What is the meaning behind ATS banner ad - 'You thought it was an online game.. Lou Troglodyte'

Hi ATS staff,

I'm just wondering - is that banner ad above the 'Recent Posts' page a symbol which indicates the beginning of an online game which ATS members will need to figure out? I tried searching for anything on Google or Wikipedia, and nothing of particularly obvious meaning popped up, other than the definition of a troglodyte being a 'cave dweller' - so I assume it is ATS-specific? Perhaps ATS is the cave?

Inquiring minds want to know...

Cheers,



FITO.

a reply to: FlyInTheOintment

I have no idea what is going on.I poked around looking at the author of the article the link goes to, as well as information about the news site it is posted on.🧐

Nvm: it doesn’t link to same page anymore. Goes to a wiki page now.🤔

a reply to: FlyInTheOintment

Well, Ahabstar figured out that Lou Troglodyte is an anagram for You Got Trolled.

That's one piece of it, I'm sure..

a reply to: MykeNukem

That’s interesting.

a reply to: MykeNukem

I hadn't realised there was any discussion about it as yet. But yeah, 'You got trolled' sounds like the beginning of some sort of online game. Perhaps the CIA now owns ATS outright, and they're laughing their socks off at how they're going to harvest every piece of data from each one of us, in as much as it can be inferred from our posts over the past twenty years, so they can take us to the cleaners when the hammer comes down...

[/joking of course]

a reply to: FlyInTheOintment

Going off of this and of the anagram figured out by Ahabstar, I can safely assume that this is a hint at Plato's allegory of the cave. Those who are troglodytes are the people in the cave worshipping the shadows on the walls. By pointing out that we've been trolled shows that while people believe that they are seeing the world for how it is, they have been in fact just looking at new shadows on the wall.

I'm probably wrong, but that's what I'm going with because nobody else has come froward with a better idea.

When I click the link to takes me to this Wiki page....hmmm.

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This was the original page it linked to:
gulfnews.com...

a reply to: Onlyyouknow

From your link:

Charlie Charlie, technically is not an online game, but an urban legend that suddenly became very popular.

#CharlieCharlieChallenge has been tweeted millions of times in the last three years and many famous YouTube stars filmed themselves playing the game. The game involves a white piece of paper with four quadrants where two are labelled yes, and the other two are labelled no.

Then you place two pencil over each other and ask the demon Charlie questions, which will cause the pencils to move to point at either yes or no. It’s also known as the poor man’s Ouija board. Although it is not entirely dangerous, according to popular legend, Charlie will continue to haunt you if you don’t properly say goodbye before you close out of the game. This causes many children to become scared.

This story makes no sense in connections to the others.

Well first of all, can we simply have confirmation that the confusion about a game existing or not existing and a post being made to ask is there a game or not, to which they swore there wasn’t…can someone at least confirm that just as a joke to end discussion on the “is there a game or not” thread, that you got trolled isn’t the one and only piece of the game and it ends with you got trolled just as a way to shut down the game hypothesis with a single step game? Tell me, is that truly not all in itself the game but it indeed DOES continue further?

Oh and if there is a new game I’d say careful people, there are entities out there now trying to shut down alternative news sites and opinion forums and they’re dying to do so so they will cite ANYTHING for a reason. So don’t publish too crazy or out there posts which get into anything violent or hacking or something that someone could be trying to coax someone into doing to shut us down. That’s almost totally impossible that it could be so and furthermore, they want us shut down but we ain’t THAT special or anything, but just be mindful in case someone is trying to lead us into the no go realm.

a reply to: Guyfriday

Not sure why two pencils on a piece of paper would invoke anything paranormal.

Cheers

a reply to: F2d5thCavv2

yeah its really out of place from the other stories. I mean they didn't even scare the story up by stating chicken bones are to be used, or the words were written in the dirt of a grave. All they said was words on a paper and pencils in a cross. Oh how scary.

a reply to: Guyfriday

Comms for those read-in ?

Hmm.

Cheers

originally posted by: Onlyyouknow
a reply to: FlyInTheOintment

I have no idea what is going on.I poked around looking at the author of the article the link goes to, as well as information about the news site it is posted on.🧐

Nvm: it doesn’t link to same page anymore. Goes to a wiki page now.🤔

"PREPARE YOURSELF" - LOU TROGLODYTE"

Simon Gray"


Look at the formatting closer. A closed set of quotation marks around prepare yourself. But only one quotation mark at the end of lou troglodyte. Instead of "lou troglodyte" it is the same on the linked wiki page. One quotation mark at the end. Instead of "Simon Gray" or just Simon Gray.

Gulf News➡️ Al Nisr Publishing➡️ Al Tayer Group

www.khaleejtimes.com...

Since 1979, the Group has introduced over 80 automotive and retail brands to the Middle East with nearly 200 outlets across the region. In 2010, it opened the first international Bloomingdale's store in Dubai Mall. Al Tayer Motors represents brands such as Ferrari, Maserati, and Jaguar. Its Chairman is Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, who is also the Minister of State for Financial Affairs.

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Gulf News is a daily English language newspaper published from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was first launched in 1978, and is currently distributed throughout the UAE and also in other Persian Gulf Countries. Its online edition was launched in 1996. Through its owner Al Nisr Publishing, it is a subsidiary of the Al Tayer Group, which is chaired by Finance Minister Obaid Al Tayer.

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Al Tayer also chaired the Annual Meeting of the World Bank Group (WBG) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2019.[6] Al Tayer served as a cabinet member and Minister of State for Financial Affairs.[2][7] He was replaced in the cabinet in September 2019.[3]

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a reply to: Antimony

More curious by the day…..

a reply to: nugget1

As you lnow, Simon Gray is the creator of ATS.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

www.abovetopsecret.com...

originally posted by: FlyInTheOintment
Perhaps the CIA now owns ATS outright, and they're laughing their socks off at how they're going to harvest every piece of data from each one of us, in as much as it can be inferred from our posts over the past twenty years, so they can take us to the cleaners when the hammer comes down...

[/joking of course]

The CIA does not need to own ATS to have access to our posts, they only need the same access as any other member.

It's Darko's game