7/14/2023 0 Comments Markovian parallax denigrate![]() It is a two-minute, black-and-white clip which shows a person in a homemade plague doctor costume standing inside a dilapidated building, with a forest visible behind them. Officially, this internet mystery is known as 11B-X-1371 and, for a time, it was heralded as the creepiest video on YouTube. Some believe that this was a commercial stunt that backfired, but others think that the project is still ongoing, at a different stage. ” A while later, the same account gave a bit more information, admitting that they had been paid by an undisclosed company to post encrypted code puzzles for an undisclosed reason. Then, in 2016, a post appeared on the subreddit that simply said “The A858 Project Has Concluded. Only a few of the thousands of posts made on A858 have ever been solved, but they seemed to be random images or words with no relation to one another. Soon enough, a related subreddit appeared called “Solving_A858,” which consisted mainly of amateur cryptographers working to crack the code. It took almost a year for other people to notice the bizarre account, but afterwards came the excited speculation over what could possibly be the meaning behind this unusual behavior. The name of the subreddit, as well as the account making these posts, was also a seemingly-random sequence of numbers and letters, but it became known simply by the first four – A858. ![]() A858Ī very similar mystery occurred on Reddit in 2011, when a strange subreddit popped up that contained only posts made out of strings of numbers and letters. That’s why we’re always running tests like Webdriver Torso.” 9. “We’re never gonna give you uploading that’s slow or loses video quality, and we’re never gonna let you down by playing YouTube in poor video quality. Why did they use random colored rectangles? Because they were easy to make.Īn Italian statistician who went by “Soggetto Ventuno ” or “Subject 21” was the first to solve the mystery by seeing that the channel belonged to a Youtube network registered in Switzerland, that also contained other channels which posted content from the Google offices in Zurich.Īfterwards, Google came clean with an appropriately Rickrolling statement which said: This rampant speculation went on for about ten months, until online sleuths finally tracked down the source and, spoiler alert, the real solution was a lot more mundane – it was a quality control channel, used by Youtube to ensure that the videos that ended up online were the same as the original files. That was it, but human imagination did the rest of the work and, soon enough, people online were speculating that the channel could be run by spies sending encrypted communications to each other, or some kind of secret experiment, or, of course, aliens. What was it? Well, it was a YouTube account that posted thousands of 11-second videos featuring blue and red rectangles. Even the band didn't have a copy.For almost one year between 20, Webdriver Torso was the most puzzling mystery on the internet. The album was destined to be lost forever. Despite the best efforts by the fans to track down the missing album, they were unsuccessful. Just 33 copies of this cassette tape were created in total, and over the years all cassettes vanished. In 1994 shortly after forming the band, they assembled at a small studio in New Brunswick to record an album. ![]() So while you may not have heard of this band, all you need to know for the purposes of this podcast are that the band is popular in many circles with rabid fans dying to hear their music. Throughout the years, and despite the various drama that bands have with members leaving and hiatuses to pursue other projects, they’ve collected quite a cult following and they still produce music today. That’s not the only success the band has had though. Anyone who has seen the movie likely remembers that haunting song as the film’s protagonist wanders around a deserted city. ![]() Their most popular song is called East Hastings, and it was featured in the 2002 film, “28 Days Later”. They’re an experimental rock group who has had quite a bit of success. Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a band originally formed in Canada in 1994.
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