October 2018

**October 1** It was discovered by a Discord member that a zip file was hidden in the hex of guess\_who.jpg. it contained this image

When edited with an LSB tool, a code is found.

This is drip speak that leads to an unlisted recording on soundcloud  called routine. A distorted audio that sounds like a recorded phone conversation. You can hear a male voice saying they could have this done with right now, and then repeating the word sorry a few times. He seems to be answering questions to someone however the audio distorts so we do not know what is being asked of him. They state that the person they are talking about is paranoid. They also claim that it has been about a week and 'she' is not responding. A few versions of this cover photo was found. Letters found in the image are zqncc. led to https://streamable.com/zqncc It was named 'pc\_drips'. This video has since been removed, however a slowed down version was uploaded by a Discord member looking for clues. The various email accounts shown in this video include Gmail, AOL, iCloud, Outlook, Yahoo and Protonmail.

**October 3** Racka Racka posted a Youtube video - Exposing cult of Killers. Danny starts the video letting people know that everyone has been asking for an update on the Ash Vlogs situation. He claims his management told him to stop making videos on Ash Vlogs. He said that if they stopped giving the people behind everything any attention that they would leave him alone, but that didn't happen. He claims his Instagram and Email was hacked by Ash Vlogs. He goes on to show his audience the c2f.exe video and talks them through it. He shows that the IKWSI symbol on the box that Ash receives is the same symbol he saw in the tent in Kuitpo Forest. He goes on to say that after he arrived home from overseas there was a letter in his mailbox. With a package, complete with the IKWSI symbol and the words 'welcome back'. He also said that he had another group working on Ash Vlogs and had heard about Clarity records. He decided to visit. They find a cassette tape similar to the one found by a Discord member. Danny got the help of his mother to access a tape recorder. When they play the tape they say they can hear Greek being spoken. You can hear the same male voice speaking out numbers over the top of the recording amongst the sound of someone screaming. A lady translates the words written on the tape to 'different memories'. The lady listens to the tape, and you can hear a child singing. She explains that they are telling you who is with them, sitting in the kitchen, but thinks that some of it is not making any sense. She thinks there were about five people being introduced on the tape. Danny appears on screen again to say that the tape was pretty much undecodable. He then reverts back to talking about the hacking situation and claims that IKWSI did it with the help of the Discord server. He says that the Discord group are working for Ash Vlogs and calls the group a cult. He introduces the twitter account kill\_file (since been suspended). He says that the person running the account contacted him.

Kill\_file supposedly sent Danny an email with a link, which he has blurred. He states that in the file, there were about 40 videos from the Discord members. He then goes on to show viewers snippets from videos sent from the Discord to the happy\_drip snapchat account from the Snapchat Task Game. He gets a little confused, or is perhaps trying to sway his viewers, but he states that IKWSI sent the Discord members tasks to do and if they didn't complete them they would be kicked out of the Discord group, however, failure to complete a task only got you removed from the Snapchat game. He shows some footage of people walking near or in front of trains, however that was never any part of the Discord members tasks. Danny says he has made this video to warn people not to contact the Discord. He says they are dangerous,

The kill\_file twitter account appeared to be accessed and taken over by different people over the course of a couple of days however on October 8 the account was regained by IKWSI and a new banner, description a video were added.

**October 18** Ash Vlogs uploaded a new Youtube video. - where are you   We again see Markus in a dark room, still in the hospital gown with a bag over his head. Another person is in the room with him. A phone is brought down to him. When you have the captions enabled. The words 'call ash' appear on screen. You can hear the phones automated voice say "calling Ash". The phone rings out and you can hear Ash answer, noticeably concerned and worried. She asks over and over again 'Markus, where are you?" Markus is crying and calls out her name. He says he doesn't know where he is. He says they have him in a shed. Ash says she will call the police. Markus says he wants to come home and asks her to please help him. Captions appear again on screen 'bye ash' as the man hangs up the call. Markus then starts shouting, "no no, Ash Ash" The man holding the phone then choose another option and captions on screen show "take me to mum's" and you can hear the auto voice stating 'getting directions to mums' and this leads Markus to get angry and start shouting no, over and over. There is an unlisted video in the description box which takes you to bad drip.

The bad drip video is footage of a car travelling through roads in Adelaide at night. A voice over is heard playing. "make her bleed, you're quiet tonight, talk to us, your kid is going to die, wowowowkillashkillashkillash, you're getting too close, they totally know, you seem nervous, how about some music, anyone else smell a dead boy" It's at this point the car that was being followed, does a you turn and you can hear the driver in the video car exclaim fuck as they also turn around. The footage appears to have been filmed before the 'where are you' video as Markus gets out of the car that was being followed and approaches the filmers car. You can also see Ash appear from the passenger side of the car as Markus confronts the driver. An argument ensues with someone who sounds suspiciously like happy\_drip. In the hidden tags of this video a bit ly link is hidden, 2PEOJE2 which leads to an instagram post from Ash Vlogs. A distorted photo of Markus. The description on the photo iebXbK.ncboL/ when shifted forward two takes you to this image Another distorted photo of Markus titled along\_for\_the\_ride.

The bad drip video description has a click link to yet another Youtube video  - get well soon. which appears to be hospital security camera footage of Markus in a hospital bed. Presumably after being stabbed on the tram. We see a man enter his room in scrubs and hair net, with a wheelchair, as he begins to take Markus out of the bed the footage distorts and in the captions of the video a code is seen. 'ycob2xph', Markus appears to be heavily sedated as his is lifted into the wheelchair and taken from the room. The description of this video has a scissors emoji and when viewing the hidden tags, it is revealed to include 'tiny url' Combining the tag with the captions takes you to a google drive with this photo

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Turning back now to the instagram post found in the bad drip video, the image turns out to hide a Rubiks cube puzzle.

The scramble algorithm is: R2, U', B2, D, L2, B2, D2, L2, B', F', U, L2, F2, U2, L', D, L2, U, R', D' and the solve algorithm: D, R, U', L2, D', L, U2, F2, L2, U', F, B, L2, D2, B2, L2, D', B2, U, R2 which gave the results

RED: https://

GREEN: notepad.c

BLUE: om/notes

WHITE: 7gqcnf

orange and yellow are blank

This leads to a website https://anotepad.com/note/access/7gqcnf the password is orangeyellow

Inside is a file called 'claim to fame' with 11 sets of Dripspeak. Each code translated to a different Youtube video made by other Youtube creators who have been discussing the Ash Vlogs phenomenon. On each of these videos in the comments a user named **Found ME** commented letters. 1: 8 2: \_  *3: \_*4: D 5: 9 6: V 7:U 8: E 9: 7 10: U 11:  M

This leads to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8\_\_D9VUE7UM This is a hidden Ash Vlogs video called not anyone to be scared about' It is more in car footage like previously, however this shows the footage from inside the car with Ash and Markus. You can hear Ash talking as she films the car following them. She states that she got the cars number plate. Markus is driving and says "good" Markus is getting quite angry that the car is right behind them. He thinks the person following them is a fan of Ash from her Youtube Vlogs. He doesn't believe that it is anyone to be scared about. Ash and Markus seem to have a small argument over this, with Ash stating that she knows he is her big brother and wanting to be the hero, Markus denies this. Ash wants to call the police on the person following them, but Markus wants to tell them to fuck off and leave her alone. Markus doesn't think the police will do anything because they didn't do anything after Ash called them to report the hard drive delivered to her house. Ash continues to film the car that is following them as Markus drives around random streets, Ash tells Markus they might as well just go home because car guy already knows where she lives. You can tell at this point that Markus has a plan to confront the guy after asking Ash to check maps for a parking area near where they are. Another small argument ensues between them as Ash thinks it doesn't matter anymore since they have the guys number plates, however Markus is insistent on having the directions to the parking area. Markus does a U-turn as Ash gets distressed knowing a confrontation is about to occur, by telling Markus 'don't do this, don't do this'. Markus pulls over and gets out of the car, headed towards car guy. He takes the phone from Ash and confronts car guy. He keeps the camera rolling. The video footage distorts during the argument to now show somebodies front door. A gloved hand can be seen holding a knife as he rings the doorbell. You quickly get to see the door opens, as the footage distorts again and goes back the confrontation between Markus and car guy. The man gets out of the car and tries to persuade Markus, he tells him that he has a kid, Car guy tells Markus that it isn't what it looks like, all the while you can hear Ash in the background begging her brother to get back in the car. Car guy then tells Markus that he will get out of town and that they will never have to worry about him again. We can see clearly in the video who car guy is. Ash and Markus get back into the car with Markus saying, "problem solved, see how scared he was?"

In the description for this video is a link to another unlisted Youtube video called knock knock. black and white distorted video footage of a box with the IKWSI symbol being left on a doorstep. This video is not listed on the Ash Vlogs Youtube channel but rather a new one called found me. (this later changes to This Is Kate).