[Credits, References, and More]

The winner gets to know the location of Old Zealand

Everyone’s talking about how intelligent the puzzle’s solvers are but not how skilled the puzzle’s creators were.

I can’t imagine how scared the first person to the website was when they saw the countdown

The winner gets to know Victoria's Secret

Imagine reaching the final step and it says “you can now play as Luigi”

A very distinct possibility is that cicada was waiting to see who would reveal secrets and who would stay quiet to see who they could trust.

The Cicada 3301 is one of the most unsettling things out there in the Internet for me, because I know I could never solve any of this puzzles.

Im watching this at night and for some reason this is terrifying

I love that it’s called cicada. A ton of noise cause by a small, insignificant insect

Imagine if this was somebody's college project and they overdid it?

cicada has 3000 species In its family. The cicada is an ancient polyvalent symbol: resounding themes are resurrection, immortality, spiritual realization and spiritual ecstasy. The angel number 301 meaning is telling you to be positive and look forward to every opportunity that happens in your life

The amount of effort the creators made for something that might not have been taking seriously is insane

conclusion: 3301 grew exponentially and eventually started their own company called NordVPN