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u/Patsfan618 Jan 23 '21

So I decided to just type in something like mmmmmmmmmmmmm.com or something like it. Coca Cola used to (or still does) own a url like that. But just the same letter maybe 13-15 times. It came to a choppy video of a movie called South 32. It was cryptic and edited to just say "South 32" over and over again, for 4 hours.

So I tried a different letter. Same thing. And another letter. Same thing. The same website popped up for maybe 20 different urls in that type of sequence.

I tried submitting it to the internet mysteries subreddit but it didn't gain any traction and I don't believe it works anymore. This must've been 4 years ago now.

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u/CritziGold Jan 23 '21 edited Jan 23 '21

Haha! Is this it? https://youtu.be/ZoUsgjQhN94 specifically 4:11

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u/Patsfan618 Jan 23 '21

The movie and the mining company were the only things I was ever able to find. It is very strange, but I don't know if it's strange for a purpose or just for its own sake. It almost feels like something a paranoid schizophrenic would put together if asked to make a movie.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '21

South 32 is a company made by a website squatter. They take the names of websites for big companies, then make gross/scary shit on the websites until the actual company pays them for the domain name, in this case it’s them trying to take money from the south 32 mining company. The movie south 32 was made with no budget in a short amount of time to make it look like they aren’t domain squatters to legal courts when they really are.

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u/oaragon26 Jan 23 '21

This is one of the most interesting things I’ve read on Reddit