I really had a blast making this documentary and I hope you guys enjoy it! The MayDay Mystery is such a strange oddity that I really wanted to make a video about it to see what you guys think. Secret society? Political movement? Long-term expensive trolling? Anyways, more docs soon.
okay but I live in Tuscon, Az, the city where the University of Arizona is at, and when I was younger and I watched High School Musical, I thought the school in High School Musical was based off of the U Of A, just because they both have Wildcats as their mascots.
@@ezzy2254 well it wouldn't be hard to come up with something that fits into the puzzles aesthetic within a year. And since no puzzle has been fully solved it points to the possibility this is a ruse, as well as a secret society that actually reaches out, that seems counterproductive. You never see The Fellowship do that. And they're way spookier than May Day imo
I feel like something should be said about that bit in Mandarin... 毛主席万岁 does mean "Long live Chairman Mao", although in the communist era, it was an EXTREMELY popular (and mandatory sometimes) saying. It can even be seen in the sample video you showed, at 7:54. (I know it says 伟大的领袖毛主席万万岁, it's basically a longer version, meaning "long live great leader Chairman Mao") That stamp, sorry to say it, 99.999% chance, has absolutely nothing to do with it, and any "lead" from it is probably coincidental. Part of the phrase itself, 万岁, has more historical and general east Asian ties to longevity, so 10,000 years by itself has no real importance. Also, 毛主席万岁 has 28 strokes, not 24, and stroke order is usually something early Chinese learners need to practice. It's like second nature to even intermediate level learners. My guess is that, since it was a popular party slogan, including the connection to May Day, this "society" has a lot more to do with communism than we may think. That's just my opinion though. Just wanted to clear some things up.
I'm pretty sure its actually 27 characters, but yea. You can tell from the thickness of the brushstrokes where the the pen falls and rises, and while it isn't written how a trained person would write, it's definitely not 24 strokes.
I was gonna write a comment saying all this, but you'd already put it far better than me. Thanks! Just to add that "万岁" is also used in Japanese, as a phrase the West is far more familiar with - 'banzai'. It is indeed a popular and common phrase in the Far East, particularly in historical times.
From how long this mystery has gone on, I can only assume this is not a game, (and if it is, it's one *dedicated* game) however I can't say it's some "overthrow the government" type of thing either. It's more mysterious than cryptic, and the person or people running the mystery clearly want people to solve it.
bacon froyo someone in college in the mid 80’s would be around 55 now. I know that because that is my mom’s age. That’s not “old asf”, that’s middle age. Jennifer Lopez is close to 50. Do you think she looks like she’s looking at nursing homes? Jesus...
Yeah it's clearly some incel losers trying to show off how knowledgeable they are and probably making puzzles that can't even be solved. Some rich jerks with too much time and money.
@@cheatterful righto, which makes me wonder if a man could get his hands on the subscriber list lol could narrow it down by people who live out of the normal range... just thinking out loud.
When Jorge said "It's spooky season", I felt my absolutely horrible weak become the most amazing thing ever. The word "leitmotive" (pronounced light motif) is a musical phrase/melody that represents a person, place, or thing in a larger musical work. This also explains the musical notation that appears on some puzzles.
Leitmotiv is a German word. With an additional e at the and as in Leitmotive it becomes plural. And yea it is a guiding theme or in this case guiding themes. But not only in musical work. It's also used in art, literature and in German you could also interpret it as a political cause.
Agreed. Has print media became such a lost art that no-one realizes how complex, and how many people need to be involved, to print something en masse like this without *some* trace being left? I mean, aside from the exorbitant price, who's PAYING for it for starters?
@@davidstuckey9289 and why the university doesnt explains? or why they even accept to publish something cryptic that they might not understand and might be "dangerous content''
There's actually a children's series character in Poland looking exactly like this. His name is Kulfon and he usually stars beside a female frog called Monika. The show has also been there for decades, likely even longer than the mystery itself. (Edit to correct the autocorrect)
I looked it up and found one that said Me: mom buy me baby Yoda Mom: we have baby Yoda at home then there was a picture of Kulfon that said "Baby Yoda at home" it was all in polish
No if this person is some kind of HUGE internet mystery whether it be one person or several probably has a good enough sense in programming to where they are more than capable of building their own and in this case you can mod your VPN to do as much or little as you need
@M Redmond Nord is a VPN-Virtual Private Network, they have multiple uses but some of the more notable ones are making your internet connection more secure (less likely to get hacked/corrupted) and redirect your IP adress to show your real address being in a different location, for example, this isnt what IP addresses look like btw, say my IP address was 12345 and i live in texas, if i switch nord to the on switch, i can choose a location and itll also change my number IP. im not extremely knowledged but i took 1 year of cybersecurity in high school so i know some bear bones basic info about keeping your connection secure. also this isnt just for people that dont know about VPNs but also for people thinking about using one, do NOT use a free one, yes they keep your info private but they have to make money somehow so they do sell that ingo to companies, its more secure to not have a VPN than to use a free one. personally i use ExpressVPN but Nord is also pretty solid from what i know
The orphanage in the 80s: All we have is a few puzzles and that's all we need. The orphanage now: Damn these puzzles went viral well have to make them harder!!!
So if the first diary of a wimpy kid was published in 2007 and smiley guy was first featuared in 1982 what if Jeff Kinney was the one being inspirired?
Francisco Sergei did you even read the manga? Rodrick comes out of the book using his ultimate powers of Poqawik to confront Jeff Kinney, where he then kills him and goes back in time to create smiley guy.
I’m not nearly smart enough to solve puzzles like this, but I find them so, so fascinating and incredibly eerie. The sheer effort, research, money, and teamwork that must go into crafting these puzzles and releasing them makes me think there has to be a greater reason than a simple testing of the mind, or as some others suggested, a long-standing joke at the people trying to solve the puzzles expense. This reminds me slightly of Cicada 3301, but arguably this group and it’s motivations are much more mysterious, given how little we have to go on. I really hope one day people discover the answers behind the MayDay Mystery, and I’m alive to see it. Thanks for another great video, Jorge! I can’t wait to see some more spooky content from you on this spookiest of months. :’)
In my opinion I think it was a way to reach out to a group of people through some sort of secret code and I think that message had long since served its purpose and the only reason of its current existence is to cover up tracks and confuse those looking deeper into it.
The historical figures and Mao Zedong all have one thing in common: opposition of the Catholic Church. Mao by simple genocide, where the others were Lutheran reformers. Looking at the dates and type of content reminded me of something: the Catholic-Lutheran dialogue. For the first time pretty much since Lutheranism’s founding, a peaceful annual dialogue was formed to show the Vatican’s willingness to hear out other views on Christianity. It started somewhere in the 1960s and its debate points are recurring topics in the May Day ads. It’s been widely controversial on both sides since it started, especially for some current practicing Lutherans who see it as sleeping with the Devil. This created a tidal wave where radical Lutherans split from the organisation (like it did from the Catholics) to reject the institution even more vigorously. How do you split from religion? Secularism! What would you call an annual meeting happening alongside the Catholic-Lutheran dialogue? A Secular Ritual! (A secular ritual is combining doing two things at the same time while not being religious about it. Like eating popcorn while watching a movie.) Secular Ritual/Catholic-Lutheran, SR/CL. I think the May Day ads are the coded annual meet up plans for a post-Lutheran splinter group who get together as the Orphans of their faith to go against its congregation with the Vatican Devil. They must’ve had a wild one when the priest abuse scandals got flung into the public eye en masse. Source: my great-grandparents split from the Lutheran Church about a century ago when they discovered their local community had some muddy ties with the local Catholic church. My grandma was raised in a post-Lutheran congregation (hidden from the state followed by the Nazis) and taught all the grandchildren about it.
Potentially relevent: "The Orphans" was the name of one of the factions in the Hussite Wars, a pre-Protestant movement for Christian reform that occurred in 1400s Bohemia.
Schachter Factor Great catch! All the symbolism in these ads align with an organised opposition to the Catholic Church. If I was a Catholic exile in the 60s I too would probably publish our clubhouse code puzzles in my University’s paper.
I was thinking along these lines as soon as I saw those four faces in the first screen shot, and recognized who the historical figures are. Weather the organization is Lutheran, Communist, Socialist, Pagan or whatever - it is blatantly obvious that anti-Catholicism is at the very core of their world view. I also suspect that the name "The Orphanage" is intended to symbolize that the group feels itself to have somehow been kicked out of their home, either physically or spiritually. Possibly Lutherans or other Protestants opposed to dialogue with the Vatican, possibly ex-Catholics with an axe to grind against the Church. Out of the four figures pictured, Cromwell is probably the one with the least fans out there, but possibly the give away as to the groups ideology. The only people I have ever met who spoke well of Cromwell were anti-Catholic, anti-Monarchist, Protestant, republican*, socialist. * note, I am refer to "republican" with a small letter r, as in opposed to monarchy and aristocracy, not to indicate any affiliation with the US political party of the same name.
I’d just like to say that when I read the letter written that gave tips, “work outwards towards the center”, my immediate reaction was that the writer of that message had definitely sat amongst the Court Of Kings. It reminded me a bit of the extremely brilliant OP from the infamous “I’m A Rofschild, Axe Me A Question” thread from the GLP forum. Not exactly that OP, but someone cut from the same cloth. I wasn’t the least bit surprised to see a little further on in this video that someone on 4chan narrowed it down to bloodlines of those characters. If these are intended for that class of people, I’d also not be surprised at all if many of them figure out these puzzles, some with little effort at all
So just gonna drop a fea things i figured out; The confessio Augusta is a primary confession of faith of the lutheran church/ highly important document of protestant reformation; In 2017 the MayDay published its 487th puzzle 2017-487 is 1,530, if you research into that year on the date of June 25th,1530 the Augsburg confession was held which has a strange correlation, in the 2017 puzzle it mentions the breinfeld battle which is a first major protestant victory of the 30 years war and mentions a guy gusavus who intervened in the protestant side of the 30 years war and died in the battle of Luthern in 1632, it keeps going on and on
Exactly. The newpaper would have to know who to charge for the ad. It doesn't just appear in a vacuum. Someone sends the graphics in and approves the final printing and signs the check/hands over the cash -- which means the newspaper know who is placing the ad, because they'd have records. You don't just walk into a newspaper office, drop off a full page ad, and expect it to be printed with no further questions. There has to be a contract. There has to be separate communication detailing how long the ad is to run & other minutae. If the newspaper is claiming "no info", yet runs the ad anyway, then they're in on it. My bet's on trollong.
While I agree that is a likely solution, the number of people involved have to be miniscule. Any conspiracy going on for 40 years is likely to have leakers somehow. Even if only somebody at a restaurant or bus stop overhearing a conversation. So either whoever is running it has a very tight control over the classification and people involved, or the leaks are but "local", i.e. not on the internet. Is it likely that a senior class prank can perpetuate for so long? There is (supposedly) no money or criminal charges or risk to life/body involved. Unless the paper pays a bonus to the staff involved depending on the mystery continuing.
dang... i was hoping that this was like a 1 hour long video of jorge solving the whole entire puzzle, but then i got 10 minutes through the video, and realized itt was only 16 minutes long...
Even though I am not that active in the comment section of your videos, I just want to say that your content is incredible. The amount of research and hard work you put into your videos are exquisite! Thanks again, I hope you have a great day and an even better week.
13:35 the text in russian seems to be written with a mistake, so, probably not by a native speaker, nor using services of a more or less qualified translator.
Find it funny that TH-cam decided to recommend this video to me today on May 1st lol Great video though dude, love watching some of your older videos from time to time and they never disappoint :D
I just wanted to say that your videos have improved massively in quality since you've started doing the more focused stuff like this (as opposed to lists). I love the lists too, but these deep dives really give you a chance to go into detail and it's a lot more captivating.
I’ve heard of this before but I really enjoyed the manner In which you laid out the information. You have a number of great mini-documentaries on unexplained occurrences that I thoroughly enjoy
The email said start at the edges so why is everyone reading the puzzles left to right like lines? If you start at the edges than the text is in a shape not a line. Right? Like a spiral or star or circle
I think the email was interesting. It had so many errors. So I wrote down the words that were incorrectly capitalised because they seemed so random. Simple Triangulation Structural Changes Focus Eschatological Unabridged The Announcements End Prize Announcements If you think it's worth anything then go ahead and try and use that information. I also found the capitalisation of Littoral interesting as it relates to water. Something I found funny (haha funny) is in the list of the recurring themes was the word Leitmotive which is a word for a specific type of recurring themes as well as the name of a quarterly Journal of the Wagner Society of Northern California.
Lowgain i feel like that’s pointless to do it in this way when there’s other ways that they could do that that would attract the interest of more people if that was there goal
Oh, wait 13:57 ish. OK, that makes sense. I don't know who they are, or what they do, but I recognize the thinking. It is a fraternal organization that most people would probably agree with their motives. The site generates interest, when someone figures it out, they realize that the mystery was fun and join the "secret society" (or realize that it is really boring and don't). No one reveals that they decoded it because the "game" is more important to them........ still leaves holes.
5:08 Literally translated as: "There is no peace to every meat." Googled it, it's a phrase from Jeremiah, the actual meaning is: 'no one will be safe' or 'no one will have peace'.
I’m from Arizona, and my grandma doodles a little guy that looks exactly like that doodle guy thing! Now I gotta ask her if she knows anything about this...
I was an editor at the Daily Wildcat in the late '90s and I had no awareness of this. How on earth did I not hear about it? I recall reading the paper daily, but maybe I ignored the ads. It's shocking to me that this was not on my radar at the time. Mark Woodhams was our faculty advisor -- I wonder if he knows anything about these ads?
I feel bad for bryan and any other people who are caught in the crossfire in these "mystery organisation" its like being a youtuber with a trending series and you have to keep doing them no matter what to keep your channel alive except in this situation the only fear isnt your social media dying
I don't think the group is religious for 3 simple reasons: 1. Luther's theology and Calvin's theology are mutually exclusive. 2. The use of the Catholic prayer "ora/orate pro nobis". 3. "Pelagians" were British heretics condemend by the Catholic Church because they rejected some core Catholic concepts like Original Sin and baptism. Pelagianism no longer exists. Thisd is clearly a use of religion to mask hidden meanings behind it.
This is about “Initiation” and “The Language of the Birds” aka “The Green Language of FreeMasonry”. If you can read it , you can reach out & then they know you have that particular vision for symbolism. If you pause the screen at the email & read it in full ... this is what is heavily alluded to.
Honestly maybe it's some strange "ritual" to throw off an ancient evil from a (the) group, by making it as confusing as possible, some evil like a "crossroads demon" more or less.
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I really had a blast making this documentary and I hope you guys enjoy it! The MayDay Mystery is such a strange oddity that I really wanted to make a video about it to see what you guys think. Secret society? Political movement? Long-term expensive trolling? Anyways, more docs soon.
blameitonjorge you gonna do a video on the hellfire club in Ireland
Hello blameitonjorge love your video's I really love this one keep up the good work :)
blameitonjorge you should talk about the worst kickstarters
When is your documentary about lost sesame street episodes gonna come out?
@@lordcybercat4968 frank SANatra : you want a political time XD
That's where it started. That smile. That damn smile.
What movie is this from?
@@nebuchadnezzarsaucedo1798 it's from 13 reasons why
I LOVE THAT MEME
LMFAO
Evil Otto is definitely jealous
“Someone has been printing a cryptic May Day ad on the Daily Wild Cat.”
So it’s a high school musical ARG?
WHAT TEAM?!
@@renderwren4284 WILDCATS
@@margalocaris WILDCATS! GETCHA HEAD IN THE GAME!!!
He, can, see, you....
He called you a Wildcat earlier, I didn't even pick up on it!
okay but I live in Tuscon, Az, the city where the University of Arizona is at, and when I was younger and I watched High School Musical, I thought the school in High School Musical was based off of the U Of A, just because they both have Wildcats as their mascots.
I'm gonna go with "A wealthy lawyer that was just shitposting".
Maybe
maybe, but if its just one guy, ill be damn impressed at the amount of knowledge he has
@@ezzy2254 well it wouldn't be hard to come up with something that fits into the puzzles aesthetic within a year. And since no puzzle has been fully solved it points to the possibility this is a ruse, as well as a secret society that actually reaches out, that seems counterproductive. You never see The Fellowship do that. And they're way spookier than May Day imo
@@complimentbotd7232 what's The Fellowhsip
@@FuzzyDancingBear the 1% maaaaaan
I didn't know Rodrick from Diary of a Wimpy Kid was a communist
that's why he made greg share his mombux
Rodrick tried to screw his hamster.
Come on.. we all knew!
diskakjd the version from the Long Haul movie is
That's why he's so fuckin cool
That drawing looks like Rodrick Heffley drawn worse.
Benny Boi i thoihht it was roderick
@@rainmaker5910 it's not
that's what i thought too
#notmyrodrick returns
Kinda looks like Karl Pilkington wearing really big earmuffs.
I feel like something should be said about that bit in Mandarin...
毛主席万岁 does mean "Long live Chairman Mao", although in the communist era, it was an EXTREMELY popular (and mandatory sometimes) saying. It can even be seen in the sample video you showed, at 7:54. (I know it says 伟大的领袖毛主席万万岁, it's basically a longer version, meaning "long live great leader Chairman Mao") That stamp, sorry to say it, 99.999% chance, has absolutely nothing to do with it, and any "lead" from it is probably coincidental.
Part of the phrase itself, 万岁, has more historical and general east Asian ties to longevity, so 10,000 years by itself has no real importance.
Also, 毛主席万岁 has 28 strokes, not 24, and stroke order is usually something early Chinese learners need to practice. It's like second nature to even intermediate level learners.
My guess is that, since it was a popular party slogan, including the connection to May Day, this "society" has a lot more to do with communism than we may think.
That's just my opinion though. Just wanted to clear some things up.
I'm pretty sure its actually 27 characters, but yea. You can tell from the thickness of the brushstrokes where the the pen falls and rises, and while it isn't written how a trained person would write, it's definitely not 24 strokes.
@@catatoblob8598 It is indeed 27 strokes
T - Butylhydroquinone hmm you’re actually going somewhere with this....
As an American learning chinese, I thank you for this tip.
I was gonna write a comment saying all this, but you'd already put it far better than me. Thanks!
Just to add that "万岁" is also used in Japanese, as a phrase the West is far more familiar with - 'banzai'. It is indeed a popular and common phrase in the Far East, particularly in historical times.
Boy, Rodrick's really let himself go.
Hehehe lmfao 🤣 Yeah and Greg Heffley is the culprit writing these strange messages
glad im not the only one who thought that
@@Spiccolo1202 Yeah that's my guess lmfao 😂
💀💀
Omg xD
From how long this mystery has gone on, I can only assume this is not a game, (and if it is, it's one *dedicated* game) however I can't say it's some "overthrow the government" type of thing either. It's more mysterious than cryptic, and the person or people running the mystery clearly want people to solve it.
@bacon froyo perhaps they've passed the roles onto their children? Even then, that leads to a multitude of other questions.
bacon froyo someone in college in the mid 80’s would be around 55 now. I know that because that is my mom’s age. That’s not “old asf”, that’s middle age. Jennifer Lopez is close to 50. Do you think she looks like she’s looking at nursing homes? Jesus...
Yeah it's clearly some incel losers trying to show off how knowledgeable they are and probably making puzzles that can't even be solved. Some rich jerks with too much time and money.
@@cheatterful righto, which makes me wonder if a man could get his hands on the subscriber list lol could narrow it down by people who live out of the normal range... just thinking out loud.
Yeah, those damn rich, knowledgeable... incels.
Why is that drawing's ears larger than his forehead?
He just ugly XD
+David AdventTime21 That’s just rude, man - I DON’T ASK YOU THAT.
So he can fly
@@goosepods 😂
The illuminati, clearly.
me looking at Jorge: Okay.....Horhay
Me looking at blameitonjorge: Blame it on George
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE
I ALWAYS READ IT AS GEORGE IN HIS NAME BUT AS HORHAY EVERYWHERE ELSE
I thought it was pronounced like George too lol. I found out a while ago that's not how you pronounce his name lmao
Lolololol yes
it's okay some people with the name Jorge still just go by George.
I just realized it was jorge recently lmao
Ugh your music editing is great
Gives me chills every time it goes silent even if it’s not that creepy
Ruby Nights hey when’s your next video?
Sonic Xtreme99 ahsgdsgg if you’re talking me I honestly have no clue,,,,I would do a speedpaint but I’m too dumb to not get copywrite
Ruby Nights well I’d doubt you’d get one
Wow the man himself ❤ you comment good job
I LOVE the creepy music. It’s a huge part of what makes @blameitonjorge my favorite TH-camr.
When Jorge said "It's spooky season", I felt my absolutely horrible weak become the most amazing thing ever.
The word "leitmotive" (pronounced light motif) is a musical phrase/melody that represents a person, place, or thing in a larger musical work. This also explains the musical notation that appears on some puzzles.
lmao I have horrible luck with my pronunciations. Thanks for the heads up! Just makes the mystery even more puzzling
I thought the word was "leitmotif?"
I've only ever heard it pronounced like late moateef
@@HououMinamino It is technically both.
Leitmotiv is a German word. With an additional e at the and as in Leitmotive it becomes plural. And yea it is a guiding theme or in this case guiding themes. But not only in musical work. It's also used in art, literature and in German you could also interpret it as a political cause.
SR: Stanley Richmond
CL: communist leader
Stanley Richmond/communist leader.
Wait a minute.... They're trying to bring back communism
must... seize.... means of production
Death is a preferable alternative to communism. Free Hong Kong!
Komm on
@@DeadBaron imagine thinking a country where people are throwing themselves through the windows of the factories they're working in is communist lmao
I'm skeptical that that's really the cost of a full-page ad in a school newspaper.
Agreed. Has print media became such a lost art that no-one realizes how complex, and how many people need to be involved, to print something en masse like this without *some* trace being left? I mean, aside from the exorbitant price, who's PAYING for it for starters?
@@davidstuckey9289 and why the university doesnt explains? or why they even accept to publish something cryptic that they might not understand and might be "dangerous content''
There's actually a children's series character in Poland looking exactly like this. His name is Kulfon and he usually stars beside a female frog called Monika. The show has also been there for decades, likely even longer than the mystery itself.
(Edit to correct the autocorrect)
Oh my god I looked that up and that looks just like him. Trippy :()
I looked it up and found one that said
Me: mom buy me baby Yoda
Mom: we have baby Yoda at home
then there was a picture of Kulfon that said "Baby Yoda at home"
it was all in polish
There's also 'Plastuś', this character also has giant ears. He is way cuter than Kulfon though 😕
@@eth4n55 ok that was funny :v
I thought he looked like rodney from diary of a wimpy kid
Dude the person that made the puzzles is using Nord VPN
No if this person is some kind of HUGE internet mystery whether it be one person or several probably has a good enough sense in programming to where they are more than capable of building their own and in this case you can mod your VPN to do as much or little as you need
@M Redmond Nord is a VPN-Virtual Private Network, they have multiple uses but some of the more notable ones are making your internet connection more secure (less likely to get hacked/corrupted) and redirect your IP adress to show your real address being in a different location, for example, this isnt what IP addresses look like btw, say my IP address was 12345 and i live in texas, if i switch nord to the on switch, i can choose a location and itll also change my number IP. im not extremely knowledged but i took 1 year of cybersecurity in high school so i know some bear bones basic info about keeping your connection secure. also this isnt just for people that dont know about VPNs but also for people thinking about using one, do NOT use a free one, yes they keep your info private but they have to make money somehow so they do sell that ingo to companies, its more secure to not have a VPN than to use a free one. personally i use ExpressVPN but Nord is also pretty solid from what i know
Surely he plays Raid Shadow Legends, and can get you a free audio book if you go to audible.com and use the coupon code "MAYDAYMYSTERY"
r/madlad
Dude stoooop xD
I feel like smiley guy is just someone's version of a signature.
Thank you all for the likes.
I haven't finished the video yet but he looks like some of his features are supposed to be letters
@@no_peace I only see his nose as S, what letters do you see?
So why would the hair count be different on multiple publications
@@slendergainz his head could be an O, ears Cs or Os, eyebrows could be i or l, mouth a c or u or...
Rearrange
Ngl the thumbnail looks like my little brothers drawing from 1st grade
:)
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((:))
Looks like my older brothers’s drawing, and he owns a band called “Löded Diper”
The orphanage in the 80s: All we have is a few puzzles and that's all we need.
The orphanage now: Damn these puzzles went viral well have to make them harder!!!
Looks like Rodrick from Diary of A Wimpy Kid.
Cyrus F it looks like what you'd see if you looked at him from front on
Jeff Kinney is behind the messages.
So if the first diary of a wimpy kid was published in 2007 and smiley guy was first featuared in 1982 what if Jeff Kinney was the one being inspirired?
Francisco Sergei did you even read the manga? Rodrick comes out of the book using his ultimate powers of Poqawik to confront Jeff Kinney, where he then kills him and goes back in time to create smiley guy.
Rodrick rules
"I fear no man."
"But that thing..."
s m i l e y m a n
"It scares me."
Wanna know what would be interesting?
Breaking down on the Clown Cult of 2016
We had that idea a while back actually
@Sparcdoctor you watch jorge? nice to see you
blameitonjorge please do a video on it. That would be a good one for this time of year.
@@blameitonjorge Sweet!
If you do this, please look up the nice clowns who lost out on a lot of work because of that!
The smiley face drawing reminds me of the "Have you seen this man?" picture. Kind of a weird connection I guess.
That's what I thought too, but I think that both of them are just so basic that they somehow look alike and remind us of them in a weird way.
Same!
Who’s hyped for spooky season
*SpOoKy SeAsOn*
*spooks you uwu
Bruh, it's already spooky season
It’s been spooky season and I’m kinda cockahdoodle
Meee
So, this was like Cicada 3301, but with a drawing of a face that looked like a doodle from the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books.
What about physical copies in a library? A trip to the exotic land of Arizona is in order.
It's not as hot anymore right now, is safe to visit without worry from the heat.
@@firestarter6488 are you sure cause climate change is a really thing
@@firestarter6488 yeah, it's finally cooling off.
y'all lyin it's still hot as satan's buttcrack down here
@@RamenStudios69 not where I'm at. It's about 85-90 during the day here. You must be somewhere in the Phoenix area
I’m not nearly smart enough to solve puzzles like this, but I find them so, so fascinating and incredibly eerie. The sheer effort, research, money, and teamwork that must go into crafting these puzzles and releasing them makes me think there has to be a greater reason than a simple testing of the mind, or as some others suggested, a long-standing joke at the people trying to solve the puzzles expense. This reminds me slightly of Cicada 3301, but arguably this group and it’s motivations are much more mysterious, given how little we have to go on. I really hope one day people discover the answers behind the MayDay Mystery, and I’m alive to see it.
Thanks for another great video, Jorge! I can’t wait to see some more spooky content from you on this spookiest of months. :’)
Yea I thought I was a genius when I briefly grasped how to play Sudoku lol
You should've uploaded it on May 1st 2019.
@@nachosrule6985 Thanks i missed that Mistake.
@@nachosrule6985 They did
uploaded*
@@harveersingh5504 They did spell it right
@@victormezynski9727 they edited the comment
"leitmotive" is a recurring theme (usually in music) that ties everything together
In my opinion I think it was a way to reach out to a group of people through some sort of secret code and I think that message had long since served its purpose and the only reason of its current existence is to cover up tracks and confuse those looking deeper into it.
The historical figures and Mao Zedong all have one thing in common: opposition of the Catholic Church. Mao by simple genocide, where the others were Lutheran reformers. Looking at the dates and type of content reminded me of something: the Catholic-Lutheran dialogue. For the first time pretty much since Lutheranism’s founding, a peaceful annual dialogue was formed to show the Vatican’s willingness to hear out other views on Christianity. It started somewhere in the 1960s and its debate points are recurring topics in the May Day ads.
It’s been widely controversial on both sides since it started, especially for some current practicing Lutherans who see it as sleeping with the Devil. This created a tidal wave where radical Lutherans split from the organisation (like it did from the Catholics) to reject the institution even more vigorously. How do you split from religion? Secularism! What would you call an annual meeting happening alongside the Catholic-Lutheran dialogue? A Secular Ritual! (A secular ritual is combining doing two things at the same time while not being religious about it. Like eating popcorn while watching a movie.) Secular Ritual/Catholic-Lutheran, SR/CL. I think the May Day ads are the coded annual meet up plans for a post-Lutheran splinter group who get together as the Orphans of their faith to go against its congregation with the Vatican Devil. They must’ve had a wild one when the priest abuse scandals got flung into the public eye en masse.
Source: my great-grandparents split from the Lutheran Church about a century ago when they discovered their local community had some muddy ties with the local Catholic church. My grandma was raised in a post-Lutheran congregation (hidden from the state followed by the Nazis) and taught all the grandchildren about it.
Potentially relevent: "The Orphans" was the name of one of the factions in the Hussite Wars, a pre-Protestant movement for Christian reform that occurred in 1400s Bohemia.
Schachter Factor Great catch! All the symbolism in these ads align with an organised opposition to the Catholic Church. If I was a Catholic exile in the 60s I too would probably publish our clubhouse code puzzles in my University’s paper.
Don't think so, Lutherans reject Calvin and the use of Latin prayers like "ora pro nobis" which appears in the images are strictly Catholic
I was thinking along these lines as soon as I saw those four faces in the first screen shot, and recognized who the historical figures are. Weather the organization is Lutheran, Communist, Socialist, Pagan or whatever - it is blatantly obvious that anti-Catholicism is at the very core of their world view. I also suspect that the name "The Orphanage" is intended to symbolize that the group feels itself to have somehow been kicked out of their home, either physically or spiritually. Possibly Lutherans or other Protestants opposed to dialogue with the Vatican, possibly ex-Catholics with an axe to grind against the Church.
Out of the four figures pictured, Cromwell is probably the one with the least fans out there, but possibly the give away as to the groups ideology. The only people I have ever met who spoke well of Cromwell were anti-Catholic, anti-Monarchist, Protestant, republican*, socialist.
* note, I am refer to "republican" with a small letter r, as in opposed to monarchy and aristocracy, not to indicate any affiliation with the US political party of the same name.
This could be plausible, since puritanism has been a group factor in America since before it's founding.
I’d just like to say that when I read the letter written that gave tips, “work outwards towards the center”, my immediate reaction was that the writer of that message had definitely sat amongst the Court Of Kings. It reminded me a bit of the extremely brilliant OP from the infamous “I’m A Rofschild, Axe Me A Question” thread from the GLP forum. Not exactly that OP, but someone cut from the same cloth.
I wasn’t the least bit surprised to see a little further on in this video that someone on 4chan narrowed it down to bloodlines of those characters. If these are intended for that class of people, I’d also not be surprised at all if many of them figure out these puzzles, some with little effort at all
The tenured professor who has secretly been pulling the strings for the past 30 years is cackling
Whenever I'm early, I have nothing to say. Whenever I'm late, I have lots to say.
So it goes.
@@blazebaby89 yes.
?? ?? whenever i see spam, i flag
A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.
Girlfriend says the same thing to me
I lived in Tucson, where the University of Arizona is located, and I can’t believe I’ve never heard of this.
May 1??
SpongeBob was obviously behind this
You are spongeBob but obese XD
Daniel saldana Captain Obvious, much?
@@Gloomdrake k
Only spongebob 1-3 though
@@daisakukuze9627 no
god i wish i were clever enough to solve intense puzzles like these.... i guess ill just stick to playing flow lol
This is incredibly interesting, holy crow.
15:15 in Tibetan says “a good memory”
Your comment needs more attention
Still cries at a good film
So just gonna drop a fea things i figured out;
The confessio Augusta is a primary confession of faith of the lutheran church/ highly important document of protestant reformation;
In 2017 the MayDay published its 487th puzzle 2017-487 is 1,530, if you research into that year on the date of June 25th,1530 the Augsburg confession was held which has a strange correlation, in the 2017 puzzle it mentions the breinfeld battle which is a first major protestant victory of the 30 years war and mentions a guy gusavus who intervened in the protestant side of the 30 years war and died in the battle of Luthern in 1632, it keeps going on and on
If the cost is that high it's probably a joke by the journalism dept
ya i was thinking the same along the lines of a sociology or political science department or club.
How about every year a group of students has to make an puzzle.. With some certain variables, and grade.
Exactly. The newpaper would have to know who to charge for the ad. It doesn't just appear in a vacuum. Someone sends the graphics in and approves the final printing and signs the check/hands over the cash -- which means the newspaper know who is placing the ad, because they'd have records. You don't just walk into a newspaper office, drop off a full page ad, and expect it to be printed with no further questions. There has to be a contract. There has to be separate communication detailing how long the ad is to run & other minutae. If the newspaper is claiming "no info", yet runs the ad anyway, then they're in on it.
My bet's on trollong.
long running senior prank. sr/cl would be senior class
While I agree that is a likely solution, the number of people involved have to be miniscule. Any conspiracy going on for 40 years is likely to have leakers somehow. Even if only somebody at a restaurant or bus stop overhearing a conversation.
So either whoever is running it has a very tight control over the classification and people involved, or the leaks are but "local", i.e. not on the internet.
Is it likely that a senior class prank can perpetuate for so long? There is (supposedly) no money or criminal charges or risk to life/body involved. Unless the paper pays a bonus to the staff involved depending on the mystery continuing.
The last time I was this early the skeleton raid hadn’t started
dang... i was hoping that this was like a 1 hour long video of jorge solving the whole entire puzzle, but then i got 10 minutes through the video, and realized itt was only 16 minutes long...
Published in a college newspaper.
Never bothers to contact the newspaper office.
He most likely did and either came up with nothing or that is how he found out about the lawyer.
Rocky Desert Flower i was looking through the comments to see if anyone else had pointed this out lmao
i go to UA.... what should i ask the paper? 😂
maria.elena who published, approved, and edited the ad
lol NordVPN is just a meme at this point
What do you mean by a meme.
Maybe cause it's constantly everywhere? My guess at least lol
What is meme?
@@coffeejohnny2337 no
@@coffeejohnny2337 isn't "viral" the definition for meme?
Even though I am not that active in the comment section of your videos, I just want to say that your content is incredible. The amount of research and hard work you put into your videos are exquisite! Thanks again, I hope you have a great day and an even better week.
New mystery appears
Conspiracy Theorists: IT'S THE ROTHSCHILDS AND THE CLINTONS
Is it possible the university itself is making the ad?
You have some of the best topics out of all of these mystery videos. Very abstract and rare.
Sees thumbnail
Me: another actors career ruined by drugs
*rodrick from diary of a wimpy kid is behind this i mean the face looks like him*
Plot twist: The puzzle is made by the author of diary of a wimpy kid.
I like your pfp
Nice pfp.
@@swimmyneutron5565 ty
And Poptropica Has A Secret "Easter Egg".
If that's what i would call it...
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@@Hello________________ Bruh, I like your style. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
5:11 for everyone „im Schlamm arbeiten“ means „working in the mud“ in German
13:35 the text in russian seems to be written with a mistake, so, probably not by a native speaker, nor using services of a more or less qualified translator.
I hope it's a secret society, that would be less mundane.
I See You ALL OVER THE PLACE!!!!!
Hey I didn’t expect to see you here again
Find it funny that TH-cam decided to recommend this video to me today on May 1st lol
Great video though dude, love watching some of your older videos from time to time and they never disappoint :D
wow, something interesting FINALLY happens here in Arizona
I’m waiting for one of these VPN advertisements to call a VPN the “condom you may want to put on before browsing the dangerous interwebs”
Hey Jorge, I must say. I look forward to every upload you put out. I love these new mystery videos, but they spook me silly. Keep it up man!
when we raid Area 51 again next year, we're going to find the answer.
We better raid it soon cuz its December already
I just wanted to say that your videos have improved massively in quality since you've started doing the more focused stuff like this (as opposed to lists). I love the lists too, but these deep dives really give you a chance to go into detail and it's a lot more captivating.
they way leitmotif was pronounced was the scariest part of this video
I’ve heard of this before but I really enjoyed the manner In which you laid out the information. You have a number of great mini-documentaries on unexplained occurrences that I thoroughly enjoy
The email said start at the edges so why is everyone reading the puzzles left to right like lines? If you start at the edges than the text is in a shape not a line. Right? Like a spiral or star or circle
You're a special cookie huh
IDK what that means
Lol
I think the email was interesting. It had so many errors. So I wrote down the words that were incorrectly capitalised because they seemed so random.
Simple
Triangulation
Structural Changes
Focus
Eschatological
Unabridged
The Announcements
End
Prize
Announcements
If you think it's worth anything then go ahead and try and use that information.
I also found the capitalisation of Littoral interesting as it relates to water.
Something I found funny (haha funny) is in the list of the recurring themes was the word Leitmotive which is a word for a specific type of recurring themes as well as the name of a quarterly Journal of the Wagner Society of Northern California.
I only realized just now that I’ve chosen to finally watch this on May 1st, 2021...
new drinking game: take a shot every time this dude mentions that the mystery is unsolved
vodka, milk, soda, beer or wine?
@@also_arles milk for strong bones
@@sadie_cat good choice im going to the store to get some now
Leitmotive is probably pronounced “lite-motive” like leitmotif instead of “le-it-motive”
It is, with the emphasis on the last syllable.
“Lite-moteef” - it has more of an “f” sound at the end instead of a “v”
is it just me or does smiley guy look that “that guy” from the dream creepy pastas
LP Carti “this man”
Biscuit BOY yes thank you that’s what it was
LP Carti your welcome
YES
Are we sure this isn’t just a proto-ARG to promote The Daily Wildcat?
Wouldn’t be surprised.
Lowgain i feel like that’s pointless to do it in this way when there’s other ways that they could do that that would attract the interest of more people if that was there goal
Oh, wait 13:57 ish. OK, that makes sense.
I don't know who they are, or what they do, but I recognize the thinking. It is a fraternal organization that most people would probably agree with their motives. The site generates interest, when someone figures it out, they realize that the mystery was fun and join the "secret society" (or realize that it is really boring and don't).
No one reveals that they decoded it because the "game" is more important to them........ still leaves holes.
Ok new banned phrase: “He/she didn’t think much of it.”
It’s always a good day when Jorge posts
It’s always a good day when George uploads
Why couldn’t you just call the newspaper and ask who’s buying this ad space
? In the video its said it is a lawyer thats used as a link between the orphanage and the newspaper?
I think the man has tried and they gave him the name of the lawyer and that's that.
did you watch the whole video?
5:08
Literally translated as: "There is no peace to every meat."
Googled it, it's a phrase from Jeremiah, the actual meaning is: 'no one will be safe' or 'no one will have peace'.
SR/CL is clearly a hot slash fiction about these two guys.
Jorge is back at it again with another amazing documentary
I’m from Arizona, and my grandma doodles a little guy that looks exactly like that doodle guy thing! Now I gotta ask her if she knows anything about this...
Have ya asked her yet?
Idem
It’s just Cromwell trying to get his head back
Normal people: looks like Rodrick from Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Me, a Pilking-lectual: strange innit
It took me way longer than it should've to find this comment. Long live the orange!
I was an editor at the Daily Wildcat in the late '90s and I had no awareness of this. How on earth did I not hear about it? I recall reading the paper daily, but maybe I ignored the ads. It's shocking to me that this was not on my radar at the time. Mark Woodhams was our faculty advisor -- I wonder if he knows anything about these ads?
*I WAS JUST GOT CAUGHT UP ON YOUR VIDEOS, NOW THIS? IT'S A GOOD DAY*
YAY GOOD JOB I will sub to you now :)
@@CabronPR thank you 😁
@@vallisdaemonumofficial np
I have the sneaking suspicion that the editors of the Wildcat have a longstanding tradition of trolling the local conspiracy crowd.
I feel bad for bryan and any other people who are caught in the crossfire in these "mystery organisation" its like being a youtuber with a trending series and you have to keep doing them no matter what to keep your channel alive except in this situation the only fear isnt your social media dying
Ive always loved these mysterious documentaries! Nice work Jorge!
Maybe the real puzzle are the friends we made along the way
Lmao
That drawing looks like a doodle version of the "Have you seen this man in your dreams?" Posters.
I don't think the group is religious for 3 simple reasons:
1. Luther's theology and Calvin's theology are mutually exclusive.
2. The use of the Catholic prayer "ora/orate pro nobis".
3. "Pelagians" were British heretics condemend by the Catholic Church because they rejected some core Catholic concepts like Original Sin and baptism. Pelagianism no longer exists.
Thisd is clearly a use of religion to mask hidden meanings behind it.
This is about “Initiation” and “The Language of the Birds” aka “The Green Language of FreeMasonry”.
If you can read it , you can reach out & then they know you have that particular vision for symbolism.
If you pause the screen at the email & read it in full ... this is what is heavily alluded to.
It’s 2am
*perfection*
It's 8 am here and I'm happy to up this early to watch
Its 9am for me. Where you live? Holy hecc
It's closer to noon here 🤔
Bruh it’s 12:21pm
5pm here
I love it when the music goes silent, it adds another layer of creepiness
I really LOVE all these videos you make about all these internet mysteries,but i always wondered,how do you find these?
When Jorge comes out with a new video that means today is a good day
Why does smiley guy remind me of rodrick heffley
is he behind all this?
Everybody gangsta until a new mayday puzzle comes out
It’s time again, wonder what the Orphanage is gonna do this year
Cicada 3301 "We're going to create a complex web of puzzles only for the smartest to solve!"
Mayday Mystery "Hold my beer."
Anyone else coming back to this on may 1st?
Honestly maybe it's some strange "ritual" to throw off an ancient evil from a (the) group, by making it as confusing as possible, some evil like a "crossroads demon" more or less.
As someone that has "Richmond" as one of my surnames I was creeped out when you said it XD