Roblox's Horrifying Quiz Game (i-ceusernames) — Transcript

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1. 0:01Imagine you're playing Roblox online
2. 0:02with some friends when you find a game
3. 0:04in your recommended that looks so bad
4. 0:05it's almost funny.
5. 0:07You join the lobby and realize it's one
6. 0:08of those quiz games where you have to
7. 0:09guess the name of a character. At first
8. 0:11everything seems harmless. However, as
9. 0:13time goes on something is happening in
10. 0:15the background of the server.
11. 0:17Well, it turns out what you're playing
12. 0:18is not actually just a Roblox game, but
13. 0:21instead is a program designed to write
14. 0:22down and upload your account information
15. 0:24online all without you ever realizing
16. 0:26it. My name is Sistix and this is the
17. 0:28story of Roblox's horrifying quiz game.
18. 0:36Roblox is no stranger to low quality
19. 0:38games. Mostly because there will always
20. 0:40be a younger audience willing to play
21. 0:41and finance them. Now, if you've never
22. 0:43heard of a quiz game, the formula is
23. 0:45pretty simple. All you do is take
24. 0:47pictures of popular characters and spam
25. 0:48them into a baseplate for people to
26. 0:50guess the name of. The quiz game we'll
27. 0:52be looking at today titled Guess the
28. 0:53Character was no exception to this
29. 0:55formula. However, it did have some
30. 0:57strange unique features. For example,
31. 0:59one of the quizzes you could play was
32. 1:00solely dedicated to guessing the
33. 1:01username of cancelled YouTubers.
34. 1:03Something that doesn't really fit in
35. 1:05with the other options like SpongeBob
36. 1:06names or Spider-Verse characters. In the
37. 1:08object show quiz around halfway through
38. 1:10you could find a picture of the
39. 1:11character Butcher from The Boys.
40. 1:13Additionally, in the Dandy's World quiz
41. 1:14for some reason there's a picture of
42. 1:15this guy named Bandy. If you aren't
43. 1:17familiar with any of the things I just
44. 1:19said, just know that they aren't related
45. 1:20but will be important later. Finally,
46. 1:23the weirdest part of all of these
47. 1:24additions was the developers' inclusion
48. 1:26of fake voice chat. Now, the idea of
49. 1:28adding bots to your game is nothing
50. 1:30original. However, it's pretty rare to
51. 1:31see a game that will go as far as adding
52. 1:33fake VC. Inside of the lobby there are
53. 1:35two bots that use this feature. I'm a
54. 1:37real girl [music] 52 and an unnamed bot
55. 1:40at the left corner. I'm a real girl can
56. 1:42be found at the front of the lobby with
57. 1:43a super unsettling wave animation.
58. 1:45Around every 10 seconds [music] she
59. 1:46repeats the phrase, "Hello. I love
60. 1:49playing this game. It's so so fun. Can
61. 1:51you guess [music] the character?" If you
62. 1:53head over to the unnamed bot at the left
63. 1:55of the map, he says something a little
64. 1:56more unsettling. His message goes, "Hey
65. 1:59you, I see you. I hear you. I know
66. 2:02you're there.
67. 2:03Guess the character. I bet you can't do
68. 2:05it. I love this game. I love this game."
69. 2:08Obviously, all of this was pretty
70. 2:09strange, but little did anyone know that
71. 2:11we were just scratching the surface.
72. 2:14As more people played this game, a
73. 2:16hidden feature was eventually
74. 2:17discovered. That being a secret area in
75. 2:19the map. You see, for every 5 minutes
76. 2:21you're in the game, the server
77. 2:23automatically rewards you with a free
78. 2:24skip. Something that can be used on a
79. 2:26question when you don't know [music] the
80. 2:27answer.
81. 2:28The option to skip a question is only
82. 2:30available when you're in a quiz. When
83. 2:32you walk back into the lobby, the choice
84. 2:33to skip is removed altogether. However,
85. 2:36someone realized that by going to the
86. 2:37corner of the map, the option to skip
87. 2:39would reappear. By using your skip, the
88. 2:41floor disappears and takes you into a
89. 2:43secret room. Inside of the secret room
90. 2:45was a red doorway along with a
91. 2:47text-to-speech narrator repeating the
92. 2:48following phrase.
93. 2:51>> Alpha. Bravo. Hotel. Sierra. Alpha.
94. 2:55Bravo.
95. 2:59>> By walking up to the red door, a puzzle
96. 3:00will appear on your screen.
97. 3:02You do have the option to reset your
98. 3:03character, but doing so will just send
99. 3:05you back to the main lobby.
100. 3:07So, at the moment, we have a few
101. 3:08different dots to connect. There's the
102. 3:10audio message, the puzzle, and now this
103. 3:12red door. As I'm sure a lot of you
104. 3:14already know, Alpha, Bravo, Hotel, and
105. 3:16Sierra [music] are all words derived
106. 3:18from the military alphabet. By taking
107. 3:20the first letter of each of these words,
108. 3:21we get A B H S A B. This alone isn't
109. 3:26much to go off of. However, a lot more
110. 3:27becomes clear after finishing the
111. 3:29puzzle.
112. 3:30If you enter the red door and piece this
113. 3:32image back together, you get the picture
114. 3:33of an eye along with the text, "Someone
115. 3:35is watching" written into the photo.
116. 3:37After completing the puzzle, your player
117. 3:39is kicked from the game along with the
118. 3:40message, "@ICUsernames".
119. 3:43Now, there's a feature within most quiz
120. 3:45games on Roblox that's actually pretty
121. 3:47important to bring up here. Whenever you
122. 3:48skip an answer in a quiz game, not only
123. 3:51do you get to walk past the answer
124. 3:52without typing, but usually that answer
125. 3:54is also placed in the chat in case of
126. 3:56some kind of bug that prevents you from
127. 3:57walking forward. With this in mind, what
128. 4:00happens when we use a skip to enter the
129. 4:01secret room? Well, in the chat, the
130. 4:03answer that's pasted is the message dot
131. 4:05org. With this final piece of
132. 4:07information, we can now put together all
133. 4:09of these elements to form the sentence
134. 4:11someone is watching at icyusernames.org.
135. 4:14By going to icyusernames, we get the
136. 4:16exact same red door we see in the secret
137. 4:18room along with the option to type
138. 4:20[music] in a password. At this point, I
139. 4:21was pretty happy to have gotten this far
140. 4:23virtually on my own. However, when I
141. 4:25typed in that string of letters from
142. 4:26earlier, my happiness quickly turned
143. 4:28into something else when a list of
144. 4:30Roblox usernames appeared on the
145. 4:31website. The disturbing part was that my
146. 4:33own username was a part of this list
147. 4:35along with my country and a timestamp.
148. 4:38Well, thinking back to what I did in the
149. 4:39game, I retraced my steps, and that's
150. 4:41when I realized that by completing
151. 4:43certain quizzes, your Roblox account
152. 4:45information, that being your player ID,
153. 4:47country, avatar profile, all of these
154. 4:49would be sent to the website and
155. 4:51published in real time. If you remember
156. 4:53earlier when I said that these quizzes
157. 4:54would come up later, this is what I
158. 4:56meant. So, that leads into the question,
159. 4:58why would somebody set up this project
160. 5:00to collect and upload account
161. 5:01information? Well, there's actually
162. 5:03three theories. The first theory is that
163. 5:05this website is collecting Roblox
164. 5:07traffic and feeding it to advertisers
165. 5:09for profit. [music] That may sound a bit
166. 5:10conspiratorial, but the logic is this.
167. 5:12With how many bots there are online
168. 5:14today, how do you determine who is real
169. 5:16when collecting and selling information?
170. 5:18Well, it seems this developer decided to
171. 5:20do so by creating a highly advanced
172. 5:22captcha targeted specifically towards
173. 5:24children. Or in other words, a Roblox
174. 5:26Dandy's World quiz that only a younger
175. 5:28audience could complete. Something that
176. 5:30proves you are both human and a highly
177. 5:32marketable demographic.
178. 5:34Okay, but that's only theory one. What
179. 5:36about theory two? Well, theory two is
180. 5:38actually a little more realistic. That
181. 5:40being that this game is not some large
182. 5:41data stealing empire, but instead is
183. 5:43actually a project dedicated around
184. 5:45modern digital literacy. One thing
185. 5:47you'll notice throughout the Roblox game
186. 5:48and the website is that there isn't
187. 5:50actually a lot of security. Almost to a
188. 5:52point where it seems like the creator
189. 5:53wanted to be discovered. In fact, if you
190. 5:56open up inspect element on
191. 5:57icyusernames.org,
192. 5:59not only are you able to find the
193. 6:00password in the HTML code, but also
194. 6:02right under it is a hidden comment from
195. 6:03the developer which reads, "So much data
196. 6:06is exchanged without us even knowing
197. 6:07it." How many people do you think missed
198. 6:09this message?
199. 6:11Now, let's [music] take the Roblox game.
200. 6:13Why would the developer create this
201. 6:14hidden room if they were actually trying
202. 6:16to keep the information being published
203. 6:17a secret? Yes, it's a bit cryptic, but
204. 6:20most people could easily put the pieces
205. 6:21together given enough time.
206. 6:23So, is this something nefarious or is it
207. 6:25[music] just a passion project? Well,
208. 6:27finally that leads into theory three.
209. 6:30What if it's both? By making your data
210. 6:32mining Roblox game look creepy and tap
211. 6:34into the horror genre, naturally [music]
212. 6:35more people are going to play it. What
213. 6:37if you wanted the game to get caught so
214. 6:39more people would engage with it out of
215. 6:41curiosity? [music]
216. 6:42While many discussions have gone back
217. 6:43and forth on these different theories,
218. 6:45the good news is that the information
219. 6:46being published on this website [music]
220. 6:48is already both online and public.
221. 6:51Things like your username or your
222. 6:52country aren't too dangerous to have
223. 6:53online by themselves. However, if this
224. 6:56game is some kind of advanced CAPTCHA,
225. 6:58that could raise some concern.
226. 6:59Ultimately, what I think we should take
227. 7:01away from this experience and what the
228. 7:02developers either intentionally or
229. 7:04unintentionally hint at is the idea that
230. 7:06our personal information is exchanged
231. 7:08all of the time, mostly without us ever
232. 7:10even realizing it. Today, it's not a
233. 7:12question of if our info is shared, but a
234. 7:14question of who is getting it. So,
235. 7:16please, if you take anything away from
236. 7:18today, remember to think critically
237. 7:19about the media you give your
238. 7:21information to. Not necessarily to a
239. 7:23point of paranoia, but just logically,
240. 7:25if something is asking for this
241. 7:26information, why do you think it's
242. 7:28asking [music] for it? Anyway, with all
243. 7:30that being said, I want to thank all the
244. 7:31members who've supported the channel.
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