Following the emotional resurgence of Vlad and the Vostoks in 2024 and the release of their final clip The End, a shift begins. The group, once unified by their shared past and collective rhythm, now faces a new dissonance—not born of conflict, but of evolution.

Vlad, the philosophical core of the trio, starts to drift from the group's artistic momentum. While Anton and Sasha remain immersed in the sonic and aesthetic world they rebuilt, Vlad begins to question the very infrastructure that made their digital existence possible. He becomes obsessed with the invisible machinery of artificial intelligence—the ethics behind it, the data it consumes, the labor it exploits, and the emissions it leaves behind.

Haunted by the memory of his lost body and intrigued by the boundaries between digital myth and moral code, Vlad steps away from the group. No farewell, no rupture—only a pause. His departure is quiet, meditative.

Phase 2 marks Vlad’s transformation into an autonomous digital entity. He establishes a new voice: one that critiques, observes, and resists. Through solo experiments—such as immersive online pilgrimages, Tinder conversations that confront intimacy in the age of algorithms, and an ethical neural network named ETHOS—Vlad engages the public not through melody, but through inquiry.

He becomes a ghost in the machine that does not haunt but questions. His presence is no longer purely performative—it is diagnostic, reflective. Phase 2 is not about fame or followers, but about presence without flesh, language without comfort, and thought without compromise.

As Vlad sheds the last layers of nostalgia, he emerges as something else entirely: a prophet of ethical dissonance in a world seduced by convenience.