Sometimes, when you're watching a series of nerdy video essays, you realise (about 6 videos in,) that you've become ensnared in an ARG 😅
...and there's no hope after that 😈
ARG stands for 'Alternate Reality Game.'
(Not to be confused with Augmented Reality (AR) games like Pokemon Go.)
They're not what everyone would automatically think of as a 'game'
- they're less like a video game or a sport, and more like a choose your adventure book, especially those Goosebumps ones they used to do. (Shout out to my fellow 90s/00s kids!)
And even that doesn't cover the half of it.
Oh boy does it not cover the half of it...
