Hi voat,

Don't come around here too much (which I should really change), but I'm hoping you fine folks could give me a bit of an assist. Came across a pair of posts from here last night (1 / 2), and my reading from there lead me to this video. Decoding the base64 in the description of that video leads to an imgur link. The title of the image reads YBGTE VBIAXK HGX, which translates to FINAL CIPHER ONE. Can simply decode those cyphers here, set it to ROT=7. I believe the characters in the imgur link are a pigpen cipher, and I'm getting to work on that now.

An anon discussed behavioral issues their child experienced after repeated viewings of the type of video, discussed by the first posters, who mentions their child, "started blaming bad behaviour on the witch or someone named zee who was 'the meanest girl in the world when her face turns green'". Mention of the Finger Family piqued my interest, because the fuck is the finger family? Per that link, "The origin and spread of the Finger Family rhyme is currently unknown but on May 25, 2007 on the internet, Leehosook uploaded a video simply called "Finger Family" which became the very first Finger Family video ever made on YouTube. Throughout many years, there were Finger Family videos and other nursery rhyme videos uploaded on YouTube and Dailymotion around the internet at the same time."

This leads me to believe that the videos function as a parasite (of sorts) off of the Finger Family meme, in a few major ways. The channels that are producing these videos have released their content in the last two months or so, but still have a large number of videos posted, all with very similar keywords in their titles. They're gaming the youtube search algo, so that they appear in the suggestions for a common children's search [finger family], while simultaneously being able to quickly take over suggestions by focusing on a comparative niche (teaching colors) and posting very frequently. For more on youtube's recommendation system, see here or here (pdf warning). Beyond that, by utilizing a modified version of an already popular nursery rhyme on youtube, the children are primed to be more receptive to the other messaging going on.

The videos are all extremely repetitive (playlist), featuring a baby in front of the same 5 colors every time, the color song, one color being removed by something scary, the baby crying, then back to placid when the color song repeats. This goes on for each of the 5 colors. I'm increasingly of the opinion that these videos are meant to cause children to "identify" with the various colors in some sort of abstract way, and induce behavioral problems in their young viewers. Maybe some sort of "flagging" system to ID people predisposed to that sort of influence, where behavioral problems end up with the kids on medication and set up for a life of dependence. Maybe it's something more sinister, especially given the trigger type videos. All I know is this shit is really weird. What say you, voat?