Entropy
| Entropy ARG | |
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| Entropy - an ARG revolving around a series of mysterious YouTube videos. | |
| Type | [[List_of_Investigations#Unofficial|Unofficial]] |
| Creator | Unknown |
| Discovered | 2018-2-11 |
| Completed | "N/A" contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.
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On February 2018, a series of videos depicting cryptic monitors and symbols were found on a YouTube channel named 'RW50cm9weQ'. This page documents the efforts made to decipher the videos and uncover the mysteries behind the channel.
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Entropy
Shortly after the discovery of the channel, users quickly found that the channel name, RW50cm9weQ, was base64 translating to Entropy.
The channel consisted of two playlists named |||||||||| and -||||- respectively.
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The playlist titled |||||||||| contained 10 videos depicting a monitor showcasing a series of symbols. All the videos in the playlist lasted exactly 1 minute and 22 seconds and possessed a similar structure.
00:00 - 00:08 - Monitor boots up. 00:08 - 00:13 - Initial symbol (thumbnail) is shown. 00:13 - 00:18 - A low-quality image is displayed. 00:18 - 01:03 - A sequence of 15 additional symbols is shown. 01:03 - 01:07 - Monitor fully lights up. 01:07 - 01:12 - Channel logo displayed. 01:12 - 01:22 - Monitor shuts down.
Note: The tenth video in |||||||||| contains 16 additional symbols instead of 15.
The ten videos give us a total of 10 initial (thumbnail) symbols and 151 additional characters. The thumbnail symbols are speculated to be a base 10 number system, and the additional characters part of an elaborate alphabet.
Note: This chart is for lookup purposes only and should not be used as a translation tool.
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The playlist titled -||||- contained 4 videos lasting around 30 seconds. The video shows the same monitor found in the previous playlist, displaying the channel logo followed by various combinations of the known symbols from ||||||||||. The last video accompanied its strings with background images, possibly hinting towards the meanings behind the strings.
Users are currently attempting to solve the meaning behind each symbol in ||||||||||, in order to be able to interpret these strings.
This page will be updated as the ARG progresses.
