MLP Conspiracies - Ep.5 'Tom'-Foolery

[@moggyjohnny3381]

I have a theory for Tom. When a rock gets destroyed, the entity moves to another rock. The rock that Rarity saw as a filly's entity moved into Tom. Rarity's horn reactedwhen she was near. Her subconscience saw that it was the same rock so she forced the greed side of her to take rhe rock because she felt guilty about not doing anything about the rock before.

[@shivikachintanippu9300]

Moggy Johnny I agree

[@s_pxde]

“She lost her element of generosity and became consumed by greed” Elements of insanity ;)

[@demonic8767]

im about to write some fan fic now 😂

[@isabelbard853]

I like this conspiracy! Makes a lot of sense actually. Plus I never really liked the idea of Pinkie and Maud being completely insane, so I guess it's a comfort though it might not be officially canon.

[@arcticofclosedverse1171]

Actually, it is. Check my comment.

[@ambermargheim5726]

Well, I can see how she got the rock talking like he said, but I'm pretty sure the other things were pinkie, I mean she can't have lived around baking stuff this long and not seen the sentience in her ingredients. Other then that I agree

[@nelke2623]

Rock farming is when you smash a rock into smaller rocks and sell them I have a rock farm near where I live

[@aardengrant]

Thats sad

[@4dforce]

Every body hates rocks

[@trapatackdotavi3631]

That's rock genocide

[@lapislazulyee]

Goat mom I don't

[@drewcampbell6667]

Maud is the one who ate the sandwich😂😂😂🍔🍔🍔🏉🏉🏉

[@breanna.1838]

Brace yourselves everypony... Because its not going to be the zombie apocalypse... it gonna be the ROCK apocalypse!

[@breanna.1838]

***** *Claps 1002 times* That was GOOD. xD

[@omniviewer2115]

***** That's a Lordi album. Now we know what the soundtrack will be when it happens.

[@lalablue4819]

Breanna Hopkins rockpocalypse

[@gamerbud2400]

Breanna Hopkins *Gets Out ROCKet Launcher* Time To Blow Some Rocks.

[@astaroth4418]

It's the Rockalypse

[@brendaribich9864]

weeping angels are alive

[@star-xz1ne]

yas

[@0hpossum]

Well DUH!!!!!!!!!! Of course the weeping angels are alive. How else would they move?

[@maozedong4010]

@@0hpossum well how do scp 173 move did that thing creator inject the it with souls?! !

[@fallynpilgrim6778]

Wait wat

[@gailasprey7787]

Fun fact: plants can actually show feelings. In a specific anti bullying week presentation my teacher showed us this school treating one plant with kindness and the other with cruelty. The first plant was grown more effectively while the other was drooping. Both were given all they needed to survive but the difference was one was treated well and the other was not.

[@demonic8767]

myth busters also did this and it busted. there wasn't enough concrete evidence to solidify this claim. also we are talking about a work of fiction not our reality

[@grace7961]

Maybe cause the other was not treated gently? They can’t understand language or see so..

[@gailasprey7787]

@@grace7961 well dogs can’t understand humans, they can understand when you’re mad though. How? By the tone of your voice. That’s how I think it may have been different.

[@HeartOfFire-cp4vf]

No. It might have been the oxygen difference in the exhalations of the people talking to the two plants, causing a growth difference or other environmental factors, plants lack a brain, and complex nerve cells, so they cannot respond to visual, audio stimuli with emotions, just by restricting growth in cells, which is managed by the nucleus of the cells which allow it to function, reptiles and bugs can’t feel emotions, and neither can a plant

[@HeartOfFire-cp4vf]

Also dogs have a large brain, which allows them to associate negative expirences with body laungags, or audio cues, so they can and do understand our laungague in a way that allows them to respond, for instance, sit, stay, good boy, and walkies Not the same for plants though, or reptiles or bugs, were not even sure if bugs feel pain (they don’t the same way we do)

[@sordid_morbid]

Dust is mostly made of dead human skin... WAIT A MINUTE... O_O

[@frostnmcut2287]

PrincessGabby02 O_O

[@giselledsouza4073]

I like where this is going

[@glacierwerewolf_superawkwa4238]

O.O

[@noniekangas3142]

+Giselle D'Souza O_O

[@indiranehrig3651]

GGGAAASSSPPPP😨😱😱😱😱😱

[@trapatackdotavi3631]

The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles

[@jakemiller3812]

PROFESSOR GENKI that poor babies! :O

[@theminiatureromantic]

Or maybe Rarity's gem-finding senses kicked in, so maybe that's how she found the rock and its gems, but still, her gem-finding power thing was just a spell, so either she used that spell when she was a filly, maybe your theory, or something else.

[@ZestyBirb]

>trees are not alive that is the only thing I took from this video

[@solutions-craft-decor]

TREEZY!!!!!

[@caragacha0878]

They are lol (Technically)

[@thesarahdilemma9752]

True

[@MorningDusk7734]

6:53 -actually, this works really well with my idea of why Maud wasn't originally in the silo when pinkie got her cutie mark. the reality is that Maud is destined to take over the rock farm. she is the eldest, meaning it would go to her naturally, and it is set up by what we see of rock farming and her. all she thinks about is rocks. her one passion is life is rocks. so much so that her closest friend (besides pinkie) is a ROCK. remember when she smashed the huge boulder to bits in her episode? have we seen another pony ever do this? and if you remember back to magic duel, when Trixie was working on the rock farm, she was told to split the huge rock behind her. if Maud was going to inherit the farm, wouldn't both a love for rocks and the ability to split rocks well be the two most essential traits for her? as for my theory, Maud wasn't in the silo when pinkie got her cutie mark because she always starts work early and ends late. this means she was already working when pinkie showed the rest of her family the party, and only came later when she realized the rest of the family wasn't out working yet. that is why we see her in the picture that was taken later and not when the family originally came in.

[@coffiecats]

that "lliving rocks" theory...O_O whao...whoa....wait a minute.....Pinkie was on a rock farm, mining rocks during her youth (in a flashback, Trizie was seen picking them open with an axe, so Pinkie could've too)....sooooo....what if these rocks ARE sentient, and picking them open releases that sentience upon Earth ponies- namely, the ones who farm the rocks, and that sentience allows Pinkie to see (and break) the 4th wall, as she's able to do? And the same for Maude- but to a lesser extent- not so much breaking the 4thwall, but aware of the sentience in other rocks, like Boulder, without having to break them apart, since- as a rock farmer, she's grown accustomed to the sentience from opened rocks imbuing her with their consciousness to see the consciousness in their own kind?

[@solutions-craft-decor]

could you say that again?

[@louuuuuuu950]

So Maude is like having a pet chicken that she grooms, give clothes and gives good food to, while butchering other chickens to sell their meat for money?

[@vulpesrex2850]

Wha?.....

[@demonic8767]

​@@sirk603 love it fan fic worthy

[@ceceliam6032]

The rocks They're like Undertale

[@neonthewolf8027]

like the Dummies *le gasp* yesssssss!

[@theiris1002]

nooo like the rock that told you not to touch it

[@roboticspider4554]

lol ikr?

[@loof8713]

+SPYRONINE because in snodin there are talking rocks and one that tells you not to touch it

[@garmadonsrightarms4434]

Oh yea!

[@nhansen197]

In Rarity's case with her horn dragging her, I'm more inclined to think she was being manipulated by someone who needed her to gain her cutey mark at the same time as the other main characters.

[@clairee.3953]

I thought this video was about a secret race of people in MLP, not rocks.

[@ConspiraPon3]

+Boogieboo 333 That's racist

[@clairee.3953]

+ConspiraPon3 lol ur so funny

[@em-kie]

+ConspiraPon3 no it's no, it's... Wait for it... Rock-sist. 😎

[@clairee.3953]

shinymewgirl HA!!!!

[@vtgamergirl3639]

me to!💩💩😭😖😫😓😔😪

[@ASJ2110]

WAIT A SECOND If there were conscious rocks with only their mind and their magic when one dies (rarity's cutie mark) the mind would die, but where would all their magic go? As seen when the rock died it left many magical gems, crystals. and wat are crystals most seen used as? for magic, nearly anytime weve seen or heard of most kinds of magical artifact it involved a crystal of some kind, which means the phase to of farming the rocks would be to harvest the remaining gems and sell them as something magical which would mean it's profitable to let a rock grow for ages instead of a quick harvest as with our cattle, providing more, bigger and maybe more magical gems then when at a younger age, dun dun daaaaaaaa... 😱, My brain hurts also one might consider the tree of harmony to be a living rock, considering how old it is bearing its magical fruit that is the elements o harmonay

[@vicentemorales2533]

oh yeah man, I guess you're onto something. this can actually be possible. In the same way farmers collect the FRUITS of trees and other plants, a rock farmer would collect the FRUITS of the rocks, not the rocks themselves. which in this case would be the gems. well done. I love this kind of videos and theories.

[@ASJ2110]

thanks

[@EmE1739]

IT IS A GEM ITS SELF!

[@em-kie]

Spike is a murderer, he eats crystals and crystals are rocks that go through scientific mumbo jumbo

[@lorenbuisman6386]

That would also explain why dragons eat gems, to sustain the magic for there fire.

[@StickySauce101]

Weeping Angels confirmed as Equestrian in origin.

[@HypercaffinatedBees]

lol

[@somethingfunny5571]

Animation error

[@squidcraft5955]

StickySauce101 DON"T BLINK. bbc.com

[@jakemiller3812]

StickySauce101 call the doctor!

[@cherries22222]

this needs to happen at some point in season five O-O

[@JAZZY_DREAMER]

This is surprisingly deep just for talking about rocks 😓

[@ndogmario]

You did well convincing me. you deserve a subscribe.

[@farhanakhan4925]

A lot of these theories rely on animation errors as evidence

[@thesarahdilemma9752]

Farhana Khan ok

[@wowcest_moi]

what animation error for this one-

[@cosmoslantern758]

when he said that the rocks are alive I wished he would put in a clip of Pocahontas singing "Every tree, rock, and creature has a live, has a soul, has a name."

[@cosmoslantern758]

I accidently spelt things wrong but I can't edit it

[@zanthous6938]

I never thought that i would watch a video about living rocks.

[@kozy_kitsune2847]

get it "lost her marbles" her little sister marble pie

[@wariowo9609]

HAH HAH.. Hah.. hah -_-

[@douglasbowes8589]

And marble is a type of rock.

[@ElonorEzraValley_TheGuradian]

Lol

[@sagegc_]

Legend says, ConspiraPon3 is still wondering where that sandwhich went...

[@ABitSillyPony]

Whow! Great theory :D I never noticed the statues dissapearing! Rocks confirmed as S5 villains

[@No-hl4qm]

living shadows? living stone? oh my god Doctor Whooves is happening

[@harmonydavis40]

Dr. Whooves likes to make weeping angels weep and weep

[@AnastasiaOnStage]

Normal me: ok get a grip rocks cant be aliveMe right now: wow this is totally legit

[@windythewarrior8817]

A while ago, I came up with a theory about petriculture. What if rock farming was actually gem farming? The rock that pulled Rarity to it was dying, and when it split it was full of gemstones. Rarity also perceived Tom as a giant diamond, too, which besides being in-character, could also be associated with magic. Perhaps rocks that are given the chance to mature, hidden from the effects of weathering and erosion, eventually become gems, full of magic waiting to be harnessed - at least, from the ponies' perspective. Those that are damaged have to be broken, as their spoiled magic would otherwise spread to other rocks. If they die whilst becoming gems, it results in being filled with gems, like the rock that called for help and inadvertently caused Rares to discover her talent for sure.

[@sierrawilson7363]

maybe the rocks are inhabited by ghosts like the dummies in undertale

[@ceceliam6032]

OR MAYBE THE BOULDERS

[@-n-1828]

;-; plz no more undertale refrences

[@lholcomb0130]

Napstablook needs a home.

[@thegamingchicken7469]

it is a secret race of pony's that know the secret of the rocks..... that the rocks contain souls of ponies

[@alpeneinhorn]

Did I just watch a 12 minutes long video about stones? D:

[@starridreamer4465]

yes yes you did

[@katiepontius2931]

what's funny is that we all did

[@FuelBoundDaydreams]

True. How did we even find it interesting? And I ran into another Canada. Amazing.

[@starridreamer4465]

Matthew Williams hello

[@trapatackdotavi3631]

No it was rocks

[@frostfeather6584]

5:10 or maybe her power for finding gems triggered?

[@raywarner6504]

when i started watching this i thought there aint no way, but now im verry convinced...

[@mirrynmcwilliams937]

This would also explain rarity's gem finding spell, she taps into the magic of them. Given that we have a race of CRYSTAL ponies... Rocks being alive isn't a huge stretch

[@liiivi3432]

If rocks are sentient then 7:17 is brutal

[@thelightningbrony4745]

You've successfully blown my mind xD Who would have thought that rocks being alive in Equestria/Equestria Girls would make so much sense

[@gagebotts]

Well I'm a rock and I am typing sykinetikly

[@pinkamenadiannepie5479]

im a stone

[@chifuyu5164]

I’m a pebble

[@undeadgamer8812]

well, my new year's resolution is going to be, have a rock farm and get a pet rock.

[@breezy5797]

10 hours later "now back to boulder"

[@davidmcenally7301]

Hi

[@bbobafxtt4938]

If this is true, then the 7th element of harmony Spike had in his hoarding pile when he had his growth spurt, could’ve gone there itself. 😱

[@bbobafxtt4938]

I have watched a lot of mlp theories 😂

[@TRACKZZ22656]

and what about the lore in super mario bros. instruction booklet? There, all the inhabitants of the mushroom kingdom were turned into the blocks we see (and smash) through the levels. Maybe somepony used a similar spell a long time ago and turned them into rocks.

[@xRager_Gamerx]

For the chaos and hopless ponies Chaos: Applelie Grumpy pie Thiefity Fluttercruel Rainbow jerk Hopeless pony Twilight hopeless

[@rockrockrock2577]

12:40.... i hear a SPONGE BOB REFERENCE

[@tOSdude]

I like the idea that Boulder are a sandwich (why did autocorrect capitalize that? Boulder is not normally a name!)

[@wires-sl7gs]

+tosdude Or maybe it! dun dun dun! Lawl

[@ChoiceofMaeve]

Living rock exist here too

[@shauntae1981]

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[@notWerewolf]

**Being a rock**

[@Rachoogian]

Forever a stone

[@imbrush]

No seriously it's true look it up

[@goldenaxolotl9718]

Umm... like lava?

[@nickronca1562]

I remember when I first watched this video. Yeah, there is definitely something weird going on with rocks being sentient in this show. Not to mention after this video was uploaded in season 6 Thorax was able to change into a rock.

[@aquartzy5418]

if they are alive then they reproduce with...magic!that's how they grow lol

[@SummerRene]

I like to think that the rocks are trapped, and by breaking them, they are being set free!

[@never-happy-everafter1460]

But if their being farmed they have to reproduce..... O o -

[@allisonchow815]

What I think happened... -Mod ate the sandwich -Small rocks might be used as decoration -magic allowed the ppl to live -never felt the floor move when people jump around? -Rarity plainly loves shiny things enough to name them. -If rocks are alive then they are like plants and won’t do anything. -rocks are a natural occurrence in nature and can be dug up any time. Any where. That’s how they work.

[@Guus]

GOD... My life is a lie !

[@jillythebean123]

"I can't believe it.... My friends are total jerks!" "Look out, here comes Tom!"

[@vladimirmanson3389]

its a cartoon... why logic?

[@ConspiraPon3]

It's also a very developed universe with lots of world-building. It's fun, why not? :P

[@star-xz1ne]

dunno

[@jakemiller3812]

ConspiraPon3 maybe rainbow dash has very much magic inside her, in season 4 Twilight get all the alicorn magic and was very fast (like rainbow dash all day) she also has a trail behind her.

[@discatded]

Because logic

[@solutions-craft-decor]

because it's fun,also...MLP ARE THE BEEEEEST!!!!

[@frostfeather6584]

7:49 well they have a rainbow factory, maybe people need rocks, or gravel.

[@ajitsarker108]

You think about this too much. My Little Pony is aimed at 6 year olds.

[@roboticspider4554]

well ya but still its fun to theory

[@craziecookie4583]

Ajit Sarker but there are other cartoons aimed at six year olds that have very deep meaning. plus it's just fun to talk about ^-^

[@Quackervoltz]

Are you fucking kidding me?

[@riveritsafckingnoundontcap7884]

I like the show... so um ya

[@emathomas6401]

man im glad this is a fiction show i was prepared for my house to swallow me up at any moment

[@tonychorman6209]

In Disney's Pocahontas' Colors of the Wind: "But I know that every ROCK, tree, and creature, has a life, has a spirit, has a name"

[@ankitkumarmishra1204]

I totally agree. We even come to know a lot about Equestrian rocks in the episode 'Rock Solid Friendship'.

[@phantompawn]

In the comic, there is a creature that takes the form of an inanimate object, actually. When its young, it constantly changes form until it finds one it likes. CMC finds one, comic stuff ensues, and when it is returned home to its parent, it takes the form of a gemstone cluster.

[@pkhydro2895]

Petrification is a common status in ff, and in Pokemon mystery dungeon a large part of the story is spent figuring out the mysteries of the mass petrification happening

[@mushroom6318]

The rocks : bruh stop expoding me am trying to sleep right now

[@Kaseyshere101]

you have a lot of far-fetched ideas but always seem to back them up on some level. love the ideas you put forth.

[@LeonexusRandom]

I'm going to need to watch more of these, that's a very interesting theory, and can lead the mind into different directions of thought....NEW SUB FOR YOU!

[@fwMMVII]

The way the dragon swiped back his spines like they were hair, lol!

[@sammythebrony2417]

This. Is. So. Clever. And. It. Gives. Me. The. Feels. Because. Its. So. Deep. . . Wow

[@AidanRatnage]

at 5:17, this is kind of what happens in The Swapper, a game I bought on Steam. At 10:58 or it's an animation error.

[@furzyartz]

1:32 OuO Illuminati confirmed

[@fairyhaven13]

=D I was glad I could help out with this theory. I know it's not quite as "likely" as our other series; this one is more headcanon, but it's just meant to be entertaining instead of entirely making food for thought, so that's okay. I know conspiracy theorists are meant to overthink things like nitpickers, but a couple commenters here are overthinking it a bit *too* much... they're kinda pulling or pushing too much emphasis on some things you said instead of listening to the whole thing. I personally think it was a great (if purposely silly) theory, but that might be because I'm biased, since I helped you make it.

[@tylerryan7762]

At the rock farm where all your fears and horrors come true, at the rock farm where not a single pony becomes hard?

[@lupint.w7444]

This is some Lovecraftian shenanigans!

[@sedkitty03]

I thought it funny that all of Pinkie Pie's "party guests" were made of dead things (flour made from wheat, dust from dead skin cells, turnips, etc.) except for the rock pile. However, this theory makes sense of this. (Wait, does that mean she's communing with the dead? That's weird, even by Pinkie standards.)

[@harmonydavis40]

No, it's a metaphor for psychopath.

[@LuckyGator]

Great theory! I expect more! Also as a theorist myself you give good points on your ideas.

[@aprilstewart6734]

perhaps the rocks are like toys in the toy story movies, they only move and do things when you arent looking. and as the playthings of man (or in this case ponies) they dont fight back and take it as the natural order of things.

[@p1kk3d39]

i like how you just slid in a photo of the terra cotta army, im currently learning that in history class so its funny to me

[@shadowwarrior8649]

Well.... Thank you for teaching me about rocks

[@annoyingbutterfly9629]

You can truly make the Mind melt my good man

[@F1r3w0rksisacolt]

Lesson learned, talking to rocks makes you crazy because they are real people.

[@esseperfilmorreuu1306]

maybe boulder is a changeling

[@mystery5793]

this makes the loss of magic in the finale of the most recent season terribly sad

[@commenter781]

IN THAT CLIP OF YOUNG RARITY SHE LOOKS SO DONE. 'Horn, I am not having any more of your shit'

[@tordrivera7190]

Well, some rocks do have energy and stuff, so she would have been attracted to it

[@derbydoesgacha9501]

My theory of this theory: when a rock dies it chooses a person to put its magic into, meaning that that in rarity’s case it probably gave its magic to her, and with her not knowing. This leading to the Tom incident.

[@LeonidSaykin]

alight I can't bear this, can't we just pretend that Maud eat the sandwich, because every time she request the food for a rock, she actualy request a extra food for herself

[@animefn]

While I don't buy into this theory, thinking in that mentality brings about some reason. Specifically regarding the destruction they have received since the ponies started tampering with their environment. A reason why they might tolerate this is possibly similar to treants or the ents from Lord of the Rings. They think and react so slowly. Rocks change even slower than trees do, therefore they would react incrementally slowly to anything. Also, maybe the rock farmers move rocks that are sentient away from towns, the revengeful ones at least. Maybe the rocks are already trying to do something, but those ponies keep moving them. Obviously, if they can move, it would take them an awfully long time to do it. They would move so slowly in fact, that nobody notices, but those who know to look for such things.

[@audazingz1976]

Maybe the reason people farm rocks is for their minds, maybe the reason is because someone wants to gain mass intelligence or power, and therefor using the minds in rocks. Which have been around for a long time and seen a lot. So by using the minds of rocks they would unlock the answers to many questions. Therefor the rock family would make a bucket load of money, but the reason they probably have a small building is maybe because they loan so much to pinkie for her parties, because they are family you know. And since she has parties like everyday she would need the money for supplies. Or they use the money to get more rocks or more land to raise the rocks on. And maybe the reason they push the rocks from one side to another is so that way they will see more and then know more.

[@fluttershyisnotadoormat4678]

I wonder if they like rock music tho... :3

[@princessluna693]

I did see something, when Rarity was drug to the rock filled with gems, and she saw Tom as a diamond, what if she wasn't seeing the outside but what could lie inside; gems. She saw the inside of the book instead of just the cover.

[@cubesolver64]

Also the Celestia statue from A friend In Deed that disappeared when Pinkie took it's place.

[@jessicaeckel275]

I use to collect shells and rocks...but one day they disappeared 😔

[@manmoy4104]

Maybe Houlder Clobberstone had some relation with that Houlder's Boulder. Maybe if your theory is correct then that would mean the Boulder can use magic to protect the whole family. Limestone was probably able to communicate with it, that's why she was so protective about it. So yeah, you're theory is correct.

[@MatthewElectroThePanda216]

Awesome idea! I would love to see rock creatures in MLP!

[@notme8652]

Rock: I NEED HELP Rarity: I came all the way here for a rock?!?!? Rock:no wait you need to he- *Rainboom happens* Rarity: 😱 Rock organs!!!🤩

[@ashthewierdo4963]

That spongebob meme. That's one of my favorite episodes, pizza delivery.

[@angief1980]

From 12:27 To the end killed me XD

[@pashazanderson2945]

I'm pretty sure that the return of harmony, was just one of the ginormous mistakes Hasbro made

[@arreilaa4872]

What you didn't mention was that the pony statue outside of canterlot high school disappeared in the movie "legend of everfree" .than the magic from the statue (which was also a portal to a different dimension) found the main 7 (including sunset shimmer) and gave them super powers!

[@summerhambridge6174]

NO NOT THE WEEPING ANGELS

[@KDKatieDraws]

Ikr!!

[@tiffanyroberts4517]

dude i is runnin outta things to watch plz make more mind blowing vids[there awesome]