#ranboo theory

[serashalala]

Generation Loss's Mind Manipulation; A theory by a tired college student

OK. GENERATION LOSS. That was a ride and it’s not even done!

Fuckin loved it, by the way. It was so good. I loved everyone's acting and Sneeg's realization part gave me literal fucking chills as well as Slime screaming and Austin freaking out while Ranboo n Sneeg were just chill.

FUCK that was cool. Thank you @ranboolivesaysstuff for sharing this with us.

Anyway, here’s a nerd dump on the entire mind control thing. I’m not exactly a genius but I’m studying neurosci as one of my college units and this is basically the gist of how I understand the mind control aspect that this is showing.

SO. 

You recognize this? This is the device that we think is controlling Ranboo’s mind. It’s at the back part of the brain, and easily this leads to two possible structures that it can influence: the occipital lobe of the cerebrum and the cerebellum. However, we don’t really know HOW deep this device goes considering Ranboo’s lucious locks of hair covering the rest of the mask and the fact that we don’t know if this is the only thing penetrating the brain.

Anyway, let’s discuss what we know which is that it’s likely latched onto the back part and thus likely embedded onto the cerebral occipital lobe and/or the cerebellum

The occipital lobe is at the back part of the head, and as you see on the picture below, it’s the visual area (mostly).

To make me sound more professional and shit let me introduce to you the brodmann areas. Brodmann areas divide the cerebrum by its function.

Area 17, 18, and 19.

Area 17 is the primary visual area. This is where you see shit. If the device’s influence is only as deep as area 17 then Ranboo is either literally blinded by the device OR the device intercepts what his eyes are really seeing. Damage to this area will lead to literal blindness or difficulty to see.

Area 18 and 19 however are the secondary visual area, otherwise known as the visual association area. This is where you recognize the things that you see. Damage to this leads to dyschromatopsia (color blindness), and visual agnosia (inability to perceive visual stimuli.). 

Basically to explain, as an example you see an apple. That’s the job of area 17. However, you don’t really know yet that it’s an apple. To know that an apple is an apple, you tap into area 18 and 19– the visual association area.

The device LIKELY reaches into this area because the entire time, Ranboo doesn’t recognize that he’s on a show set and he doesn’t see the people on the set like the directors and the staff. What he does see is a 4th wall.

Upon deactivation of the device, only then does he recognize that oh shit, that isn’t a wall. 

Does it stop there? Ok, why not go deeper?

Next to Area 19 is area 37. This is the Facial Recognition area. It's self explanatory if Ranboo's mind control device goes that deep.

How about Area 39 and 7? They're both Someasthetic areas. 39 and 40 specifically have a lot to do with memory, emotion, behavior, sex. rage, fear, and pain.

Area 7 integrates sensory inputs-- it draws upon stored memories of past sensory experiences. This area aint that deep tho ngl, it's basically the part that goes: yo, this fire thing burns you, maybe don't touch it. This can be as deep as you want to interpret it being.

Edit: I WAS RIGHT ABOUT THIS. Ranboo's stream confirms it SCREAMING RIGHT NOW. THEY SAID. "Change someone's perception of reality, and they will act how you want." SCREAMING CRYING WAILING SOBBING. I KNEW IT. The next parts of the theory will be further discussing the things that MAY still apply, alongside the things that Ranboo almost confirmed.

Next suspected area:

The cerebellum. 

The cerebellum is mostly responsible for a lot of important things (as are the rest of the brain but let me get into it)

The cerebellum has 3 main functions: maintenance of posture and balance; maintenance of muscle tone; and coordination of voluntary motor activity. 

You see where I’m going for here?

The cerebellum is a likely attachment site of the device because it is gunning for that motor activity and posture and balance. It controls the agonist and antagonist coordination of the muscles to make sure that there’s no jerky movements going on. As for posture and balance, it can affect your movements so that you don’t look robotic, and so that you don’t have to voluntarily maintain your posture. Maintenance of muscle tone has the same idea.

It is also the best bet because it has its lapses.

While it controls a lot of motor function, it isn’t the only site of motor control in the body. There’s other areas, like the Basal Nuclei, the motor area of the cerebrum (brodmann area 4 and 6) and the spinalcord (though this is more on reactionary shit).

It makes the device fallible where the fine motor movements (such as in the fingertips, where the cerebellum controls less of) is less prone to influence by the device, leading to this nifty clip right here:

And this here too:

They're able to do morse code with his hands, the fingers.

And, chances are, the reason they have a mask in the first place is because it’s significantly more difficult to reach the area that controls the facial expressions since that is a direct connection from the brain to the face via the Facial Nerve that stems anteriorly to from the brainstem. It’d be hard to reach from behind especially. (unless the device yanknow, snuck around the spine or something idk)

So if the connection is posterior, they’d have difficulty reaching that (to a safe extent, at least. We have no idea how deep it goes.

Then again, we don’t know the function of the rest of the mask.

Now for some close competitors of where the mind control device is attached/penetrating!

"But sera, what if it influences at a lower level than the occipital lobe or the cerebellum?"

Cervical spine C1 Level

Difficult to defend. That leaves the problem of Ranboo's speech control. The lower the level the less things it's able to influence. At C1 level, a person's speech, which is something Ranboo's clearly being influenced over, can't be damaged from this level.

"How are we so sure that it's at the back??"

Because it's the clearest shot we've got with that weird circle thing.

Frontal Lobe

This one is a good contender. The Frontal Lobe has the Decision and / or Judgement Center of the brain (area 10, more to be mentioned about this later), as well as the motor areas (areas 4 and 6), and twisting that could lead to being able to change what a person does when faced with a stimuli as well as a bigger portion of voluntary movement.

However, this one is difficult to visually justify.

While it's true that we can't see much behind the mask, we also can't see it penetrate towards the frontal lobe. Let's say it penetrates through the mouth somehow-- how is Ranboo's diction so clear?

But the reason why it's a very good contender is that it could possibly go through the nose. Did you know that the cribriform plate, the part of the skull where the olfactory nerve goes through, is the easiest to break? and thus it's also the easiest to penetrate?

Issue with that though is that Ranboo has a working sense of smell. The Olfactory nerve (smelling nerve) is easy to disturb.

Anything deeper? More anterior?

Any deeper structures are likely too unimportant-- the diencephalon, pons are all mostly on the hormonal / nonvoluntary actions (breathing, sweat, thirst, hunger, etc). Those aren't too fun to control especially when what you want is a puppet.

The most likely candidate is the basal nuclei, which has a lot to do with movement. However it's mostly useless when you target it because it's goal is to make sure that when you want to raise a glass, you don't yeet it to the sky. It makes sure that you have the right amount of output to the muscle without overcompensating.

So what does the device control?

Both.

Well, not both. All-- err, mostly. Ding ding ding! They're all winners.

Only at its best, though, which was during Episode 1 (when undisturbed)-- NOT episode 2.

At its best, the mask is able to take full function of the brain-- most strongly at where it's sourced, though, which is at the posterior regions. Weaker control is evident when you see the finger taps that Ranboo is still able to do. Think of it as some sort of energy gradient-- most concentrated at the back of the head, and weakest at the front.

At its blinking state, influenced by the outsider, Ranboo regains Control of most of the more anterior parts of the brain, but you'd notice it's still blinking-- it never really fully released Ranboo. Its still got a strong influence at the back portion of the brain.

It takes a lot to rip away its influence from Ranboo, as you can see from what the weird shadowy figure from the TV says in the end where he had to do something to disable it fully before Ranboo breaks the fourth wall.

How do we know that? Let's go back to the clip where Ranboo FULLY 'wakes up':

It took some effort by the hacker to fully release Ranboo, but until that point Ranboo hadn't even seen the 4th wall despite being able to gain autonomy of most their function.

Then let's go back to the part where, when Ranboo's device was 'reset':

You notice how the showbizz person isn't someone they interact with? They don't SEE these people. The device is still on, because it's intercepting with Ranboo's perception.

Let's go back to the announcements then.

We don't get to choose a lot this episode, instead we're subjected to puzzles that have more to do with everyone else BUT Ranboo.

I present to you, Brodmann Area 10

This is the largest area in the frontal lobe, and is incharge of decision making (among other things). We, the audience, can't make decisions as flexibly anymore because they needed a stricter control of the device.

The hacker is able to intercept that flexibility and thus the showfall media reduced the extent of which we're able to control ranboo, taking all that control for themselves. It isn't interactive anymore.

Literally being gatekeeped from the audience, smh.

Now what?

A summary of course.

I suspect that when the lights are on (in the mask), it has a stronger pulse and thus influences a larger chunk of his head, ABLE (but not necessarily) to reach the frontal lobe.

It blinks, then it indicates that its pulse is weaker, but still present (the cerebellum is slightly further to reach than the occipital lobe) which is why his sight might still be influenced.

And lights being gone? That's Ranboo's full autonomy baybee. They're back in business!

As for the others' mind manipulation system, I'm not quite sure yet. Probably could reduce it to having already been subjected to being conditioned, not like our 'fresh' protagonist. I'll probably add onto this when something clicks in the future.

This ended up a lot longer than intended...

Anyway, that’s just a theory, a tired-college-student-from-an-allied-health-course theory. Thanks for reading.

#generation loss #ranboolive #ranboo #generation loss the warehouse #generation loss the cabin #genloss #ranboo's mask #ranboo theory #i theorize now don't you know? #ranboo generation loss #generation loss: mastermind of the warehouse #generation 1: the social experiments #ranboos mask #tw mind manipulation #tw mind control #tw medical stuff #there are probably medical inaccuracies #i've dumbed this down for both you and i because i am not a very smart person #i edit this continuously my bad guys #i find more things to add the more i remember my neuroscience lectures #watch me make another theory on how they can mind control sneeg and the rest of the characters

[infernothechaosgod]

Gen loss theory

okay so we all saw todays episode and we all saw how charlie got absolutley opened up and how ranboo was ripping litte and big things out of him

but then we got a gliched screen and we just had charlie screaming and his guts then turned red, so what I THINK is happending so far is that all of the goofy and funny stuff thats happending is a form of illusion either from some kind of sickness gl! ranboo has or it's more likely an illusion put on him by something or someone

we had the person in TV on the first episode say to not resist and I think what that means the'll will try to save them and that ranboo is safe as long as he belives the illusions but when they'll slowly start seeing more and more glipses of reality he will start to resist it and THAT will bring the accual serious danger upon him

I cant tell what will happend after that though

#gen loss #ranboo generation loss #generation loss #gen loss theory #generation loss theory #ranboo #ranboo live #ranboo theory #theory

[pretty-amorphous-blob]

I am 90% convinced ranboo is a cryptid and he's just convinced us he's human.

He isn't.

#ranboo #ranboo theory

[sully0-0]

New Generation Loss video, I found somethings that might be useless but

I saw this in passing and thought it was interesting (see photo below) so I went through and found it

Why are some letter brighter than others?

The letters found were seemingly random but they could be scrambled

Why does the Twitter one says Ranboo presents instead (photo 1) of Generation Loss presents like the YouTube (photo 2)?

Let me know your thoughts

#generation loss #ranboo #ranboo generation loss #generation loss theory #ish #game theory #youtube creator #youtube #YouTube theory #ranboo theory #ranboo the beloved

[alienssstufff]

You’re gay? For what?

#stufffsart #character concept stufff #Ranboo #ranboo fanart #slimecicle #slimecicle fanart #sneegsnag #sneegsnag fanart #generation loss #genloss #generation loss fanart #hint of the RGBtrio shape language theory but also not bc I’m Different✨ I Don’t Fit In✨

[devilslittletritone]

For those wondering about my GenLoss theory, this is basically what happened last night.

#generation loss #genloss #genloss the social experiments #genloss ranboo #genloss theory #ranboo #genloss tse #genloss hetch #hetch genloss #genloss meme

[average-hua-cheng-fan]

i drew this!

#charlie swallowed the mouse cage because he was losing. #so he either went through the same audition experiment as ranboo and won by eating the pieces #or has been a silly wacky side character in this game before #or the puzzler just really likes mousetrap and plays it recreationally #making it reasonable that he would think the players just want to hang out #both very hilarious possibilities. given the confirmation that he grew up in showfall the hangout theory is more likely #generation loss #genloss #ranboo #slimecicle #charlie slimecicle #jerma #jerma985 #the puzzler #lmao #meme #i speak

[sexy-raccoons]

HOLD THE FUCK UP

we all were laughing at slimecicle’s little “i mean slime i mean slime i mean slime” bit but after todays epiosde and looking back on that scene….

look at his face

his face is falling from that smile his eyes are getting distant he’s looking more and more panicked the longer he’s glitching and then there’s a moment where he seems to snap back into himself and then he gives a smile to the camera before it’s quickly moved to the next scene where it’s passed off as a bit

charlie was slipping out of the mind control

#ranboo #generation loss #genloss #theory #genloss!ranboo #genloss!charlie #gl!slimecicle

[peachypunchh]

so the jrwi twitter account posted those emojis teasing the new wonderlust characters, so i'm gonna ramble about the theories of who each emoji represents!

we know grizzly is the mouse

pretty sure condi is the owl

i don't have the clip of charlie talking in his character voice rn but yall gotta trust me that he's the body builder

the bird seems like it's an npc because of bizly's reply

which means the scientist could also be an npc for symmetry's sake??

that leaves the fox and worm! which i am choosing to believe are guests! i saw someone use this conversation as evidence of ranboo being a potential guest because Xs could be deciphered to "jrwi new show wonderlust" and we know they're in LA

i am making the executive decision to choose to believe that yakko is the (potential) other guest because we know he was also in LA around the time of wonderlust filming (he was in one of charlie's streams, he went to the escape room with the group, etc)

and the sparkle emojis on either end are fun uhhhhhh pizzazz

#jrwi #jrwi show #jrwi wonderlust #i have twitter and instagram only so that i can catch jrwi related updates like this #if the theory about the worm and fox being guests is correct i bet ranboo is the worm

[mads-is-tired]

Ranboo saving Charlie while he was streaming is the direct reason Charlie died I'm not okay

Ranboo said in their stream today that there were two choices that he actively made without the audience's input. One was choosing the security code on his own, and choosing to save Charlie from the brainwashing. Obviously using the wrong code stuffed it all up (which released the wire monster) but they said that because of the time it took to pull Charlie out, by the time they reached the doors the showfall media employees were locking them. Which eventually leads to both Ranboo and Charlie's deaths, and almost mirrors the final choice of episode three, choosing to live but be under showfall's control forever, or to die, only it hadn't been realised yet. 

also SNEEG!!! The poor guy tried to get out and get help again but never made it, and died alone (because of Ranboo’s choice, ouch). While showfall probably wouldn't have allowed it but a storyline where he did make it out would be insanely cool. 

Another thing, while the theory that showfall kidnapped Charlie as a kid and raised him to be their entertainer is very cool and has a lot of potential, I don't think that's the way the story would go. Showfall was(is??) going to use Ranboo until he no longer had any use to them, like all of the other actors, combined with sneeg's death suggests that raising a child and creating a whole personality and audience for slimecicle would be overly complex when they could just take people who have already done the work for them. The slimecicle channel is canon to the genloss universe now, and they likely would have had Charlie continue to stream to keep up appearances like he's not missing. Also, when ranboo finds all the streamers he recognises Charlie by name, suggesting they knew each other before showfall got to them, because iirc the name Charlie is never used in episode 1 or 2. And there is surely enough history between the two for Ranboo to want to save him, but recognises that he can't save everyone. That or he just felt bad for ripping the man's guts out. 

Anyway, I have Too Many Thoughts about Generation Loss and desperately want to know if Charlie and Sneeg are dead dead or if they'll be coming back for more generations because they were both so good in this series.

#1k #dude i feel so bad for g!charlie he was starting to remember and was so close to getting out!!!! #trust charlie slimecicle to make a heartbreaking character #actually they're all just incredibly depressing #none of them are happy i'm sad about all of them #amazing work by everyone #props to ranboo you've made an incredible series that has made everyone so invested #ranboo #slimecicle #charlie slimecicle #generation loss #genloss #gen loss #g!slimecicle #g!ranboo #g!sneeg #sneegsnag #generation loss spoilers #generation loss theory #mads makes a post #i made the meme too

[xhaoticprince]

conclusion of generation loss: holy shit. Holy fucking shit. It was insane, the slow rise to horror, suffering, and gore ? Ranboo's job was insane, seriously it was sick. Their acting skills, which I've seen several people bash, was really good, you could see how dedicated he was ! And the ending, with the VHS, opening to the probability of more, I got the chills. Seriously, they did a sick job, and I'm so glad I was there to witness it through my screen.

#generation loss #genloss #genloss spoilers #genloss theory #ranboo #ranboo generation loss #ranboolive #holy fuck holy shit #it was insane #i loved every part of it #it was amazing #i don't have words for how cool it was #i was so into it

[cosmicjunkyard]

I am so distraught that Ranboo thinks we wanted him dead you don't even know.

He had no idea that when the vote began, majority voted for them to live. He has no idea when we realised that life meant Ranboo being trapped, we tried (AND ALMOST SUCCEEDED) to go 50/50.

Ranboo will probably never find out or realise that when he asked for us to kill them, we swayed the vote because we wanted to help them, to let them choose something for once. He thought that we chose death because we wanted to see them dead WHEN WE DIDN'T.

HE THOUGHT WE HATED HIM SO HE DIDN'T TRUST US

#I NEED COMFORTING IMMEDIETLY #generation loss #genloss #genloss theory #generation loss theory #ranboo #ranboo live #gl!ranboo #generation loss ranboo #generation loss finale #genloss finale

[miss-fortune-thinks]

mfs be like "i know a place" and then take you to christian hell

#genloss #generation loss #ranboolive #ranboo #charlie slimecicle #slimecicle #generation loss the social experiments #generation loss the choice #genloss ranboo #generation loss founders cut #generation loss theory #generation loss ranboo #gen loss meme #gen loss

[pretty-amorphous-blob]

At some point ranboo may face reveal, and that is a day I'm both excited and terrified for bc brain has convinced me that that's literally his face. Like he's just mask man. But he does have a face. That's just inconceivable to me. But also it's great bc it means he's comfortable and well enough to show his face

#aurin rambles #ranboo theory #ranboo

[aliengoose]

Hey guys guess what happens when an anatomy student becomes obsessed with Generation Loss. Basically I have thoughts about how the mask works. Closeups and image description below the cut.

Image Description: Drawing of Generation Loss! Ranboo standing with their back to the audience. Closeups of their face in the top left corner. Handwritten text reads;

Electrodes inserted subdermally hidden under mask. Current running through electrodes controls facial muscles for manipulation of facial expression and speech.

Wires enter mouth and run down throat to electrodes. Control muscles of tongue and larynx to manipulate speech and other vocals.

Signals sent remotely to plaque (on the back of Ranboo's neck) where they are routed to relevant wires and electrodes

Wires do not stimulate intrinsic hand/finger muscles, which is why Ranboo is able to tap SOS.

Wires travel outside of body, fibres insert into particular muscles to electrically stimulate them.

Wires to body follow general pathways of major motor nerves to skeletal muscles. Basal random voltage and frequency inhibits motor neuron input. Need motor neurons to function for Day 3 The Choice - requires Ranboo to have conscious control of his body.

No wires along sensory pathways. Ranboo is fully aware of everything happening but cannot express themselves.

Wires start just above C1 spinal nerves. Do not influence brain activity or cranial nerves. Ranboo sees and is aware of everything, thus the "I SAW EVERYTHING" and tapping SOS.

Wires hidden under clothes to prevent suspicion.

Make cc!Ranboo's burns canon to Generation Loss? Malfunction of wire lying along spine, possibly meant to stimulate muscles of the back? eg. erector spinae. Causes "odd" changes in posture. I just also think it's cool and messed up if they're in pain but physically cannot express it. End image description.

#genloss #generation loss #generation loss art #generation loss fanart #ranboo art #ranboo fanart #generation loss theory #my art #I have been SO excited to share this you don't even know #i did this to study and it fucking worked

[roseliatea26]

Matpats gl theory is like when a man tries to impress you by talking about your interests except they are so horrifically wrong it’s painful

#I like Matpat but what the hell #generation loss #ranboo #genloss #gen loss #ranboolive #genloss spoilers #game theory #matpat #Ranboo was the founder #shut up #that’s just a theory #a shit theory