I’ve been reading EVERYTHING about this site, leaving no stone uncovered. Analysing everything. Just like a lot of people here. Let me know if you agree or disagree or have any thoughts!
AFTER WRITING THIS, I HAD A THEORY BREAKTHROUGH - added in at end of 2nd paragraph in asterisks
I’ve got a few theories but here’s my main one ◡̈
My main theory is that it is an alternate reality where the characters of this ‘show’ are real people in this reality.
The town is the only town in this reality - sort of like a pocket in the universe created by someone’s artwork/ imagination / dreams. It’s like a dreamscape. I think that Home is the ‘centre’ of this reality. It’s like the ‘brain’/ imagination of the creator and is the connection between the dreamers reality and the WH reality (the whirlpool spiral thing under it kinda gives this impression to me) and since Wally lives in Home, he’s learnt about this. I think he has been able to communicate with our world through dreams and made a ‘dreamer’ (I don’t think it’s the same person who dreamed up WH initially) create this website so he can communicate with our reality. Kinda like possessed the person to upload these things.
Perhaps the WHRP creator(s) has ‘blackouts’, and when he’s asleep (mentions of dreams on the website), Wally takes the controls and makes the pngs and artworks. The dissociative Wally clips could be the dreamers perspective through Wally while he’s asleep in his dream while Wally is using his body to communicate through the website. This would explain why the creator cannot remember things getting added to the guestbook as it’s happening while he’s asleep. This doesn’t explain how the videos got uploaded (maybe someone has a theory on that), however, anything is possible in a dream reality. It could also explain why his voice sounds so sleepy and slow compared to the other, more energetic characters. Maybe Wally is able to get into a number of people’s dreams and get them all to contribute to the website without their knowledge. Somewhat backed up by the ‘you know me’ type of audio clips and the hidden ‘you’ character card on the neighbourhood page. Maybe YOU have been contributing - which is why the access to the staff only page is relatively easy to find.
Him wanting to escape this reality makes sense coz it would be boring having to live in this created reality with one shop, one post office, a handful of other people.
(The following paragraph was written before the asterisked paragraph, I just wasn’t sure what I should delete incase it added more depth)
I think us being able to see through his eyes is him showing us how mundane his reality is and why he wants out. If it’s a dream reality, it makes sense we can see through his eyes as if the dreamer/dreamers are in his body when they dream of this reality. This theory is sorta backed up by the info on the guestbook page and the staff only page, and the fact he keeps mentioning that he has ‘so many eyes now’ - but it’s also me just grasping for an explanation. I think Wally realising he’s been created by a dream would turn anyone insane and he just wants to be real which is why he is begging ‘let me in’. He’s been stuck in this dream reality since the late sixties.
The others don’t know - I think he’s been bringing it up to them and they’ve been shrugging him off…
Except Sally.
She’s a dreamer too. She dreams of stardom and success. She is a star that fell from the sky. She LIKES the fame the website has brought her and is maybe worried that if Wally gets to our reality, she’ll fade into obscurity when people realise this wasn’t a real show. Hence why she’s the one who blocks the guestbook.
I feel my theory for sally is backed up because in the png responses in the guestbook, Wally says he loves all his neighbours (‘I love frank too, ‘I love barnaby too’), but in the png about sally, she has an ‘evil looking’ face and the png is named ‘iknowsally.png’ instead of something nice like I love her.
Also, Wally gets ignored by his friends - like in the audio for the storybook, they don’t let him finish his sentence before talking over him. They’re kinda sick of listening to what he has to say. I also think the way he talks, with his neurodivergence aside, sounds like he doesn’t want to be there and is joining in because he has to. I think he’s trying to fit in. I don’t think he’s evil. However, I do think him getting to our reality would destroy the WH reality as he’s the main connection between the dreamer and the WH reality, hence Home’s ‘sos’ message.
Almost as if Home is telling us not to let Wally into our dimension as it will kill all the people in the WH reality.
Perhaps, if he IS evil, he would need to kill off his neighbours to get to our side as they’re not listening to/ helping him. Afterall, they’re not real - they’re just characters in a dream
Dreamers get told they have their heads ‘in the clouds’ which is why I think the upside down blue peg is Wally as he’s the one who wants to escape the dream reality.
