‘Stranger Things’: Some fans believe they identified Jeffrey Dahmer in a scene from season 4

‘Dahmer’ is one of the surprise series of the season. Despite barely being promoted before its premiere, Ryan Murphy’s production has become one of the most viewed titles on Netflix., becoming his biggest hit since the fourth season of “Stranger Things”. The series starring Evan Peters causes a stir on the Internet, where interpretations of him are praised as a debate over the explicit nature of his story and whether or not he respects the real victims of the killer nicknamed the Milwaukee Butcher simmers.

Controversy aside, we have to talk about a possible connection between ‘Dahmer’ and, in fact, ‘Stranger Things’, which fans seem to have detected on the Internet. Recently, a TikTok user shared a video of a scene from the fourth season in which you see a young man who looks like a double of Jeffrey Dahmer as a teenager. This is one of the students of the Hawkins Institute, and his appearance of him, of course, is very reminiscent of that of the fearsome serial killer: glasses, blond hair, hairstyle and similar clothes, he even walks in a similar way.

The video, released on September 25, went viral and, at the time of writing, has amassed 2.4 million views. Undoubtedly, the premiere of ‘Dahmer’ a few days earlier led fans to identify the alleged cameo, which until now had gone unnoticed, and now it is generating theories as to whether this is intentional guidance or just a coincidence. Did Dahmer go to the same high school as Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink) in the Netflix reality series?

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‘Stranger Things’ is known for the large number of winks, references and homages, both in the cinema and in real life, that its creators, brothers Ross and Matt Duffer, hide in plain sight to the delight of the most cinephiles. fans and observers. However, in this case it could be a mere coincidence, as the Dahmer look was very popular with young people in the 1980s, and was associated mostly with on-screen nerds. Also, for dates it wouldn’t even fit, given that the killer was born in 1960 and the fourth season of “Stranger Things” takes place in 1986, which would make Dahmer 26 years old and therefore unable to be a high school student. Not to mention the fact that the Eleven series and his gang takes place in Indiana, while the psychopath attended high school in Ohio, which is close, but that’s not where his origins took place. We should ask the Duffers if he’s a wink or if this obscure Netflix series crossover is just in our heads.

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Despite the surprise success that ‘Dahmer’ had, the truth is that the miniseries created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan also stumbled upon not a few detractors, who criticize the exploitative nature of the real tragedy it tells and how it is recreated in explicit violence. On the other hand, the series has also received criticism from a relative of one of Dahmer’s victims, who complains that the series reopens traumatic wounds of the past to subscribe to the profitable trend of true crime, and also from a person on the team. , which describes it as “one of the worst series I’ve ever worked on”. Jeffrey Dahmer killed 17 men (adults and children) between 1978 and 1991, most of them racialized and homosexual.