Phase 0

Phase 0 is an unofficial name for the beginning of the ARG. The archives were not created until Phase 1 had started, but reddit contains much of the needed data, and users in discord documented what was happening during Call Poppy very well.

Call Poppy
Computer Boy first appeared in Poppy's livestream "Call Poppy". One of the callers in the video was a man who introduced himself as 'Computer Boy' and spoke through a heavy filter. Similar to how poppy acts in the video, Computer Boy repeats these few lines over and over: "Hi, it's me, computer boy" "I'm trying to help you" "Computer boy dot computer" The last line was recognized as a website, computerboy.computer

Computerboy.computer
Some users on discord discovered the site before the livestream ended, at that time it was identical to the superdeluxe home page The site was shortly updated to contain a picture of a computer with two knobs and a blank screen. Users waited until 3:36 LA time, but nothing happened. They dug into the source code and saw that there was an object for green text in the middle of the screen (that was empty at the time) and that the website was still just the superdeluxe home page, but with the default url changed to superdeluxe.com/computerboy . From the next day at 3:36, the screen displayed a few shots from the computer boy music videos with a caption (each day at 3:36 one more letter was added to the caption, ending in "W3 4US9 1E2P P9PPY" the caption had many letters substituted for numbers. Poppy had recently released a painting that was a cypher for this, the caption translated to "WE MUST HELP POPPY" the site also began playing noise that you would expect from a normal poppy video. After poppy's next livestream the site updated to say "YOU CHOSE THE WRONG PIECE " and made the brightness button clickable, displaying your camera with a glitched and vhs aesthetic.

Computer Boy (song)
This led to poppy releasing the video COMPUTER BOY IS COMING. Two days later she released the song Computer Boy, uploaded the music video and unlisted COMPUTER BOY IS COMING. This solidified computer boy as a character in Poppy's world.

First interaction
Fans on both discord and reddit discovered the source code of the website now included some user's usernames  ( 'fakebadger', 'otomon', 'KawaiiSammich', 'yumzy mumzy', 'Poppy△S△', 'Dylan', 'AnythingPoppySays', 'mkicon'   )  and was tracking when they loaded the site and what site they clicked the link from.

On May 31st shortly after users discovering this, the site began to display custom messages for each user, some non-tracked users reported the site displaying a random one of the unique message. One of these messages told MelanieSiri to communicate with users.

On June 2nd the site was updated to make the volume button clickable, when you clicked the button you were prompted to enter a password, the beginning of Phase 1.