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"Silence, you ugly bag of mostly water." Never thought Dresspants Robotman can be that brash ever since "This lunatic just literally set birds on fire."

RIP to all the people's attention that got lost to the blinking decal on the back of their laptop

Wow this was filmed in July...they really got a good backlog going

Jason: "You know how I like getting sharp things in the mail" Me: "... You mean, paper?"

"0 followers, so I know its you." Damn, didn't know this episode was a roast.

If you want to encode even more info in a tweet and make it completely hidden to the human eye, here's a hint: Did you know that there are multiple Unicode characters for space that all look identical? Also completely invisible characters like the "zero-width joiner" exist. Many common letter characters also have identical twins used in math or other scriptures. Happy encoding! ;)

Just got my ScamStuff Mystery Box. I had totally forgotten I ordered it, until I saw a package from Brian Brushwood in Texas. No bodily fluids leaking from it, no smell of ammonia or flammable material, hell Brian hadn't even caught the box on fire. Holy crap, the box was loaded. Magic. Modern Rogue schwag. Survival tools. Pranking materials galore. The stickers had me cracking up and the "Pruno Vineyards" item was a pure masterpiece.

My thoughts on all this, as if anyone cares: It's pretty obvious that there's something hidden in there, because the speech patterns are so weird. Lots of short, choppy sentences. And the spaces before the punctuation also stand out, because nobody does that. Brian's suggestion of one space or two spaces after the period is good, but of course there's the problem of the last period - Twitter trims spaces off the end of the tweet. So now you need ANOTHER sentence. (But you can still keep it at 8, because all of the letters you need for English fit in 7 bits so that first digit is always zero anyway.) Another suggestion is to just use ! and . as 1 and 0. Jason's already using them interchangeably, and it appears a lot more natural than the space thing. Another commenter mentioned Morse Code, in a different context, but it provides the answer for the "lots of short choppy sentences" problem: the average length of a character in Morse Code is something like 2-3 elements, rather than the 7 or 8 of ASCII, and the lengths are all different so that "hey, every one of these tweets has exactly 8 sentences" revelation doesn't happen. Normally it's hard to make a binary encoding of Morse, because it needs a third symbol to represent the gap between characters, but Twitter solves that by putting each character in a different tweet. Alternate suggestions, should you want fewer elements but are afraid Morse might be too obvious: Braille or Baudot. Both make use of mode shift characters so they can fit most common symbols into 5 (Baudot) or 6 (Braille) bits. And, as a bonus, there are probably not quite so many websites that'll translate Baudot. One other thought about Braille: technically, it's a 6-bit code, but if you use some sort of previously agreed-upon encoding where the punctuation marks represent, say, the 1-4-2-5-3-6 dots in that order, you can drop a couple of elements for most alphabetic characters, as most of the alphabet doesn't use dot 6, and almost half of the alphabet also doesn't use dot 3. (But, sadly, your shift characters are going to be wordy.) On another tack altogether: Assuming you have access to a decent thesaurus, and you're not concerned about sounding like someone who abuses a thesaurus, you can increase your encoding density to a bit per word by ensuring that the low-order bit of the first letter of each word encodes the bit for that word. This runs into problems when what you're writing needs a different letter and there aren't any reasonable synonyms, so you might need some editing tricks. Or maybe typos if you're desperate. And people will notice that you seem to use "a/an" (=1) and "the" (=0) all willy-nilly, but that's the price of denser encoding.

There's gotta be hidden messages in this video isn't there.

Brian: "I would not have thought of that." me: "It wouldn't be that obvious, would it?" *starts typing in numbers to a binary decoder*

Ask James May about people finding codes. "At the end of the year, the magazine's "Road Test Yearbook" supplement was published. Each spread featured four reviews and each review started with a large red letter (known in typography as an initial). May's role was to put the entire supplement together." it goes on from there.

Check out the Baconian cipher. It's written in two typefaces or handwriting styles that are nearly indistinguishable unless you know what you're looking for, so the ciphertext is disguised as a completely unrelated message. Also the guy who invented it was literally named Bacon, which is the second coolest name ever

Calling it now...months from now Brian begins making posts/tweets/replies/etc... using this secret morse code. Or Jason Murphey has already been doing this months ago and has a message just waiting to be found. President Kardasian needs our help bois!

I have learned so much from this channel, not particularly very useful information, but information none the less

i have irritable bowel syndrome

when you figure the code out half a second before they do in the video. feels so good man

Fun factoid: Movie producers use steganography to embed copies before distribution. That way, let’s say, if there was a leak of the movie online before its release they could tell where the copy originated. Great show guys, been following since the early Scam School days!

What if “covfefe” wasn’t a typo, but a secret message? Makes you think... 😂

My first experience with steganography was finding every typo in a big excerpt from an old German story or something. Spent three hours trying to get a link to a website. Some dude had already programed a script to do it automatically... Afternoon ill never get back

A friend of a friend of mine once did a thing on Twitter where she spent AGES making sure her tweets lined up properly so that when you read them back, the first word of each one was the next word in the Big Time Rush theme song. She did this by FIRST tweeting something that had the LAST word of the song, and then working backwards, so that when you went backwards through her Twitter timeline, it was in the right order. When I saw what she had done, I just stared in awe. So shout out to Morgan for playing the long game.

Brian is a psycho if he actually uses two spaces after a period.

This was a great way of hiding a text in plain sight! I might end up doing this as a fun Easter eggs in my tweets!

There is a video which was posted by a guy wearing a black plague's doctors face mask (a crow mask) and he had hidden alot of visual and auditory messages in that creepy video. Nobody has ever been able to decode the messages in the video (except the encrypted ones). Would be awesome if you guys try to solve it!

An easy way to pass secret messages over the internet and not be tracked. Every one involved has the same email and password. To send a message just type it out and save to drafts. Later every one checks the drafts and reads the messages. Simple.

"If you visit their holiday store you could be a modern rogue, click on the link beloge." - Jason murphy

As soon as I saw it, I got *very* close. I noticed the spacing before punctuation right away, but I thought it was "dots are 0s, exclamation points are 1s." Then the question marks showed up and I assumed I was completely wrong. SO CLOSE.

As Brian was reading the third post I clued onto the structural pattern. Very clever.

Haunted episode? If this happens more often you got cursed on that Polybius episode and you need to bring in a witch.

Absolutely love the show

You had me at: "you can get sharp things, in the mail...."

Hey guys, you only need 5 bits to describe all the letters, if we dont consider capitals. It would be harder for the receiver of the message to realize it, but you can use the first bit to describe if the first 4 bits of the byte is a 0110 or a 0111, and use the other 4 bits to describe the particular letter. (In ASCII, letters go from hex: 61 to 7A, so yeah using 5 bits is enough)

Nice to hear that someone writing for this is a TNG fan :)

"WIth some programming experience" Spend like, 1 minutes on regexr.com and you can easily do this. replace(" [?!]", 0).replace("[^ ][?!]", 1).replace("[^01]", ""). Done!

Who else is gonna follow dress pants robot man on twitter

A great video idea in the same vein would be to look at all the codes and hidden messages in Gravity Falls. It just gets better and better

Just got an update that my rogue box is nearly here, can't tell ya how excited I am.

I miss the intro where Brian would scream “ BECAUSE IM A MODERN ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGGGGUUUUEEEEE!!!!!!!”

10:35 "Click on the link bel-ogue." I don't know if that was intentional, but it's punny, and you guys should totally run with that.

Lol, this is so subtle, you may as well be talking about corn.

what episode did you talk about Eve Online? I've seen them all and never recall hearing about my favorite game!

Seriously... A fucking brilliant channel.

Definitions of cryptography and steganography are off. Steganography hides the message within another message (such as within a picture, or using different kerning between letters in a book. Cryptography is literally "secret writing", so you're hiding the meaning of the message by moving the letters around, or changing the letters to other letters (i.e. - A = D, B = Z). But, ciphers can still look like a normal message, if you use something like a Baconian cipher. (Also, codes require a codebook to look up the definitions, ciphers/cryptograms don't.)

I actually signed up for bespoke post and am waiting for a Damascus blade from them :D

When I saw those tweets my first thought was "space comma".

Which video was Brian referring to when he was talking about eve online?

Someone used to do something similar in spam emails. It was good, because.... who bothers even *_looking_* at a spam email. But he did (I think it was) Morse Code using upper- vs lower-case vowels.

The voice was Dresspants Robot Man this whole time?!?!?

ugly bag of mostly water is a star trek reference

For an excellent example, one of the first scenes from "con air", the letter from the Mexican lawyer to cyrus

Search "hivly" on KZfaq, it's a guy who's creating a new unbiased social media app that's against censorship. They also have a kickstarter if you want to support them, all the info is on their KZfaq channel.

NSA is analyzing the body language of avatars in video games. I feel like they might catch a code this simple.

The hidden message in this video is the Acer logo desperately trying to be seen

2:10 LOOL Jason!!!!!

I mean, if you take each message in the thread as a byte you could technically transfer over an image or other file. Granted that would be a fucking gigantic twitter thread so it would need at least some automation but you get the idea.

there are programs for your phone where you can take pictures and then copy-paste image recognized text from within the picture. Use them, they are incredibly useful

"this is so effective, like you could be a very famous public figure and just hide these messages...." be right back checking a certain twitter account thats been very active recently.......

You could pretty easily automate it, even easier to semi automate it, to make it semi auto, you could copy paste the tweet into a c++ program that checks each character for if it's a punctuation mark and then goes over those places and checks if it has 2 spaces around it, you could then put these into an array and print it out or program the binary decoder straight into it, this whole thing would take up a couple hundred lines with the decoder just having 26 different checks for each letter since I'm not sure on if c++ has it's own function for binary. If you wanted to automate it, it would be a lot harder, you would need to set up a web scraper to scrape the tweets from twitter, maybe give the program a user to check every tweet on, then you would save it to a file and just use that for the previous programs input, or since it's a pretty light program you could probably just do it in the scraper itself. I'm using c++ as an example since I actually had to do some string editing with it as part of a class and know it's possible, I'm not sure exactly how the web scrapers function but it should be pretty easy to tell it to get a tweet and output that into a file or do a similar thing as what c++ can do.

I made a facebook account banner with all manner of binary, hex and QR code madness and one of my mates spent 45 mins going thru the whole lot of it and a meme at the end of it was a pic of him with GOTCHA underneath hahaha. I just knew the daft git would fall for it and I was so lucky he did too otherwise I'd have wasted my time which wasn't really wasted as I'd been listening to a few new albums. Out of my friends only 2 attempted it - the friend in question and a puzzle loving lunatic who got so far and gave up. I'd also changed my profile pic to a QR code that read 'I F**KING DARE YOU!' :-D

You can tell how long ago this was recorded based on the Twitter news feed

I’m surprised I actually was able to start to crack this pretty easily it was fun

What the hell is with everyone using the term BESPOKE for EVERYTHING these days. Bespoke suit, bespoke aquariums, bespoke stationary, bespoke kitchen installations..... Its a Bespkoke made world at the moment

Brian followed one of my friends on twitter and idk how and why cause he only has 36 followers and all excluding Brian are from our school

Still waiting for that number station follow-up video :)

I'm surprised none of the tweets had Sham Berkland in them or Hoopball. There was, "our front guard," and "sportsball."

Brian has had that shirt for at least 4 years

Love it

imagine not being a fan of the modern rogue and stumbling upon the dresspantsrobotman's twitter

They are using the song Kakuna by glue70 and its not on iTunes anymore

This reminds me of that episode of iCarly..... Every 4th, word

Can we get a "Go away bad guys" T-Shirt?

Long hair isnt hiding that receding hair line.

Okay, first watch, 4:19. I've noticed spaces before punctuation marks almost straight away. Pretty sure those are binary digits in ascii text. Locking it in, let's see if I'm right.

3:52 As someone who is experienced with ARGs, there's a special tool for gathering text from images... it's called an OCR! They're not always accurate, but many of them are _free_ to use. www.onlineocr.net/ ocr.space/

look into OCR. object character recognition. It can read otherwise unreadable text from a jpg. great for many things...

I surprised myself figuring out it was binary actually... but I thought space for 0 not for 1 cause i'm dumb but also smart sometimes.

How about a video on how to automate tasks like this. I have used TaskTool (free) and MacroReccorder by jitbit (free to try)

I wrote a python script to automatically find the spaces before a period (rn it's only periods) put the text into a .txt named secret.txt in the same folder as the python file Check the comments for a better script f = open("secret.txt", 'r') text = f.read() f.close() str = "" for letter in range(len(text)): if text[letter] == ".": if text[letter-1] == " ": str +="1" else: str +="0" print(str)

Cool and good video

I find it highly suspicious that the track timer for this video is 11:11.

Noticed the punctuation pattern right away, but I was thinking Morse code. Should have realized it was binary based on the hint...

I didnt know dress pants robot man was a trekie!

Awesome ! i dont use twitter (i suck with social media)

Im gonna try making a python script where you can input a secret message and then a text with the needed amount of punctuation where it automatically applies the spacing. Also making a decoder will be super easy

Ugly bags of mostly water, nice TNG reference

"Hey Brian, I typed this with my pee"

Are the tweets slightly shaking or am I having a stroke?

I thought of the strange punktuation is connectet with morse code insted of binary. But I was soooo close🤦🏻‍♂️

There's definitely a code hidden in this video but I'm too lazy to figure it out

Hot yeah!

I haven’t seen too much of the video but just from the first tweet, I think the spaces before some punctuation marks look suspicious. Can’t figure out what exactly it is though...

Remember when Orange man would make spelling errors? What do you really think he was doing?

What if all those people who use triple dots instead of periods are using code.

But why not transfer a message into base 64 and then write the letters and numbers in bold inside each tweet?

I’m waiting for brandt to post the vid debunking the clue hidden in this one

I can see the spaces and dots

Go sports go team, want some broccoli?

I was really hoping Jason would change into grandpants murphy ngl

It's to do with the punctuation spacing, right? Like that is jumping out at me

I am now following dress pants robot guy