"Albums [FILE-12] - Haltmann's Archives" is a lore video and the twelfth "file" in Haltmann's Archives. It documents the in-universe justification for the albums, compilations of rips released for the benefit of the SiIvaGunner audience (and, prior to the termination of the channel's Bandcamp account, charity), and to show which contributors made what rips.
Summary[]
The video is formatted like all Haltmann's Archives videos starting with "[FILE-02]".
The FILE begins with a description of how SiIvaGunner outputs albums in the form of a Blu-ray disc. These discs are similar to the Cores - superweapons created by governments for national security purposes. The file briefly mentions the Season 1 Finale, in which SiIvaGunner uploaded rips en-masse, and Haltmann's own album. It is also mentioned that the metadata on the albums is unreadable because it contains knowledge of the real world, and that all proceeds are donated to charity.
Context[]
This FILE serves to finally explain the in-universe meaning of the "cores" mentioned in FILE-01 and FILE-08, revealing them to be government superweapons (though the implications of SiIvaGunner and his albums being apparently very similar to superweapons are left to the viewer). In reality, "Cores" are likely a homage to a naming convention in collaborative mashup albums predating GiIvaSunner, where "core" is used as a suffix to the subject of the album. The first example of this was the album Macklecore by PISS SPEARS; another example is the GANGNAMCORE series of albums by Triple-Q.
The FILE also mentions that SiIvaGunner's album metadata is corrupted and unreadable, speculating that it's because they contain information about the real world. This refers to how, during the first season, almost every album announcement video had a running joke in the description, where SiIvaGunner would complain about how the album's metadata is corrupted; which means that in-universe, all of the meme titles and ripper credits present in these albums were simply caused by corruption.[1] The FILE then implies that the albums released by the Haltmann Works Company have intentionally corrupted the metadata in an attempt to match the albums released by SiIvaGunner.
The mention of charities at the end references how (out-of-universe) SiIvaGunner donated any purchases of the albums on Bandcamp to charities. Although this may have been the case in-universe for the SiIvaGunner character as well (if the disclaimers to not buy the albums weren't simply a character break), Haltmann describes it as happening inexplicably, since it would be out of character for him to do so himself. The description of "A Manic Announcement" may imply that Wood Man was the one donating album profits to charity without Haltmann's knowledge.
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Trivia[]
- The description lists the title as "Music: Albums" instead of "File: Albums" like all other Haltmann's Archives rips. It also has a catchphrase, unlike the other episodes.
References[]
- ↑ Tweet by @WldMts
- "Explanation: it's a high quality video game rip and the title and artist names are corrupted."
- ―Matsu Muhō