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As well as updates to the Theorist Gateway website, there were also changes to the tenretni olleh Youtube channel.
The banner changed to a black background with the green text “hello theorists, have you come to play?” Using the same color filtering technique as before, analysis of the image reveals the word patience hidden in the bottom-left corner.
A minute long video was uploaded to the channel as well. When the Game Theory logo pops up on the screen for the normal logo color flash (0:05), they repeat a lot more than usual (later discovered to be essential to Beta Gate 2).
The opening features glitched hexadecimal text on the bottom of the screen at (0:06 and 0:08). The first hex text is 6a 75 6c 79 20 31 35 20 31 39 38 33 which decodes to july 15 1983. The second hex text is 74 68 65 20 66 69 72 73 74 20 31 37 which decodes to the first 17. This info was soon to be featured in a website later in the pre-ARG phase (see "notthefirst" subsection).
The distorted Game Theory intro also features a binary code (at 0:13) on the bricks as Mario runs across the screen. Using a key (in a frame at 0:14) saying that red is one and black is zero, it decodes to https://www.thetheoristgateway.com/notthefirst18fc17.html (further discussed in the "notthefirst" subsection).
16 seconds into the video, it's seen that the normal Koopa Troopa has been replaced by Link (later to be seen as important in Gate 1).
The final ciphertext message has been decoded as a simple substitution cipher. The text readsFIND THE SEARCH - READ THE NOTES - FEAR RABBITS THAT VENTURE INTO HOLES - THE GATES SHALL SUMMON YOU - PATIENCE - AND KNOW THIS - YOUAREPREPARED
A spectrogram of the video revealed a key for the cipher with a full alphabet and numeric system. The spectrogram shows the alphabet, then the numbers 0-9, and mathematical equations which can be used to deduce the meanings of operators.
The spectrogram also shows text "the one replaced", which is a clue relating to Gate 1.
