If you like cracking codes, or just want the solution, this could be for you
Yesterday, I wrote about the new Mr. Robot Season 3 Mr. Robot ‘Teaser Trailer’ and commented on a bunch of new ads for Mr. Robot Original Funko toys that were created by people attached to the show (not working for Funko).
So, today, the @whoismrrobot folks released two sets of messages which together probably lead to the actual premiere date and the full trailer for Season 3. Do not continue if you want to figure this out for yourself, most of this information was being shared among a ton of us in real time on Reddit which is where I got most of the solutions (I am not a good codebreaker).
First, earlier today, Mr. Robot’s Twitter posted this (it was also posted on Instagram):
And if you click on the link usanet.tv/2u8raIQ it will take you to another version of the picture. If you click on the tie, you will notice the tie has a pattern that can be broken up into Morse Code. Once you digest the Morse Code message (which resolves to a bitly url) it will take you to another website (for Red Wheelbarrow BBQ).
That website tells you:
Seek the bird of the mountain to find the path
Follow the rhythm and do the math
Collect one among many in each
And soon your reward will be within reach
So, it turns out, it was suggesting to be at Twitter at 1 pm to get the rest of the message (the bird of the mountain was apparently Twitter’s mascot). At 1 pm the Mr. Robot Twitter feed deployed, in unique fashion, the lyrics to a song by the late-great Leonard Cohen, here are the uniquely formatted lyrics to that song (in the order it was posted tweet by tweet):
D3Mocr4cy is coming 2 the
The races m33t from the hom1cid4l bitchin’ th4t goes down
Through the Squall5 of Hate
he4rt of Chevr01et
1'm junk but I’m 5ti11 holding up
8ut 1'm stubborn As those garBage Bags
of th3 Sermon on tH3 M0unt1
h4t th1s a1n’t 3xaCtly re4l, 0r 1t’s real but 1t a1N’t exactly
It’s cominG from th3 f3eL
O m1ghty Ship 0f 5tate!
I’M 5ent1menta1, if y0u knOw wh4t 1 mean I
th4t goeZ down 1N every kitCh3n
from the 8rave, the b0ld, the bAttered
th4t the h3art Has got 2 op3n in a fundam3ntAl Way
the gracE Of God in the dEs3rt h3r3
AmeRica f1rst, th3 cr4Dle
W3'1l be go1ng d0wn
Am3n 1t’s coming like the tidal flOOd ben34th the lunar 5way
“Democracy” by Leonard Cohen
Here is the song:
Anyway, when you resolve that code, as Ivan Vieira Manhães Lopes did, you get the full trailer for Season 3 which is awesome (again don’t click if you want to figure it out for yourself). The ominous spoken word of the Cohen song is amazing. I figured the narration was someone else doing spoken word of Cohen but nope it was Cohen himself. How do I know this (Because a person in the know told me).
Okay, I found a spoken word version on YouTube:
As predicted, the trailer includes the premiere date which is 10/11/2017. Which also means that my recap, “Who Is Mr. Robot’s Landlord?” Will start back up on 10/12/2017.
Hope you enjoyed that journey, have to love how Mr. Robot makes every detail into an adventure.
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