sus lore
Backstory or mythology that doesn't quite add up — the kind of lore that raises more questions than it answers, contradicts established facts, or seems like it was written to hide something rather than reveal it.
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Backstory or mythology that doesn't quite add up — the kind of lore that raises more questions than it answers, contradicts established facts, or seems like it was written to hide something rather than reveal it. Sus lore triggers the theorist brain: something here was retconned, something was quietly removed from the canon, or the official story doesn't match the evidence. In real life, sus lore is what happens when someone's origin story has too many convenient gaps and implausible timestamps.
The official sus lore about where he was during that three-month gap doesn't line up with the timestamps on his photos.
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