RetroGamingNow – The Minecraft website that watches you

[Applause] have you ever felt like you were being watched it’s non-canny sensation don’t you think that beauty prickling in the back of your neck that seems to grow stronger no matter how hard you try to Shake It Off despite the rational knowledge that you were alone something within some raw

Instinctual voice tells you that you aren’t Minecraft is a game that can be quite lonely we are so alone when exploring the infinite World in single player but what if that Solitude was shattered by that same sense that feeling of being watched what would you do recently I stumbled upon a YouTube

Channel named mind watch recordings that has stirred these same feelings within me the first video is titled found a website an open notepad session gives us some information it has many Minecraft cameras I can watch and no one is there yet maybe there will be something sure enough the website indicates that

The camera is live revealing a cave somewhere there are chests a crafting table and a bed out in the distance after a few moments we hear the sound of a door opening and then a player appears but that’s it the video wins quickly foreign however the subsequent video titled

Another look lets us see just a bit more it opens with the home page of Mind watch you’ve arrived at mindwatch where you can watch Minecraft cameras from all over the Minecraft Globe no registration needed currently we have over 4 000 cameras live at the same time examining the updates section is

Revealed that the website was launched just over a week prior to the upload of this video since then there have been several updates the latest coinciding with this video’s upload date the user selects the guide link which gives us some more information click on the camera’s hyperlink you can

Easy to watch them just click on their specific button or image the buttons also have the camera ID under them which is sometimes useful for example going back to the camera later remember if you cannot or do not want to pick just click on the random camera hyperlink

Click on the camera’s link displays the list of active cameras the person recording mentions that they’ve lost the link to the old camera so they select random camera id818 as the video feed loads we catch a player busy setting up a minecart system there are a few signs scattered about but they’re

Indecipherable due to the low resolution an unnerving detail presents itself beneath the feed a chat section stating player is not in multiplayer is this camera showing a view into a single player world that shouldn’t be possible Right as the stream continues the player starts moving left to right in an odd

Manner and the person recording comments that they’re doing weird actions as if the player knows they’re being watched they switch to a new tab and type mind watch do players know they are being watched if we return to the page with all of the streams we can see that some

Of them are connected to public servers id96 corresponds to the Hypixel spawn id147 is Mineplex 496 is a server called Purple prison and 908 is from build the Earth 1335 is from a server called herobrine.org then there are a couple of IDs corresponding to a server called Minecraft online

The origin of the last few feeds is unknown That same day another video was released entitled multiplayer conversation the camera feed is very dark but for the first time we see players in the chat shrug XXL and Deluxe wish are in the midst of a mundane conversation about mining for iron sure enough we hear blocks breaking in the background

Approximately 30 seconds into the V the blocks in front of the camera are mined revealing shrug xxl’s dark figure they react with shock in the chat what is this camera Deluxe wish heads over and is equally appalled saying that they’re taking the camera down this bizarre encounter tells us some

Important information about the nature of Mind watch first the live streams are connected to camera blocks that are visible within the Minecraft world this is how shrug xxo is able to know that they were being watched we also learned that sometimes these blocks are added without the knowledge of players as

Evidenced by their shock reaction yet these two discoveries seem paradoxical if a stream requires an in-game camera how would it be possible for the player to be unaware of such a camera on a multiplayer server it could have been placed by someone else but what about in single player mode As it turns out the next video my house provides an example of this exact situation we are back with another desktop recording this time there’s a Minecraft window where we watch a player chop a tree when they type in chat in the game it is revealed that their name is eight ball

Luck eightball wants to look at new random mind watch cameras on the website 8Ball fixates upon ID 5284 apparently this is their house 8-ball opens the feed and then returns to Minecraft running towards the camera location when they get there they look up to where the

Camera should be but nothing is there on the website the stream has gone dead this sequence appears to confirm some sort of connection between live streams on the website and cameras in game the stream feed and Camera were both removed at the same time though we didn’t see

The camera itself from the way 8 ball talks we know that they didn’t place the camera in the first place somehow both the camera’s addition and removal occurred without eightball’s knowledge it was about this time that a group of Discord users became aware of mine watch launching their own independent

Investigation into the mystery they discovered that one of the stream IDs corresponded to a server known as Minecraft online a player named 2b2t Legends was tracking down the camera location when they crossed paths with a user named your melee who congratulated them on finding a broadcast the investigators realized that another

Discord user had also encountered your melee while on a similar mission given their precise knowledge of ID locations it appeared that your melee had some understanding of the internal workings of Mind watch they placed signs throughout the Minecraft online World leading Discord users to discover additional ID locations one of these

Signs led to a private server known in the community as frames with the ID of 4096 right on cue the following day saw a fresh video on the channel titled active server camera hunt 8Ball selects id4096 and as expected the live feed displays the distinctive landscape of the frame server on

Sporadic occasions users would join frames and reveal links to files among these were several MP4 recordings of various mindwatch streams of particular interest was a text file saying that mindwatch is owned by a team who wishes to remain anonymous beyond that these files contained little new information a four-month period of Silence ensued

It ended in October 2022 with the release of a video titled everything is new when eightball navigates to the Mind watch page we see that there have been several updates to the site 8Ball selects a link called how the ID system works the page says that ID numbers are

Associated with each mindwatch camera as it turns out ideas are recycled with the oldest inactive ID reassigned to a fresh camera this is designed to limit the amount of dead cameras during a random sort next there’s a page dedicated to explaining the mechanics of the chat each viewer gets assigned a random name

Sometimes using the Watcher format and other times a random sequence of characters The Watcher format provides real-time information regarding the number of Watchers of a specific camera though for reasons unknown the format has been temporarily disabled next 8-ball Ventures to the camera section where they encounter many new IDs it

Ball selects id3145 where we see a zombie horde attacking a group of villagers in a cave they return to choose the random filter opening several cameras in new tabs camera number 965 shows a stream of a player dancing to music in their room they switch the disc

And continue dancing after a few seconds however the disc audio cuts out against the Erie silence the player dances on without warning the camera freezes altogether on the add a camera section of the site 8Ball finds a detailed tutorial explaining the process of embedding a

Camera in the game 8 ball notes that the snooper needs to be activated the snooper is a Minecraft feature that sends Telemetry data to moyang about the game 8 ball says they’ll try it later the mine watch channel was silent for another month until a video called unexplainable stuff was uploaded the

Live feed picks up at the same location as the last though the room has been slightly modified during the break the player opens a chest and puts a disc into the Jukebox though they remove it after a few seconds and then they’re gone let’s watch what happens next foreign

There’s a lot to unpack here we are presented with a sudden switch into the first person view we note that this perspective is from the same world not only does the ID remain the same but we can see that the player is just outside the Disco room there’s another player

Looking through the window staring back turning to face the wall we see some signs rainy days never say goodbye to desire when we are together rainy days growing in your eyes tell me where’s my way it turns out that these poetic lines are actually lyrics from a song called I

Like Chopin by gazebo released in 1983. the only obvious connection is that this track is a disco track which would seem to fit with the dance room the journey continues when the player enters a dark hallway it resembles a prison with iron doors and additional players within the

Cells each cell has a sign although none are legible due to the Quality upon opening one final door we catch sight of another figure before the scene abruptly Cuts back to the initial shot then a red message flashes ominously throughout the video there are occasional beeping sounds each peep corresponds to a skip

Forward in time as indicated by the on-screen stopwatch the reason for this remains a mystery once the camera returns to normal 8-ball clicks a link to a post titled why is mindwatch constantly going offline it appears that mindwatch recently migrated to new servers in an attempt to fix a

Bug but to no avail could this bug somehow be related to the anomalies we’ve been witnessing these strange occurrences proved to be just as confusing for eight ball they click on the guestbook page and start typing doesn’t it feel a bit weird guys some cameras are straight up weird

Out of all the videos we’ve seen this one is probably the most confusing what is this strange prison Place why is time skipping who is the player at the end for now the answers remain elusive up to this point the only people known to be investigating mind watch are eight

Ball and the Discord Community from earlier however information about mind watch surfaced elsewhere in the form of a Reddit post a user named equipmental uploaded an intriguing image mindwatch admin login found by my friend according to a comment their friend entered admin as the username alongside a password this triggers an eerie

Siren-like sound let’s take a listen [Applause] The audio begins with a few beeps followed by a pitch that warbles and changes as time goes on after about 20 seconds indistinct voices enter saying words that are difficult to understand the audio concludes with a final tone the snippet produces more questions than answers what exactly does this have to

Do with mine watch why did it come from the supposed administrator panel equipment will return to Reddit nine days later with a post called Mind watches Dimensions there are four sections listed mine hell admin CDN and empty each of these corresponds to a certain section of the website mine

Hell’s Dimension that makes everything red and it can be accessed by swearing constantly the admin panel Dimension is what we saw in the previous post the CDN Dimension can be accessed by going to cdn.mindwatch.net someone named Jazz District apparently discovered a password as well a CDN is a Content

Delivery Network which helps deliver content such as images and video to the end user however it doesn’t appear as though equipmental was able to access any data the final Dimension is called empty which occurs when you send invalid data to the web console then there’s another period of Silence

After nearly three months a video called conversation surfaced it opens with a short glimpse of a discussion between a user named frivleman and a watcher they discuss what appears to be a strange character perhaps it was only a hallucination the video abruptly Cuts forward about 50 minutes a previously

Written note says that APA was thinking about recording a conversation in a camera hoping that the people knew something that he doesn’t it pose apparently read the Reddit post and navigates to mindwatch.net administrator 2 finding the same login page 8Ball then says that new credentials were found in a database

Link the enter quartz and as the username and a 17 character password then press the t button three times suddenly we hear another warbly sound similar to equipmental’s recording The Oddities would soon reach a new Apex just two days later when 8Ball woke up to something on the Mind watch website

Before we watch in let’s take a look at the description AFK on this site again I swear every time I go do something else and leave this on for some time many strange things begin to happen this time I was sleeping and I totally forgot I was

Doing that it literally jump scared me felt like my heart was outside my body I forgot to turn the speakers off this site whoever is doing this do they know about me I’m tired of this besides that I think quartz ant is connected whatever that Corporation is or company

Or an individual I don’t care anymore after this incident I think I should just leave my friends to investigate all this themselves if we slow the video down we can read the repeated text all from someone called Watcher I know you are watching this I don’t mean you eightball I mean

Your audience I know you’re ignoring my presence I know you’re alive and well and I know that you are going to watch this as soon as I wake eight ball up eight ball this is for the audience the audience should go to the MCO board your audience knows pretty well what that is

X64z2327 Watcher is aware of the fact that eight ball is uploading videos of Mind watch to the internet their messages addressed to people who are watching those videos which in this case is us they tell us that we should go to the MCO board referencing the Minecraft online server

From earlier it even gives coordinates that location contains a sign created by your melee the meaning is not obvious though we do learn that the Watcher is aware of your melee’s actions Awakening is too much for eight ball the next video is entitled goodbye in it eightball says that the stress of

Investigating mind watches too much and they will be stepping away from the channel on the same day equipmental posted an update on Reddit detailing the situation in eight Ball’s decision to abandon the site equipmental describes encountering bizarre messages from W while observing a camera there’s a link

To a paste bin document intended for eight ball written by a departing member of the mindwatch team known only as W the farewell note details more peculiarities revealing that approximately 10 percent of the cameras were decoys installed by an unknown individual moreover it suggests internal strife within the mindwatch team with

References to W’s poor treatment and the Hostile sentiment of an individual simply referred to as SP shockingly a new video was uploaded to 8ball’s channel despite their decision to leave it’s called 303 Diego this video is different however instead of a screen recording it is a sequence of

Eight images seemingly taken from 8 Ball’s world as seen in the my house video in fact 303 days before this video’s release would have been exactly the day when my house was uploaded each shot contains eight ball notice the well eight ball on his head what’s less clear

Is who took these pictures are they from a camera that doesn’t seem likely 8Ball had previously responded negatively to finding cameras in their world and some of these shots are taken from locations where 8 ball would have almost surely noticed the camera so where did they

Come from and why are they being posted on his account Another cryptic video surfaced the following day simply titled Diego the Montage contained seven still images from various worlds that have appeared on the mindwatch website among them we recognize the chests from id614 and the minecart rails from id818 interjected throughout the video is a text that when assembled reads we followed their

Investigated cameras it suggests that an investigator possibly the person behind these videos has been tracking the location shown in the mindwatch streams the following day equipmental made a post titled new CDN confirmed equipment will explains how a username Jazz was viewing a camera when the CDN and an ID

Were mentioned the attached screenshot captures the ensuing commotion among the Watchers I don’t know you at all I hate you when the idea was inputted into the CDN page it redirected to a site-bearing resemblance to the previous mind watch website version and then a video was uploaded to the channel called screen recording the video drops us into a mind watch session of id1010

This is not from 8 Ball’s perspective but rather that of a person named a11 8Ball expresses their rage at a11 for allegedly stealing their accounts but a11 simply laughs the upload of this video confirms that 8ball’s YouTube account has been compromised with the prior two videos evidently being posted

By a11 the we followed their investigated cameras text appears to indicate that a11 is investigating the investigators for reasons unclear the site’s administrators appear adverse to their platform being under scrutiny despite eight Ball’s harassment equipmental has continued investigations they Unearthed a new video recorded by someone named Robin 42. in this video a

Watcher asks if they’re recording a YouTube video which causes Robin to respond with confusion then for the first time we see the camera block however things get much more interesting soon thereafter when a camera player also appears Robin chases them into a cave and the video ends a later post

Contains a higher quality image of this player if the camera player feels familiar it’s because we’ve actually seen them before a fleeting Glimpse can be spotted in the unexplainable stuff video The Objective or identity of this camera player is still unknown they seem to infiltrate into players worlds Uninvited are they

The ones installing the cameras for now we can’t do much besides speculating and that’s where the Mind watch investigation stands today at this point it seems as though we’re only at the beginning of the rabbit hole there are still many things we don’t understand let’s do a quick recap so that we’re all

On the same page most of the information we learn about mind wash comes from eight ball luck who owned the Mind watch recordings YouTube channel they upload their explorations of the channel which include streams of various Minecraft worlds both multiplayer and single player however 8 ball is not the only

One investigating mindwatch another person in the group goes by equipmental and they have located information from various other sources as more stuff is found it becomes increasingly obvious that something really strange is going on with the Mind watch website a sequence of inexplicable occurrences culminates with eight ball being awoken

In the middle of the night by a stream we learned that there are others seemingly associated with mind watch who are intent on disrupting the investigation they go so far as to hack 8-ball’s account and begin posting as him while it’s not obvious why the mindwatch admins act this way the site

Itself certainly seems to have its fair share of odd and uncanny content the very fact that the cameras can exist at all in single player worlds is not something that we understand we also don’t know why certain streams seem to have unexplainable occurrences within them put it all together and we find

Ourselves in a mystery that seems to be continuing to unfold unfortunately I don’t have all the answers if anything this video has only revealed more questions hopefully we’ll be able to learn more about mind watch as time goes on if you’re fascinated by the Mind watch

Conundrum as I am and would like to delve deeper into discussions I invite you to join the official RGN Discord server I’ll make a dedicated mindwatch text Channel where we can discuss this additionally I will be putting my findings on the Mind watch Wiki created by some other members in the

Investigative Community if you want to contribute research this is another place to do so hopefully we’ll collectively be able to come to a better understanding of this strange situation we’ll go ahead and end with that thank you so much for watching and I’ll see you all in the next video have a great

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