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@user-ov2fc5sd1e

2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to know how many people usually work on this channel. Thank you.

@chiragdhankhar2969

2 жыл бұрын

Plz check it and clear my mind

@thetankinator

2 жыл бұрын

Same aye

@TheRealMrRoboto

2 жыл бұрын

When are you going to admit you work for Anon?

@occamsrazor1285

2 жыл бұрын

One curious thing you may not know is linguistic profiling was used to help find the Unibomber and one of his profile points was the use of double spaces because it was in use (almost to the point of being enforced) in academia when he was still in academia.

I'm 72+ and have no idea as to how to do hacking, and I got lost in the first couple of minutes of this video. But found myself unable to stop watching. The human mind and one's ability to do such things as this puzzle, amazes me.

@Sumsubcom

2 жыл бұрын

It's a very confusing thing to follow, takes a couple of times to get your head around it, that's for sure! Thanks for the support. :)

@paulcunnane4

Жыл бұрын

High IQ must be really nice to have. I'd love to be in that category.

@bruce4139

Жыл бұрын

I'm a teenager and got lost immediatly too dont worry

@mahfizur

Жыл бұрын

😊কপ্পপ😊

@EricKorbly

Жыл бұрын

Computer use is a learned skill. Start by learning how to achieve a desired result that you are sure you’ll enjoy. Like being able to communicate with your family more. You’ll need to learn a short list of applications that are accessible after having some networked device that you can turn on. A device that’s password protected. One of the first skills is how to open a web browser and if necessary how type the url to google. From that point you can type into google “how do I …” any thing you want to learn.

.... Cicada 3301: The Incredible Mystery of the Logo and Its Origins

The cicada will stay underground from 2 to 17 years depending on the species. Cicadas are active underground, tunneling, and feeding, and not sleeping or hibernating as commonly thought. After the long 2 to 17 years, cicadas emerge from the ground as nymphs.

@TommyV247

27 күн бұрын

Cicadas invasion 2024

I've watched so many videos about this but I'll never get enough

@Sumsubcom

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Charlie... I mean, Spencer.

@pochakajeoi8943

2 жыл бұрын

Finally 75k

@dabo7791

2 жыл бұрын

There Is another great video by lemmino

"Our story begins on 4chan." Ohhhh this is gonna be good.

What I admired on LeMMiNo's approach is how extensive his approach on this topic was and how he managed to talk about it for more than 10 minutes and kept it relatively simple while focusing on key milestones in the mystery solving. You took it to another level, actually explaining how it was made and how it has been solved, each step individually with explanation of critical thinking behind. This is obviously still just a summary, because a solver would actually need to figure all of this out themselves, without any kind of summary available. Late finders were unfortunate as only a small amout of people was let in the final phases. It eventually took a darker turn when it began leading to onion sites.

@jeffbrownstain

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing is inherently scary or dangerous about onion sites. As with all things, its a matter of the content. A very large group of popular websites now have their own tor sites to avoid censorship and outages. Some users in the security space now exclusively host on tor, meaning there's no other source to a lot of really good work being done in the defense of average users.

@tatherva7387

10 ай бұрын

There's more dark stuff hidden on the clear web than there is on the dark web funny enough, just by the difference of numbers of users. Normal web is just easier to access and most criminals aren't also computer engineers. In fact a lot of the snuff and scary videos on there are reoploaded from KZread and Liveleak just to scare people who don't know any better.

@lostpockets2227

8 ай бұрын

he just did a video about the JFK assassination it was really good

@ezracramer1370

7 ай бұрын

@@tatherva7387 LOL how big is this pile of your BS 🤡 "There's more dark stuff hidden on the clear web than there is on the dark web" do you have any source to this bold claim?

I don't know about other countries but in metropolitan India, cryptic events are quite common and popular with high schoolers. It was Lemmino's video that got me into this. Very very satisfying when you get them right.

@lowwastehighmelanin

2 жыл бұрын

Well that's freaking awesome.

@iyeetsecurity922

2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating society.

@varunsharma406

2 жыл бұрын

@@iyeetsecurity922 What kind of an idiot are you?

@kartik.chauhan

2 жыл бұрын

@@iyeetsecurity922 quite fascinating indeed. Also quite common trend in developing nations. River Thames in London wasn't very clean either while it was going through this phase.

@lmaolol6790

2 жыл бұрын

@@iyeetsecurity922 racist detected opinion rejected

Thank you for presenting this very clearly and not trying to wrap it up in a facade of spookiness like so much other coverage does.

@IschysDynamis

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I appreciate that. We weren't anticipating all the hype.

@ovadyarachman7243

2 жыл бұрын

He takes too long to explain. It's like watching someone spesk in half speed.

@azreal4633

2 жыл бұрын

@@ovadyarachman7243 then speed it up

I remember when all of this was happening in real time. Figuring out clues live in online forums and chatrooms. Lots of fake clues emerged. And when the gps coordinates were figured out and released there was a lot of disappointment since most people didnt live near the lamp posts. What's weird is that the Cicada 3301 had to know that the first people to the posts weren't necessarily the smartest or the best. Just the closest ... So in the end to me it seemd kind of self defeating.

@daniel4647

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, that was a very strange approach, it was at that point I decided it was all just nonsense, or a "maze for idiots" which was a term people used back then for a wild internet goose chase. Never seen one as complicated as Cicada, but they existed before that and I'm pretty sure people just made them because they found it entertaining to watch people run around. As far as I know they never included phone numbers or real world locations, but the real world locations is also what made it seem like a joke, so like you said, self defeating.

@ClickClack_Bam

9 ай бұрын

Cicada is the dumbest thing ever!!! I could make 5 Cicada mysteries in 1 hour! Probably 20 of them if I tried! I can't believe it's given ANY credit!!! When you look at what the person did it takes 5 minutes to put one together. Here I'll prove it knowing almost NOTHING about who makes the CICADA mysteries. This will take me 5 minutes. Ready? Go? 1st step: Leave a strange post on Reddit in the Cicada Reddit if there is one 2nd step: In the posters username is a clue that leads to step 3 3rd step: is a book that Shakespeare wrote. On page 25 on the last sentence of that page is a word. That word contains 7 letters. You'll have to figure out that it's actually a phone number to call. 4th step: call the phone number & it's a riddle 5th step: the riddle ends up being 2 words. Convert those to numbers & you're still confused. Turns out they're longitude & latitude. 6th step: go to the longitude & latitude & dig down 2.5 feet (an homage to the 25th page from earlier) & find a box. In the box is a letter in some sort of code. 7th step: turns out if you use a well known code hash from WW2 the letter reveals the riddle of it all This took me less than 5 minutes to come to with & would take less than 24 hours to dial this in to make better sense & change up anything that doesn't match up properly. This is so dumb that ANYBODY thinks this is sophisticated IN ANY WAY. I heard the first winner really struggled to keep it going. That's the last I EVER paid attention to this. It's so dumb that ANYBODY could do this & maybe I should do this since people this it's "ingenious" when it's ANYTHING but!!!

@bennettbennettbennett

9 ай бұрын

Makes me think there could have been a separate solution path

@StalkedByLosers

9 ай бұрын

Ya not too smart eh? Dunning Krugger effect at play. I noticed that there is an _intelligence valley_ where the smarter you are, the dumber you get until you reach rock bottom. From there, the smarter you get the actual smarter you get until you reach the top. At one extreme end, dumb people so to speak, will get beginners luck and can accomplish and realize the same as the smartest on the other extreme. Then in the middle you have the dumbest conspiracy theorists and t33rr0r1sts that society can produce...these people are moderately smart and can seem intelligent. These are at the bottom of the valley. From there it goes up to Einsteins and Teslas of the world.

@bob7975

8 ай бұрын

I've decided it's some kind of alternate reality roleplaying game, where people pretend they're spies or aliens in real life. That's the only thing that makes sense. It certainly isn't finding the most intelligent people. The really intelligent people would give something like this a wide berth. It's staggeringly stupid to go physically down a rabbit hole if you don't know what's at the bottom. That's how people come to grief with Craigslist.

I love this channel! Such a charismatic host and absolutely engaging script and ideas! I am glued to the screen watching their videos. Keep up the brilliant work lads :) Cheers!

@Romina2711

2 жыл бұрын

Yup the host is really charismatic

@Sumsubcom

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, really made me smile. I've passed your message onto the team.

Just to let you know. In typing classes in Scotland (circa 1990) we were also taught to use double spaces after a full stop. The only reason I dont do it on the internet is that (in general) double spaces arent possible (coming from a web development background where youd have to use   twice to simply get two spaces) :)

@mj.l

Жыл бұрын

it’s the british/commonwealth standard - i learned the same in australia in the 90s. the same typography has been noted in forum posts written by Satoshi Nakamoto, and led people to assume he’s *not* american, or US-educated. very odd take, this.

@StationeryToga

9 ай бұрын

For whatever reason, my (Scottish) school didn't do typing classes when I was there in the mid to late 90's, however my mother had them in the 60's and still uses the double spaces today.

@GilmerJohn

9 ай бұрын

I learned the 2 space rule back in 1958. I never was corrected until I submitted some material for a group NL about 10 years ago. I still revert to the 2 space rule.

@benhetland576

9 ай бұрын

Also taught in Norway in the 80's.

@thaddeusodonnell3986

8 ай бұрын

Man I remember taking typing classes in highschool where theyd track how fast you could type certain things and make few enough errors to pass.. I think it was called your GWAM score.. cant remember the score I set but I basically smashed my keyboard not caring for errors and somehow banged out the fastest gwam score the teacher had ever seen.. it barely passed cause there was quite a few errors but it counted it green.. id love to know what my number was, was so long ago.

Well written, well narrated, more gripping than the last Bond movie. Brilliantly done!

While the onion site is difficult to trace, the clearnet website and US phone aren't. The posters might contain printer tracking dots, DNA or fingerprints. The people who put the fliers up may have had their phones on, switching between BTSes and/or surveillance cameras. I am shocked nobody broke the puzzle and doxed them.

Made in a way that makes you feel like you just sitting with your smart friend to explain you stuff you interested in but don't know non about. Absolutely love it. Keep the great work

Ayeee!!! I still remember this. Happy to see this getting covered by Sumsub 🤟🏻 Almost there to 100 K my dude. Good-luck !!!

ahhh i literally love this mystery so much, i remember hearing about it as a kid which made me watch this! its so interesting and i love the way everything ties together perfectly

Enigma was cracked by three Polish mathematicians before the war and their work was given to the French and British in 1939. Alan Turing worked on increasing the speed of decryption using machines ... he did not crack Enigma.

@herzkine

Жыл бұрын

Which is a nice myth also but a littler too simple for reality also. Bletchley Had to do a lot more than Just automatize and Speed Up an already solved decryption

@GilmerJohn

9 ай бұрын

@@herzkine -- Well, the machine was "solved" quite early. But the current settings were partially determined by trial and error. The "Bomb" accelerated this process.

@brycecolwell4304

8 ай бұрын

​@@herzkineindeed.and the pre ww2 enigma was NOT the same it was something like 5 billion more combination by adding another wheel.i can't off hand give the specific, but OP is wrong

Your channel randomly popped up in my recommend section, video sounded interesting so I clicked and now here I am after binge watching half of this channel's videos..

This channel is so good. Crazy that it only has 74k subs

@soraideso4020

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed , it's an underrated channel

@royz_1

2 жыл бұрын

Just wait an year or two. It'll explode

@nombusomngadi5110

2 жыл бұрын

Well, it's 75k now

@OpenMachines.

2 жыл бұрын

75k

@Ayudado

2 жыл бұрын

He knows, just let him do his thing

Although I've watched more than enough videos of Cicada 3301, still watched this video and I'm glad I sat down to watch, well done the team at Sumsub!

@ornessarhithfaeron3576

2 жыл бұрын

Nice profile pic :)

@mallickpriyanshuOG

2 жыл бұрын

Yep

@zipf

2 жыл бұрын

Same!

@ItzzNoxygen

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing picrew :)

@gillianross7225

2 жыл бұрын

Cringe profile picture

I remember something about this as it was happening. Thanks for bringing me down the rabbit hole now. One Q tho.... from such a "pedantic middle aged American" who may have been a professor at MIT with access to Encyclopedia Britannica, vol 6, 11 ed. (i.e. a learned individual), why was no mention made of an egregious spelling mistake seen at 42:42, and then repeated again at 42:46. ONCE is grammatically incorrect, either "ONES" or more likely "ONE". Yet, it feels like it was done on purpose?? Was this ever looked into, or was it just deemed to be one of a million red-herrings that must have existed in this saga, and not covered in the video? ...... p.s.... loved the content. Great video

Please dissect more puzzles like this! Loved watching this, you got a new sub

1) I'm seriously uneducated on all this, I've only used computers for stuff like typing & looking at YT, my wife calls me a luddite...you get the point 2) when you showed the difference in background "blacks" on the original post, I immediately thought it was gonna end up being that you needed to print it, cut out the squares and lay it over a specific text to see which letters and symbols were visible...bc I had no idea any of the rest of this was even possible. 3) Thanks for teaching me something new! You're presentation style got me to stick around til the end even tho this video might as well be in Greek for all I understood of what you did on the computer side of things =)

As someone whos seen videos on cicada for years now, it feels good to finally have someone present solid evidence towards who it might be (and moreso show why it isnt other groups, i.e. intelligece agencies/hacker groups). I find your answer more convincing about the university connection. My only doubt on it is why they didnt come forward at any point (2021 would've been the 10 year anniversary, perfect timing) and take credit, maybe the mystery is more important for those who made it.

@ClickClack_Bam

9 ай бұрын

Cicada is the dumbest thing ever!!! I could make 5 Cicada mysteries in 1 hour! Probably 20 of them if I tried! I can't believe it's given ANY credit!!! When you look at what the person did it takes 5 minutes to put one together. Here I'll prove it knowing almost NOTHING about who makes the CICADA mysteries. This will take me 5 minutes. Ready? Go? 1st step: Leave a strange post on Reddit in the Cicada Reddit if there is one 2nd step: In the posters username is a clue that leads to step 3 3rd step: is a book that Shakespeare wrote. On page 25 on the last sentence of that page is a word. That word contains 7 letters. You'll have to figure out that it's actually a phone number to call. 4th step: call the phone number & it's a riddle 5th step: the riddle ends up being 2 words. Convert those to numbers & you're still confused. Turns out they're longitude & latitude. 6th step: go to the longitude & latitude & dig down 2.5 feet (an homage to the 25th page from earlier) & find a box. In the box is a letter in some sort of code. 7th step: turns out if you use a well known code hash from WW2 the letter reveals the riddle of it all This took me less than 5 minutes to come to with & would take less than 24 hours to dial this in to make better sense & change up anything that doesn't match up properly. This is so dumb that ANYBODY thinks this is sophisticated IN ANY WAY. I heard the first winner really struggled to keep it going. That's the last I EVER paid attention to this. It's so dumb that ANYBODY could do this & maybe I should do this since people this it's "ingenious" when it's ANYTHING but!!!

@ClickClack_Bam

9 ай бұрын

Here's another one that will take me 2 minutes to type up & less than 24 hours to dial in PERFECTLY: 1st clue: find out what Cicada this is. Add up the numbers on that row of the Cicada pic that's used. That number will be divided by the total number of lines in the whole pic itself 2nd clue: that number will be a 5 digit number which is a zipcode for a city in the US. If you take the name of the city & convert the letters into numbers you'll get another number. You'll have to figure out that it's actually a website address to go to. 3rd clue: the website appears to be just a normal business site with nothing out of the ordinary. Turns out if you look at the code behind the scenes there's one page where the next clue is located. 4th clue: the clue was a physical address for a past famous address but it's no longer there.. or is it? 5th clue: go to the address, the empty lot, & look around & you'll find the next clue, a painted message on a surviving wall 6th clue: in a famous picture of this address when the house was still there, you'll see this same message in the pic & need to know that this phrase was used back then, but it's no longer used anymore 7th clue: convert that phrase to binary code & it gives you a combination number to a safe but where is the safe? 8th clue: some other Cicada mystery probably used a clue with an address that the safe will be at & the combination opens the safe to reveal the final message. 5 minutes & I have the framework that would be dialed in WITH NO PROBLEM to finish this.

@katem5800

4 ай бұрын

?@@ClickClack_Bam

I've been really interested in 3301 and even tried to help crack the brick wall that is the last cicada puzzle. I thought I had seen just about every take and angle possible. This was a wonderful video full of new and unique insight. Thank you.

I've seen a lot of videos and articles about the Cicada mystery (Lemmino's video is still the best IMHO), and most of them present the timeline and the puzzles in great detail. It's one of (if not THE) most popular unsolved online mysteries. Despite the collective efforts of the best sleuths the internet has to offer, we still don't have a definitive answer as to who or what is behind Cicada, and most likely never will. All we "know" about the creators of this phenomenon is basically just conjecture. We can infer a few things about their age, education and background, but we cannot know for certain if those hints are real clues or carefully placed red herrings. The writing style, grammar, choice of literature, cyphers and solutions for the puzzles, even the double space a lot people were hung up on, etc. Their messages telling us not to overcomplicate things, that the answer is simpler than we think and how it's "right in front of your eyes" would suggest a very Occam's Razor approach on their part. However, the cryptic messages and the great lengths they went to secure their identity suggests otherwise. If Cicada was _just_ and ARG, a publicity stunt or a hobby project of some college professor, there would be no need for such secrecy. In fact, if the real creators of Cicada ever came forward, they would enjoy massive fame and popularity, and I'd imagine some lucrative offers. The fact they not only chosen to but the great lengths they went to remain in the shadows suggests that they are not after such frivolous worldly or monetary gains. Or at least not directly. The fact they also chose such open and popular platforms - such as 4chan and Reddit - to host their competition is also very telling. They were no doubt aware of the fact, that these puzzles were not going to be solved by any individual, but it _will_ be an open and well documented group effort. Furthermore, the fact they didn't release the entire breadcrumb trail all at once, but chose to ration the clues in a delayed format suggests that they were actually waiting for word to spread and more people and groups to catch up. They were **not** looking for individuals who solved their puzzles first. Despite what their posting says, this was _not_ a competition. They would've been very aware of the fact, that the last step of the puzzle - the submitting of the email address - would be reached not by a few select individuals, but throngs of people. Most of whom were merely opportunists, who were not active participants in solving any of the riddles but just curious observers who grabbed onto the train. So in this regard, anyone who was fast enough to send in an email address could be in the "select few", regardless if they did any real work in solving the puzzles prior, so the entire "competition" was completely meaningless. Quite predictably, a number of people later came forward claiming to have been part of the "select few" who managed to get in, regaling us with stories of yet more puzzles and cryptic instructions, but also quite predictably, they deemed to be fakes and wannabes, mostly due to the fact that their claims are completely unverifiable. If I had to guess, I would say this whole thing was about the journey and not the destination. I think the organizers wanted to observe how the online community would go about solving these puzzles, how they acted and reacted to different clues and messages, how many people reached different milestones and how fast, etc. It was just one huge data gathering campaign. And data they got. The entire Cicada craze left a gigantic online footprint, with tons of Reddit, 4chan and other assorted forum postings, entire discussion boards, chat logs, and hours upon hours of videos dissecting the phenomenon. A huge amount of valuable data that could be used in any number of research, which I personally think was real reason behind the entire thing. Or...it was a covert CIA recruitment drive, like a lot of people think. We'll never know...

@timebot000

2 жыл бұрын

Could it have been originated simply by an a.i. like a gpt?

@RobinTheBot

Жыл бұрын

@@timebot000 Not without an equal amount of human effort as just having a human do it.. AI is bad at that kind of multi-field complex security.

@John-wd5cb

10 ай бұрын

​@@timebot000it was likely training an AI. The Truth is out there.

@bob7975

8 ай бұрын

@@John-wd5cb With any luck, it will stay out there.

@Howtheheckarehandleswit

8 ай бұрын

​@@timebot000No, definitely not. The simplest evidence of this is also the most conclusive; GPT-1 didn't start development until 2017, 4 years after CICADA 3301 was active. And even then, GPT-1 was not *nearly* as good as modern GPTs (and other LLMs) like ChatGPT, it was frankly quite awful. It certainly couldn't do anything requiring remembering context across many sentences of interaction, which is clearly required to make Cicada 3301.

Well I love your style of storytelling, before start of this video I knew everything about it this from 2015 but still I watched whole video. Calm way to describe and explaining stuff is absolutely amazing.❤

I don't understand how he is still a "small creator". The quality of these videos are on par with some huge channels.

@trix10101

2 жыл бұрын

There are some channels that like to stay small. One of my favorites is lummino. He posts one about every 6 months. But every video is a masterpiece deep dive into a random subject. He did one on cicada like this. I recommend it.

@reihanboo

2 жыл бұрын

@@trix10101 bru lemmino is not a small creator

@itisyerdad

2 жыл бұрын

@OceanBeach Jfc. Are you twelve?

@itisyerdad

2 жыл бұрын

He is a sales manager for the web security company Sumsub. This isn't an individual doing these videos. The scripts are written by others then presented by this person. They're not even trying to hide that fact. So yes, of course the videos are on quality with some huge channels. They have the capital to invest in the channel.

@martinXY

2 жыл бұрын

He is a great presenter, and quintessentially English.

The way you pronounce ASCII as an acronym instead of alike ask-ee is pretty funny from the perspective of a programmer. I don't think I've heard anyone say it out loud like that before.

@Zippythewondersquirrel

8 ай бұрын

An AI will do that.

This was fun to watch, different than my usual videos. Thank you for the video!

If you cross your eyes just right on the stereogram at 23:53 , you can see an oval outline that is head shaped. I don't know what it means but it has excellent depth!

@SupaBuma

9 ай бұрын

a cup! indeed a cup

@MrKittycats

9 ай бұрын

You’re right! It’s totally a cup

a 50 minute Sumsub video? y’all are blessing us today thanks

@Sumsubcom

2 жыл бұрын

BOOM, 5 for the price of 1. That's how we roll.

@joshuamowdy9230

2 жыл бұрын

Hello. What a grand day indeed. Good luck.

Absolutely brilliant video! Great production, editing and storytelling. Keep it up!

Thanks for this fascinating deep dive into a topic that I would've spent way more time trying to dissect myself

It’s impressive how captivating your videos are, love this kind of videos!

These "technical stories" are intensely interesting. I started computer programming in the 80s at school, but I let it all get away from me, instead I'm now just a voyeur! Great videos, thanks.

Totally compelling. I'm an absolute ignoramus when it comes to cryptography and you've made me want to change that...! Loved it. 🏆

"Perplexed", "loquacious", "laudable" - you and your team have a seriously good vocabulary.

@QillWhitey

2 жыл бұрын

But trash french pronunciation lol

@spinthegamer262

2 жыл бұрын

@@snoosri there’s no “ghostwriter”, there is a dedicated team behind producing these videos and I’m sure there is a “scriptwriter” or 2, but ghostwriter implies an author taking credit when they didn’t make it, and nobody here is doing that.

@kingkunta7846

2 жыл бұрын

You must be American

@QillWhitey

2 жыл бұрын

@@kingkunta7846 just like all your favorite rappers you seem to idolize. Lol. Haters that wish they could live in america bad always acting like being american is horrible while they worship our culture. Cringe

@kingkunta7846

2 жыл бұрын

Wish I could live in the US? Hahaha. Talk about jumping to conclusions... I live in a northern European country with free health care, free Uni, and where we actually have freedom instead of your police state. As I have a handful of American clients, I do visit once a year at least - NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING would make me want to live in your shithole country. With that being said - yes, I do like the music that comes out of your country, but I listen to music from all over the world. The two things doesn't have anything to do with each other. You not understanding that proves my initial point, so thanks for that. As for idolising, that's something you guys do over there the best. I don't idolise shit -except for maybe my parents.

First time viewer, I'm subbing, really like the content but the delivery was really refreshing as well, very conversational which made it very easy to get into.

Seems like when they led to reddit they missed a golden opportunity to hide a key under the doormat. Or would that have been too obvious?

@CZghost

2 жыл бұрын

In an essence, they actually did. Both of these pictures were hiding a steganographically concealed content, which was an actual clue to the next step. I would actually create a similar scavenger hunt game online with the help of some other people. Certainly not alone, especially not at this large elaborative scale. This wasn't anything else than a huge scavenger hunt for people on the internet. For people that were somehow bored and had a huge amount of time to solve the puzzles. Bear in mind, those puzzles were not designed to be easy to solve, but they were designed to carefully lead the solvers to the final stage, and they were designed so cleverly that they managed to stay cryptic and pretty much invisible to others. It took really huge amount of time to solve and it was actually even time limited at some point, so many people actually ended up in a dead end even if they had done everything right. They just weren't quick enough. Imagine someone had actually gave up his own work, his studies, and grabbed as much money as they could from their bank account and went for this scavanger hunt to basically come to a dead end and become homeless and without any money left. I am pretty sure this exact scenario has happened with this scavanger hunt, that someone was so desperate for the puzzle solving that he was willing to sacrifice his living to gain endless amount of free time to solve the puzzle and come out with a failure and no home. I'm sure that wasn't his goal.

@ging9944

2 жыл бұрын

@@CZghost 💯

@Greg-yu4ij

2 жыл бұрын

@@CZghost I’m sure the people solving this could weigh the opportunity cost of such an outcome. Unfortunately there are a few brilliant people who would not be able to help themselves

Ayo I saw the notification and came here in an heartbeat. Edit: I completed 2 parts, will watch others later.

@Sumsubcom

2 жыл бұрын

Good luck!

I think the one thing I’ve always found interesting is that no one has actually made a connection between the games emergence and the emergence of a cicada brood 3301 which matched up right around the time that hurricane Sandy had occurred in 2012 about roughly 10 years ago now meaning of that cicada brood will be returning I just wish I could remember what it was about that’s kind of rude that was so absolutely horrific that this group of people needed to remind themselves about it and such a large way ….. either way lovely coverage and who knows maybe by the end of this summer I would remember what the heck it was about those dang cicadas

Love this channel. Amazing work! Keep it up!!

I’m only 44 and when I took typing in middle school, they were still teaching us to double space after a period. So the practice survived well into the late 80s.

@KnockOut101inc

2 жыл бұрын

I was born in '93 but I do have memories of being told to double space. no clue from who but thats such a specific thing I wouldn't have made up myself

@3:25, in reference to double-spacing, I will say that I was taught double-spacing in typing classes back in the late 90s. And it's still a habit I have today. So it's entirely possible the author was aged circa 25 years old at the time of authorship.

@BillyM148

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. I was taught to use double-spacing in the late 90s as well. So I've always used double-spacing. I've never in my life used a single space.

Loved this extra long, in depth video!

There's a whole other level to this puzzle as well... I would love to hear about the Liber Primus part of the latest puzzles as according to 3301, no other puzzles will be released until that is solved.

@papasscooperiaworker3649

2 жыл бұрын

@@thebaudcoder650 what? but aren't they already onto it if they're the cicada solvers?

@squid5097

2 жыл бұрын

@@thebaudcoder650 they have been trying. It’s just really hard to solve it.

@thebaudcoder650

2 жыл бұрын

@@papasscooperiaworker3649 Im saying that the info everyone has that makes these videos ends before lp no one goes into detail about the current status if the puzzle...... Trust me I'm it's hard I've been working on it since 2015

@Mark-hr9rm

Жыл бұрын

@@thebaudcoder650 its been solved..But please continue...see u on the other side ..Peace and JaYoe

@turbo111777

8 ай бұрын

@@Mark-hr9rm whats the current update on cicada? no new puzzles or unsolved atm?

31:31 I can't recall the last time I was watching a video from recommended, only to discover a "Ragnarok Online" reference.

So happy Bradley is back, no hard feelings other guy 😅

First video of your catalogue & I didn't even feel the time pass by. Hard to pull off a nearly 50 minute video AND get the sub on your first try. Great pacing man...

Need more longer videos like these. Very interesting and informative

Genuinely fascinating, I need more!

You'll be hitting 2M views on your channel soon! Congrats!

@Sumsubcom

2 жыл бұрын

We've got to get to 100k first bro!

@cobalt7678

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sumsubcom They are talking about views~

I had seen few videos on cicada , but this one is the best .

What an amazingly well put together video. Interesting and educational in equal parts - thanks for publishing this :)

@Sumsubcom

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your interest!

I've read and watched every possible bit of data I can find on on the topic, each time getting a bit more data and context. This was huge, thank you!! I can only hope there will be another life cycle of cicada3301.

yup, busted on the two-spaces-between sentences thing. My writing style formed, forged even, in the 1970's. Recently had to change a book back to single spaces between. Did so, grudgingly. I came in here for what I thought would be cicadas, is how old-school I am. But I'm intrigued enough that I'll come back tomorrow and see what's going on.

48 minutes of pure enjoyment

@Sumsubcom

2 жыл бұрын

We're glad you liked it!

@thefatfebruary1063

2 жыл бұрын

agreed

@PainTensei551

2 жыл бұрын

@@thefatfebruary1063 yes

With such a maxim, it is important to note that the judgment of what is 'impossible' is quite important in consideration to one's own intellectual prowess at understanding the universe that surrounds him and that finally, it is 'relatively' such a hubris to consider having thought out every single impossibilities out of an 'equation' no matter how mathematical the world seems to be and is seemingly down sized by such an ego. In other words, 'we must keep a place in our awareness to perceive what cannot be preconceived'

28:48 "the rapper Tupac Shakur, who was killed in 2006..."

OK that's it I love your videos. I've been binge watching yours for the last few days.

@Sumsubcom

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! You rock!

@fakesonofgod

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sumsubcom ngl never expected a reply, thanks man. Btw if you ever open a discord server hit me up please.

This video bring back so many memories for me from that era of the internet! Damn has it really been that long?

I am reminded of a line from Monty Python's cheese shop sketch. "No sir I've been deliberately wasting your time." Trolololol.

really enjoyed this one, nice content, well done!

Great video. Would lowkey love a "solve together" style video for the later puzzles!!! So good

@ixeroi

2 жыл бұрын

Low key? So you don't want anyone to know about it? Think about the words you are saying/using and what they mean. Not trying to be a dick but it makes you sound unintelligent. Think before you speak.

@vertihippo1274

2 жыл бұрын

@@ixeroi highkey you need to shut up, it's a stylistic choice that writers are more than free to use without consequence

@ixeroi

2 жыл бұрын

@@vertihippo1274 no.... no it's not stylistic but just bad grammar and a bunch of useless letters that don't make sense in that context. So.... low-key, it still makes you sound like an idiot. 😀

@vertihippo1274

2 жыл бұрын

@@ixeroi If you're really going to be so picky with grammatical conventions on the internet of all places, you should stop being a hypocrite and be just as strict on yourself. Ellipses are only used in omissions, so you have made two mistakes on them alone. Secondly, you have repeated the word "no" twice, even failing to maintain the elementary skill of proper comma placement. Thirdly, emojis have never been accepted in a formal message, nor have casual terms like "idiot". Your vocabulary and conciseness are in dire need of an upgrade overall. Best of all, both low-key and high-key are official terms in Webster's dictionary. You can't get much more official than that! So, what was that about you calling them meaningless terms, completely oblivious to the fact that some of the world's most renowned scholars have taken the time to define them? It is abundantly clear that you are the only unintelligent person here, denying an author's right to stylistic choice. Is that checkmate? (P.S. It is insanely obvious that you're liking your comments for self-gratification, and I find that pitiful.)

@gibbo9834

2 жыл бұрын

@@ixeroi bro it’s slang surely you know about that literary technique your royal majesty lord xero of English language excellence 💀💀💀

I often heard about this cicada story but I don't mind watching it again 😌

In the late 90s there was also another game that led you through a maze on the internet and each part or phase was signified by a different symbol. Like seashells, birds, a lot of things in nature. So you started out by first going to a site, on that site you have to look for a few hidden pixels that you clicked on to lead you to another site. Sometimes you had to solve riddles, sometime break a stupid encryption, or look for another hidden symbol by highlighting the whole page to find it. Sometimes the link was in the webpage source code. (Had to use firefox or a browser that let you view source codes). Anyway, it was endless but entertaining. People thought it was a bunch of MIT students that made it, others thought it was the CIA or NSA. I never finished it, but gave up after about a year screwing around with it. Oh and the others were hidden links in pictographs or steganography. I don't think we will ever know who created that vast puzzle. It was endless.

This is quality content ....sadly quality is not favoured by KZread most of the times . Why this channel has only 75k ...it deserves more

The conclusion was crazy may be we could create such things for physics,chemistry heck all kinds of subjects

@Sumsubcom

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure they do, so long as you get into MIT lol

been watching you since 10 k.Really an underrated channel.

This might be my favorite video on the cicada 3301 mystery. Very well explained

Been here since 5k subs. Amazing content as always

Maybe... another clue for the puzzle's name or origin is someting related to "Te periodical Cicadas" (eastern North America biological phenomena) and their "broods": Brood II - East Coast brood 2013, Brood III Iowan brood 2014, Brood IV Kansan brood 2015, and so on.

The stereogram at 23:51 is really interesting. Sometimes it appears as a simple cup or grail. But it can also appear as a more complex image with greater depth. Try it again...

Bradley you're the best and don't ever give up on this channel you guys.

BTW Enigma code was not solved by Alan Turing but by three Polish mathematicians: Zygalski, Rejewski and Różycki who even predicted the date of beginning of WWII but it was ignored by Polish government. They even managed to recreate Enigma and gifted one of them short before 1/09/1939 to British and French intelligence hence why they were able to support with their skills decryption of Enigma’s code during WWII. Turing has managed with his knowledge and usage of his computer to create a cryptographic sheets which were used for finding a daily codes for Enigma decryption.

This is WAY, WAY past my level of understanding, let alone my awareness of Cicada 3301. But you provided a very interesting journey into several domains. Thumbs up for that.

A brilliant idea to trick people into learning by creating a well crafted story that is engaging and thought provoking!

@IschysDynamis

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! But that wasn't my intention.

@dr.inkwell1070

2 жыл бұрын

@@IschysDynamis What was your intention?

@NightmareCourtPictures

2 жыл бұрын

drat i hate getting tricked into learning!

You're telling me the next "Sherlock holms" is going to commercialize one of the best incryption projects ever created. Nice dude, just nice, I'm sure Sir. Doyle would have loved it

Great video as always. Thanks, Bradley

I enjoy this channel immensely.

What took you so long, Brad? Am glad you're back

@Sumsubcom

2 жыл бұрын

Making this video lmao

@stanleymakafui

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sumsubcom for real, this video had a lotta time and effort put into it. I know it's early days yet but Perhaps, one episode should be about how Sumsub makes these videos.

I feel special lol, I was using Linux in 2009 to 2012. Learning how to code. Life got in the way and no longer code like that. (This was a side note and a note to the younger generation don't give up) but I digress. Enjoying the video very much, you sir have a new subscriber! Keep it up!!

lol... as I hear him ask "how many of you have access to the 11th edition of Brittanica in your bookcase?" I look over to the bookcase about 3 feet from me to see the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica looking back at me in all of it's dried, cracked leather bound glory.

WTF ! How brilliant is this channel? The storytelling and the quality of the production wow deserveres millions of subscribers

Your content is just awesome ;)

Excellent. Thank you for such great content. Subbed

Regarding the code BBC show, there is one thing that you missed out about. The first episode of the show is actually talking about a very specific species of cicada, one that only arise every 13 years and produce literally millions of individual just for the sake of avoiding other predators and guarantee that the species survive! This species of cicada is name lyristes plebejus which can be translated to: the dancing plebeian or the saltimbocca. Another highly interesting hint is that this first episode of the season about cicadas took place in Alabama in September 2011.

this is gonna be a banger.

ASCII is pronounced "asskee" ☺️ easier than spelling it out, and for real that's how all programmers say it, no worries

This video was the ultimate "it's not about the answer it's the friends we made along the way"

When I was at high school (so between the ages of 13 and 16) I remember we were all told we were going to do a test. I seem to remember it had different subjects and things like shapes, maths, and so on. We were told we would never hear how well we did, or anything further about it. I've always wondered what that test was for.

2:10 Double spaces was something people used to do on typewriters, and was required by universities back then. (I know this because this was discussed when Barely Sociable made his series on unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto, where he used this to try to figure out what Satoshi's age might be)

@BillyM148

2 жыл бұрын

I don't remember what teacher taught this or talked about it, but I was taught to use double spaces, so that's what I've always done since the late 90s. It feels weird using only one space.

@m4rt_

2 жыл бұрын

@@BillyM148 That's probably because you have built out a muscle memory, for example if you are right handed it might feel weird to write using your left hand, and it is the same if you are left handed. Another example is from programming where people often are taught to write SQL syntax in uppercase, and it feels weird when they don't write it in uppercase.

@spaghettieater_

2 жыл бұрын

Whoao you just send me again to another🐰 hole man

@MeiinUK

Жыл бұрын

It's called Chicago writing style... And normally it's in the academic writing. Maybe it's a test... Of memory... Post jabs. And ops.

This is a freaking excellent deep dive into one of the most fascinating topics ever. Thanks to the creators and host!

Intriguing. My first exposure to this. Very well presented. Thank you.

Man your editor does too good you have a great team buddy

Someone please explode this channel analytics I love this channel

Very interesting video Bradley, I think you were better in American pie though 😄

When I took typing courses in Canada in the mid 80s we were taught to use a double space following a period.