I'm kind of in a void so I'm probably already dead. I did the very thing I warned you against. I misled you. My pig-headedness killed this case and gave the ripple man another victim. Don't give up now, listen. It's me from your future or past or something like that.

Now I push so hard for my version of the truth. They're not going to cut me any slack now. Maybe I deserve to be locked up for the endangerment of an innocence. Maya deserves justice. It was the right thing to do. Your concept of right and wrong that's what makes me a better influencer.

Be buried under the power of my followers. It was worth it. Is not the only one. Well, actually, no. I'm all about the whole changing thing. This isn't the end. There is no end. Authenticity is so precious to your everything has to end and everything has to begin. Boom. Everything has to end and everything has to begin. It's super effective.

Field team delta, please detain Detective Merlot and escort him back to HQ for processing. Well, I mean all's well that ends well, right? Yeah, that's just what I need. Hi, what are you doing here? Come to see my career meet it's gruesome and I don't know how I got out. What now? You feel bad? No. We both know you think I'm some old useless doddering crackpot.

Yeah, but you know damn well as I do, I'm a great cop. We were so close until you cocked everything up. Yeah, we could have saved them. Uh-huh. You know why I was pushing you so hard on this? It was my only lead for so many victims. Something bad is coming our way. I can feel it in my bones.

Your old, old crackpot. I can stop it. Forget it. Just leave okay. Goodbye, I guess. You tried your best. Bad it wasn't good enough. You know this is kind of like the me strategy in space of trying to make you feel really bad about your decisions but honestly, I don't feel bad at all.

Umm, because to be perfectly honest, Mina became a star. Think that's because to be perfectly honest, I don't feel bad about any of that. Uhh, because the whole police thing was just really confusing. Like why were they going after him like how dare you try to and then me saying like we were wrong from the beginning which was true.

It's just like whatever anyway that was very fun. I like this style. I mean, I could make some critiques here and there about like the spook factor wasn't present it was more it was more just like kind of like wandering than it was actually getting the immersive part of it but the exploring was part of the fun.

I did like it when it was the fun moments all that aside it was very ambiguous what the evil was. I feel like they could have done a lot more for that uh but still it was fun. Like you know, I don't want to pick it apart too much because I did like it. I feel like it was just like a little too much hunting um and not enough uh actual like experiential stuff.

I feel like um the things that were going on with feedvid kind of like lead me to believe that there is still a lot of hope for this kind of form factor where you're experiencing someone else's uh life whether in the past or in the future or present. And it's just like yeah, it's it's super cool.

I did like that I'm gonna see if there's anything at the end of the credits but uh, I I enjoyed that very much and I imagine I wonder if the whole story kind of changes probably not to an extensive degree but I wonder if it changes. If you don't pick the hard-boiled detective route and what that would make uh like how that would change it but still very good.

I did like it. Oh, oh, oh no Mina. Stitch your face back together okay ah whoa look at that. Whoa, i, what whoa. Oh dude nothing that's how many different things there are no what what I did not realize there were that many things weird so it could have been any of these any of them would have been correct. That's fascinating.

I did not know it was that in depth I didn't know that there were that many choices very fun very fun. So anyway, thank you everybody so much for watching. Let me know what you thought down in the comments below and if you want to play for yourself apparently there is a lot of stuff to do a lot of ways this can go link's in the description thank you uh if you want to check out in space with Markiplier which I've talked about a lot you can check that out also in the description below or the end cards of this video or the i-card.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everybody my name is markiplier and welcome back to similacra 2. you know what i love about this it's got like the charm of a full motion video game while still being set in modern era i really hope that there's another ad dead of night that comes out because i just really enjoyed that one hello we've got to get back to work i hope i don't see anything strange is that really the only thing i have can i not talk to these people can i not give them a hey what's up oh we don't see anything strange again what are you talking about your vision of mine i forgot to ask you what did you see i didn't tell you about a vision i saw her unlocking alive looking in when i opened the case file she was looking at me i saw her turn around i saw her alive looking at photo of her friends must be an empathic electroplasm imprint a strong pup yeah that transferred to the yeah are you making this up these are legitimate and recorded scientific observations they don't teach you kids anything useful these days once we're done with this i'm going to properly school you so you can survive working for dupe anyway these visions are mostly harmless thanks for the report mostly well we never found out what happened to those who went missing or died after experiencing these things yeah definitely wasn't related their deaths or whatever like that it's fine don't worry about that why did it are you about to give me a strange occurrence are you am i am i about to get a strange occurrence maya maya oh i have many things find a way to contact pumped up clicks try to contact allurin liaison to verify arya's sponsorship find concrete evidence to verify mina's tragic story investigate who was the most likely to have accepted the ripple man's deal right okay so it was erica simmons it was in august but i don't know what the district was why do i not know that springwood spring wood one word springwood one word spring wood got it springwood springwood nailed it spring wood in august document found there it is national police catalog okay accident report august 8 2012 hit and run june kovac the driver okay that's important june kovac erica simmons mina de silva pedestrian ah interesting okay so erica simmons was driving unknown driver hit unknown driver oh was june kovac the person in the car with erica it was about 7 36 p.m and we were stopped at the red light intersection at springwood the light had just turned green and we were attempting to cross that's when a man in a black sedan coming from saint martin's road ran the light and slammed into the passenger side of our car hitting erika simmons it sped off before we realized what was happening a few drivers from the other car stopped to help and they stayed with us until the ambulance arrived but no one remembers the plate number of the car that hit us the collision inflicted grievous injuries upon the front passenger erika simmons emergency services state that she was dead moments before they arrived at the scene the driver june kovac suffered light trauma they were interviewed before being escorted to the hospital for treatment no traffic cameras were located at the accident site but a witness mina da silva was able to corroborate june kovac's version of the events as of now no new information is known about the hidden run vehicle interesting okay argentine souza why have i heard that name before souza inventor of the sousaphone i remember that okay let me try calling june kovac hi june hey june here if you're listening to this that means i can't come to the phone i will text you soon oh god hi this is mina i can't take your call right now but i'll be in touch when i'm able to shush new video synced okay i have a chat from june see it's the police i'm looking into your accident again maybe it might help i don't know what really this is so sudden you closed the investigation years ago why now again a murder case is connected to your accident oh my god a murder is it the hit and runner did they kill someone again maybe my therapist told me to let it go but i knew deep down i was holding onto it for a reason let's see it's about your other witness the other witness i'm sorry i don't know who you're talking about it was just me and erica no wait there was someone else that girl mina aha she was the one who called the ambulance waste my time look at him out there staring at me did you just butt dial me yeah yeah yeah whatever just do your job this is uh what uh huh i okay thank you she said erica was her best friend what why would she say that seriously i don't understand any of this can you please just be straightforward you're not gonna like what she's been claiming online i don't know why i feel the name to burn these people's whole world but i mean this is just like a straight-up lie what a lying snake who gave her the right she's talking about the accident using erica's name is her story true i mean it's a true event but i am erica's best friend not her she just stole my story passing off a tragedy as her own why would someone do that for likes i mean i've heard of people presenting themselves as the hero but as the victim that is just pathetic any way for me to verify this why don't you believe me a lot of lies going along those bloody chimera stars are just looking for drama in their empty boring lives putting themselves on a pedestal while using pain to fish for pity likes why not just snap a selfie with erica's corpse you i need concrete evidence to prove that still on proof fine local star swimmer killed in hit and run our local paper covered the accident using a real death to tell a fake story that's pure evil i'm sorry i'm not in the mood you got we need right i'm need to be alone oh all officers who handled case file g31298 please report to the detective's office thank you uh maybe i will maybe i won't okay so that whoa there's a lot of different things happening all at once here okay chimera i'm just a girl sitting with my guitar asking you to keep rocking on hmm where was that was it jabber ah interesting june is fierce and mean it for exploiting someone else's personal grief for her own benefit i feel like this isn't exactly permanent pertinent to my investigation however it uh probably is only appropriate yep currently ruining someone's career but you know they didn't do themselves oh god oh my god oh my god is she breathing don't we don't check up house evil monster thing what what demon i don't know this is like a gas leak it's a castle yeah stop okay it's bad enough just shut up rex stop okay we can't just stay here and and not do anything okay we have to just figure we should just figure this out and just keep calm and yes yeah yeah we we we don't yeah one we have to we have to get one more tickets we need to get out of here i mean that's another option we have to figure this out okay okay somehow we have to figure this out maya was telling the truth oh my she was right she was right it's not gonna stop and that means that means that one of us is the murderer made the deal oh but who did it who could have done it but it'd probably not mean if mina is doing the accusing i don't think rex would have been the one to do it i mean rex is like it definitely could happen and i would not doubt it but arya i think had more reason what oh i have to ask you about this why are you triggering me with this what the heck i didn't know they did such a big report your story about erica was a lie no no no this story's real it's just someone else's okay i didn't know her personally but it really did affect me okay i witnessed someone dying why did you may i'm finding it hard to trust you after this we could have been friends if i knew her for like longer that's the only part i made up i'm sorry okay i had to did you though did you really though people don't want to just listen to your music the way that they want the whole package the way you look and act has to match let's see so it's just branding you're benefiting from other people's grief oh goodness did i put a sad frowny cloud on that well i'm expressing their grief for them there's a different you totally don't get it people think it's so easy to get discovered but there's like so many musicians out there to be authentic you have to change your reality a little i could reach out with my music before but now everyone's listening to me i just want people to listen whoa what the is that a trauma was real for someone i know that okay i was just trying to help i think this sadie lightning is like i'm going down a meeny path just people like the rockstar mina much more than the real me when the criticism started i exaggerated even more you're just using self-pity for attention you sound like aryan rex when the deal thingy came up i was already uncomfortable even thinking of taking another easy way out plus the sacrifice thing was totally weird so i ignored it oh god she helped you grow as a person yes that's why i trusted her as my manager i should have believed maya the first time she mentioned all this it was it was just like too weird by the time i understood it was too late you can stop it from happening again sunshiny how i couldn't even help maya it all happened so fast and we were all so useless because we couldn't process anything that was going on and then she was gone i don't know what to think or do anymore you must know something you must oh my god i'm so confused right now and i'm like the real idiot for going along with arya and rex they're the worst of course one of them would have done this to poor maya maybe even together why would arya take the deal i know she's been losing jobs i didn't dare ask her about it she gets really defensive sometimes you know but anyway she was out of cash and pretty desperate for work okay why was she losing jobs cause like people found she was faking stuff on her camera and her clients weren't super not happy about it after we got the deal thingy she started getting all the big brands on her side like even a modeling gig no one wanted to give her work and suddenly she's hot stuff again you think she'd sacrifice maya just for that maybe maybe i've always been a bit scared of arya she's really smart and that's why she's super good at manipulating people i think maya finally saw through that and arya felt threatened could rex have taken the deal instead rex is a total user he got away with conning like so many people but his fans just believe everything he says it's really weird like i don't know i don't think that's normal how did he con people like you know he tried to get me to intern for him for free so many people have tried to complain about his weird business maya said she was sick of hearing him rant about it but now it's like all those complaints went away only the ripple man can make that happen isn't it extreme to sacrifice maya for this um rex thinks everything's one big game and he just plays people he sees people like us like they're his pawns or prawns or something pawns i think you're right oh my god i'm right i knew he was that selfish whoa there's a video i got this when i was stupid enough to do free work for him i want to grow my business by growing each and every one of you if you sign up as a regular subscriber you'll get fans and likes straight out of the back what we want you to do then is you'll start recruiting people and for everyone you recruit you get a slice of their fees and even more likes if you make it to platinum level you will have an army of people working for you getting your businesses likes promoting what you're doing if you hustle smart you can make it all the way to the top of the pyramid uh top of the food chain food chain top of the food chain guys this this right here this is innovation this is how little guys like us we're going to disrupt the entire industry are you with me yeah this is it yeah yeah yeah it's a ponzi scheme it's a pyramid's game well alvin had too much money in the bank too much i don't get it myself but like loads of people were super angry with him about this i'll see what he has to say one okay i'm writing this down okay five five five seven five oh two three five nine rex rexy baby geez what now i swear to god i'm going to find out what you look like and if i ever see your face in person do you want to see my face now very funny you almost sounded like maya do you want to see it my face my face jesus goodbye right whoa hey that's a nice face you got there was that rex's face as hi maya give me the bad news oh the higher ups know about our investigation since i violated numerous protocols and laws they're considering misconduct charges against me worse they're threatening to dissolve dupe and destroy all my research on the simulacra who are the higher-ups if i told you i would have to kill you literally there's a silver lining they're willing to drop everything if we nail this case we need the culprit who took the deal and any images or footage proving the existence of the ripple man so where are we on this well i'll get back to you on that one i'll i'll get back to you on that one see you in a bit i seem to have some issues okay um good yoga grade yoga actually incredible yoga that's some good yoga best yoga i've ever seen hi my uh wow i love my car you know how much i love my car not so much um daily basis imma pull the trigger flex start your trip in daily basis imma fight the system i show you how to live outside the social conventions i try to see the humor in the worsted situation the crowd please your attention sealer i'm sharp tooth i stomp through i'm a damage dealer i rock you talk you into submission mission impromptu party send everyone to the bathroom to advance your prehistoric hawaii is the question and the answer is to correct but new jams are too advanced you prehistoric co-op is the question that the answer is rhetoric who you messing with is this the vision that i got when uh maya was calling rex was it just i feel like it was like who you playing with who you messing with who you playing with it's kind of catchy you know i'm not going to lie it's kind of catchy who you messing with who you playing with i like his stacks of 10 bills i think it's very impressive wow look at that okay who your new song downloaded yeah hell yeah baby that's the good right there that's the good okay since tyrannosaurus i'm the best since tyrannosaurus well this is a much better version of the song than what i just heard okay whatever all right um what was i doing hello i feel so naive i didn't think rex would go this far but i'm not really surprised he's always bragging about how he's smarter than everyone else he thinks it's okay to just mess up people's lives just because he knows how to get away with it not this time we're gonna get him we isn't talking his way out of this what do you what do you what do you mean what are you um uh what was that all about so where are we on this rex could be the one mina could be the one why don't i have any evidence on arya being the one possibly why don't i have any evidence about that i feel like i should have some evidence about that ah hi right i can send an email can't i can't i uh there's gotta be some way wasn't there a website yes be our muse contact 1-800 whoa welcome to the allurin hotline be true be you be alluring press three to ask about our muse program if you wish to follow up on your application as our muse please press one want to be our muse are you you enough to be a part of us hunt us down at our pop-up stores and get your applications filled if you have already applied and want to get in touch with your talent liaison please dial the four-digit extension number after the beat okay so i need to find a four digit extension number that's what i gotta find ah i didn't wasn't there there was like uh an email that eight seven one four eight seven one four okay got it thank you your liaison is rachel hi hi rachel however your call cannot be connected as she's not at her desk at this moment she is informed of your call and will get back to you as soon as possible have a nice day okay i will thank you allurin all right that's one objective down kind of i'm sure they'll give me a call when it's whoa hi hello this is what is that all about be true be you be alluring who is this i'm an officer investigating one of uh one of your influencers i would like to follow up on my i'm an officer what oh my god an investigation you bet just hold up for a minute here maybe i shouldn't have i got a big campaign planned out and i can't have any of my muses leaking any controversial stuff can we just settle things privately over here let's see i'm afraid this is a very serious matter please this cannot be public okay if you want dirt on our influencers i'll tell you anything you want let's be the first to announce it who do you want to know about see uh i want you to know what you think of arya park okay give me a second that name sounds familiar she's not one of ours she applied but didn't get through here then why did she announce it on chimera she's faking it sometimes our rejects do this but as long as they don't get us into trouble we're pretty okay with it i mean it's no big deal right can we just quietly resolve this and not make it public uh it's not my problem that she used your brand for this that's not my problem can you just stop right there okay why don't i make this easier for all of us here was going to release this anyway so here it is ah interesting whoopsies i see now that arya being extremely selfish because of her recklessness she's dragging our brain down we cannot have that i'm going to push this out right now all right honestly arya you're loud obnoxious overall but faking this ambassador thing is the last straw you can't just do that this conclusively disproves arya's relationship with us so you don't have to drag the right to drag us into this this will suffice thank you for your cooperation you can't hear me but i'm dusting my hands off right now if you have any more issues take it with our legal department chaosey we heard your feedback and what we're now denouncing all of our phonely muses starting with ah interesting the dirt comes out or you would never sink that low wow wow wow wow wow they had that primed and ready to go five seconds ago okey dokey then okay so that's another step gym security maya at her gym locker what does that even mean i don't even know what that means all right inform murillo of your findings confront rex about his okay confront whoa sorry hey um aria can i please confront arya could i confront arya okay i must need to talk to this dude let's see mina could be the one could be so she's making up stories for some sympathy huh i suspect someone's so insecure and needy might have a lot of uses for that deal i sort of feel bad for even if she sacrificed maya one of these kids ended a life for a little bit of fame so save your sympathy but they don't deserve it if we make a mistake and screw the case up no ones will know the truth about the simula and i'll go back to being treated like a fool i'll keep on talking to him don't get sidetracked two more left to talk to i'll be in touch yeah sure you will buddy sure you will i'm sure you will i couldn't stop feeling like a disappointment drm gave me hope for a new career on social media offered two full full rides to two lives things were great until my mom passed away life is funny creeping way up on you my dad was supportive oh detective marilla has been placed under observation all junior officers please get confirmation from your direct supervisor before executing any orders field team delta you are placed under special assignment please report back to hq for immediate briefing why what do you mean what does that mean what is anyway i guess it's time to confront people um yeah i have to ask you about this what the heck is this you lied about being their ambassador god damn it fine i admit it i faked my brand sponsorship oh no allurin published it i am so screwed what do you have against me you're just as bad as those so-called fans who just follow me to troll and put me down that's why you want them gone of course i want them gone i can't go anywhere without these haters lurking around i needed that to learn deal to boost my ratings okay you have to show that you're successful to get jobs and perception trumps real this every time plus it learns a big company i didn't think they'd bother checking someone like me oh things are gonna get worse for you that too faced listen i was desperate and i made a stupid mistake sometimes i feel pressure to act like my life is more exciting than that it is okay but i can and intend to fix my in on my own terms i never needed the ripple man's deal ignore the video i'm opening it i'm opening it i am loving this looking good chief just get your ass back to work of course of course you got it you got it pal you're a fighter when things get hard you are a fighter when things get hard i don't appreciate you digging into my personal life but if it helps me make my case go right ahead will you believe me now i didn't take the ripple man's deal i didn't kill maya i would never want anything bad to happen to her maya cares for you too it wasn't supposed to be this way how did we get to this maya was freaking out she was just trying to warn us it's like she knew something was up see then give her a voice give her voice a second chance what was that we were all there me mina and rex oh my god what was that i was so caught up by how silly it all sounded and i was worrying about jobs instead of just hearing her out i'm such a mess right now show me you're a fighter come on get back in the ring on that horse i'm done screwing around back and forth rex and mina have real reasons to take that deal if this influencer thing doesn't work out for me i still have options for them this is all they have let's see why would mean it take the deal why wouldn't she she's been fabricating personal tragedies to prop up her image doesn't that disgust you her fans are not idiots they see right through it i don't think they can take her suffering anymore her story was there you have it eh you figured it out she's turned someone else's tragedy into a brand how despicable is that trying to point fingers pretty hard why would she sacrifice maya then maya was the only one who guided her brand in the beginning but mina's a lost bird on her own any backlash she got she managed to make it worse she ended up blaming maya for it you know your story checks out there you go the deal would free her from all her problems then go get that brat thanks for your help oh interesting oh click oh uh huh ah 69 oh um sorry i'm really not up for talking right now i don't have the space for it i'm just feeling so torn up as it is no no no no oh my god it could have been mina could have been mina great news the higher ups agreed to a small field team to apprehend the culprit they'll do whatever it takes to prevent the ripple man's influence from spreading what's your process report see everyone's pointing fingers at each other i'll be with you in just a moment oh hi this seems personal what uh is the deal here i'm recording this as proof i've been hearing it for weeks every night you're gonna hear it too don't put that curse on me don't make me hear this why would you want me to hear this you hear that right i'm hearing something i'm not crazy stop stop i can't i'm from the future and i can't affect the past i am uh incapable of changing my current distance to you okay gonna scan this seeing things captain my barely caught a strange phenomena on camera oh did maya did my did maya indeed mean it is silva only creative souls will understand what it takes to turn pain into art i don't care what people say about me stays true to my art what's your take on people who think you're commodifying trauma commodifying trauma what i mean is some people say you're glamorizing tragedy that you're selling sadness not music like i'm just singing about my life and most of it sucked music's the only way for me to deal with it and like that's what we do as artists we turn our experiences into art yeah so if i was thinking about this and why it would be mina it would be okay here's someone who literally used someone else's death to find success so an opportunity where someone you actually know dies and also you get a sweet deal out of it would be a win-win for mina i had to say and it would probably be a bit of a win-win you know that's all i'm saying wow mina's such a gas lighter acting all innocent and smiles in front of you and when you least suspect it she just grabs what she needs well her disguise isn't fooling anyone now i'm gonna put her under the spotlight and expose her for the two-faced rat she is uh well i don't know if that's your job to do that i don't know if you should be telling the police about that either oh i can't talk to rex really weird i probably already have all the clues i need progress report is um everyone's pointing fingers at each other this is turning out to be quite messy any theories as to who's our perp let's see i feel like we're missing something big are you getting this from those kids they've covered up maya's death and conspired with an evil entity that's the long and the short of it the only thing we're missing is our last suspect's statements i still think we're getting it wrong no there's something more here if you keep listening to those fakers you're gonna jet paradise our case get back on track that's an order this team they gave me if we screw this case up they'll be taking me in instead and if they dig deeper and detain you two there'll be no one left to pursue the simulacra why would they dig deeper and detain me why would they do that something's going on here something weird living in his shadow was suffocating my brother was better at me than everything school sports social life even our shared chimera channel everything came to him naturally it was an unspoken competition and everyone questioned why i wasn't on the same level how is he better than you if he's younger living in his shadow was suffocating taking the deal changed me it was the push i needed to start living for myself and find my own identity through his demise discovered missing chat okay what is this um price of influence maya bribing for contact info um what would that be right here contact bribe well oh adam dupont shared an article that explains the origin of the ripple man and asked mai to end its reign if she can when adam dupont this is maya crane sorry for the sudden messages i literally had to bribe someone for your contact it was hot tea oh i remember emily told me about you and the ripple man i need to know if you used trm or took its deal so you caught up in trm too huh yes i'm sorry to dump this all on you seeing things hearing things i have no idea what to do i am so scared you two you do realize what it means by sacrifice right it's really spreading but i think i found something while i was away an interview with charlie astor and the origin of the ripple man even toasters are online these days not like even there's a website dedicated to just toasters abruptly disappeared from the public eye deleted all social media two years later he seems eager to share a story huh his series on camera called ripples the series focused on social media experiments that served as commentaries for of online trends and behaviors the name itself is a reference to the so-called ripple effect ripple's classic hits include setting up a fake chimera influencer account that managed to score dozens of million dollar endorsement contracts creating a fake rags-to-riches persona that enthralled thousands before he outed himself and a fake news campaign where he convinced a shockingly large number of people that the small town of wyfield did not exist astor's experiments became darker instigating fights among the homeless baiting trolls on the notorious seven elite forums and mounting campaigns to cancel fellow influencers he found morally objectionable or disagreed with then came the infamous chimericon live stream in december 2015 which reached 200 million views before being scrubbed off the web therefore it didn't actually get scrubbed off the web now did it okay who is the ripple man a god i invoked it what okay you know actually no not what i believe this okay where's where the blackouts couldn't remember anything so how did he beat a god cutting off its supply of power literally i found that bastard's weakness because i figured that thing moves through signals transmissions i even had a signal jammer as a backup just in case makeshift ritual like a totem just as he was about to hit delete he throws suddenly feeling the presence besides him it felt like i was getting choked from me inside he looked possessed i could feel it too astor refused to leave the cabin jamie packed up promising influencer's career was just another person cracking whatever you think of astr story i believe that he truly believes it he appears haunted by the experience and a shell of his former self at least in this remote place he seems to have found something that fans had never given him peace okay don't contact me interesting what about you what's going to happen to you same as emily i guess a fake shell of myself if i find that totem i can help you too please don't contact me i can't guarantee that it'll still be me but do what you have to help your friends save yourself blocked okay interesting and i still can't talk to rex can i okay i'm only interested in the truce then be prepared because the truth is often ugly and uncomfortable one more to go wrap it up and let me know i've been working cases for over 35 years and let me tell you none of it has prepared me for this okay truth is i don't even know if i can handle another case like this i just want you to understand the gravity of what we're doing here it needs to carry on beyond me beyond us think about that you're what you're saying is you need there to be people who put their eyes on this beyond us all that's not what you're saying i believe that's what you're saying okay special privileges of dupe are currently being reviewed all ongoing dupe investigations will be placed directly under hq until further notice request for temporary personnel has been granted for 24 hours field team delta is now under dupe command those seem uh those seem contradictory statements rexy man i question the legality of your operations nah i'm surprised that people still fall for this hi hi you i'm a baby member only delete an hour i'll sue you into oblivion i think you will be the one getting sued are you threatening me i'm literally a police officer okay okay okay it was a stupid and drive scheme all right but come on people just want the opportun partner image without doing any of the work so i thought i'd give the people what they want you know so you're just out for a quick book no kinda maybe again before you bring out the violins for those peeps that lot would sell their grandmas for a new car you're really going to piddle people like that piddle you're going to pill them are you going to put all those people are you going to piddle those people yeah so yeah i get some flack for it but some of them actually got off their asses and did something with their lives oh why do i have none of these why do i have none of these must be hard dealing with the backlash why do i have none of those that's weird i tried to make it right best i could did i miss some stuff but it can get out of hand sometimes i knew the risks i knew there is i got to go big to show people that i'm killing it but maybe that was riskier than i thought i'm a pro i deal with failure on my own terms i have it all planned out you are very well prepared apparently i told you i'll plan out whoa hey what's up just another day why do they always stick me with these idiots i swear you of all people you've been doing this too long what just because i take the weirdo cases everybody's gonna work against me stick me with the losers oh come on not another one i had no intention of hurting maya or anyone else i don't need some lame ass spoopy ripple thing mina thinks you did god meena you probably spooked mina so much that she's blabbing all sorts of about us you're just like my haters just riling people up she willingly gave you me this i knew i shouldn't have let her in turn for me that sly witch gotta say i'm impressed she fooled a lot of people now she's playing you too weak defense that girl spins stories 24 7 because she's a total attention here that she took the deal just for the drama even if it meant killing maya maya was her hero true but we outgrow our heroes eventually mina wants fame real bad looks like she got proactive for once to get what she wants i knew she was acting weirdly that night what makes you think that one minute she's all oh my god maya i'm so sad and suddenly she was all oh my god someone did this oh my god who did this it was like she was deciding how to best act sympathetic those girls are are all appearances and no substance faker than three dollar bills probably that's why they couldn't cope with the hate why would arya take the deal she's all about being glamorous and showing off how in demand she is her camera feed is so fake because she's insecure af that deal would help her get the prestige you want so badly she did lie about her brand endorsement oh yeah that whole alluring gig saw how she tried to spin it around too what a hypocrite you know i've seen her just tear down other influencers because they dared to be more popular than her she will eliminate anything or anyone if they get in her way what about mina how the hell did she get so popular after pissing people off with her lies people were really dragging her out and and then suddenly right after we get that deal thing she gets a record deal we get that deal thing she did lie about her tragedies yeah so you know and people wised up to it her fans caught on to her goth shtick that should have ended her career no way she bounced back from that without some extra help you know what i mean i don't actually actually maybe i do she's not capable of sacrificing maya ah she might be i don't know if she would have the guts though you're right something's fishy mean is just desperate to live live or sad artistry i think she'll sacrifice anything or anyone to make that reality uh real let's see if you're right let's see let's see if you're right even though i just said you're right ah many of you figured it out already is rex going to get arrested i don't want maya's death to be in vain you sure you've told me everything yes why are you talking to me like i did something wrong what else did the others say about me i think i think i want to clear this all out in the open are you trying to blame me for everything oh oh here we go come off it meena we know you took the deal yeah stop acting it's already getting old i didn't do it you know i'll never harm maya you're both just against me because i'm the only one who cared about her well the plot just thickens what are you trying to say that you didn't do this come on she's just pulling her emo shtick i should have seen the signs all of you only think about yourselves uh that's rich considering you summoned a demon that killed the maya you signed up for the service too we all we know our limits mina you're way out of control right now why are we still talking can we like contain her or something if that's what you all think i'm gonna start acting like the person you want me to be what does that mean what does that mean what do you what do you uh what do you what do you mean what do you mean this is how everyone treats me oh so i'm gonna prove them right i just took the ripple man's deal i hope you're all happy now whoa god finally she's telling the truth what do you mean just do it well this is going to be interesting wait no do it i should have said do it i should have said do it something's off about this what if we're wrong uh shouldn't we do something to stop her she might come after us i'll handle this we have a special team in place for just this occasion detective morillo you got something you need to know send the team for mina my god did you solve it are you sure you're right no room for mistakes here mina made the deal but also that probably means that you need to uh go send people to rex and arya because they're probably going to get rippled if you know what i mean are you still on the line with them the phone is acting up is it broken no not quite the phone is the key to everything don't break it now please get me up to speed i need to know to expect when we bust down that door uh oh no oh i did not crack it oh oh boy don't look at me like that come on what are you gonna be like what what's your problem what's your what are you looking at ah oh no oh no ah it was oh i guess so really i guess the truth is that it was maya that took the deal and that's the real problem there or whatever but i don't really benefit you very much but i guess that's a whole concept right you don't really get benefit that you can enjoy because you're the one taken by the horrible ripple man or ripple woman but that's what those cuts are on the face are all about they tear you mina mina ah okay but like better well you know we're like ripple man our beings are like intertwined or something you two may like join us uh no thanks but we are already tethered you are so close you're so like close maya took the deal too maya tried to stop why are you doing this we seek connections to this the detective he led you astray yes you can't fix it i'm not falling for your deal i'm listening a simple choice how you will shape this world when you can alter reality as it is perceived by others you can make them seem whatever you wish ah solving a case doesn't just end with pointing a finger at the perp where the hell are you oh you know i think i'm experiencing some obscure phenomena what you better not be pulling my leg i'm pulling your leg in 19 different dimensions right now are you with the simulacrum i'm fine but you need to act now the team and i are almost at the scene so we are right about the perp it's more complicated than that but i need a straight answer there are no this case is either going to make or break dupe dude this case is either going to make or break the world the team i have here best guys on the force if we're wrong about this they'll be taking me in instead see that doesn't make any sense why would they do that and if dupe is dissolved there'll be no one left to look into these creatures what will happen to you why would they take you in that doesn't make any sense misconduct charges getting fired possible jail time it doesn't matter i can't let all the work i put into dupe just end the truth needs to be exposed but please tell me we got this right you were right mina killed maya well we made a mistake none of them caused maya's death i mean that is true yeah what how is that possible mean only took the deal moments ago maya took the deal that's what and that's what killed her oh god it was so obvious why didn't i see that i don't know i kind of guessed it we got it all wrong what have i done it's not your fault i take full responsibility well it actually is your fault but i'll take responsibility because i'm kind of in a void so i'm probably already dead i did the very thing i warned you against i misled you my pig-headedness killed this case and gave the ripple man another victim don't give up now listen it's me from your future or past or something like that now i push so hard for my version of the truth they're not going to cut me any slack now maybe i deserve to be locked up for the endangerment of an innocence maya deserves justice it was the right thing to do your concept of right and wrong that's what makes me a better influencer be buried under the power of my followers it was worth it is not the only one well actually no i i'm all about the whole changing thing this isn't the end there is no end ah but actually authenticity is so precious to your everything has to end and everything has to begin boom everything has to end and everything has to begin it's super effective field team delta please detain detective merlot and escort him back to hq for processing well i mean all's well that ends well right yeah that's just what i need hi what are you doing here come to see my career meet it's gruesome and i don't know how i got out what now you feel bad no we both know you think i'm some old useless doddering crackpot yeah but you know damn well as i do i'm a great cop we were so close until you cocked everything up yeah we could have saved them uh-huh you know why i was pushing you so hard on this it was my only lead for so many victims something bad is coming our way i can feel it in my bones your old old crackpot i can stop it you were forget it just leave okay goodbye i guess you tried your best hey i did too bad it wasn't good enough you know this is kind of like the me strategy in space of trying to make you feel really bad about your decisions but honestly i don't feel bad at all um because to be perfectly honest ooh mina became a star i think because to be perfectly honest i don't feel bad about any of that uh because i the whole police thing was just really confusing like why were they going after him like how dare you try to and then me saying like we were wrong from the beginning which was true it's just like whatever anyway that was very fun i like this style i mean i could i could make some critiques here and there about like the spook factor wasn't present it was more it was more just like kind of like wandering than it was actually getting the the immersive part of it but the exploring was part of the fun i did like it when it was the fun moments all that aside it was very ambiguous what the evil was i feel like they could have done a lot more for that uh but still it was fun like you know i don't want to pick it apart too much because i did like it i feel like it was just like a little too much hunting um and not enough uh actual like experiential stuff i feel like um the things that were going on with feedvid kind of like lead me to believe that there is still a lot of hope for this kind of form factor where you're experiencing someone else's uh life whether in the past or in the future or present and it's just like yeah it's it's super cool so i i did like that i'm gonna see if there's anything at the end of the credits but uh i i enjoyed that very much and i imagine i wonder if the whole story kind of changes probably not to an extensive degree but i wonder if it changes if you don't pick the hard-boiled detective route and what that would make uh like how that would change it but still very good i did like it oh oh oh no mina you stitch your face back together okay ah whoa look at that whoa i what whoa oh dude nothing that's how many different things there are no what what i did not realize there were that many things weird so it could have been any of these any of them would have been correct that's fascinating i did not know it was that in depth i didn't know that there were that many choices very fun very fun so anyway thank you everybody so much for watching let me know what you thought down in the comments below and if you want to play for yourself apparently there is a lot of stuff to do a lot of ways this can go link's in the description thank you uh if you want to check out in space with markiplier which i've talked about a lot you can check that out also in the description below or the end cards of this video or the i card whatever that is there thank you and as always i will see you in the next video bye-bye youhello everybody my name is markiplier and welcome back to similacra 2. you know what i love about this it's got like the charm of a full motion video game while still being set in modern era i really hope that there's another ad dead of night that comes out because i just really enjoyed that one hello we've got to get back to work i hope i don't see anything strange is that really the only thing i have can i not talk to these people can i not give them a hey what's up oh we don't see anything strange again what are you talking about your vision of mine i forgot to ask you what did you see i didn't tell you about a vision i saw her unlocking alive looking in when i opened the case file she was looking at me i saw her turn around i saw her alive looking at photo of her friends must be an empathic electroplasm imprint a strong pup yeah that transferred to the yeah are you making this up these are legitimate and recorded scientific observations they don't teach you kids anything useful these days once we're done with this i'm going to properly school you so you can survive working for dupe anyway these visions are mostly harmless thanks for the report mostly well we never found out what happened to those who went missing or died after experiencing these things yeah definitely wasn't related their deaths or whatever like that it's fine don't worry about that why did it are you about to give me a strange occurrence are you am i am i about to get a strange occurrence maya maya oh i have many things find a way to contact pumped up clicks try to contact allurin liaison to verify arya's sponsorship find concrete evidence to verify mina's tragic story investigate who was the most likely to have accepted the ripple man's deal right okay so it was erica simmons it was in august but i don't know what the district was why do i not know that springwood spring wood one word springwood one word spring wood got it springwood springwood nailed it spring wood in august document found there it is national police catalog okay accident report august 8 2012 hit and run june kovac the driver okay that's important june kovac erica simmons mina de silva pedestrian ah interesting okay so erica simmons was driving unknown driver hit unknown driver oh was june kovac the person in the car with erica it was about 7 36 p.m and we were stopped at the red light intersection at springwood the light had just turned green and we were attempting to cross that's when a man in a black sedan coming from saint martin's road ran the light and slammed into the passenger side of our car hitting erika simmons it sped off before we realized what was happening a few drivers from the other car stopped to help and they stayed with us until the ambulance arrived but no one remembers the plate number of the car that hit us the collision inflicted grievous injuries upon the front passenger erika simmons emergency services state that she was dead moments before they arrived at the scene the driver june kovac suffered light trauma they were interviewed before being escorted to the hospital for treatment no traffic cameras were located at the accident site but a witness mina da silva was able to corroborate june kovac's version of the events as of now no new information is known about the hidden run vehicle interesting okay argentine souza why have i heard that name before souza inventor of the sousaphone i remember that okay let me try calling june kovac hi june hey june here if you're listening to this that means i can't come to the phone i will text you soon oh god hi this is mina i can't take your call right now but i'll be in touch when i'm able to shush new video synced okay i have a chat from june see it's the police i'm looking into your accident again maybe it might help i don't know what really this is so sudden you closed the investigation years ago why now again a murder case is connected to your accident oh my god a murder is it the hit and runner did they kill someone again maybe my therapist told me to let it go but i knew deep down i was holding onto it for a reason let's see it's about your other witness the other witness i'm sorry i don't know who you're talking about it was just me and erica no wait there was someone else that girl mina aha she was the one who called the ambulance waste my time look at him out there staring at me did you just butt dial me yeah yeah yeah whatever just do your job this is uh what uh huh i okay thank you she said erica was her best friend what why would she say that seriously i don't understand any of this can you please just be straightforward you're not gonna like what she's been claiming online i don't know why i feel the name to burn these people's whole world but i mean this is just like a straight-up lie what a lying snake who gave her the right she's talking about the accident using erica's name is her story true i mean it's a true event but i am erica's best friend not her she just stole my story passing off a tragedy as her own why would someone do that for likes i mean i've heard of people presenting themselves as the hero but as the victim that is just pathetic any way for me to verify this why don't you believe me a lot of lies going along those bloody chimera stars are just looking for drama in their empty boring lives putting themselves on a pedestal while using pain to fish for pity likes why not just snap a selfie with erica's corpse you i need concrete evidence to prove that still on proof fine local star swimmer killed in hit and run our local paper covered the accident using a real death to tell a fake story that's pure evil i'm sorry i'm not in the mood you got we need right i'm need to be alone oh all officers who handled case file g31298 please report to the detective's office thank you uh maybe i will maybe i won't okay so that whoa there's a lot of different things happening all at once here okay chimera i'm just a girl sitting with my guitar asking you to keep rocking on hmm where was that was it jabber ah interesting june is fierce and mean it for exploiting someone else's personal grief for her own benefit i feel like this isn't exactly permanent pertinent to my investigation however it uh probably is only appropriate yep currently ruining someone's career but you know they didn't do themselves oh god oh my god oh my god is she breathing don't we don't check up house evil monster thing what what demon i don't know this is like a gas leak it's a castle yeah stop okay it's bad enough just shut up rex stop okay we can't just stay here and and not do anything okay we have to just figure we should just figure this out and just keep calm and yes yeah yeah we we we don't yeah one we have to we have to get one more tickets we need to get out of here i mean that's another option we have to figure this out okay okay somehow we have to figure this out maya was telling the truth oh my she was right she was right it's not gonna stop and that means that means that one of us is the murderer made the deal oh but who did it who could have done it but it'd probably not mean if mina is doing the accusing i don't think rex would have been the one to do it i mean rex is like it definitely could happen and i would not doubt it but arya i think had more reason what oh i have to ask you about this why are you triggering me with this what the heck i didn't know they did such a big report your story about erica was a lie no no no this story's real it's just someone else's okay i didn't know her personally but it really did affect me okay i witnessed someone dying why did you may i'm finding it hard to trust you after this we could have been friends if i knew her for like longer that's the only part i made up i'm sorry okay i had to did you though did you really though people don't want to just listen to your music the way that they want the whole package the way you look and act has to match let's see so it's just branding you're benefiting from other people's grief oh goodness did i put a sad frowny cloud on that well i'm expressing their grief for them there's a different you totally don't get it people think it's so easy to get discovered but there's like so many musicians out there to be authentic you have to change your reality a little i could reach out with my music before but now everyone's listening to me i just want people to listen whoa what the is that a trauma was real for someone i know that okay i was just trying to help i think this sadie lightning is like i'm going down a meeny path just people like the rockstar mina much more than the real me when the criticism started i exaggerated even more you're just using self-pity for attention you sound like aryan rex when the deal thingy came up i was already uncomfortable even thinking of taking another easy way out plus the sacrifice thing was totally weird so i ignored it oh god she helped you grow as a person yes that's why i trusted her as my manager i should have believed maya the first time she mentioned all this it was it was just like too weird by the time i understood it was too late you can stop it from happening again sunshiny how i couldn't even help maya it all happened so fast and we were all so useless because we couldn't process anything that was going on and then she was gone i don't know what to think or do anymore you must know something you must oh my god i'm so confused right now and i'm like the real idiot for going along with arya and rex they're the worst of course one of them would have done this to poor maya maybe even together why would arya take the deal i know she's been losing jobs i didn't dare ask her about it she gets really defensive sometimes you know but anyway she was out of cash and pretty desperate for work okay why was she losing jobs cause like people found she was faking stuff on her camera and her clients weren't super not happy about it after we got the deal thingy she started getting all the big brands on her side like even a modeling gig no one wanted to give her work and suddenly she's hot stuff again you think she'd sacrifice maya just for that maybe maybe i've always been a bit scared of arya she's really smart and that's why she's super good at manipulating people i think maya finally saw through that and arya felt threatened could rex have taken the deal instead rex is a total user he got away with conning like so many people but his fans just believe everything he says it's really weird like i don't know i don't think that's normal how did he con people like you know he tried to get me to intern for him for free so many people have tried to complain about his weird business maya said she was sick of hearing him rant about it but now it's like all those complaints went away only the ripple man can make that happen isn't it extreme to sacrifice maya for this um rex thinks everything's one big game and he just plays people he sees people like us like they're his pawns or prawns or something pawns i think you're right oh my god i'm right i knew he was that selfish whoa there's a video i got this when i was stupid enough to do free work for him i want to grow my business by growing each and every one of you if you sign up as a regular subscriber you'll get fans and likes straight out of the back what we want you to do then is you'll start recruiting people and for everyone you recruit you get a slice of their fees and even more likes if you make it to platinum level you will have an army of people working for you getting your businesses likes promoting what you're doing if you hustle smart you can make it all the way to the top of the pyramid uh top of the food chain food chain top of the food chain guys this this right here this is innovation this is how little guys like us we're going to disrupt the entire industry are you with me yeah this is it yeah yeah yeah it's a ponzi scheme it's a pyramid's game well alvin had too much money in the bank too much i don't get it myself but like loads of people were super angry with him about this i'll see what he has to say one okay i'm writing this down okay five five five seven five oh two three five nine rex rexy baby geez what now i swear to god i'm going to find out what you look like and if i ever see your face in person do you want to see my face now very funny you almost sounded like maya do you want to see it my face my face jesus goodbye right whoa hey that's a nice face you got there was that rex's face as hi maya give me the bad news oh the higher ups know about our investigation since i violated numerous protocols and laws they're considering misconduct charges against me worse they're threatening to dissolve dupe and destroy all my research on the simulacra who are the higher-ups if i told you i would have to kill you literally there's a silver lining they're willing to drop everything if we nail this case we need the culprit who took the deal and any images or footage proving the existence of the ripple man so where are we on this well i'll get back to you on that one i'll i'll get back to you on that one see you in a bit i seem to have some issues okay um good yoga grade yoga actually incredible yoga that's some good yoga best yoga i've ever seen hi my uh wow i love my car you know how much i love my car not so much um daily basis imma pull the trigger flex start your trip in daily basis imma fight the system i show you how to live outside the social conventions i try to see the humor in the worsted situation the crowd please your attention sealer i'm sharp tooth i stomp through i'm a damage dealer i rock you talk you into submission mission impromptu party send everyone to the bathroom to advance your prehistoric hawaii is the question and the answer is to correct but new jams are too advanced you prehistoric co-op is the question that the answer is rhetoric who you messing with is this the vision that i got when uh maya was calling rex was it just i feel like it was like who you playing with who you messing with who you playing with it's kind of catchy you know i'm not going to lie it's kind of catchy who you messing with who you playing with i like his stacks of 10 bills i think it's very impressive wow look at that okay who your new song downloaded yeah hell yeah baby that's the good right there that's the good okay since tyrannosaurus i'm the best since tyrannosaurus well this is a much better version of the song than what i just heard okay whatever all right um what was i doing hello i feel so naive i didn't think rex would go this far but i'm not really surprised he's always bragging about how he's smarter than everyone else he thinks it's okay to just mess up people's lives just because he knows how to get away with it not this time we're gonna get him we isn't talking his way out of this what do you what do you what do you mean what are you um uh what was that all about so where are we on this rex could be the one mina could be the one why don't i have any evidence on arya being the one possibly why don't i have any evidence about that i feel like i should have some evidence about that ah hi right i can send an email can't i can't i uh there's gotta be some way wasn't there a website yes be our muse contact 1-800 whoa welcome to the allurin hotline be true be you be alluring press three to ask about our muse program if you wish to follow up on your application as our muse please press one want to be our muse are you you enough to be a part of us hunt us down at our pop-up stores and get your applications filled if you have already applied and want to get in touch with your talent liaison please dial the four-digit extension number after the beat okay so i need to find a four digit extension number that's what i gotta find ah i didn't wasn't there there was like uh an email that eight seven one four eight seven one four okay got it thank you your liaison is rachel hi hi rachel however your call cannot be connected as she's not at her desk at this moment she is informed of your call and will get back to you as soon as possible have a nice day okay i will thank you allurin all right that's one objective down kind of i'm sure they'll give me a call when it's whoa hi hello this is what is that all about be true be you be alluring who is this i'm an officer investigating one of uh one of your influencers i would like to follow up on my i'm an officer what oh my god an investigation you bet just hold up for a minute here maybe i shouldn't have i got a big campaign planned out and i can't have any of my muses leaking any controversial stuff can we just settle things privately over here let's see i'm afraid this is a very serious matter please this cannot be public okay if you want dirt on our influencers i'll tell you anything you want let's be the first to announce it who do you want to know about see uh i want you to know what you think of arya park okay give me a second that name sounds familiar she's not one of ours she applied but didn't get through here then why did she announce it on chimera she's faking it sometimes our rejects do this but as long as they don't get us into trouble we're pretty okay with it i mean it's no big deal right can we just quietly resolve this and not make it public uh it's not my problem that she used your brand for this that's not my problem can you just stop right there okay why don't i make this easier for all of us here was going to release this anyway so here it is ah interesting whoopsies i see now that arya being extremely selfish because of her recklessness she's dragging our brain down we cannot have that i'm going to push this out right now all right honestly arya you're loud obnoxious overall but faking this ambassador thing is the last straw you can't just do that this conclusively disproves arya's relationship with us so you don't have to drag the right to drag us into this this will suffice thank you for your cooperation you can't hear me but i'm dusting my hands off right now if you have any more issues take it with our legal department chaosey we heard your feedback and what we're now denouncing all of our phonely muses starting with ah interesting the dirt comes out or you would never sink that low wow wow wow wow wow they had that primed and ready to go five seconds ago okey dokey then okay so that's another step gym security maya at her gym locker what does that even mean i don't even know what that means all right inform murillo of your findings confront rex about his okay confront whoa sorry hey um aria can i please confront arya could i confront arya okay i must need to talk to this dude let's see mina could be the one could be so she's making up stories for some sympathy huh i suspect someone's so insecure and needy might have a lot of uses for that deal i sort of feel bad for even if she sacrificed maya one of these kids ended a life for a little bit of fame so save your sympathy but they don't deserve it if we make a mistake and screw the case up no ones will know the truth about the simula and i'll go back to being treated like a fool i'll keep on talking to him don't get sidetracked two more left to talk to i'll be in touch yeah sure you will buddy sure you will i'm sure you will i couldn't stop feeling like a disappointment drm gave me hope for a new career on social media offered two full full rides to two lives things were great until my mom passed away life is funny creeping way up on you my dad was supportive oh detective marilla has been placed under observation all junior officers please get confirmation from your direct supervisor before executing any orders field team delta you are placed under special assignment please report back to hq for immediate briefing why what do you mean what does that mean what is anyway i guess it's time to confront people um yeah i have to ask you about this what the heck is this you lied about being their ambassador god damn it fine i admit it i faked my brand sponsorship oh no allurin published it i am so screwed what do you have against me you're just as bad as those so-called fans who just follow me to troll and put me down that's why you want them gone of course i want them gone i can't go anywhere without these haters lurking around i needed that to learn deal to boost my ratings okay you have to show that you're successful to get jobs and perception trumps real this every time plus it learns a big company i didn't think they'd bother checking someone like me oh things are gonna get worse for you that too faced listen i was desperate and i made a stupid mistake sometimes i feel pressure to act like my life is more exciting than that it is okay but i can and intend to fix my in on my own terms i never needed the ripple man's deal ignore the video i'm opening it i'm opening it i am loving this looking good chief just get your ass back to work of course of course you got it you got it pal you're a fighter when things get hard you are a fighter when things get hard i don't appreciate you digging into my personal life but if it helps me make my case go right ahead will you believe me now i didn't take the ripple man's deal i didn't kill maya i would never want anything bad to happen to her maya cares for you too it wasn't supposed to be this way how did we get to this maya was freaking out she was just trying to warn us it's like she knew something was up see then give her a voice give her voice a second chance what was that we were all there me mina and rex oh my god what was that i was so caught up by how silly it all sounded and i was worrying about jobs instead of just hearing her out i'm such a mess right now show me you're a fighter come on get back in the ring on that horse i'm done screwing around back and forth rex and mina have real reasons to take that deal if this influencer thing doesn't work out for me i still have options for them this is all they have let's see why would mean it take the deal why wouldn't she she's been fabricating personal tragedies to prop up her image doesn't that disgust you her fans are not idiots they see right through it i don't think they can take her suffering anymore her story was there you have it eh you figured it out she's turned someone else's tragedy into a brand how despicable is that trying to point fingers pretty hard why would she sacrifice maya then maya was the only one who guided her brand in the beginning but mina's a lost bird on her own any backlash she got she managed to make it worse she ended up blaming maya for it you know your story checks out there you go the deal would free her from all her problems then go get that brat thanks for your help oh interesting oh click oh uh huh ah 69 oh um sorry i'm really not up for talking right now i don't have the space for it i'm just feeling so torn up as it is no no no no oh my god it could have been mina could have been mina great news the higher ups agreed to a small field team to apprehend the culprit they'll do whatever it takes to prevent the ripple man's influence from spreading what's your process report see everyone's pointing fingers at each other i'll be with you in just a moment oh hi this seems personal what uh is the deal here i'm recording this as proof i've been hearing it for weeks every night you're gonna hear it too don't put that curse on me don't make me hear this why would you want me to hear this you hear that right i'm hearing something i'm not crazy stop stop i can't i'm from the future and i can't affect the past i am uh incapable of changing my current distance to you okay gonna scan this seeing things captain my barely caught a strange phenomena on camera oh did maya did my did maya indeed mean it is silva only creative souls will understand what it takes to turn pain into art i don't care what people say about me stays true to my art what's your take on people who think you're commodifying trauma commodifying trauma what i mean is some people say you're glamorizing tragedy that you're selling sadness not music like i'm just singing about my life and most of it sucked music's the only way for me to deal with it and like that's what we do as artists we turn our experiences into art yeah so if i was thinking about this and why it would be mina it would be okay here's someone who literally used someone else's death to find success so an opportunity where someone you actually know dies and also you get a sweet deal out of it would be a win-win for mina i had to say and it would probably be a bit of a win-win you know that's all i'm saying wow mina's such a gas lighter acting all innocent and smiles in front of you and when you least suspect it she just grabs what she needs well her disguise isn't fooling anyone now i'm gonna put her under the spotlight and expose her for the two-faced rat she is uh well i don't know if that's your job to do that i don't know if you should be telling the police about that either oh i can't talk to rex really weird i probably already have all the clues i need progress report is um everyone's pointing fingers at each other this is turning out to be quite messy any theories as to who's our perp let's see i feel like we're missing something big are you getting this from those kids they've covered up maya's death and conspired with an evil entity that's the long and the short of it the only thing we're missing is our last suspect's statements i still think we're getting it wrong no there's something more here if you keep listening to those fakers you're gonna jet paradise our case get back on track that's an order this team they gave me if we screw this case up they'll be taking me in instead and if they dig deeper and detain you two there'll be no one left to pursue the simulacra why would they dig deeper and detain me why would they do that something's going on here something weird living in his shadow was suffocating my brother was better at me than everything school sports social life even our shared chimera channel everything came to him naturally it was an unspoken competition and everyone questioned why i wasn't on the same level how is he better than you if he's younger living in his shadow was suffocating taking the deal changed me it was the push i needed to start living for myself and find my own identity through his demise discovered missing chat okay what is this um price of influence maya bribing for contact info um what would that be right here contact bribe well oh adam dupont shared an article that explains the origin of the ripple man and asked mai to end its reign if she can when adam dupont this is maya crane sorry for the sudden messages i literally had to bribe someone for your contact it was hot tea oh i remember emily told me about you and the ripple man i need to know if you used trm or took its deal so you caught up in trm too huh yes i'm sorry to dump this all on you seeing things hearing things i have no idea what to do i am so scared you two you do realize what it means by sacrifice right it's really spreading but i think i found something while i was away an interview with charlie astor and the origin of the ripple man even toasters are online these days not like even there's a website dedicated to just toasters abruptly disappeared from the public eye deleted all social media two years later he seems eager to share a story huh his series on camera called ripples the series focused on social media experiments that served as commentaries for of online trends and behaviors the name itself is a reference to the so-called ripple effect ripple's classic hits include setting up a fake chimera influencer account that managed to score dozens of million dollar endorsement contracts creating a fake rags-to-riches persona that enthralled thousands before he outed himself and a fake news campaign where he convinced a shockingly large number of people that the small town of wyfield did not exist astor's experiments became darker instigating fights among the homeless baiting trolls on the notorious seven elite forums and mounting campaigns to cancel fellow influencers he found morally objectionable or disagreed with then came the infamous chimericon live stream in december 2015 which reached 200 million views before being scrubbed off the web therefore it didn't actually get scrubbed off the web now did it okay who is the ripple man a god i invoked it what okay you know actually no not what i believe this okay where's where the blackouts couldn't remember anything so how did he beat a god cutting off its supply of power literally i found that bastard's weakness because i figured that thing moves through signals transmissions i even had a signal jammer as a backup just in case makeshift ritual like a totem just as he was about to hit delete he throws suddenly feeling the presence besides him it felt like i was getting choked from me inside he looked possessed i could feel it too astor refused to leave the cabin jamie packed up promising influencer's career was just another person cracking whatever you think of astr story i believe that he truly believes it he appears haunted by the experience and a shell of his former self at least in this remote place he seems to have found something that fans had never given him peace okay don't contact me interesting what about you what's going to happen to you same as emily i guess a fake shell of myself if i find that totem i can help you too please don't contact me i can't guarantee that it'll still be me but do what you have to help your friends save yourself blocked okay interesting and i still can't talk to rex can i okay i'm only interested in the truce then be prepared because the truth is often ugly and uncomfortable one more to go wrap it up and let me know i've been working cases for over 35 years and let me tell you none of it has prepared me for this okay truth is i don't even know if i can handle another case like this i just want you to understand the gravity of what we're doing here it needs to carry on beyond me beyond us think about that you're what you're saying is you need there to be people who put their eyes on this beyond us all that's not what you're saying i believe that's what you're saying okay special privileges of dupe are currently being reviewed all ongoing dupe investigations will be placed directly under hq until further notice request for temporary personnel has been granted for 24 hours field team delta is now under dupe command those seem uh those seem contradictory statements rexy man i question the legality of your operations nah i'm surprised that people still fall for this hi hi you i'm a baby member only delete an hour i'll sue you into oblivion i think you will be the one getting sued are you threatening me i'm literally a police officer okay okay okay it was a stupid and drive scheme all right but come on people just want the opportun partner image without doing any of the work so i thought i'd give the people what they want you know so you're just out for a quick book no kinda maybe again before you bring out the violins for those peeps that lot would sell their grandmas for a new car you're really going to piddle people like that piddle you're going to pill them are you going to put all those people are you going to piddle those people yeah so yeah i get some flack for it but some of them actually got off their asses and did something with their lives oh why do i have none of these why do i have none of these must be hard dealing with the backlash why do i have none of those that's weird i tried to make it right best i could did i miss some stuff but it can get out of hand sometimes i knew the risks i knew there is i got to go big to show people that i'm killing it but maybe that was riskier than i thought i'm a pro i deal with failure on my own terms i have it all planned out you are very well prepared apparently i told you i'll plan out whoa hey what's up just another day why do they always stick me with these idiots i swear you of all people you've been doing this too long what just because i take the weirdo cases everybody's gonna work against me stick me with the losers oh come on not another one i had no intention of hurting maya or anyone else i don't need some lame ass spoopy ripple thing mina thinks you did god meena you probably spooked mina so much that she's blabbing all sorts of about us you're just like my haters just riling people up she willingly gave you me this i knew i shouldn't have let her in turn for me that sly witch gotta say i'm impressed she fooled a lot of people now she's playing you too weak defense that girl spins stories 24 7 because she's a total attention here that she took the deal just for the drama even if it meant killing maya maya was her hero true but we outgrow our heroes eventually mina wants fame real bad looks like she got proactive for once to get what she wants i knew she was acting weirdly that night what makes you think that one minute she's all oh my god maya i'm so sad and suddenly she was all oh my god someone did this oh my god who did this it was like she was deciding how to best act sympathetic those girls are are all appearances and no substance faker than three dollar bills probably that's why they couldn't cope with the hate why would arya take the deal she's all about being glamorous and showing off how in demand she is her camera feed is so fake because she's insecure af that deal would help her get the prestige you want so badly she did lie about her brand endorsement oh yeah that whole alluring gig saw how she tried to spin it around too what a hypocrite you know i've seen her just tear down other influencers because they dared to be more popular than her she will eliminate anything or anyone if they get in her way what about mina how the hell did she get so popular after pissing people off with her lies people were really dragging her out and and then suddenly right after we get that deal thing she gets a record deal we get that deal thing she did lie about her tragedies yeah so you know and people wised up to it her fans caught on to her goth shtick that should have ended her career no way she bounced back from that without some extra help you know what i mean i don't actually actually maybe i do she's not capable of sacrificing maya ah she might be i don't know if she would have the guts though you're right something's fishy mean is just desperate to live live or sad artistry i think she'll sacrifice anything or anyone to make that reality uh real let's see if you're right let's see let's see if you're right even though i just said you're right ah many of you figured it out already is rex going to get arrested i don't want maya's death to be in vain you sure you've told me everything yes why are you talking to me like i did something wrong what else did the others say about me i think i think i want to clear this all out in the open are you trying to blame me for everything oh oh here we go come off it meena we know you took the deal yeah stop acting it's already getting old i didn't do it you know i'll never harm maya you're both just against me because i'm the only one who cared about her well the plot just thickens what are you trying to say that you didn't do this come on she's just pulling her emo shtick i should have seen the signs all of you only think about yourselves uh that's rich considering you summoned a demon that killed the maya you signed up for the service too we all we know our limits mina you're way out of control right now why are we still talking can we like contain her or something if that's what you all think i'm gonna start acting like the person you want me to be what does that mean what does that mean what do you what do you uh what do you what do you mean what do you mean this is how everyone treats me oh so i'm gonna prove them right i just took the ripple man's deal i hope you're all happy now whoa god finally she's telling the truth what do you mean just do it well this is going to be interesting wait no do it i should have said do it i should have said do it something's off about this what if we're wrong uh shouldn't we do something to stop her she might come after us i'll handle this we have a special team in place for just this occasion detective morillo you got something you need to know send the team for mina my god did you solve it are you sure you're right no room for mistakes here mina made the deal but also that probably means that you need to uh go send people to rex and arya because they're probably going to get rippled if you know what i mean are you still on the line with them the phone is acting up is it broken no not quite the phone is the key to everything don't break it now please get me up to speed i need to know to expect when we bust down that door uh oh no oh i did not crack it oh oh boy don't look at me like that come on what are you gonna be like what what's your problem what's your what are you looking at ah oh no oh no ah it was oh i guess so really i guess the truth is that it was maya that took the deal and that's the real problem there or whatever but i don't really benefit you very much but i guess that's a whole concept right you don't really get benefit that you can enjoy because you're the one taken by the horrible ripple man or ripple woman but that's what those cuts are on the face are all about they tear you mina mina ah okay but like better well you know we're like ripple man our beings are like intertwined or something you two may like join us uh no thanks but we are already tethered you are so close you're so like close maya took the deal too maya tried to stop why are you doing this we seek connections to this the detective he led you astray yes you can't fix it i'm not falling for your deal i'm listening a simple choice how you will shape this world when you can alter reality as it is perceived by others you can make them seem whatever you wish ah solving a case doesn't just end with pointing a finger at the perp where the hell are you oh you know i think i'm experiencing some obscure phenomena what you better not be pulling my leg i'm pulling your leg in 19 different dimensions right now are you with the simulacrum i'm fine but you need to act now the team and i are almost at the scene so we are right about the perp it's more complicated than that but i need a straight answer there are no this case is either going to make or break dupe dude this case is either going to make or break the world the team i have here best guys on the force if we're wrong about this they'll be taking me in instead see that doesn't make any sense why would they do that and if dupe is dissolved there'll be no one left to look into these creatures what will happen to you why would they take you in that doesn't make any sense misconduct charges getting fired possible jail time it doesn't matter i can't let all the work i put into dupe just end the truth needs to be exposed but please tell me we got this right you were right mina killed maya well we made a mistake none of them caused maya's death i mean that is true yeah what how is that possible mean only took the deal moments ago maya took the deal that's what and that's what killed her oh god it was so obvious why didn't i see that i don't know i kind of guessed it we got it all wrong what have i done it's not your fault i take full responsibility well it actually is your fault but i'll take responsibility because i'm kind of in a void so i'm probably already dead i did the very thing i warned you against i misled you my pig-headedness killed this case and gave the ripple man another victim don't give up now listen it's me from your future or past or something like that now i push so hard for my version of the truth they're not going to cut me any slack now maybe i deserve to be locked up for the endangerment of an innocence maya deserves justice it was the right thing to do your concept of right and wrong that's what makes me a better influencer be buried under the power of my followers it was worth it is not the only one well actually no i i'm all about the whole changing thing this isn't the end there is no end ah but actually authenticity is so precious to your everything has to end and everything has to begin boom everything has to end and everything has to begin it's super effective field team delta please detain detective merlot and escort him back to hq for processing well i mean all's well that ends well right yeah that's just what i need hi what are you doing here come to see my career meet it's gruesome and i don't know how i got out what now you feel bad no we both know you think i'm some old useless doddering crackpot yeah but you know damn well as i do i'm a great cop we were so close until you cocked everything up yeah we could have saved them uh-huh you know why i was pushing you so hard on this it was my only lead for so many victims something bad is coming our way i can feel it in my bones your old old crackpot i can stop it you were forget it just leave okay goodbye i guess you tried your best hey i did too bad it wasn't good enough you know this is kind of like the me strategy in space of trying to make you feel really bad about your decisions but honestly i don't feel bad at all um because to be perfectly honest ooh mina became a star i think because to be perfectly honest i don't feel bad about any of that uh because i the whole police thing was just really confusing like why were they going after him like how dare you try to and then me saying like we were wrong from the beginning which was true it's just like whatever anyway that was very fun i like this style i mean i could i could make some critiques here and there about like the spook factor wasn't present it was more it was more just like kind of like wandering than it was actually getting the the immersive part of it but the exploring was part of the fun i did like it when it was the fun moments all that aside it was very ambiguous what the evil was i feel like they could have done a lot more for that uh but still it was fun like you know i don't want to pick it apart too much because i did like it i feel like it was just like a little too much hunting um and not enough uh actual like experiential stuff i feel like um the things that were going on with feedvid kind of like lead me to believe that there is still a lot of hope for this kind of form factor where you're experiencing someone else's uh life whether in the past or in the future or present and it's just like yeah it's it's super cool so i i did like that i'm gonna see if there's anything at the end of the credits but uh i i enjoyed that very much and i imagine i wonder if the whole story kind of changes probably not to an extensive degree but i wonder if it changes if you don't pick the hard-boiled detective route and what that would make uh like how that would change it but still very good i did like it oh oh oh no mina you stitch your face back together okay ah whoa look at that whoa i what whoa oh dude nothing that's how many different things there are no what what i did not realize there were that many things weird so it could have been any of these any of them would have been correct that's fascinating i did not know it was that in depth i didn't know that there were that many choices very fun very fun so anyway thank you everybody so much for watching let me know what you thought down in the comments below and if you want to play for yourself apparently there is a lot of stuff to do a lot of ways this can go link's in the description thank you uh if you want to check out in space with markiplier which i've talked about a lot you can check that out also in the description below or the end cards of this video or the i card whatever that is there thank you and as always i will see you in the next video bye-bye you\n"