November 2018

**16th November** - The Ash Vlogs Youtube channel posted on their community tab that they were back from being banned.

**18th November** A new video was uploaded to the Ash Vlogs Youtube channel called I'll see you real soon. However it has since been removed from the platform. Thankfully a Discord member was able to reupload it to the Ash Vlogs Archive. It appears to be black and white security camera footage of a kitchen area, presumably from a supermarket. A phone call can be heard in the audio. The answering machine picks up the call. A phone call from Jordan to his mother. He sounds upset as he tells her he is going to go away for a bit. He seems to be really hating something at the moment and he needs to get away for a bit. He asks her to tell Dad he is sorry. He says he will be back soon and not to worry about him, he will be ok. He says he will see her real soon. Was he forced to make this call? What is he scared of? Meanwhile whilst the call audio is playing, footage from the supermarket backroom camera changes to show the shop floor, Jordan can be seen walking down an aisle as three masked men ambush him, pull him to the ground and place a bag over his head. Jordan can be seen physically trying to free himself from the attackers but they have him pinned down. One of the men cuts of one of Jordan's fingers. The men then pick Jordan up and carry him into the back room. The tags on the original video showed a Scissors emoji and a hand emoji. There were also three unlisted videos included in the description.

**Unlisted video 1**:  - votes are in This video shows Zachary being dropped in an empty field with a bag over his head. You can see whoever is driving the car, waves goodbye with a gloved hand as Zachary trips and falls crying. The hidden tags on this video are 'bye zachary' This video also has another video in its description box.  **hello drips** This video appears unlisted on the This Is Kate Youtube channel. Footage of a lady holding a piece of paper with the IKWSI symbol, and saying the phrase "hello drips", followed by a red background and various cut out audio noises.

**Unlisted video 2**: i like it when they crawl Tram security footage with distorted audio showing Markus holding his stomach, falling to the floor of the tram and then crawling out of the door followed by a trail of blood and a screaming noise. The hidden tags for the video were 'look at you, checking all the tags, aren't you smart' This video also has a link to an unlisted video on the This Is Kate Youtube channel. **hello drips**  This video has the same title as the previous unlisted however this time we have a man holding up a piece of paper with the IKWSI symbol drawn on it. He also says "hello drips" followed by a red background and more cut out audio noises.

**Unlisted video 3**: real friends This video shows a public restroom. When the door opens, we see Alice She seems taken by surprise. With captions on, during the distorted sections of this video we can see a conversation occur. "alice" Alice asks them to stop as she did what they asked her to do. The captions then read "we won't hurt him, we have one last task for you" She looks forward and states that she is done multiple times, before the captions read "no, last task" The hidden tag for this video is ❀ This video also has a link to an unlisted video on the This Is Kate Youtube channel. A third hello drips  A man can be seen against a green screen holding up paper with the IKWSI symbol and laughing as he says "hello drips" More red screen can be seen and cut audio noises.

The Ash Vlogs Instagram account posted a new image  called "you'll need this to see" **✁** :
yE,m$k@()FN|&151?%PA#rN\_B90jbTwfz%K8k\*K\_94nfB2mVj1/%   This line of Drip speak decoded to i belong to him. The link spread out through the images originally went to a google drive folder with a file called 'downloadme.zip'. The zip contains the Drip Speak exe. However it is now titled 'trustus.zip

The Stingray Band camp account uploaded a new track  **like a normal person** Lyrics: {}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{} The cover image seems to be a distorted photo of a mobile phone screen. In the audio you can hear Kate's voicemail greeting followed by someone leaving her a message asking why she hasn't been answering her phone, they have been trying to get hold of her all day. She lets Kate know she is going out and will leave the key where she normally does. She asks Kate to text her and tells her she loves her.

## This is Kate Youtube Channel

The 'found me.' Youtube Channel has been renamed to: **this is kate**.

The channel uploaded this video: window shopping The footage appears to have been filmed at night, the person filming seems to be watching Kate inside her house, on the phone. The audio is of a man asking her where she is, that he would pick her up and they could just talk. He asks her if she is at her mums place, He asks her "are you there or are you not" She asks him to give her some time, She needs time to breath and think about everything between them. As she is saying this, we can hear in car footage of the computer girls voice saying "what are you doing, i want to see a dead bitch, {}{}, she'll go back to him they always do" The tags for this video are maybe shes paranoid and {}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}. In the video description there is a link to an unlisted video on the this is kate channel called she deserved it. The description for this video has a line of drip speak code Ai-2=W|L;vw|7?SRjOyj[w!XC..ywTieH3\*e}=i"|('UfC#RujQbgh/)z?c] which decodes to https://goo.gl/ In the Captions of this video more drip speak can be seen wW@`.gY&L!ZI+zj\*u'llLK6'   this decodes to Bg4tzR} Combining the two leads to a google drive folder  called 'x'. It contains 15 .PNG images and 1 Word document.

The Word document contains 15 lines of drip speak, the decoded drip speak is as follows:

{NxFJNZUu|yfvW)f# = **356**

AxrI%2"Yo?] = **234**

vMtcbEa( = **580**

i&.v"|"K;Clz5 = **1117**

4%cd:qV[j = **749**

\_Dw"ga.f\_9? = **473**

FrTRk?T@]p8j8/bX = **337**

-hwDjM<+q = **1148**

YajGo.E = **131**

lcp<mH2 = **79**

Dt!#> = **645**

o\Q/ = **63**

2(=0H]|Cz1l = **1019**

"`| = **1**

By using these decoded numbers as frame numbers in the 'she deserved it ' video and overlaying the X image files a tiny url link was found y84k5pgd

This leads to a Soundcloud upload  are you there or are you not. The cover image shows a screen still from the window shopping video. The audio sounds very similar to the phone call audio from the window shopping video and is much clearer. You can hear Kate say ' i don't think that you should be talking to me right now." The man asks her to just come back home so they can talk about everything. He wants to know where she is, that he will come and pick her up and they can just talk. He asks if she is at her mums place. She asks him for some time to think and he seems to get frustrated by this answer and asks her why she can't do that from their house, he wants to know why they can't just talk about it tonight. Kate gets audibly distressed and states that she doesn't feel safe with him. We hear his name Lewis/Louis. He asks her what does that mean and asks her what is she saying to him right now. He apologises, tells her he loves her and again asks Kate to tell him where she is so that he can pick her up, he seems very insistent. Kate begins to get upset and tells him that it's not fair. Lewis tells her that she knows it's true, he says "you know I love you and you know I'd never do anything to hurt you" Kate comes back at him by saying "But you did" Kate sighs, he seems to ignore what she said and asks her if she's at Liv's. She quickly replies no. The call goes quiet, as Kate calls his name. In the description of the Soundcloud upload there is a line of drip speak 1]8F-Of,XY7{ ?giu`$}m  This decodes with to ohes0y

The album artwork  when edited revealed characters that leads to https://ibb.co/nLudDV an image called rinse-repeat. It appears to be a distorted screen shot of an Instagram profile called this\_is\_kate. A line of drip speak code in the photos description F8zNeG}`L"7uWd^2jjw.) 0U'OdI8Pgi"0lM=V\*8bx.8}q!T^yt4)l IQL0>L5XN{}X translates to http tiny cc

By adding the earlier decoded drip speak a link was formed and using a tiny cc link lead to this\_is\_Kates Instagram.

Now, back to the three hello drips Youtube videos from earlier, These video's audios were put through a spectrogram and hidden codes were revealed. By taking the three videos and combining them into one single audio and then running it through a spectrogram again the following code was found. IDaot9Bf7lv

The end of the audio said "backwards" , so the above characters were reversed and used as a Youtube link to and produced the following video  a friendly conversation Again this video appears to have been removed by Youtube however a Discord member has backed it up for the Archives Footage of Markus on the tram, having a conversation. The Captions on the video were as follows, " hi Markus, give me your phone. we're outside Ash's place right now, hand me the phone, you're a good brother, this isn't our stop, we've been on this tram with you every night. we've been following you, your family and your friends." The description for this video has a line of drip speak )$Iu?inx9@; hnS2XQh|[t[[V#j+Hwr4qt%=u  which decodes to **watch closely.**

Letters appear in the visual distorted glitches at 43 seconds of the video and they led to a sketchfab model  Unfortunately that 3d model has now been disabled but the password was: i belong to him. In the description of the model was a line of drip speak i=0f+|>x|XO0(>b70=>utEUWoL$`FstN[T^(-K?Y}Q WuojD;j@ ‘lEA’D,bbu]RziBBR@R^s\_4S5 which decoded to: **stick her back together.**

The 3d model had a 2D texture with a URL attached to it that that lead to a sound cloud video  **much love** The cover image appears to be some kind of locked door/caged door. The description for the sound cloud has a line of drip speak code n5l90EBm[nOkg4wP+rT@5zZ] -h:]PnqV?[oz,ln8\*NHMjvc0 which decodes to 'feed the little animals' /evhOhf can also be seen in the description. Combining that with ibb.co leads you to a distorted yellow image called blue eyes.jpg. A spectrogram of the audio in the Sound cloud gave the characters 2ET7GBV This is a bit ly link that takes you to a drop box folder containing a zip file called "what\_she\_deserves" You can see an image made up of three seperate still from some of the Youtube videos. We have Jordan on the left, from the supermarket. We have Markus in the middle with a bag over his head in the dark shed and on the right we have Alice leaving the rest room. ​​​​​​

Hidden in the blue channel of the image:

In the red channel there is a hidden tiny url  link y8zk3bl9 leading to happy-drip-cuts tumblr **Password is crucifixion (warning graphic sfx)**

What\_she\_deserves.jpg also has a hidden zip drive found through the program Steghide with no password an image called found\_me.jpg

The image contains the following drip speak PN#0E.+@apnKiU^:XJOL['|"?tC:B\*o.'AuonM/Seo-zMfdK["T#i`OSXL>0-&jk0c$M'hAJjN This decoded to Decoded 20 8 18 5 5 0 19 20 21 4 9 5 19 which is an A1Z26 cipher. Running the numbers through a decoder resulted in the words **three studies**

Going deeper into an older Ash Vlogs video "Ferris aint got nothing on Ash" A painting seen at 30 seconds was visible with the name "three studies for a crucifixion" This was a hint towards the happy drip cuts tumblr.

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