# Symbolism in Films/Music Videos/Other **URL:** \ **Category:** Entertainment Industry\ **Created:** [December 27, 2025, 11:13am UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/symbolism-in-films-music-videos-other/998 "2025-12-27T11:13:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![spotless](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/user_avatar/forums.vigilantcitizen.com/spotless/32/4317_2.png) [@spotless](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/spotless)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2025, 11:13am UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/symbolism-in-films-music-videos-other/998/1 "2025-12-27T11:13:18Z")
This is “Sweet but Psycho” a song by Ava Max, who I hadn’t heard of before, I’ve heard this song in the gym and just out and about pretty regularly, I would have guessed it was fairly new but it’s actually 7 years old: [![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/5/55d5a8d99d26b05b72c98ca375fdad43bb2b26bd.jpeg "Ava Max - Sweet but Psycho [Official Music Video]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXBHCQYxwr0) There’s probably a lot going on in this video, but I was originally interested by the duality of the title/chorus line itself, and how it may relate to a dissociated personality theme that we often see on this site, for example with Sabrina Carpenter’s videos. Looking in to this artist/song, it’s pretty much what I expected. The singer has a unique haircut, one side is cut short, the other is long, seeing some comments this really appeals to her fans, on top of it she often has pictures like this: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/b/b06bd1e73777baf71b903c8208f969d7444659df.png) So the “Sweet but Psycho” theme isn’t just applying to this one song, and it doesn’t appear to be about some other character or a person she knows of, but it’s her and her entire persona (at least at this period of her breaking out as a singer, by the way this was her first major single and appears to be her biggest song in a now declining career, just from briefly looking at her youtube views) As mentioned there’s probably a lot going on in this video, like the chandelier in the opening shot, I’m mainly interested in the split personality aspect and just pointing out highly obvious symbology. In the opening Chorus which has the line “at night she’s screaming, I’m out out out (of) my mind”, twice in a row during that line it has a shot of Ava Max being “tripled”, just as the word “mind” is said: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/1/1e912355db1b55140081d8f0a7b4a6c5f92d0f81.jpeg) ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/2/270d0d74f1b5b8e57d28852f52a883c3ed60df3c.jpeg) Vigilant Citizen did an analysis of Sabrina Carpenter’s “In My Bed” (which is how I noticed the above) and it even shows the same in the thumbnail, it’s about a year after Sweet but Psycho: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/d/de1f3b58e11086eb9e3c9b9174f77809bab91a23.png) It also shows her in 3’s, with many aspects throughout that video of showing the split personalities. And considering during the Ava Max video it happens specifically on the line “I’m out of my mind”, twice, it’s not just artistic. Throughout the video she also has this “running mascara”, which is cartoonishly beyond any running mascara you could imagine: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/d/d56f02b727b5abf7261374446c5662b2b6a84a23.jpeg) Clearly an image of Black Goo, Billie Eilish used a more aggressive form of this in a video only about 4-5 months after this one: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/c/c4aceaaba2b6672d96888e6ef6c0128a8b6ab704.jpeg) I mean there’s a ton of examples going back way further than this, there’s a Black Goo thread on this forum as well. One of these videos wouldn’t be complete without one eye symbols, the first at 0:40: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/2/29332b334eca41479fd7c447017154c531ba6275.jpeg) It’s fairly subtle, during a flick of her hair, note that this is on her left side (from her point of view) and then at 1:14 she does the other side, possibly indicating that despite her fragmented mind, both sides are devoted to the one eye symbolism: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/7/7bc9661815e4bafadf81c728515be410a47c23a2.jpeg) And this one’s a lot more deliberate, even if somewhat brief, the shot starts with her holding her eye? And shaking her head and continuing to hold it: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/5/5a2bdf2502d0cd7b3cfc412a94afd31a637e809c.jpeg) I would not call this a natural behaviour, she’s playing the part of being in distress or sad, and just holding one eye like that? It’s also delivered on the word “crazy” But we’ve had 2 “characters in the video so far, the one on the staircase, black goo on the couch, and of course we have a third, and this one appears to be in some kind of PVC bondage outfit, this is the one that’s used to invite her love interest over I suppose, I mean what a ridiculous outfit for having dinner: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/8/8789d840dd746c21a22e4388481f5c122e3c9606.jpeg) There’s also a continuous use of her drinking what looks like red wine in some shots, but here it doesn’t in my opinion, that’s not quite red wine and not quite rose: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/8/810a233779032c1645d72dc43559091faba5aa61.jpeg) She also stabs this turkey/chicken, and the next shot is the guy smiling and eating, in a later shot she’s stabbing a picture of him in the middle of his face, cannibalism? Interestingly when she pours the red liquid in to a glass it turns green, as she says the line about drinking a “potion”, but apart from obviously just being a poisoning/drugging, I’m not sure exactly what this could mean in a bigger picture with regards from turning Red to Green: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/c/c23c7e953fc1604a56cac1cf3a887fe1ff2d6426.jpeg) At 2:12 we see a subtle introduction of the masonic checkerboard floor tiles (bottom left, more visible in the moving video itself) that this dinner scene has been playing out on, at this part of the video she is still the bondage/PVC character with red hair but now in a wedding dress or other white dresses: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/a/a9c9fac8ad8039a88a7223cdccb154b1b1d1b081.jpeg) Interesting one eye at 2:42 when the male escapes to a closet from being murdered, this is during the bridge and basically the thematic climax of this video: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/a/ae04ab1abcb608d266eadbf6ebac86f6d0b182bd.jpeg) And this is the reveal at 2:54 shortly after: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/3/37737c75edacd130bdb15b03df197f127bce9fbc.jpeg) Another already deceased male falls from the closet on to those masonic checkerboard tiles, and this is where I just don’t feel it can be a mere artistic coincidence. It’s related to murder, rituals, and it’s the reveal of the checkerboard (I believe it’s the “reveal”, the earlier one’s I pointed out above were too difficult to see when just casually watching the video) That’s all I really have, the story itself is just spelled out in the video, would love to hear if anyone spotted things I didn’t see or didn’t mention. ---
**Author:** ![NobleFox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee59a6/32.png) [@NobleFox](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/NobleFox)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/symbolism-in-films-music-videos-other/998/2 "2025-12-31T15:57:45Z")
I don’t think I have any other things in mind that you didn’t mention. Great analysis! ---
**Author:** ![spotless](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/user_avatar/forums.vigilantcitizen.com/spotless/32/4317_2.png) [@spotless](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/spotless)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 12:19am UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/symbolism-in-films-music-videos-other/998/3 "2026-01-02T00:19:58Z")
Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![spotless](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/user_avatar/forums.vigilantcitizen.com/spotless/32/4317_2.png) [@spotless](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/spotless)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2026, 12:34am UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/symbolism-in-films-music-videos-other/998/4 "2026-01-02T00:34:24Z")
Since creating this thread Ava Max consistently now shows as recommended on youtube, but hopefully it will stop as I’ve stopped clicking on them and frankly her music isn’t that good, in interviews she seems like a cool person though, it’s sad if she actually is a mind controlled industry slave. Anyway she’s kinda infamous for many of her songs openly ripping off other songs: [![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/6/6c5fb6237b6baf33bbe4155675d7dfbc44b03518.jpeg "The Artist Who Is "Legally" Stealing Music") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOkTk1Exlqo) I don’t know why but I actually find this kinda funny 😅 they’re just so shameless about it. Anyway back on topic, I find it interesting that in her music she kinda has no identity, she just takes themes of songs from others, and they’re a vast array of artists with no real relation to each other, and she tweaks them and makes them more her own, but what is “her own” when she kinda has no unique theme? So I think it represents how fragmented her mind may be, her songs are just kinda all over the place, she’s doing a cover of Aquas Barbie Girl? Then she’s taking note for note a Bonnie Tyler song, then ATC, what is going on? I mentioned earlier that her views on youtube are seriously declining compared to Sweet but Psycho and some other hits from 5-7 years ago, so I am guessing her career is kinda dead. Her last music videos was basically softcore pornography, well I guess it’s meant to be “fun” in a bikini in summer etc but it’s very revealing of her body, maybe it’s a last ditch effort of getting attention. Even that song is weird, “Wet Hot American Girl” and its like oddly patriotic, I thought it was sarcastic at first, but maybe not, even her own fans in the comments said how it’s the weirdest career turn. Well unless she does something else of note I think I’ve exhausted any interest I could have in this singer, but I hope to break down more music videos soon. ---
**Author:** ![spotless](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/user_avatar/forums.vigilantcitizen.com/spotless/32/4317_2.png) [@spotless](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/spotless)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 5:16pm UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/symbolism-in-films-music-videos-other/998/5 "2026-01-04T17:16:09Z")
I’m not gonna do a full breakdown of this video, because there’s so much going on, and also it’s an obnoxiously annoying song, but I just discovered this: [![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/4/4f2fbe672b58049b623af843d048d9fa5d6a069a.jpeg "My Chemical Romance - Na Na Na [Official Music Video]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egG7fiE89IU) > **[Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na_Na_Na_(Na_Na_Na_Na_Na_Na_Na_Na_Na))** > > "Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)" is a song by American rock band My Chemical Romance from their fourth studio album, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (2010). "Na Na Na" is a pop, pop-punk, punk rock, stadium rock, garage rock, and glam rock song conceived when Gerard Way was inspired to write music about a group of rebels he had previously created called the Killjoys. The song was written by Bob Bryar, Frank Iero, Ray Toro, Gerard Way, and Mikey Way, and was produced... The reason this stood out to me, is because earlier this year I found out this: > The ancient god known as “Nana” refers to Nanna (or Nana in some transliterations), a deity from Mesopotamian mythology, particularly in Sumerian and Akkadian traditions. Nanna, also known as Sin in Akkadian, was the god of the moon, associated with wisdom, time, and fertility. He was one of the most important deities in the Sumerian pantheon, worshipped primarily in the city of Ur, where his great temple, the Ziggurat of Ur, was a major religious center. [https://x.com/59SouthLee/status/1946484267082522818](https://x.com/59SouthLee/status/1946484267082522818) Is it a reach? Is it not just a typical thing for people to sing since pop music started? Maybe, but when I see that song title from MCR, it feels very deliberate. And 3 Na Na’s, followed by 9 or 3x3, I’m not a big numerology guy, but I know they like 3’s and stuff. The video builds up to this part at, 3:33 😅 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/e/ea79ccf0183f229f9532f6b04f7301c9ad3aa8c1.jpeg) Followed by a shot of a child of course, and these bad guys for some reason are trying to abduct this girl, I’m not sure exactly why from watching the video, but oddly they’re successful in doing so, and they just kill the band’s characters? What the hell kinda ending is that to an upbeat song? One of the band members has “Dead Pegasus” as a logo on his chest, Pegasus in Occult meanings is a sign of hope and prosperity, I guess the Dead part means that hope is dead. There’s a lot of symbols and stuff going on throughout this video, probably way beyond my understanding. There’s also a tarantula symbol shown prominently, not sure what that means. But back to the girl, because I’m interested as there’s no reason given for their interest in her, this is simply the description: - [The Girl](https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Girl "The Girl") (actress [Grace Jeanette](https://fanlore.org/w/index.php?title=Grace_Jeanette&action=edit&redlink=1 "Grace Jeanette (Click to create this page!)")): A child who is protected by the Killjoys and coveted by BL Industries. Just coveted? Why? Another description: > She is a motorbaby, meaning “a kid on the run,” and that is sometimes used as a name. This is often a theme with kids in films and TV, they are orphans, like The Little Rascals (now that’s a rabbit hole to go down). OK I’ve just found this: > The music video takes place in the year 2019 in Battery City, a [post-apocalyptic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-apocalyptic "Post-apocalyptic") town run by the [megacorporation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacorporation "Megacorporation") Better Living Industries. In the video, the Killjoys are protecting a young girl named Missile Kid (played by Grace Jeanette) from Korse (played by Morrison) and his band of “Draculoids”. Draculoids?! So the guys who want the girl, for no specified reason, are like vampires? I had to look that up, and it turns out the term was invented for this comic book the video is based on: > A Draculoid is **a low-level employee of Better Living Industries (BL/Ind) tasked with eliminating Killjoys and maintaining order in Battery City and the surrounding Zones**. They are often referred to as “Dracs” by Killjoys and are known for their white suits, black gloves, and Dracula-style masks. The transformation into a Draculoid is achieved through a process called Draculoidization, which involves placing the mask on an individual, resulting in the removal of their soul, personality, and memories, leaving behind an empty, emotionless shell under the control of BL/Ind leadership, such as Korse. Note that the one holding the child at the end, is dressed in the standard black and white Draculoid outfit: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/0/01180c566c7b8346d6cae5091f2c64ed67c4b13a.png) Which is this guy: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/b/b47a5dc0affb8a2f226bd340de9dac31562cc197.jpeg) This scene is at 3:05: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/a/a5108a3f54399b05217478dcc839a6d3829302c2.jpeg) So the vampiric Draculoid, is just scaring this child and screaming at her, for what purpose? Well we can only guess really. So in writing this post I went further down the rabbit hole than I expected, and this comic book that the video is based on, there seems to be such a universe and lore behind it, yet despite all these back stories and characters, I can’t find any reason they’re particularly interested in the child. Here’s the description of what these guys do: > A Draculoid is **a low-level employee of Better Living Industries (BL/Ind) tasked with eliminating Killjoys and maintaining order in Battery City and the surrounding Zones**. They are often referred to as “Dracs” by Killjoys. Draculoids are typically depicted wearing white suits, black gloves, and Dracula-style masks, though the masks vary in design across different media. They are equipped with white ray guns and are known to patrol the Zones in search of Killjoys to eliminate, often fulfilling a daily quota. Edit: Just read back and realised I copied the same bit twice, which looks real stupid but I think I got distracted from writing my post for like 20mins and then came back and forgot that I had just included it. I can’t see why they would take a child, and nobody seems to wonder about that. I know this is not very well thought out, it doesn’t seem like a great story at all, but still. ---
**Author:** ![spotless](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/user_avatar/forums.vigilantcitizen.com/spotless/32/4317_2.png) [@spotless](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/spotless)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 12:59am UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/symbolism-in-films-music-videos-other/998/6 "2026-01-12T00:59:16Z")
I saw this tweet, the focus being on the fire breaking out in the background, but I found even more odd the pedo swirl symbols that are all over the set: [https://x.com/i/status/2010395771875524884](https://x.com/i/status/2010395771875524884) Someone points out this singers strange past when it comes to pedoshit: [https://x.com/mas\_porem\_entre/status/2010469745150103827](https://x.com/mas_porem_entre/status/2010469745150103827) I might go further down that rabbit hole with the singer, but looking up Xuxa, it brings up a jewellery brand, which appears to not be related to the singer at all, but the amount of symbolism on their site is beyond strange, I firstly noticed all the one eye symbolism from google image search: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/1/1dc5b3c42431e9ae03e564f2a210ac4d5892c108.jpeg) So I go to the site: > **[XUXA](https://xuxa.shop/)** > > XUXA ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/d/dee04ed435a5dc73640b854e4fc5789c4a348db3.jpeg) At first I couldn’t see all the one eyed stuff from the models in google image search, but you have to hover the cursor over the item and it changes to a second picture, there were several one eyed with an object or hand blocking one eye, or winking, and then a few more where the other eye is cropped out (which on it’s own I wouldn’t count as a big deal, because the focus was on earrings, but in this context it just adds to it) They were nearly all from the one white model above, and then there’s just one from this other model, she does also have some cropped out one eyed symbols as well: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/3/323e4d194a0fd9e5ebaf305241bc5008120e829c.jpeg) ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/f/fd63150aa25a627391f06032c8a606333c348a36.jpeg) There was also this from their instagram, I don’t have instagram so I couldn’t check through it, but saw this on google image search: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/7/77c07b8bee906f0601369b5368d3052c5e765441.png) Actually, I’m a bit confused now, because this appears to be from another jewellery brand called “Xuxa Xuxa Jewellery”, not just Xuxa: > **[Xuxa (@xuxa.xuxa.jewelry) • Instagram photos and videos](https://www.instagram.com/xuxa.xuxa.jewelry/)** > > 383 Followers, 327 Following, 290 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Xuxa (@xuxa.xuxa.jewelry) And I managed to use a site that you can see instagram pictures, and I went back, and is this the Brazilian singer? I’m not sure The singer: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/3/34bf1dd8a9c2ac0bd7c9ea979a2ca0b9473cf923.png) From Xuxa Xuxa jewellery’s instagram this woman appears many times: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/6/66a391f62bcd003b168d3c881e74b586bfe821f2.jpeg) Well back to just “Xuxa Jewellery”, here’s the tab icon for the website: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/2/2d07746ec2a609c67d15920c131fdf38c930352d.png) And then you have the jewellery itself, literally about 20% of it is based on this “evil eye” theme: > **[White Evil Eye Charm Bracelet](https://xuxa.shop/products/white-evil-eye-charm-bracelet)** > > Add a sparkly finish to your favourite looks with this pretty bracelet. Designed with a bold evil eye charm coated with smooth white enamel and topped with a navy-blue centre, this playful bracelet is made to protect you from evil and show off your... > **[Turquoise Hamsa Evil Eye Charm Necklace](https://xuxa.shop/collections/necklaces/products/turquoise-hamsa-evil-eye-charm-necklace)** > > Add protection, power and calm to your outfit with this lucky Hamsa hand pendant featuring an evil eye centre, surrounded by turquoise and mint-green enamel And on their About page: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/b/be199772aab223762c98e468c96c4f93e6aa26b9.png) I can’t find anything anywhere about who created this brand, no real background info given, just someone called “Jodie K” as it says on the Wholesale page. OK I found their actual instagram: > **[XUXA Jewellery & Accessories (@xuxa.shop) • Instagram photos and videos](https://www.instagram.com/xuxa.shop/)** > > 427 Followers, 224 Following, 51 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from XUXA Jewellery & Accessories (@xuxa.shop) Not much on there really, just this slight one eye: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/4/487b6e99ca081c32b12973152081a1aa53874d51.jpeg) There’s also a few pictures of female models who to me look quite manly, but I’m not certain so I won’t post them, here’s some manly looking hands though: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/5/59b5df3d1a650ec713de9d041df101dcf8951cf5.jpeg) ---
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Watch out ![33media](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/8/84940f5f19ebbbeed991b0259f59aa9a81978205.jpeg) ---
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Young Joe Rogan [https://x.com/QuantumAlteredX/status/2011570955638780187](https://x.com/QuantumAlteredX/status/2011570955638780187) ---
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![erika1](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/3/31fbc209f0a669b552410ab415d13d77e95cb43d.jpeg) ---
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This video doesn’t need explaining, so much symbolism: [![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/b/b1c952f35a217cff5c643c82d5543fcf7c9dd984.jpeg "Cage The Elephant - Cold Cold Cold (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n95eekfFZZg) ---
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wasn’t sure if this belongs here but since it says other i thought it may I’ve been searching for the original video I posted on the old forums unfortunately I can’t seem to find it I have found this one that is similar I have noticed alot of Peoples are talking about this topic now [![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/2X/c/ca1b44adb65dd4484592f55a4f740ac593d20127.jpeg "The Demonology of the Emoji Conspiracy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTsxSS0lD58) ---
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[https://x.com/truthache68/status/2076150458054517092](https://x.com/truthache68/status/2076150458054517092) ---
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[https://x.com/JOKAQARMY1/status/2085149083207897273](https://x.com/JOKAQARMY1/status/2085149083207897273) ---
**Author:** ![TheSeeker7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@TheSeeker7](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/TheSeeker7)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2026, 4:00am UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/symbolism-in-films-music-videos-other/998/14 "2026-08-16T04:00:55Z")
[![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/3X/1/6/16b696457230593cfb3136f037c227b40da322b8.jpeg "Hennessy Presents: "The Piccards"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnHZs2TwbFw) ---
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They’re the most overrated rock/alternative band from the 2000s. Their drummer, Bob Bryar from 2004-2009 passed away November 2024 (sacrificed like most drummers such as Foo Fighters and Rush). He was 44 years old. Bryar left the band during the recording of Killjoys due to “creative differences” (perhaps he knew something was off.) Since his death, this band has become more popular and more respected than before. Wait until the year 2029 when these men get nominated/inducted at the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. > **[The Troubling Details Surrounding The Death of Bob Bryar, Drummer of My...](https://www.spinmagazine.com/entertainment/my-chemical-romance-drummer-bob-bryar-death-details/)** > > The My Chemical Romance drummer passed away in November 2024 and a recently obtained autopsy report revealed the harrowing details about his death. _The medical examiner noted that antidepressants were found in the home where Bryar’s remains were found. He also added that the body was next to three large canisters of nitrous oxide. The autopsy also raised concerns about a potentially “intentional or accidental” overdose, according to the outlet._ The bassist Mikey Way has allegations with a teenage model. Possibly underaged fans too. Which god are they referring to? _Uh, uh, uh, uh,uh_ _Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh_ _Uh, uh, uh, right now_ _I’m sick down from the bones to the other side_ _Red-mob, we insects hide_ _King rat on the streets in another life_ _They laugh, we don’t think it’s funny_ _If what you are_ _Is just what you own_ _What have you become_ _When they take from you_ _Almost everything?_ _You don’t believe in God_ _I don’t believe in luck_ _They don’t believe in us_ _But I believe we’re the enemy!_ _You don’t believe in God_ _I don’t believe in luck_ _They don’t believe in us_ _But I believe we’re the enemy!_ _Destroya, destroya, destroya_ _Destroya, destroya, destroya, destroya_ _Against the sun, we’re the enemy_ _Destroya, destroya, destroya, destroya_ _Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh (uhhh)_ _U, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh_ _Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh (uhhh)_ _Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh_ _I don’t believe in God (you don’t believe in God)_ _I don’t believe in luck (I don’t believe in luck)_ _I don’t believe in you (They don’t believe in us)_ _I just believe we’re the enemy (but I believe we’re the enemy)_ _I don’t believe in God (You don’t believe in God)_ _I don’t believe in luck (I don’t believe in luck)_ _I don’t believe in you (They don’t believe in us)_ _I just believe we’re the enemy (but I believe we’re the enemy)_ _Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh (uhhh)_ _Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh (uhhh)_ _Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh (uhhh)_ _Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh (uhhh)_ _Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh (uhhh)_ _You don’t believe in God_ _I don’t believe in luck_ _They don’t believe in us_ _But I believe we’re the enemy_ _You don’t believe in God_ _I don’t believe in luck_ _They don’t believe in us_ _But I believe we’re the enemy_ _Destroya, destroya, destroya_ _Destroya, destroya, destroya, destroya_ _Against the sun, we’re the enemy_ _Destroya, destroya, we’re all waiting for ya’_ _Destroya, destroya_ _Against the sun, we’re the enemy_ _So show me what you got, you children of the gun_ _Don’t hide and we don’t run_ _Against the sun, we’re the enemy_ _So show me what you got_ _Against the sun, we’re the enem_y ---
**Author:** ![TheSeeker7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@TheSeeker7](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/u/TheSeeker7)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 9:39am UTC](https://forums.vigilantcitizen.com/t/symbolism-in-films-music-videos-other/998/16 "2026-09-11T09:39:16Z")
> [@miserychick](#): > > _Against the sun, we’re the enem_y Thats similar to Seventeens release HOT, where in the lyrics they say they turn their back to the Sun. And wager on the Sun of fate. You can see a sun representing a half eclipse in the background. > Esoterically and occultly, **Saturn** is the primary planet linked to fate, destiny, and the cosmic laws of consequence Around the time they started getting international bookings and coverage. [![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/3X/6/2/629b45a596dc81089f25ca66784e9c2660c987b3.jpeg "SEVENTEEN (세븐틴) 'HOT' Official MV") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRnuFC4Ualw) ---
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[https://x.com/DanielGilr44222/status/2111548921096880160](https://x.com/DanielGilr44222/status/2111548921096880160) ---
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![wizardofoz](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/3X/9/e/9eee1fdf117bb01a3fa508a3bf49fd25ed201480.jpeg) ---
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[https://x.com/CodexZeroTtivn/status/2113678595142963261](https://x.com/CodexZeroTtivn/status/2113678595142963261) ---
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David Lynch’s Twin Peaks is absolutely full of occult symbolism, including Masonic symbolism and Saturnian “Black Cube” symbolism. [![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/3X/e/8/e818192180ac695fd6d9b58d3ec35a04b62697b3.jpeg "Twin Peaks - Red Room Full Scene HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDTxN4dbN3E) > **[The 10 Most Important Occult Themes In “Twin Peaks”](https://www.tasteofcinema.com/2019/the-10-most-important-occult-themes-in-twin-peaks/)** > > When FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper arrived in Twin Peaks, his mission was clear: the homecoming queen, Laura Palmer, had been murdered and Cooper was there [![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/uploads/vigilantcitizen/original/3X/4/5/45da3a42204a586cfa40a6c4a73e2acbee1818b7.jpeg "Gnostic and Esoteric Themes in Twin Peaks") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_PbKqFRl0E) Brave AI states: **Twin Peaks** is heavily infused with occultism, drawing primarily from **Dion Fortune’s** _Psychic Self-Defense_ for its White and Black Lodge mythology, **Theosophy** , and **Jungian psychology**. Creator **Mark Frost** explicitly integrated these elements, while director **David Lynch** added layers of intuition and **Transcendental Meditation** influences. Key occult themes include: - **Alchemical Processes** : The narrative mirrors alchemical stages like the _Nigredo_ (black coffee, black oil) and _Albedo_ (whitening, sacred marriage), representing the integration of shadow selves. - **Duality and Spirits** : The series explores the conflict between light and darkness through the **Black Lodge** (evil spirits, _qlippoth_) and the **White Lodge** , featuring concepts like doppelgängers and the **Dweller on the Threshold**. - **Esoteric Symbols** : Recurring motifs include **Saturnian symbolism** (the Black Cube, eclipses, the Great Eye), **tarot cards** at One Eyed Jacks, and references to **Aleister Crowley** and **Jack Parsons** in supplementary texts. - **Shamanic and Eastern Traditions** : Elements such as Native American folklore, **Tibetan Book of the Dead** concepts (Bardo states), and the use of mantras or backwards speech reflect a syncretic blend of global spiritual traditions. ## **The Dion Fortune Foundation** The entire Lodge mythology is lifted from \*Psychic Self-Defense\* (1930) by Dion Fortune. Frost confirmed this directly to _The Independent_ in 1992: “That’s right, that’s exactly where I got the Black Lodge from.” Fortune was a member of both the Theosophical Society and Alpha et Omega (an offshoot of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn), so the concept carries the full weight of 19th-century Western esotericism. In Fortune’s usage, the **Black Lodge** is not a single place but a _system_ — unauthorized lodges where left-hand-path practitioners concentrate evil energy. She describes them as “sinister centers of influence” where “the cultivation of evil proceeds in exponential fashion.” The **White Lodge** corresponds to what Fortune calls the “Great White Brotherhood” — the aspirational, right-hand-path spiritual hierarchy. The show translates this from a _social_ structure (secret societies) into a _spatial_ one (literal rooms/planes), but the moral geometry is identical: purity vs. corruption, service vs. exploitation. Fortune’s specific details map directly onto the show: - She writes that psychic attack is heralded by “a sense of fear and oppression” and “evil odours” — the show uses the **scorched engine oil smell** that accompanies BOB. - She describes passing “through whose folds I pass” a “curtain of the symbolic colour” — the **red curtains** at the Black Lodge entrance. - She notes that “the pure can see members (the Unseen) of the Black Lodge as they really are” — the Lodge as a place of _seeing_ one’s true nature. ## **The Alchemical Architecture** The series is structured as a **seven-step alchemical opus** , the classical sequence for transmutation: | **Step** | **Name** | **Show Parallel** | | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Calcination | Burning away the ego; Cooper’s entry into the Lodge | | 2 | Dissolution | The Black Lodge’s disorienting, liquid-like environment | | 3 | Separation | Cooper confronting BOB / his shadow | | 4 | Conjunction (_coniunctio_) | The union of opposites — the two Venuses (de Milo = Laura, Pudica = Annie) | | 5 | Fermentation | The “yellow ferment” — the life-force essence; the **creamed corn** as “garmonbozia” (psychic sustenance) | | 6 | Distillation | Refinement through suffering; the 25-year stasis | | 7 | Coagulation | The Philosopher’s Stone; Cooper’s emergence as a transformed being | The **Black Lodge map** found in the cave (the “cave painting” that Windom Earle calls “a map to the Black Lodge”) is itself an alchemical diagram. The **antimony** at position 1 on the map corresponds to the wolf’s head on Benjamin Horne’s door — antimony symbolizes the untamed animal nature in alchemy. The words **“Fire Walk With Me”** written in blood are not an incantation but an _invitation_ into the sophic fire of alchemy. The White and Black Lodges represent the **Black Phase (Nigredo)** and **White Phase (Albedo)** respectively, with the **Red Phase (Rubedo)** being the final integration. The Black Lodge’s red room, its black-and-white zigzag floor, and its red drapes encode all three phases simultaneously. ## **The Planetary System: Jupiter vs. Saturn** This is arguably the most structurally important occult layer. The **Great Conjunction** of Jupiter and Saturn — when the two planets align — is the _key_ that opens the portal to the Black Lodge. Briggs says it explicitly: “There’s a time if Jupiter and Saturn meet, they will receive you.” - **Jupiter** = the White Lodge, expansion, benevolence, the “son” energy. Cooper embodies Jupiter. - **Saturn** = the Black Lodge, restriction, time, death, the “father” energy. BOB embodies Saturn. The **Saturn lamp** in the Red Room (a 1930s art-deco light-green lamp) is a direct planetary marker. The **black cube** from which Cooper emerges in _The Return_ is Saturn’s geometric symbol (the cube being Saturn’s solid in the Platonic system). The **Great Eye of Saturn** appears in the owl cave ring and in the show’s promotional imagery. The **Venus statues** in the Black Lodge (Venus de Milo and Venus Pudica) represent the duality of desire — Venus being Earth’s “twin planet” that rotates backwards, which is why the Lodge’s inhabitants speak in reverse. In alchemy, Venus governs the _coniunctio_ (sacred marriage), which is the central transformative act the Lodge forces upon its visitors. ## **The Qabalah and the Qlippoth** The Lodge system maps onto the **Kabbalistic Tree of Life** and its inversion, the **Qlippoth** (the “shells” or false sephiroth): - The **White Lodge** corresponds to the sephiroth (the tree of life, the path of creation). - The **Black Lodge** corresponds to the **Qlippoth** — the realm “opposed to the plan of creation,” where the **Dukpas** reside (a term from Theosophy for evil spirits). - The **Dweller on the Threshold** occupies the position of **Da’ath** — the “Abyss” or the hidden sphere between the upper and lower triads on the Tree of Life. It is the gate that must be crossed, and crossing it unprepared is fatal. The **twelve sycamore trees** surrounding the Glastonbury Grove portal represent the **twelve knights of King Arthur** in the alchemical allegory of the _Roman de la Rose_, and also the **twelve trees** surrounding the entrance to the Black Lodge in the show’s own mythology. ## **The Jungian Shadow Framework** The doppelgänger motif is the series’ primary **Jungian** device. Each character’s doppelgänger is not a separate entity but an _externalized shadow_ — the repressed, rejected aspect of the psyche given physical form: - **BOB** is Leland Palmer’s autonomous complex — the “raw, primitive, chaotic force” that split off and grew monstrous. In Jungian terms, BOB is an _archetypal shadow_ that has achieved a degree of autonomy. - **Cooper’s doppelgänger** (“Mr. C”) represents his ambition, hubris, and the parts of himself he cannot face. The final confrontation in the Red Room is a literal _shadow work_ session. - **Laura’s integration** — “I am Laura Palmer” — represents the _successful_ integration of the shadow. She has absorbed her doppelgänger and achieved a form of wholeness, which is why she never appears as a separate entity in Season 3. The **Dweller on the Threshold** has a specific literary lineage: it originates in \*The Strange Story of a Real Crime\* (1843) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, where it is a terrifying supernatural presence encountered when crossing into forbidden occult territory before being spiritually prepared. Jung adopted the term for the psychological threshold between the conscious and unconscious. The show’s use (via Hawk’s Native American legend) merges both traditions: it is simultaneously a _psychological_ gate (Jung) and a _spiritual_ one (Bulwer-Lytton/Fortune). The **coniunctio** — the alchemical “marriage” of opposites — is the ultimate goal. Cooper’s transformation after integrating his doppelgänger is described as a _coniunctio_: the union of the conscious ego with its shadow, producing a “new and more balanced personality.” ## **The Theosophical and Tibetan Layer** Beyond Fortune, the show draws on Helena Blavatsky’s Theosophy, particularly: - The concept of **Dukpas** (evil spirits opposed to the plan of creation) — these populate the Black Lodge in the show’s mythology. - The **Bardo** states from the \*Tibetan Book of the Dead\* — the liminal states of consciousness between death and rebirth, which parallel the Lodge’s “waiting room” quality. - The idea of **tulpas** — thought-forms given life by concentrated psychic energy. The Lodge’s manifestations (doppelgängers, spirits) can be read as tulpas: projections of the human psyche “magnified and made tangible.” ## **Specific Esoteric Symbols in Detail** - **The coffee** : The black coffee in Cooper’s mug is not a drink but a symbol of the **eclipse with corona** — the “Black Sun” of Saturn. The steam rising from it represents the spiritual energy emanating from the Saturnian gateway. - **The red curtains** : Fortune’s “curtain of the symbolic colour” through which one passes into the Black Lodge. Each time Cooper lifts them and finds the same room, it represents the _threshold crossing_ between physical and spiritual planes. - **The backwards speech** : The Man from Another Place’s reversed speech is a direct reference to Aleister Crowley, who promoted reversed speech as a method of communicating with spirits. - **The tarot at One-Eyed Jack’s** : Blackie uses a **Rider-Waite-Smith** deck with a **Celtic Cross spread** — the most common Western tarot configuration. The juxtaposition of a tarot deck and a regular poker deck in the same scene encodes the show’s central theme: the mystical hidden within the ordinary. The **roulette wheel** on the second monitor is a reference to **The Wheel of Fortune** tarot card. - **The owl** : In the German tradition, a doppelgänger casts no shadow and is an omen of death. The owl (a nocturnal, shadow-casting bird) appears as a recurring motif linking the doppelgänger theme to the Lodge. - **The cube** : The black cube is Saturn’s geometric solid (the Platonic solid associated with Saturn/earth). Its presence in _The Return_ as an interdimensional gateway connects the show’s cosmology to the Saturnian/Platonic system. ## **The Syncretic Whole** What makes the occultism of _Twin Peaks_ distinctive is not any single tradition but the **synthesis** : Dion Fortune’s Lodge system provides the _structure_, Jung provides the _psychology_, alchemy provides the _narrative arc_, Kabbalah provides the _cosmology_, Theosophy provides the _spiritual ecology_, and Crowley provides the _aesthetic sensibility_. Lynch and Frost didn’t borrow from one tradition — they built a **composite esoteric system** where each layer reinforces the others, creating a mythology that feels both ancient and specifically _theirs_. **What is the specific role of the number 3?** The number 3 operates on several interlocking levels in the show’s occult architecture, functioning as the **principle of binding, completion, and the emergence of a new whole from duality**. ## **Pythagorean “First Number”** The Pythagoreans considered three the **first true number** (not counting unity), because it is “the first number with a story — it possesses a beginning, a middle, and an end.” This makes it the structural number of _narrative itself_: every Lodge crossing, every Cooper’s journey, follows a three-act arc. The show’s entire mythology is built on the premise that **two creates three** — the contact of opposites (White/Black, Cooper/BOB, Leland/Laura) produces a third term that is the actual site of transformation. This is the **Axiom of Maria** made dramatic: _“One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes the one as the fourth.”_ The “third” is where the alchemical work actually happens. ## **The Three Phases** The most structurally important use: **Nigredo → Albedo → Rubedo**. The Black Lodge, White Lodge, and the **Red Room** (the mediating space between them, entered through Glastonbury Grove) are not just two lodges with a doorway — they are a **triad of alchemical phases**. The Red Room is the _third term_ that makes the conjunction possible. Without it, the Black and White are just opposition; with it, they become a process. Similarly, the **Palmer family** — Leland, Sarah, Laura — forms a trinity “that lives in one house,” a direct echo of the Egyptian trinity (Father, Mother, Child) and the Christian one. The family unit is itself an alchemical triad: the contact of the parental pair produces the third, Laura, who becomes the site of the Lodge’s work. ## **The Three Coopers** In _The Return_, the number 3 is literally **coded into the set design** : - **Socket 15** = the evil doppelgänger’s domain (15 reduces to 1+5=6, the number of the material world / the fall). - **Socket 3** = Dougie’s / the “true” Cooper’s domain. - **Room 315** = the combined entity, the unresolved duality before integration. The three Coopers — **real Cooper, Mr. C, and the unified Cooper** who emerges after the Lodge — are the _coniunctio_ played out in a single body. The “third” is the integrated whole, the _lapis_, the Self in Jungian terms. As one analysis puts it, the “third realm” is where the alchemical _lapis_ operates: “between space-time and atemporal worlds.” ## **Ritual Binding** On a more surface level, three is the **number of oaths, covenants, and seals**. Three knocks, three warnings, three repetitions of key phrases, three FBI agents. As one analysis notes: _“Whenever three appears, something is being sealed. Not resolved — sealed.”_ In esoteric ritual, the triple invocation is what makes a binding _real_ — it moves from statement to covenant. The show uses this constantly: characters repeat things three times, and the third repetition is when the meaning locks in. ## **Hank’s Domino** **Chris Mulkey** (Hank Jennings) confirmed at the 1999 Twin Peaks Festival that the number three on Hank’s domino represents **“magic”** and that doubling it (3/3) represents **“mysticism.”** The domino is 3/3 — the number of magic doubled into mysticism — carried in the mouth, the seat of the word that binds. The 3/3 also maps to **March 3** , the date of the mill fire, Jacques’ murder, and Cooper being shot three times in the chest. ## **The Triad as Structural Grammar** What ties all of this together: in the show’s occult system, **two is never enough**. Duality (Black/White, Cooper/BOB, Leland/Laura) is the _problem_. Three is the _solution_ — the third term that resolves the tension into a new whole. The entire series is an argument that **wholeness requires a third** : not the elimination of the shadow, but the emergence of a term that contains both. That’s the _coniunctio_, that’s the _lapis_, that’s the “one as the fourth” that the Axiom of Maria promises. The number 3 is, in short, **the number of the show’s thesis** : that integration — not victory — is the only real transcendence.