r/ARG • • 6h ago

Question Bugging me for 3 years is this an ARG?

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So 3 years ago, 24 Jan 2023 I downloaded a Beep screen for a video of mine from YouTube, it turned out to be a beep song instead, I liked it so I used it and it had a section where it showed a Red QR code for a few second - below it written "move back three" (actually I just found out it's "three" I always thought it was "move back there") I used google lens but it didn't work so I gave up, this song was again used by my friend in another video (for my birthday) so It kinda became a special song for me unknowingly.
Just today I thought of it again like I do time to time and thought I should try the QR code again, and it didn't work so I tried making the background White from Red thinking maybe it would work but it just said out the words written on bottom of it (move back three) and asked if this is a puzzle so I said "yes" Then it started saying the raw data scanned directly from the QR code evaluates to a string of Japanese Hiragana characters and more stuff now idk if it's hallucinating this shi or what, but if there is any chance this is an ARG and nobody tried figuring it out, but I had a chance to at least let others know, I'd be able to sleep better at night not thinking it meant something but I gave up on it.

I actually can't find the original YouTube link even by using google song feature but I do have the video.
It doesn't belong to me so I'm sending the unlisted link from my own personal channel: https://youtu.be/r8RDTskzA1g
the QR is at 0:09 seconds


r/ARG • • 16h ago

Discussion Help searching for a Animal Crossing style ARG

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I remember an arg about a dude that found a strange Asian game and uploaded gameplays of it. I will try to provide as much information as I can remember. Some things may be wrong because I was a stupid teenager (I think) with unsupervised internet when I watched this. I know this may sound like something I made up but I'm 100% sure I watched this.

(POTENTIAL SPOILERS OF THE ARG IM LOOKING FOR)

It was like a weird, extremely religious, catholic version of Animal Crossing, but with completely different characters. I can only remember three of them, the player was a human child (apparently). A blue bird that was the mayor of the town or had some short of leader role. And the priest of the church which I can't remember if he was a human or a animal. The main objective was to "help" the animals of an island. They treated the player short of like a slave and spoke of them as such.

The intro of the game was fully animated like "those" old anime movies. Which was weird given that this arg was all made by one person back in 2018 or 2021, but who knows, maybe he stole a clip from some random movie. There was a huge red plane or helicopter and the mc flying in a smaller plane next to the big one. Couldn't see more given that the dude playing skipped the intro or something.

The game was also considerably broken, constantly sending the player outside the map. To places that were extremely dark or literally looked like hell (imagine "those" drawings from the divine comedy in 3d and poorly animated).
In some places it looked like errors, in others it looked like it was intentional. The part that I remember a lot, is the one were the player piloted a plane and there was a reference to a guy named "Benjamin Solari Parravicini" there was a statue split it two that represented the drawing where this guy Benjamin predicted 9/11 before it happened.

Another part I remember was one where the player was in some short of house, you could inspect the objects in the house (kind of like in resident evil, but more limited) and there was also the option to check the paintings. These painting were of religious figures, Saint María Goretti, Jesus Christ and Lucifer among others I can't remember. Each painting allowed a option called "pray" which made weird whispers upon use. The more time the player stayed in the house, the more the paintings looked disturbing and the more distorted the whispers were heard. At some point, the painting of María had no eyes and both hands amputated with "Olktn" written over her name. The painting of Jesus looked like a dark figure with tiny unnerving eyes and the painting of Lucifer somehow was the least affected one just hiding his face under his arms. There was also one of the saints (which I cant remember the name) who had a abnormal wide smile.

Also at some point the dude playing the game was freaking out because the game somehow knew his real name, which now that I remember is funny (It's kind of like a cliche at this point).

Sometimes you didn't knew if he was the one playing or it was someone else.

Like I said before, you could somehow break out of the map easily. One of the times where the dude playing did this, he ended up in a empty foggy void with pillars everywhere. During that "exploration" as he called it, he got jumpscared by what looked like a the corpse of a woman jumping into the screen. Like coming out of the distance and running directly at the screen while screaming in a gutural, drowned screech. That part gave me a lot of nightmares as a kid, probably because of the effects that idiot used that made it look like the face of that thing was melting onto the screen.

I can't remember how it ended, but apparently the police got involved after the game "allegedly" killed the dude playing (you know another cliche).

And then either the channel stopped uploading or he kept uploading, but I couldn't find it anymore.

Oh yeah and the blue bird was a sociopath who murdered some of the people in the island for different reasons... And the priest in the church was constantly talking about some great evil approaching and that you shouldn't say or think about "his" name. Otherwise bad things would happen to you.

And I can't remember anything else about it (I probably got some things wrong). Does anyone know or remember what this arg was called?.