drpepperphd:

surreal: i started seeing screenshots of tumblr users receiving messages from a blog called “sexygirlmax2019” this is, of course, standard on tumblr, to receive porn bot messages they were exceptionally weird

“Hey peebrain -you teleport?”

“Hi pea for brains…. can you teleport?” checking the timestamps, all of sexygirlmax2019’s posts have been made today

they’re formatted impeccably like bot messages and posts

but they’re just a little off this isn’t a bot

this is a human controlling a blog acting like a bot

all of the links?? aren’t porn links

mysterious bit.ly links to this site:

https://max2019.neocities.org/

if you “click here to instantly transport” you get taken to

> /seraphim.html

if you click it again

> /cherubim.html

again

> /thrones.html

…which returns a “Page Not Found” error Porn Bot ARG

looking at the neocities summary it seems like they’re adding more content as of last night–presumably they’re shifting existing pages over to their new navigational system, which has directories /firstsphere/, /secondsphere/, and /thirdsphere/; the latter two are filled in with the corresponding triplets of angels according to the Christian angelogical hierarchy (e.g., /thirdsphere/principalities.html). none of the /firstsphere/ pages have been created, presumably because they’re just going to move the existing pages over; everything else has been created but not edited or implemented.

also, while i was poking around their views jumped from just over 5,000 to almost 6,000, though it’s stayed static for the last ten minutes or so. maybe neocities just doesn’t update the counter that quickly.

Oh, and also–the source code doesn’t have anything hidden across the entire site other than this on the main page:



<!--Teleportation plan-->

everything else is just directly visible on the pages. the pages that are initialized but not edited just have the default neocities new page information. the directories give “forbidden” errors when accessed, which means they exist; there’s a different error when it just literally doesn’t exist.



the associated subreddit links the tumblr and then explains that H.U.R.L. is a reference to a Doom parody, and muses on the religious connotations of the game publisher’s other title, Ashes to Ashes. presumably that ties in to the angels of the neocities page.

The Wikipedia page for HURL hasn’t been touched recently, and Ashes to Ashes is too small for a page of its own as far as I can tell.

e: apparently the subreddit is not by the person running the arg but just a fan. someone else started trying to track down the images. they were calling the website “terribly coded” which…isn’t really true? empty <p> tags are how you space paragraphs…



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