The Stanley Parable, Sequels, and YOU!

The Stanley Parable, Sequels, and YOU! is an unlisted YouTube video uploaded on by the Crows Crows Crows YouTube channel on April 27th, 2022, the day of the release of The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe. This video appears on the official website for The Stanley Parable 2 and is intended to be found in-game in the Merch section of The Stanley Parable 2 Expo in the form of a QR code link in the top-right corner of the booth's sign.

The Educational Narrator who speaks to the viewer of the video is voiced by Kevan Brighting.

Synopsis

The Stanley Parable, Sequels, and YOU! is a satirical piece of media that humorously critiques the concept of sequels, especially in media and entertainment. It starts by introducing the idea that even something as basic as breakfast has a sequel - lunch - and uses increasingly absurd examples to highlight how society clings to familiarity and fears change. Sequels, as the educational narrator claims, are the backbone of civilization, ranging from fashion trends to basic human behaviors.

The focus then shifts to The Stanley Parable 2, parodying video game development and marketing. The game's creation is exaggeratedly credited to an "Ideas Guy", Gregory Eightpack, while the actual development is handled by many others behind the scenes, which includes lab-bred child soldiers. The video mocks common sequel tropes, like adding more gameplay and humor while also taking jabs at unethical practices such as exploiting personal data and blackmailing journalists.

In the end, the educational narrator teases the confusion around whether The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe or The Stanley Parable 2 is the "true" sequel to The Stanley Parable, only to dismiss the question entirely with a nihilistic punchline: "Who gives a shit?" The real goal of a sequel is consumption, not artistic integrity. The end of the video rallies viewers to support all sequels blindly, in a mock-heroic call to defeat "Time Dracula" and preserve the sanctity of endless content.

Video Description

A Public Service Announcement from The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe.

https://stanleyparable.com

Transcript

See: The Stanley Parable, Sequels, and YOU!/Transcript

Trivia

• Lunch is the sequel to breakfast.
  • Adding dinner would turn it into a trilogy.
• Coming up with new ideas lead to early aging.
• Vertical automobiles (airplanes) are the sequel to automobiles.
  • Committing crimes against gravity results in public stoning.
• Breathing is the sequel to suffocating and dying a slow death.
• Being adopted is the sequel to having parents.
• Wearing five (5) shirts at once is the sequel to wearing four (4) shirts at once.
• A man is the sequel to a child.
• The Stanley Parable 2 is the sequel to The Stanley Parable.
• Gregory Eightpack is the "Ideas Guy" who prompted the creation of The Stanley Parable sequel.
• A man named Leroy had his personal information, home address, social security number, and bank information displayed prominently in multiple locations throughout The Stanley Parable.
  • The sequel for The Stanley Parable will contain a brief and insincere apology to him tucked deep within the game where it will be difficult to find.
• The Stanley Parable leaked too many government secrets regarding the Time Wars.
  • The Time Wars is a war fought by the people throughout time against Time Dracula and the time-traveling vampires.
• The Stanley Parable was most widely known for its stark lack of humor.
  • The sequel will unfortunately have humor added to it to reach larger communities.
• Over 500 kiloliters of comedy was funneled directly into The Stanley Parable 2.
  • This leads to 30 thousand tonnes of pollutant chemical byproduct being pumped directly into local lakes, rivers and nature reserves all over the country.
• Gameplay is printed onto sheets.
  • It is common for the largest games ever made contain close to 1500 sheets of gameplay.
  • On mobile devices, gameplay sheets have to be printed smaller.
  • Stealing gameplay sheets also lead to public stoning.
• Blackmail is the currency of social progress.
• Cows are the sequel to pigs.
  • Cows come from eggs.
  • A "cow's egg" produces 1000 cows, which is given to anyone who orders The Stanley Parable 2.

Gallery

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The Stanley Parable, Sequels, and YOU!

This eager-minded young thinker is just 29 years old.

Timmy.

Vertical Automobile.

Rob.

Jessicer.

Get with the times, Becky!

The prequel to all sequels.

A child.

A man, the sequel to a child.

Gregory Eightpack, the Ideas Guy.

“Someone ought to make a sequel to the Stanley Parable!”

Sequels are an opportunity to correct the mistakes of their predecessors.

Leroy had his life ruined by The Stanley Parable.

The Stanley Parable leaked too many government secrets about the nature of the Time Wars.

We’ll get to you yet, Time Dracula!

Hyper-intelligent child soldiers studying the original Stanley Parable.

500 kiloliters of comedy.

Polluting lakes, rivers, and nature reserves all throughout the country.

Printing gameplay sheets.

Keep resting, Gregory.

The man who helps you steal HBO.

Cow's egg.

Is the true sequel The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe or The Stanley Parable 2?

Who gives a shit?

Bully your parents to purchase the game for you...

...and tell your friends to do the same.

If we wish to defeat the time-traveling vampires, buy The Stanley Parable 2.

The End.

[In Memoriam. Billy. 1953 - 1956]