Hey Peebrain, You Teleport?

About

Hey Peebrain, You Teleport? was an alternate reality game on Tumblr in which what appeared to be a porn bot with the username sexygirlmax2019 would message users with the phrase "Hey peebrain, you teleport?" However, when clicking on the link submitted by the supposed bot, users would be taken to cryptic blogs relating a story about a guardian angel, Max, trying to reconnect with its charge, Anita.

Origin

In mid-late June, 2018, Tumblr users began reporting strange messages from what appeared to be a Tumblr porn bot named sexygirlmax2019. On June 20th, users fuck-ler^[1] and kramergate^[2] both gained tens of thousands of notes posting screenshots of their interactions with the account (shown below).

Spread

Users soon noticed something made sexygirlmax2019 different than typical porn spam bots. The link the bot gave to users did not lead to a stereotypical porn spam site but rather a cryptic site on neocities.org^[3] with the heading "h.u.r.l." (shown below). Links on this site led to cryptic pictures and odd texts reading things like "I'm so sick."

Furthermore, users who engaged with the bot experienced bizarre chats. User dhlp posted their interaction on June 21st^[4] (shown below, left). Imgur user Oscar219Tyler also posted interactions they'd had with the bot on the same day (shown below, middle). sexygirlmax2019's blog,^[4] now deleted, featured bizarre posts as well (shown below, right).

The strangeness of the blog led to a community of Tumblr and Reddit users investigating the story. A subreddit, /r/sexygirlmax2019,^[5] was created and gained 500 subscribers. There, it was discovered that an update to the neocities cite led to a Tumblr page called lovely5500,^[6] which was supposedly run by a 15 year-old girl named Anita who was sick. This was expressed through text posts which appeared with bizarre flourishes (examples shown below).

A third blog called sceneteenz,^[7] since deleted, was involved in the ARG, providing supplemental information to make the story clear. This blog clarified that "Max" was Anita's guardian angel, and was separated from her due to an antagonistic organization called H.U.R.L., which stood for Hierarchy of Universal Resource Locators. The lore essentially laid out that contemporary angels work in the form of online personalities and bots. The story ended with Max being reunited with Anita, and sceneteenz was "destroyed" by H.U.R.L. for revealing too much information. This was recapped in an /r/OutOfTheLoop^[8] post some weeks after the story had concluded.

Fandom

On Tumblr, the story generated a small fandom which took the form of fan art and memes. One of the most popular examples of the latter was posted by chickenfarmersan, gaining over 25,000 notes (shown below, left). User amicablytransitory posted a Pepe Silvia parody about the ARG, gaining over 500 notes (shown below, right).

Fan Art

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