Found the source of the golden text!

Take a close look at that boarded up toilet in the art room in Chapter 1, and tell me if you can see what’s wrong with it:

It was boarded up from the inside! Only an ink creature could have done this. But that’s not the weirdest part - the weirdest part is that the ink creature specifically removed the door to this toilet, in order to block the entrance. To hide some strange, ink-covered object inside, just beyond our reach.

And looking at the texture of that object…

It’s a golden paint fixative spray!

That’s why Henry no longer leaves new golden messages and no new tally marks appear on the wall, when we return to the studio on the existing save - someone took away his spray and put it in a place he couldn’t reach.



Was this the same person who boarded up the ink machine room, and who took down the boards blocking the trap door in the break room in the secret ending?



We know that multiple ink creatures - such as Susie and Sammy - are able to remember past loops. We also know that multiple ink creatures are aware of Henry leaving the secret messages - Allison, Tom, and whoever left that picture of the seeing tool in the administration. One of those people is our suspect.

Funny thing is, I speculated before that the golden text is made of light, because it looks like it was projected from a place opposite of it and sits atop of objects. Thing is… a spray works the same way!

