The final reply posted before I could turn off my phone. Not coordinates this time. Just a .gif. A cartoon stick of dynamite, fuse burning down.
I thought it was an edgy rebrand. I clicked through.
My heart did a stupid little flip. I’m a bored sysadmin with too much time and a VPN. I started digging. The timestamps were all in the future—usually by 48 to 72 hours. And every single thread ended the same way: after 100 replies, a final post from the OP, always the same three words: “Check the news.”