How about Mr. Poopybutthole — just as where there’s flies, there’s spiders — wherever these parasites start blooming, Mr. Poopybutthole is a different species who is more benign, or more advanced.
Maybe Mr. Poopybutthole takes advantage of the holes put in your memory and kind of burrows into those pre-existing holes.
And the same powers that allow him to do that allow him to directly talk with the audience.
Mr. Poopybutthole is insinuating himself into the universe regardless of timeline.