"Channel Hosts and Takeovers [FILE-15] - Haltmann's Archives" is a high quality lore video and the fifteenth "file" in Haltmann's Archives.
Summary[]
This video is formatted like all Haltmann's Archives videos starting with "[FILE-02]".
The file documents and describes all known entities that acted as channel hosts on the SiIvaGunner channel throughout its history at the time of the file's release:
- SiIvaGunner, formerly GiIvaSunner, who ran the original GiIvaSunner channel from January 9 to April 5, 2016, then ran the SiIvaGunner channel from April 12 to October 30, 2016;
- Wood Man, who first took control of the channel on November 3, 2016 while helping to bring figments to the real world, but still has access to the channel and performs channel tasks to this day;
- The Voice Inside Your Head, who ran the channel from December 14, 2016 to May 14, 2017 with the goal of producing Christmas Spirit;
- Gadgetini Clone 2.0, which usurped the channel from The Voice on May 14, 2017 and ran the channel until being deactivated by "Mark Timotei" on May 26;
- President Haltmann, who ran the channel and allegedly put it on auction from May 26 to December 31, 2017, with Haltmann Works Company still retaining ownership of the SiIvaGunner brand;
- The SiIva A.I., which was first given control of the channel on January 1, 2018 and still actively ran the channel at the time of this file's upload (with a hiatus from January 4 to February 28, 2019). During its tenure as the host, the A.I. appeared to malfunction several times, taking the form of various figures. The A.I. also ran community-voted tournaments to elect additional channel hosts, those being Unregistered HyperCam 2 and DJ Professor K.
The file also states that the channel's data was temporarily transported to a different timeline by Wood Man on June 17, 2017, and that Haltmann Works R&D considered using the channel to access other universes, but projects regarding this idea have since been halted by Haltmann due to an incident regarding garlic-flavored tacos.
Context[]
This video was uploaded on the fifth anniversary of the beginning of The SilvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis, and serves to reveal the in-universe justification for the various "takeover" channel events that occurred after the SiIva A.I. gained control of the SiIvaGunner channel. The upload date may symbolic of how the anniversary of the Christmas Comeback Crisis is also the fifth anniversary of takeovers (as the arc started with The Voice's takeover, though this disregards Wood Man's semi-takeover in 2016).
The video appears to disregard previous lore, particularly the Nostalgia Critic Takeover and Gabe Newell Takeover which both had ambiguous connections to the Christmas Comeback Crisis but are considered mere malfunctions in this video. They would ultimately be reworked into canon with "Garlic-Flavored Tacos [FILE-16] - Haltmann's Archives", where Haltmann Works R&D theorizes that the A.I.'s programming was influenced by an alternate universe, possibly created by the A.I. itself, in which the individuals it copied actually took control of the channel.
Transcript[]
FILE-15
[CHANNEL HOSTS AND TAKEOVERS]
Throughout its existence, the [SiIvaGunner] YouTube Channel has been run by multiple parties, all with varying motives. What follows is a list of all known [Channel Hosts].*
*That we at Haltmann Works Co. known of, for the time being.
[SiIvaGunner]
January 9 - April 5; April 12 - October 30, 2016
Formerly known as [GiIvaSunner]. A sentient statue who claimed to only upload high quality video game rips. (See [FILE-01] for more details.)
After uploading [Title Theme & Ending - 7 GRAND DAD], the statue declared said rip to be his highest quality rip, and went into a perpetual state of hibernation.
[Wood Man]
November 3, 2016 - Present
A virus created from the high quality rip [Main Theme (OST Version) - Mighty No. 9], but with more advanced properties unseen in regular Figments. Initially took over the channel while developing a program to bring Figments into our world, as commissioned by [The Voice]. On November 30, 2016, he claimed to have left the channel to fight [Mega Man].
Despite this, he still seems to have access to the channel. Various attempts to remove access have shown to be unsuccessful. Operations were called off when it was determined that letting him keep the channel was harmless, as he liked to occasionally perform channel tasks such as making his own rips, interacting with others and fixing mistakes.
[The Voice Inside Your Head]
December 14, 2016 - May 14, 2017
Claims to be a "hybrid" of both Human and Figment properties. Used the channel to create rips that could produce [Christmas Spirit] (see [FILE-07] for more details). However, he was later forcefully removed by the [Gadgetini Clone 2.0].
[Gadgetini Clone 2.0]
May 14 - 26, 2017
A creation of [Haltmann Works Co.], sent in to usurp the channel from [The Voice]. (See [FILE-09] for more details)
Eventually, it was deactivated after being sent a DMCA notice from an individual known as [Mark Timotei]. However, no records of this name have shown up in any of our research, so we can only assume that this is simply an alias for someone else.
[President Haltmann]
May 26 - December 31, 2017
Initially the second-in-command to [The Voice], Haltmann claimed to be putting the channel on auction. However, despite having multiple bidders, [Haltmann Works Co.] is still the current owner of the [SiIvaGunner] brand, so whether or not he actually planned to sell it off could be called into question.
[The SiIva A.I.]
January 1, 2018 - January 4, 2019; February 28, 2019 - Present
The current channel host, an A.I. created from a sample of [SiIvaGunner]. Performs tasks nearly identical to the statue.
It should be noted that after examining its data, we noticed instances of the A.I. malfunctioning, such as on April 1, 2018, when the A.I. took a form similar to that of [Gadgetini Clone 2.0]. We have also found records of the A.I.'s data to resemble different figures, including YouTube personality [Nostalgia Critic], gaming industry icons [Gabe Newell] and [Todd Howard], president of Russia [Vladimir Putin], American rapper [Shameka Shanta "Lady" Brown], and even roles of Figments [The Grinch] and [Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz].
According to its data, the A.I. eventually resorted to running [Community-Voted Tournaments] to decide several additional channel hosts of its own. Its victors were [Unregistered HyperCam 2] and [DJ Professor K].
We also have reason to believe that the channel has been transported to [different dimensions]. It seems that on June 17, 2017, the [Wood Man] Figment transferred the channel's data to a timeline where [Chad Warden] killed both [The Voice] and [SiIvaGunner], taking control of the channel.
We were considering researching using the channel to access other alternate universes, but after the incident regarding [Garlic-Flavored Tacos], [Haltmann] has halted any and all interdimensional-related projects indefinitely.
References[]
- ↑ "Ethan64Music's Contributions to SiIvaGunner NOTES", Google Document by Jiko Music.
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