Frog Fractions 2/Propaganda Posters
The Propaganda Posters are a major lingering mystery in the Frog Fractions 2 ARG. This page describes what we know about them.
Contents
The Posters
Background
In early February, clues to a meet-up near The Musuem of Jurassic Technology in LA were found in Train Hot Dog and Red Pages podcasts. Confirmation was finally sent to the Gustav email account. On the 18 Feb 2016, ARGers Lvl99onionknight and arthurdent11389 arrived at the meet and were challenged to a game of Chess by Justin Bortnick. Their trophy for winning: A Mario Amiibo. Upon accessing the Amiibo, they found a link to an imgur album containing three propaganda style posters.
The next day, Frog Fractions 2 artist Rachel Sala posted the same images on her Tumblr.
The images and their connection to the ARG
Metadata
Note: It has not been confirmed whether any of this data relates to the ARG, or is important in any way. But it might be.
The images in the original Imgur link did not contain any metadata, however, the re-posts on Tumblr contained additional file information. This can be viewed when opened in Notepad.
The most notable item is what appears to be Photoshop file names; cyborgDirt, distressedSparkles and oldTree, with one each on the related poster. The posters also have an unusual creation date, which displays in Notepad as 2010-01-22T16:24:01-06:00. With the timezone taken into account, this equates to 10:24:01, 22 January 2010.
"DST"
The instantly apparent feature of the Photoshop file names is the camel casing; The letters D, S and T are the only ones in capital letters. While there is no confirmed 'order' for the posters, the original imgur album has them posted Cyborg, Sparkles, Trees, leading the suspected clue to be 'DST'. The images appear in a different order on Rachel Sala's Tumbr, however they again appear in the DST order as the cover image for her twitter feed.
Further speculation of DST being important is fueled by Train Hot Dog Episode 43: Desolate Clovis, posted three weeks after the aquisition of the posters on March 10. In this edition, Jim spends the episode researching the meaning of licence plates with the letters DST down the side. After reading several web pages, he learns the lettering designates the plates and connected car as belonging to a distributor.
In the next episode, Train Hot Dog Episode 43: GDC March Dog, at the ********** mark, Jim also mentions that he recently researches these plates for the previous episode. He also notes that people thought he was talking about 'Daylight Savings Times' "for some reason", which was a train of thought that had been discussed in the ARG Discord channel.
Analysis
A large amount of investigation and analysis has been done on these images. None of it has lead anywhere, but it is being documented here for completeness, and to help anyone who wants to look into them further.
