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Dave22156

The high-jacked video theory is interesting. I notice (as I'm sure probably everyone has) that there are two identical videos. One is by MsSnarker and was added March 02, 2008. The other, the one with the embedded cry for help, was by Dorothysnarker1 and added Dec. 20, 2007. Other than that they are identical even to the amount of time they run (3:1 Cool

. But, of course, that presents a problem of why the embedded one came first! Even the titles of the two videos are the same.
Another thought, might these just be kids playing around and is not part of an ARG at all? Maybe it doesn't go anywhere?
I guess the fact that the embedded one came first is my biggest question mark, though.

**Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:48 pm

Dave22156

Uh...sorry that a stray emoticon jumped in on the time in may last post. I meant they both run (three: eighteen) There that should keep the little bugger out of my post Laughing

**Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:51 pm

CaptKing

Oh dammit, why did I look at this video? It's going to be bugging me all night.

**Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:04 pm

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molecularr · Unfettered Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 313 Location: xanadu

**Posted:** Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:23 pm

Dave22156

Yeah. I keep checking this thread to for that reason, too. Good reasoning and thanks for your reply! I am truly amazed at the ability of people on this forum to ferret out all the information that you do. [Do all you unfiction people work for the CIA]? Shocked

**Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:10 pm

Boomer52 · Decorated Joined: 15 Sep 2008 Posts: 171

Can Youtube videos be edited by the poster? I mean, could this person have posted the uninterupted version in December, then switched later on, giving the appearance that it was overlooked when it is really brand new?

**Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:15 pm

tallerbird

If you look at the comments on the video, the help message was noticed about 7 months ago.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:04 pm

dumdum · Guest

Hi, i am new to this (this website and ARG) and this is not my native language (don't even know if "native" means what i think it does) and as odd as my posts may sound i beg you not to think that i am part of that game (if it is a game) because i am not, i was just wandering on some websites looking for a starting ARG and found you guys. So, just wanted to say that IF this is a game and IF the video is new and youtube was "hacked" to show fake date, then the comments must be fake too and so we may find some clues browsing through users' profiles...

sorry for my english (it's just a matter of time before i find the words back, haven't spoke it for a while...) and sorry i don't just check myself it's kinda late here (2am) and i have to wake up early tomorrow. (and of course i'm sorry if this was what the previous post meant...)

**Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:56 pm

dumdum · Guest

me again, i couldn't sleep before i found something relevent so i googled the words pronounced and found that thread http://www.rpgmakervx.net/index.php?showtopic=304&pid=29043&st=0&#entry29043
talking about that video : http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=aSSlUeiiBa8

i haven't read the whole thing because as you already know i don't fully understand everything and, the most important, i have to sleep...

but you can notice that it is from january, so i guess the date on the video is correct and maybe everybody just missed that rabbit hole...

so i guess the question is now "is it still running?"

**Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:20 pm

riquardo · Decorated Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 280

I still find it hard to believe this is a game (but hoping it is!) because it would be a tremendous amount of forecasting to have made something 7 months ago, to just now begin... Even if it was a game in December (which there are no records of) or if it would pass unoticed in on UF (which did), the PM's would find another way to attract people, a plan B, and thus we would then know about the game then and later find the video. Does this make any sense?

Anyway, if there's a game planned and this is in fact the rabbithole, the PMs will give us (hopefully) another clue, because we have nothing now.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:21 pm

Dave22156

Another video with same "hacked" video

**Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:59 pm

molecularr · Unfettered Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 313 Location: xanadu

Re: Another video with same "hacked" video

**Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:16 pm

ommmm · Boot Joined: 20 Sep 2008 Posts: 14

I've been following this out of curiosity and wanted to contribute my evening's work...

Here is the dialog as I understand it, but I can't make out exactly what the guy at the computer is saying.

If you get this, we need your help.
We're the last ones, the rest are dead.
[something about 30 seconds left]
You're the only one who knows about us, the only one who can help.
Please find us�.you're all we've got�we need you.
Whatever you do, don't� [breaks up]
We're dead if you do� all of us�please don't leave us here�not like this�

I googled the phrases every which way to see if there were any other hacked videos but nothing turned up other than Speed Racer and Jodie Foster. I also did an advanced search in YouTube and nothing.

On a different track, in case there is any significance to the specific clips that were hacked, Emile Hirsch (who starred in Speed Racer) also starred in the movie "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys" also starring and produced by Jodie Foster. That movie came out in 2001/2002. It doesn't look like there is any connection in the movie content...but it does connect the actors. (Which is probably not too uncommon either.)

*edited the dialog after listening one more time*

**Posted:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 2:13 am