Phase 1

Phase 1 is the official start of the ARG (Although computer boy and the website existed before)

Password


At the beginning of Phase 1 the website updated to include a new window. When you clicked the 'Brightness' button you would be prompted to enter a password. If you entered an incorrect password a message saying "ACCESS DENIED" would flash and fade for 2 seconds before letting you retry a password. Users on discord quickly tried to reverse engineer the site and find the password, but they found that every password attempt was sent to a server, and that they couldn't view the servers code. They also discovered a controversial piece of code that they couldn't decipher fully, but thought it must mean that either you can only enter the password from a secret URL and entering a password was useless and that they would only allow it to be solved when they want. Other users thought that the code meant that if you got the password correct the site would either display a message or give you a url or both. Some speculated that this 'secretURL' was a poppy video.

Discord
Computer Boy anonymously joined the discordafter directly responding to a few messages users realised he was watching them. The next day at 3:36 Pacific Time  CB (Computer Boy)   began answering questions. Discord users created an archive to record his answers. Users would ask CB questions from the main channel in the chat, and CB would respond by changing the website's message. Moderators of the server soon created a channel (#computer-boy) to focus ARG discussion. Reloading the entire page to check if the message had updated was innefiecient so users found the source of the message and one user eventually coded a bot to send a message everytime the website's message changed, in response server moderators created a channel (#cb-feed) for these bot messages.

sendmail
After answering a lot of questions we weren't much closer to solving the password. CB gave us a new password to find, something simpler. CB gave us many clues and users realised the password was "sendmail" when users typed this as a password the terminal cycled through the following lines, once every two seconds.

preparing to send. preparing to send.. preparing to send... packages sent. Shortly after a user entered this poppy uploaded a video it is currently unknown if this was related.

Users solving the password led to CB sending 7 packages to people  in the US   who had bought poppy merch  before. Not all packages were recieved, to view them go here

Solving the password
CB solved it for us lol. jk this page will be continued and this section will be filled out