TheScrig is at it's halfway point... What do we know now?

DMS, with help from Digiphone Mashups-Strider (DG;)

TheScrig is now at 60 rips at the time of writing this article. That means, allegedly, that we’re just a little over the “halfway point” of the channel. The channel has been running for about 4 years now! What do we know? What can we infer?

Happenings

> TheScrig appearances

The supposed “character” or “mascot” representing TheScrig (i.e. the Atari dragon from Homestar Runner) has made two distinct appearances on the channel. The first time in a title-less King For Another Day styled rip, showing a still image of TheScrig in the KFAD2 thumbnail in an appallingly low quality. The second appearance is made in the 60th rip, “The Whore Story,” which juxtaposes TheScrig with several images of the famous “rabbit-duck” illusion. While many were rightfully haunted by the appearance in this rip (and rightfully so! we’ve never seen this kind of behavior before on the channel!), I initially thought it to be some sort of in-joke by the creator or team of the channel, just presented in a haunting manner.

> Events

While no events are explicitly “announced” or “revealed” on the channel, it is clear that there are two strings of uploads that could be considered “events” on the channel. The first “event” is based around club- or adjacent remixes and DJ sets, starting from upload 45 (“club mix children fun count number animal fun”) and spottily continuing onwards through upload 56 (“the racist truth about george orwell”). The second event is the “Whore Story” saga, a series of non-game-thumbnail uploads with similar titles, two of which having “chopped and screwed” samples. The third entry, being upload 60 (“The Whore Story”) is the most striking, featuring visuals and an appearance by TheScrig.

> Memes

TheScrig tends to have no frequently-used jokes, even in its long run. However, in the last 10 uploads, both club remixes and an unnamed piano motif have made frequent appearances on the channel, enough to possibly refer to such as “channel jokes.”

Data analysis

Even with how far along the channel is, analyzing the metadata of the uploads yields extremely little information regarding the channel. However, there are themes within the data. Most video and track titles fall under one of 5 themes: science, history, technology, sexual, or media. Some metadata falls outside of these five. Most titles can also be categorized cleanly as a phrase or a keyword string.

The console letters currently have no lead, but fans like to infer that they could be part of some sort of cipher in the future. Composers also have no lead, but may have a similar function to the console letters.

Other things of note

While I dedicate a lot of time recording spectrograms for TheScrig rips, distinct images have only been caught in such once (upload 10, “[NEW] JURASSIC WORLD The Ride! New INDOMINUS REX! | Universal Studios Hollywood 2021!”). It is completely possible that some “noisy” uploads could contain encrypted data, but I personally have no leads on how to decrypt such (if there is data hidden).

It can be inferred that TheScrig utilizes keyword strings or specific science/history/media/etc. related phrases to attract attention when internet users are searching for such.

Some HQVGR community members have said that they felt as if certain thumbnails were pandering into their interests or targeting them.