel! This is the Theorist crew I subscribe to (I mean, I've been subscribed but... you get it) Incredible collab!

[Patchwork]

Can we acknowledge the other popular theory for the YouTube series for a sec?

The theory that the series is about people refusing to grow up, then finally putting down their toys and giving in.

It's interesting that not only did David not grow up, but when Yellow climbs the stairs, he's essentially doing just that, going from a big boy to a bigger boy qnd then continuing to the next stage. It's only when yellow reaches this stage, when he's grown up, that Lesley realises he's not her son. Because he's done the one thing her son couldn't.

[linkman]

I have to comment just to say I am ABSOLUTELY LOVING THIS FORMAT! Having a guest theorist come on and making the lore analysis into more of a conversation is just wonderful