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[ReverendJ]

[AbyssalRook]

[Ark is watching]

My view here is that while its wierd and completely unprecedented for a TTA tweet to link to a video completely outside its own universe, there's at least a reasonable chance.

While gibberish when decoded from base64, it can make up part of a Youtube URL which actually answers a question that's been encoded in base64 in a prior tweet.

The likelyhood of something like this being coincidental is extraordinarily slim, especially if its supposed to be a phrase in another cipher as well.

Until proven otherwise, I'm sticking with the hypothesis that its deliberately referring to the video in answer to the question: "how do hands type?"

So here I post this, I will completely disregard my belief that this video is in answer to "How do hands type?" if someone gives me an actual decoded message that's not intelligible. Until then, I will stick with my hypothesis but and be mindful of others.

The Ark is waiting...

[Dacad]

Well, I was going to sit this out, since I'm useless at these types of ciphers. That being said, seriously guys, try to be civil.

Maybe that typing video is an elaborate way of saying that hands talk by typing. Maybe it is just some random thing you got when googling a code. I don't know. I won't pretend to know. If you think that maybe "typing" in general is important to solve some code, investigate it from that angle. If you think not, then try deciphering that second tweet your own way. If you get results which look good, post them on here and everyone can compare theirs. Whoever was right can feel good about themselves without being condescending, whoever was wrong can say "wow, I guess I was wrong. As long as we got the answer, though, we all win." If you think everyone but you is stupid, them investigating in their own way and leaving you to yours won't hurt you at all. Ok, I suspect that I'm about to become the most hated person on here, but so be it.

[Teedub]

^ I love you.

[paulisdead18]

Twistedpuppet, if you really want to figure out this code you still insist isn't solved, then why don't you stop arguing about it and try and come up with possible solutions? You're really not contributing to anything other than igniting and re-igniting a stupid argument that started over you getting mad over a response that you took way too personal. I said it last night and I'm going to say it again, seriously, just knock it off.

[Dacad]

Might as well actually try to contribute something:

I agree the video of typing is not important. However, Totheark has used outside material in the past. Right before Masky made his debut, there was a video using something from a BBC show. It is possible that the second tweet was supposed to lead to that typing video (that video has been reached using two different methods). IF that is the case, and I don't know if it is, then the video is not important. Rather, totheark is just telling us to think about typing (which is an answer to his talking hands riddle). Also, I don't personally mind people discussing the totheark video on this thread, and the tweets on the video thread, since I suspect the tweets are meant to decode something in the video.

I only have a laptop, no number key or anything, but I'll see what I can do with typing. I'm working under the assumption that typing is important, but only because that's the only thing I have the vaguest idea of how to try. I've never done ciphers before. If someone else can come up with something that works, well, I really hope they can, because I probably can't. Best of luck to everyone. If we can't solve this code, the Operator wins. Maybe.

[BenJPas]

TO ANYBODY WHO THINKS THE TYPING VIDEO IS NOT RELATED

THIS MEANS YOU, TWISTED PUPPET

Let's do some MATH

Every youtube video has an 11-digit base 64 code at the end of it (0-9, a-z, A-Z, /, +).

Which means that there are 73786976294838206464 unique possible youtube codes. That is quite a lot.

Now, the number of videos actually uploaded onto youtube is a little more difficult to pin down. They don't seem to actually keep track. So let's take a statistic from 2011 that said Youtube had 1 trillion views (http://www.jeffbullas.com/2012/05/23/35-mind-numbing-youtube-facts-figures-and-statistics-infographic/), and just for the sake of having a number, let's say that every one of those people watched a different video. 1 trillion videos. This will more than likely get a number of videos on Youtube much HIGHER than the actual number.

So, what is the chance that a random base 64 11-string code will actually pull up a working video on Youtube? Well, that's a one trillion in 73786976294838206464 chance, or roughly .000001355%. That's about 1 in a hundred million. And remember, I think 1 trillion videos is guessing quite a bit high. The actual chance is probably much lower.

You all are saying that a code on the official Twitter, which when decoded from base 64 (as another code in the same event) gives an 11 character string that has a 1 in 100, 000, 000 chance of even working on youtube, but instead leads to a video that happens to perfectly answer the question "how do hands talk," is some kind of crazy coincidence.

Maybe it is. What a delightful, unintentional red herring for Trosephim if this is the case! Nothing to get insulting or angry about.

But I think Occam's Razor would indicate that we have solved the meaning of the second code. Its meaning is to link us to the video. What we make of it can be discussed, but that video is meant to be linked to, and is meant to be viewed by us.

[Ztakk]

[twistedpuppet]

[TheOperator]

[Serum]

I'm with Twisted Puppet.

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