0:00.0	Enter the inner circle. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town.
0:19.6	In March 30, 2015, a user that named itself Unfavorable Semicircle joined YouTube.
0:25.7	For five days, the YouTube channel sat untouched until April 5th when the user uploaded their
0:31.0	first video. Though the video has since been deleted, the four second upload titled
0:36.5	The Sagittarius Emoji 230-511 was pretty bizarre. It had no audio and contained just one
0:44.6	static brown color field with what looks like a tiny blurred darker dot or hole in the middle
0:51.4	upper right of the image. The user posted a staggering 1247 more videos that day, some starting
0:59.4	with the Sagittarius Emoji, some numbered, some with both. They all seemed pretty similar to
1:05.1	the first, or generally short in length, blurry and without any descriptions. Sometimes the videos
1:11.4	were silent, others had strange distorted audio. Today we're talking about an internet mystery.
1:17.8	One that, spoiler alert, actually gets solved. It's the mystery of the Unfavorable Semicircle
1:24.1	YouTube channel, and it's a media one. From April 5th to the 21st after the initial March 30th post,
1:30.6	the videos on the Unfavorable Semicircle channel started to gain attention. Both the volume of
1:35.7	uploads and the nature of the videos were puzzling, almost provocative. A small community on Reddit
1:40.8	started an unfavorable circle subreddit to investigate the videos on the channel. According to
1:45.7	Redditers, the first video to the ones on April 21st can note the first quote, season of the
1:51.5	YouTube channel's uploads, characterized by far less talking, or really any audio than the
1:57.2	seasons to come. The time between April 21st to May 26th, Redditers called the second season,
2:03.7	with videos uploaded a lot like the former, except for much more prominent use of distorted
2:08.9	background voices, speaking either in ones or zeros. This voice, the speaker, similar in every
2:15.7	video, would come to be known as the unknown voice. From the 26th to June 12th, we get a season
2:21.5	characterized by microphone fumbling and noises that feel, along with the unknown voice,
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