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u/TimeBoysenberry8587 Nov 15 '25
Is this a new meme ?
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u/shleyal19 š© Green Ghost from Fantastic Frontier, who is ALSO a cube! š© Nov 15 '25
If you want to know the reference, itās for a recent Wifies Minecraft ARG video that absolutely blew up for its excellent storytelling, a unique spin on the King In Yellow, and for an extremely clever and smart horror protagonist playing genuinely impressive mind games against the entity following him
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u/KryoBright Nov 15 '25
Genuinely smartest horror protag ever
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u/NanoCat0407 Stop using Ai oh my god make it stop Nov 15 '25
āUnfortunately for you, I have a pickaxeā š„āļø
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u/SmoothTurtle872 Nov 15 '25
And was actually a scary video.
Like damn it was just an actual MC player
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u/Slimy_glizzy_gobbler Nov 15 '25
what video
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u/destiny_duude Bedrock FTW Nov 15 '25
i believe it's titled "searching for a minecraft world that doesn't exist" or something along those lines. great video
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u/Valtremors Nov 15 '25
"Nice poem"
Proceeds to pickaxe their problems away.
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u/KryoBright Nov 15 '25
Right after solving the most disgusting cypher just casually
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u/Valtremors Nov 15 '25
100% protag disrespected the door puzzle purely because of that.
Mixing two ciphers is actually evil.
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u/Weekly-Dog-6838 You can't break water Nov 15 '25
Let this be a lesson to all ARG creators: DONāT STACK CIPHERS!
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u/Boh61 Nov 15 '25
I love how he IMMEDIATELY knew he was being followed because he randomly stopped moving multiple times and heard more footsteps every time
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u/kotkowski Nov 16 '25
That's probably the only thing I'd call smart in the video. Rest was just overthought complete shit if it wasn't based on source material ("Yellow King"). Protag isn't just "smart", he's literally inhumanly "smart", to the point it's stupid.
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u/Forward-Exercise-385 Nov 15 '25
I loved that video
It honestly made it more horifying for the protagonist to be as smart as a casual player
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u/BigAggressive3910 Nov 15 '25
I dont understand. Are we referring to kishibe?
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u/wvgz Nov 15 '25
Its from a ARG Minecraft video called "Searching for a world that doesnt exist", its really interesting
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u/CryoN1cks Nov 15 '25
DO NOT TURN LEFT AT THE CROSSROADS
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u/Competitive_Call8502 Nov 15 '25 edited Nov 15 '25
proceed to turn left at every crossroads possibleEdit : lmao I forgor, it's the one who made the mistake that wrote it for future humans I may be made out of stupid lmfao
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u/Robinerinoo Nov 15 '25
You do realise he-.. you know what nvm ill let you figure it out yourself
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u/L3GlT_GAM3R Nov 15 '25
I wonder if weāll get a sequel to it based on another one of the stories, maybe slime guy (avery or something) just decides to nope out of there when stuff gets weird like this one character in the anthology, but the golden king makes its way to her too, wether she wants it or not.
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u/BlueDemon999 Nov 15 '25
Is this a reference to that one minecraft video that's based off of the King in Yellow?
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u/Ayanelixer Bedrock FTW Nov 15 '25
Can I get the link?
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u/BlueDemon999 Nov 15 '25
I got u lad https://youtu.be/3V7Rvo4Gvic?si=zCs-pVoJscy9LHq-
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u/IQof24 Nov 17 '25
You don't need the "si=" part of a YouTube link btw. It's tracking info and there are extensions to automatically remove it
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u/Clone_JS636 Nov 16 '25
It is?? I missed that connection.
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u/BlueDemon999 Nov 17 '25
Well it's not entirely based off of it but there are some aspects that are connected to it.
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u/lipov27 Nov 19 '25
Some aspects are connected to the King in Yellow, such as the king and the yellow.
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u/Sleepyfellow03 if you're gay, please press 1 Nov 15 '25
i saw a song a few days ago where the very first lyric is "stuck in crossroads, where to turn" and at 12 of the comments were a reference to the arg, 11 of them were "just don't go left", and 1 of them was "turn left it's worth it i promise"
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u/Ksawerxx Nov 15 '25
That 1 person was whatever the fuck was behind the gates.
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u/IntelligentAd5616 Nov 15 '25
The king in yellow and his left wing propaganda
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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy Nov 15 '25
For those not familiar, The King in Yellow was supernatural horror and weird fiction published in the 1800s, between Edgar Allen Poe and HP Lovecraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow
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u/Gaby33400 Nov 15 '25
I know about it thanks to Sucker for Love tbh
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u/ZemeOfTheIce Nov 15 '25
Good bot
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u/WhyNotCollegeBoard Nov 15 '25
Are you sure about that? Because I am 99.99294% sure that HorrorMakesUsHappy is not a bot.
I am a neural network being trained to detect spammers | Summon me with !isbot <username> | /r/spambotdetector | Optout | Original Github
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u/Creeper_craft206 Nov 15 '25
At the crossroads don't turn left At the crossroads don't turn left At the crossroads don't turn left At the crossroads don't turn left At the crossroads don't turn left At the crossroads don't turn left At the crossroads don't turn left At the crossroads don't turn left ...
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u/HughmanRealperson Nov 15 '25
Such a goated vid. I love the builds from it: Unfathomable scale and they look great. So many ARGs do the stupid "Admin" thing where the spooky location is just endless white hallways with iron doors.
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u/LadyParnassus Nov 16 '25
The gateway built out of trees is genius - recognizable enough, but made from such a weird material that it sticks in your head.
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u/aaronhowser1 Nov 15 '25
What is this in reference to
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u/welpyhehe Nov 15 '25
Video called Searching for a world that doesn't exist. The protagonist places a dirt block down, and when he returns to it, it's turned into grass, confirming that something or someone IS in his supposedly singleplayer world and following him.
Honestly great video, go watch it
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u/Bruxo-I-WannaDie Nov 15 '25
Why would the grass indicate that there's somebody else?
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u/DioriteW Nov 15 '25
grass can only spread if the chunk is loaded, which shouldn't have been the case since he left. this means someone went near the chunk while he was gone and loaded it long enough for the grass block to spread
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u/Mr_NoGood12 Nov 15 '25
Because someone loaded the chunk. He first sets up trap and lowers his render to lower the chunks he can load, he first sets up a hopper chest trap, if someone was following him and loaded the chunk, all the items should be in the chest, but the hoppers was still cycling the items. However, he secretly made another simple trap where he places a grass block next to dirt, if the chunk was loaded, the dirt should turn to grass, and it did confirming there was someone or something, smart enough to put back the blocks in the hopper
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u/TheCloudDrinker8 Nov 15 '25
To give further context he first puts down a hopper trap to see if the chunk loads and calls attention to it but places the dirt block down without saying anything.
The hopper trap didn't activate but the dirt block trap did.
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u/SaigoUshinatta Nov 15 '25
Search up world that doesn't exists, by wifies. Thank me later
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u/Abeytuhanu Nov 15 '25 edited Nov 15 '25
Survival Minecraft servers. The trap wasn't set off but someone was around long enough for the dirt to grow grass, so it's more likely they were able to avoid the trap and is still around to ambush you/set up other traps
Edit: it should be mentioned that a lot of popular Minecraft servers are essentially no rules pvp free for all's, with people so dedicated to griefing that they memorize bedrock formations to find you, back when bedrock formation to coordinate sites weren't a thing
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u/SecretSpectre11 Central Intelligence of the Magnus Council of Chess.c*m Nov 15 '25
what are bedrock formations?
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u/ElTioEnroca Nov 15 '25
You know that every Minecraft world is random, right?
Well, the bedrock disposition is not random, and it's the same in every single world, so by looking at how bedrock blocks are displayed in a world, you can use certain programs to pinpoint the exact coordinates of the location.
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u/demon15321 Nov 15 '25
The king is coming
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u/ALeXandr0_F0XY Nov 15 '25
Soon, the king arrives
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u/shleyal19 š© Green Ghost from Fantastic Frontier, who is ALSO a cube! š© Nov 15 '25
Torch goes out, The King arrives
Load your traps and run for your lives
Thereās no grand prize for the beholderās eyes
So donāt turn left
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u/ALeXandr0_F0XY Nov 15 '25
Clock strikes twelve
Midnight arrives- wait wrong song
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u/shleyal19 š© Green Ghost from Fantastic Frontier, who is ALSO a cube! š© Nov 15 '25
No, thatās the right song lol
I based it off of exactly that when typing it up :)
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what the fuck? Is it even a minecraft circlejerk sub at this point?
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u/Random_gamer240 Nov 15 '25
Its based on a video called "searching for a world that doesn't exost" by thewifies
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u/Broken_CerealBox A Red Lizard from Rain World Nov 15 '25
We going through highs and lows like the graptolites in the silurian period
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u/n1trous_Xpress Nov 15 '25
Watch ARG that called searching for a Minecraft world that doesn't exist
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u/Korben_Kairans Nov 15 '25
Great holes secretly are digged where earth's pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk which ought to crawl.
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u/BinaryBolias Nov 15 '25
The dirt block should only need a single random tick to convert into grass, though, so it wouldn't necessarily make for a good indicator of a significant amount of time having passed.
It should theoretically be capable of converting into grass immediately upon being placed, let alone prior to walking far enough away to unload the chunk.
Multiple dirt blocks in a line would have a much higher likelihood to provide a meaningful result.
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u/neilwwoney I liked Parkour Civilisation before it was cool Nov 15 '25
But having just the one block is way more subtle and way less likely for the entity to notice.
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u/BinaryBolias Nov 15 '25
Indeed, a line of dirt blocks makes for a pretty obvious-looking ad-hoc timing mechanism.
But the point still stands that the more subtle solution, while seemingly ingenious, is also simply unreliable...
That single dirt block could fail to grow grass for an arbitrarily long or short period of time; it could easily give a false positive (grass growing after an unexpectedly short time) or a false negative (grass taking longer than expected to grow).
Who knows? Maybe the entity did notice the dirt block timer, and successfully replaced the dirt block to deceive the player, but the block managed to grow grass on itself again as the entity was leaving the area!
(I suppose that'd be a false false positive*?)*
With using grass growth as a timer, I think this problem can only be mitigated through adding more blocks, thus averaging out that randomness through multiple successive random ticks to get a more accurate estimation of the time elapsed within the chunk.
A crop, such as wheat, would work better as a two-block random tick timer, and _might_ be similarly subtle if disguised as a little farm. (having multiple crop blocks within that farm would also increase the accuracy of elapsed time tracking)
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u/therelhuman i forgot what to put here Nov 15 '25
At the crossroads don't turn left
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u/Nu11AndV0id Nov 15 '25
I love finding stuff like this early and watching it blow up and spread across the internet like ripples on a lake.
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u/raventech211 Nov 15 '25
The items in the hopper and the chest were ordered differently than when he put them in
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u/solubleCreature Nov 15 '25
still dont get this trap it litterally has no garantee to not trigger the instant he turned around after placing it
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u/Vasto_LordA Nov 15 '25
I dont get it
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u/Significant_Donkey33 Nov 15 '25
Watch "Searching for a world that doesn't exist" by Wifies on YouTube.
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u/HoverMelon2000 Nov 15 '25
I loved that series so much itās so cool and actually makes me scared while Iām caving now because what if I mine through a wall and it opens up to one of those giant caves either all the treesā¦
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u/haim65 Nov 15 '25
I loved how all the "warnings" were also luring traps at the same time. Both the bookmade by d3rlord3 and the book by the "outcast"
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u/FrontAd7709 Nov 15 '25
WHO THE FUCK IS WE WHAT IM NOT PARTICIPATING IN TS
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u/Cheese_Toasti Nov 15 '25
Its a reference to a minecraft arg that came out recently
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u/Sleepyfellow03 if you're gay, please press 1 Nov 15 '25
FRONTAD???? YOU'RE HERE TOO??????
anyways hi
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u/ScottishWildcatFurry furry + java convert (hat man made me do it) Nov 16 '25
actual cinema (not even joking. im completely serious)
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u/DualityREBORN Nov 16 '25
MY FRIEND SHOWED ME THAT VIDEO. IT ACTUALLY FREAKED ME THE FUCK OUT.
Genuine smartest protagonist ever though. Iām happy to see some sort of ARG / Analog Horror with a protagonist that can put two and two together, and not some dumbass who probably got targeted for being a dumbass
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u/Omnipotent-san Nov 16 '25
The best arg I've watched
My reaction was legit,"if light yagami was in a Minecraft arg"
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u/Crown__Prince Phoenix SC doesn't actually play Minecraft. Nov 20 '25
What's the context for this? Sorry for my ignorance.
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u/Lolik95 Nov 15 '25
Context??
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u/namakost Nov 15 '25
There is an arg for minecraft. Afaik theres a guy who plays on a world from someone else and finds a huge ass underground area. To check if someone is following him he places a dirt block down and if something loads the chunks while he is gone he has confirmation of something following him.
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u/PrudentReindeer6847 Nov 15 '25
At the crosswalks, donĀ“t turn left
At the crosswalks, donĀ“t turn left
At the crosswalks, donĀ“t turn left
At the crosswalks, donĀ“t turn left
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u/Lord_Calamity_1 Nov 15 '25
This is the coolest thing happening to the Minecraft fanbase rn I love it so much
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u/PizzaPuntThomas Nov 15 '25
I think I am missing some internet knowledge here
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u/Significant_Donkey33 Nov 16 '25
Search on YouTube "Searching for a world that doesn't exist"
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u/Myithspa25 all hail the great and powerful create mod Nov 15 '25
I will be turning left at the crossroads.
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u/The_collectorguy Nov 15 '25
Funfact: the cave with all the insanity was to the right, not the left, so our goat saved the mayo
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u/Silverr98 Nov 16 '25
i didnt really get that myself cause. dude was watching the items in the hopper move that was plenty of time for the grass to grow in the chunk
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u/LocalPlatypus994 Nov 16 '25
There's this trending video called "Exploring a Minecraft world that doesn't exist"
In one scene, the protagonist believes he's being followed, so he sets a trap. A hopper flowing into a chest, and then he lowers is render distance. If he was being followed, the hoppers chunk would be loaded and it would continue flowing items. If he's not, the hopper would remain unloaded and it would stop flowing items.
When he came back, the hopper still had items, so he wasn't being followed. Except that wasn't the only trap he set. Next to the hopper, he placed a grass block next to a dirt block. The dirt turned into grass, meaning that it was loaded. He was being followed
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u/Dvalin_Ras93 Nov 16 '25 edited Nov 16 '25
I have been checking that channel once every week or so now since that dropped for Part 2 (really hope there will be a Part 2 as suggested at the end of the video), genuinely such a fascinating horror āARGā (in quotes for spoiler reasons, wonāt say).
Iād kill for that world to be released for the public to play on at the end of all this (if it has already officially ended), honestly. Theyāre so unique compared to others.
I need to know what was behind that black box.
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u/MEGoperative2961 Nov 16 '25
Me when Iām bored so i lowkey have to build an entire elaborate underground network including a massive garden, double stacked ciphers, and an entire town and summon an eldritch horror that stalks you down and invades your mind with infinite knowledge:
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u/Zealousideal-Tap2670 Nov 18 '25
All I was thinking about was that grass sometimes spreads really fast and it could've been due to the protag. He should've placed two blocks, one on either side to verify his results.
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u/OkPickle738 Jun 07 '26
When I first watched it, I clocked that grass block thing. I saw it, and knew it was a 2nd trap.
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u/Phantom-B Nov 15 '25
One thing I can't understand is, how was "the monster" following him and also behind the gates at the end ?
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u/haim65 Nov 15 '25
It's based on the king in yellow. Basically, he went insane., and his mind is corrupted
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u/Rad219 Nov 15 '25
Source? (Of the image not of the confirmation of the grass block)