The Reddit Black Screen Anomaly

### The First Video (Updated July 21 2023)

It was a dead day on r/citieswar, when the first message came. A suspected alt by the name of XwZyJ posted a 1:30 long video with a black screen and a robotic voice. In this video, a new change was demanded in alliance leadership, claiming how alliances were handled was hollow and impractical. Bro also thought he could be Shakespeare with the word change but watch the video to see that. Later in the video, he namedrops the capital of New Dawn, The Belibers, The Empire of Yaolty(UER), and a suspected location of NSTC's capital. The video also told us that we only have one month to fix our ways, before some sort of action is taken. Of course, everyone took this as a joke, as they should've. UER's capital is obvious because theres only one city inside of their alliance, and Belibers and New Dawn have a small amount of cities making them easily scoutable. Comments like "didnt ask" and "bro thinks he's that guy started pouring into the comment section, with Franktius telling him to "kys".

### The Response Video (Updated July 21 2023)

As literally no one asked for, a second video was posted 15 hours after the first. This new video which was 2:20, featured a one-minute ad break to talk about the sponsor Raid Shadow Legends, before getting back to the threats. Although to spice things up, this new video did have a new tts voice, but still managed for both of them to sound like shi\*. This new voice would randomly make high voiced screeches making you want to rip your ears out of your head. After the sponsorship message, he procedded to call out Frank, saying this. "Ratio Uno Reverse Card, L Trash, L Bozo, #FrankHasNoB\*tches, Ratio your dad got the milk and never came back, ratio your mom," (1:16-1:31). Because of quote his "Awesome Ratio Comeback," he extended the deadline to two months instead of one, to give players more time to give in to his commands. Also, because he literally never created demands to be followed and then got called out on it by Stalz, he listed some in this video.

1. Join Oi's alliance so he can make a capital and shut up in wc about it
2. Make a safe haven in the old server for new members when they transfer over. (complains in vid about people farming new members to server)
3. Imperial Sakura must give back what was not theirs (Sakura was literally to Japan first before anyone so not good claim)
4. NSTC needs to give up Istanbul

Comments to this second video were basically the same as the first. "Get this ice dweller out of cw", and "k.". Stalz did, however, call out Fraktius in the comments to respond to the serious L+Bozo allegations that he faced in the video.

### Speculations (Updated July 21 2023)

* Due to reasonings such as hate towards Sakura, and Istanbul being the closest border, there is a suspicion that it is someone inside of the BBC alliance.
* Another theory is that the person behind the videos is mohammad2013 , as he is a silly and goofy dude who would do something like this
* The final theory is that the person behind the videos is AltsriBRI (yosriBY). GUMS is not only an alliance that he is a part of, but one of the only major alliances to not be listed in the threats and demands inside of the videos. He has also expressed his hate for farming in the past on his alt account, which he used to nuke Doha, and quickly touch it on his main account. He is also a well known silly goose and goofy guy, who would possibly do something like this,