Everyone is talking about the various glitches in bts videos (btw I think they were confirmed to be the fault of youtube itself. But I still find them extremely weird). Which I agree, are weird but aren‘t as weird as the codes that probably most of you have already seen. 6 members have an encoded instagram account. It seems that only taehyung doesn‘t have one. Every account has an encoded bio. The code is called binary (it‘s a basic coding language). When you try to translate the binary codes that’s what you get.
1) chxm.chxm_ (Jimin) START GAME
2) n0chuu_ (Jeongguk) Level 1
3) mang_hobb (Hoseok) Level 2
4) sh00ky_ (Yoongi) Level 3
5) k0ya_rm (Namjoon) Level 4
6) rj_gn (Seokjin) Level 5
They all follow each other. However, only Yoongi follows additional 3 accounts and seems that one of them is Taehyung (tata_vui); his account displays a photo with words „GAME OVER“. Every account has posted photos with unreadable codes. A few that are decodable and some that I have no idea what they mean. For example, one photo on Taehyung‘s account has a binary code „ 01000001 01000010 01010010 01000001 01011000 01000001 01010011“ which translated means „ABRAXAS“
Abraxas is a word of mystic meaning. There are many explanations of what it can mean but as I was reading through I came across something that send shivers down my spine „The seven letters spelling its name may represent each of the seven classic planets.“ Maybe it has some kind of connection with time traveling that seems to be the main theory of the MV‘s. Whatever Abraxas is connected with, it‘s placed here for a reason.
But let‘s start from the beginning:
1) Jimin – START GAME.
I managed to decode these things: Kookie is 9 The universe has moved for us 4 September 16
Besides these codes, there are also a few that seems to be random number sequences or dates (I tried to look for the dates on bts youtube channel but I couldn‘t find any that corresponded) However, probably the most interesting hint is the message:
무서워, 나는이 순간 위험에 처해있다. 얘들 아, 나는 Fejl에 가입하는 것이 좋지 않을 것이라고 말했다… 우리는 지금 무엇을 할 것인가? @n0chuu_ @mang_hobb @k0ya_rm @rj_gn @sh00ky_ (trans: I am afraid, I am in danger at this moment. Guys, I said it would be bad to join Fejl … what will we do now? @ n0chuu_ @mang_hobb @ k0ya_rm @rj_gn @ sh00ky_)
The username above ( 6c_6f_73_74_20_75_73_65_72) lets me speculate that perhaps they’re playing a game with a person behind it and Jimin feels threatened.
2) Jungkook – Level 1
Whistles in my ears
There are also morse codes which can be translated to: eva+ wings+
The most interesting piece is a hashtag that connects jungkook‘s and jimin‘s accounts: #침침 #노추
3) Jhope – Level 2
Find the self that was innocent I know I’ve drunk from the poisoned chalice 지금 날 위로하네 (trans: I am comforting you now)
4) Suga – Level 3
I looked up and wished you NOT/ TODAY 04:06
It‘s especially interesting because when you go to the time mark in Not Today MV, it‘s an image of jungkook looking at himself.
5) RM – Level 4
180917 02:56 (the only date and time mark I managed to find. It‘s LOVE YOURSELF Highlight Reel ‘起承轉結’ on 02:56)
Omelas 03:47 (Which is of course connected with Spring Day MV)
Jungkook once again sees himself.
RUN+ 02:22 the many meetings and goodbyes of yesterday existed for this moment The bird fights its way out of the egg
6) Jin – Level 5
AWAKE+ A house made of cards, and us, inside BECAUSE/ THE/ SUNRISE/ JUST/ BEFORE/ THE/ SUN/ RISES/ IS/ THE/ DARKEST+ |||||||| Calico cat |||||||| 만나러 갈게 5:08 (trans: I’m going to meet you. 5:08) 血、汗、淚 2:06 (trans: Blood, sweat, tears)
Jin says “미안해” - “Sorry”.
The additional 2 accounts that suga follows seems to also have photos with various codes.
1) @6c_6f_73_74_20_75_73_65_72 (@thuybinnie has figured that 6c_6f_73_74_20_75_73_65_72 in hex translates to “lost user”)
Basically has undecodable codes that don‘t make any sense for me.
2) @repl4y__
Seems to have a bunch of photos some with normal words and some with morses codes. N/ OF/ NAM+ (this seems to code Namjoon) Y/ OF/ YOON+ (this looks like Yoongi) EYES+ SHADOW+
The other photos has normal words, however, with quite an interesting hint (@CateHarmonic did figured it out)
At least for now, that‘s everything. It‘s hard to say what they‘re thinking to do on this comeback but it‘s clear that bagstan want us to play a game. As you probably already realized, this is not a theory post. I’m not smart enough for that. This is just a bunch of information that I managed to gather while I was going through the instagram accounts.
***UPDATE*** I’m super thankful for my friend who has much more knowledge of codes and coding languages. He found a message that was hidden between numbers on one of the photos on 6c_6f_73_74_20_75_73_65_72 account. It says: THEY___HAVE___US___LOCKED___UP.
He also recognized the other code, that is used on the other 3 photos. It‘s base 64 code. And sure it is… When I put it in the decoder that‘s what I got.
”Can you read me, right? Are you really still here? You must continue Do not stop, you are so, so close … or maybe not? Suppose that if you are here is for something, I suppose you will not remain among us for no reason or to put yourself in what does not concern you. Although I can make the decision to leave things as they are, a small part of me trusts you. In fact, I depend on you. Therefore, what I am going to say is only between you and me, player 1 and user: this is not just a game. Take it seriously.”
”Should I start the day by communicating with you? It does not seem like a bad idea either. I’ll start by greeting you, dear player 1: Good morning, did you wake up well? I’m glad! Okay, now if what I came to claim. Why do not you want to understand me? Why do you ignore me? Is it because I am “bad”? Is it because I give you terror? The least you have to fear is me … why do you have bad thoughts about me? I’m friendly. I understand that it does not look like it, but seriously, are you one of those who judge a book by its cover? If so, GO! I DO NOT WANT YOU TO BE HERE, OUT OF HERE. You’re done, you’ve already lost, you’ve lost your chance, what more do you want?”
“I want to be good, but you force me not to be. I want to help you, but you will not let me. I want you to believe me, but you do not. I want you to stop, but you continue … You want me to say the whole truth, but I only confuse you more. You want to see my face, but I hide it. You want to know who I am, but I’m still anonymous … We all want many things, it’s true. But not everything we want we can have. So, no matter how much you want security, you will not have it. As much as they want to escape, I’ll catch them. Even if they want to hide, I’ll find them. And if you want to plan something against me, I’ll know. A game must be fair, dear player 1, and these are the rules.”
As I was going through the accounts once again, I tried to find what kind of coding system they used. And it looks like I found it. There are three kinds of codes that I found. 1) It‘s a simple texting code (I don‘t even know if you could call it that way). If you had a phone with a keyboard, you definitely had used that code every time you texted.
In Jhope‘s: First love (333-444-777-7777-8-555-666-888-33)
2) A1Z26 code (which basically looks like this: 3-15-14-20-9-14-21-5)
On Suga‘s account I found: this / realm/ was / familiar / to / me / in / almost / every / way the/ other/ realm/ however/ was/ completely/ different
On Jungkook‘s account: it‘s up
On Jhope‘s: It‘s so sweet but so bad
And 1 on Jimin‘s: Continue
3) It‘s an octal code (which looks like this: 122 157 165 156 144 40 141 156 144 40 162 157 165 156 144 54 40 167 145 40 141 162 145 40 162 151 147 150 164 40 167 150 145 162 145 40 167 145 40 163 164 141 162 164 145 144 56) On Jungkook‘s: Round and round, we are right where we started. There is still some that I can’t figure out. But trust me, I’m going to try and figure them out. I’m too invested in this at this point… I know, some of you are probably thinking I’m wasting my time searching and decoding all these codes. And you’re probably right… I’m starting to doubt that this is bighit’s job, maybe someone is simply having fun. But honestly, I’m invested!
