#kanye quest

[blood-like-limeade]

Just went down the kanye quest rabbit hole and this is my conclusion

[water-mellie-seeds]

Reccomend me ARGs to look into i cant find any i havent seen

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[internetcryptids]

Kanye Quest 3303

Authenticity Status: UNDETERMINED 

Abstract: Kanye Quest 3303 is a role-playing video game that was made in 2013. It was widely loved and seemingly normal. However, In 2015 an anonymous user posted an entry describing a secret level. The level was revealed through an aspect of the game where an NPC asks you a question and you give a response. When replying “ascend”, “their avatar was turned into a butterfly. More notably, they were shown a message that explains that the main story of Kanye Quest was all a facade, meant to conceal the true purpose of the game - recruitment into a cult” (plus1player). There are cryptic puzzles that had connections with seemingly random words that solved them but, were found in the game’s code. As you went deeper it finally resolved with a contactless message implying that there would be real-world messages would be coming your way. 

The cult in question is Ascensionism. It’s “a New Age cult that goes back to at least 2006. Its main beliefs focus around there being two spirits that make up a whole being.” If you’re interested in the contents you’re going to have to sift and search for resources covering it without the connection to the game. Content by genuine followers is...interesting. 

Analysis: It is undoubtedly likely that Kanye Quest 3303 is apart of an elaborate Alternate Reality Game (ARG). An ARG is “a relatively new form of storytelling that utilizes various types of Internet media (such as social media, videos, and email) to unfold the narrative, usually allowing players to be directly involved” (plus1player). As of now, 7 months ago the Ascensionism records youtube channel posted an ARG-like video. Regardless, this content does have truth to it. There are people who believe in ascensionism and, this game showed a connection that would have gone overlooked without the anonymous user.

Want more? Look more in-depth with these resources:

https://www.youtube.com/user/AndromedaUGC/featured - Key organization related to this mystery. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhLPL3rt1pA - Despite click-baity title, this video has very nice information. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrVVL5wjMUY - Analysis

https://www.youtube.com/redirect?v=FrVVL5wjMUY&event=video_description&redir_token=bR1ohf-QceSoDEKW_Lh0z0HFlet8MTU4NjU3OTgwOUAxNTg2NDkzNDA5&q=https%3A%2F%2Fmega.nz%2F%23%21j9hSTL7I%21UTLjwCSK7jBjYiDyIoQr9tFHMCmlUSP-8hsKQfWZff9  - Game download

[lizardsfromspace]

Retweet if you agree: If you used code mining to solve the cult initiation in the Kanye West RPG, you DID NOT by any stretch of the imagination A S C E N D

[water-mellie-seeds]

me going from antipiracy measures and creepy easter eggs in nintendo games on youtube to mamamax/nexpo videos abt cults and args and kanye quest at lightning speed is a full display of my personality

[def-not-hecky]

feeling bored might replay kanye quest

[arecibomanual]

RIP Ascencionism

With Unfiction forums down, I doubt I'll ever be able to finish a complete overview of this... here's a last few notes-

"Wyoming Incident" was namedropped at one point, either in a chunk of text the meaning of which was never deciphered, or in a chunk of text a couple words of which imparted some meaning but the rest of which was never deciphered. This is a bit odd, seeing as the Wyoming Incident isn't exactly what most people think it is. It's often passed around on "top five freakiest creepy things!!" lists and the like as a broadcast interruption occurring in- where else?- Wyoming. However, this is apocryphal; the video actually belongs to what is possibly one of the oldest and longest-running internet ARGs. And what a glorious clusterfuck of an ARG it is. Go look up Nightmind’s video on it. At any rate, it exists in some segment of the collective internet consciousness an actual broadcast interruption event.

The strawpoll/button-pressing/twitter/etc story may be in reference to The Stanley Parable, a game about a man named Stanley pressing buttons and meta shit happens. Combined with the above there might have been a theme of obscure/freaky internet culture references, possibly in line with the ARGs (unnoticed) origins in a Kanye West fangame.

As the ARG went on, it seemed to be developing themes revolving around punishment and imprisonment. Stanley presses buttons to execute the accused and eventually must press the button to execute himself; the players play as prisoners who shank each other while also being butterflies and storms (no one ever really figured this part of the game out)... the strawpoll game played hangman with accused criminals, trying to fill out the name of their crime before the button to end their life is pressed. Another story involved a child forced by his parents to dig holes all night as punishment for some transgression before begging for forgiveness in the morning. (Or something like that; I've forgotten the exact details.) This is pretty interesting when taking into account the beliefs of the "real" Ascencionism cult, specifically the aspects that most unsettled players when the manifesto was discovered- the concept that one consents to all suffering one will experience in ones life before reincarnating into the world, and thus that any suffering you can inflict on a person is acceptable. A story of child abuse, or an old man being led to the electric chair for jaywalking, doesn't quite square with that. It seems almost as though the game was beginning to deconstruct itself, showing the consequences of a mindset that treats people like this... Or maybe the puppetmasters really were that fucked in the head.

Nowadays, there's a miniscule trickle of content still coming out, covered on a barely-active Discord chat room. The twitter account is still babbling away with new nonsense ever 12 hours, but there doesn't seem to be anything worth looking at there.

http://archive.is/https://twitter.com/ascendtoday

https://archive.is/http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=38668*

https://arecibomanual.tumblr.com/tagged/kanye-quest