If you've seen this before in Gemstin's youtube community, yeah that was me too :)
I've only now become aware of this subreddit so I decided to post them here too, enjoy!
Hope she likes the double chocolate cake :V
Mario Madness "Abandoned" cover idea
Craftycorn watches Pouty scribbling angrily.
Craftycorn: Wow, Pouty! Are you frustrated about something?
Pouty: Yeah. I've been practicing a song on my violin, but I CAN'T GET IT RIGHT! *Scribbles faster*
Craftycorn: It's okay, Pouty. Just let it all out. Scribble your stresses away and I'm sure you'll master that song in no time.
10 minutes later...
Pouty: Aahhhh. I feel much better. Thanks, Crafty! Gotta go! That violin isn't gonna practice itself!
Craftcorn: Glad I could help!
Craftycorn notices a second entry left on the table.
Craftycorn: !!! O.o
okay so i have literally been rewatching a bunch of gemstin production's comic dubs and something from that "WHO BEAR?" short is completely breaking my brain right now.
remember the part where kickinchicken and pickypiggy are joking about which care bear they look like? then bobby just interrupts them with that totally blank vacant face and asks "what's a care bear?"
almost everyone in the comments thought it was just a funny meta gag about her design. but knowing how gemstin loves hiding crazy dark lore in things like a dog call and april showers, i looked way closer at her character background. if you match this joke up with her actual cutout lines from chapter 3 and real life toy history, it actually makes so much sense.
bobby bearhug isn't a normal factory built critter like everyone else. she is a lost brainwashed care bear from another universe.
the actual toy history completely proves it too. look at the original care bear launch from the 80s. there were exactly 10 core bears like tenderheart and cheer bear. guess what? there were absolutely zero solid red bears in that whole original lineup. they only used pastel colors.
so in gemstin's lore, bobby was probably the unique 11th member of that group, and since she was smaller they treated her like a younger sister. because she stood out so much, when she vanished, the color red was literally wiped from care-a-lot history. that is why her friends only know the standard 10 bears from the tv show.
this also explains why she is the biggest anomaly in the whole line. the other 6 critters don't match any real cartoon or toy franchise at all, they just look like a normal corporate factory lineup. even catnap is totally unique because he doesn't have regular spoken quotes or cutout voice lines, his silence shows he was entirely engineered by a lab. bobby is the only one who doesn't fit the corporate mold. the whole smiling critters line is basically a dark corporate sequel built completely on her capture, where they siphoned her magic to manufacture the rest of the crew.
there is literal visual proof on her character model if you look at the animation assets. all the other animal critters have solid color paws that match their fur. bobby is the only one who has distinct, lighter-colored hands and feet.
this is a direct match to vintage care bears because they always had lighter felt pads on their palms and soles. playtime co tried to hide her identity, but her physical body still carries the exact blueprint of a care bear model.
when she was little, she got caught in a massive storm, got separated from the other care bears, and wandered into the cold concrete labyrinth of playtime co looking for shelter. the scientists found her and realized her organic magic of unconditional empathy was a literal goldmine for the bigger bodies initiative. to keep her a total secret, they built a massive corporate camouflage to rebrand her as a mass-produced plushie.
her ruby-red heart zipper pendant isn't just a cute accessory either. it is a physical emotional dampener placed right over her chest to suppress and harvest her magic empathy to keep the other kids docile. then they manufactured the other generic animals to surround her so she would seamlessly blend into the group.
the heavy factory brainwashing completely wiped her childhood memories. when bobby asks "what's a care bear?", she isn't being cute. it is heartbreaking proof of corporate amnesia. her brain short circuits because the mental conditioning blocks her from recognizing her own kind. she is looking right at her own heritage and seeing a meaningless trademark.
this matches her actual cutout audio perfectly where her lines glitch out and turn into pure panic about being lost a long time and begging someone not to leave her behind. while the other critters complain about physical factory trauma like darkness or hunger, bobby is the only one talking about deep existential displacement. her subconscious is literally remembering the exact day she wandered away from the care bears in that storm. it completely explains her crippling fear of abandonment. her mind forgot the names, but her soul still remembers the terrifying feeling of being left behind in the dark.
the most tragic realization of this theory is what it means for the rest of the group. the other seven smiling critters spent years living, playing, and surviving right next to a real care bear from another universe, and absolutely none of them ever knew it. when kickinchicken and pickypiggy talk about care bears, they treat it like a silly human tv show, completely blind to the fact that their gentlest friend is a brainwashed piece of that exact world. bobby is just a hollowed out magical refugee forced to give hugs to factory kids while the other care bears have been searching for their lost younger sister across dimensions for decades.
let me know what you guys think. am i reading too far into a 30 second gag or does this actually match the dark writing style of the other gemstin theories?
In other words, it makes sense that DogDay and CatNap died in 2005, since that's when the game takes place, but I don't know if the dates the person put in this edit could be their actual death dates, I would like to hear you all opinions.
Baba Chops and Dogday
especially of Bobby and Catnap, anyone have some randrom fanart comics?
Nightmare Critters, Baba Chops
Baba chops, Nightmare Critters