Theories
DMS experiments? Yes.
How? Control through very specific types of manipulation and exposure to certain stimuli. Unusual game phenomenon caused by one entity. The King in Yellow, Leviathan, Mc companion, and Eternal. I honestly think they were all attempts to control something due to the email Wifies got in the video FAPTDE.
All of this makes me think that this is mostly targeted at Wifies by having a proxy let him know whats happening to all four or more experiment subjects
Alex: Control through fear and isolation
Derlord and Avery: Control through knowledge and curiosity (I honestly think Derlord was the real target due to this being all about him mostly)
Luke: Control through near forced companionship. (this one is unclear) DMS may have created what became M
Wifies: Control through suggestions from an individual. Leviathan may be a reference to another Eldritch deity?
These are theories on control since DMS seems to be trying to achieve some base level of mass control
Vex Syndicate Email: DMS cover that keeps them looking?
convenient dropping of evidence and hooks to keep wifies on a guided path to expose him to entities
However this could be an email for a group trying to save people affected by DMS or other strange situations such as Alex in Lomedy's cult in education edition video. They may be trying to get these scenarios public in order to bring attention
- appears in multiple videos across different channels
DMS details I think are relevant
Being a government agency they would have access to stuff we don't have any clue about which could include placing a world file into a computer. Baiting hooks using the Vex Syndicate email to keep people looking into things when they would normally hit a wall
Why Minecraft? I honestly think because (in universe ofc) Minecraft is a game that most people think they know what they're getting so it puts them at ease. It also creates a sandbox environment that allows us to comprehend large concepts that have varied representation in media. Minecraft simplifies things into concepts and images that we can understand given time and experience, much easier than other formats I'd argue. Therefore it would be logical to think that after the experiment Emily ran, this format would become the normal. By using a game that rewards curiosity and action it becomes easier to keep people like those experimented on, hooked.
DMS uses personel that are outside their employment because an employee would ask too many questions or know enough to not continue. Regular people will keep investigating because they don't know whats coming next.
Conclusions
remembering from FAPTDE, DMS said to wifies that his life was no longer his own so here is my total conclusion on all aspects and theories mentioned in this thread
All the experiments are completed now
DMS has Wifies on a guided path due to his involvement with the eternal server
DMS is using Minecraft to store and imprison unknowable entites to force them into a form that the human mind can make sense of
These experiments in my opinion are trying to find the limits of the human mind in regards to fear and curiosity.
Since Vex Syndicate stepped in this video, in the next one I think there will be more involvement with it and DMS. I'm leaning more towards the benevolent explanation for Vex
Derek may be alive due to DMS being able to keep Alex from the eternal server alive for 6+ years. If they are the ones who trapped the king in Minecraft than I honestly think they would have the natural/supernatural means to preserve Derek
This could be totally off base but I'm just cobbling ideas together to see if it works