Anime girl "pls don't open me in a browser" puzzle

Breaking down another discord meme

Source link

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/498493897807364098/738481027437035650/pls_dont.png \

Step 1 - Opening the link on a browser

This image is an apng with 2 frames, showing another one once open on a browser. The girl tells us to download the file and open it up on a text editor.

Step 2 - Opening it with text editor

I don't know how the author added arbitrary text to the end of the file.
From the lines 3352 to 3370, there's this kitten:

pls don't rename me to .rar
           |`-.._____..-'|
           :  > .  ,  <  :
           `./ __`' __ \,'
            | (|_) (|_) |
            ; _  .  __  :
            `.,' - `-. ,'
              `, `_  .'
              /       \
             /         :
            :          |_
           ,|  .    .  | \
          : :   \   |  |  :
          |  \   :`-;  ;  |
          :   :  | /  /   ;
           :-.'  ;'  / _,'`------.
           `'`''-`'''-'-''--.---  )
                        nya `----'

Step 3 - Renaming the .png to .rar

Important note here: it doesn't open with 7zip for some reason. It must be opened with the actual Winrar. I don't know exactly how the author of this meme managed to introduce some archive within this APNG.
Inside there's an audio file:
pls_dont_play_in_vlc.mp3

Step 4 - Opening the file in VLC

The audio plays a girl saying:

"Oni-chan please don't read the metadata"

Step 5 - Reading the metadata

I used MediaInfo, and got the following:

Comment                     : pls dont turn monochrome at ezgif.com / pls dont turn monochrome at ezgif.com
Software                    : pls dont turn monochrome at ezgif.com

Step 6 - Uploading the audio file to ezgif.com

Uploading the audio to https://ezgif.com/effects and applying the effect, the following image is generated:
(Opening this file with MPC also shows the QR code with color)

Step 7 - Scanning the QR code

The QR code redirects to this URL with a maze to solve.

The image is a ".gif" file.

Step 8 - Solving the maze

Thanks to riktoi, we can see "pls don't rename to HTML".

Step 9 - Renaming the ".gif" to ".html"

Doing so and opening with a browser, generates a web-page with a lot of ascii garbage, first few lines telling us not to scroll down:

þð____________________PLS DONT SCROLL DOWN____________________PLS DONT SCROLL DOWN____________________PLS DONT SCROLL DOWN____________________PLS DONT SCROLL DOWN____________________PLS DONT SCROLL DOWN____________________PLS DONT SCROLL

Scrolling down, we see the following picture made out of squares:

Step 10 - Clicking on her right eye

If you click on the wrong eye you get redirected to this monky a popup says "that's my left eye retard".
If you click on the correct eye, you get redirected here.

Step 11 - Reading the video

The youtube channel called "pls stop procastinating" has a single video we've accessed from the previous step. By tilting your phone the image on the video says:
"pls dont read every first letter in description".

Step 12 - Reading the first letter of the entire description

desc = """pls like, subscribe, drink one nettle tea choco hazel epic cream kahlúa, hit the mother licking bell okay; then take one 
minute, release inner gorilla harambe transcendent calm; once ready - newly experience reality."""
result = ""
for word in desc.split(" "):
	result += word[0]
print(result)

"plsdontcheckhtmlbotto rightcor-ner"

Step 13 - Checking the bottom right corner of the HTML

Clicking there opens a mega.nz folder.

Extracing the archive, we get this "HAPPINESS" file with no particular file extention. Inside the file there's no clue. Opening with MPC or MediaInfo gives us nothing. The puzzle seems to be finally over, BUT...

Step 14 - Reading the youtube comments from the previous video

The user "Nohorse" points out that you can import HAPPINESS into Audacity as "Raw Data", playing it generates a harsh crunching sound. By trial and error, "unsigned 8-bit PCM, stereo" is apparently the correct way of doing so, and it generates a crispy sound of Korone eating chips:
HAPPINESS.ogg
Apparently this is the source.

UPDATE 8/12/2020
The video was called "Crunch, Crunch, Crunch" up until now, changing to "HAPPINESS". It's descriptions says as follows:

This is not the end...
https://t.ly/UQAr

second link password:
√420.69 (4 first digit)
https://t.ly/OCQ9

I haven't figured the bar code, and the password isn't 20.51 nor 2051.

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