![]() It sounds like something that a person who’s not particularly fluent with the language would write, and it seemed highly unlikely that someone who’d gone through the effort of starting this scavenging hunt would be unfamiliar with the world’s most used language. Was it the duck? Or maybe something else? A few users pointed out that the wording was kind of peculiar – “Looks like you can’t guess how to get the message out” doesn’t really sound very good in English. They scrutinized everything, trying to decide if they were really wrong, or if there was some kind of hidden clue in there that they were missing. It was obvious at this point that 4chan, as well as several other places on the Internet, was starting to get obsessed with this enigma. Looks like they had made a wrong turn somewhere along the way… Or had they? Some users took the message at face value, assuming that they’d messed up and had missed the message, but others continued to dig deeper. As a result, they got a url leading to yet another image. Tiberius Claudius Caesar was the 4th Roman Emperor, so they tried shifting each letter 4 letters back. Try doing it yourself, see if you can solve it! Once 4channers knew what they were doing, all they had to do was find the right key. Doing this for each letter of the word will encrypt it. For example, if you have the code qrnguaqrzragvn and the key 13, you’re supposed to shift each letter 13 times – q would go through r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z, a, b, c and finally d 13 letters. The clue was in the name – Caesar pointed to the Caesarian cipher, a very simple (and very outdated, due to modern computers’ processing power) encryption technique in which you shift each letter a few letters forward and backwards in order to decode the text. Just like before, the solution was extremely simple if you knew where to look. Having found their first lead, the users of 4chan began to quickly work on it in order to decipher it. Those additional lines of text read” TIBERIVS CLAVDIVS CAESAR says “lxxt>33m2mqkyv2gsq3q=w]O2ntk”Īnd that’s when everyone knew that there was more to this mystery than they had assumed. Doing so will reveal a string of letters and numbers, which comprise the code that makes the image what it is… alongside a little something extra. You didn’t need complex programs to take the image apart piece by piece – all you had to do was open it with a simple word editor, such as Wordpad, which comes pre-installed on every Windows computer. While the picture itself didn’t contain anything out of the ordinary, an image file is more than what it is on the surface, and in this case the solution was extremely obvious if you knew where to look. 4channers (who affectionately call each other “fags”) were absolutely sure that there would be nothing out of the ordinary in the image, but decided to check anyway. Initially, many were sceptical of the image, assuming that it was merely there to give birth to conspiracy theories and a fruitless scavenger hunt meant to confuse everyone. I can go on and on about the craziest things that 4chan has done, but my point is that it’s a place that’s no stranger to friendly pranks and shenanigans. b/ is by far the most popular forum where anything can happen – one minute the users are talking about trivial stuff, the next they’re rigging an online contest where the school with the most votes would win a concert by Taylor Swift so that it was won by a school for the deaf. ![]() On Jaunary 4th, 2012, the image above was posted on 4chan’s Random forum, also known as /b/. Due to its anonymous nature, though, you can never tell who is what, but chances are if you need someone for anything 4chan is the place where you can find them. This fast-paced form of anonymous communication quickly gave birth to a rather peculiar community populated by all kinds of people – average teens looking for a good laugh, seasoned hackers, university professors and everything and anything in between. Unlike other online forums, which require a registration and store all (or at least most) threads for further reference, 4chan is completely anonymous, with no registration required to post (though users can input a username if they’d like), and only a certain set of threads in each forum are allowed to exist, with every new thread automatically causing the least popular one at that time to be deleted permanently. Note: Some of the puzzle-specific information in this article, such as specific images and keys, have been altered slightly, but their overall meaning has been preserved and the explanations on their solutions accurately represent the way they were originally solvedĤchan is an incredibly popular online community founded in 2003 by Christopher Poole, who was only 15 years own when he created it.
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