You can call me Sherlock Deceth if you like, because I may be cracking down on this Looble… Looble mystery!

Remember back in one of my earlier posts I mentioned that I thought the person who first introduced us to Looble.com was probably on IRC discussing it with us? Well, I started investigating the people in #Looble by simply writing down which other channels they were in and then joined these channels to see if I could find one where everybody was laughing about how they were fooling us into believing in some weird mystery =p

Well, I didn’t find that room, but I did find one that was very interesting…!
I started asking people if they knew anything about Looble.com and John Vechey’s abduction. Many had no idea what I was talking about while others laughed and said they were in #Looble awaiting an update. Then finally I caught a break in #ARC! When I asked about John Vechey in this room, one person replied that, “the aliens at Popcap abducted him”. When I asked this person to elaborate, he just laughed and said, “JV hasn’t played ARC in ages buddy”.

You’re not going to believe this! It turns out ARC, stands for Attack-Retrieve-Capture. It is a multiplayer game that John Vechey worked on as a project in college which features players controlling UFO’s equipped with weapons who must capture the enemy teams flag.

Ok I lied, I’m not cracking down on this mystery, I’m even more confused than before. Was the Looble.com mystery an effort to promote an existing game named ARC? From what I gather, John Vechey no longer has any affiliation with this game, nor does Justin King. Again, whats the purpose of Looble.com? The only link I can see between ARC and Looble.com is that the initial discussions about Looble.com set us on this wild goose hunt which led us to ARC.

So in resume, we discussed what Looble… Looble might mean, then found an IRC channel named #Looble created by Justin King who has a music album named Le Bleu, and eventually Justin King changes his screen name to John Vechey for a few hours before vanishing. Upon vanishing, he talks about UFO’s stealing flags, which is the basis of this game that he (John Vechey) was a part of creating.

That pretty much leaves us at a dead end right now unless anybody has any ideas…

(This post originally from AlienSpore.com)

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Justin King is still AFK in #Looble on FunNet.org. We have no idea why, though there are plenty of different ideas circulating around right now!

First off, normally nobody would care if a user by the name of Justin King was idle on IRC. When I go idle, nobody even says welcome back when I return! However, in this particular case, the user created the channel #Looble before going idle! Well isn’t that interesting?

For those who still think that isn’t interesting, consider that back in June a website that contained only the text “Looble… Looble” became a hot topic of discussion. You can still visit this website at Looble.com. So what?

Well, who was the first person to find the website and tell us about it? Remember at the time, I posted that I could not locate the website via search engines. That means, someone on IRC told us about it… How many of you think someone randomly typed in the URL and found the site, then ran onto IRC to tell us about it? Not me. What likely happened is the owner of Looble.com came onto IRC and told us about it… In fact, this person probably told us about it a lot and probably started most of the joke-conspiracy theories which then set us into an explosion of discussions on the topic.

Eventually we forgot about the whole thing. I mean, we can only talk about one topic for so long! Still, someone was paying for the website and took the time to get us talking about it on IRC. We never figured out why. We never even cared to think about it in the sense that we were probably having these discussions with the person who created the site… We all just figured someone told someone who told someone eventually leading to us discussing it. Maybe that’s really the case, but still I can’t find any other discussions about Looble.com on bulletin board systems or anywhere!

So back to the point of why this is interesting… A few months later, a user on IRC using the name Justin King makes the channel #Looble. He is AFK in the channel as we type and really has not said a thing besides initially advertising the channel. For what purpose was this done? That’s the mystery.

Is this channel in anyway related to the first Looble.com conspiracy discussions? Is Justin King the one who started those discussions in order to make this second appearance more popular? We discovered Justin King has a music album named Le Bleu which sounds all too much like Looble. Is the Justin King idle on IRC the musician, trying to market his album? Does he also own the Looble.com website? Why does it still only say Looble… Looble on Looble.com? WTF? lol

Since we are all still pretty clueless as to what, if anything, is going on, perhaps we should say a bit more on his album in case anybody can decipher any clues that could be helpful:

The name Le Blue was the name of the street Justin King lived on during his childhood and was therefore the inspiration for the album title. The album was released in 2001, and was only available on his website, since he was not signed to a label at the time. The album consists of 19 tracks.

Has this mystery therefore boosted visits to his site and increased sales? Well, as we’ve mentioned, the channel on IRC does not link anywhere and people rarely join a channel on IRC to web search the names of those operating the room. Still, here we are posting about it, and it’s been brought up enough that I am sure traffic has increased over at that site!

For now, I’ll be sitting idle in #Looble, waiting for anther update on this Looble mystery! Hopefully it won’t take another two months like last time! Could it still be coincidence that this website, basically void of content, has come up in the news again…

(This post originally from AlienSpore.com)

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Just when we had finally all forgotten about the famously mysterious Looble.com website launch, it surges back with another viral following…!

I’m glad it’s back to be honest! Over here at AlienSpore.com we like to talk about online mysteries as well as develop software! As the only website to my knowledge that had some news coverage related to Looble.com, we definitely benefited from the weird page as curious people found our website while searching for clues regarding the purpose of the site!

As we speak, all that can be found at Looble.com are the words, “Looble… Looble!“. We first heard about the website two months ago when someone brought it up in an IRC chat. We had some fun discussing it and joked around regarding what it could mean. If you browse back in AlienSpore News, you can see we made two posts about it! At the time, it somehow became a hot topic which eventually led to everybody randomly saying, looble looble!

We are busy people at AlienSpore.com and therefore quickly got side-tracked and forgot about Looble.com. We assume most people did as well, until last night!

Have you ever heard of the viral effect? Well that’s what happened on IRC yet again. A user by the name of Justin King created #Looble on FunNet.org and proceeded to advertise it in some large channels by simply saying, “Join #Looble!”. Before long, tons of people were entering the room. The viral effect came into play on myself, when I noticed one of my buddies was in a room named #Looble and so I immediately joined to see what was going on!

This is where the mystery regarding Looble.com either gets solved or gets very interesting. In the IRC channel, people were once again discussing the purpose of the Looble.com website and the meaning of Looble… Looble! Many of us tried to ask Justin King what was going on, but he went AFK and never said a word.

We were of course starting to get bored and figured this guy was probably just messing around or trying to take advantage of the Looble mystery to put himself in charge of what could possibly be a popular channel. At its peak, there were about 100 of us in the room, when people started leaving. Then suddenly, someone brought up something interesting…

After a little research, it turned out that there was a musician named Justin King. What makes this interesting is that, Le Bleu is his third and most successful solo album! This cannot be a coincidence. Le Bleu sounds like Looble, and if you remember our earlier research, when searching Google for, “Looble” the search engine asked, “Did you mean Lu Blue”. Also note that Bleu is french for Blue…

Woah! So has the whole Looble.com mystery been some sort of marketing strategy to increase sales of the Le Bleu album by Justin King? Well, in #Looble, there is no actual link to either Looble.com or Justin Kings music site. If this we’re an attempt to market the CD, shouldn’t this user post a link? Maybe he’s waiting for more people to enter the channel… who knows!

(This post originally from AlienSpore.com)

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