Hi all.
First time poster here, having recently become slightly obsessed with this potential ARG. I missed the YZ thing entirely, and so I've devoured this thread in the last day. Really enjoying all the speculation and trains of thoughts. Obviously that van tee shirt is the highlight.
Anyhoo, I think I have noticed something on the back cover/machine. I'm not sure that it would feed into any sort of ARG yay/nay discussion, but I think it does tie into the whole dystopian theme around YZ and these EPs. I don't think I've seen it mentioned in this thread so far, apologies if it has and I've missed it.
Looking at the lights below the "K", they are labelled Structure and Function. I did a bit of googling and found these pages on Wikipedia, relating to Structure versus Function in the formation of a complex society.
Functionalism -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_functionalism (Social structures come first, followed by roles)
Versus
Structuralism -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_structuralism (Roles/aspect of society comes first, the social structure organically comes from those defined roles)
The machine is set to Structure, suggesting that the roles needed by this (simulated or not) society were decided first, and then the social structure formed afterwards.
Again, I'm not sure how much you can read into this regarding an ARG, I just thought it was interesting to learn about and even if that's not what the lights mean, at least I've learned something about a topic I'd never heard of until this morning.