Game Theory: FNF, The Bob Mod SOLVED! (Friday Night Funkin)

[Music] [Music] well that escalated quickly [Music] hello internet welcome to game theory the show that's here to spit rhymes and solve mysteries and we're all out of rhymes first a quick note as we get started today this week starts my campaign to try and be named as a guest host on jeopardy full details are over on this week's film theory i'll link to it right here but the long and short of it is that i really want to host this thing it's been a childhood dream of mine to just you know stand up on that stage for like one episode and if people like dr oz can host this thing then why not an edutainment youtuber like myself or any of the other actual ed youtubers that are here on the platform i think a digital creator deserves their chance to step behind that podium and show the world what they got get this industry a bit more respect and you know what give me a chance to actually live out a childhood dream that helped inspire the creation of these channels anyway if you think a youtuber like me deserves their shot well i need you to sign the petition below it's linked in the description i need about 300 000 signatures at minimum because that's what it took for levar burton to get tapped for five episodes so if we have a shot we need to crush those numbers so thank you guys so much for your help fingers crossed that something happens or you know what if not just gives us more opportunity to complain about how traditional media just doesn't get it thank you so much now on with today's episode and i know what you're thinking another friday night funken theory didn't you already do two of these and the game isn't even in its full state but before you turn away this isn't the theory that you might think it is this is actually about something far bigger something far more sinister than friday night funkin see today we're looking at a massive arg mystery that came out of the friday night funkin mod community in case you're not familiar game mod is any time someone's been able to manipulate the game's code to change how it behaves and looks sometimes even creating entirely new stories and gameplay modes and to be honest some of the world's biggest games actually started off as mods the incredibly difficult kaizo mario series mods of super mario world both league of legends and dota have their origins in a mod for blizzard's game warcraft 3 even pubg and dayz started their lives as mods of the arma series if you've ever bothered to watch me over on the gt live channel you'll know that i love playing fan games and mods because to me that's just where you get some of the most creative exciting ideas coming from new game designers who are still learning their craft but i tend not to cover them here because well they're fan made the lore isn't canon and their quality can really vary wildly but today is the exception because there's one mod of friday night funkin that uh it went a bit off the rails creating not just a few good songs to extend the life of this game but a fully blown lore of its own hidden behind layers of coded messages spanning across all corners of the internet it is scary it's mysterious and it is mad loyal theorists it's time we talk about literally every fniff mod ever versus bob week yes that is the actual full title of this thing earlier this year the mod was everywhere i think part of the reason it gained so much attention is because it's actually designed as a parody of other friday night funk and mods crudely drawn characters clunky crass dialogue oh and memes all the memes there's a fart sound effect button because it's so lol random we go up against the little man whose bonus song is nearly eight minutes straight of breaking glass bras a dancing hey oh there's pizza here meme and spotify ads wanna break from the ads if you tap now you'll receive 30 minutes of ad-free music there's even a character named ron who is literally a dancing meme folder his song when cranked up to 1.75 speed by the way is my favorite to come out of anything friday night funk and related not gonna lie thing is a bop this is a certified but the real star of this two-part mod is bob a basic black and white animated character who boyfriend compares to dream and i gotta admit it's not entirely wrong i could definitely see the family resemblance anyway the mod uses the same basic progression that you'd expect from a friday night funk mod boyfriend is introduced to a new challenger each song becomes slightly harder tap arrows to win except bob is a little bit different sure after you beat him the first time he becomes a little mad bro but if you beat him again things go insane bob becomes consumed by his anger and transforms into a black blob with photorealistic eyes teleporting himself boyfriend and girlfriend to what can only be assumed as some sort of hellscape or at least that's what we assume the devs apparently couldn't afford to pay for the cutscene that shows us that part at this point there's a huge spike in difficulty as the game just becomes one big creepypasta bob's eyes flash across the screen you struggle through and if you manage to make it to the end of the song it just kinda ends fortunately for us though there's a part two a few months after part one's released the bob mott got itself a sequel titled bob's onslaught where bob shows us that he suddenly has control over the game he makes parts of the ui disappear elements spin around he moves the game window adds open up blocking the player's view and through it all the notes come at an inhuman rate this thing is crazy and if you somehow manage to beat this insanely difficult challenge the screen goes black bob claims that he has no more tricks for you here but then things glitch and reveal a google drive link and this friends is where it gets real weird now this part of the game seems to have been mainly overlooked on youtube in favor of the fast and nearly impossible gameplay but you know me who am i to ignore some random link given to me by a stranger i followed the link and boy oh boy things go way way deeper than you first thought so what's really going on with the bob mod let's find out when we jump into the drive we find a slew of documents images and sound files for us to investigate the drive appears to be owned by someone called lennon noah and by searching through the files we start to get a sense of who this guy really is looking at the file of noah family expenses we learned that this is a family of three father lenin wife jess daughter jane another file titled dear lennon starts to reveal to us that the family is in trouble jess has fears that her husband is starting to grow distant from the family we learn from another file lenin's writings that the day after the letter was written jess and lennon are on the rocks she doesn't believe him about something but what well by jumping back and forth between all the different files we can actually assemble a timeline of events a few days after jess and lennon's fight we see that lenin has been blocked from spending family finances after buying a book called how to clean carpets which was prompted from a quote liquid accident at work the next day he's fired from his job as evidenced by the pink slip that's found in the folder and it's here where we just start to get an idea of what lenin's been up to quote look man i don't know what this weird goop in your office is but you can't do this on company grounds you barely do work and you're always too busy with your ai side projects to do any work lenin also mentions a lot of these same things in his writings on the same day quote again these experiments have to work i've done so much with this goo it has to work this ai i've created i love him so much he is so smart i have to bring him to our realm he will be beautiful an ai mysterious goo coming to our realm ladies and gentlemen we've got ourselves an afton loyal theorists we've done this dance enough times to know that this is not going to end well lennon is clearly trying to bring his ai bob to life using some sort of organic goo the picture labeled unknown inside the file practically confirms this for us as we see in the black goo the letters b-o-b so is that it all done case closed friends oh no this is just the beginning there's still four files left a sound file called plant a picture file and document called jane's drawing and jane and finally a picture called you get the point and it's here that things start to change from a little store easter egg to one of the most creative fully blown args that i've covered on the channel let's start with audiophile plants and if you have headphones you might want to turn the volume down very briefly i just want to give you a taste of what this thing sounds like because it's pretty unusual but also a bit sharp and piercing sounds like it could be morse code right or maybe plugging it into a spectrogram will give us an image we've done both of those methods solving mysteries in the past but nope not this time neither of those will actually result in anything this is actually something that's a little bit more complicated the giveaway of what this is are those high-pitched beepings that happen at a regular occurrence they're indicative of something called a slow scan television signal basically a way to send and receive pictures via radio waves if you see a spectrogram that looks a little something like this with a header that sounds different that's used to calibrate the signal and then a repeated series of pulses that are used to synchronize the signal you know that you're likely dealing with an sstv feed so let's just listen to the audio file briefly one last time so you can hear that header and also identify those synchronizing pulses pretty cool right okay we're now officially done with obnoxious audio files so you can set your headphones back to normal now in the early days of space exploration sstv was actually used to transmit images of the far side of the moon nowadays it's not really used that much since you know you can just send an email attachment and i gotta say honestly in all my lore hunting and arg solving it's the first time that i've ever really encountered this method of clue solving so really awesome job there developers a plus for creativity just really stellar how do you solve this sort of thing luckily there are online converters converting it we get the following picture next up is the ddd file which is much simpler just a squashed image of a url that's missing a few letters which leads to a website that seems like it's all about the memes but actually contains another piece of information using the classic technique of upping the contrast levels we find that down in the bottom right it says just noah's page dot card dot co which contains a link to an audio file called dispatch this one isn't ear splitting like plant was so here's a clip that you can listen to you can hear a robotic voice reading out a long string of unrelated words this is actually a code written in what's called the nato alphabet a alpha b bravo c charlie etc it's a type of spelling alphabet basically as a way to spell something over audio only signals without the letters getting confused with each other since you know a lot of them sound alike the result gives you this absolutely glorious phrase ed mukshieh you know what i'm just gonna put it up here on the screen because it's a bunch of gobbledygook clearly there is more here that needs to be solved so what is it base64 is it a substitution cipher maybe a visionaire cipher for feeling spicy nope again none of the usual suspects work i i told you this was a really creative really wild mystery i was stumped until i looked at the other clues that were left in the folder one of the last things that we haven't talked about is the file jane and honestly there's a reason why it's just the daughter's homework assignment and let's just say it's not gonna get a grade worthy of hanging up on the refrigerator throughout the page we see jane making a bunch of misspellings saying that she's learning the alphabet notably leaving off the last letter of her practice alphabets the z on the first and the a on the second something tells me that teacher is going to have to break out the red pen when grading this one but teacher matpat's here and ready to give her an a plus because all of those missing letters and misspellings are a whole lot of arg red flags the only question is what do they mean well jane says that her favorite game is foursquare with a hyphen and that is our biggest clue of all you see there's a type of puzzle called a four square cipher that involves four squares of letters ideally arranged in a grid of five by five the eagle eyed among you may have already worked out that a five by five grid works out to 25 letters but there are 26 letters in the alphabet and this is when you realize that's why jane's alphabet leaves a letter out of each one which means it's time to make the squares the forward alphabet will go in the upper right hand corner and the backwards cipher will actually go into the bottom left in the other two blocks we'll use a standard alphabet with i and j combined which is a traditional way to solve these sorts of puzzles and yeah we have ourselves a giant grid of letters now what well now it's time for that handy phrase from earlier where we're gonna use it like coordinate points taking each two-letter section to find points in our new grid as an example we start with the letters e and d to decode this we actually need to find the e in our first cipher text box in the top right and d in our second cipher text box in the bottom left now we see where those two overlap in our plain alphabets to get the letter c we do this again in the lower alphabet block to get the letter z this makes the first part of the deciphered text bcz mu becomes cx becomes cc and so on and so on and so on until we end up with something that barely looks better than what we started with notice the repeated word capital and the equals at the end well if we take the capitals and turn the letter after it into a capital letter and the equals at the end into an equal sign we get something that looks closer to this now it is finally in base 64 which means there's one last step to decoding it but you also have to lose that x at the end because it was just a placeholder to make sure that the text worked out properly anyway blah blah blah there's a lot of smaller details here long story short you eventually wind up with a paste bin link that leads you to another google drive this one is ominously titled case file and it finally gives us the information we needed to have a complete picture of everything that happened from reading the files we learned that the black goo wasn't enough to bring bob back to life he needed a host so lennon pulled in norman osborne and tested it on himself when that wasn't enough he took his wife and child with the sole purpose of sacrificing them to bob as confirmed by the character profile file however that document also reveals something else a few days later his daughter jane was found covered in black goo heavily disfigured and in a coma but still alive apparently she wasn't fit to be the host for bob and she escaped but jess and lennon remain missing and that's where the story ends there's still some clues that don't have places like the sstv signal image doesn't really connect to anything and a symbol's image that appears in the folder entitled evidence but weirdly this does seem to be the end of the story and then of course as i was writing the script something new was added to the mystery the developers asked for it to stop now clearly visible in the original google drive folder is a subfolder labeled arg spoilers the developers go over all the story details and then clearly state lenin has nothing to do with the canon of bob mod or fniff sorry for the weird arg see according to the developers the arg started as something small just some inside jokes in the source code of the game that led him to think that they could make a full arg soon they had accomplished exactly what they wanted but in their words quote it eventually started to grow in popularity and started taking a toll on the arg dev's mental state i just wanted to get this thing to a close so i can put my mind at ease as someone who's worked on multiple args in the past i can totally understand this things very easily get out of hand very quickly but i still want to do this episode to bring this whole thing to light because this was without exaggeration one of the most clever arg experiences i've yet seen online it also answered a lot of questions regarding the sinister nature of the bob mod which i thought was really cool even if it doesn't wind up being official canon and lastly this note made me think maybe things aren't quite done with bob you see they say that the arg has nothing to do with bob's in-game lore but there is still one thing i haven't covered if you beat the first bob mod on hard mode you're given a web address bob is mad this page gives you some clues to find a second website and then another and another and another you end up at a site where it tells you that bob is happy you get here seems sweet but a problem occurs if you keep digging there's a hexadecimal code at the bottom of the page and decoding it leads you to yet another webpage where bob states what how you hear i am angry if you keep going by solving binary morse and base64 codes bob gets madder and madder until he gets covered in goo and disappears leaving the message you do realize what you've done the devs learned that bob doesn't like people looking into his origins and when they do he disappears to claim that person as his next victim so in some weird way the arg being called over may actually just be another part of the arg i don't really think it is but from a story perspective there's truly no way to canonically end this arg without it feeling like an actual legit part of the lore because the arg and finding out about bob's past is just part of that process kind of like a weird catch-22 scenario anyway bob clearly likes attention he wants people to play with him but he doesn't want those people to look into his backstory and when they do he hops over to his new host and so now here we are talking about him is that a good thing are we making him happy or am i talking about his past are we making him mad anyway the whole thing's over now and it wasn't cannon anyway so it really shouldn't [Music] [Music] i'd like to thank everyone for coming today matt was a father a husband a friend he'll truly be missed now that he's become one with the black goo before you left us he asked me to share a few words with you the raycon everyday earbuds are the best earbuds he's ever owned that's right this eulogy is an ad read for our sponsor raycon folks the raycon 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Channel: The Game Theorists

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Id: sckA6yvi-5g

Length: 18min 1sec (1081 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 04 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Yeah_man20]

and to think none of us even thought about lore for a mod that seems like it is just a joke

[u/_Bob_is_mad_]

No talk me angy

[u/DuckasurausRex]

I ‘ M D O N E W I T H Y O U N O W : )