On this day, Scrape my Data would make its debut with a music video attached: [Link]
The relation to it and the ARG is debated between some, it could just be the output of Machine Girl referencing and feeding off of itself again, but it really seems to remind people of the characters / material they engaged with at the end of Part 1, especially regarding sos.exposed and Gus Dethel/The Sludge. I will break down some relations and references below;
2.) Gus’ crush and coworker, Jessica, was also stated to have a glass eye in what was uncovered in sos.exposed, which is relevant because of this character depicted within:
3.) Pizza boxes were seen scattered around in the MV, which were also seen littered in some rooms within sos.exposed. [no image attached yet]
4.) Phantomdoom.net was displayed in the corner of the video at times. This actually drew in some attention and traffic to the ARG, (including me, as around this time is when I entered) but funnily, it also lead to some spammy and weird messages within the phantomdoom chat.
5.) Though, to detract from all of this, the credits of the MV would not reflect names that we know as being ARG-related:
For continued insight and an inner perspective of what people were thinking of the time, here is a link to the dicussion within the ARG channel around the time of the drop.