A Google Map Mystery

[EndtheMadnessNow]

(Thank you @"EndtheMadnessNow"#18 , I only saw your 'ETA' -add on after I posted this below, but it does assist in showing that Google Street Maps does have people who use it to further their careers in the name of 'aesthetic decoration of the mundane'!!

This thread may seem trivial and it is, considering the bombardment of fearful news reported every day, but the image in the Google Map intrigued me. Being an average novice when it comes to internet sleuthing, I once again dragged my little man-icon from the bottom-right of the map page and went to another location nearby. I was used to seeing only what the Google conveyance had recorded during its trips in any area and accepted that when private information was disclosed -like faces and vehicle registrations, blurring is performed for security issues.

I had noticed other little blue rings close to the one I'd found the 'monolith' image at and so I dropped my location-icon onto one of them. In the top left-hand corner, it proclaimed a name 'Dylan Barth' and displayed a poorly-merged female on a cliff looking out at the English Channel. I took it that is was person was Dylan Barth and sought her information once more on Google. One might assume that to achieve a 360-degree image appropriate for Google Maps, Ms Barth would have the equipment to do so and then reading the title of her LinkedIn page, I believed she has.
(Dylan Barth - Freelance Video Producer. Based in Denver Colorado)
Facebook Link:


So, now armed with a bit of knowledge on how to navigate these singular locations on Google Street Maps, I returned to the strange rectangle hovering near the beach on the South-East coast of England!
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In the top left-hand corner, the black box told me the location was close to the Seven Sisters, the cliffs mentioned in
the initial posting. But under the title, it says 'Fu Yiqing' -the reverse of what is written on the mysterious 'not-there'
monolith.

Staying with the reference to Ms Barth's occupation, I found that Fu Yiqing is the name of a Casting Director who's
single success in the movie business (IMDB) was a drama made in China called 'I'm Innocent'.

Checking in with Google Images, I found a 'Fu Yiqing -YouTube' image showing a floating rectangle shape and the
mysterious name blazoned across it. It was a 23-second long YouTube video showing an artist's painting hanging on
a wall recorded in an 'artsy-fartsy' fashion! But I checked 3 comments and was pleasantly surprised.

@Formxny
9 months ago
WHAT IS YIQING FU TELL ME RIGHT NOW WHY DO I SEE THESE THINGS ON GOOGLE MAPS
TELL ME NOW PLEASE TELL ME PLEASE TELL ME PLEASE TELL ME PLEASE TELL ME
PLEASE TELL ME

@larsen3545
9 months ago
Why am i here

@Formxny
9 months ago
are you google maps guy yiqing fu

Link to YouTube Video:

Is this all just a rabbit hole purposely constructed for an armchair-detective to scurry down?
How does one obtain permission from Google to post images within their 'public' map engine that indirectly advertises
the careers of those who can put their wares on the Google Street Maps? Do do these individuals pay for such access?
I'll take a look.

Thanks for taking a deeper dive into this little mystery. I think when some of these marketeers come up with something somewhat original and have a friend on the inside where both sides get something out of it, monetary or projecting some kind of idea. Or as F2d5thCav mentioned, someone found a backdoor to insert images. That physical monolith that popped up somewhere in remote area of Utah and then shortly thereafter more started making the msm hedlines including one in Romania I think was all a marketing ploy. I can't remember the backstory of it.


Going way off on a tangent...

The mad poet:

Justin Geoffrey (1898–1926) A poet who wrote "The People of the Monolith" after visiting the village of Stregoicavar and died "screaming in a madhouse" five years before the events of the story. He is remembered by the villagers as acting in an odd manner, with a habit of mumbling to himself. The story opens with this stanza, which is attributed to him:

    They say foul things of Old Times still lurk
    In dark forgotten corners of the world.
    And Gates still gape to loose, on certain nights.
    Shapes pent in Hell.

Call of Cthulhu : The Black Monolith

This week’s Call of Cthulhu game was based on Robert E. Howard’s short story, The Black Stone, originally published in Weird Tales in November 1931. That issue was a treat for amateurs of the Cthulhu Mythos—it also contained the Tale of Satampra Zeiros by Clark Ashton Smith, another member of H.P. Lovecraft’s inner circle.

A scan of the original magazine is available on The Internet Archive and the full text of The Black Stone is on Project Gutenberg.

I had the audacity to make a few changes to Howard’s original story for the game scenario. The mad poet Justin Geoffrey was an Englishman (not an American), who had died in 1921 in Bedlam. After combing through his medical records and searching esoteric books in the libraries of London, the investigators took the Orient Express across Europe, to find out what horrors he had witnessed that had driven him to insanity.

Upon reaching Stregoicavar, the subsequent events unfolded in a similar way to Howard’s tale.

Be careful how far down the rabbit hole you venture. Bawaha!