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darkness-in-the-valley · 2 years ago

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A DEEPER ANALYSIS ON THE FALL OUT BOY CLAYMATION VIDEO

Fall out boy released a claymation video on Christmas, as a celebration of Fall Out Boy video and a promotional video of FOB8. It certainly… is something! I believe that a lot of this has a way deeper meaning than just what we’re seeing on the surface. I wanna take a deep dive into the analysis of the video, since there are plenty of hidden details that, knowing Fall Out Boy, cannot just be coincidences.

QUICK WARNING: there will be some mentions/imagery of drugs, and kinda vomit. It's not at all graphic, but I just thought that it might be better to give a heads-up just in case.

A SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

First, I’ll give a quick summary of the video before I go on.

The video starts out with stars falling from the sky, as the camera pans down to a Doberman sitting in a backyard. As he lies down, the falling stars emerge from the bushes and approach the dog. He stares curiously as they move toward him and sprinkles stardust onto him. As he inhales it, he starts sneezing, before his doghouse behind him reveals a portal somewhere. The dog appears intimidated as he sees a green, octopus-like monster drag him through the portal unwillingly.

He’s taken to a much larger purple monster, so large that he can stand on its tongue. He drags his tongue back into his mouth with the dog on it and swallows him. The dog looks confused as standing around him are bright neon hands, regurgitating some kind of green substance. A lot of them appear to be dying.

There is one much larger hand that gets up from the ground and looks toward the dog. The hand points towards an image on the wall of a dog, surrounded by hands, and arrows pointing towards it, and he is dragged over to this painting by the hand. The door opens to a beach, where the hands seem excited to see. The dog enters the beach, the hand leaves, and he is welcomed by more creatures coming out behind the palm trees.

A centipede like creature, and a dinosaur like creature approach the dog, and the centipede turns into a door. The dog is pushed through the door, and is pushed into what seems like the same backyard as he was in from the beginning, but daytime. There’s a man, assumingly the owner of the dog, grilling burgers, and he tosses one to the dog. As the dog is about to eat it, the owner turns around and reveals many faces all over his body. The video ends with the dog barking up at the owner somewhat abruptly.

ANALYSIS

Now that we know the video, let's take a deeper look into the details and what this video could mean:

The dog’s dimension

We’ll start from the beginning. The blue skies and the stars seem very similar to the cover of Infinity on High. We’ll get into why this is important later, but it definitely has an influence on the references made in this video.

The stars sprinkle stardust on the dog, which is what seems to be the thing that kickstarts his journey through this alternate dimension.

Stardust can refer to a few things: -Stardust is a slang term for cocaine -Stardust can refer to a person’s soul being dreamlike

-Stardust also can refer to the stars and supernovae which lead to the birth of the earth, and actually is what science refers to as the things that humans are made of (97% mostly as carbon is the thing which kickstarted the creation of earth, and is what all life is made of)

So lets apply what all of these meanings can mean for this video: For the first definition, stardust is a hallucinogen, and the dog inhaling this could mean he is “hallucinating” what happens. Immediately after he inhales it is when his doghouse opens to another dimension. I don’t believe he’s hallucinating it, but it could be the thing which lead to him seeing this alternate dimension– maybe its a drug which allows people to enter this dimension.

The second one could be that maybe this is a dream the dog is having, or that his soul is entering another plane of existence. However, it seems like its truly happening, so the soul explanation may make a bit more sense.

The third is one that could be just a reach. Or it could have something to do with something I’ll mention later, about the end of the video and the man himself.

I’m considering all options, but the first seems the most likely.

Purple monster layer

Next, we’ll talk about the dimension itself:

The dog is brought to the first layer of this dimension. I was not able to find any smaller significant details except for the monster having eight eyes, and some are a yellowish green while others seem to be bluish green. I don’t know if this means anything other than a tease for fob8. There doesn’t seem to be too much of note here, so for now, let’s move on.

The monster’s stomach

Let’s think about the stomach of the monster. The hands are suggesting they were expecting the dog, almost excitedly as they point towards the drawing of the dog on the wall, and this wall opens up an entrance to the next world. If the door is inside the monster’s stomach, are they living inside of the monster? It is the thing the dog entered through.

The dog is emphasized by the markings on the wall. There are three hands pointing up, and three pointing right when facing them. These hands are right hands, which will be important later. The existing hands in the stomach appear to be all left hands. There are right hands, but the only ones I can see are dead ones. Not all the dead hands are right hands, but all the right hands are dead if that makes sense. They seem to be sick from something, as they are vomiting some kind of substance.

If we know anything from this video, if they've all been sent by the same stars, it's possible this drug they've been given could mean they're OD'ing, since it is a common symptom. I’ll be mentioning why this is applicable later, but green inverted would appear as red. Could it be they’re coughing up blood?

The beach layer

The next thing we see is a beach. Something that’s been really consistent throughout what we know of this storyline.

The pink shell beach website changed as soon as this video dropped. When clicking on the seashell it now reads: “The beach was never real, none of it is”, and opening the console refers to it as a red herring. The beach has been the most difficult thing to decipher, because although its supposedly not real, its still a theme in what we’re looking at.

Obviously, this beach has to exist on some level, otherwise why would we have seen this dog entering a beach? It can’t be a coincidence.

But wait, it isn’t pink is it? It’s primarily green, but green is also a complementary color to pink. When inverted, it would appear pink/red. It could be that the colors are inverted in this reality. We can assume this as the trees are a dark purple and when inverted, will look brown- the way our reality perceives them.

We are playing an alternate reality game though.

It’s not that this beach isn’t real:

It does not exist on the same dimension we are, and to us, does not exist.

The final part: dog returns to his own dimension

Now lets analyze the final part of the video, the backyard.

The dog stayed overnight in this dimension, although he was only there was for seconds, which may suggest time passes much quicker in this dimension. If the man was grilling burgers, then we can assume this is later in the day as well, so he was there for longer than just overnight.

The man is obviously friendly despite his appearance that we see. He feeds the dog, he smiles towards him, and continues to smile despite revealing his appearance. I assume this man must be the dog’s owner if both he and the dog are already friendly with each other and the man does not question him appearing in his backyard. The dog only seems scared of him once he notices the faces on his body, as if he isn't who he thought he was.

The faces on his body however, seem angry and in distress as they shout, the man himself is calm.

I’ve been made aware (credit to @ive-traced-your-shadows for this one) that one face, on the right wrist seems to have blue eyes, and is the only one while the others have dark eyes black or brown.

Does this have correlation with the right hands on the wall of the monster’s stomach brought up earlier? Is there a reason why there are so many hands swallowed by this monster? Why are the right hands dead?

I believe this could be a reference to GINASFS, “trade baby blues for wide-eyed browns” which could be a metaphor. This metaphor has been explained as losing your innocence, as people are born with blue eyes but as they mature, may turn brown.

Are the innocent hands dead? Does this mean innocence is no longer alive in most people, but maybe to this man who may only have an ounce of innocence left? Are the drugs and the trips they caused a symbolism of losing innocence?

Once again, @ive-traced-your-shadows has added onto these thoughts, suggesting coming out of “the other side of the apocalypse” definitely would drain you of whatever innocence you have left, or at least most of it in the case of this man. Drugs and the apocalypse would certainly get to anyone's head.

I would also like to mention the man being in swimming trunks, having a barbecue, suggests this is summer time.

This is worth noting as this means we have at least one reference of three seasons so far.

“Spring training” in the sending my love to the other side console.

“I’m in a winter mood” when clicking on the seashell from the same site, and the date the song snippet was dropped.

And now, likely this, the video taking place in the summer.

The only one we seem to be missing is autumn, if it doesn’t yet exist.

Or maybe it already does… Could it be “grand theft autumn”?

But what would it have to do with this video in particular, it sounds like a reach on surface level doesn’t it?

We’ve been given snippets of a promotional image, and @ive-traced-your-shadows has stitched them together. If you take a look, they look very similar to a specific album cover, don’t they? The same album that would have grand theft autumn. Is this album relevant to what's to come?

EDIT: this has been confirmed by the fall out boy tumblr, but I'm still giving credit to him for getting it right lol

The music snippet

We get a few seconds of a music snippet at the end, and its DEFINITELY giving off earlier FOB vibes, leaning more towards punk rock than they have in recent years (well… recent album its been like 5 years so its not very recent in terms of time, but we’re gonna ignore that).

Several people have brought up that its similar to “Alpha Dog” which would make sense, this whole video is centered around a dog.

“Alpha Dog and OMEGAlomaniac” for now are the only lyrics I think are relevant, and it's mostly the sound that's similar. We might have to wait and see what the song is.

I will say though, omegalomaniac is a play on megalomaniac (don’t say it don’t think it-) which means someone who is crazy with/for power. Whether its applicable or not I’m not sure.

What’s the apocalypse?

Another thing we haven’t answered yet is, where is this dog and this man living? Where is this set? Well, let’s take a look. They’re living in a suburban area, the weather is sunny and warm, and there are palm trees in the background.

A beach perhaps? The pink seashell beach background does have a lot of houses.

I’ve been thrown off by “The beach isn’t real”. Was it meant to throw us off from our search? Is it really a red herring or do they want us to think it isn’t? Is it possible that maybe they don’t want us to think its real?

Even if it isn't real, it doesn't remove it from the analysis. The beach exists on some level, even if not on our world.

And then there’s the apocalypse, which I've barely touched on yet.

As we see, the dimension has started to affect the plane of existence the dog is on, as the monsters were the first to approach the dog. Everything seemed to be normal in terms of our reality- until the man revealed himself to be a monster himself. Are monsters affecting the reality? Is this the beginning of them starting the apocalypse? Monsters seem to be affecting the reality, and since the dog seems to know the man we see at the ending of the video can mean a few things:

-The monsters are affecting him

-The monsters are taking his place

A running theme in the past of Fall Out Boy is turning people into monsters (Patrick in the Youngblood Chronicles comes to mind, and Pete as a vampire in the Sixteen Candles music video), and if we’re correct about the loss of innocence, the passing of the apocalypse, then it could be this man is turning into a monster before our eyes. And as we can see, the man himself is not hostile, but the faces appear to be. They are clearly separate from who he is.

The beach could be the start of the apocalypse, and might be why for some reason it isn’t considered real.

I don't have a for sure answer yet on what pink seashell beach could be, so I'm throwing several ideas out there, in case it sounds contradictory.

CONCLUSION

We are getting references to a lot of albums here. Pink shell beach is going to be very important to this story, it is more than just a red herring. We may be seeing alternate dimensions and I have a feeling we could be getting another storyline with this album. The monsters are likely starting the apocalypse as they traverse our world. There is so much I am not able to sum up in just a few sentences.

BUT HEY, THATS JUST A TH-

I plan on adding more thoughts to this as I get more ideas, more connections- I am far from finished with my thoughts. I’m sure we are going to be getting a lot of more things over the next few months (especially if we could be getting this album in the spring/summer).

These are just my thoughts, my word isn’t law of course. I don’t have answers for everything yet but I still feel a lot of these things are at least important to bring up.

Thank you to my husband @ive-traced-your-shadows who helped me out with this a ton as well ily.

If there’s anything anyone would like to point out, add onto, suggest, or give insight to what may be important to some of the things I’ve mentioned (especially if anyone is familiar with coding and can find some important info on these websites)- I would love to hear your thoughts! I am most certain that people will have a better clue about things than what I currently do.