Cicada 3301 - Who is behind this "organization"?

secretive international no-fap org

...

Really makes you think.

Some of these are likely just headhunting orgs restarting on old method to market talent to SV companies. It got trendy to do around 2000 when the 'puzzle interview' got popular, then faded when metrics showed they weren't getting better work out of them than traditional programmers despite paying more. Maybe now that "traditional programmers" coming out of college are hopelessly inept they're trying this method again.

maybe you should mind your own business

github.com/the-laughing-monkey/cicada-platform

Classic advertising technique.

It was just a well orginized ARG or scam. Nothing else.

So it's Valve?

I ain't fucking with somebody that's actually possibly from an organization/agency.
also, try google, you retard. there's so many videos of people solving the puzzles.