If Y=Why, then the phrase is a question about itself. He tried a Caesar shift where the key was the number of letters in "whym" (4). Shift each letter back by 4 positions in the alphabet.
The phrase wasn’t for a human. It was a machine language handshake. -ysh = command: initiate z-yrh = target: Earth whym = query: Why us? 2024 = answer: This year. -ysh z-yrh whym 2024
He took a breath. Looked at the whole thing: If Y=Why, then the phrase is a question about itself
He tried Atbash first—mapping A→Z, B→Y. -ysh became -bhs . Gibberish. ROT13? -lfu m-leu julz . Nothing. The phrase wasn’t for a human
-ysh – maybe it’s - as a dash, then ysh as in “wish” without the w? -ysh = “wish” missing the w? So “wish” minus w = “ish”. No.