Enter the inner circle. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town.

In March 30, 2015, a user that named itself Unfavorable Semicircle joined YouTube.

For five days, the YouTube channel sat untouched until April 5th when the user uploaded their

first video. Though the video has since been deleted, the four second upload titled

The Sagittarius Emoji 230-511 was pretty bizarre. It had no audio and contained just one

static brown color field with what looks like a tiny blurred darker dot or hole in the middle

upper right of the image. The user posted a staggering 1247 more videos that day, some starting

with the Sagittarius Emoji, some numbered, some with both. They all seemed pretty similar to

the first, or generally short in length, blurry and without any descriptions. Sometimes the videos

were silent, others had strange distorted audio. Today we're talking about an internet mystery.

One that, spoiler alert, actually gets solved. It's the mystery of the Unfavorable Semicircle

YouTube channel, and it's a media one. From April 5th to the 21st after the initial March 30th post,

the videos on the Unfavorable Semicircle channel started to gain attention. Both the volume of

uploads and the nature of the videos were puzzling, almost provocative. A small community on Reddit

started an unfavorable circle subreddit to investigate the videos on the channel. According to

Redditers, the first video to the ones on April 21st can note the first quote, season of the

YouTube channel's uploads, characterized by far less talking, or really any audio than the

seasons to come. The time between April 21st to May 26th, Redditers called the second season,

with videos uploaded a lot like the former, except for much more prominent use of distorted

background voices, speaking either in ones or zeros. This voice, the speaker, similar in every

video, would come to be known as the unknown voice. From the 26th to June 12th, we get a season

characterized by microphone fumbling and noises that feel, along with the unknown voice,

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