I Explained the Entire Ranboo ARG 

I’m sitting in my room on a Saturday night at 11:30 and this video just hit ten thousand views. Thank you so much.

You missed one clock refrence. Dream plays with a clock, constantly. He obsesses with it.

The 'I'm cold' could be a nod to Wilbur arg

Everybody gangsta untill Fallen Down plays at the start

Is nobody going to talk about the weird scenario of Dream being addicted to clocks (In prison) just like Ranboo?

4:30 it's also worth mentioning that 451 is the temperature at which paper burns. This led ARG participants at the time to think the Imgur link would be deleted. :)

Wait a minute, I recognise the song at around 5:20 that has ticking sounds in the background. It's the theme song from Black Friday, a musical from Starkids, which is about a cosmic entity called Mr. Wiggly trying to invade everybody's minds and cause widescale chaos. Maybe Ranboo is referencing the fact that Dream is trying to invade his mind? Another thing to add is that when Sapnap sent Ranboo the smiley face, Ranboo seemed to had entered his enderwalk, would it mean that the smiley face is some sort of trigger word that turns him into a brainwashed spy (like Bucky the Winter Soldier) that Dream uses to take control of Ranboo? The last thing I wanted to point out is that if the time travel link is true, maybe the messages that appear on Tubbo's streams are warnings that future Tubbo (or Ranboo) is sending back in time (cause the texts mentioned Michael). There seems to be 2 or more people sending the texts considering the messages contradict each other at times (the go north/dont go north bit), meaning that maybe Tubbo would also be controlled? Fundy had also received warnings from the future in his dreams so that is quite possible.

Karl's whole lore involves him being torn between two forces. The text on Tubbo's streams are two voices arguing about something (nukes?). Ranboo's whole character is split into halves. Interesting.

Theres a theory that Z is Phil cause his syndicate codename is Zephyrus or something like that and according to greek mithology is a wind god of west....😯.. Have a nice day whoever is reading this!!

tubbos stream words: “i’m cold” me: *flashbacks from the wilbur arg*

"Michael is the purest source of joy on the entire server" :') amazing video by the way, i've started to get really interested in arg's and this is helping a ton

Plot twist: Papyrus just made his hardest puzzle yet

32:30 someone is in Michaels room.. Cake is in Michaels room, the mysterious messages mention cake and also say Michaels name, and why does ranboo want to protect his family, there hasn't been any threat to his family.. It may be normal to dad's idk but maybe he has seen the person in Michaels room, but never wrote it down or remembered it and he just wants to protect his family from that person?

In Karl’s latest tales from the smp, he went to a place called ‘The other side,’ where everything is black. Karl becomes darker. This could be the other side of Ranboo. It matches with both of Karl’s dimensions in time travelling.

"other people think this is a reference to farenheit 451" it's me, i'm people. I read that entire book for the arg and found that it had themes similar to ranboo's character lore and ended up sharing my findings with general 1

I feel like "Find the Pages" Is an elaborate easter egg for Slender man.

honestly its really cool to see the whole story so far in video format instead of getting the normal small clips and teasers

Ranboo’s lore is kinda scary. And mind twisting. And his role playing is different I love it!

HOLD ON. One of the main themes for Wilbur’s ARG was “I’m Cold” The text on Tubbo’s screen could be from Wilbur and R. Faiker(before he died).

adding on to the “karl and ranboo might be connected” theory. dream said everything in the smp is going to connect into ONE BIG thing. so all the lore is going to come together. and i think we can already see bits of the lore being connected to other lore. amazing video btw!!!!

I am glad you put the avengers music over everyone coming through the portal to arrest dream, I am pretty sure everyone heard that in their heads when it happened.

Random thought, so it has literally no ground at all, but what if Z is Ranboo’s enderwalking state?

32:34 i cannot see the words “i’m cold” normally anymore after the wilbur ARG like two years ago

This is connecting to the Karl theory. So at the end of Karl's "in-between" stream, he goes through the portal which makes him forget his friends and family, obviously the in-between (disguised as good) trying to put him off. But Karl decides to enter the portal anyways. When Karl enters the portal instead of being transported to the real world/Dream SMP server he is transferred to "the otherside." Many people believe that the in between is actually the side were you do not want to be and that the other side, although because of its dark colours, is the place you want to be. Now if you take a look at ranboo he is half black, half desaturated white. The inbetween is desaturated white, the otherside is black/red. Now, if you look at a traffic like, green is for go and red is for stop. On the desaturated white side of ranboo, his eye seems to be red/dark pink. On the black/desaturated grey side of ranboo his eye seems to be green. Now the otherside doesn't cause memory loss as the inbetween does. Maybe ranboo is connected to the inbetween AND the other side or what if the inbetween and otherside was at war and the inbetween and otherside combined themselves (creating ranboo) to keep civilization between the two.

it kinda sounds like wilbur’s arg. wilbur repeats or one of the fakier’s repeat, i am cold

You are doing a community service here. Absolute legend

This is so well made!

"I'm cold" reminds me of the Wilbur ARG... Maybe that gets continued in the Dream SMP as well?

wait what if the smile face makes him think of dream and puts him in his mind control / ender walk phase?

I just looked it up cause I was curious but evidently the name of ranboo in tales of the Smp episode 6 was named Zachary starting with a Z. This was one of the two tales of the Smp’s that take place during present day. Maybe Zachary has something to do with it

wow, this was so well put together! i'm behind on ranboo lore, so this was really helpful. didn't even know about the arg, but now i'm fascinated!

The escape room analogy is probably the best way I’ve heard to explain ARGs. When people ask what it is I always see people writing paragraphs trying to explain what ARGs are and how they work, but they just end up making the person more confused.

22:13 gotta love the small break in summary for some Micheal appreciation

that smile will forever give me chills and make me want to cry

What if Ranboos other half has something similar to the ender walk where instead of staying in the SMP he time travels and that’s how he’s trapped in the cave and trying to warn ranboo

i have a theory that the dream voice in ranboo's head could be Z. i feel like dream has another clone of him, which could be why the voice sounds a lot like dream. Z is trying to figure out more about enderwalking, and dream seems to know how to switch ranboo into his enderwalk stage. it could be possible that Z is somehow connected to dream, which is why dream knows how to switch ranboo to the enderwalk stage. Z might've found out how to turn the enderwalk stage on and off, and they told dream. i find it kind of weird how dream knows how to make ranboo go into his enderwalk stage, but it would make sense if Z somehow told dream about the enderwalk stage which could connect them somehow. if Z and dream dont know each other then its possible that dream has read the pages that Z had, which is why dream knows a few things about enderwalk but im not sure. it could be possible that dream and Z are related but i dont have much evidence to prove that.

The other half of Ranboo is definitely related to the Karl lore because time is involved with the ranboo arg there are also books written by an unknown person as a guide to the in between. I think his other half may be a ghast because it does resemble one . The ghast part may be related to tnt since ghast shoot out explosions or fire balls. So maybe he was “ghastwalking” if he created the books from the in between. If anyone wants to back up this theory please reply!

The tubbo messages are wilburs old arg self when he edited for jacksucksatlife or maybe ghostbur talking to him but it's probably the old arg since the old arg wilbur constantly was either very formal or very child like those were two different people when wearing glasses he was formal and otherwise he was really irratic and was constantly talking about being cold

He really did black friday. He really had to put my favorite musical into his arg. That is wonderful yes.

the smile could be a trigger to activate the enderwalking state, he walks off silently (almost like he's going into ederwalking state) because of the message ':)' from dream via sapnap,, idk just a thought

Theory: the tubbo overlays are ranboo’s two sides

I've seen some of these evidence like the iron one in the inventory I thought it was weird but I didn't know this was going on in the background to be honest and I've seen clips of the words on tubbos stream but I was not actually there this video helped a lot thanks :)

This is better than like 16 other summary videos I’ve seen

i honestly didnt know there was an arg happening. you got me hooked into this story, this is incredible. also i appreciate the editing, the zooming in on the letters and stuff, must have took you hours. i hope you get like a million views soon, you deserve it!!

I expected to be some really popular RU-vid HOW ARE YOU THIS UNDERATED

And song 10 is Jonathan Groff's song "You'll Be Back" which was made for, you guessed it, HAMILTON! And, Early L'manberg was partially a Hamilton reference. Ranboo used to live in L'manberg. Hamilton was shot by a gun. Ranboo's first death (which this one was not canon) was him getting shot by a gun. Who shot him? Dream. Dream is the villain of the Dream SMP. And Aaron Burr is the villain of Hamilton. And I do not know where this is going. at all.

22:35 there is no leader, yes techno is more prevalent then the others in terms of anarchy but he is just the recruiter, thats his only "power" within the syndicate

soooo ranboo's half enderman, half creature of the in between? i guess that makes sense better than the theories that ranboo's half ghast

I just- this is amazing. Dude, this is SUPER underrated for its quality, I'm just in awe. Legit freaking killed it. Just 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000/10.

32:24 anyone else saw the ”im cold” and went ”Wilbur arg” (well he said “im so cold” bur its close)

the messages on tubbo’s stream somewhat resemble the books that karl would find in the inbetween. some of them told him (tubbo) to go north and others were telling him it was unsafe, as if they were from different people.

33:20 "I hate it here" Ranboo what have you been doing...

27:22 From this scene I now have a theory. The “ :)” is what sets off his enderwalk? The :) made him leave straight away.

The third song is from the musical black Friday from starkid I believe

New Lore in the smp: ranboo splashed himself with water and go's into the ender walk

What if the "person" sending the messages is talking directly to michael? If that were the case, how would it intertwine with tubbo? It seems as if he doesn't notice them so perhaps it's a distant voice and this voice is also talking to micheal so that means both micheal and tubbo can hear it.

Oh God we have another arg with the "I am cold" line these people need blankets jackets tea etc okay what I get is people in the dream smp are always cold

Been wanting to get into ranboo’s videos and stuff cause all my friends love him so ty!!

When I saw the "I'm cold" overlay message, I immediately thought of Wilbur's ARG from 2 years ago. I know this has nothing to do with the Dream SMP, but thought it'd be a cool reference lol

If you listen to the song Archaeopteryx you can hear the ticking when the music starts, or when he starts singing. Like in the tales of the smp, Ranboo stares at the clock, or maybe at his stream where a clock was ticking. Tick, tock, tick, tock.

Okay, yes the ranboo arg is awesome, but can I talk about how well you made this video?! I can’t currently watch it, but your introduction to the video literally made me gasp. I’m excited to watch this as if I’m waiting for a movie to come out of theaters.

You are too underrated ! This is so well made !

omg im coming back to this video after a year and you NEED to continue this!! the latest ranboo and tales lore connects so much to karl and ranboo! and the messages on tubbo's stream seem to connect to ghostboo/ranboo's limbo

im so happy im not the only one that recognized the "I'm cold" since its also in the wilbur arg. might be an easter egg or a coincidence tho.

When you mentioned 'Im cold' it made me remember Wilbur's old arg

32:30 im cold. *remembers wilburs ARG*

Did anyone realise how *underrated* this is? Sure, it is a few months old and there's plenty new lore and information about Ranboos character, but seriously *this* is what I call real effort! I'm just mindblown!

So Enderwalker is a Disease that gives super powers like Silk Touch and Teleportation but has Memory Loss, Appearance Changes, and Auditory Hallucinations Could explain why Endermen get Angry when you look at them, because they are paranoid

I have a few updates about the Enderwalk Arg so far :D 1. Ranboo has done 1 lore stream so far and chances are we might get another one, but Ranboo said he'll do lore if something big happens in the SMP 2. New info shown in the lore stream, Ranboo sees "lessons" pop up in is vision, he dosen't know what they mean but seems that there are more than one lesson. Another event he tries to convince Sam to put him in prison but refuses and tells Ranboo he has done nothing wrong, when Ranboo tries to tell him he blew up the community house he's quickly silenced, unable to tell him what he's done. Finally, he thinks there is one person that could give him answers about the "lessons", he goes to his house creates a water splash potion and says the person that could give him answers was himself and splashes himself with water and ends on a black screen with ender noises and the purple smile at the end 3. Z has recently tweeted 3 tweets regarding to Ranboo and what Ranboo has been doing the past days 4. We've been introduced to another place in Tales from the SMP called the Other Side which is a giant black castle and everything there is all black 5. Its been shown in the last Tales from the SMP stream that the Inbetween is shown as a place of some danger 6. Word from Karl is that both him and Ranboo are working together on some lore and that some theories the fans have about Tales from the SMP and maybe c!Karl himself will become canon feel free to add more things! :)

The writing on Tubbo stream is like the people writing in the books inside the in between. There are two ‘things’ writing and they both disagree with each other just like the writing

0:29 Me: Fallen down! I love this song! Me again: oh, it's fallen down...

the “I am cold” is bringing memories lmao

I'm so happy you made this, as well as complied sources and links! This'll hopefully make things easier and make the arg more popular. Idea I had while watching; it could be a possibility that Ranboo could be Z and it hasn't been explored alot I feel. Z seems to be some kind of scientist who was researching enderwalking, so it wouldn't be to far fetched that they were researching how one becomes infected. What of through research he infects himself with what causes enderwalking, resulting in memory loss of both the research and any previous life relations. This would bring us to the more well known ranboo, and the past ranboo who may have originally knew dream. Dream has mentioned he knew ranboo before others did and was once friends even though we've never seen this. So I propose that we are working with two ranboos currently; one is the ranboo we know and see on streams, and the other is the original scientist who's friends with dream and talks to/takes over the more familiar Ranboo(I'm mainly saying this because if dream was really able to mind control he'd do it more).

the song at 5:08 sounds like the beginning of Black Friday the musical(made by starkid, which hes a fan of).

Wow, this person is seriously underrated

0:30 *DONT DO THIS TO ME MAN U KNOW I HAVE PTSD FROM ALL THE LORE*

Holy sh*t! This is the first video i watch from you and the way you present the content is just incredible, you kept me entertained all the way through to the point that i didn't notice it was 36 minutes long untill the video ended. The music choice for each part is the best and sets the mood perfectly, the editing is just impecable, and overall this is just so well made. Its so difficult to find creators with content this well made, and it makes me sad to see that when i find one, they are almost criminally underrated. Keep up this amazing work, i am excited to see what bangers you'll make next edit: just back here because you just hit 200 subs, congratulations!

The story is either a meme or critical to the dsmp I look forward to the end

“IM COLD” IS A REFERENCE TO WIL’S ARF @Whey Anderson

"fallen down" makes me feel cold -r faiker

"Michal is the purest source of joy" sad Steve noises

Ur so underrated omg

Also another thing you missed is the morsecode with the dream's and ranboo's logo and it translates to IT ISN'T OVER

What I love with this is that you have all these stories on the SMP, you have these adjacent stories with Karl's Tales of the SMP, the ARG, and more meta parts of the lore that take place outside of the Server. You have so many characters, so many secrets between the different voices, hidden text, off-stream lore, and lore hidden in other character's stories/streams. All of this makes it so whichever corner of the SMP you are invested in only feels like a small part, even though it can tell a complete story. It also makes it hard to figure out what is important to who, and if there might be clues with two separate solutions; depending on which perspective your looking from. Its a unique form of story telling that is still expanding and I just find it all fascinating.

Just a suggestion: put the sounds into the Spectrogram, there is a chance that there is some hidden information there. Also I might be wrong but the dream face that shows at the end of Ranboos streams is suspiciously appearing and disappearing... Like in Morse code perhaps? I mean, I might be wrong but in ARG nothing is random. Small details matter.

POV: you spent way too much time reading documents on an rp

To be honest, I can kinda relate to the enderwalk thing. Not really in such a deep way as the story actually is, but still a little, and I also sometimes get very specific vibes. I have memory issues as well, probably not as bad as Ranboos (or I just haven't realized how bad it is because I don't remember which would be a bit of a problem c-c), but it's still really difficult. But for... probably a few months now (? Yeah there goes the memory) I've kinda learned to trust myself a bit more. In your video, there's the part with the prison, and that really reminded me of a phase in my life when I realized that I don't really remember things. It's scrary as hell, and it kinda swings between "It's fine, you know what to do, you can do this" and simply completely in panic "help". Though it did get a bit better as I've learned how to cope a little, similarly to Ranboo and his book. I try to copy his strategy a bit (I have a program called OneNote synchronized on all my electronic devices, and I use it similar to how he uses his memory book) , but I just started that recently, and it's hard to keep up. But my main coping strategy is to just trust myself. I don't know when or how I started thinking like this, but I just learned to trust that I make the right decisions. (Now that I try to explain it it sounds stupid, I don't even know how to make decisions... the more I try the more chaotic it gets. And sorry for the mess that this comment is, but thanks if you read this far!) It's a bit of a mix of constant conscious trust and autopiloting decisions (Maybe that makes sense? I conciously trust my autopilot?) That's what the part right after the prison reminded me of, with the book of the enderwalk. He still created a book to write down what he did, probably unconciously, and maybe he can base a strategy on that, so his enderwalk self will write in that book. So he can trust himself and rely on the book, even when his memory fails him. He'd just have to learn to unconciously autopilot and use the book in his enderwalk state and then to trust that he actually does that. I know that it's just a story, the base of the lore is probably already there, and the enderwalk might now work like real life memory loss (like if he is completely under someone elses contol, he can't write stuff down if the controlling person doesn't tell him to, or maybe he still has that freedom and is just partially controlled, or not at all, I don't really remember if we're supposed to know that or not, sorry for the rambling!), but I still believe that this could work, especially if he's started the enderwalk book. He just needs access to it to connect his conscious self and his enderwalk self. Uhm... I tried to make a point (probably more like three or so thoughout writing), but it's really hard to write right now since my brain apparently thinks "oh, information?" *delete* is a good idea. So I hope you understood, but if it wasn't logical and you like the theory (or whatever it's supposed to be) just ask! ^^ And sorry for the grammar/spelling, I definitely remember asking myself how to spell conscious every time I wrote it... But hopefully the autopilot me made the same logical decision every time. XD

The ender at 29:09 also says “ clock “ which could be referring to karl since he is commonly depicted with a clock.

27:57 Does the flashing of Dream's logo/face link to morse code? It's flashing in a strange pattern/order, which made me wonder if it was.

This is criminally underrated

"im cold" in the tubbo overlays was a very important part of the wlbur soot arg a few years ago

at 32:26 it ofc says "I'm cold" thats also passes with Wilbur's ARG with jack sucks at life, saying that he might not be good because his hands are freezing from hypothermia.

Show the sound on a graph to see if there are any hidden messages or images

When the lore continues a bit more you should make a part 2

I've seen theories about how ranboo is a mix of ran, (ranboos black side) and boo (his white side). In the theory, boo is from the in-between and ran is from the other side. Both realms were unstable for a reason I can't remember and ran and boo had to go through a portal that caused them to combine into ranboo in the present time. Im not sure where I found this but I just thought it would be fun to add. :)

32:20 the “I’m cold “ reminds me of wilbur’s ARG a couple years back when he repeatedly said “I’m so cold”

this is so good !!

That was a really good lore recap, I gonna need an update after all this shit has gone down

the 'im cold' on the tubbo overlays is more likely to tie in to something to do with wilbur

Can I just say that Fahrenheit 451 is a brillant book? Like it's one of the few books that I am enjoying reading in GCSE English