What is MatPat Hiding?

On September 16th, the Game Theorists uploaded a video entitled “Game Theory: What is MatPat HIDING?”

The following observations have no important relevance to the overall ARG, but are instead little details that act as red herrings or things that are most likely nothing at all. 1) In the opening seconds of the video, there is a comment with the text “Uifsf bsf op Fbtufs Fhht Jo ifsf. Hp bxbz.” Which when decoded with ROT1, said, “There are no Easter Eggs in here. Go away."

2) A cipher was also discovered in the video, 23 5 - 23 15 21 12 4 - 14 15 20 - 13 1 11 5 - 9 20 - 0 8 1 20 - 5 1 19 25, which decoded to "we would not make it that easy" with an A1Z26 cypher.

3) During the video, MatPat mentions a new system called "theorist points", which would be accumulated throughout the 7 gates. He also mentions the timestamp 08:52 earlier in the video. The numbers on-screen at exactly 8:52 are 5325, 7715, and 4792 (the timestamp 8:52 can vary for different people, so this is just one example). Some have speculated the significance of the numbers as anything from digital sums to create a date to trying to interpret as hex or decimal encodings. It is also likely that this is simply a mistake on YouTube’s part, as timestamps have been known to be unreliable.

The timestamp 8:52 can vary for different people, so this is just one example.

4) Searching into the source code of the video page and looking at the video tags, one of the keywords was “UUID UCVNTZJXAuvE3C7SfOsPNgEA”. Searching this tag on YouTube would lead to the channel “tenretni olleh”.

It is likely that all the clues from the video have been discovered, even though there remains unexplained information (such as the clocks at 09:29 freezing at the times 02:49, 12:03, 04:32, and 02:19, which is most likely nothing).