Mysterious Videos

On late April 9th / early April 10th of 2007, a user at ETS by the name of ZerosAndOnes posted of finding three videos on Yearzero.nin.com which were apparently almost instantaneously removed. They were later delivered to another user via request who put them up on YouTube and Sendspace, though they mysteriously disappeared from YouTube only a short twenty minutes later. After a myriad of discussion on the validity of the videos, the general consensus being that they were in fact "real YZ videos", the ETS moderator User:ItsJustDave pronounced that they were fake and locked the topic. It is still unsure exactly who made them, where they came from and if they do in fact represent an official piece of the Year Zero ARG.

Possible Validity?

The videos themselves contain a number of distortions that are similar and almost exact in places to the other "official" YZ videos that have been seen up as well as showing scenes directly related to the ARG itself that seem to be almost entirely within the canon. The computer generation also seems to be well done, not to the point of a motion picture but enough to be able to see the amount of time that was taken on it.

Possible Hoax?

The distortions and pictures in the videos could have all been created/reconstructed rather easily by someone skilled at video/picture manipulation and someone who was keeping tabs on the ARG would have known most of the ins and outs of the canon as the videos only capture things that we were already aware of aside from some strange numbers and dates. The distortions and symbols in the videos are also already pre-existing and could have possibly been lifted from the sites themselves. The trackers also show that no changes were made to [[1]] at the time they allegidly appeared.

A Note From The Admin

The videos are fake. --Tony 14:53, 11 April 2007 (PDT)

Description

The three videos are fairly short clips, showing various scenes out of the Year Zero world. The first is a video of someone searching over a website, filming a video similar to those on [www.youtube.com|YouTube] that appears to be a slideshow of various sightings of The Presence. The second is closed circuit camera footage of various locations in Hollywood at the moment of the ricen bombings during the Acadamy awards. The third is camcorder footage of what appears to be an incoming missile heading in low from over the Pacific Ocean towards the coast of California which cuts just as the missile passes over. Each video ends with a distorted crackle and a flash of a red button displaying the word "UPLOAD?".