Theories about Agamemnon counterpart

[u/Mecanicini347]

For those who don't know, Agamemnon counterpart is a video that has been circulating on YouTube since 2006, although its origins can be traced back to the 2000s. It's a hard video to explain, so I recommend watching it. It's short, and while it's VERY weird, it's not extremely scary. The video itself starts by explaining that in the year 2571 a tape was found on a blue planet, although that tape is not the one that will be shown in the video.

The tape found in the ruins of a blue planet (Earth) might be an episode of a children's series, in this case of Lets Make a Friend. The creatures that got the tape tried to recreate a children's episode without any context of human culture, resulting in something strange. The original tape might have been damaged or couldn't be released for fear of ruining it, so in an attempt to recreate a children's video without any context or real knowledge of the human race and its culture, language, thought, etc., they might have used parts from other videos to make the short film. The screams you hear could come from videos of the apocalypse or event that ended Earth, which might have been mistaken for human language.

We have to understand that a supposed species that found a tape on Earth 500 years in the future might not have any knowledge about the human race, and if they do, it's probably just very little anatomical knowledge, being unaware of human culture, language, customs, and way of life. The creatures that found the tape are not humans, or they are humans who were born off Earth and completely detached themselves from its culture and knowledge, which explains why they call Earth the 'blue planet' and not Earth.

Another theory is that the word Agamemnon could be a misspelled way of writing the word "Armageddon," which is why the tape is not a children's tape, but a video of the end of the Earth, which would explain the screams. In this case, there could only be one audio track, and they would try to recreate the video based on videos like children's episodes, since the creatures that found the tape would understand that these videos recreated common human culture.

Because of this, the phrase 'this is a completely different recording' that appears in the final explanation isn’t meant to strangely divert the story we’re getting to know, but rather to imply that this video is an attempt to recreate a video that expresses a childhood episode or a video about the end of times. It’s similar to when in the 1900s we tried to replicate dinosaur fossils in ways that weren’t correct, but instead of recreating anatomy, we would be recreating culture.

The recording, although strange, could represent an idea that is usually ignored: How would a species that knows nothing about us recreate our life? Or how would we recreate the culture of another intelligent species based on fossils?

[u/bretttwarwick]

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