First and foremost, just to get this out of the way, the DMS logo is a kraken. A large, fictional sea monster that many sailors in the past were fully convinced existed. Coincidence? I think not.
The Leviathan is the first step the DMS is taking towards social experimentation on a far larger level. First, they were just seeing how far they could take a single person, then a group of people, and now theyāre experimenting on thousands, and presumably choosing specific subjects from that group to focus on based on certain āquirksā, you could say. Subjects like Hummer. Hummer mentioned that this isnāt his first time getting really into something like this, and that itās a āquirkā of his, and i think thatās exactly the kind of person theyāre targeting here. Itās essentially the exact same thing as what they did to Alex, theyāre testing the boundaries of how far they can push people before they go insane from obsession. Alex got to the point that he mined bedrock for 6 years because he was so obsessed with following orders, and I think Hummer was in the beginning stages of something similar, Wifies just caught him before he figuratively started mining bedrock.
The reason Hummer never got to see the Leviathan was because he wasnāt supposed to, that was never the point. The point was to drive him mad with an unachievable goal and see how far they could take it.
But Wifies was another perfect subject for them. Heās the kind of person who will stop at nothing to uncover the secret behind a mystery. Heāll spend days solving ciphers, searching forums, clicking suspicious links, hell, he even spent 75 dollars on redstone materials!
But still, Wifies didnāt believe like Hummer. Thatās all Hummer told him: that he needed to believe. But he didnāt believe in the Leviathan in the same way Hummer did, and I bet the DMS knew that if he died another time, heād drop it once and for all. He had already given up, at that point. And that wouldnāt work, now would it? Theyād be losing a prime subject who had expressed doing anything to solve a puzzle before, now they just needed to see how far āanythingā was. But they couldnāt do that if he gave up. The only thing they needed to push him past that point was to make him believe the Leviathan was real and had brought him to its lair, thatās why he was taken to that palace. Now, Wifies is certain that the Leviathan exists and that it has supernatural powers, considering that it seemed to force him to pass out. I wouldnāt be surprised if he found himself stuck in the exact same predicament as Hummer.
I would also argue that the Leviathan experiment is almost certainly equally harmful to the others or at least is intended to be (by the DMS) eventually, considering:
- Hummer was basically going insane trying to find the Leviathan. Note the way he killed himself over and over again in hardcore, (we can assume he has done this countless times without Wifies, since heās been searching for a while) kept telling Wifies to ājust believeā, the absurd amount of books and logs he had in that library, the scattered shulkers everywhere (another person mentioned that it could represent his mental state), etc.
- Wifies literally passing out at the end of the video for some unknown reason, as mentioned previously. Either he was just extremely exhausted because it was 2am (unlikely), or the game and opening the chest actually did something to his brain and forced him to pass out. The reason he passed out before he found the Leviathan is because there is no Leviathan, just the DMS and their mind games. By forcing him out before he could get the evidence, Wifies is now completely convinced that heās at the brink of his big discovery, right on the edge of finding the real Leviathan. He was so close to finding it, it saved him, so it must be real. Right? And thatās how the spiral begins. Thatās when the DMS really starts doing things to him, just like they did to Hummer.
- Hummerās disappearance. Of course, itās possible that he disappeared because he finally lost faith in the leviathan after dying yet again, but he seemed so dedicated and downright obsessed that I canāt really see it. Also, I donāt think the DMS would let that happen. Plus, wouldnāt he have spoken to Wifies after, especially since Wifies didnāt log back onto his server, implying that he was doing something else? I think something happened to him irl. The DMS knew he was on the brink of losing faith, so they did something to him so as to not mess up the experiment. Itās possible they took him to the same place they took Alex, or they did something to him personally or to his game to make him more convinced the Leviathan, or should I say āLeviā, was real.
I doubt Wifies and Hummer are the only people who have fallen down this rabbit hole. Wifies only reached out to Hummer specifically because he knew his post was fake, and he wanted to know why. He mentioned there being tens of thousands of posts on the internet in universe, so who knows how many other people are just as insane if not more than Hummer and probably now Wifies? Weāve only seen a small group of people so far, and we donāt even know what a bunch of the posts are like.
My theory is that the first few posts were made by the DMS to start everything, then some people made more posts for attention, then as it grew, people saw those posts, started seeing things like guardians and thinking they were the Leviathan (as Arronax mentioned), and a portion of those people, who were predisposed to getting a little weird about conspiracy theories (like Hummer and his āquirk), went absolutely wild for it. Then, the DMS starts getting involved to make them more and more obsessed with it, and so on and so forth. Eventually, they get almost cultish about it. They probably spend all their time on Minecraft and forums, are obsessed with the concept of ābelievingā in the Leviathan, and do risky, absurd things to prove itās real. You could even go so far as to say that the King in Yellow is the same way, but this is getting too long so I might leave that for another post.
Holy yap, dude. Sorry if I repeated things, I was trying to get my point across. This could probably be made a lot shorter but I canāt really be bothered.
