no one is going to put the required time and money to completely verify this but a lot of users realized that the twitter accounts that started spreading hate and misinformation of Argentina in huge amounts already did this but towards elections in African countrys, so people started to suspect team Jorge(Israeli contractors specialized in the use of malign cyber activities and bot farm-run social media disinformation campaigns) who were exposed by journalists of Forbidden Stories(non-profit organization with the mission to continue and publish the work of other persecuted journalists) for doing exactly that.
here's another article https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/disinformation-hacking-operative-team-jorge-tal-hanan
This suspicion only grows if you look at the political context: to make it short, making general opinion hate or not care about what happens to the population of an entire country is the first step for getting away with making their lives worse by controlling and stealing their land and resources
Visuals and other things I've scrubbed off the Dead as Disco website :^) very easily done but it may please some to have these readily available
First off, these are the "full"(est) versions of each idol's preview art, with the exception of the seventh, who is supplanted by the broken screen.
Besides the art, each line of code features what I assume are stand-in titles given to the idols, including the three yet-unveiled. The fifth one is labeled 'Dancer', the sixth one (Benny, most likely) is labeled 'Blood', and the seventh is labeled 'Strings'. The last one is the most interesting to me, given that idol seven is the one who's sin stems from 'freedom'.
The key art has already been pulled for the fan wiki but here are those too.
And now some misc graphics!
Mini Charlie and the full-size city art without him in it
A neat Dex illustration in the same style as the wallpapers
A heavily filtered Hemlock illustration that's used as a background image and obscured (which is a bummer, cus it's sick as hell)
A full-size, isolated version of this illustration of Charlie
And the background image for the newsletter sign-up page
Also, for anyone curious, the files of the game do have a few goodies you can access without needing to datamine; if you go into Dead as Disco > Pagoda (the folder, not the executable) > Content > Movies, you will find all of the 2D animated segments from the boss fights in high quality. There are also some promo videos. Most are silent, the ones that aren't have their audio in encoded in Opus so they might still be silent for you (VLC media player will circumvent this).
Aside: has anyone cracked the game data open yet? I'd like it if we could compile some of the (currently in-use; I'm not interested in leaks) assets and art. Preferably somewhere other than the Fandom.com-hosted wiki because I hate having to navigate that site and also the idols are numbered extremely wrong on it, for some reason
origamiaround
izzy806
pixelskylines
blakekathryn
vaporwave
yousharknotpass
dailybridgerton
areudirty
stormborns
