This guy thinks he's so smart that nobody will be able to solve his puzzle. I have neither the time nor the skill, but I bet one of you does. (please boost) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CelFQnpzh0U
@ambulocetus Is this your vid? Just curious.
@requiem Nope it's not me. I'd just like to see somebody solve it, but I don't have the skill with puzzles.
@ambulocetus I've been working on it between classes, I'll let you know when I've got something coherent!
So far: Noticed braille flash on the screen, went frame by frame to transcribe it, but need to translate it (hard to tell if letters or numbers were intended, trial and error), also need to transcribe the number/letter code towards the end of the video.
Update for the code, in the process of solving:
@requiem I knew you would get farther than I did. I didn't even notice the Braille.
This is the video where he announced his challenge. I don't think there's any clues there, but it might have an insight or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTEKwwAUyTs
Code spoilers:
@requiem Wow, I knew it would be tricky, but that's crazy. I noticed the videos you found have 20 or so views, so there are others working on this too. You got way farther than I ever could. Thanks.
Code spoilers:
@ambulocetus Oh, I see, that's interesting! They seem really excited about this, it's good to see.
Since I sent that update, I've done a little more with the help of friends. The image of bushes turned out to be a link in binary, to another youtube video, which had morse code on the audio and a QR code on the video. The QR code led to an image of symbols and numbers on a 5x5 grid, and the morse code is a weird string of numbers/letters we're not really sure what to do with yet. The alphanumeric code on the back of the paper that the channel owner reads out loud turned out to be hexadecimal bytes, which translated to another youtube video, where there's a video track of a "snaking" string of letters in alternating red and green, and a five minute long voiceover of a computer voice reading out letters.
I was, at first, really frustrated by the length of the video, but now that I know it's a fan of a youtube channel specifically devoted to codes and other "rogueish" things, that makes significantly more sense. They probably wanted to make it tedious on purpose to waste more time.
Here are the other two videos we uncovered, if you're curious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWlYuAj8d1M&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN6EpO1ITBM&feature=youtu.be
Truthfully not sure if I'll do more, transcribing from the five minute video is extremely tedious, but it was really fun to go through this much. Thanks for sharing!