Tape 4

## Overview

Tape 4 - titled *Go0d\_By3\_ArThur.mp4* - was posted on YouTube on April 22nd, 2020. The tape stars the Ice Cream Man along with a segment involving Arthur and Martin discussing what seems to be the fate of the Greywhinder family.

## Summary

The tape begins with - unsurprisingly - a default set up to the contents ahead. After a few moments of it beginning to load, a voice is heard accompanied by a jingle. The background consists of a light blend of orange and purple.

The voice states:

> "*Hello again children. Welcome to a special sing along with our favourite sweet heart, the Ice Cream Man. Can you sing along with the Ice Cream Man? Let's find out.*"
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Footage of the Ice Cream Man standing beneath a spotlight of sorts appears after the screen briefly fades to black. He's seen greeting the viewer before - awkwardly - glaring to both his sides. Despite this, he continues by asking if the viewer would like to sing with him, leading him to respond positively (assuming that the viewer had agreed to do so). Suddenly, a jumpscare appears in the form of the camera footage glitching, revealing a private conversation between Arthur and Martin off-screen whilst the Ice Cream Man stands idly nearby.

Martin is heard showcasing The Ice Cream Man suit to Arthur who responds by informing him that he knows about what happened to Banzo and the other "monstrosities". As to be expected, Martin denies knowing what he is talking about at first only to justify his actions by stating "*At least I won't have to deal with it pissing on my shoe, or telling it to stop barking*" as Arthur mentions about the stain to his car's bumper (implying from the Are\_Y0u\_HappY? tape Banzo was hit intentionally by Martin using his car but wasn't killed immediately as suggested by the linked caption).

Arthur insists that he wishes Martin hadn't gone down such a path, leading to the fatal mistake on announcing that he - along with Gloria - will be taking the children away until he is mentally stable. At this, Martin eerily replies that he always knew, assuming that Gloria and Arthur were having an affair whilst he was attending to work elsewhere. But, in his words, he fixed the little problem. This could imply that Martin had already killed Gloria and possibly the children before Arthur.

As he had tried reasoning with Martin, he's soon shot by a gunshot and a brief flash of light as Martin declares that he won't allow anyone to let him down, including Arthur. The tape then appears to show footage of a hallway (one which seems to resemble the environment of The Backrooms). A muffled emergency alarm is heard in the background of this scene as a shadow figure (presumed to be Gloria) can be seen staring at the camera.

After yet another glitch moment, the Ice Cream Man returns to sing with the viewer:

> "*Just keep the flow going. ♫ Do you know the Ice Cream Man? The Ice Cream Man, The Ice Cream Man? ♫*"
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The shadow figure comes back into view in the liminal space. Whilst the figure begins to twitch occasionally, the siren is replaced by distorted music played backwards. Text reading "*Come with me*" flashes on-screen as it raises it's left hand out towards the camera. Once it stops twitching, the music is silenced before the figure quickly crawls along the floor, closing the gap between it and the camera. The tape returns back to the Ice Cream Man to finish his tune:

> "*♫ Do you know the Ice Cream Man, who loves to eat his sweets? ♫*"
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Scarlet text that is partially cut off appears on-screen reading "*Behind you*" ending the interactive sing-along with the Ice Cream Man. The tape ends with the shadow figure in question disappearing from the liminal space and - instead - the Ice Cream Man appears within a darkened hallway staring at the camera as blaring static with filters ruin the footage.

## Trivia

* From the comments section, there was a user named JV Homeboi112 who Battington had the pleasure of responding back to when they had placed their own views of the video and overlying story in question (which can be found here).
	+ The commentor mentioned that they had viewed the tape with Arthur's business partner (Martin) being responsible for his family's demise (in the sense that Martin had been a stranger trusted alongside him). However, Battington was quick and subtle to correct him that the perspective was that Arthur was the previously unconfirmed cameraman from the Wake\_uP\_B4nZo tape but the children and wife were associated with Martin not Arthur.
* The videos' description includes Battington's Instagram and Twitter.
* In this tape, Martin's most infamous line regarding being let down was soon repeated by another character in a cartoon short associated with the series (which can be found here).
* Many theroists praise this tape for connecting the dots regarding Martin's spiral from anxiety to releasing his frustrations from a lack of control out onto his family (at least concerning what happened to Arthur - his business partner and brother).
* This may be the only tape - or alongside the rare few - that doesn't include a time-stamp of sorts for when these events occurred.