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For ARG enthusiasts/conspiracy believers - "BadSelfEater"
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If it installed Malware onto your computer wouldn't it have been found out by now? I'm pretty sure there's a cross-section of people who would believe/follow this kind of thing and people who know enough to properly detox/protect their PCs. Like the rumors of a virus, if this really was that malicious why would they be targeting such a niche demographic?
That's what they all say!
AHA-Lambda
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Wait we're talking malware now??
This shit actually looking serious?? D:
This shit actually looking serious?? D:
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Yeah. The quality of art makes me think this isn't some art project. As in, it's probably viral for something(Despite their inclinations of saying it isn't).
MassiveNights
Banned
This shit getting people ON EDGE
I only really cared until the Malware stuff popped up. These things rarely, if ever, come to anything substantial from my experience. My bet is it's a more elaborate version of those Youtube ARGs you get sometimes.
shazam the song on the website.
Just looking this up quickly, the IP address is owned by Digital Ocean which is just a cloud service, the badselfeater website itself uses WHOIS guard so can't really get info from it.
MassiveNights
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Someone posted that if you put it through Shazam, it pulls up an album called "Dank Mozart" by "Illuminati" with weird album art.
Can't tell if people are trolling or not...
It pulls up the right song using shazam, no weird stuff.
I don't use the app. It was mentioned on reddit.
Androidsleeps
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The Illuminati finally had it with this US election?
MassiveNights
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Update incoming
MassiveNights
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Someone found this in Louisville yesterday, at this location. It was posted on Instagram by a random but it appears to be real and not a copycat display.
Later, around the 18 hour mark on the countdown, the website changed to a deep grey/black colour palette. The same song plays but a different video follows it, this one, which is an exceprt of a speech JFK gave on April 27th 1961 about secret societies.
"The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweigh the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little threat of opposing a secret society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the future of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it and there is great danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment - that I do not intend to allow to permit to the extent that it is in my control.
And no official of my administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes, or to withhold from the press and the public, the facts they deserve to know.
For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence - on infiltration instead of invasion - on subversion instead of elections - on intimidation instead of free choice - on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly-knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumour is printed, no secret is revealed."
(full speech).
Just over 11 hours left...
Lots of weird theories, new info popping up all the time but this is the only concrete stuff since last time.
Later, around the 18 hour mark on the countdown, the website changed to a deep grey/black colour palette. The same song plays but a different video follows it, this one, which is an exceprt of a speech JFK gave on April 27th 1961 about secret societies.
"The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweigh the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little threat of opposing a secret society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the future of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it and there is great danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment - that I do not intend to allow to permit to the extent that it is in my control.
And no official of my administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes, or to withhold from the press and the public, the facts they deserve to know.
For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence - on infiltration instead of invasion - on subversion instead of elections - on intimidation instead of free choice - on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly-knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumour is printed, no secret is revealed."
(full speech).
Just over 11 hours left...
Lots of weird theories, new info popping up all the time but this is the only concrete stuff since last time.
YesNOnoNOYes
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ooooh less than half a day
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thanks for the updates, OP <3
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thanks for the updates, OP <3
Maiden Voyage
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Art school dropout? Has anyone mapped the locations these things pop up in yo see if this would require more than one person?
Allforce
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So far we have Galveston TX, Louisville KY, Chicago IL, and Yale University in CT (not sure where Yale is exactly, I know the northeast).
So I don't think it's just some kid with too much time.
MassiveNights
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New York and Little Rock, Arkansas too.
Nothing west coast or southwest aside from east Texas? Hm. Must not have a west coast puppet master
MassiveNights
Banned
Here's a good theory about what this might be.
"The Minerva Initiative is a Department of Defense (DoD)-sponsored, university-based social science research initiative launched by the Secretary of Defense in 2008 focusing on areas of strategic importance to U.S. national security policy.
The goal of the Minerva Initiative is to improve DoD's basic understanding of the social, cultural, behavioral, and political forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the U.S."
Their annual conference is today and tomorrow: http://minerva.dtic.mil/mm16.html
One of the people speaking is Vladimir Barash from "Graphika, Inc". His topic is Tracking Critical - Mass Outbreaks in Social Contagions.
His linkedin page has this:
"I am a researcher at the intersection of the social and computer sciences. The focus of my research is the diffusion of social contagions (rumors, virally marketed products) through social networks, but my interests extend more broadly to social media analysis, social network analysis and agent-based modeling. I believe strongly in doing applied research - I think that social science has reached the point where it can help us predict social phenomena at a large-scale level and inform policy decisions accordingly."
And this is his start up website description: "Graphika identifies social communities and influencers within them, mapping spheres of influence on topics & content co.’s care about most.
And his Thesis:
"THE DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL CONTAGION Vladimir Barash, Ph.D. Cornell University 2011
Social contagion is a subset of contagion which includes all social phenomena that can and do spread via social networks. The notion of how something becomes popular is very relevant to the concept of social contagion. Rumors, fads, and opinions can spread through social networks like wildfire, “infecting” individuals until they become the norm. This thesis investigates the dynamics of social contagion, employing a combination of formal analysis, simulation, and empirical data mining approaches to examine the processes whereby social contagion spreads throughout social networks."
Just another crazy theory while we await the countdown.
"The Minerva Initiative is a Department of Defense (DoD)-sponsored, university-based social science research initiative launched by the Secretary of Defense in 2008 focusing on areas of strategic importance to U.S. national security policy.
The goal of the Minerva Initiative is to improve DoD's basic understanding of the social, cultural, behavioral, and political forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the U.S."
Their annual conference is today and tomorrow: http://minerva.dtic.mil/mm16.html
One of the people speaking is Vladimir Barash from "Graphika, Inc". His topic is Tracking Critical - Mass Outbreaks in Social Contagions.
His linkedin page has this:
"I am a researcher at the intersection of the social and computer sciences. The focus of my research is the diffusion of social contagions (rumors, virally marketed products) through social networks, but my interests extend more broadly to social media analysis, social network analysis and agent-based modeling. I believe strongly in doing applied research - I think that social science has reached the point where it can help us predict social phenomena at a large-scale level and inform policy decisions accordingly."
And this is his start up website description: "Graphika identifies social communities and influencers within them, mapping spheres of influence on topics & content co.’s care about most.
And his Thesis:
"THE DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL CONTAGION Vladimir Barash, Ph.D. Cornell University 2011
Social contagion is a subset of contagion which includes all social phenomena that can and do spread via social networks. The notion of how something becomes popular is very relevant to the concept of social contagion. Rumors, fads, and opinions can spread through social networks like wildfire, “infecting” individuals until they become the norm. This thesis investigates the dynamics of social contagion, employing a combination of formal analysis, simulation, and empirical data mining approaches to examine the processes whereby social contagion spreads throughout social networks."
Just another crazy theory while we await the countdown.
I can at least confirm the government has used ARGS for training/recruiting purposes. I used to work for someone who did it.
Interestingredients theory, but I think that the super political anti-government rhetoric is a bit much for a DOD arg.
The more I think about it, the weirder the whole incident with the dummy and the t-shirt seems. Apparently it was enough to set off one of the FB account's admins, but once they calmed down or once the others saw it all mentions of the incident or the dummy were removed. So evidently that bit wasn't part of the narrative being spun in the lead-up here. It was a pretty juvenile moment for Mr. Teeth (equating stealing a dummy's t-shirt to stealing clothes off an actual person) but at the very least, showed that there is passion here for the message being conveyed. It also seems to be the one misstep in this whole thing. I would think that something like the Minerva Initiative, a narrative created as a social experiment, either wouldn't have any real passion behind the message we're seeing here or would be too tightly-controlled to let something like that happen.
My money's on a collaborative art student project. Guess we'll know in sub 6 hours.
My money's on a collaborative art student project. Guess we'll know in sub 6 hours.
CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls
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We've already covered the BadSelfEater as being Federal Beast right?
Heebie Jeebies
Banned
I'm going to go for Phase 2.
Androidsleeps
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I'm thinking this too, most likely. "Mr. Teeth".." Mr. Robot". Also, they've been putting plenty of easter eggs websites this season, and there was a similar "countdown" earlier in the season. I don't think it's AHS, the tone doesn't fit, plus the released art and footage for AHS suggest aliens amd sci-fi.
Pop-O-Matic
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This has to be MGSV Chapter 3, right?
I actually think this kind of stuff is always harmless fun, but there are way too many people (not here on Gaf) taking this way too seriously - actually getting scared/making sure they get supplies/take a gun when they go out tomorrow. I've been reading up here and there and some people are just..jeez. People can be so gullible, and that's the only scary part for me.
Whatever this turns out to be - tv show/game/art project - people will be disappointed as they always are, but I don't really know what they expect. If it's anything less than Obama introducing aliens it won't be enough. People like Snowden don't generally lead up to their revelations with a thought-out ad campaign like this. That only happens in movies.
But hey I'm liking this. Not expecting anything though.
I'm in a different time zone but it still says 2 hours and 40 minutes for me. I don't think anything's changed?
Whatever this turns out to be - tv show/game/art project - people will be disappointed as they always are, but I don't really know what they expect. If it's anything less than Obama introducing aliens it won't be enough. People like Snowden don't generally lead up to their revelations with a thought-out ad campaign like this. That only happens in movies.
But hey I'm liking this. Not expecting anything though.
I'm in a different time zone but it still says 2 hours and 40 minutes for me. I don't think anything's changed?
MassiveNights
Banned
Still the same time it has always been for me
royalroyal
Member
code talkers
MassiveNights
Banned
Just to confirm, there have been no updates since the last one, but we are an hour and 15 minutes away.
Someone is live streaming the site in case you don't want to be at the actual domain when it counts down for fear of demons popping out or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=simOGH1Tgjw
Someone is live streaming the site in case you don't want to be at the actual domain when it counts down for fear of demons popping out or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=simOGH1Tgjw
kaiju
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kaiju
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It randomly does that.
Keeps crashing for me, getting intense on the live stream.
Approaching 5 minutes
Androidsleeps
Member
Site doesnt load anymore, checking the livestream. 8 minutes.
Days like these...
Have a Blessed Day
Site is back up
SynthFetish
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I'm getting ready for a it to play a commercial
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