Cicada 3301 4chan thread archive9/4/2023 ![]() But after just one month, the hunt was over the mysterious group, now nicknamed Cicada by its followers, announced they had found their chosen few. It became, for some, a temporary obsession. The trail seemed almost mystical, full of references to Enlightenment, the Holy Grail, cryptic messages such as “the key has always been in front of your eyes” (a sentence only marginally less annoying than, “It’ll be in the last place you look”). At one point solvers came across a list of coordinates and had to travel to one of five different countries – from South Korea to Poland – to retrieve their next clue: a poster with an image of an insect, the cicada, and a QR code leading to a new challenge. Soon he would be as hooked as anyone.īeginning with an image hidden in the original post, 3301 led its followers through a series of puzzles involving cryptography, steganography, book codes, Caesar ciphers, and a veritable merry dance of arcane knowledge.Ĭlues progressed in a complicated chain that seemed to have been in place long before the first message even dropped. ![]() “I looked at it and said, ‘That looks dumb, I’m out,’” says one Canadian user, known as Nox Populi. Was it a marketing tactic? A recruitment scheme for some tech firm? An elaborate joke? The denizens of 4chan didn’t know what to make of it. ![]() Signed “3301”, it began: “We are looking for highly intelligent individuals. On 4 th January 2012, a message on the infamous imageboard 4chan set a small corner of the internet ablaze. ![]()
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