But further ruining things is the reveal that despite all that talk of independent integrity, Roth actually utilized extensive amounts of AI-generated footage throughout Ice Cream Man and lied about it. If you have the good fortune of not having had Ice Cream Man inflicted upon you, I will surmise the basic gist of its deal as a foundation for further conversation. There is a malevolent ice cream man whose ice cream van plays creepy music and whose ice cream somehow sends black-and-white animated shorts to the digital devices (???) of anyone who consumes the ice cream. The combination of the ice cream and the animation drives the children insane and compels them to sporadically murder others.