27: Cicada 3301 | Red Thread

Red Thread

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🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Get your Stalker Shadow of the Zone tickets now: https://www.x1entertainment.com/stalkertour Get Plague Seeker now: https://www.badegg.co Welcome to The Red Thread, a podcast series where three friends (Charlie, Isaiah and Jackson) investigate the peculiar space just beyond reality. Cryptids, Conspiracies, Cults and more are on the investigation board and nothing is off limits. What will they discover? There's only one way to find out... Shout out to Elementia Studios 2: https://www.youtube.com/@UCnw3AW2CMXj_nwoFEaJ2C3w Support the show, leave a rating and remember to subscribe: Listen on Audio ➡️ https://linktr.ee/redthreadshow Listen to other Our Other Shows ➡️ https://linktr.ee/theofficialnetwork Support us on Patreon ➡️ https://www.patreon.com/theofficialpodcast This is Episode #27, where we discuss Cicada 3301. Originally recorded 09/07/24. Show Notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yqNL3SY0DCU4bp1z4uozGZY6nZNcJ1xv/view?usp=sharing Hosts: Charlie - twitter.com/moistcr1tikal Isaiah - twitter.com/wendigoon8 Jackson - twitter.com/zealotonpc Writer/Producer: Jackson Clarke Music/Editing by: https://linktr.ee/zayaLT Thumbnail: https://www.instagram.com/nook_eilyk/ Designer: http://www.jr-design-co.com/ Produced under The Official Podcast Network Contact (business only): [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.2	HALO Combat Evolved, one of the best first-person shooters, nay, one of the best
0:57.7	video games of all time. In the lead up to the launch, fans online came
1:01.7	across a seemingly innocuous website reference on the
1:04.6	developer's website. I love bees.com. The site was apparently dedicated to beekeeping
1:11.0	but people noticed the site itself was corrupted, displaying cryptic messages and mysterious countdowns instead of the be related content the URL had promised.
1:19.6	What would entail was a fascinating series of puzzles and wild goose chases that would follow through
1:24.4	the real world through hidden GPS codes.
1:27.2	Not only was the HALO community immediately invested in this evolving puzzle and story, it would
1:32.2	also catch the attention of those outside the gaming
1:34.4	community itself, quickly becoming one of the most talked about cultural events at the time.
1:39.2	I myself was too young when I love Bees hit the scene, but as a halo fan and someone who frequently
1:43.8	used the Bungee.net forums when I was growing up I saw people talking about it after some years
1:48.4	had passed. It was one of the first examples of an ARG, an alternative reality game that combined online clues and real world
1:56.1	puzzles to create a mystery for the audience to solve.
1:59.2	In the I Love B's case, it was essentially just a marketing drive to push attention to the upcoming
2:03.6	HALO2 launch but some years later in 2012 a similar event took place beginning on a
2:09.1	website we all know and love 4chan. Their users would find an image posted by an anonymous
2:14.4	user inviting highly intelligent individuals to solve a puzzle. What would
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