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The "Gnostic Christ" figure traveling in a boat through a desolate landscape, eventually witnessing the collapse of old structures.
The video ends as it began: the children and goats are back in the field, but the sky has turned blood-red, and one child turns directly to camera, smiling, with black liquid dripping from their eyes.
Some internet sleuths claim that "I Pet Goat 5" is not a video, but an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) launched in 2021. According to posts on the r/conspiracy archive, users claimed that typing "i pet goat 5 2021" into DuckDuckGo (not Google) on the vernal equinox led to a raw text file containing a Bitcoin wallet and a string of GPS coordinates pointing to a dead drop in New Mexico. These claims, of course, remain unverified.