In honor of the Twitter account hitting a combined 84 tweets and likes, I will put it all out on the table now, a few days ahead of schedule, so we'll unpack the Peacock Tail post from last year here too as promised. As of July 26th (the latest tweet), we are 77 days away from a potentially important date. A little bit of trivia, July 31st, 2017 (1 year anniversary of Peacock Tail) is 420 days past June 6th, 2016 when this whole thing started.
Early on in the pattern last year, after the initial Macquarie Ridge post on 6/6 (which has a timestamp of 22:05 in Macquarie Ridge/New Zealand's timezone on that Facebook post, more on that number later) they began an interesting sequence:
7/7 Broken Drum (retweet of a fan post from July 2)
7/31 Peacock Tail
8/24 Nothing is Real
This sequence is notable because it spans a period of 48 days, each post separated by 24 days, per the typical pattern last year. Peacock Tail itself is interesting for a couple of reasons. The "video" is just a still photo of the NBC Peacock logo. For history buffs, this logo was first used on May 22, 1956 (5/22):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_of_N ... .931960.29The timestamp of the tweet when viewed in say, Nova Scotia or
New
Brunswick,
Canada, is 2:25pm, a reverse of May 22 (remember, Macquarie Ridge is also 22:05 when viewed in the appropriate time zone). Add them together (522 + 225), you get 747, a fun easter egg but not relevant for our purposes. On the other hand, 5x22 (or 22x5 for that matter) multiplies to 110. More on that later.
Initially after March 28th, 2017 with the Dayvan Cowboy post that day, it was speculated that something would occur on 15/6/2017 due to the pattern of videos on their YouTube playlist in relation to the order of their Twitter posts:
15 - Nothing is Real (August 24th)
6 - Left Side Drive (October 10th)
1 - Open the Light (December 8th)
7 - Dayvan Cowboy (March 28th)
This ended up being somewhat of a fakeout, but it took on proper meaning 2 days later than expected after dropping the first number in the sequence, as the Mr. Mistake vinyl was announced on June 17th (6-1-7) rendering "Nothing is Real" meaningless here (but that 15 does have meaning elsewhere later on)
Let's pause to discuss the importance of re-use of numbers. In the case of Mr. Mistake this year, check this out:
February 17, 2017 - Mr. Mistake Instrumental released (2/17)
July 21, 2017 - Mr. Mistake vinyl release (7/21)
Now we review all the relevant dates this year
March 28 (3x28=84) - Dayvan Cowboy video
June 7th (7x6=42) - T-shirts
June 17th (6-1-7 from Twitter/YouTube) - Mr. Mistake Vinyl announced
July 21st (7x21=147, or alternately 84+42+21=147) - Mr. Mistake Vinyl released
July 26th - more chatter about the Mr. Mistake vinyl
July 28th - Sometimes Remixes vinyl released
We have this steady flow of activity beginning on March 28th through July 28th. It calls to mind the exact 4 month gap last year between BoC liking a video, and then tweeting it themselves:
June 14th (6/14) - Left Side Drive liked
October 14th (10/14) - Left Side Drive tweeted
Now in 2017, we have this:
March 28th - Dayvan Cowboy video
July 28th - Sometimes Remix (first truly new material of the year)
We have room to increment by 4 months one more time this year (November 28th)
Soundcloud has been an interesting source for clues. The band intentionally "broke" their Geogaddi album there to hint at the Mr. Mistake vinyl release date, by giving the album a release year of 200
7 and replacing track
21 with an Aphex Twin tune (7/21)
The other thing of note there is the scrambled order of Tomorrow's Harvest tracks in the default view. The first 4 tracks are as follows:
10 - Palace Posy
11 - Split Your Infinities
17 - Semena Mertvykh
2 - Reach for the Dead
This breaks down to 10/11/2017 if you want to read it as a date. Is that October 11th or November 10th? Pretty ambiguous. If you multiply 10x11. you end up with 110, just like with the Peacock Tail post (5x22=110 or 22x5=110 depending on whether you look at the historical date, or the post's timestamp, its obviously all the same) 110 aside, 10 + 11 = 21, 21 being the only missing number in this year's expected sequence so far, so it's worth looking at.
If you increment July 28th by another 4 months, you get November 28th. Warp has a typical 7 week window between an announcement and a release, so if we take November 28th as a potential release date and roll it back by 48 days, we get October 11th for an announcement date.
I've mentioned before that they like to play with subliminals on their video playlist. A key video is Video 66 - Constants are Changing. The perception is that while social media posts in 2016 were divisible by 6, the ones in 2017 are divided by 7, this helps provide an illusion that everything in 2017 is a "reverse" of 2016 (ie 24 vs 42). You can do some interesting things with this change in constants regarding the playlist:
Video 66 - Constants are Changing
Video 24 (New Seeds) + Video 42 (csch, or Cosecha, or Harvest)
Video 15 (Nothing is Real) + Video 51 (An Eagle in your Mind, or track 2 / 17 on MHTRTC)
Video 33 - Aquarius (same both ways, this video goes into reverse at one point)
The only other time Aquarius appears in the playlist is at slot 110 (10x11)
51 is interesting when we look at this years relevant events that fall on the 28th of the month, every 4 months:
3/28/17 (Dayvan Cowboy)
7/28/17 (Sometimes Remixes Vinyl)
11/28/17 (???)
21/84/51 (51 being Eagle in your Mind in the playlist, or "Track 2/17", or 2017 if you want to use your imagination)
Lastly, to put a bow on it, treating the Left Side Drive posts from last year as hints on how to proceed this year:
6/14/16 -
3:31am MT (Video 110 (10x11) - Aquarius V3 (Video 110) was published to YouTube on
March 31, 2009)
10/14/16 -
3:11am MT - Tweet from March 11th, 2012 was deleted on March 28th, 2017. More important, "3:11" describes the theoretical exact 8 month range in 2017 between 3/28/17 (first post of the year when the 3/11 post was deleted) and 11/28/17 (release?) with "Sometimes" in the exact middle on 7/28, a similar approach to the 48 day/3 post pattern in 2016 (7/7 -> 7/31 -> 8/24)
That's my final word on this whole thing. Ultimately, I wouldn't even really call it an ARG, it's playing with subliminal messaging iin a social media environment - a fancy version of the black box leading up to TH.
I'll field any questions but the theorizing is finally over on my part. Happy early 420 in July!
