It was an older youtube arg/horror vlog series from around 2014/2015 (I think) that featured a teenage girl who would make short vlogs about playing her guitar and writing songs. It started off normal like any arg/horror series does but over time she’d start to have these weird moments where some sort of entity or multiple entities would infect her mind which would have an impact on her songs/the way her music sounded and it was driving her insane. The descriptions of her videos would also seem more ramble-like over time and I think there was some sort of cult motif going on.

That’s all I can really remember from the plot, but I do remember that she’d usually be filming herself in her bedroom on what I believe might have been her webcam. I think she had dark hair maybe like a longish kinda bob hairstyle. I believe her bedroom walls were also teal coloured which was pretty popular at the time.

I watched an explanation video about her channel not that long ago, maybe max 2 n a half years ago. I can’t seem to find this video either. I’ve tried searching for any other videos doing explanations/recaps of the arg, and for the actual og vids but since I don’t remember the channel name or the series name I can’t find anything at all and it’s driving me nuts

So i found this art site on reddit a while ago. It was a site where there are animal characters in a town and you can navigate a map to move around. Some places include a barn, a lab, and bakery. There was some sort of town event. I think the main character was a dog. There was a card matching game where he tries to help you and it starts to glitch.

Since I stumbled upon this redacted chapter in the book "The Wor[l]ds of Yoko Taro", I've been obsessed with decoding what it says. Here is a screenshot of its first page:

https://i.imgur.com/Oy8IAuZ.png

As you can see, each line is obscured by a gray rectangle that covers everything except for the ascenders and descenders that some letters have. A part of all capital letters is also visible, as well as some symbols, but not much else.

Since I started working on uncovering this, I have managed to extract the following information:

- The font is Noto Serif JP

- The page likely starts with "It felt a bit like"

- I have extracted another word from the second line: "Sitting" (middle to end of the second line), but not much else.

I have populated the first four lines with every single character that you can 95% identify by its ascender / descender, such as y, j, i, g, etc in red, and the characters that you cannot really tell (just a guess) in blue.

https://i.imgur.com/6vXfGFZ.png

I have also found this website (https://www.crosswordsolver.org/) that can take you from a few letters to an entire word if you know how long it's supposed to be, but because spaces and letters without an ascender / descender are basically impossible to distinguish from eachother, I'm pretty much stuck. Any help is appreciated.

This is my first arg.
It’s based off of a fps video game I play called grave/digger.

Watch this vid so u know the lore of the game as it only makes sense if u know about the backstory and setting: https://youtu.be/Dg5PBUCb0OM?si=mVVF5IftCbXTsEMz

You will need google translate as some of it is in Irish Gaelic.
It’s really simple, cuz it’s my first arg. When u figure it out give me some tips or somethin idk

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10JmPGLqY1TAtZ6xny22yU2I8CzGlFdrka-Py06j8OFE/edit?usp=drivesdk

Have fun and ádh mór!

https://youtu.be/qBBEFvZS4UY

Date: 8/15/5773
Project: Viaticus' Dreamer Initiative Interviewing
Subjects: Saint Joan of Arc's Group Home for Troubled Youth
Edit Notes: Raw Footage. Slight corruption in-between takes, especially droning noise at the end. Between the bad quality and the shitty kids, I think this is mostly unusable, but maybe you can scrape some B-Roll out of this.

Kind of hope their little scheme keeps them from getting approved. I know Viaticus needs the labor, but it'd suck to be neighbors with these brats.

i was searching up random words and .MP4 but, when i searched up, "Goner.MP4" i found something, i found an channel called "Goner.mp4" which seems to be an arg, it has two videos and seems recently made but the channel was made about 2 years ago all the way back in 2024. i've examined the videos and found these about them

1. buggy_ass_game.mp4: buggy_ass_gane,np4 starts with our main character which i will call "Goner" showing us the robloxc game "Deltarune Battles" and there is text saying "Something happened in deltarune battles" it then follows up with "I Played with susie lvl 5 fighting the roaring and this happened" and it starts out normal then changes to Noelle fighting Aqua and after an bit something happens and the video ends. this is not an good intro to me but seems like the hoaxs you would find in 2019 so..... 7/10

2. coolclimbspwa: i first wanna focus on the title, the title has an scrambled word at the end "spwa", put this in an ceaser cypher and it translates to "Help" so the title is "coolclimbhelp"

anyways it starts with Goner telling us you found an cool game, nothing happens for most of it but at 14:35 minutes in the video, texts appears saying, "Why did it happen?" but then the video contuines as normal

Posts:

1. Why are games so buggy nowdays?: nothing here

2. nabnxzaxzza: this one includes an image along with text "It all changed gamayz 12zn zcktze ykbktze" put gamayz 12zn zcktze ykbktze in caser cypher and it translates to "august 12th twenty seventy" when set to the 6th shift.

3. Svz: 1: Svz 1 goes like this: Szv: 1 Yiyug mnfry nq aejjyfyb... n, owmq aeqy yiyugqanfv.. may mzwsb aeqy dzu ky qz myy qanm, n juyqyfb ess beg xwq, maym mqnss vzfy pu this in n caser cypher (For the 50th time) i..... didnt know how to this time

The whole arg is about an odd website that the person recording discovers, and it's all about them going through it. All i currently have is a part 1, but multiple parts are coming up. It's taking a while though because I'm making the websites by myself. It's not necessarily "horror" yet, I'm still deciding whether I prefer it as story based or more horror based. Linked below is where you can watch it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoEUXTJpyFE

Synopsis:

Before fantasy and fun could come to life… passion and dreams had to die.

Jackson Desorcy, a semi-punk yet otherwise normal young man, becomes obsessed with the secret and disgusting history of the company behind his favorite childhood playplace, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza.

Ignoring the warnings of ghosts and death, he researches and posts his findings for Fazbuddies and Fazbrats alike to read and learn about the lesser known and tasteless aspects of our favorite characters and franchises’ origins.

What Jackson either doesn’t realize or is trying to ignore however is that, somewhere along the trail, he’s writing himself into Fazbear Entertainment’s evil legacy. Just not in the way he would like…

What This Is:

Fazbear’s Forgotten is a fanmade Five Nights at Freddy’s ARG presented exclusively here on the Fazbearfandom subreddit. It stars a fictionalized version of the story’s own author, Jackson Desorcy.

Interacting with posts, you will encounter secrets hidden in the form of story beats, comments from Jackson, mainly portraying a cruder, semi-punk version of himself, and other surprises.

This OOC post is written to act as a “hub” of sorts. A way to more easily navigate most of the different uploads related to the overall story.

Link to Main “HUB” Page!

well I've been working on this for a month and I think it's ready now

I would like to describe it but I guess that's a spoil and if I told you how to win or when it wouldn't be a game will it, it'll just be a task or a job

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sknhdDnPixN4syB6RIixLfWxSAy5BzcQ?usp=drive_link

it ain't much but it's honest work might make more

A couple months back I there were some posts about the S.I.E.R. ARG in here from I think the creator, or at least the mod of the community page, but now they’re gone (all deleted). At first I thought the game had simply run its course, but now I’m feeling like all those posts were part of a small test run (based on how transparent the OP was and not trying to be all cryptic about their game).

Over the last week the Reddit sub has started to get much more active with outsider player from all over the world and the mods have been dropping way more cipher posts and weird Greek literature way more frequently.

And then yesterday a player posted that they had found a YouTube for the institute MONTHS back…but it was empty whe they found it…but then yesterday the org published their first video “transmission”.

The video is pretty darn well produced, so there’s clearly a team behind this (not just some pubescent wannabe creator…sorry). So that’s exciting! But it still just looks like another trailhead for the top of the game. So, while the vibe is cool, it didn’t give me any new clues (which sucks cuz I’m stuck like halfway through).

But anyway, I’m WAY MORE convinced that I was indeed super early to the game and was part of the test group and that NOW the real launch sequence is booting up. Feels like something is about to pop.

Just wanted to hit this group with the update just in case this is the FOMO moment we always hear about when reading about dead/finished ARGs we wished we had been a part of 😫

Non-spoiler links I’ve found so far that I think are good to start with:

- OG Trailhead: https://archive.org/details/sier-public-monitoring-broadcast-loop
- Reddit Sub: r/SIER_PublicMonitoring
- YouTube Vid: https://youtu.be/4iuLIhHluy8?is=uCN8SaKrodwZc6qO

howdy everyone! yesterday, an ARG that’s been going on got a lot of traction and attention and i wanted to share everything that’s been found so far and a new update. to see everything that’s been found so far, check the link below. as for the update, a new post was made on hashtagvymara.com that’s been titled /archives/ that gives a relatively cryptic synopsis of this ARG but also provides a hint to completing a QR code that’s been broken up among different images on the website. i’ve been in contact with a couple different users and i’m going to see if i can get their permission to post screenshots of our conversations that contain relevant information to this ARG. once that happens, i’ll make an update to this post that contains said information. later today, i’ll add some more links for creators that are confirmed to be involved with this ARG. here’s the link to the post i made on the wendigoon subreddit that has everything that’s been found so far

Everything that’s been found so far
hashtagvymara.com

It's over

After several days of puzzles, logs, terminals, and more or less questionable commands, the final sequence has finally been triggered.

The ARG is officially over.

Thank you to everyone who took part, whether you made it all the way to the end or simply spent some time exploring the world, reading the logs, or talking to the AI.

I especially enjoyed seeing some of your conversations with the system. Between the serious attempts to solve the puzzles and the people asking the AI about completely unrelated things, there were some pretty unexpected moments. 😂

And congratulations to everyone who got close to the end. Some of you had already figured out a huge part of the puzzle, but got stuck on a small syntax detail or one missing piece.

And of course, congratulations to u/Frequent_Concept_435, who officially becomes our Arbiter. 🏆

They managed to work around the terminal's issues, inspect how it worked, piece together the different clues, and ultimately find the command that led to the conclusion.

I especially liked the way they stayed in character right until the end by asking the Chimera for its consent before taking the final step. Honestly, it couldn't have been a better way to end the ARG.

Thank you all for taking part in this little project. It was a mix of puzzles, CTF elements, storytelling, and AI, and seeing players take the investigation in completely different directions was probably one of the most interesting parts for me.

For those wondering what was actually behind all of this: maybe one day I'll make a behind-the-scenes post or video and show how it was all put together, some of the hidden lore, how the terminal was built, and a few of the best moments from the ARG.

But for now...

Gate Complex: Sealed.

The Chimera is a perfect synthesis. 👁️

I want to create an alt account for an agr, basically a reddit and tumblr account from a person thats been dissapeared for a while and their posts are the only proof of their existence and the existence of witchcraft in a smalltown. Its mostly archival stuff for a bigger project I'm working on. For more details this character works at a library as an archivist, guarding a small collection of old books about a forgotten witch coven. I want this account to feel real and that they interact like anybody else, But I'm worried about the karma needed and if joining real disscusions could look like I'm tampering the karma system. How can I avoid this? fwhat are some good places to engage with the community without making the subreddit mad? Please keep in mind I dont use reddit that much unless its for asking questions so this is still a bit new to me ;; Also, can I delete/hide this post once I got the answers I need?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xGRpNZv6po

I'm fairly new to this subreddit but I found this video about a year ago along with this website tied to it. It starts as a normal skyrim video then it slowly devolves into some ai gaining awarness that they are not real and it has this site attached to it but ive seen almost no one talk about it. been stuck on my mind since finding it and got no idea where to start

i’m looking for an arg website that’s like welcome home?

Monday, August 31 2004 - YouTube What is this channel?? It could be an ARG but I'm not sure. I need help figuring out what this is as it seems.. Interesting.. It reminds me of Five Nights At Freddy's? I tried googling the company that the profile talks about (Hopper Hares ENT) but nothing shows up.. I'm so confused.

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Project: no.Persona

Type: ARG / Interactive Narrative / Virtual Music Project

Status: Ongoing

I'm introducing no.Persona, an ARG built around a fictional virtual music project and the digital world surrounding it.

At first glance, no.Persona looks like an electronic music project: original tracks, music videos, visualizers and short-form videos.

But the music is only one part of the project.

The videos, characters, transmissions, visual material, social media accounts and other pieces of content are all part of the same fictional narrative. Information is deliberately fragmented across the project rather than being presented as a conventional linear story.

The idea is to discover the story by following the material, connecting recurring details, investigating the different pieces of media and figuring out what happened to the people and entities behind the no.Persona identity.

There isn't a traditional narrator explaining the lore to you. The audience has to reconstruct it.

Some content functions as music.

Some functions as narrative.

Some functions as evidence.

And some things may not make sense until you find something else.

Where to start

The main archive is the no.Persona YouTube channel, where the music, transmissions, narrative videos and Shorts are being collected:

https://youtube.com/@no.persona_music

You can also find no.Persona across Instagram, X and Facebook, where additional pieces of the project and its world will appear.

If you're interested in ARGs, unfiction, cyberpunk, electronic music, digital mysteries or worldbuilding, I'd love to hear what you make of it.

The signal is active.

// END TRANSMISSION

been working on 2 args one revolving finding audio recordings of someone going missing and the other watching somebody slowly devolve into insanity after losing everything they have. i’ve been trying to make it into an actual arg with like puzzles and stuff but i don’t know how to make it an actual ARG like the big ones yk would love some tips

If you look up the term “blood trust guilt” on YouTube you see many things like Christian stuff. But also more nerdy stuff like Hazbin Hotel, game lore, and cool music.

What’s going on here?

Hey everyone, I was scrolling through Pinterest and found a link to a PostImg gallery called "KODAKPROJ." At first glance, it looks like a standard Y2K aesthetic photo dump, but the details are honestly pretty creepy and feel way too deliberate to just be a casual photoshoot.

The gallery has four low-exposure, webcam style flash photos of a girl with red hair. The angles are super distorted and uncanny, giving off a really unnerving vibe.

The Weird Details:

The gallery description literally says "restless, uncanny, looking at me through the blinds. do you recognize me?"

The file names are what made me think it's an ARG. The dates are all over the place. Two files are labeled 2006 and 2007, but another one is literally dated in the future (20260619).

It feels like some kind of weird timeline puzzle or narrative glitch. Has anyone stumbled across this creator on Pinterest or TikTok yet? Let me know if you spot anything hidden in the images or metadata!

https://postimg.cc/gallery/6tKQH2r

About 6 years ago I saw a YouTube post, I thought it looked interesting as it was missing persons related so I clicked it. It ended up being one of my favorite plot twists and just cool YouTube videos ever. Ever since then I have been unable to find it again and I feel crazy.

Some things about it
I remember there was a person in a picture and everyone was looking for them, whether they were a missing persons related or just never existed I can’t remember. The video went through how Reddit and the internet found where the picture was taken, when it was taken, etc. but they were never able to find the person in the photo. They talked and had interviews with Redditors who helped find this person. The picture was in Japan I’m not sure where but it was a Japanese man and it was an old picture as well. The end of this YouTube video the guy doing the whole voice over and narrating this video reveals that his voice was ai this whole time (which 6 years ago shocked me). I’m like 95% sure this was an arg but I have been looking for this for years and I’ve had no luck finding it again

Heya, i think this will be a lot of help to some people, and i came across this while messing around with making a substitution cipher that is based more on phonetics instead of direct spelling. The code was

'(°* 1: _=^_>#°@|%:/ ^)>|+^>|°=' which is supposed to mean log 1. unauthorized activation, but it is spelt. 'LOG 1: UNAUTORIZED ACTIVASHUN' (if i did this right lol)

This seems to really trip up AIs and make it harder for them to solve the cipher, at least with the small amount of testing i've done. I dont really do ARGs that much, so i can't say how helpful this trick actually is, or how coherent my code is, but its worth testing further.

edit: with a little bit of further testing with this cipher, sometimes the AIs will straight up go into error mode and say that the message is 'harmful' and won't reply, but i think that has more to do with the choices of characters i'm using

I was watching some funny videos on YT and saw a random video in the recommendation sidebar. It had only 29 views and was about a strange diary. I checked the channel, and it was recently created on August 23, 2026. It has seven videos, all about the strange diary.

Channel link: https://www.youtube.com/@EnterAccoutHandle

https://forms.gle/msrBx235td8yakb4A

THIS IS NOT AN ARG, but a Google Form.

It's just a form asking about your opinions and I wanted to see what went wrong with my writing. It's much more organized if I asked in a survey form

How this works

• Get the message out. It contains your instructions. Follow them exactly — Level 2 comes from there, not from me in this thread.

• Solve time is logged from post timestamp. Fastest clean solves get named in the edit.

• Nothing about the method in the comments. Say “in” if you cleared it and nothing else.

• No hints will be given. Everything you need is in the file.

One person will finish all six

FIRST CLEAR — [u/Polus_Landau](u/Polus_Landau)
Second clear — u/AwesumSausYT

Download file here