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      "body": "# So what the fuck is happening?\n\nOn January 10th, news and gossip channel Pop Blast appeared out of nowhere with 677k subscribers, with a bizarre and easily refutable vid accusing one Shane Dawson of pedophilia. Based on... clearly twisted evidence, as well as bizarre claims such as his past girlfriend and current boyfriend having \"baby faces\".\nAlright, more #metoo witchhunting internet drama bullshit, great. Aside from the channel appearing out of nowhere nothing seems out of the ordinary.\n\nBut then some shit fucking happened.\n\nThe channel deleted the accusation video and uploaded an apology video... an apology video consisting of a screenshot of a Paypal receipt showing a large transaction from one \"Jeffrey Oscar Levin\" and a coded message claiming \"they\" were \"distracting you\". The audio is styled like a numbers station- a creepy little girl's voice text-to-speech reading off numbers, which turn out to be ASCII code containing the message. \nTwo similar videos soon followed, one implying they'd been paid money for something they'd regretted, and another seemingly naming \"they\" as \"Hollywood\". The latter also showed a heavily redacted email, with the few visible sentences implying it was instructions for the accusation video.\nOh, and apparently there was something about the fucking Rothschilds in there, so you can add the Ill-jew-minati to all this.\n\nSoon after this the channel began spamming stolen content, posting new videos every few minutes. The videos are about 10 minutes each, laden with ads and seem to be heavy clickbait, including what seems to be some poor one woman's video suicide note. (though this one was deleted?) There was also a short livestream at some point, though I can't find what it contained. [This thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/7pl0oj/youtube_channel_pop_blast_is_currently_uploading/?limit=500) follows most of it.\nThis went on until the channel was terminated by Youtube- definitely terminated, not deleted by the user.\n\n# Okay, so what the fuck is happening?\n\nClearly, this was some desperate grab for attention, but what for?\nInclusion of Logan Paul's manager's name (because that's apparently who that is) led some to suggest this was a ploy to draw attention off logpaul by pointing the finger at another Youtuber- that is, the manager paid some rando with a good amount of subs to start shit, and when it fell through they regretted it and pulled out. This is... pretty quickly questionable, as there's plenty of room for drama from multiple fronts on the wide plains of the interwebs. One other accused Youtuber would be a drop in an ocean of piss. Unless the account had planned to accuse additional Youtubers on a massive scale there'd really likely be no effect on logpaul's situation or the scrutiny he's under.\nOn the other hand, if the name on the receipt was faked, this could either be an attempt to further attack logpaul by framing him (unlikely to have much of an effect), a quick attempt to divert blame for a failed attack on Shane, or an attempt to whore attention from multiple vectors at once.\n\nThat last one works quite well into the spooky number stations code shtick. Generic creepy or \"ARG\"-like content tends to grab eyeballs, something like a horror fan version of clickbait. The implications of \"they\" and a greater conspiracy would draw even more attention while being so fucking vague and generic the OP would have to put almost no work into creating their \"story\". After that, the flood of ad-riddled stolen clickbait videos might have been an attempt to use the massive influx of views to make some quick ad money.\nI can't tell from that if it was all planned out this way (implicate multiple big yt-ers as bait for ad views) or if it was all a desperate reaction to the original accusation's failure, but otherwise is seems coherent.\n\n... Problem with that is, the channel was already making plenty of money as it was, and it didn't seem like it was going to be stopping any time soon. The amount shown in the receipt was only about as much as Pop Blast made in a day. There was no need for a publicity stunt on this level. So what was this?\n\nPersonally, what the actions of the Pop Blast channel puts me in mind of are certain other channels I've seen covered before... from the spooky creepy [M5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36avC2zKeHo) and [box face guy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oUJeAq2qGk) to the comedic and trollish [Mumkey's bizarre adventure with reactor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9_6UCkxu_U). That is, channels parodying the dregs and drama of Youtube and highlighting the unoriginality of many huge channels.\nThe channel hit multiple tropes of shit youtube posting (or internet drama in general)- bullshit accusations or \"callouts\", spooky \"ARG\" material with generic codes and stories, stolen content and clickbait ad shit. The suicide note video even seems like a nod to the Logan Paul suicide forest shitstorm, a huge current event which Pop Blast placed at the center or their... thing with the \"apology\" video. The use of a *receipt* as the main evidence, when \"receipt\" is used as internet slang for proof in callout posts also seems particularly on-the-nose.\n\nThat said, something about the channel's trajectory seems particularly... unhinged. Suggestions that the owner was experiencing a mental breakdown of some sort seem almost plausible. Not to armchair psychologise, but I can easily imagine something like... the channel owner gets caught in a delusion that Shaye really is a pedophile, and sees evidence that isn't really there which he tries to cover in his video... and the response and disapproval to his accusation sends him into a downward spiral.\nIt's not like this is the first time we've seen bizarre mentions of Hollywood in a seemingly delusional context. (Hey, maybe Pop Blast found the Hollywood astral projection clinic...)\n\nHearing of the original content of the channel (it was... a Jacob Sartorius fan channel?) 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      "body": "![wcs banner.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQVXPQ3CXphoj3CP4kaHEy29L1Q1kTjvDwVEgRga4sx38/wcs%20banner.png)\n\nhttp://archive.is/https://twitter.com/whitecardsystem\n\nWhite Card System is- or rather, was- a twitter account that posted mysterious encrypted data at a regular pace.\n\nWhile active, the account posted a set of 10 tweets every hour. Each consisted of a hex-looking string (32 chars), a base 64-looking string (64 chars), a \"#wcs\", and a bracketed identifier that appears to be a timestamp. This identifier has a d, three digits, t, 10 digits, p, one digit- presumably day, time, part.\nD is days since Sept 27 2015 (account creation). T is the Unix timestamp matching when the first tweet of the set was posted. Sets are usually four seconds past the minute, sometimes three. The in-tweet timestamp seems to be significantly off from Twitter's timestamp, like eight hours ahead.\n\nAs of late July the account's most recent tweets were from July 8. The last two tweets are p0 and p1 with no further parts. Further back, there's another gap starting on June 8 (with a missing p9) and picking up again on July 6.\n\nThe account was created September 27 2015. The sidebar says \"tempori servire\", apparently a latin phrase meaning \"to accomodate oneself to circumstances\". It's also the title of a tumblr blog that hasn't updated since August 2015, right before the twitter account was made. COINCIDENCE? Probably.\nAvatar was a black chess piece backed by two golden keys. Reverse image search finds nothing of value except the twitter account itself.\nThe name appears to be a reference to the concept of \"carte blanche\".\n\nThe account's website URL was a [link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ8pCNf_plU) to a youtube video featuring a bad CGI Max Headroom and staticky audio. It was uploaded May 28 2016, most of a year after creation of the account. Channel is named \"White Card System\", same as the twitter, and this video is the only upload. Titled \"mh-wcs\" (obviously \"max headroom white card system\"), the description is \"Oculos tuos et audies\", latin for something like \"close your eyes and listen\". Tags are \"Max Headroom\", \"Max\", \"Head\", \"Room\", \"237\", \"42\" and \"WCS\".\nThe video has gone largely unnoticed; only 210 views at this time with three subscribers to the channel.\n\nSometime prior to July 22 2017, the account was set to \"restricted\" for \"unusual activity\"- I'd assume this was automatically done by Twitter for appearing like spam. Unfortunately this blocks archiving.\nAnd now, as of September 10, the account is straight-up suspended. RIP.\n\nThe account had one post liked, whatever... this is:\n\n![wcs like.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQypkrcGACzcokp1xcJex9VgPvKHDxtXtrcmaHAzKvz6D/wcs%20like.png)\n\nBoth accounts involved seemed to be normal anime shitposters.\n\nWCS also followed one account... oh.\n\n![wcs follow.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQ6HuPxtq3yDBRCRsQ98PjFxJZdHKok5LYFmrwSKHYor7/wcs%20follow.png)\n\nWell, that's a little on the nose, innit?\n\nNow while that may be the end of WCS, that's not the end of the rabbit hole!\n\nOn March 15 2016, reddit user and apparent r/conspiracy regular /u/nolifebill was [visited](https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/4akyuc/strange_video_left_in_public_skype_chat_by/) in a near-dead public Skype group by an individual named \"Quabo\". Along with a link to a Youtube video, the user left a copy of a WCS tweet:\n\n> a74850b2adbc1a453cf39e08d27ac2f2 xbjUJnjL4zd0xLtYC95b1FsVtU3WeqyEAJOotai4hVEREdTDXv4dOMyGjTxXYxgm #wcs [d170t1458043683p4]\n\nWhat followed from this over the course of over a year was a slow trickle of cryptic Youtube videos as well as a .onion webpage.\n... Only problem is, Quabo's content is pretty darn lame. One redditor described it as \"sophomoric\"; it seems to be mostly generic meaningful-meaningless anarchy catchphrases and boilerplate codes.\nAs regards WCS, the tweet Quabo copied over was not apparently a complete message in and of itself but a random *part four* of some sequence of tweets- obviously WCS was never cracked but I kind of doubt any random part of a set would be a message all on its own.\n\nBut what we do get out of this is a few snippets of information that I couldn't be bothered to get myself while WCS was active.\n\nFor example, here's the account's very first tweet:\n> 01bb5d6ce657798998ef87790ffec1e8 Srz8a8gCsTsnMqIuaAWFu7rQvLPvkidSXasU8vCQEv4QcCB4CX9xTpDF1T1b2TuO #wcs [d0t1443388082p0]\n\nThe twitter timestamp was [apparently](https://www.reddit.com/r/QuaboCracker/comments/4s27pm/repetition_on_whitecardsystem_twitter_account/) only four hours ahead of real time back then, but this may be due to the poster's own timezone. I don't know, I've confused myself now\n\nAdditionally we have whatever form of audio-to-image this was on the mh-wcs video:\n\n![wcs aud.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQma2vse2G2SGveewZNRGjt1aniUqkDfWEuvUrbjLSAt5g2/wcs%20aud.png)\n\nAside from the spooky scary skulls (again... a little on the nose, isn't it), we have the avatar image and an \"advertisement\" for the twitter account.\n\nThis whole bit started up about a month after the mh-wcs video was uploaded, which may indicate WCS was an ARG and the creator was just starting to advertise, but this is circumstantial and nothing else really supports it. Overall it looks like \"Quabo\" was just a gamejacking LARPer who didn't understand what he was copy-pasting.\n\n## So, can we crack it?\nbitch fuck if i know\n\nAt the very least, the archives I posted up top contain four full 0-9 part sets of tweets to work with. Depending on how the June and July cutoffs I mentioned above work- if it's a message that got cut off midway or if it's a smaller complete data package- I do also have the last two tweets from July, albeit in screenshot form.\n\n![wcs.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYYqkAF3jYpAQN3EarUiiVS3bzgjctKrQ7xGhSatcthJe/wcs.png)\n\n## So what was this?\n\nThe one thing that gets me is that, while similar accounts like the ones covered in my Twitter number stations post remain active, WCS was suspended. There's nothing I was ever aware of that made this account any more of less suspicious than the others.\n\nBetween that and the name- \"carte blanche\" basically means \"give free reign to\"- I almost suspect WCS was being used as a public botnet \"command and control\" conduit, like [so](https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/iworm-botnet-uses-reddit-as-command-and-control-center/). But that still wouldn't explain the more \"personable\" elements of WCS, such as the plaintext timestamp/part number and the hidden \"advertisement\" for the Twitter account in the video's audio.",
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Whether or not the \"mode\" switches, on the hour a tweet will be skipped *unless* it's a lyric hour, in which case both the lyric tweet and a code tweet will be posted at the same time.\nSome archived examples:\n\n10am tweet skipped (no mode switch); 11am tweet doubled as one was a LP lyric post- https://archive.is/dFj5E\n9 and 10pm lyric double tweet in letter mode https://archive.is/PGvRc\n\nThe only interaction I've yet to see is a lyric tweet and switching mode on the same hour.\n\nThe avatar is a device used by number stations. Together with the lyrics, it's a clear reference to the [Lincolnshire Poacher number station](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincolnshire_Poacher_(numbers_station)). This station also used groups of five digits, though I don't think that's exactly a unique thing among number stations.\n\nIt has quite a few followers. They seem to mostly be normal Twitter users, likely those curious about the account; many also follow the other two accounts detailed below. Two interesting followers:\n\n[An account for an actual, presumably unrelated ARG](https://twitter.com/prld2acnsprcy)\n[An Enigma machine simulator](https://twitter.com/arduinoenigma)\n\n\nZuluTango4: [twitter](https://twitter.com/ZuluTango4) [archives](https://archive.is/https://twitter.com/ZuluTango4)\nJoined Jan 24 2016. Posts every five minutes, seemingly without pause. It's the youngest of the three accounts and has racked up 175k tweets.\n\nThe... rather unsettling avatar is an [etching](https://africa.si.edu/exhibits/SAsite/zulu.htm) by one Vuminkosi Zulu. As \"zulu\" is part of the military alphabet, I'd assume the artist was chosen based on the Twitter name rather than the other way around.\n\nOther than that it's... uh... I hate to say \"normal\", but it's certainly the least interesting of the three. I've seen no variation in activity on it, just endless numbers.\n\nBoth Zulu and Sierra post 23 sets of five characters per tweet; this is the maximum amount of 5-character chunks (including spaces) you can stuff into 140 characters.\n\nCynthiafortune: [twitter](https://twitter.com/cynthiafortune) [archives](https://archive.is/https://twitter.com/cynthiafortune)\nJoined January 3, 2012. The odd one out of the three, it posts very slowly compared to the other two, and apparently less regularly. Despite being the oldest, it has only 35.7k tweets to its name. Additionally, its tweets only have 22 chunks.\nAvatar is an isolated neon light letter c, undoubtedly in reference to the account's name. Banner image, which the other two accounts don't have, is some building that's probably recognizable to some people. It's also the only one without military alphabet in its name.\n\nSpeaking of the Lincolnshire Poacher, there's this little story...\nhttp://kernelmag.dailydot.com/features/report/4947/did-we-take-out-mi6s-secret-line/\nThis site claims to have discovered a phone line transmitting messages in the format of the Lincolnshire Poacher, and to have subsequently gotten it shut down by calling attention to it. Oops?\nIt's unclear whether the site was taken on a ruse cruise, the site is taking its audience on a ruse cruise, or the whole event is entirely legit. At any rate, this all happened in early September of 2013... Right before the creation of SierraGolf5. HMMM.\nAdditionally, the name of the \"backup channel\" given, \"romeo x-ray three nine\", is similar in format to Sierra and Zulu's account names. 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      "body": "So just a couple weeks ago I posted on a [thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/71hdq8/mysterious_and_creepy_subreddits/) asking for creepy subreddits with a link to good ol Lake City Quiet Pills, with a really half-assed explanation because seriously how the hell do you sum that whole shitshow up in only one post\n\nAnd like magic, just by amaaaazing coincidence, just a couple of days later, within two hours of each other, we have from two shiny new accounts two new threads of interest- one in the investigative sub [telling us](https://www.reddit.com/r/LakeCityQuietPills/comments/71wtg4/lcqp_truth_its_not_what_you_think/) to stop looking because it's totally nothing you guise and another in the new \"communications\" sub, previously inactive for the last two months, with some [cryptic message](https://www.reddit.com/r/lcqp_out_of_africa/comments/71x67w/lucky_you/).\n\n*Hmm*.\n\nIncidentally, there's another much lamer internet mystery I've been keeping my eye on, one I [discovered](https://www.reddit.com/r/RBI/comments/6m8d8x/help_needed_linked_to_lake_city_quiet_pills/) due to it referencing LCQP... I'd previously noticed it had followed a similar timeline to LCQP-ooa, having gone inactive at around the same time as the last actual LCQP post there... And just today there's suddenly been some new activity there. Probably nothing, but an interesting coincidence.",
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      "body": ">mfw all these NEETs googling erabbits because they have no jobs to get fired from\n\nPart one is [here.](https://steemit.com/weird/@arecibo/erratas-or-how-to-make-yourself-unemployable-via-meme-magic-part-1)\n\nSo something a little bit funny happened while I was working on this part- I went to the active 8chan thread on Erratas to ask about the autocaptions thing, and when I came back the next day... boom. Thread not found.\nNow this isn't entirely unusual. The thread was fairly old, and while 8chan seems to move a lot more slowly than 4chan I expect they also prune old threads that have been pushed to the bottom of the stack by more active ones. But still, that's some amazing timing...\nThe 404 page text refers to the April 1st hacking even though this clearly isn't the cause, but I'm going to assume that's an oversight.\nhttps://archive.is/dbQ2Y\nhttps://archive.is/9HUx8\n\nSo, welcome back to Erratas, the incredibly erratic (hurr hurr) internet mystery covering everything from massive corporate conspiracies to copyright-claimed Lincoln Park anime videos. Here we will continue to dig into various leads, find more connections, and invent danker memes than ever before. And as always, no one has any idea what any of it is supposed to mean.\n\n# ChronosforLife\n\nAttached to the ChronosForLife youtube page is a Google+ account under the name of \"Lee Watson\". The page's only post is an image of the AOL logo, posted on October 15th. This same image is used as the avatar for the ChronosForLife channel. Additionally the posters in the mom's videos have the phrase \"AOL keyword: Jurassic Park\".\nThinking the Lee Watson name is an anagram ala Tod Ellsworth, I took the letters of AOL out of it and found the remaining letters could be arranged to read \"newest\".\nSo my theory is that we were supposed to look for the newest results for the AOL keywords \"Jurassic Park\"... But I have no idea if that's actually possible anymore. Other anons in the threads from that time suggested this as well, based on the posters, but no one seems to have tried it.\n\nOne anon examined the audio from CFL's videos and discovered that the first two had a different audio format from the other three- the first two had full stereo, while the others had dual mono (where there's two tracks, but they're entirely identical). This might support the videos being made by two different people, ie Chronos and his mom.\nI've also seen mention that one anon looked at the codecs of the videos and determined they were legitimately made on a Windows 95/98 computer. However, I've yet to find the original post about this, nor do I have any way of verifying it myself.\n\nSpeaking of Chronos' videos-\nAt some point, DJ Rozwell had commented on one of the Deep Internet songs made from CFL's video \"i hope things turn out okay for that guy and his mom\". The comment is now gone.\n\n# Tod Ellsworth\n\nhttps://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/mu/thread/S62062952\nOne intrepid anon decides to confront Tod head-on and posts a comment asking what \"erratas or bust\" means.\n... And, about a day later, the phrase was removed. It was soon after re-added as \"Erratas or busts\", and later changed further to \"Erratas or rusts\". It's noted this phrase is an anagram of book title Sartor Resartus... which seems to have nothing to do with Erratas. Others believe the phrase would keep adding and changing letters until it became \"erratas or eratas\" from CFL's fourth video, but no changes are made after this.\n\nTod makes a new post to his Twitter, a short video of a computer-animated George Bush head. The footage was apparently taken from a video uploaded to Youtube the day before demonstrating a program named \"face2face\", recorded off a computer screen using a smartphone camera. The significance is unknown.\n\nUploaded to his Youtube account at the same time was a \"666 Trapslime\" remix of a Gorrillaz song... which was blocked in most countries for copyright. The thumbnail featured the much-parodied album cover for Gorillaz' Demon Days, with the lower right quadrant replaced by the police sketch. The description:\n\n> Classic track from his deleted Soundcloud. (What ever happened to Trapslime anyway? He was just blowing up!)\n\nThe track originated from the Soundcloud track of one \"greenboots\" aka Beatrice Moss, a member of the KFC Murder Chicks. As such, the video description referring to Trapslime as \"he\" seems a bit... odd. A reasonable assumption if Tod didn't know who Trapslime was, maybe...\nOne anon was able to download the video via proxy and reupload it with no copyright issues.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdDg2oL8dmw\n\n# KFCMC's tumblr and lost Bandcamp page\n\nWhile their Tumblr still links to it, KFCMC's Bandcamp page has apparently been deleted since before the Tumblr page was found by 4chan. On March 08, the page briefly went back up before being taken down again. One anon thought to look for a cached version of the page, and found... hooooo boy.\n\nhttp://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/17484964/#17497616\n\nStyled in an eye-comforting fuchsia on chartreuse, the text describes the album as... a video game, one based on the novel Cortex Rampage (the name of the album) by one Tod Ellsworth. Billed as \"the first truly interactive gaming experience\", this \"game\" has you engaging in \"vehicular combat\" while flying a Ford Crown Victoria... which, you know, is a car, not anything that can fly.\nInterspersed in the bullet point list of features are lines from the Mall of America telling BLM protestors to fuck off as well as bizarre comments about nuclear weapons not existing and the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki having been faked.\n\nYeah, you're probably best off just reading it yourself.\n\nThe track list itself is relatively normal. PSNEAKYSYS, previously seen on the album uploaded by Tod, has been theorized to mean \"pretty sneaky system\" as a reference to Erratas. Track 14 is from a collab with /mu/tant Soma, which was mentioned previously on 4chan during the time when it was made; I'll be covering that in the next part.\nAnother track is said to have been distributed on a February 2007 Official Playstation Magazine demo disc... which, assuming they don't mean the Ireland edition of the zine, wouldn't exist as the magazine went defunct in January of that year. The title, \"Heart of Lothar\", is a reference to some piece of Doom development lore.\n\nSo clearly some of this is just nerd jokes and the Chicks being artistically weird, but there's still some points of note... mainly, the mention of our good old friend Tod. So there's yet another unexplained and unexplainable connection, but that's not what really blew minds.\nIntruigued, anons went searching and found that Tod Ellsworth really is the name of an author- specifically one who wrote [a short story for](http://fanlore.org/wiki/Alpha_Log_(Space:1999_zine)) a *Space: 1999* fanzine ... way back in motherfucking **1979**. What the fuck? Is this an insane coincidence, or does the rabbit hole really go this deep?\n\nThe fabled Kentucky autocaptions address was apparently on their Bandcamp at some point before it was put on their Tumblr, but I'm still having a hard time detangling the timeline and determining if it was there before it showed up in the video.\n\nIncidentally there's a semi-recent post on their Tumblr replying to an ask, saying they'd try to get the page back up again. That was two months ago now. It's still down.\n\nSpeaking of their Tumblr-\n\nThe vast majority of their posts are \"aesthetic\" shit- gifs of grainy VHS footage from old \"retro\"/outdated looking shit. It's an internet subculture thing I'm not sure how to explain. It's just... a thing.\nSome pages back they reblog a review of their music, saying they made the blog in the first place for things like this but got sidetracked. This honestly seems like normal behavior.\n\nAt some point they apparently had a post explaining that they don't want to ship physical products because they distrust the post office because of \"scandals\". This post is gone, but remaining (currently page 3) is a post where they explain further... without explaining much.\n\n>Anonymous: What about the post office gives you the creeps? I've used it a couple of years now and they seem to be fine, just curious lol :)\n\n>this is probably a controversial view, but there’s a lot to suggest they’re tied in with a lot of the government’s more unsavory activities: spying, profiling, general disregard for constitutional rights, all that fun stuff. lots of stuff sent to us, an inordinate amount really, has never made it, and vice-versa. (not to say i’m in favor of the way they got fucked over by the fedex and UPS lobbies either, though)\n\n... for some reason, archive.is for a while refused to archive some pages of their blog. I don't know if that's a problem with tumblr/archive or some erratic meme magic at work. They're archived now, but...\nhttps://archive.is/http://kfcmurderchicks.tumblr.com/*\n\nAlso notable on their Tumblr:\n\n- random dinosaur gifs/images; for example there's two on page 2\n- lots of X-Files screenshots and gifs, mainly of Mulder and Scully\n- \"Anonymous: Have you ever been to hawaii?\" \"As a band? No.\"\n- \"this youtube vid was a huge formative influence on us most likely kfc murder chicks would not exist without the atari teenage riot x spawn AMV\"- sounds like the sort of \"anime Lincoln Park AMVs\" Chronos mentioned and the tribute videos his mom produced.\n- Right after reblogging a photo of stacks of VHS boxes from a random blog, \"Anonymous: Very random, but what your favorite movie?\" \"i’ve always been a big fan of the carnosaur movies.\" \"Carnosaur\" is apparently referring to a series of JP knockoff movies.\n- \"Anonymous: What do you know about Erratas?\" \"uhhhh like magic/yu-gi-oh errata…?\"\n\nBeyond that, it's all aesthetic shit for like 16 pages. And also... uh, whining about anti-SJWs?... Well, it is tumblr, after all.\n\n# Exer Erb\n\nIn late March of 2016, a youtuber named Exer Erb appeared on the scene and began covering Erratas. He apparently made some good headway over the course of multiple videos- it's hard to say, because in early May, his channel vanished.\nNow of course, people on the internet can vanish for any reason, but given the timing and context it struck people as more than a little bit suspicious. With Chronos' story about the removal of his mom's videos and the copyright claim on Tod's newest video, it was easy to declare that Exer had been hit with the Erratas stick for knowing too much.\n\nOnly his first video on Erratas, as well as a video on another 4chan mystery called \"Hekate Station\", are known to have been saved.\n\nSome anons came to believe Exer was \"behind\" Erratas, with many of these accusations coming in a [thread](http://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/17656011/#17656011) just days before Exer was found to have deleted his channel. One piece of evidence for this was the \"weird russian site\" shown in his third video on Erratas (ie the second update)- this being a torrent tracker site where a lost KFCMC album was found. However, the webpage was apparently found on /x/ before the video was made, and not likely some secret insider knowledge Exer accidentally let slip.\n\nYoutuber Toxicologist [discusses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfOn6GfumLU) Exer's disappearance. Due to the similarities in their channel content (spooky internet lore and text-to-speech), some also believe Toxi is secretly Exer, but there's no real signs of that being the case. Toxi hasn't covered Erratas beyond his first video, so it's not like he's milking it.\n\nIt's also important to note that Exer did not cover the Erratas event exclusively, apparently having videos on all sorts of /x/ lore. Before Erratas, he also covered *This House Has People In It* in a video that seems to have been posted fairly often on /x/; he's referred to as \"the guy who made that THHPIT video\".\nOne anon gives an [alternate theory](http://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/17677052/#17682199), that researching Hekate Station (the subject of his last video before deletion) might have driven him insane.\n\n# The 4chan bans\n\nAt the same time, once the Erratas story had gone viral (or whatever the 4chan equivalent of \"viral\" is; I believe it might be \"cancer\"), anons started being banned for bringing up the topic. Threads about it in /x/ would be shut and 404'd unceremoniously, and the belief spread that \"erratas\" had become kind of an internet Candlejack- you say it too many times, and the mods know to come for you. Of course this clearly wasn't the case since some threads on it would stay up, but enough were getting nuked to spread the idea.\nNot helping was the fact that, while most users were banned for \"spam/flooding\"- as you'd expect if the offense was bringing the same damn topic up over and over again- some received a ban reason message of \"copyright infringement\". \n\nOf course this is rather hard to verify since nuked threads and banned users mostly don't make it to the archives, but there are mentions of it:\n\nhttps://8ch.net/x/res/21600.html\nhttp://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/17296804/#17296804\nhttp://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/17699693/#17699693\n\nNow once again this could have had a perfectly normal explanation- the mods could have been messing with people or could just have gotten fed up with the subject- but the context made it incredibly paranoia-inducing.\n\nFor bonus \"fun\", a much older thread that mentions \"erratas\" in a much more typical context, with an OP complaining about mods deleting threads... :P\nhttp://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/12985393/#12985393\n\n\nThis about wraps up the events and information from the \"active\" period of the... thing. For the next post I'll be delving deep into the 4chan archives, in search of the roots of DJ Rozwell as well as any missed details. As such the next post is going to take much, much longer than this one... Please, hang around.",
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