September 29th

On September 29th at the timestamped time, the Theorist Gateway updated exactly as the letter and meta description stated. The new site was now a solid black background, with the following gif.

patience.isthekey6974736a75737461636cf636b6775797473656c178.gif

The numbers in the filename is encoded in hexadecimal, which decoded to “itsjustaclockguysrelax”.

A frame by frame analysis revealed these numbers, separated into frames:

9 3 2 0
5 0 7 1
5/1 4 6/7 4
8 2 2 5/4
0 8/7 1 3
6 5 3 6
1 2 4 5
9/1 8/2 7 6/5
8 7 6 5
4 3 2 1
0/4 0/3 0/2 0/1

The importance of these numbers are unknown, although the gif is most likely just to create an effect.