It gained new life in the 2020s through "Internet Iceberg" videos on YouTube and TikTok, where it is often placed in the deeper tiers as an example of "Lost Media" or "Dark Web Mysteries."

It shares many similarities with other famous internet mysteries like Cicada 3301 or the Sad Satan game, where the allure is the search for the file rather than the file itself.

It is rumored to be a 135-gigabyte (or sometimes 1.35 TB) collection of "forbidden" data. Speculation ranges from blueprints for futuristic technology and classified government documents to hyper-realistic simulations of human consciousness.

In reality, "megaproject135.rar" is widely considered a or a piece of unfiction .