Who is Z? || Ranboo ARG 

addressing some frequent comments: ranboo has used the :] smiley before (which is why i called it his in the video at 0:24), however i do understand that it has recently been associated with quackity and the tales of the smp streams

The dream smp lore is getting closer and closer to being more complicated than the fnaf lore.

I personally think that the Ranboo we’ve gotten used to in the main lore is the enderwalker

"if we brighten it up-" me: as any game theorist would do

I joined the ARG server right after the REAL Wilbur soot did and everyone called him an impersonator and he left :(

Theory: tve one writing this is Alyssa, That one DSMP that is never on. (Also, there are only 3 people with a Z in their names, punz, lazarbeam and philza)

What if “z” is the person who is talking to Micheal in tubbos stream on April 1st

The amount of Gravity Falls vibes i get from this is just amazing

It wasn't the ranboo/dream smile that's :) and that was quaackitys face which is :]

What if there was someone else who redacted the text and did the drawings and what if the "creatures" were the green eyed endermen who had more powers then the endermen we know from the game things they could do was they could pickup every block even bedrock.

Gravity Falls vibes huh? The words may have been blacked out so that a certain person, or being, may not read it.

Maybe it still is Karl, maybe he forgot his name? Just a quick little possibility I want to out out there... maybe Karl forgot his name and just came up with a new one and eventually overtime he just convinced himself that his name is Karl... that’d be a major plot twist tho

"i might aswell introduce myself;-" *procedes to censore the name*

Thank you for figuring this out for me because I’m to lazy too!

everyone with the smiley face either everything is connected or we are missing a crucial detail in some of the smiley pictures

The fact that Enderwalker and Enderwalkers are used in the ARG. Before I knew about the ARG I used the name “Enderwalker” to refer to Ranboo when he was in his Enderwalking state. I guess I’m not as original as I thought

This may be a small bit farfetched, but could Z be Watson from The Pit, the latest Tale From the SMP? He seemed to be a smart, academic person, and he was the only person aside from Ran who was supposed to die, but survived. Plus, he survived with Ran, who is literally an enderman. What if Ran told Watson about Ender-walking, and since then, he devoted his entire life to figuring out how Ender-walking works?

Was messing around and found something cool. I'm probably not the first one to find it but I thought I'd share it. If you take the string of numbers in Z's twitter handle (Z2381591926) and separate them alphabetically (Z-23-8-15-9-19-26) , putting them through an a1z26 cipher gives you Z-whoisz. Nifty.

Why did I get exited but scared that the same time-

I think I have a theory about why z refers to the endermen as "creatures" As we can see, the page is obviously old, so wouldn't it make sense for this to be written in the past, or even at the beginning of human civilization? Just imagine, you're a person from way back in the past and these "creatures" as well as the enderwalk state have been recently discovered. You're given the task to study it and figure out how it works. That could explain why the page looks so old and why the endermen are referred to as "creatures" since the wouldn't have been named yet.

can’t wait for episode 3, im gonna join that discord

Idk why but the thought that Z is dream popped into my head. Ranboo os affected my dream so they might do some of the same things like post song thing similar on Twitter (the Tik. Tik. one) also Z is like when you sleep and see dreaming you go Zzz so like idk but maybe.

Watching this at almost 5AM, The scariest part was "MAN"

PLEASE!!! Keep me updated I didn't even know this was going on

It's Philza as a crow, POGGING

Thank you so much for putting this together!! I’m too confused to understand anything :)

this is like a horror film theory but without the horror

I see maybe ranboo might go insane at some point he is going to might become dangerous I see what's happening ranboo might become one of the most dangerous people since he has the enderwalk state and its dangerous to his brain

*looks at the ender in the gif* LEMME THROW IT IN THE TRANSLATOR-

That’s actually kinda creepy but also cool. Imagine how much time it took for this to be made

1:21 It says "When it's discovered how is it remembered?" OK lol this will be edited bcz ima translate more :D EDIT:Bruh just realized the enderman language is already translated by some creator of that ;-;

thank u for these videos they are really helpful to understanding the arg!

for like a solid 4 months i didn't know what an ARG is when people talked about wilbur's ARG now i see it's kind of a treasure hunt puzzle "game" thing?

This man is a mastermind! This is a puzzle and it’s actually terrifying ngl!!!!

My head canon is that Z is a scientist who went to the end long ago then became a enderman (watch enderman game theory to understand) she (btw in my headcanon she is a girl) was then effected by the enderwalk causing her eyes to turn bright blue signifying that she is a rare enderman and a Enderwalker. A little later she is found by one of the Enderwalkers, she is a 4 block tall enderman with bright red eyes. She takes Z in as her daughter, then she met a simi human white enderman with green eyes. He said his name was Dream and he was told he had to leave next year to explore the outside(the over world) but he would forget his life as a enderman and become mostly human. He also said he would forget the End and think it’s just a myth. Suddenly a young enderman comes out of his room, he says, “umm hi… I’m Ran… Prince Ran…” He talk with a shy soft but meaningful voice he also had… white spots… along his left cheek… everyday they would grow and Z was determined even more than normal to figure out the enderwalk… the next day was the day he… Dream left… Z and Dream were great friends so she was sad he had to go. A few years later Ran went as well by the time he left half his face and hair was white and his left eye was red… Z wrote a book about the Enderwalkers and the different members of her family. One day years later DreamXD found that very book, he hid it and swore to never let anyone find it…

there’s gonna be mathematicians and physicists solving this

when everyone else is smarter than you and you barely understand anything they’re saying: *why am I like this.*

Thank you so much for getting my attention here, as rubbish as I am at decoding I love reading lore and oh god is it amazing to have such amazing new lore to think about, had I not seen the video I would have never know this even existed so thank you so so much!

No one: Me: Watching all of the enderwalk arg theories and answers but not trying to figure it out on my own/not doing any work to figure it out.

Knowing how to read and write alien/the ender language comes in handy when you're a Ranboo fan

The dsmp server is getting so complex and I have no idea who the main character is anymore but this is getting interesting

I can't thank you enough for making these videos! Please keep up the good work!

thank you so much for putting it all together its hard to keep up with the discord and this is a very chill explanation of everything and really helps to understand it so thank you :D

I’m SO excited about his ARG!!!!! I’m super bad at puzzle stuff to ty for putting it all together!! I can’t wait to see where this goes

Thanks for explaining all of this, I was so genuinely confused about it but you made it 100× more clearer, you're a lifesaver! ☆ Keep up the great work

I hope you continue doing Enderwalk ARG, because it’s really hard to follow! Great job btw!

I love these! looking forward to part 3 :D

Wow this was awesome! Great job!

The " as usual it started with a tweet " is so fricjen true

I think that z is a person from another dimension and a enderman somehow got teleported to z's dimension and z traveled far away from their home to find out about these "weird creatures"

Oh I know- This is one of those mystery riddles And if we find out what it is we're gonna have a mental break down then figure out that there's more to it And then there's more clues released

ooo yes ranboo arg, I love args so much so this will be a ride and an exciting and maybe interesting one like wilbur's :]

Title: who is z Me whos name is z: 👁️👄👁️

ranboo has lived through the cipher hunt so i think he has used some elements in his arg

I don’t have the time or mental capacity to sit down and decipher all of these parts, but I love hearing about them, so thanks so much for the easy to understand updates! I wish I could participate but it all goes too fast for me x.x

Please keep us updated! Me and a lot of other folks dont/cant use twitter so this is super helpful! :D

Why do I see Wilbur helping Ranboo with the arg idk why but that seems so funny to me

It most certainly could still have been Karl writing the books as time travelling makes his memory worse, that might be why the important details have been crossed out

i have seen that a lot of people believe that the z in the pocket watch was the Lethe river

?? Thanks for making this! I had no idea this was going on-

THIS MAN SPEAKS ENCHANTING TABLE HURRY GUYS GET THE ENCHANTING TABLES HERE

I figured it out z is the other side of ranboo that has forgotten his past and is using ranboo as a host to find his past and he is also studying the enderwalk when ranboo goes into it but all he knows is the nickname he was given Z and he is hunting for the rest of the pages to find out his past and free himself from ranboo thats all i have will comment on next video on this subject

great vid! it was a really cool theory

I cannot believe i have been living under a rock, i did not have a clue that there is an arg

The Ranboo ARG gives me the same vibes as the Gravity Falls Cipher hunt

It’s considers a creature so it could be something similar to ranboo, a hybrid. This could just be a taller variant of what ranboo is

when ranboo's lore starts becoming more complicated than the fnaf lore

The book seems old so it is possible that it’s Phil still wouldn’t explain the Z but he does have a Z in his name but the book seems ages old so I honestly don’t know

THIS WAS ALL DONE IN ONLY 40 MINUTES!? WHAT!?

I'm almost completely sure that the ":]" smile represents Quackity considering a similar smile was at the end of Fundys nightmare accompanied by casino sounds, and Quackity said he was gonna make a H U G E casino, or as the actual quote states " I wanna make the whole f*cking Vagas Sam!"

the lore is getting more and more confusing, exciting, and confusing again

This is some game theory shiz

Maybe Z is ranboo before he started having memory problems and something happened that turned him into what he is now half enderman half mysterious unknown creature.

I think that maybe the enderwalk is like a virus? And that maybe if you're in it for too long your physical features change? That explains why there a picture of an enderman and it titled 'my only recollection of these creatures' and like so many people have gotten infected by the enderwalk to the point where their normal creature to be seen? And like the pages are yellowish something that usually indicates age. Meaning that like these could have been written a long time ago. And Ranboo is like the first creature to be infected by the enderwalk in a long time. So like my take is that the enderwalk is a virus that alters your perception of reality and your physical state.

This is like Cicada all over again.

I think that ranboo (in theARG)is looking for Z bc he needs Z to help him with his enderwalking (assuming that he has it in this ARG) but Z (might be or is) dead or not to be found. Ranboo is also looking for Z bc he can’t understand himself or what he is or how he is elven who he is because he forgets (again this is assuming he does but he did say this doesn’t have anything to do with his lore but idk if that’s lore or not really-) his memory loss has gotten so bad that (maybe) he (or maybe one of his two sides *idk if that’s a thing*) had crossed off that text- a part of him stopped himself for seeing it so he crossed it off- and you might be thing “but it was the same boldness and thickness as Z’s” yes but if you think about either ranboo or the part of ranboo had the same marker, pen, ink whatever or ranboo is Z. The reason why I believe ranboo could be (could be) Z is that when he enderwalks he forgets everything right (I think that’s just with endermen in general not really lore right?) when he ended walks that part of him tries to study enderwalking because that part of him is aware and wants to control it, but ranboo doesn’t know because he doesn’t know about that part of him and by making ranboo go on a hunt that part is trying to rise to the surface and teach ranboo how to control his enderwalking in the only way it can. But that’s just a theory, a GA- uhh... RANBOO ARG THEORY- correct me on anything!

BUT THATS JUST A THEORYYYYYYYY. A GAME THEORY. -Game theory

I like to imagine that the Z account is actually owned by a Minecraft compass

If this 'Z' guy ends up being a person already on the SMP, my best guesses on who it could be are: Eret (memory loss and having been "other places", the betrayal and the seemingly immediate regret) Wilbur (mental instability possibly caused by being affected by the Enderwalk, harmful behavior towards himself and others) Dream (harmful behavior towards others and possibly himself, the personality shifts, knows how to trigger Ranboo's enderwalk(?), the 'Dreamon' could have been something else entirely)

This is just a game theory video but without a png of a dude. Good job

"but that's just a theory" Me: "A GAAAME THEORY"

the Enderwalk is like a creepypasta

Ive been listening to this series like a podcast

Thank you for reading it for me I can’t read and it’s really hard but I saw the tweets but I couldn’t find any audio of someone reading it for me so I couldn’t get to far. Thank you good video btw.

this weirdly reminds me of that one bill cypher treasure hunt around the world. just less traveling because we're all antisocial people who wouldnt dare leave their homes

"Find the pages" wow Ranboo really is taking ideas from Slenderman huh lol

i can't keep up with the lore besties

Z is zek, zek is real name of skeppy skeppy canonicly wasnt shown for long time

Man ranboo is scaring me as fck

This must be tied in with the lore fundy had last night. Looked like he was in a dream and a mysterious man came after him. The man is likely Z. Fundy has been having many nightmares and ranboo has been caught “sleepwalking” so these phenomena are most likely related to Z... But I bet that many other ppl have thought of this as well so idk why I bother lol

They kinda are similar to each other's lore

GOING TO DECODE IT

It could still be Karl, because the paper is ancient, and twitter exists now, at our time, so there has to be something with time-travelling, or maybe someone Karl met while he was time-travelling?

when it's discovered it's written down

Enderwalkers? IS THERE MORE ENDERWALKERS?

The one dislike is Z.

Bruh. People are crazy detectives

Ranboo doing a FNAF style lore here holy geez

ΣI The clock could be a reference to whoever was talking to Tubbo in his stream on April 1st as if maybe they are running out of time it could also be reference to Michael Somehow

everyone asks who is Z but nobody asks how is Z