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I decoded your message, 😂 that was definitely worth it. I think it would've been really cool if it was the URL to an unlisted video you guys put up about this, but either way, that was awesome.
@@eddiebailey7404 I’m not telling, cuz then anyone can cheat by going in and reading it. Just download audacity and decode it. I just used a RUclips to mp3 converter, and then just isolated the part that the sound is in, and switched it to spectrogram.
Next he's gonna start throwing Gatorade bottles of his pee all up and down US highways, and if you run liquid chromatograph mass spectroscapy on a sample you know you're gonna find coordinates to a secret underground Alaskan Rogue Bunker full of gold in the data you get back.
*video starts* "WHAT IN THE 1980s FUCK HAS HAPPENED!?" I'm literally getting PTSD flashbacks from that. And I only had to deal with the 80s for the first six years of my life.
If you listen very closely to the audio, you can hear Brandt laughing maniacally in the background. Can't wait to see what he comes up with now that the MR audience has been shown that this is a thing they can do
In linguistics, we’re trained to look at spectrogram recordings to better analyze what sounds people are making when speaking. Whether it’s a stop, fricative, aproximate, etc, and whether it is voiced, nasal, and also where in the mouth the sound is coming from.
My favorite of these is that in “Cuphead”, there are audio files that will trigger if the game detects it’s pirated, namely the song on the title screen, which sound eerie and demonic. If you export that music and look at the spectrograph, there are multiple images of the game’s version of the Devil to kinda say “We know what you’re doing here.” Also, just without trying this out to see the image, I have a strong feeling the encoded message in the episode is just the pic of Brian with fries up his nose. That or the “cow butts” photo from the steganography episode.
@@Syunnnnnnn ffs I don't have power. Downloaded spectrum analyzer but they wanted money to squash and stretch etc. Tried slowing the video to compensate. I can read up like the first couple words but there's too much loss and noise for the rest. Pretty please?
Found out that Doki Doki Literature Club had something like that with one of its files. Considering the game was free, and literally just to get people interested in development of another game, I'd say that's really good effort on the development team.
You can view more of the spectrum by right clicking on the left bar that lists the frequency values and choose zoom to fit or zoom in. It will allow you to see the whole vertical image.
Every time I see someone discover the audio spectrogram image stuff I always point them towards the hidden messages in Minecraft's Disc 11 by C418 and the ambient noise "cave14.ogg" file!
Everybody talks about the satanic stuff in this Doom track but nobody ever mentions that in another track you can actually find "Jesus loves you" hiden in the same way lol
this is similar to what the Voyager team did, to pack all the images of Earth into that gold disc: they turned the pictures into a stream of audio, as if they were ready to print out of a dot matrix printer.
My personal favorite example, is someone took the music from lavender town from pokemon red and green. And at the end, had the "ghost" pokemon imbedded, with unown spelling "get out"
Nine Inch Nails did this on the track My Violent Heart and as part of their Year Zero promotional ARG that involved USB sticks with audio files left in bathrooms at their shows. Or something like that.
Speaking of Aphex Twin, y'all should totally listen to Windowlicker. Great song. However, if you plan on sleeping, do not watch the music video, and if memory serves, the hidden image in that song is just the guy's face smiling creepily at the camera.
THIS IS IT! This is hands down what I've been trying to figure out and do for YEARS! I just didn't know the right way to go about it! I LOVE these kinds of episodes, you guys rock!
The Bethesda DOOM game also put the Romero's Head easter egg from the original games in the spectrogram with the wavelengths inaudible to humans aside from the pentagrams
wait, bethesda doom game? I thought I knew all the Easter eggs back in the day, but I'd forgotten about the "pentagram spectragram." was there a re-release that I'm forgetting? all I can think of is the weird shareware version with most of the sounds replaced by movie samples, namely reservoir dogs, but pretty sure that was unofficial despite ending up on DOS OEM CDROM bundles...
This is really interesting. I actually did a really simple version of this a few years ago where I hid an image of the name of a song at the end as a sort of signature
Revealing the images in the sound is so cool! Also, although I’ve seen pictures of Brian’s hair on Twitter before this, I was still surprised when the video started lmao! Great video guys!
Over the course of an album, you could encode variants of the same image multiple times, one in each song, or perhaps only part of one in each song, which if strategically created, could be decoded, unmodified, and layered in sequence to allow for greater clarity, or additional color channels, or both!
Thank you a trillion times for showing me this feature in Audacity. I got the message, hahahaha. Darn you for making me watch this again and use audacity to "record what you hear" to look for more hidden messages.
A couple of variations on a theme. 1. Jerobeam Fenderson makes music that draws pictures when fed into an oscilloscope (look up Jerobeam Fenderson on YouYube). 2. There are several flavors of the Hellschreiber (AKA Hell) digital amateur radio format that can be read directly from a spectrum display. Ham radio operators with "waterfall" displays don't need any extra decoding device other than their eyes.
A company I worked for once wanted to be able to determine who was pirating their media content, so my solution was to dynamically embed the customer ID into the audio stream. It didn't use the spectrograph but rather the waveform itself. I created a series of peaks and valleys that could be translated into the digits 0-9, and piecing together the correct digits for the customer ID resulted in a less than half a second audio clip that sounded like a pop or glitch. So if they found pirated content, they just had to download it. zoom in on that glitch, and decode the peaks and valleys to find the source of the leak. NEAT!
As someone who went to college for audio, I love that you are covering this! I would love to reach out to the community here and find some people who know how to setup radio, and can give me advice with how to setup an antenna that supports really wide frequencies (an antenna that would hang over a tree for example) with the eventual goal of making an entire album only using all different kinds of sounds captured from my sdr receiver.. I would love to share my knowledge and help with my audio knowledge too
That's awesome! Steganography is so cool. I've done hidden images and information inside word docs and other images, but id never heard of hiding stuff within the audio track! Top stuff boys.
@@rm_steele it's hiding stuff within xml documents, like a docx. Can be opened with word, but also renamed to something.zip and it can be opened as a file! Stuff can be put in the file that's not shown if the doc is opened like normal.
What you can probably do, to kind of hide it in real audio, is to have a stereo track where the 2 channels are the same, but phase shift one of the channel to be 180deg out of phase, then play the other channel with the secret audio, so that when you play it in mono you'd get the secret audio
there's probably a better way to explain it, it's actually fairly simple objective) hide secret audio within real audio step 1) get a real audio track in mono 2) split it up into 2 identical stereo channels 3) invert the left channel so that it's 180 degrees phase shifted in the sound wave (it should be easy to do in Audacity) 4) combine the secret audio and the right track together the end result should be that, it'd sound like the real audio when in stereo, but it'd be just the secret audio when played in mono
spectogram is basically a visual representation of three layers of audio: noise, transients (sharp volume spikes) and harmonics (tonal data). the transients can be thought of as the volume curve of a note initially "hitting," and the harmonic data is the pitch(es) going on at a certain moment (usually shows up as horizontal lines that line up with the harmonic sequence, i.e. the actual notes in a musical segment). the noise layer is... everything else. this tech is very common nowadays in industry standard audio mixing and mastering software, allowing things like isolating acapella or individual instrument tracks, removing noise, or even creative sound design. probably the two most powerful platforms being iZotope RX and Steinberg's SpectraLayers add-on for their Cubase digital audio workstation software, both for different reasons. lots of good tutorials out there especially from Steinberg about what this approach is for, if curious to learn more. iZotope also has a synthesizer called Iris which basically uses a simple photoshop like interface (as well as typical oscillator controls) to edit multiple layers of combined spectrograms, highlighting or deleting bits, setting loop points etc, makes for some really interesting sonic potential. now, back in the proverbial day (90s) it had become possible to digitally convert a bitmap image into a spectrogram and play it back on a computer; Richard D James aka AFX/Aphex Twin released a track in the 90s that basically had a low res photo of his face inserted into a track as a *source* of audio; just one of many techniques for chaotically ordered noise and general oddity for which he became famous.
This is really impressive, I recorded the audio and when I played it back I managed to see the hidden image.... like if you also discovered it. ............. WE NEED TO POOP (No, seriously. This is important and we need your help.)
SPOILERS ON THE INCOMING TRANSMISSION: DO NOT CLICK READ MORE IF YOU WANT TO TRY IT FOR YOURSELF! it is an image of a youtube video titled "WE NEED TO POOP (No seriously, this is imp..."
10:00 The stereo image was really cool because depending on which speaker I held my phone running the spectrum analyzer up to, I saw the different images separately.
Another big thing is sounds that you mess with the phase between channels. Look up the doom eternal sound track. The title theme has screams at the very end but if you listen in mono it plays the end credits theme to the very first doom, sweet little dead bunny.
Love the new hair Brian! Just remember, I think that comes with and an automatic court restriction to living within with 500ft of school zones and days cares. lol!
You could do an "original file" and then hide images by a new file that has inaudible differences. You get the messages, by substracting the data from each other Not enough to hide an image, but should me good for text. Same works in Images too. Any large media file, can have small noise difference, imperceptible, but if you have a clean original to run a difference comparison against, it is extractable data
It was the radios in portal which, when place in special locations, teased portal 2, searched for a comment to see if anyone else mentioned it, it was my first ARG.
Nine Inch Nails (The Warning from the album Year Zero) and Venetian Snares (Look from Songs About my Cats) are ones I know about. I'd heard about the Aphex Twin had done one too, but couldn't tell you which song.
For those who are curious, but don't feel like downloading Audacity and figuring out how to direct capture the audio from this youtube video, the hidden image is...... ....the text "WE NEED TO POOP (NO SERIOUSLY THIS IS IMP...)"
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I decoded your message, 😂 that was definitely worth it. I think it would've been really cool if it was the URL to an unlisted video you guys put up about this, but either way, that was awesome.
@@captainweird1822 what was it i need to kno they were laughing way too hard
@@eddiebailey7404 I’m not telling, cuz then anyone can cheat by going in and reading it. Just download audacity and decode it. I just used a RUclips to mp3 converter, and then just isolated the part that the sound is in, and switched it to spectrogram.
Next Misen ad showcase the knifes by cutting Brians mullet
yo, 1999 called... a certain "James Richard" ... i think, something about a window and a vicar? ... does any of this make any sense to you guys?
We've been able to watch Brian slowly turn into a trucker. First the moustache, now the hair
Next he's gonna start throwing Gatorade bottles of his pee all up and down US highways, and if you run liquid chromatograph mass spectroscapy on a sample you know you're gonna find coordinates to a secret underground Alaskan Rogue Bunker full of gold in the data you get back.
@@ObeyCamp I'm pretty sure jason has already done that, hes just waiting for a time to bring up that he owns a mass spectrometer
they did a bunch of Radio stuff a while ago, and truckers do radio too
Next is the giant truck to compensate 🤣
there are schools in Australia that have banned the mullet in their dress code, was wondering why until I almost vomited 15 seconds ago
Jason taking rare time off from his day job as a Victorian chimney sweep.
Or fiddling on his roof?
he did reply to brian with "indeed"
'ello govenor! chop chop carry on!
@@lautimartinez6341 you beat me to it!!!
this is an elite comment
Brian is going for the world record of "Most Unfortunate Hairstyles had by a single person in their lifetime."
@TheModernRogue
Come on, the spikes were golden
The shorter Brian's hair is, the more he looks like Daniel Brühl (Zemo)
Unfortunate?
I gotta say, Brian cosplaying as Joe Dirt is a bold choice.
Hey, it kinda suits him
Good ole Joe Dirt (Joe Dear-Tay)
I'm going to guess it's channelling a relative, an uncle?
He is a hop skip and a jump away from Joe Exotic
*video starts*
"WHAT IN THE 1980s FUCK HAS HAPPENED!?"
I'm literally getting PTSD flashbacks from that. And I only had to deal with the 80s for the first six years of my life.
Bro, do not talk shit about the 80's. That was a better time.
actually mullets are back in trend . get with it haha
Just be glad you didn't have to grow up in New Zealand where that exact look is still considered fashionable.
@@thishonestgrifter its fashionable everywhere lol its literally the 2020/2021 trend. Boomers
@@myname-mz3lo No you don't understand my friend, I don't mean it's come back in style. I mean it never left!
Brian with a mullet is not how I imagined this video would start.
If you listen very closely to the audio, you can hear Brandt laughing maniacally in the background. Can't wait to see what he comes up with now that the MR audience has been shown that this is a thing they can do
That’s the closest we will ever come to the “I’m a modernnnnn Rooooooogue” intro we’ll ever get😔😔
In linguistics, we’re trained to look at spectrogram recordings to better analyze what sounds people are making when speaking. Whether it’s a stop, fricative, aproximate, etc, and whether it is voiced, nasal, and also where in the mouth the sound is coming from.
I studied coputational linguistics in the 2000s, :-) yes, I know exactly, what you are talking about
My favorite of these is that in “Cuphead”, there are audio files that will trigger if the game detects it’s pirated, namely the song on the title screen, which sound eerie and demonic. If you export that music and look at the spectrograph, there are multiple images of the game’s version of the Devil to kinda say “We know what you’re doing here.”
Also, just without trying this out to see the image, I have a strong feeling the encoded message in the episode is just the pic of Brian with fries up his nose. That or the “cow butts” photo from the steganography episode.
Uhm... the Cuphead piracy is just a myth, there aren't any piracy measures in the game. That track is just an unused track.
@@angeles_yt yeah, I learned that a little while after writing that
Mick Gordon hiding a pentagram in the audio spectrum for his music in DOOM will always be my most legendary example of this.
you made me download audacity and convert the entire episode to a MP3 just for THAT MESSAGE!!! you're so childish and I love it
what is it
@@tylerkhan5433 can't say. you need to go though all the shit i went though
Yes... It was great.
Although I already had Audacity and I just simply recorded through my speakers and the message was still readable.
@@Syunnnnnnn 🤣
@@Syunnnnnnn ffs I don't have power. Downloaded spectrum analyzer but they wanted money to squash and stretch etc. Tried slowing the video to compensate. I can read up like the first couple words but there's too much loss and noise for the rest. Pretty please?
bruh brian looked like a biker from a mid 2000s film at the start
Oh, biker... im an idiot
He looks a bit like my grandpa . . .
A lady biker, that sits behind someone overweight.
emm no lol that haircut is from the 80s... called a mullet
@@myname-mz3lo bruh, that goatee is the thing, not the mullet.
Venetian Snares has a track titled “Look” on the end of his 2001 album, “Songs About My Cats”, which is just a spectrogram of his cats.
Objectively the cutest spectrogram, IMO
Found out that Doki Doki Literature Club had something like that with one of its files. Considering the game was free, and literally just to get people interested in development of another game, I'd say that's really good effort on the development team.
Oh really? Every time I learn something new about how dedicated the developers were to that game I get more amazed
@@lissawho4974 yeah MatPat did a video on all of the hidden secrets and what they might be hinting at.
"Clifford the big red stab wound"
You can view more of the spectrum by right clicking on the left bar that lists the frequency values and choose zoom to fit or zoom in. It will allow you to see the whole vertical image.
Every time I see someone discover the audio spectrogram image stuff I always point them towards the hidden messages in Minecraft's Disc 11 by C418 and the ambient noise "cave14.ogg" file!
Everybody talks about the satanic stuff in this Doom track but nobody ever mentions that in another track you can actually find "Jesus loves you" hiden in the same way lol
this is similar to what the Voyager team did, to pack all the images of Earth into that gold disc: they turned the pictures into a stream of audio, as if they were ready to print out of a dot matrix printer.
My personal favorite example, is someone took the music from lavender town from pokemon red and green. And at the end, had the "ghost" pokemon imbedded, with unown spelling "get out"
theres been shittier incoming messages that have come my way, may the movements be ever in your favour Jason and Brian
I did not know that "cause I'm a modern rogue" was from a specific video.
Nine Inch Nails did this on the track My Violent Heart and as part of their Year Zero promotional ARG that involved USB sticks with audio files left in bathrooms at their shows. Or something like that.
Speaking of Aphex Twin, y'all should totally listen to Windowlicker. Great song.
However, if you plan on sleeping, do not watch the music video, and if memory serves, the hidden image in that song is just the guy's face smiling creepily at the camera.
When I see Brian in that Mullet and mustache I can see him at on stage reciting "you might be a redneck if" jokes.
THIS IS IT! This is hands down what I've been trying to figure out and do for YEARS! I just didn't know the right way to go about it! I LOVE these kinds of episodes, you guys rock!
Well... I just spent 15 minutes of my life to get that message, and I really don't know if it was worth it
Help a lazy person out?
@@lellow19 if I had to guess I would say it involves grilled cheese
15mins? i took me like 2mins xD
What did take you 15 mins but it was definetly worth it
@@royfireball1 Nope
THIS STARTED 2 MINUTES AGO?
I SAID I WAS GOING TO WATCH THIS TWO HOURS AGO- HUH?
Okay... So... Deresspants robotman is a spy for TMZCOBRA?! What is this modern rogue lore?!
The hidden message... well played, gentlemen, well played.
lmao that captain america reference
ngl brian kinda looks like the winter soldier cause of his hair
The Bethesda DOOM game also put the Romero's Head easter egg from the original games in the spectrogram with the wavelengths inaudible to humans aside from the pentagrams
wait, bethesda doom game? I thought I knew all the Easter eggs back in the day, but I'd forgotten about the "pentagram spectragram." was there a re-release that I'm forgetting? all I can think of is the weird shareware version with most of the sounds replaced by movie samples, namely reservoir dogs, but pretty sure that was unofficial despite ending up on DOS OEM CDROM bundles...
@@0v_x0 They are talking about Mick Gordon’s amazing composition of DOOM: Eternal
@@aidenmiller3832 ahh ok that makes a lot more sense thanks. something in me stopped paying any attention after doom 3.
This is really interesting. I actually did a really simple version of this a few years ago where I hid an image of the name of a song at the end as a sort of signature
"We Need To Poop (Seriously this is imp.."
I appreciate how these guys just love to goof around together.
11:21 also an image of the two of them, the hatted one is looking downward while the one with glasses is watching him type the nonsense.
Revealing the images in the sound is so cool! Also, although I’ve seen pictures of Brian’s hair on Twitter before this, I was still surprised when the video started lmao! Great video guys!
So, had an idea of making one side chanel more red audio, and the other more blue, so when you overlay them they make a picture for 3d glasses.
When you see someone advertise a knife as sharp but have to press way too hard.
Or the drop test. Anything can cut tomatoes if you drop them.
@@Bluecheese2142 if they really wanted to show off the knife they should have done the paper test.
They didn’t want to reset the injury counter
Its a knife, you're supposed to slice with them, not press with them. They don't do a good job with that bit.
imp what? Impossible? Important? Impotent? Impatient minds want to know!
hearing the old modern rogue intro was nice
This is why I love this channel, and you guys should take care of that.
Over the course of an album, you could encode variants of the same image multiple times, one in each song, or perhaps only part of one in each song, which if strategically created, could be decoded, unmodified, and layered in sequence to allow for greater clarity, or additional color channels, or both!
You could stretch a hidden song across an entire album!
Thank you a trillion times for showing me this feature in Audacity.
I got the message, hahahaha.
Darn you for making me watch this again and use audacity to "record what you hear" to look for more hidden messages.
I understand that Aphex Twin did a few songs with face hidden in the audio files
I thought it was just one but yeah that was a pretty famous and one of the most early demonstrations of this
I understand you guys loud and clear, and with your message. I can relate...
A couple of variations on a theme.
1. Jerobeam Fenderson makes music that draws pictures when fed into an oscilloscope (look up Jerobeam Fenderson on YouYube).
2. There are several flavors of the Hellschreiber (AKA Hell) digital amateur radio format that can be read directly from a spectrum display. Ham radio operators with "waterfall" displays don't need any extra decoding device other than their eyes.
No one gets to see it but we all come around to doing it. Nice message.
The Modern Rogue theme song is gonna make it on the Billboard Hot 100 one of these days and I'm gonna be there for it. It shall be legendary!
that last msg hit me like a burrito, I was on the toilet forever. #modernrogue
A company I worked for once wanted to be able to determine who was pirating their media content, so my solution was to dynamically embed the customer ID into the audio stream. It didn't use the spectrograph but rather the waveform itself. I created a series of peaks and valleys that could be translated into the digits 0-9, and piecing together the correct digits for the customer ID resulted in a less than half a second audio clip that sounded like a pop or glitch. So if they found pirated content, they just had to download it. zoom in on that glitch, and decode the peaks and valleys to find the source of the leak. NEAT!
I called it. A couple of months ago I suggested they both get mullets.
I can almost guarantee Master Boot Record probably does stuff like this. Every one of his albums hides a hacking CTF challenge.
As someone who went to college for audio, I love that you are covering this! I would love to reach out to the community here and find some people who know how to setup radio, and can give me advice with how to setup an antenna that supports really wide frequencies (an antenna that would hang over a tree for example) with the eventual goal of making an entire album only using all different kinds of sounds captured from my sdr receiver.. I would love to share my knowledge and help with my audio knowledge too
You should listen to a weather satellite APT transmission if you haven't already.
This begs the question... How long have they been doing this? Have they been hiding images in the audio of these videos prior to this episode?
Just decoded the message... lol I would have thought you guys had taken care of that by now!
I was introduced to spectrograms pretty early on because c418 always signed his name in songs of his this way ;p
Incoming Transmission Sound:
WE NEED TO POOP (No, seriously. the imp... [clock][arrow]
Their Faces
Thank you!! I was really confused, I was seeing WE NEED TO POOR and was trying to figure out wth I was seeing.
This just reminds me of the time that one anon did this over a military broadcast with a picture of the happy merchant.
That's awesome! Steganography is so cool. I've done hidden images and information inside word docs and other images, but id never heard of hiding stuff within the audio track! Top stuff boys.
I've never heard of hiding text in word. Do you mean something like setting the text color to the page color?
@@rm_steele it's hiding stuff within xml documents, like a docx. Can be opened with word, but also renamed to something.zip and it can be opened as a file! Stuff can be put in the file that's not shown if the doc is opened like normal.
Yes! I freaking love spectrograms! Also, the Aphex Twin song is called [Equation] from the Windowlicker EP. One of my favorite EP's from RDJ!
Yes, "Jason" was amazing this episode.
I bet Brian's wife is a huge fan of his new look
It's his way of letting us know that he's getting a divorce.
@@TheJB2D maybe it strengthens the bond
@@eminatorstudios plot twist: they have matching mullets!
What you can probably do, to kind of hide it in real audio, is to have a stereo track where the 2 channels are the same, but phase shift one of the channel to be 180deg out of phase, then play the other channel with the secret audio, so that when you play it in mono you'd get the secret audio
there's probably a better way to explain it, it's actually fairly simple
objective) hide secret audio within real audio
step 1) get a real audio track in mono
2) split it up into 2 identical stereo channels
3) invert the left channel so that it's 180 degrees phase shifted in the sound wave (it should be easy to do in Audacity)
4) combine the secret audio and the right track together
the end result should be that, it'd sound like the real audio when in stereo, but it'd be just the secret audio when played in mono
They said dubstep is dead and then the rogues drop this!
damn, that mullet is awesome, i want to get one too
spectogram is basically a visual representation of three layers of audio: noise, transients (sharp volume spikes) and harmonics (tonal data). the transients can be thought of as the volume curve of a note initially "hitting," and the harmonic data is the pitch(es) going on at a certain moment (usually shows up as horizontal lines that line up with the harmonic sequence, i.e. the actual notes in a musical segment). the noise layer is... everything else. this tech is very common nowadays in industry standard audio mixing and mastering software, allowing things like isolating acapella or individual instrument tracks, removing noise, or even creative sound design. probably the two most powerful platforms being iZotope RX and Steinberg's SpectraLayers add-on for their Cubase digital audio workstation software, both for different reasons. lots of good tutorials out there especially from Steinberg about what this approach is for, if curious to learn more. iZotope also has a synthesizer called Iris which basically uses a simple photoshop like interface (as well as typical oscillator controls) to edit multiple layers of combined spectrograms, highlighting or deleting bits, setting loop points etc, makes for some really interesting sonic potential.
now, back in the proverbial day (90s) it had become possible to digitally convert a bitmap image into a spectrogram and play it back on a computer; Richard D James aka AFX/Aphex Twin released a track in the 90s that basically had a low res photo of his face inserted into a track as a *source* of audio; just one of many techniques for chaotically ordered noise and general oddity for which he became famous.
edit: apparently adobe audition lets you paint on spectrogram data. not surprised. it's pretty common these days but 20+ years ago...
This is really impressive, I recorded the audio and when I played it back I managed to see the hidden image.... like if you also discovered it.
.............
WE NEED TO POOP (No, seriously. This is important and we need your help.)
shhh
You destroyed the fun of it for everyone.
@@birdsplaybs1234 Thank you!
@@thespiffingamerican No they didn't. Some of us watch on mobile and don't own computers. We knew going to the comments would spoil the answer.
@@Nerdfighter1123 You could decode it just fine on a phone. maybe even a wii.
Jason turns the laptop... Brian turns his head ... "Yeah I don't see it" :D
Btw.. do you need to poop?
(no seriously, this is imp...)
#2 best easter egg you guys have hidden so far.
SPOILERS ON THE INCOMING TRANSMISSION:
DO NOT CLICK READ MORE IF YOU WANT TO TRY IT FOR YOURSELF!
it is an image of a youtube video titled "WE NEED TO POOP (No seriously, this is imp..."
IT IS FINALLY BACK. PUT IT IN THE INTRO!!!
I've always hated mullets but you pull it off Brian
My all time favorite use of this at 5:52 of Never gonna give you up
Brian: "if I'm gonna place a bet..."
Segment title: "what it's not"
I'm glad that haircut was just for the opening that seriously made me debate keeping my subscription.
Like how some songs in the doom soundtrack have pentagrams and the one Minecraft disk has a Steve/Herobrine.
"Look" in the album "Songs About My Cats" by Venetian Snares is a very good usage of the spectrogram.
I think between option 1 and 2, and since Time is an issue. 2 should be used before "accidents" happen.
I can't take Brian seriously with his glorious mullet.
10:00 The stereo image was really cool because depending on which speaker I held my phone running the spectrum analyzer up to, I saw the different images separately.
Oh, a Yaddle reference. Wasn't prepared for that
Another big thing is sounds that you mess with the phase between channels. Look up the doom eternal sound track. The title theme has screams at the very end but if you listen in mono it plays the end credits theme to the very first doom, sweet little dead bunny.
I love how Brian is fully embracing the mullet.
mullet lowkey looks good as hell
Love the new hair Brian! Just remember, I think that comes with and an automatic court restriction to living within with 500ft of school zones and days cares. lol!
You could do an "original file" and then hide images by a new file that has inaudible differences. You get the messages, by substracting the data from each other
Not enough to hide an image, but should me good for text.
Same works in Images too. Any large media file, can have small noise difference, imperceptible, but if you have a clean original to run a difference comparison against, it is extractable data
Mullet Brian is much different than I expected
It was either Portal or Portal 2 that had hidden images in one of their songs. Also, I wonder what that image was that would get Brian in trouble.
It was the radios in portal which, when place in special locations, teased portal 2, searched for a comment to see if anyone else mentioned it, it was my first ARG.
Have to say, that's a nice hidden image
share?
@@JD2jr. we need to poop, quite funny hidden image
Wahey, that worked. Y'all should probably take care of that.
Brian from the beginning: 1980s
Jason from the rest: 1880s
Nine Inch Nails (The Warning from the album Year Zero) and Venetian Snares (Look from Songs About my Cats) are ones I know about. I'd heard about the Aphex Twin had done one too, but couldn't tell you which song.
Agent # 2047 checking in. You know ehat they say about Misen? Place it back when you're done! Lol!
If it's misen, you'd better find it
For those who are curious, but don't feel like downloading Audacity and figuring out how to direct capture the audio from this youtube video, the hidden image is......
....the text "WE NEED TO POOP (NO SERIOUSLY THIS IS IMP...)"
Good episode. I hope it all comes out okay in the end.
finally got the modern rogueeeee song back
That mullet is fucking spectacular
Great now I'll have to download the audio for each video to see if there are any hidden messages.
Aphex twin really takes me back. Richard D James was a very crazy musician. Loved the music.
I hope you were both able to complete your important task
@11:22 , what a great used of my time cracking the code was😂😂😂
what was it?