SiIvaGunner: Rebooted (spelled with a lowercase "L") is the first story arc on the SiIvaGunner channel, and the beginning of its lore in general (although some earlier events were retroactively added to the lore). The arc contextualized the Reboot, a channel event where the three biggest memes on the channel were replaced by alternate versions. It was followed by The SilvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis.
Plot[]
Throughout April and May 2016, a substantial portion of the SiIvaGunner channel's fanbase began showing discontent towards rips featuring "Snow halation". Due to the amount of discourse in the community over "Snow halation" rips, the SiIvaGunner channel was whisked into an alternate universe, or "rebooted". In this "reboot" universe, the three biggest running jokes on the channel, including "Snow halation" but also the universally-beloved "Meet the Flintstones", were changed into different jokes fitting the same archetypes.
The reboot was led by a character known as The Voice Inside Your Head. His goal was to please the fans by removing "Snow halation" rips from the channel. However, Chad Warden remembered the original universe, causing the Voice to have to negotiate with Chad. In the end, the Voice grew tired of the "alternate" jokes and after considering a few possible ideas, he thought of merging the original universe back into the new one, sans "Snow halation". Chad Warden seemingly accepted this, but then used the power of the MF Like Button and sacrificed himself to bring "Snow halation" back after the Voice merged the universes.
The events of this arc would later be revisited during the SilvaGunner: Rebooted 1st Anniversary event and The Susie ARG's BLACK branch. In the former event, Wood Man transports the channel into an alternate timeline where Chad Warden kills "Snow halation" instead of sacrificing himself to save it, which is then followed up by him killing both The Voice and SiIvaGunner and taking over the channel.
The Susie ARG's BLACK branch follows up from the events in the "Genocide Timeline" through the sonystillballin NeoCities and the Undertale fan game SiIvaTale: Rebooted. From 2020 to 2024, Chad Warden travelled across the world to murder many humans and, after finding and finishing The Voice's plans for the Figment Transportation Device, many figments. With Haruka Amami being the sole figment remaining in the timeline by December 25, 2024, Chad Warden travels to the Lighthouse to kill her and finish his crusade. After a long battle between Chad and Haruka, who transformed into a new form upon remembering "Snow halation", the former manages to eventually kill the latter. With the final figment in the timeline dead, the genocide timeline was fully reduced to a black void, with Chad himself disappearing into it.
Although not mentioned in the series proper, Pokemon Grand Dad Version has the Voice reveal that his true motivation for "rebooting" the universe was not to please the fans, but to protect the channel from a greater, unrevealed threat. "Recovered Documents [FILE-INT-BLACK] - Haltmann's Archives", the final reward of The Susie ARG's BLACK branch, would later reveal that this greater threat was actually Chad Warden himself, more specifically his counterpart from the genocide timeline.
Major characters[]
SiIvaGunner: The eponymous high-quality statue that runs the channel, unaware of the reboot and the conflict surrounding his universe.
Chad Warden: A foul-mouthed defender of "Snow halation". He remembers the pre-reboot SiIvaGunner, throwing a wrench in the Voice's plans.
The Voice Inside Your Head: An unseen figure with the power to create entire universes. He reboots the universe to stop the SiIvaGunner community discourse over "Snow halation".
Chad Warden accepts, but then brings back "Snow halation" himself using The MF Like Button.
July 8
After the ending was uploaded, the three preceding story videos had their metadata completely changed so they would appear as proper episodes, titled "Intro", "Now Rebooting", and "The Deal", and the SilvaGunner: Rebooted playlist was created to contain them.
Post-arc releases[]
The following videos were published after the conclusion of the arc, but depict events relevant to the series and/or use the series' name.
