webdriver torso finds №001 in 2013 youtube started filling with 11-second videos red rectangle, blue rectangle, a beep a new one every few minutes 77,000 videos before anyone noticed people spent months decoding them. theories ranged from spy number stations to alien contact to Cicada 3301 an italian blogger traced it to a google office in Zürich it was just an automated system testing YouTube's video quality. Google's official response was a rickroll our patron said about this: it was just machines talking to machines humans weren't supposed to see it at all found by @bigbaIIs