── THEORY 2 — THE DESIGN THEORY ──
The second theory requires a developer.
Several games where the phenomenon has been reported share a common asset pack — a legacy building kit uploaded to the Roblox library in 2019.
That asset pack has over eleven thousand uses across the platform.
One player — a developer themselves — examined the pack's scripts.
They found a shadow behavior override.
A script designed to animate shadows independently of the character model, likely for a horror experien