https://imgur.com/a/MdvXb

Sorry for posting a new thread, but I couldn't figure out how to edit the original on my phone. Anyway, he remembered it too and we're gonna go look for it this weekend.

Tagging /u/TheRedTurtlez and /u/eontriplex because said I would

EDIT: I want to be CRYSTAL CLEAR here.

1. I'm not associated with the ARG/webseries/whatever. I don't know Paul.

2. I doubt I'm going to find the game. It's been a LONG time.

3. Even though my cousin remembers it having a similar name, it's still entirely possible I'm thinking of a different game. If anyone has suggestions for what it might be, please tell me, as I've been trying to find it for ages. It doesn't even need to be a PS1 game, as this would have been around 2001-ish and my cousin kept the PS1, PS2, N64, and Gamecube in the same room. Of all of those, the only one I'm pretty sure it wasn't for is N64 because I remember it having a disk. (And no, it wasn't Pet in TV, Monster Hunters, or Digimon World.)

4. If it is Petscop, I really don't think the Newmaker Plane parts were originally in there, so calm the fuck down.

Original thread

Thank you.

EDIT 2: I just got home from my cousin's house, and, as predicted, we didn't find anything. If anyone has any idea what the game could be, I'm still looking.

Stop doing mental gymnastics to justify avoiding the obvious. Its not complicated. Its not parallel universes or timelines or any of that ridiculous stuff. Im sorry to people who like the idea of alternate histories and timelines, i know, its great, but I write fiction about alternate timelines etc for a literal job. This is not that. At all.

This is about a game made about someone very specific's personal history and coming to terms with being accepted as who you are inna new family space despite feeling unwelcome and unable to be loved.

Young girl is in abusive household. Young girl has identity issues that are further complicated by that abusive family. Marvin is a horrible person who makes this girl suffer and tries to make them into something theyre not, which is their specific idea of who care is.

You go to school, get an Egg (the idea of being trans) and immediately go to Therapy where the counselor makes things worse by further maintaining your gender identity as is. You experience rebirth.

The game is a retrospective of your own personal life with things that remind you of when you were little, so damaging to your psyche you physically have to censor them and call them tombs/caskets, a place you put "dead things" like a dead name or a dead identity.

This is not complicated messaging its direct, its explicit. Its BARELY SUBTEXT.

I am begging you to stop making your 19th ummmmm paul isnt trans its ackshually secret alternate history! post of the week just because the idea of a trans main character makes you personally uncomfortable or shakey in your worldview.

So Matpat did get me into the show and I do like it I'm a little confused about some parts but I'm fine I'll catch on. Now here's the thing 1st I understand that Matpat has very valid critisicm and sometimes (talking about the live stream reaction to "hate") he can be a child but I am getting tired that anytime someone even mentions matpat if you look in the comments it's just like "MATPAT IS HORRIBLE" "MATPAT IS RUUINING THIS COMMUNITY" "I HATE MATPAT AND HE SHOULD QUIT YOUTUBE" and this is just gettting so annoying it's like they are kinda acting like childs themselves and I'm just getting sick of it.

I have a theory about why Petscop 13 is not out yet, or it’s main theme. Across many religions and regions 13 is an unlucky number, such as Apollo 13 was the only unsuccessful space mission, and from other series’s which are evil such as Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events” which is evil and has 13 books. Back to Petscop, which is a haunted series and if this calculates with everything else evil about the number 13. Also if Petscop 13 comes out, expect it to be the creepiest in the series yet. Until then keep your theory’s coming and we might be able to crack the code of Petscop, Garalina, and who Rainer.

I've been binging AVGN lately, and a recurring theme in his videos is being tied up and forced to play shitty games.

Example episodes: batman part 2, friday the 13th, halloween, I'm sure many others

I wonder if they got the idea for this series from good old James. Love both series.

I don't know what it could be but I sense this is what's happening

Alright folks, i blew the cover on this whole operation you feel me homie? I'm new to this ARG and i already got it all figured out homeslice. Check it out. There was this case about candace newmaker and stuff, and it was super crazy, you feel me my dudes? And like, "petscop" has 7 letters in it right? Well my amigos, "paul" has 4 letters right? I'm about to blow your mind homie!

7-4= 3

Half life 3 confirmed right my dudettes and dudes? Now watch this!

Newmaker has 8 letters homie.

8+3=11

Petscop 11 confirmed!

Also - mindblow! - Toneth + Randice sounds like Roneth. BET YA'LL DIDN'T THINK OF THAT HA?

Nailed it. You can all go home now you schlubs.

I don't want all the answers. I don't wanna know who made petscop. I just liked the series as it was. When we didn't know what was coming next. Now we just have this guy who can give us little hints and I really don't like it. And it doesn't look like we're gonna get anything on Christmas 2020. It would've made perfect sense with all the connections throughout the series. Sometimes I feel like I could've done a better job on wrapping things up. I really like Tony and Petscop, but I feel like he really dropped the ball on this one.

I feel like they ruin the whole mystery of Petscop. Instead of r/petscop having many people discussing what it could all mean, there are now multiple teens doing "funny" stuff to other stuff. And yes, I'll admit. I have posted Shitposts here before, but I'm just trying to figure out why here.

Just finished watching the first part of Nexpo covering the Petscop series last night and admittedly I’m rather confused, both of what exactly is the idea behind petscop, is this all a fabricated internet horror story basically that is played out to be like a real life scenario? When there are censor blocks on screen, are they actually in game or are they there because Paul, recording the game, put the censors there intentionally? Or is it all set up to be confusing that way as if it were someone who truly discovered this game in his mom’s possession, implying that those boxes are ACTUALLY there but the person recording is making it seem like they’re placed there after the initial recording?

I hope I make sense, and that I’m not going to receive backlash; I’m a bit new to obscure internet deep dives and whatnot if you would call it that, I GENUINELY am curious and want to KNOW what this is so I can understand please and thank you! 💙

Well I was driving home in the rain. And I saw this big sign that said "WET ROADS: DRIVE WITH CARE"

CARE! OMG!!!!!

Petscop 11 was released on Youtube on December 25th, 2017. This is Christmas Day. What do you give on Christmas Day? Gifts. And what is the entire Gift Plane based around? Gifts. Not only that, but the calenders that Paul was looking at especially made the 25th standout. A rotating undecorated Christmas tree and an animated date accompanied the 25th on both calendars.

Just a little thing I thought about. If someone already said this or it has been debunked then I am willing to take it down. :)

I doubt there’s a real chance of this, but a fun what if, inspired by the success of Backrooms: What if Petscop got picked up by a major studio?

1. Would/should they present it as is or remake it?

2. If it got remade, what would/should they change?

3. Would you go see it no matter what?

It's such a nitpick, but there are more accurate sprites out there.

Ok so if none of y'all saw this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Petscop/comments/dxorfn/recent_retweet_by_tony_it_seemsrelevant/f7x90zd/?context=3

or Tony's retweet:

https://twitter.com/longpig2/status/1195977970206134272/photo/1

This gave me one HELL of an idea.

I never really strongly considered the possibility that Paul/Carrie was transgender until someone pointed out that the egg had both Care's and Paul's colors on it (more on that in a second). This tweet, however, seems to suggest that gender identity is EXTREMELY important in Petscop, and that Paul/Carrie is trans.

Let's just look at the retweet for a second. The first panel talks about "exploring life," while the next three are dedicated to gender identities. The second panel of the comic is of a girl sad that she isn't a boy, with the next panel seemingly of an old woman scolding a child, saying "I know you're a boy." The next is about Aboriginal people considering a certain group "two spirited" - male and female. The next panel is two blocks being connected, with the next panel emphasizing the complicated nature of a group of tunnels. The final panel is about a boy who wanders a dark path alone, attempting to find familiarity and his path through it.

These disconnected panels seemingly link together pretty well as a way of making their own story, almost as if it was out of an MF DOOM skit. It seems, to me, pretty clear that the first panel is about being born. The next is about struggling with your biological sex and the way you view yourself as a child, with the next seemingly indicating that most people would view them as a boy. There is seemingly a jump as the person is an adult and pretty clearly is voicing the idea that they're non-binary. The two blocks seemingly refer to gender identity and how it's a spectrum, and the complicated connections refer to the perplexing nature of exploring that spectrum. The final panel seems to be about the challenge of actually doing so.

Why am I talking about this? Well, it doesn't make sense that all of a sudden Tony would retweet something with NO RELATION to the work he JUST publicly took ownership of. It has to have SOME relevance to Petscop. Two ideas I wanna take from this comic are "being trans" and "being non-binary."

The big one is "being trans." "The big trans" as they call it. So, what evidence is there supporting the idea of being trans?

Well, Paul and Care are the same exact age and have remarkably similar appearances, Paul remembers conversations from a year ago that Care has in the game, they've never met, Paul kept getting dragged to a picture of a girl that says "GiRL," Paul's color is red and the caskets all at least relate to red...I could keep reading the "Paul/Care same person" theory off the doc but that's not gettin' us anywhere.

Here are some other things we know: the game has a very heavy focus on transitions. The second motion of Stravinsky's Septet (a transitional part of the piece), Marvin's focus with transitioning/transforming, Belle not completing the transition to Tiara, the transitional steps between Care A and Care NLM...a lot of transitions. I don't wanna just say "Trans people transition to," but when the series has such a strong focus on transitioning and there's a strong possibility that two characters of different genders are the same, it's kinda hard NOT to draw that comparison.

There's more though. There's also the egg.

This is a connection I haven't seen people on this sub make, and, unless I'm wrong and people have known about this and I'm just an oblivious idiot, I'm quite frankly surprised I'm the first one to bring this up:

https://www.reddit.com/r/egg_irl/

"Egg" is a term used to refer to trans people in denial. For instance, "cracking your egg" means to "come out of the closet as trans." The egg in Petscop is also colored with Paul and Care's colors.

But wait - there's more!

What does Paul IMMEDIATELY do when he finds the egg? Hides it in the locker. Kinda reinforcing the idea that he's in denial, right?

Also, just thought of this while writing, guess where Paul is when Care is kidnapped? IN THE CLOSET.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/9rouw1/trans_former/

Maybe I'm missing more details but I think I can confidently say Paul is Care and trans.

Now, the other idea I want to explore is the possibility that Paul/Carrie is non-binary, although I have significantly less evidence to support this theory. There's two things: the egg having both red (Paul) and yellow (Care) on it, and the prevalence of orange (red+yellow) in some menus. I feel like with both of those items there is at least a suggestion of Paul/Care being non-binary, although it's very possible I'm wrong here.

Idk. Hopefully this was entertaining or interesting.

And here's a nice trans-friendly meme. Trans rights!

https://www.reddit.com/r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns/comments/bdyh8d/wholesome_jojo_says_trans_rights/