I think you guys might be getting your hopes too far up. 500TB is a LOT, yes, but it's not nearly enough to cover even a sizable chunk of YouTube's entire content, even back then. Google's got something like 15 EB (15,000,000 TB) of server space on the back-end.
I don't have contact with JY, but I can assure you that constantly pestering him about it is the exact opposite of a good idea.
IMO some sort of systematic approach to comb through everything in the disk is probably the best idea. That requires a lot of time investment, though.
To add to this, they probably meant they have a 500 TB archive in total- not a 500 TB hard drive. There isn't one on the market with that capacity. On top of that I'm certain they're talking about their as of now total, because they most likely would not have had 500 TB back in 2007-2012 when the video was up.
Also I don't know why nobody has pointed this out either but the way they talk about the video makes it sound like they're talking about something different. Downloading it to "prove it to a friend" doesn't really make sense in this context when the video was supposed to be a screamer.
Proving to his friend that you can unlock Luigi as a prank? I dunno.
To add to this, they probably meant they have a 500 TB archive in total- not a 500 TB hard drive. There isn't one on the market with that capacity. On top of that I'm certain they're talking about their as of now total, because they most likely would not have had 500 TB back in 2007-2012 when the video was up.
Also I don't know why nobody has pointed this out either but the way they talk about the video makes it sound like they're talking about something different. Downloading it to "prove it to a friend" doesn't really make sense in this context when the video was supposed to be a screamer.
Proving to his friend that you can unlock Luigi as a prank? I dunno.
Yesterday, at night time, we were on the small "Big Star Secret search" group that my friend, chris, created and organized at Discord. While we were trying to find out other ways on how we could get the video, Red saw a reddit post that was deleted which had the title "I hoard data. I may have stuff" . Red said that the person who had originally made the post said that they had apparently 500 TB of data from YouTube.
Me and chris were shocked at this, knowing that with 500 TB, he could have possibly had the video. I was pretty pissed when I saw that the post and the account was deleted, and that we needed to find who it was, but then I read the comments and fortunately, the person who had made the post had another account named JasonY95 and replied on some of the comments from 10 months ago.
Not too long after, we said on the GC that we would need to contact Jason, because with 500 TB of YouTube data, we could possibly find the video we've all been looking for since some time. So, without further ado, chris direct messaged JasonY64, however, chris randomly started adding him on a reddit group chat. That's when I said to chris that he would have to chill a bit, since first of all, we haven't talked to Jason about the search, and secondly, he has no idea why we're adding him on groups for no reason, so the group chat was deleted.
The next day, I have DMed Jason myself with a Reddit account that chris created for me since I didn't have a reddit account (I lost mine a year ago) and, while I was obviously gonna register sooner, chris decided to create a account for me so that we could get things done faster. So I accepted it. Eventually when he was done, he sent me the account username and pass, and I've got access to it. After that, I contacted Jason and told him about the whole search, and kept both the discord big star secret search group chat we made and the big star secret Discord server updated about the whole thing.
Since then, the server really wasn't THAT active, but then again there were still some people there who saw the chat and we've all been praying so that we could get the good news. And...
We did get good news.
JasonY95 had replied to my message, saying the following: "You know what... I've had lots of messages about the data storage, people looking for things which I haven't had. But I think you actually might be in luck.
I was in high school and didn't have mobile data half the time, I'm pretty certain I had downloaded this video to prove it to a friend of mine.
Now, I remember I'd just built my first computer, so it woukd be on the old 250GB disk. Which isn't part of my archive. But I do know where it is physically."
As soon as I sent the screenshot of his response to the Discord server, the server started freaking out. It would then get way more active very quickly with more people coming in and eventually the creator of the server itself, epicsauce84, saw it. I then told the GC that chris made about the search to go to the server immediately.
I still got more responses, and here they are:
"Weirdly I think I can even remember the supposed sequence to get the star to appear in the... Garden?"
"I'll get back to you on this one soon. Ish. The disk is still at my parents haha."
Everyone was screaming about it, saying that we may finally have the video on our hands after a hundred and million years since its deletion. Lotus would also be very happy seeing his own video found, considering it's been years since he had deleted it, due to the hate it has got. The big star secret DM reached to 10 members when yesterday it was 6, due to how the server increased on activity after the big news.
As of right now, we haven't got a response, but this is still a very huge update, as ever since the search was confirmed to be a "cold case", we haven't got any new updates and haven't even found anything else since. When I heard of the search, I have decided that I would become part of it thanks to my friend mex for introducing me to it. We now have very, very high hopes that this will get found way more than before the big news.
PigPig eventually created his own video related to big star secret and not too long after, we have a huge update about the search. With all of this, we may be finally getting "Super Mario 64 big star secret", but tell me what you think.
I just got in contact with JY (JasonY95) on Discord. We will be adding him into the group chat soon. Here are the messages I've had with him on discord DMs:
Yesterday, at night time, we were on the small "Big Star Secret search" group that my friend, chris, created and organized at Discord. While we were trying to find out other ways on how we could get the video, Red saw a reddit post that was deleted which had the title "I hoard data. I may have stuff" . Red said that the person who had originally made the post said that they had apparently 500 TB of data from YouTube.
Me and chris were shocked at this, knowing that with 500 TB, he could have possibly had the video. I was pretty pissed when I saw that the post and the account was deleted, and that we needed to find who it was, but then I read the comments and fortunately, the person who had made the post had another account named JasonY95 and replied on some of the comments from 10 months ago.
Not too long after, we said on the GC that we would need to contact Jason, because with 500 TB of YouTube data, we could possibly find the video we've all been looking for since some time. So, without further ado, chris direct messaged JasonY64, however, chris randomly started adding him on a reddit group chat. That's when I said to chris that he would have to chill a bit, since first of all, we haven't talked to Jason about the search, and secondly, he has no idea why we're adding him on groups for no reason, so the group chat was deleted.
The next day, I have DMed Jason myself with a Reddit account that chris created for me since I didn't have a reddit account (I lost mine a year ago) and, while I was obviously gonna register sooner, chris decided to create a account for me so that we could get things done faster. So I accepted it. Eventually when he was done, he sent me the account username and pass, and I've got access to it. After that, I contacted Jason and told him about the whole search, and kept both the discord big star secret search group chat we made and the big star secret Discord server updated about the whole thing.
Since then, the server really wasn't THAT active, but then again there were still some people there who saw the chat and we've all been praying so that we could get the good news. And...
We did get good news.
JasonY95 had replied to my message, saying the following: "You know what... I've had lots of messages about the data storage, people looking for things which I haven't had. But I think you actually might be in luck.
I was in high school and didn't have mobile data half the time, I'm pretty certain I had downloaded this video to prove it to a friend of mine.
Now, I remember I'd just built my first computer, so it woukd be on the old 250GB disk. Which isn't part of my archive. But I do know where it is physically."
As soon as I sent the screenshot of his response to the Discord server, the server started freaking out. It would then get way more active very quickly with more people coming in and eventually the creator of the server itself, epicsauce84, saw it. I then told the GC that chris made about the search to go to the server immediately.
I still got more responses, and here they are:
"Weirdly I think I can even remember the supposed sequence to get the star to appear in the... Garden?"
"I'll get back to you on this one soon. Ish. The disk is still at my parents haha."
Everyone was screaming about it, saying that we may finally have the video on our hands after a hundred and million years since its deletion. Lotus would also be very happy seeing his own video found, considering it's been years since he had deleted it, due to the hate it has got. The big star secret DM reached to 10 members when yesterday it was 6, due to how the server increased on activity after the big news.
As of right now, we haven't got a response, but this is still a very huge update, as ever since the search was confirmed to be a "cold case", we haven't got any new updates and haven't even found anything else since. When I heard of the search, I have decided that I would become part of it thanks to my friend mex for introducing me to it. We now have very, very high hopes that this will get found way more than before the big news.
PigPig eventually created his own video related to big star secret and not too long after, we have a huge update about the search. With all of this, we may be finally getting "Super Mario 64 big star secret", but tell me what you think.
I just got in contact with JY (JasonY95) on Discord. We will be adding him into the group chat soon. Here are the messages I've had with him on discord DMs:
I have I feeling it’s a hoax if we don’t get in by 2024 because of all the holidays that he could visit his parents for
Thats actually a good point. We have both Thanksgivings and Christmas coming up. Theoretically BSS could be our christmas present. But i am worried about the lack of updates and the weirdness of saving a youtube vid to show a friend. Maybe in case they couldnt find it again, or if the internet went out? idk but i wanna remain hopeful, even if its slightly harder to.
Was reading the dms more closely he claims he has multiple copies??? I may be reading it wrong but that’s what it seems like because that’s were it cuts off
Was reading the dms more closely he claims he has multiple copies??? I may be reading it wrong but that’s what it seems like because that’s were it cuts off
He says that there are multiple versions that exist.
Was reading the dms more closely he claims he has multiple copies??? I may be reading it wrong but that’s what it seems like because that’s were it cuts off
He says that there are multiple versions that exist.
He says that there are multiple versions that exist.
and we need the K-fee Zombie at the end of it.
I've never thought about this, but considering how many jumoscare guides there were to unlock Luigi it's possible that Unleashed he labeled them all specifically we could find multiple that are very similar, but by different people. If we run into multiple that are similar in the collection we can show lotusman to have the final say on which ones our culprit.
I'm keeping my hopes a little low so I won't be too excited about this. But, in the small case that this is true and not a hoax to stir us up...
This will be a huge find. I mean, lost media has been found in strange/unexpected ways (looking at YOU sesame street episode 847), but even if BBS turns out to not be in it, imagine the other media we'll recover. I see this as a win either way. Finding at least something is better than nothing.
I'm keeping my hopes a little low so I won't be too excited about this. But, in the small case that this is true and not a hoax to stir us up...
This will be a huge find. I mean, lost media has been found in strange/unexpected ways (looking at YOU sesame street episode 847), but even if BBS turns out to not be in it, imagine the other media we'll recover. I see this as a win either way. Finding at least something is better than nothing.
True because I have no doubt in my mind this guy has something but we don’t know what that somthing is and bss may Jsut be one of many things
Yea- even if we don’t get BSS there might be other stuff under our noses we had no idea we were missing. Actually having BSS would just be the cherry on top
Yea- even if we don’t get BSS there might be other stuff under our noses we had no idea we were missing. Actually having BSS would just be the cherry on top