The Real Life Conspiracy Behind Stranger Things! (Nerdist News w/ Jessica Chobot)

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1. So they decided to take the stories of camp hero, and film them in the style of and homage to Spielberg, King, Goonies etc, they did all that and didn't create a mess. They are genius!

2. Ah shit, this is too much. #triggered

3. I want to know what comes after witch, scholar, …

4. Obviously Nichols was a big old fraud praying on gullible conspiracy theorist minds (I mean, he pretty much covers all the "classics") which already existed aplenty back then (although militaries did do experiments on ESP etc. – they just naturally never showed any objective/reproducible success), but such myths do always make good inspirations for works of fiction (not falsely posing as facts).

   That said, while this is a well done and – as always – nicely presented overview, acting as if there hadn't already been several blog posts and YouTube videos addressing these connections weeks ago (close to release) paints you in rather a bad light IMNSHO.

5. More Barb? What else is Barb supposed to do besides decompose?
   What's with this fixation with Barb anyways?

6. Wait… so you're telling me the whole premise behind the monster and the upsidedown is that it's all created by Eleven's subconscious? Lame… I was really hoping they had opened up a door to a real parallel dimension kind of like Stephen King's Todash Space. Something more Lovecraftian in nature… don't think I really care to keep watching now.

7. #IDIDITINTHEUPSIDEDOWN

8. BARB IS WAIFU BARB IS LIFE

9. Jessica looks a lot like Linda Carter….

10. AHEM! AREA 51 AHEM!

11. butttttt sexxxxxxxxxxx! lol walffffcopters

12. Did that water tank remind anyone else of the bacta tank from Star Wars?

13. watched the whole season. it was pretty ehhh. don't know what all the hype is about

14. The internet didn't nerd out about it, because it wasn't an homage; MKULTRA was directly mentioned in the show.

15. the only thing that isn't a conspiracy is that Cari Dee is evil.

16. i want to BE A UMPA LOOMPA TAKE ME TO THEIR LEADER

17. My favorite excuse… Gracias Jessica. love you Nerdist team

18. jessica is so funny lol

19. Fringe!

20. Can the beautiful "Witch-Scholar" plz do all my news plz…

21. so the guys who.wrote the show took major concepts from someone else's books? This is a copywright lawsuit waiting to happen

22. choooobot

23. Jessica have you ever done video about Witches of East End? -you should have.

24. but i want more eleven

25. was the reclining chair at Mikes house which 11 sat in, perhaps a reference to the Montauk chair ?

26. btw, did anyone ever mentioned eerie indiana?

27. #Ididitintheupsidedown

28. Wow she's annoying

29. All I want is for L to be back in Season Two.

30. "I did it in the upside down" would make a great bumper sticker.

31. is this not well known? I was legit reading all about this when I first watched the show

32. the guy who wrote the books looks like the goblin king from the hobbit

33. Has anyone played earthbound and has anyone found many similarites? For example paula from earthbound looks like eleven with the wig and dress.

34. Long Islanders not long islandites

35. Funny that we see Will sitting in a chair, in the lab, in the new Season 2 trailer….

36. MK-ULTRA is the inspiration for stranger things

37. We're Long IslandERS not IslandITES, dear god. Other than that, very fun video!

38. when u r talking about stranger things in class and u find out ur teacher also like stranger things

39. #ididitintheupsidown

40. she's so annoying

41. found it!

42. Probably should've thought out the "#IDidItInTheUpsideDown… lol sounds way dirty. lol.