A turn of the crank, a spin of the wheel, fear.

Dread, excitement, what is it you feel?

The cycle resets we live once more to repeat the mistakes we've made before.

So again, we join our yellow friend.

Remember, my dears, death is never the end.

Hello, Intras! Hello internet, welcome to film theory. The best theory show online provided you log in first. But I don't know the password. Too bad for you, I guess. For everyone who does remember their password, today we're diving back into the twisted world of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared.

In case you need a quick refresher, Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, or DHS started as a classic YouTube horror series that mixed Tickle Me Elmo with Dead Space.

It was children's edutainment with a heavy dose of existential dread.

But then, earlier this year, DHS did the impossible.

It got itself a full-blown real-life TV show on the British Channel 4. And oh boy, is this thing full of cryptic secrets and hidden mysteries.

For one, this guy right here, the yellow guy, he's probably a dead kid. Because of course he's a dead kid. This is a theory channel after all. We've got our standards.

In this case, we theorize that Yellow Guy is the puppet representation of a child named David,

a child who was tragically killed by his mother, Leslie, during a car accident. The dollhouse and puppet world of DHMAS that we now see is just Leslie trying to come to grips with this traumatic event from her past and move on. But that's hardly been the only theory that's popped up around this new series.

One major unsolved mystery revolves around these, strange symbols that appear in various locations all throughout the six episode run.

Actually first noticed these back during the fly teaser in spring of 2022, as one of the symbols appeared on a sticky note in the fridge. At the time, we had nothing to go off of, and our resident chemistry expert staff was able to confirm that it wasn't some sort of chemical structure.

So we filed it away as a weird little detail that might pop up again, and pop up again it did, loyal theorists.

These symbols are everywhere on the show, on computers, on refrigerators, on blackboards,

and most notably of all, on the cover of the mysterious book that Leslie gives Yellow Guy in the final episode of the season.

You wanted this, didn't you?

And while at first these little drawings might seem just like random shapes used to decorate the scene,

in reality, they're symbols with a deeper meaning that can absolutely be solved.

And that's important because these characters are clearly stuck in a cycle, and decoding the book might be their only hope in breaking that cycle.

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