Come on, Nearme. Is this some sort of cipher?

Old school malware?

https://umbrella.cisco.com/blog/picture-perfect-how-jpg-exif-data-hides-malware

Checked it with an antivirus; said it didn’t have any.
I’m curious about the picture itself, though.

I think they're fractals

Fractals are shapes that are infinite, you can look it up, but if you have Photoshop or something, try zooming in?

I could be wrong though

I solved this 2 days ago, and yes it was indeed a fractal

Nice

Just noticed some text saying “stuck in the set” in the top left.

UPDATE 3: Just watched something about a “Mandelbrot Set Zoom”, and a moment of said video looked exactly similar to this picture.
At this point I’m guessing the “key” here is “mandelbrot”.

UPDATE 2: Tried “stuckintheset” as the key to decode the filename, and all I got was “YCXSSWVGUVBALPTJAVATWENDS”. Tried “Nearme” as the key, got “DRRDQAVVBIHARDMMQBVCPUFRJ”.
Am I missing something?

arg moment

Indeed

Is this like an online puzzle

Key cipher?

Hmm 🤔
Key cipher it would seem

arg moment

Yeah 🗿

https://www.dcode.fr/keyboard-shift-cipher

Try this

Nothing worked, all that came out was around 240 results of garbled unicode.
“Key” cipher, like a key to a door maybe.

I thought that was Caesar cipher but now I’m convinced it’s just Caesar cipher with a twist

UPDATE 4: I tried “mandelbrot” as the key to the filename, and what I got is “EVERYTHINGHEREISBOUNDLESS”.
I even tried it on “Nearme” and got “Benoit”. Who the hell?
Considering I’ve seen many comments about this “Mandelbrot Set” being infinite, I’m questioning if “Nearme” is stuck somewhere in the Mandelbrot set.

reverse img search

Pfft-
Scientific stuff, doesn’t relate to what we got on our plate 😐
I’ve just found out about a “vigenere cipher” which requires a key to decode a message.
So we got that, but what about the content of the picture?

Cipher

it's not a caeser cipher

Definitely not that alright, they told them it was a “key”

i tried it
the only word that came out of it was "DIE"

What did you use as the key?

no, i didn't try a key
the only word that came out of the caeser cipher was DIE

Well it’s not a caesar
I tried searching up “key cipher” and the first result was something called a “Vigenere cipher”

I watched that one Oldroot mystery video

Same

so many f**king ciphers

True
At this point I’m just gonna say it’s an ARG made for training people on how to decode the cryptic

ig

death threat

Are you playing Lab Experiment on Roblox with PaleKing3 right now?

what
i don't have roblox

okay