Arkade

arkade (Real name: Amanda) is one of the various nextbots that will hunt down players in nico's nextbots. She is one of the nextbots in the Nextbot Custom Night Menu.
== Physical Appearance ==
arkade appears to be a heavily damaged image with a JPEG compression depicting the face of a hairless orange humanoid with an opened mouth. The face appears to be in agony. There appears to a glove on the top right corner of the black background, and the right side of her eye is faintly visible because of the distance from the camera. Her eyebrows aren't visible on the face. There appears to be another glove covering the left side of the cheek. Her teeth are covered in shadows due to how dark the background is.
== Origin ==
=== Image ===
The image originates from an ARG for the band "Common Man Down" hosted on 4chan where it was originally called "The Nightmare Picture". However, on the SMW Central, a website dedicated to creating custom versions or ROM hacks of videogames primarily of the 90's classic Super Mario World.
In 2010, the image was used for a hack of Super Mario World uploaded to SMW Central, a website dedicated to hosting ROM hacks of the game, called "M A R I O". The image wasn't contained in the game itself, but rather hidden in a text file provided with the game file. The text file appeared to contain gibberish, as well as the message "Find me Find me Find me Find me", however it was actually a corrupted JPG header that could be converted back into the image.
On December 28th, 2012, the hack became famous when a moderator of SMW Central, "Adam", stumbled across the hack and wrote a creepypasta about his experience playing the hack. Following the posting of the story, the site's founder Kieran was able to successfully convert part of the image, and was able to use Google Images to match it with the original.
A video was posted to YouTube on December 26th, 2022 purporting to be a reupload of a video on Rewryatube titled "weird chain letter victim 1" uploaded by Icecreammonkeyfan on August 8th, 2008, containing the image and a modified version of the message in M A R I O often identified with the image. The original video never existed, and the supposed reupload is part of an ARG by ChainmailChasers, presumably a hoax.
Information from a more reliable source shows that it's an actual edit of a real person's face, though who that is is currently only known from a description, and the actual image is unknown. A deleted poster on the creepypasta said that it is a GIMP/Photoshop of some band member, however it was proven to be fake by the "creator" on /x/.
After the image was posted like wildfire, it was discovered that the original file name of the image was "12560129686.jpg", and that it had a copypasta tagged along with it saying "PLEASE DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS IMAGE IT MAY CONTAIN MP3 FILES INCLUDING A VIRUS" with the user leaving a link that leads to an archived 4chan thread which appeared to corroborate his claim. One of the posts in the thread shows an image of arkade which was posted before the M A R I O hack was created. It was used to troll /x/ by a guy attempting to advertise his band.
On September 1st, 2023, the original image was discovered to be a photo of a cosplayer of Kyo, vocalist for Japanese heavy metal band Dir En Grey, and the oldest source for this photo came from Flickr, entitled "creepy me", which was published on February 25th, 2007.
=== Audio ===
The in-game audio is actually an altered version of the Norwegian EAS alarm, to make it sound more like screaming (This audio was used for another nextbot suggestion)
The Jumpscare audio that was suggested was the Jumpscare noise from Five Nights At Freddy's 4 used by most of the animatronics, but again, it isn't that. It originates from a FNaF Fangame called Five Nights at Tubbyland 3: The End Game, being Prototype Laa-Laa's jumpscare audio. 
=== Mechanic ===
She will spawn a red hat with blood on it, you can take off the hat but that will cause her to spawn slowly, putting on the hat makes her go away.
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