User:Ultra64Detective2401/MIPS Hole HQ/The Shadow Realm

Were you looking for the original concept of the Shadow Realm, a place where deleted pages go?

This page is apart of the MIPS Hole HQ canon, a piece of joke canon revolving around the concept of MIPS Hole as a physical company.

The Shadow Realm is a place rumored to exist in the space between realms. It is where things that do not exist happen to be inside of. MIPS Hole HQ supposedly entered this place once before, and some claim that those sent there slowly begin to stop existing, and that the Shadow Realm exists “beyond the great wall”, whatever that’s supposed to mean.

Since the Shadow Realm is the place for things that do not exist, the usual laws of reality do not apply to the Shadow Realm. As a result, a multitude of impossible objects and entities can be found in this realm.

For some currently unknown reason, it is far more common to find objects in the Shadow Realm that correspond to files marked as dubious or debunked, joke files, or files that were deleted from the database, than impossible objects that never corresponded to any files at all, despite the fact that there should be an infinite number of impossible objects, and only a finite number that correspond to files that once existed at MIPS Hole HQ.

Speculation

 * Some have said that the correlation between objects found in The Shadow Realm and incorrect files implies that all of these objects once existed, before being banished to the Shadow Realm, and that is when they stopped existing, resulting in the files being retroactively altered to account for this. Believers in this explanation point out that temporal anomalies have been proven to exist, and so this isn’t as far-fetched as it looks. Critics claim these people are just picking the first explanation that comes to this, and points out a lack of evidence that any objects in The Shadow Realm once existed, and point out many of these objects are impossible.
 * Others think this means every time someone attempts to create a file about something that doesn’t exist, they are, without realizing, getting their information from objects in the Shadow Realm, instead of coming up with wholly original ideas. Believers in this explanation point out we still haven’t figured out an exact mechanism of creating wholly original ideas, and this would explain it. Critics point out that while no explanation for wholly original ideas exists, most supposedly original ideas have been revealed to be the result of mixing and mashing already existing parts, and this is probably where these fake files came from.
 * Still others believe that creating files about non-existent objects actually spawns them in The Shadow Realm. Believers in this hypothesis present the fact that a joke file about MIPS Hole itself proposes precisely this hypothesis, and because of the correlation between joke files and objects in The Shadow Realm, this implies that this file could be a true description of the Shadow Realm. This group has gotten significantly bigger after Jim found a way to create The Wario Application, which was once a fictional anomaly in the files of The Secret Slide-They believe he did this by simply finding a way to get it out of the Shadow Realm.
 * Since the Shadow Realm is the place for things that do not exist, some argue this implies that in some sense, the realm itself also “does not exist”. As a result, any information about the Shadow Realm, would, in some sense, be false. This is thought to be the reason why any information about the Shadow Realm is always considered to be dubious by any epistemological methods that have been used to evaluate the valitidy of information regarding this realm.