the second part of the puzzle doesn’t have a tick (I left it out accidentally):
to and fr_
r_
1_
I think it was an error on my part for not including it.
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so yeah, the tutorial does have the answer at the end.
The solution here is written in base64:
MS4gbG92KDUpLCAKMi4gZigxKWxsIAozLiBsKDkpbig1KQo0LiByKDgpCjUuIGZyKDApCjYuIDEoOCk=
You can use this website to decode the answer, if the video is not enough. Thanks for playing!