Hello Internet. Welcome to Game Theory the
show that actually knows how the sausage gets made. And you can't, too, if you watch
our sister channel food theory. Speaking of, if you haven't watched fOoD theory, check
it out. Apparently It's Markiplier approved over the past several months, if
there's been one thing that I've seen requested constantly in the comments on
the subreddit and on Twitter, it's more FNAF to which I say, Why? How? What do you expect? But if there are two requests that I
see constantly? It's 1 more FNAF, and 2 to solve the horrific mysteries that
are happening over at Happy Meat Farms. Not to be confused with Happy Humbles Burger Barn,
completely separate thing. Just a lot of joyful beef products dominating the indie horror space
these days. I couldn't tell you why, but hey, as long as it's not killer animatronics or
haunted toys, I am all about it friends. Anyway, for those of you who don't
know, Happy Meat Farms is a video series currently being uploaded onto
the YouTube channel. This place is not happy. When I saw so many requests coming in
from you guys, I knew I had to check it out. But when I went to the channel there were
only three videos, It’s not a whole lot to work with or so I thought. Watching them it
immediately becomes clear that this is far from a nothing burger. Three short videos
quickly spiral out into a very complex, very expansive ARG filled with juicy LORE,
all about a meat manufacturing company engaging in some very unsavoury practices,
let's just say cruelty free. This is not. But the most interesting part of all is
that this one isn't finished. The ARG surrounding this evil corporation still has
presumably one more video left to release. It's been a good few months since the last video,
so it's unclear when we're likely to see it. But I figured now's as good of a time as any to dive
into the mystery, because I believe with what we already have, I can tell you what Happy Meat
Farms is up to and what the missing video is going to reveal. Ladies and gentlemen, the steaks
and the steaks have never been higher. Side note, did we get a Hellofresh sponsorship for this one
or not? Because it feels like a slam dunk. No. Okay. Can we can we reach out someone maybe
like, I don't know, the meat packers of America? I'm very good at packing meat. You know what?
Never mind. Strike that I said that. Also, before we get things started here, because
this is an ongoing ARG, I want to bring up the five rules of solving these sorts of puzzles
that we've talked about in previous videos. Don't want to have to resort to me uploading
a video that looks like this again. Whoa boy, that was not a fun series of
days for me. So anyway, long story short, without any further ado, I present to
you what I call the five P's of ARG’s. So with all that out of the way, it's time to get
to the meat of the theory. It's the same steak from earlier. I get that I've reused the joke
already, but we bought these beautiful steaks. I didn't want them to go to waste. It’s like
a $20 cut of steak for, like, a one cent joke. MEAT TRANSITION. Things start out with
a warning message that lets us know that only authorised happy meat farm R&D
personnel are allowed to view the video. It also asks that the parties who view
the video sign a nondisclosure agreement. So, uh, since I don't want any of us
to get into any legal trouble here, onscreen is a totally real and not at all
dubious NDA that's going to keep us all protected. All you need to do to accept the terms
and conditions is to write down in the comments: “I accept” if there's anything that
you see that's disagreeable in there, write “Sussy Bussy” No need to read it
closely, though. You can absolutely trust us, this is absolutely how real life contracts
work. You all signed in the comments? Great. Let's begin. The video shows us three
rounds of genetic treatment testing. Each experiment lets us see the subject name, animal
type, age, sex status and recommendation for the next step. Special shout outs to the cow
test subject here, which is code named M00. Get it? Get it? it’s a cow, moo. Top shelf
internet humour. Right there. In the first two rounds of testing, we see that things aren't
going so well after treatment. The test subjects have developed large tumours and eyes on parts
of their body that probably shouldn't have eyes. Others have mutated to such an extreme
degree that they outright blur the photo entirely because, quote, “looking at it
causes extreme discomfort”. Thank you, happy meat farm for your thoughtfulness and
foresight. except ah, you know there's just one problem with that move. the last frame the
image is on screen, the blur filter disappears. While most subjects are either kept
for further study or outright killed, two develop extreme growth and
are then sent to h.r. Not exactly sure what human resources are going to be
doing with a gross lump of mutant chicken. But clearly this is heading in the
direction that they want. And when the final animal m0101 escapes the
facility, the whole thing's declared a success. And Happy Meat Farm moves
on to begin human trials. But hold on, there's something else here, something
in that legalese that appears at the very beginning of the video. If you
bother to read the entire disclaimer, as I'm sure you always do in any agreement
that you go into, including the contract that we just signed on the channel a few
minutes ago, you'll see at the very bottom. “For more information, go to HappyMeatFarms.com.
And you know what? Yeah, I would like some more information, please. So let's head on over.
And it's a very normal, very corporate looking website. Squarespace. Did you? Well, my
friends, you got everything you need. Your list of products and services, your
company history, your glitching. Welcome video with hidden text. Hold on a minute.
That's not something that you usually find on a corporate website. And if that one didn't
tip you off, the copyright will 2023 huh? It's copyrighted from the future. There's even
an employee portal that can only be accessed with an employee's unique, happy Meat Farm's
ID, which, you know, we're eventually going to have to hack into. Let's start off with that
glitching video on the home page, shall we? If you pay close attention to the video,
you're going to start to notice something odd. The transitions are inconsistent throughout
the vast majority of the video. They use slow, gentle crossfades to complement the
sweeping beauty shots of their pastures. But every once in a while you have
a transition that goes like this, a hard cut to the next scene. And
therein lies our key. This ain’t my first rodeo here cowpokes. If there's
a place to hide single frame easter eggs it's during hard cuts like that. That
one frame between hard cuts tends to be overlooked by someone who's just casually
watching. In fact, the Happy Meat Farm welcome video has four of these single frame
moments, some of which might look familiar. There are little experimental monstrosities
from the first video P0113, C0174 and our good friend M00. But one of these things is not
like the other. At 24 seconds into the video, there's a single frame with the code ZX159G and
if we have to put this into the password prompt for the Happy Meat Farm employee portal, it
opens up.We are behind the curtain, friends.
Or we will be in a second because
I'm not done with this welcome video yet. While the hard cuts are certainly
the most obvious secret thing in here. They're only hiding an even bigger
piece of the puzzle. That's right, friendos. Happy meat farms is using secrets to
distract you away from the other more hidden secrets. It’s a pretty clever move, I got to
say. You see, at 44 seconds into the video, if you happen to be watching in full screen,
which, why would you be? But sure. There's a bunch of random letters that are nearly blending
in with the background. Ladies and gentlemen, break out the togas. It's a Caesar cipher. By
plugging it into a decoder, we see that it reads, quote: “host, assimilated, mother colony
established preparing the reconnection”. That's ah…it's a bit concerning. The terms
mother colony and assimilation make me think aliens are aliens somehow involved in the
animal testing we're seeing here? Possibly, but there's nothing else from the previous
video that comes close to expanding on the idea. I'm going to need more information here before we can fully commit to the tinfoil hat
on this one. So for more information, let's go back to that newly opened employee
portal, shall we? The employee access page gives us a glimpse of what life is like for
someone who's working at Happy Meat Farms. Their employee orientation video emphasises
how important privacy is to Happy Meat farms and openly admits that stress and trauma are
expected as a part of your everyday. To combat this happy meat farm has offered MANDATORY
THERAPY and it assures its employees that anything odd they see is all in their heads
and they probably shouldn't worry about it. This couldn't possibly be gaslighting, could
it? No. they're just listening in on our private conversations with our therapist in order
to know which ones have seen too much and which ones to bump off. Look, there's even a
list of benefits that we get for working here, including compensation in the
event of our untimely demise. When your likelihood of death is
expressly called out on the employee home page, it might be time to start
looking for a different line of work. There's also the not so subtle mention
of being part of the New World Order. See editors? I told you working in the dungeon wasn't so bad.
Editors: Yaaay. What we're dealing with here, my friends,
is a corporate culture that's constantly monitoring its employees, knowingly
exposing them to disturbing events, and offering therapy to
gaslight them into silence. Basically, it's Amazon. Beyond the
employee benefits and onboarding video, the portal has two very clear passwords
that we need to find. One to access the R&D department and the other to
access human resources. Maybe then we'll finally be able to figure out what
they're doing with all that chicken goo. Elsewhere on the site, there's a quick
backstory for the company. Apparently, the company is based in Florida because, of
course, the weirdo alien food mutation company is based in Florida and was founded in 1998
by a woman named Ramona Bynes who aspired to, quote: “Give animals the best quality of life.” I think the gooey chicken in the corner
might want to have a word with you. Happy Meat Farms almost went bankrupt in 2014 until
it was bailed out by a new unnamed partner who helped them turn things around, which could
explain the shift in the company's goals. Although they still claim to use no genetic
modifications or growth supplements elsewhere on the website, we learned that they
lobbied to kill a bill that would require groceries to put a special label on
anything that was genetically engineered. It seems like that’d be something that a
totally organic farm would want, but what do I know? I'm just a dumb creator. Politics
are above my pay grade. Speaking of creators, we see the website mention that they've
started to partner with up and coming creators like the cynical critic and fellow
SpongeBob theorist Alex Baleof all people. Guys, maybe you should do a better job of vetting
your brand deals in advance. Take it from me. This is the type of stuff that will get you cancelled
on Twitter. On the other end of the spectrum, in one last very meta twist, you can see that
the company appears to be having an ongoing dispute against the This Place Is Not
Happy YouTube channel the place where our investigation began. Happy Meat Farms
claims that the videos being uploaded onto the channel are fake and doctored, but I think
we know the truth. It's leaked footage from the R&D department, footage that we see spoken
about in a different part of the website. So knowing that we have ourselves some
more passwords to find, let's go back to the whistleblower YouTube channel and see what
else they've uploaded recently. On November 24th, 2021, This Place Is Not Happy released
its second leaked video titled Happy Meat Farms Genome Modification Test
47 Skipping Tests 44, 45 and 46 I see. Which I got to say, I don't hate. I
can only see so many deformed chickens before my appetite for McNuggets
is gone for good. In this video, we see the shift to human trials.
At the beginning of the upload, we see employees have themselves the exciting
chance to volunteer and be a part of the tests. Two weeks vacation, a 401k and untested
growth hormones injected directly into my arm. Woo hoo! Where do I sign? Only four of the
test subjects we see are actual volunteers. The rest are classified as insubordinate employees,
outsiders and noncompliant journalists. It's great to see so many people willingly
step forward and not coerced at all to help the forward march of science. Just like last
time with the animals, any subjects that show significant growth are immediately sent to H.R.,
but it's subject H0027 that ultimately stands out. She's a 47 year old female, classified as a host,
odd word choice there. There's no picture of this extremely dangerous subject because it
turns out that they've escaped. Usually not something you want to have happen after you
mutate them into a horrendous flesh monster. It's also worrying that this one is labelled
as extremely intelligent. Despite the escape, they declared the test a success.
sufficient growth has been achieved and the video ends with the phrase mother
will be pleased. There it is again, mother. Right after testing on an older female that
was explicitly labelled as host. We know from the website video that a mother colony has been
established that a host was assimilated. Could mother actually be a single entity with
the colony aspect being something more akin to the Aliens franchise? Where a single
mother alien: The Queen is planted somewhere, say a 47 year old female host, and then begins
the process of reproducing to create an alien colony. certainly seems plausible based
on the evidence so far. After the tests, the video returns to the original employee video, which thanks us for participating and for
being a small part of the New World Order. Then the video glitches once more and we
see something moving. While it's meant to be a distortion of the hands that are
holding the earth. When it begins to move, it almost looks like another test subject.
Big black eye on one side, pale, patchy skin. Plus we hear a distorted voice Don't feed them the way the voice sounds. Yeah, I can imagine that coming from one
of those horrible flesh piles. But what does it mean “them”? what “them”? And
why do things keep getting sent to H.R.? My guess is that these experiments are
being used to feed whatever mother is, that H.R. doesn't actually stand for
Human Resources. But to prove it, I'm going to need to access one of these
new login pages from the employee portal. And wouldn't you know it, this new video is
the key that we need to unlock it. Doing it, though, is going to be a bit of a
slog instead of just looking for hard cuts. This time we're looking for letters
that show up prior to any of the others. Normally the letters start
blurred and then become readable, but at different points certain letters
just appear without starting off blurred. Putting them all together in the order that
they appear gives us the code CM042T. And with that we head on over to the login
pages and while it doesn't work for H.R. It does unlock the R&D portal and it's on the
other side of that link where Happy Meat Farm's mask begins to slip, and what that webpage reveals
to us is going to have to wait for next time. This next page has so much to talk about.
Plus, there's still a final video we have to dissect. Just didn't feel right to
squash it all down into one episode. So, yes, there is going to be a part
two here in the upcoming week. So if you didn't do it earlier, smash
that subscribe button so hard it turns into subscribe button goo, subscribe
button goo that we can feed to mama and then hit the bell so hard that you
don't miss part two when it drops. I promise it's going to be worth your while.
Because while this story feels weird and gross right now, what's about to come next
is something that no one would expect, and given that the ARG isn't totally finished
yet. It's up to us to solve this thing together. But hey, that's just a theory. A
GAME THEORY! Thanks for watching. You've made it to the end of the video, which
means that you clearly like spooky ARGs. Well, if that's the case, then check out the
video to the left where we try to solve the twisted history of Generation
Loss, a new ARG that's starting up in the near future or if you want energies plus
goo non chicken this time sorry. Then check out the Friday night funkin bob mystery. That one is
the link on the right happy puzzling my friends.
