Trivia / Petscop

• Approval of God: Tony has shown enthusiasm for Sheriff Domestic, a fan parody of the series.
• Colbert Bump:
  • The one-two punch of Kotaku and The AV Club writing articles on Petscop the same week managed to boost views of the series by absurd amounts.
  • Interest in Petscop in the Spanish-speaking community increased when videobloggers Dross Rotzank and Jordi Wild each dedicated a video to it.
  • Game Theory brought in a sharp influx of observers with their video, which drew ire from the community for focusing on outdated readings of the series.
  • Pyrocynical would create an in-depth video essay discussing the series, garnering the series more interest from his fans and audience. In fact, the series even became a small meme in his fandom about when he'll make a 2nd part of the video essay, due to only covering the first ten parts.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Though the game contains a few references to the real-life Candace Newmaker case, it becomes clear that those references are used as allusions or stand-ins to give in-game people, places and items specific contexts. Unfortunately, this has also led many casual observers thinking that Petscop is just "that child abuse game," especially after the original Game Theory video came out.
• Creator Backlash: The creator has stated that making references to Candace Newmaker was stupid of him.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Care's voice clips came from recordings of Tony when he was a young boy.
• Descended Creator: Paul is voiced by Tony, the creator of the series. Recordings of himself as a child were also used for Care.
• Meaningful Release Date: In-game, you can change your mind and return a child to the Child Library up to six months after taking them home. Rainer also went missing between June and December of 1997 and 2000, a period of six months. According to the channel description, the owners received the game on Christmas Day from Rainer. Petscop 11 was uploaded on Christmas 2017, six months after Petscop 10.
  • Episodes 22, 23 and 24, which all featured the prominent number set of 9 2 19, came out on September 2nd, 2019 at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time... or 9/2/2019.
• Meme Acknowledgement: After months of fans making theories, some more serious than the others, about Paul being kidnapped and put into a car. In Petscop 22 Paul is talking to a friend and questions the logistics and rationale of playing Petscop in a car.
• Referenced by...: The 2021 Cacola album A Gift to Us All is loosely based on Petscop, right down to the cover depicting a little girl similar in design to Care; one track is even named "Tapers."
• Schedule Slip: There was no consistent timing with the video uploading. The longest wait between two videos was the one between Petscop 10 and 11, with 6 months; even shorter was between Petscop 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21, which were all released within a 24 hour stretch on April 20th and 21st, 2019. By far the shortest wait, if you can even call it that, was between Petscop 22, 23 and 24, which were released seconds apart.
• Shrug of God: Tony encourages viewers to make their own interpretation of the story, and in fact values others' readings of Petscop more than the intentions he had when creating it.
• What Could Have Been:
  • In the release of the Petscop Soundtrack, there's one song called "bathroom-tomb" that was never used in the series.
  • The so-called "Discovery Pages" website, long sought-after by the fandom, actually exists in full, albeit not on the internet. At some point it was supposed to be released alongside the first video, but Tony changed his mind, feeling that it revealed too much information and ultimately clashed with the tone of the final project.
• Word of God:
  • Fans theorized that at the end of Petscop 13, Paul was being kidnapped in a car. But Paul denounced this in Petscop 22.
    "Why would I be in a car? I'm playing Petscop. Why would I be playing Petscop in a car?"
    • ...which falls into Trolling Creator territory with the release of the subtitles, which caption the aforementioned scene from Petscop 13 as "[car door opens]."
    • Tony has since confirmed on Twitter that it was, in fact, a car door.
  • People really wanted the creator to release a playable Petscop game, but shortly after he revealed himself, he said no. However, he does have his eyes on the Giftscop fan recreation, giving its team his permission to use the official soundtrack and following them on Twitter.

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