Termination (FILE-02) - Haltmann's Archives

"Termination [FILE-02] - Haltmann's Archives" is a lore video and the second "file" in Haltmann's Archives. It documents the termination and eventual transformation of the GiIvaSunner character into SiIvaGunner.

Summary
The video opens with a dated display with President Haltmann's logo on it showing this message in yellow text: While text appears on the screen, scanlines move up the display similar to that of a cathode-ray television. A yellow arrow pointing downwards prompts a pause between each block of text, similar to the dialogue systems of most video games.

The text continues the origins of GiIvaSunner from "&#91;FILE-01&#93;", and describes his transformation into SiIvaGunner. GiIvaSunner's channel received its first copyright strike on April 5, 2016. Determined to find the culprit, GiIvaSunner abducts seven suspects and interrogates them. One of them is [Dinkleberg], a high-ranking crime lord. Once abroad a plane above the Pacific Ocean, Dinkleberg reveals himself as Angry Joe, who admits to have filed a copyright strike out of jealousy. Joe manages to injure GiIva and file a copyright strike, destroying the channel. GiIva becomes lifeless and slides out of the plane, which crashes with no survivors.

GiIva washes up in the Netherlands, where Chad Warden buys him for $599 USD. Chad creates the SiIvaGunner channel, prompting the statue to awaken once more and adopt the name "SiIvaGunner". Chad and SiIva team up, with Chad financing SiIva's new house, eyepatch, and computer, and SiIva continuing to rip video game music.

Context
This video recontextualizes the GiIvaSunner Termination as part of the modern channel lore, with SiIvaGunner being a character in his own right rather than just an impersonation of GilvaSunner. Much of the video is a description of the baneposting segments in "A Big Announcement", the video used to announce GiIvaSunner's return as SiIvaGunner and the album The Phantom Rips: SiIVa has come to.

It notably doesn't use the real reason for the GiIvaSunner channel's termination (violating YouTube's community guidelines), instead saying it was a copyright strike; this might be because copyright strikes are a more common greviance for YouTubers than community strikes, making it an easier jab at YouTube. Tellingly, the later SiIvaGunner Termination would actually be caused by copyright.

SiIvaGunner's ultimate locale in the Netherlands is a reference to the real GilvaSunner, who lives there, while his price of $599 USD is a reference to Chad Warden saying that the PlayStation 3 is cheap at that price.

Trivia

 * The music used in this file is, in order of appearance: "Liberty Island - Ambient" from Deus Ex (also used in the first file, as well as many others), "Lebedev's Airfield - Ambient" from Deus Ex and "Story Field 'Fuji Forest'" from Black★Rock Shooter: The Game.
 * The text spells "GiIvaSunner" with two lowercase i's, and "SiIvaGunner" with an L instead of two i's.