oompa loompa

Until now, our favorite hot button theory about Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory has been that Grandpa Joe is the true villain of the film and the Roald Dahl book it's based on. This Tumblr thread from user evayna changes all of that. In the film, the impoverished Charlie ends up winning the f*cked up competition, thus inheriting Wonka's fortune and position as the world's most deranged and masochistic candy maker. Evayna believes that this honor should have been bestowed to the gum-chewing Violet Beauregarde, and she's got some solid evidence to back this theory up. We're 100% sold. 

It's not news that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a seriously dark book, or that 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is an equally dark rendition. That damn boat scene is horrifying LSD trip of a scene. Darker even is that Wonka's short factory workers (this seems exploitative, no?) seem to celebrate the horrendous deaths of the visiting children. Sure, the kids sucked, but they're kids. Memers have started to play with this dark theme and the memes do not disappoint.