@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!