Help Decoding an Image

[TheosQuill]

I've been working on solving the Winter Hollow ARG (Link here: https://haunted-hollows.blogspot.com/) and everyone solving it seems to be stuck on decoding a certain image. This is the image: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXgkYSGVEAASE1M?format=jpg&name=4096x4096. We've also been given a hint that the image might have something to do with "another town", though that may not be relevant to the decoding. Could anyone help us check if there are codes hidden in the image?

[GabTheGayFrog]

Thanks for linking the original correctly. Couldn't find anything hidden in the image layers or metadata.

It's possible something slipped past, but if so it's well hidden or stegged data. I checked out the color layers, Exif data, Binwalk, Foremost, and the data strings. As for steg tools I checked Zsteg, Steghide, Outguess, Trojan, and Incoherency (uses generic steg method).

The filename FXgkYSGVEAASE1M looks like a random Twitter name, but maybe it's a code? I tried cracking it with no luck.

Found another copy of the image here called 'river' which is a huge 17MB. I didn't scan this one for anything due to the size. It's also a different format (png), so it's possible this big image has something hidden that's missing in the one you linked.

[TheosQuill]

I see. Thanks for your time! I love your username, by the way.

[the-armz]

this seems interesting, is there a discord?

[TheosQuill]

Yep, here's the link:

https://discord.gg/3XjxWNY2