Can someone give me the Sparknotes of what happened across these 300 posts?
Memes v
Tofugu is giving thank you gifts to the most active, paid users v
Someone accidentally leaks a way for anyone to get the gift v
People discover they weren’t included v
台風のくそ
Am I correct?
I did and I didn’t get the beginning either. The first person (as far as I know) doesn’t have any authority. I can’t say that I took part in past ARGs from Tofugu so maybe that is the main problem. I’d assume that it would be an ARG if
a) there is an announcement it is going to happen
b) a person of authority gives a hint
c) “players” get hints to solve the riddle/progress in the story. If you have to solve a riddle by wildly guessing something usually went wrong.
Nothing of these things happened here. Wildly guessing a password just because you found a website with a password is not an ARG for me. That would be boring and horribly planned at it’s best. But then again I don’t know Tofugus past ARGs.
I think it was:
A user wrote to Tofugu to give her friends (people that participated in a poll?) surprise christmas gifts.
Tofugu made a website for them where they could access it and send them mails that they got a gift.
Random user stumbles over a website with a password and writes a post.
Other people try to guess the password and get the gift.
Someone guessed it.
People that weren’t supposed to get the gift got them.
Other people were pissed off because they didn’t get a gift.
Surprise christmas gift was kinda ruined, the one with the idea to get their friends gifts explains the situation.
People are pissed off at the user and Tofugu.
Was about to write that but you beat me to it 
I’ll add though: now the gifts are only going to those original specific people.
I saw you commenting and was like: Challenge accepted the race is on 
The Durtle Heaven puzzle started two years ago on Christmas by the fact that anyone who logged in that day recieved a badge. It took about a day before anyone noticed the smudge on the badge’s forehead is actually a QR code. And I guess that could be considered a hint from a person of authority, but there was never any actual announcement.
But yeah, that, at least, had actual clues as to the solution, even if it sometimes took us literal months to work out what they meant. eGoooott, indeed.
I figured in this case I was missing an important clue because I didn’t get the e-mail, and considering how unreliable the WaniKani e-mail bot can be, it wouldn’t be completely unsurprising if my e-mail had simply never arrived.
Got it, thanks a lot.
Seems like a whole lot of nothing to get pissed about. Good on the user, their friends and Tofugu
I was in a car traveling and completely missed out of this. But, I’ve now caught up an emailed them my shipping address! 
Super exiting!
It was real after all!! ^>^ Weeeee!
Wow. If I had known this thread would turn into this, I never would have made it.
I just thought we could all speculate about what it could be, not practically datamine for the password 
And yet, I feel like this is a fitting scenario for our 2020 christmas, practically everything that could go wrong did, and yet we’re all still here, albeit with about 2 hours less sleep and more durtles to burn.
Don’t worry about it, there’s no way you could’ve known that it wasn’t an ARG or something similar. Besides, it seems like the situation was resolved anyway! 
Wow, so much happened whilst I was asleep 
@KyokaJiro -senpai, thank you so much for the gift! Just the fact that you thought of me, brightened my entire day. You are a star 
You better be awaiting for my gift next Christmas. If anyone deserves it, it’s you 
Am I the only one who doesn’t care about the drama and is really just curious as to what the present is? Im nosey tell me tell me 
I don’t think even the people the gifts were intended for know, so unless the secret Santa reveals it themself (which I doubt), we may have to wait until people start getting them to know
its alright just whisper it to me i won’t tell
Woah, did I miss something?
Psst, if the rumors are to be believed, it looks like it’s a Santa hat wearing crab riding an alligator, a Santa-gator if you will. Hope they don’t need to ship internationally because that seems like a customs nightmare
In regards to what, the whole thread or just recently?
Everything past the last post I made.
The thread really kinda exploded.
ugh I’m so jealous … I want to get an alligator in the mail
I don’t think an Alligator would fit in my Mailbox, personally.