User:SkyBlueCatM/Sandbox
Music
The music are meant to be deliberately loud or metallic as part of the site's ARG.
Creator
ATOLS is a Japanese electronic music composer and Vocaloid producer who began experimenting with video art and animation in the early 90s. By 1995, he was self-taught in electronic music, using rhythm machines and cassette recorders to create visualized sound. In 2001, he began posting music under the name better on the Japanese indie music site muzie.co.jp (where the website often links to), participating in rock bands' tours and providing tracks to rappers.[1][2] His style are often bizarre and strange. As for his own work Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dreams, he built this site during his years as a teenager while studying about HTML.
History
The website for Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dreams started as a site for personal use by ATOLS. It stayed under the AnimeComic-Cell section inside Yahoo! Japan GeoCities during the year 2000. It showed messages like "Stepping over the window. Sorry, I haven't shouted yet" and "Towards the time for moving!". These messages are paired with images featuring "Dolphin Girl" along with her other variations. The site included a reference to the Japanese light novel series Sister Princess ending ("Sister Princess has ended..." シスプリおわっちゃったね...) before changing in 2004 into a major alternate reality game horror website.
Media
The website was part of the list in "Words You Should Not Search" series, according to Lesathpool on October 25, 2010.[3] The earliest foreign mention of Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dreams came through an English-speaking YouTuber SomeOrdinaryGamers. After a few months, Austrian YouTuber, Luigikid Gaming uploaded his own gameplay recording to YouTube, which gained toward 142,000 views by March 2026.[4] The website was also covered in a Thai commentary involving Japanese horror websites like Red Room; it gained around 100,000 views in less than five months.[5]