Updated October 4, 2026
How to tell an official Alex Hirsch project from a fan site or a scam
Specific tells for fake Gravity Falls and ARG sites: search ads, the finished-image test, the asset-directory test, and the requests no real ARG makes.
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Updated October 4, 2026
The Gravity Falls real-world timeline: Cipher Hunt, books, and the ARG
Every verified real-world Gravity Falls release in date order, 2016 to 2025, with what each one was and what it is not.
Updated October 4, 2026
Deciphering messages from a Bill Cipher terminal
Caesar, Atbash, A1Z26, Vigenere, Polybius, hex. The methods that appear inside Gravity Falls responses, and how to test a decode instead of trusting a list.
Updated October 4, 2026
What the terminal covers: Bill Cipher's lore in the Gravity Falls universe
Who is speaking on the terminal, what the triangle and the top hat encode, and how the site's vocabulary maps onto the show and the novel.
Updated October 4, 2026
The Book of Bill and the terminal: how the two releases fit together
The novel and the ARG shipped together. What that shared release date means for chronology, for the narrator, and for what the terminal can possibly contain.
Updated October 4, 2026
How This Is Not a Website Dot Com began, and what it launched with
The terminal ARG created by Alex Hirsch alongside The Book of Bill in July 2024, its launch context, and the design decisions that make it work.