The Dark Party

Dad's image of the Dark Party in Exposing A Youtube Cult (RealiTEA)

The Dark Party is a secret cult of YouTubers that Dad claims is stalking him for unknown nefarious purposes.

### In RealiTea

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RealiTea

The idea of the Dark Party was first mentioned in Exposing A Youtube Cult (RealiTEA), in which Dad attempts to investigate Nexpo, Inside A Mind, Night Mind, Connect The Dots, and Loey Lane. All of these YouTubers, with the exception of Loey, had made investigative videos about Dad prior to that video. Dad took issue with all of these videos, claiming that he is just a nice, normal dad and that nothing weird is going on. After attempting to research these five YouTubers, he comes to the conclusion that they are all part of a nefarious cult.

In The Nexpo Lawsuit (RealiTEA), Dad talked more about the Dark Party, which he refers to by name for the first time in the RealiTea series. He talked about how the proposed members of the Dark Party had denied being part of a cult, but all of them were still acting suspicious and seemed to be communicating with each other in secret. Nexpo had also told Dad that he was going to sue Dad for slandering him in the first episode of RealiTea. Dad responded by crashing Nexpo's Discord. He also said that when he was in Burg, he saw Inside a Mind go into The Bear and Staff pub, which he believes is where the Dark Party is meeting. In this episode, he also mentioned the Quantum Cul-De-Sac, a group of YouTubers who were supporting Dad in opposing the Dark Party.

In Keemstar / Nexpo Lawsuit (RealiTEA), Dad talked about how Nexpo had mailed him the lawsuit and how he had rubbed his butt on it. Dad then talked to Nexpo and Loey on the phone, who said that they had no ill will toward Dad and would cancel the lawsuit.

In Matpat's Dark Secrets (RealiTEA), Dad saw that Inside a Mind had helped MatPat write his video on Dad. Dad theorized that the Dark Party had put MatPat up to making his video. He also claimed that they were attempting to gain access to Cheryl's time travel research so that they could contact and recruit a cult that used to exist at Duke University, MatPat's alma mater. However, by getting MatPat to eat a can of FOOD, Dad claimed to have "saved" MatPat from the Dark Party.

### In Dad's Life

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Act III

The Dark Party did not appear in Dad's Life until Andan's Run, when Dad learns that Maeve is being pursued by two gravediggers on behalf of the Dark Party. Those gravediggers turned out to be Birg and Girg, who had been hired by Jasleiney Gomez to capture Maeve. The Dark Party was apparently trying to harness Maeve's firmament in order to increase their own power, and Jasleiney was attempting to procure Maeve for them so that she could join the Dark Party herself. However, since Dad had gone Quantum, he was able to prevent Birg and Girg from capturing Maeve.

Jasleiney meets with two Dark Party members in black cloaks, who are credited as being Nexpo and Inside a Mind. They refuse to let Jasleiney join the Dark Party, since she was unable to acquire Maeve, and say that if they are drained of their firmament, they will be no more. They tell Jasleiney to sharpen her senses and that they will contact her in the future. They then ride off on Razor scooters.

Lazlo also mentions in Andan's Run that a cult is following Dad around, indicating that she has noticed the Dark Party's presence in Town, USA.

### Trivia

* The Dark Party was first mentioned in Dad's Discord on September 15, 2019, three months before Dad's first RealiTea video. Dad played hangman with Discord users, and "The Dark Party" was the answer. After confirming that he was not referring to a movie of the same name, he claimed that he had heard someone whispering about the Dark Party.
* On September 21, 2019, Maeve started a stream on Dad's channel called "Looking for Sarah". In the chat, she told subscribers to not tell the Dark Party that they had seen her.
* On a Discord voice chat on October 8, 2019, Dad hints that the Dark Party might consist of people that the subscribers knew.
* On October 25, 2019, Beyond Worlds released a Special Report in which they claim that the members of the Dark Party are Night Mind, Inside a Mind, Nexpo, Connect the Dots, Loey Lane, and Reignbot. However, they admit that there may be errors since the group is so mysterious. On October 30, Dad amended this list to remove Reignbot and add Jenny Lorenzo (the actress that played Jasleiney). Reignbot is later listed as a member of the Quantum Cul-de-sac instead.
* On December 22, Dad posted tweets with hidden messages about the Dark Party. On the surface, these tweets claimed he was going to give up his investigation into the Dark Party and that he was no longer interested, however the hidden messages within said things like “DON’T LISTEN” and “ISTILLAM”.
* Dad briefly posted "1/6 something happens" on Discord the day prior. This was likely a reference to Dad dropping a teaser for Act III on January 6, 2020.
* In Dad's song A Dark Party, Dad explicitly calls out the Dark Party. The song features vocals from Dark Party members Night Mind, Inside a Mind and Loey Lane, along with other YouTubers.