#exhales like i just finihsed running a marathon

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hey, sorry, i only started watching gravity falls since northwest mansion mystery, what are half of these theories what the fuck

HHH. I WILL TRY TO GIVE A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF EACH.

grunkle4grandpa: answered

mystery trio: fiddleford, ford, and stanley all investigated gravity falls together preportal. this lives on as an au

lebam: answered

the author is the Main Bad Guy: self explanatory. most popular right after nwhs when no one knew what was happening. arguably had a few iterations since ppl theorized ford would join bill in weirdmageddon (insert grimace emoji here)

dipper has been possessed by bill This Whole Time: this was. an entire fuckin phenomena. the idea is that bills deal in sock opera was open ended enough that bill could either possess dipper whenever he wanted or never stopped possessing him. people would pick apart every action dipper did and every screenshot with any pupil distortion as proof. it was wild.

carla mccorkle in general: idk some people thought shed show up again as a real character instead of just be in flashbacks occasionally but she never did :^( shed pop up in mystery trio stuff sometimes

robbie is actually a zombie: zombie drawing has a hoodie. robbie also has a hoodie. same guy. thats the whole theory

'stans tattoo' is a demon ward: one theory about stans scar was that it was a tattoo he got to protect against demonic possession. looking back im sure why this caught on so much since. bill has been in his mind before. it was kind of a big thing

tad strange is a dream demon: keeping in mind this is 2015 and nightvale is still very fresh in everyones mind, cecil baldwin updates his website to say he worked on gravity falls voicing a character named ‘tad strange.’ everyone loses their mind over this and decides that this MUST mean there is a new dream demon character coming to the show based on, nothing,. fan art ensues. he is given a fanon design and a backstory. the actually episode with 2 second gag character tad strange drops and everyone promptly tries to forget that happened. like overnight

dark!dipper: i could and have written whole paragraphs describing this theory and how complicated it got but BASICALLY its a theory that dipper would become evil/join bill/etc. id argue the ‘possessed the whole time’ theory came out of this

triangle guy has no plot significance: from really early on when bills only appearance was that flash of a journal page in the intro

mcgucket wrote the journals: and finally, the red herring from mr hirsch himself,