Posted on 02/25/2016 7:29:12 AM PST by BenLurkin
Called Unfavorable Semicircle, it joined the video-sharing website on March 30, 2015, and began uploading videos on April 4, 2015. So far, there are more than 84,000.
The videos are the sort of thing, in isolation, that no one would look at twice. They seem like test videos of some sort. They show abstract, pixelated images, some not unlike a TV test screen. Others are just a single dot in a field of brown. Some are completely silent. Others feature distorted sounds.
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Because the videos are so strange, some believe that Unfavorable Semicircle is a testing channel, not dissimilar to Webdriver Torso , a channel set up by Google to test YouTube's performance.
More-interesting theories suggest it is an espionage-related numbers station or has something to do with astronomy or aliens because the symbol that precedes most of the video titles represents Sagittarius. Other images could be constellations. This background, for example, resembles Orion.
There's also the possibility that, like other Internet mysteries such as Cicada 3301 and the Pronunciation Book YouTube channel, Unfavorable Semicircle is an alternate reality game waiting for someone to solve it. Perhaps one needs to shuffle the YouTube thumbnails into the right pattern or perform spectrographic analysis of the audio to construct an image.
The number and frequency of the videos could suggest that they're simply small parts of a much larger file, requiring someone to put the pieces together.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...
Or maybe it’s frat boys pulling our leg....
Where’s Olivia when you need her? Or even Fauxlivia.
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