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| “ | God is near. | „ |
| ~ A possible translation from the original binary text, often mistranslated as "I AM GOD" |
An entity claiming to be God is an internet urban legend, originating as the titular main antagonist of the 2014 creepypasta I AM GOD[1].
He is an enigmatic, demonic entity that first manifested as seemingly random corrupted files and images in an user's computer. As time passed by, his influence grew stronger, being capable of controlling every single electronic device in the user's house.
He was portrayed by his creator, Jess A. Penaym.[2]
Biography[]
First Thread[]
In 2014, an user by the name of PC started a thread in the paranormal board of 4chan. He claimed that one of his friends had a problem with his computer, which at first he thought was a virus. After sending it to the repair shop, he began experiencing paranormal phenomena at his house, mainly related to his lights flickering on and off and his TV turning on by itself. The only thing PC knew for certain was that several corrupted-looking files were appearing in his downloads folder unprompted, including image and text files.
Many users suggested possible explanations, such as the computer wasting so much power that it was messing with the power supply itself, to which PC replied that his friend was using an old laptop that wasn't even plugged in most of the time. One user asked what kind of files were appearing on his friend's computer, which prompted PC to send one of the pictures, unknowingly, the forehead of the entity.
Users were quick to identify that the picture didn't seem like any file corruption, but rather something more intentional. Later in the thread, PC sent yet another picture, this time of the entity's chin. Baffled, users attempted to make sense of the situation, firstly attempting to match it with landmass in maps, but later realized that it was actually a human face. At around the same time, users discovered that the forehead picture contained a hidden code that, when decrypted in binary, spelled out the words "God," next to the Greek word πepiπou, which translated to "circa," but at the time was erroneously translated as "I am."
Meanwhile, PC managed to rescue a third image from his messages with his friend. It was very clearly the entity's eyes, confirming the suspicion that the users were putting together a face. The image was notably more corrupted than the others, being color-inverted and stacking over each other, but with a bit of basic editing, they managed to retrieve its eyes.
The Entity stalking PC's friends through the window of a high story building.
Later, PC returned to the thread, panicking and asking for users to send him a video sharing platform immediately. He explained that his friend had returned home from work and, when he was about to enter the bathroom to shower, he caught a glimpse of a red light coming out of his room, so he recorded it with his phone. In the video proper, the face of the entity can be seen outside the window of his apartment.
PC announced that he didn't have any other pictures saved from his messages, and acknowledged the possibility that by the time the repair shop returned his computer to his friend, there wouldn't be any images in the download folder. But now, all they had to do was wait.
Second Thread[]
As the users were distracted by a false lead, an anonymous user posted a link to another thread. Though the thread was quickly deleted, some users managed to archive it before its contents were completely lost. The thread contained a single picture with the final missing piece of the image, the entity's nose, in a corner. The poster of the thread begged the users to not "lose" the image this time.
Upon closer inspection, the attached image was actually the outside of PC's friend's apartment, from the same window and angle from which the entity was stalking him. And thus, the full picture of the entity's face was complete.
The Blueroom Livestream[]
A reflection on the computer screen, presumably from the entity.
On a third thread made by PC a day later, he reported that the computer had come back from the repair shop. Though its hard drive was almost fully intact, every single file in the downloads folder had been completely erased. According to PC, he and his friend were trying to record paranormal activity in the room all day, but didn't manage to catch anything too out of the ordinary.
Since nothing strange was happening in the safety of the day, PC tried to see what would happen in the night. With the help of the users in the thread, he set up a livestream on Twitch under the name "blueroompc." His friend, meanwhile, chickened out at the last minute and decided to sleep at PC's house.
While the stream is completely lost to this day, various user testimonies claim that PC placed a tablet with the entity's face on it. After this produced no results, he came back in and moved things around. Then the chair falls over. PC enters the room again, picks it up, and places candles around the room. After an indefinite amount of time where nothing happens, a light goes on and PC enters again. This time he puts a Chucky doll on the chair, but retrieves it a few minutes later. He tells his audience that he was going to sleep. Ten minutes after the fact, the chair "flies" to the camera and the stream ends.
This was the last official appearance of PC, implying that he didn't survive the encounter.
Gamejacking Incidents[]
Since the thread was an open investigation, some users didn't think twice before trying to sabotage any efforts of solving the mystery, most commonly through fake leads or misinformation.
Greek Prophecy[]
After the discovery of the word πepiπou in the forehead picture, one user searched up the word online in hopes of finding any leads. To their surprise, they only found one result: a 2011 Blogspot page written in Greek, seemingly comprised of vague spiritual messaging. Only one of these messages caught the eye of the user, "the world will end in 3 years."
This eerily lined up with the thread being made in 2014, which led to the users thinking that this page was somehow connected with the arrival of the entity.
It was later found out that the page was actually a completely unrelated script for a theatre play from a Greek radio program, where participants could call in and submit their own contribution to the script, hence the erratic nature of the page.
Religious Fanatic[]
Another user claimed to start receiving text messages from a private number after the face of God was pieced together. The messenger was sending cryptic images with a heavy lean in religious imagery, such as statues and paintings, and also a peacock. Another user suggested that he should send the full picture of the face to the messenger. After which, the messenger sent a binary code translating to "We all die," before exclaiming his hatred for the user. It was believed that the seemingly unrelated peacock image was being used as symbolism for resurrection, referencing the Book of Revelations from the Bible.
Hours later, the same user claimed in another thread that the whole thing was staged by him and PC, providing photo evidence of the religious statues seen in the messages. It is unlikely that the user was actually involved with PC in any way.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Before the original source of the image was found by the Spanish YouTuber Jouka, many suspected that God's face was a heavily edited picture of Doug Walker, also known by his internet persona, the Nostalgia Critic.
- The entity's face is actually a composite of two images, as the author of the creepypasta liked the mouth of one image and the eyes of another image.
- According to Jess in his interview with Jouka, this wasn't the first time he tried to play with the concept of a "demon in a machine." One year prior to the thread, he made a thread in the same board with a similar premise, though then the entity was known as "Lilith."
References[]
- ↑ Although the legend originally didn't have a set name, recently it was officially recognized as "I Am God" by its creator.
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1034838808648496
