Usually I would say this in a fun and joking way,
but in all honesty, today's episode deals with very serious, very sad,
and very scary topics. This is without question
the darkest, most emotional episode of Game Theory to date. Just be warned: This episode gets intense.
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Hello, Internet!
Welcome to Game Theory!
So... You made it past that initial warning, huh? Consider yourself brave, do ya'?
Well, it's now time to get serious and scary.
Today we're talking about Petscop,
The scariest game that, sadly, you'll probably never play.
You see, five months ago, March 12th, 2017
a brand new YouTube channel began uploading let's play videos of an incomplete
PlayStation 1 style game entitled Petscop. The person playing, who never introduces himself,
But we'll call Paul, since that's what he names his save file,
Simply says that Petscop is a game that he found and that he's uploading videos of it to prove that everything
he's been saying about this game is real.
[Paul: This is just to, um..
Prove to you...
That I'm not lying about this game that I found.]
He starts it up
and it immediately feels like Pokemon. Our mission is to collect quirky little creatures called Pets, not by battling them
but rather by solving puzzles.
For instance, one pet named Wavy is a rain cloud,
so you catch its water droplets in a bucket. Another named Pen, hides on a keyboard and you have to use a treadmill to match
its notes.
Janky fanfare blats out every time a new Pet is added to your collection.
This area is known as The Gift Plane, and the first
signpost tells us that this world once "provided home to over a hundred different pets."
but now only 48 remain. Another sign encourages us to find somebody that we like, that "we don't have to love them right away".
Huh... That's an odd thing to say... And the third tells us not to be discouraged if the pets run.
they do want a home,
but they're just afraid and that it's our job to show them that there's nothing to fear. Okay, sure but then in the process of
Solving the next puzzle Paul proceeds to steal the water from a flower
Smack its head with a bucket cause it to wilt and then, huzzah!
A new pet is caught. Not quite the way to show our new pet kindness
But hey, it filled up one of our slots in the "PokeDex"! In the first couple minutes
You can already tell that things in this game are a bit...
Unsettling. The game is unfinished, the sound effects are distorted and weird, the in-game text just feels... Off.
And let's be honest: your character has an olive-green butt for a face.
But in six minutes into the first video of the series when things start to get really unusual.
Paul reveals that he found a note with the game telling the player to go to a specific room and punch in a code.
As soon as he does this the goofy music cuts off
Something about this game has changed.
He leaves the building and we're suddendly no longer in the white and pink world of the gift plane
But in some sort of underworld. A layer beneath the surface game.
And this is where the true mystery of Petscop begins.
It's in this underworld where over the next nine videos
We watch Paul encounter dead children,
disfigured Sprites, Paul censoring images for unknown reasons and a haunted cursed game
capable of acting on its own.
Now, It should be fairly obvious that pets cough is a game created by Paul,
But can we admire the meta-ness of this for a second?
It's a fake let's play of a fake game,
purposely built with glitched code and a dark hidden secret all in an attempt to create a real-life
CreepyPasta like the story of Ben Drowned.
You know the one the tale of a child who died and went on to possess a copy of Zelda Majora's mask, but unlike other
Creepypastas that are based on fictional stories, Petscop's biggest scare comes from the fact that over the course of exploring this underground world
It's telling you as the viewer a real story. A story that will disgust and anger you.
The story the game is trying to tell. The story I'm about to tell you now is one that'll make you go cold.
Why I left that disclaimer at the top of the video
April 18, 2000, Evergreen, Colorado.
Born into an abusive home, Candace Tiara Elmore had been taken away from her family by Social services at age five,
separated from her younger siblings, Michael and Chelsea. After two years of being passed around between
foster homes, Candace had finally been adopted by a middle-aged nurse named Jean Newmaker
With the adoption would come a new life for Candace, as well as a new name: Candace Elizabeth Newmaker.
But the adoption wasn't a smooth one. Jean reported that Candace exhibited severe psychological and behavioral problems
Setting fires in the house.
Assaulting other children.
Destroying property.
It's...
unclear whether these reports are true, as others claim Candace was a sweet and polite child,
but regardless when medication and counseling prove ineffective at healing their relationship,
Jean decided to try an experimental new form of treatment aimed at helping adopted children connect with their new parents.
Something known as:
That Tuesday morning as a part of her two weeks of treatment,
10 year-old Candace Newmaker was meant to simulate being born as a means of helping her reattach to her new mother. As a part
of this so-called:
"Rebirthing",
2 Therapists wrapped Candace in a flannel blanket, covered her in pillows then sat on her, along with two other fully grown adults.
673 pounds of combined weight pressing on the girl's face, chest and
70-pound body. The following lines are direct excerpts from the transcript of the session and again, I offer you one final warning
Click to the time stamp you see pictured on screen if you'd like to skip this section.
"So little baby... Are you ready to be born? if you stay in there
You're going to die, and your mommy is going to die."
That's one of the two therapists in the room speaking to Candace in her make her believe the blanket womb. In these first few minutes
Candace is clearly confused about what she's meant to do as a part of this roleplay
"Where am I supposed to come out? Right here where my finger is?" No response.
After struggling to free herself for seven minutes Candace cries out: "Who's sitting on me? I can't do it. I can't do it
I can't breathe please quit pushing on my head. I can't do it." Still no response. For the next 10 minutes
she continues to cry for help for Oxygen. Candace begins to shout that she's dying. Still no response.
Sixteen minutes in, Candace, confused and desperate to escape
asks: "you want me to die for real? Die right now and go to heaven?" The therapist replies, still sitting on her:
20 minutes In. Still stuck in a blanket under the combined weight of
673 pounds, Candace begins to vomit and defecate onto herself. The only response from the two therapists:
"Go ahead. Stay in there with the poop and vomit."
40 minutes in. Therapist:
"She gets to be stuck in her own puke and poop! it's her own life!
Quitter !
Quitter !
Quitter !
Quitter !
Quitter !
Quit ! , Quit !
Quit ! , Quit
She's a quitter! this baby doesn't want to live! She's a quitter! At this point, Candace has gone silent
Still. And yet the torture continues.
70 minutes. After wrapping this ten-year-old in a blanket and sitting on her, the five adults in the room finally decide that she can come
out, saying
Upon seeing her lying on the ground:
"Oh! There she is!
Sleeping in her vomit." but obviously Candace wasn't sleeping. She had passed out due to the lack of oxygen
Her brain now dead. Her face and fingers blue. She died later that day. A year later, the two
Therapists would be found guilty of reckless child abuse, receiving a 16 year prison sentence of which they served 7.
Everyone else in the room, the two other adults sitting on the child as well as Jean Newmaker who watched it all happen only
received minor slaps on the wrist . Obviously this is a horrific story the tragedy of an innocent girl raised in the worst possible situation.
Mistreated by greedy and callous individuals. It's awful, showcasing some of the worst depths of humanity possible.
But I shared it with you because connecting the events of Candice Newmaker's story to the haunted game Petscop
helps explain the core themes and disturbing imagery of this creepy web series. The first and most obvious
connection is that you are called Newmaker in the game. In one of the underground rooms you find a device named Tool that answers
the questions that you ask. When Paul asks who am I?
It responds with Newmaker. when asked where am I? The answer it returns is under the Newmaker plane
So already we see a direct name connection
But that's far from the only one. In Petcop part 3 Paul finds a note with a lot of disturbing information on it
but the sentence that stands out reads Tiara says young people can be
Psychologically damaged beyond rebirthing not only do we have the mention of rebirthing the same procedure that took candace's life
But the name tiara appears to be a direct reference to Candace Tiara
Elmore. Her birth name
before being adopted by Jean Newmaker. This connection is further supported by a note found during petscop 2. It reads
Do you remember being born ? Questions similar to what the therapists asked Candace
before she was wrapped in blankets?
Interestingly enough when you asked that same question back to tool it responds with I am not Tiara again
reinforcing the idea of birth with Tiara and implying that she does
understand being born or at least
Understands the concept of being reborn the I am not Tiara can also be a reference to Tiara no longer being
Candace's real name after her rebirth she had been reborn as a new maker it's also worth noting in a huge piece of evidence
Supporting this theory that the do you remember being born note is found on the wall of a room
that is clearly labeled as the quitter's room a direct reference to candace's story where the
therapists repeat over and over
Quitter quitter
Quit there are also other smaller name parallels as well for instance Petcop was supposedly made by the company
Garalina a completely made-up game developer candace is born and adopted in the state of, North Carolina
Candace in real life also had a brother named Michael and there just so happens to be a child
Tombstone in the game with the name Michael on it and of course the name
Candace is only one letter off from one of the pet names in the game
Randice that last point also brings up one of the recurring themes that we see
Present throughout Petcop the parallels between the pets and children
Because in the game you can actually catch bolt on the gift plane remember the cute and fun top world you catch pets
Birds Plants Little Purple meatballs in the
underground the New Maker Plane
We see Paul catch a crying human girl named care listed in the pet roster as care
Nlm and we know that she is a human the game makes this distinction very clear in the underground
There's a building called the child library
It's a building filled with room for thousands of children in fact you can visit the rooms of both care and Michael
But there's also a hole in the front
It's kind of like an atm where you can make
Deposits when Paul tries to deposit one of his pets in episode seven the game clearly gives them the prompt that the child library only
Accepts people, but when he tries to deposit care nlm in video 9 it works
Establishing that as new maker you are catching everything
It's also worth noting the significant parallels between the gift plane and the Newmaker plane
designs that appear in the background animation of the gift plane directly
Reference patterns you see on blocks hidden in various rooms throughout the underground with actions performed on the surface level directly
Impacting what's happening down below for instance Paul walking on the treadmill in the keyboard room times out perfectly?
It was in plucking flower petals underground in the Newmaker plane times out
Exactly it just goes to show that these two worlds are connected with the game trying to prove the point that
Adoption to some people like Jean Newmaker is the equivalent of getting themselves a new pet in fact the themes of adoption and forced
Love are perhaps the defining
Feature of Petcop as I mentioned before the signs at the very beginning of the game tell you that the pets want to find
A good home, but that they'll run because they're scared
Your job is to show them love
Instead you trick them beat them and trap them in order to catch them even care NLM the in-game
description makes it clear that you lied to her in order to
Capture her and this is just like Candace and other children looking for adoption they're looking for a good home and although they're scared
Through love and patience they'll eventually learn love and trust their new parents, but just like Paul's character in the game
Jean Newmaker used violence to try and Force Candace to love her. In fact, Here's a quote from one of the websites
Covering the Newmaker story, she acted not like a mother but an outraged consumer
She seems to have thought that when she adopted candace
She had a right to a normal parent-child relationship when Candace's natural bond with the mother she'd shown for her first six years
Persisted Newmaker took Candace Evergreen to be cured of it. End quote.
This mentality is reflected through the recurring gift imagery present throughout the game both pets and children and pets
Cop are seen as gifts the gift plane is where the player can find a pet to bring home in the underworld,
Micheal's grave is in the shape of a gift box the quote on his tombstone
Is that Mike was a gift this parallels the real-life saying that a child is a gift from God
but it makes the child into a commodity rather than a
person and just like a gift it promotes the idea that the child can be returned if it's
Defective in pet scoff the little girl care has three forms care A, a happy healthy girl
Care B, one where she's growing sad and care NLM one who is broken
Covering her eyes and crying
It's well established in the Petcop community that the NLM stands for nobody loves me
But the game shows us through her description that there is hope for care. You're the newmaker you can turn care
NLM to Care A and close the loop instead
Immediately after reading that paul abandons her dropping her off in the deposit slot in front of the child
Library and getting the message you've decided to leave care and lm in case you change your mind in six months
You can take her back
She had the ability to recover
But instead he gives up on her returning her like a defective item from the store
Care was a gift
Just a gift that he didn't want it's the same in real life as between ten and twenty five percent of us
adoptions and in similar Sorts of returns the big number and if there was still doubt in the connection between
Candace's story and Petcop look at the dates
Canvas died in April of 2000 exactly one year later in april of 2001 the
Therapists were sentenced to 16 years in prison
16 years on April 1st
2017 petscop's second video was uploaded the one where the locked door
Allowing access to the Newmaker plane and Candace's story
Mysteriously opens up on its own after Paul himself admits that he's never been able to figure out how it opens before
April
2017 a exactly 16 years after trial the exact date when the
Therapists were supposed to be released from prison
Bringing the Candace story to a close the story of Candace and what she represents adopted children struggling to find loving homes
Those aren't stories that should remain buried under happy-Go-lucky facades and pets
Cop is a game that seems to want to ensure that these stories continue to be heard I added to it a bit here
But the Candace Newmaker Theory is currently the most
widely accepted of the Petscop fan theories pieced together by an incredible fan community picking apart every detail of this cryptic webseries and
Personally I'm a firm believer the parallels are just too strong to real-life that said I don't
Believe, it's the whole story there is
So much to unpack in this webseries the mysterious items pulse sensors the character of Mike hammond tool
Getting possessed the disappearing windmill Arvin and the black monster man who the game was originally made for and on and on
and on if you are at all interested
I encourage you to join that community of theorists and give the series a look it is a great group
that is well worth your time trying to unwrap something that has
Clearly had a lot of time and attention put into it it is my hope that we'll get another installment
Or who knows maybe even an actual version of the game sometime soon?
But until then I think the most appropriate way to end today's episode is to tell someone that you love them
Tell them that they're important to you and that you appreciate them
No one should ever have to go through this world thinking that nobody loves them. So share some love today and remember
It's all just a theory not the love just the game
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