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@CoobyPls

2 жыл бұрын

Eggs

@dumbfluffs

2 жыл бұрын

hu

@CoobyPls

2 жыл бұрын

Also, eggs

@deepcharmz

2 жыл бұрын

O

@tre-engines

2 жыл бұрын

I’m good thanks!

I like how only 2500 bucks would save an entire network.

@soulsidejourney2693

2 жыл бұрын

I like how it starts with "Your favorite Qubo characters need your help!" like if it were one of those VoiceOverPete creditcard memes.

@B0YR0B0TT

2 жыл бұрын

@@soulsidejourney2693 attention all Qubo viewers. To keep the network running, your favorite characters need your help. But first, they're gonna need Mommy's credit card. Give us the three numbers on the back, the card number and the expiration month and year. Or else Qubo is destroyed and the characters are doomed!

@R3D_Lantern

2 жыл бұрын

That's a pretty easy amount to come up with really.

@NotFckingBen

2 жыл бұрын

@@B0YR0B0TT LMAO This one took me out 💀💀💀

@NeoAya

2 жыл бұрын

@@B0YR0B0TT I think the funniest part is having characters like He-Man and Inspector Gadget get killed ISIS execution style when He-Man could likely survive a shotgun blast to the face and Inspector Gadget would have non-organic blood and bones, the guy who made that vid clearly has no respect for the lore of these characters smh

Just take a moment to imagine if this actually happened. Qubo would be the center of international media attention.

@UntalentedBrick

2 жыл бұрын

and a pretty disturbing way to go out as well.

@PTEC

2 жыл бұрын

😭

@PyroFTB

2 жыл бұрын

100%, if it was real, msm would jump on it and parade it around.

@wodhart5971

2 жыл бұрын

@@UntalentedBrick you

@wodhart5971

2 жыл бұрын

@@PTEC lol 🐂 o

fun fact: the executed on childrens network part is that every character died in order of who aired the latest or earliest and thats why inspector gadget was the last to die, his show aired last on qubo

@Gacha_Miko342

Ай бұрын

My mom used to watch inspector Gadget glad she hasn't watched this vid.

@mintoctoling

6 күн бұрын

veggietales :(

I think it’s very unfortunate that a free educational childrens station had to shut down because a corporation did not think it would be profitable

@erikolsen148

2 жыл бұрын

Wasn’t the first time and won’t be the last.

@markussimicak104

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately Money will be a prime catalyst for many decisions for years to come

@MortusSweet

2 жыл бұрын

Life lesson, kid - money is what fuels every decision by companies and public figures. Including companies siding with politics or human rights.

@TheJingles007

2 жыл бұрын

@@MortusSweet I bet I’m older than you lol. But you’re right. It’s the reason why corporations go gay in June in the US but then those same ones do not in China or Saudi Arabia

@uglyaniimals

2 жыл бұрын

@@MortusSweet you're not wrong, i just wish things didn't work that way :/

i love that people are still making spooooooooky edgy hyper-realistic bloody-eyed fake creepypasta videos, honestly. its such a weirdly nostalgic thing. like i hope the next day some kid at school lied to his friends about seeing it happen live

@skeletalflake

2 жыл бұрын

also, love that rick rolling is still around. its what our nation needs right now

@jared-2

2 жыл бұрын

some things never change.

@pentexsucks43

2 жыл бұрын

absolute chad Teto pfp

@limeflashlight4101

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@Zulf85

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr? It's so funny. Ofc the FNAF generation would be making this stuff lmao

i love when someone fakes a story, and it's clearly fake, but people are still like "oh yeah, i was there too!"

@Killbayne

Жыл бұрын

could also be a Mandela effect. Me and others vividly remember seeing something on the web a long time ago but it literally could not exist, so i don't know what I saw then.

@richardsanchez5444

Жыл бұрын

Those people are called attention whores

@novameowww

Жыл бұрын

@@Killbayne Eh, most likely it's kids being like "I wass their,,, this verdy reall :)" because kids are liars

@ZetaR0yszawa

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of Graggle Simpson thing that had been viral last year.

@avetthekiller3080

Жыл бұрын

I was in china in 1984

Yeah, I know this is basically just the “hyperrealistic blood” creepypasta trope, but this just proves to me that it CAN work if there’s an aspect of believability to it. “Lost episode” stories on the Creepypasta Wiki usually just come off as cheesy, but there’s something about actually seeing one for yourself with no context or dramatic narration that’s legitimately unsettling. And yes, I take these way too seriously.

@ril3y649

Жыл бұрын

Check the comments of the actual video, everyone talking about how its real

@AdrianGuzmanOfficial

Жыл бұрын

You're right, they can work if they're well done, watching that without any context or dramatic over-the-top shit, it can give you goosebumps at the very least

@isabelgiron7762

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, I know this is normally just the “texterrealistic blood” creppypasta trope that you have posted here and Qubo in shut down the whole thread for February 28, 2021 to be removed from your site for too scares me that people would think this was an actual thing that could happen in a Qubo Shutdown

@Bruh-zx2mc

10 ай бұрын

The gore and informality are the very things that killed the believability. This would have been a million times better without those.

something I love about this is that on some of the characters the shotgun reloads but hesitates on fire as if the gunner just can’t bring himself to do this

@malmart0

2 ай бұрын

"No, boss! I can't shoot Bob the tomato, man, I can't do it!"

Honestly though, the channel suddenly shifting to a black screen with a formal "The channel has ceased operation" message mid-showing is much more creepy than some cheesy creepypasta message

@bitzthe8bit668

2 жыл бұрын

Finally somebody admits it, same tbh.

@abdyrobloxer2

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr, the hoax video has gore "scaryness", but I feel like the actual abrupt end is a lot more eerie

@yourlocalbuddyhere289

2 жыл бұрын

Even I, who haven’t known Qubo before I see this video and literally almost adult, is kinda scared by this. ;-;

@thecov3n

2 жыл бұрын

HONESTLY

@iaport

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr? Remember the cessation of Disney Channel?

the sarcastic “thanks for nothing” at the end after all that gore really tied it all together

@CanOfSpriteFoundInNewYearsEve

Жыл бұрын

Not to mention the rickroll phone number

@yoshikagekira1863

Жыл бұрын

I would've put a shotgun in my mouth and shot my tv if I saw that

@ehuve7ygcsygvsuh8v

Жыл бұрын

@@CanOfSpriteFoundInNewYearsEve what

@superk9letsplays419

Жыл бұрын

@@CanOfSpriteFoundInNewYearsEve I'm not

@CanOfSpriteFoundInNewYearsEve

Жыл бұрын

@@superk9letsplays419 good for you I guess

y'know what? this is actually really creepy. seeing those characters dying like that is actually horrifying. good job to the creator of this!

@manidevoleper7551

2 ай бұрын

Ikr

Speaking of elaborate rickrolls, a man once recorded "Never Gonna Give You Up" on a VHS tape, and left it at Goodwill with a message marked, "A big surprise!" Somebody found it and showed the internet!

"Due to the negligence and selflessness of our viewers..." A unique group of people who care for others above themselves in a reckless and irresponsible fashion.

@Roadent1241

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like me in a nutshell. I want to care about people and give them love and I do it all wrong and hurt them and me instead XD

@BridgetGX

2 жыл бұрын

Way to call me out 😅

@infiniteplanes5775

2 жыл бұрын

Ya, that sums it up

@Dovah_Slayer

2 жыл бұрын

I knew it was fake as soon as i saw selflessness not selfishness an educational channel would know the correct word to use there

@SolarDos

2 жыл бұрын

@💕Wittwe Headpat Wuvew💕 Please cope

I knew it had to be a hoax, but as someone before said... as a kid formal messages, stills with messages going across them, etc. were so out of the ordinary for kids' channels that they made you feel uneasy and weird, because it just seemed somehow WRONG. This hoax just combined those elements with your stereotypical creepypasta blood and gore tropes.

@mariared1670

2 жыл бұрын

Which to me made it so unrealistic.

@indeepjable

2 жыл бұрын

not hyperrealistic enough personally

@professional.commentator

2 жыл бұрын

I think the hoaxer had a chance at making the creepypasta extremely realistic but ruined the opportunity by making it violent as hell and blaming the viewers for the channel's termination. If he was just a little bit more humble, it could've passed as being real.

@sammiev1918

2 жыл бұрын

@@professional.commentatori mean I might just make idk videos that are creepypasta related because of this video that I watched lol

@keiviroque5666

Жыл бұрын

@@professional.commentator I actually don’t think it was too violent to be unrealistic, I mean what better way to is there to scare kids than by doing that? But I do agree that the blaming at the end was sorta unreasonable, like you’d think Qubo would’ve just given up at that point, what need is there to keep blaming the kids?

I remember Qubo. For a brief time back in 2006, we didn't have cable in our house, so we had to use this weird sort of box antenna thing until we got cable again. My Mom would watch the Ion Channel because it had most of the adult shows she liked such as Law and Order, Criminal Minds and Ghost Whisperer. I watched the Qubo Channel because since I didn't have Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon or the Disney Channel for the time being, I needed to find another channel with kids shows. Not all of the Qubo shows I liked, but I did enjoy some of them like Pecola, Babar and Rupert

@luckyy3691

Жыл бұрын

Qubo did have some bangers, especially the Night Owl section

@Yt_people_are_lowkeyannoying

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I remember watching shows like sidekick and stuff like that

The RickRoll genuinely made me burst out laughing It will always have a special, nostalgic, place in my heart

I love how this creepy pasta was nothing more than "ooh blood gore" and "kids characters dying" Simple like the old days

@charliebrown9392

Жыл бұрын

Why does this comment have 666 likes

@MaryTudor28283

Жыл бұрын

That was children’s horror they didn’t know what other horror.We had like the old classic horror movies those those are gems

@the.192

Жыл бұрын

Either the new creepypastas are too complicated or "oooooooh not very scary image using the first results from Google and a filter to make it more red"

@tolstartheking

9 ай бұрын

@@charliebrown9392Because 666 people hit the like button?

@xxbutterfly608

8 ай бұрын

​@@worowelfNever😀gonna😫give😚you😘up😏

this type of hoax hits such a good nerve for nostalgia fuelled horror imo. it's like the way things you didn't understand scare you as a kid (like channels shutting down, showing really formal messages, finding creepypastas as a kid, etc) but a more hyperbolic version of that, to the point where it's just as scary today as it FELT as a little kid

@PhantoFantasma

2 жыл бұрын

im pretty intrigued into this genre of video, does anybody have any good recommendations for videos like this shutdown vid?

@rachelcoyle

2 жыл бұрын

Right?? I get a strong sense of panic to do with anything about horror and kids. Like when I heard about the movie theater showing young kids an ad for “the nun” before a childrens film. I also had nightmares about tv’s growing up so that might be something to do with it. I was scared bc my PS1 started playing weird music when I booted up a game. Crazy how I still remember a nightmare from over 20 years ago.

@fuki98

2 жыл бұрын

So those are the kind of messages that are creepy? Because I’ve been scared of certain wording of sentences for a longggg time.

@Slenderquil

2 жыл бұрын

@@PhantoFantasma There's a burger king Pokemon psa that's a really good example of formal messages being creepy

@kevindube7096

2 жыл бұрын

@@PhantoFantasma not sure if this is what you mean but look up “broadcast hijack” or synonyms for it (& ignore the ones that you already heard about 100 times)

My little sister and me and my family came across this and we watched it almost every day. One day, I turned the tv on to put something on for my little sister. I repeatedly typed the channel number in, but the channel seemed to be gone. I can’t believe this is what happened! I’M SO GODDAMN SHOCKED!

@charlotteshenkenberger345

10 ай бұрын

I wouldn't worry about it. I looked it up and this is just a creepypasta. If something like this actually happened it woulda been on the news and the company would have been sued big time.

@Boom2ickle

10 ай бұрын

People really don't finish videos before commenting

@Mr.Mayonaise

8 ай бұрын

​@@Boom2ickleIt did end tho,this story seems legit

@bucketbutters866

5 ай бұрын

@@Mr.Mayonaise it ended but not like that

This kind of thing feels really nostalgic to me. I remember getting small messages on Treehouse TV stating that you need to switch to cable or else the channel will be lost. It felt so weird when it actually happened, and we gradually lost more and more channels over a few years due to the switch. Before I had stopped regularly watching television, the only channels remaining were YTV and PBS Kids. This must be how some kids feels now with the move from cable to streaming.

@ukraineballgeneral5546

Жыл бұрын

My god I feel the same

its been said before but the black screen and formal messages can actually be legitimately frightening when you're a little kid. its the same reason EAS tests were terrifying when you were little. (well, that and the noise) its especially upsetting when its a childrens network, because suddenly something so comforting and kind has gone cold and unreachable. it reminds me a lot of the classic "still face" experiment. i think this creepypasta just does a really nice job of capturing that unique childlike fear

@modestmismagius105

2 жыл бұрын

just gonna pretend like the eas sound doesn't still make me flinch...

@professional.commentator

2 жыл бұрын

You know now that you mention it. I was always extremely terrified of those EAS alerts as a kid. Especially for abnormal weather conditions like tornadoes, thunderstorms, and floods.

@chip6828

Жыл бұрын

@@professional.commentator am I werid that I used to like those when I was younger?

@kringlez7340

Жыл бұрын

EAS still scare me and I'm 15

@dogecoin9562

Жыл бұрын

Those used to scare the shit out of me, the loud noise followed by the creepy robotic voice as well as the juxtaposition of whatever cartoon I was watching being interrupted so abruptly. Given these messages were also regularly accompanied by loud thunder, that didn't help

Even after learning this was fake, there's something extremely creepy about the idea that keeps sending shivers down my spine.

@mrkaislime

2 жыл бұрын

same

@cocoahere875

2 жыл бұрын

Back when I was a kid watching shows on VHS, this was always the kind of thing I was afraid would happen if I didn't eject the tape immediately after it finished

@rubykagamine

2 жыл бұрын

@@cocoahere875 Yo I had that exact same fear as a kid

@daphnerogers4277

2 жыл бұрын

@@cocoahere875 For me it was always the fear that the TV would turn itself on automatically and maybe even play TV shows on it's own.

@BillyLegumbres

2 жыл бұрын

Seems like something a terrorist would do

5:43 Maggie and the ferocious beast. I completely forgot this shit existed until I saw that picture and a whole flood of nostalgic memories that years of alcohol and weed erased came back. Thank you, wavy!

I have to give props for the quality of the production. Most Creepypasta would give fake VHS rips that would have the cheapest analogue video filters applied that don't look anything like actual analog video, or overlayed the video on a green screened CRT tv photo, but this looks like they actually played the video on a crt and then recorded that. It really works well, but the only issue is the 2021 date. That's where my suspension of belief ends.

One would hope the people running an educational TV network would know the difference between “selflessness “ and “selfishness “.

@pyro4843

2 жыл бұрын

my thoughts as well, lmao

@buddyholly855

2 жыл бұрын

its fake :]

@iamonemillionindebt

2 жыл бұрын

@@buddyholly855 It is dude. Edit: stfu dumb me

@SillyCreatureSally

2 жыл бұрын

saving qubo would be very selfless lol

@whaddyawantkiddo384

2 жыл бұрын

@@buddyholly855 Duh

Being serious for a moment, the actual shutdown of many kids TV channels was terrifying. I remember a few years back when Disney XD shut down here in Australia, my friends younger cousin was watching it, not knowing it was going down and it terrified her when it suddenly went silent with only a small message explaining its death.

@meyers0781

Жыл бұрын

Remind me the times when i didn't have a home internet yet, had to go to one of the somewhat poorly maintained net cafes just to browse. That times i sometimes watch how stations went off the air to be replaced. Or even trying to watch idents of soon to be aired television stations expecting easter egg or two (sometimes i do found it)

@LegendStormcrow

Жыл бұрын

I remember when Kid's WB became a thing, and the old block on WB basically sad goodbye. Same with Fox Kids and FoxBox

@Fritz1105

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I always find it oddly scary when something normal stops happening for no reason, like game crashes, or tv networks going down

@guffingtonreal

Жыл бұрын

Disney + killed it, it sucks really bad.

@weirdanimations76

Жыл бұрын

Same. One day while me and my younger sister were in the car, waiting for our mom to get back with lunch. We turn on our favorite radio station only to hear a looping shutdown notice.

4:38 There's no point in hiding these names. Not only are they nicknames instead of the real, we can look it up right now by going to the video and looking at the comments.

Something that really frightend me as a younger child is that exactly after watching that video I checked to see if Qubo was still there and it wasn’t. I always thought that was real until a lot later in my life

Even though it’s fake, the video alone is terrifying as hell. Imagine if you were a kid watching Qubo and it’s about to end its broadcast, then all of a sudden it cuts to a screen with all the show characters they loved with scrolling text demanding a ransom or else everyone in the Qubo studio will die. That alone is horrifying, then to hear a shotgun noise and seeing the characters’ faces blown off… that would fuck up a kid’s mind real bad. And to top it all off, it has an end message saying that everyone is dead, and it’s all your fault.

@waterfizzlet

2 жыл бұрын

It's basically just all the qubo characters being held hostage. I saw qubo only ONCE when I woke up early one time an turned on ion tv when I was 9 and it's still unnerving. I SCREAMED AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS once when an emergency alert played on my relax music channel at 7 years old. This shows how fragile kids' minds are sometimes

@waterfizzlet

2 жыл бұрын

@Bluejay Productions it's the THX logo and the robot is their mascot, named TEX

@loomian8961

Жыл бұрын

Shot

@annettemaldonado3373

Жыл бұрын

Yeah

@camreyes1819

Жыл бұрын

@Bluejay Productions SAME!!! i swear the thx logo was specifically designed to be as scary and painful to autistics 😭

I immediately knew this was a hoax but as a kid I was always terrified something like this would happen especially with my vhs tapes. There’s just something about loading screens, anti piracy info and practice alarms (when the audio would cut off and an alarm would ring with flying text saying this is a practice test for emergencies) that I always found eerie

@themistakingcone

2 жыл бұрын

Amber alerts do this to me today

@professional.commentator

2 жыл бұрын

Same here! Those heavy weather EAS alarms on TV used to scare the shit out of me as a kid. Like the seriousness of the message made it seem like the world was ending. Thankfully those alerts don't scare me anymore, unless it's for a nuclear attack but that's a whole other story. Oh and those FBI anti-piracy warnings were scary as hell too! The pure silence while the message was displayed was super creepy.

@kringlez7340

Жыл бұрын

Same

@holygrailtheo1615

Жыл бұрын

anti-piracy info and warnings are still kind of eerie to me lmfao

@newaccountBviewssecondsa-ym1jw

Жыл бұрын

I was 5 and I was in a car and i was playing hide and seek but the alarms played even though the car was off...

It's always the kids channels that are the scariest 😂❤ earned new sub

10:20 there are stand alone digital tuner boxes (some with a DVR option) with both HDMI and Composite video out, so you can use it on a CRT if you wanted. The problem with them from what I've experienced is a TV's internal digital timer only needs a signal strength of minimum 20% for a channel to come in. Where as with the stand alone box you need a minimum signal strength of 40%. So you get screwed out of channels with weak signals when you use one.

This is honestly terrifying. I’m glad corny creepypastas like this are being made today because there is honestly something uniquely eerie about them

@supertoddlemalrolllittlelu3192

Жыл бұрын

(insert smash bros brawl reamfia theme lol😆) *guys our vision genius is showing* XD

@DingleMcHoppernoodle

Жыл бұрын

yes i know! i wouldnt get sleep for MONTHS.

@bababoi6426

Жыл бұрын

ikr

@NumeroLetter

Жыл бұрын

Maybe it's because it's 5 AM and I haven't slept, but this video legit scared the shit out of me, and I'm freaking 25 years old xD Like, for all intents and purposes, something so cheesy and ridiculous shouldn't scare me, and yet here I am xD

@SallyPuppy123456

5 ай бұрын

Yes!! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this!! Something about crudely or poorly made content is more eerie imo

The PowerPuff Girls actually had an episode in the original series where a children's studio told children to send them "happy paper" within a certain time limit or the studio would shut down and the characters would go homeless or smth. That was the first thing this made me think of lol

@ddjsoyenby

2 жыл бұрын

yeah.

@mr.incognitoyt2235

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, bro. Either this comment is fake or proof needs to be stated.

@rachelmayes3064

2 жыл бұрын

@@mr.incognitoyt2235 They mean a children's network in universe asked the powerpuff girls for money, not the powerpuff girls asking children for money.

@mr.incognitoyt2235

2 жыл бұрын

@@rachelmayes3064 Oh. That makes more sense. I thought the studio was going bankrupt or some shit

Stuff like this makes stuff like the Max Headroom incident that much more effing insane. Like this was a solid set up. It genuinely had me at first. Imagine being in Chicago in the 80s and you're watching Dr Who and then wham. Dudes getting spanked on TV. They analog hacked it too.

Every copy of the Qubo shutdown is personalized

This was such an obscure thing I never expected anyone to really talk about it in depth. Qubo was my childhood. I know a lot of people say that but I mean it. I never had cable so I really only could watch pbs kids and qubo and I loved every second of it. Funnily enough because of the fact most of qubo's shows were Canadian shows from the 2000's I sorta got to have the same childhood as canadians from that time. It truly was heartbreaking when I found out qubo went off the air last year. I haven't watched actual normal tv in years but it really just feels like a piece of my childhood that meant a lot is now forever gone...

@nyancat8655

2 жыл бұрын

NO CAUSE I FEEL THE SAME WAY i grew up watching all the shows on that channel I literally have an emotional connection to it and it made me so so sooo sad to find out it went off air 😭 at least their still PBS kids but it’s not the same 💔

@therealmarioplumber7440

2 жыл бұрын

@@nyancat8655 pbs kids doesn't even have babar so what's even the point

@cheez-itman2784

2 жыл бұрын

@@therealmarioplumber7440 based take

@Yonlrz

2 жыл бұрын

@@therealmarioplumber7440 original babar was amazing except those others spin offs 🤢🤮

@tre-engines

2 жыл бұрын

Do you think Qubo will return?

Honestly god tier rickroll. Lure in curious minds with a supposed controversial final moments video of a beloved network, then just absolutely destroy them.

@PeiceofNick

2 жыл бұрын

Genius

@PotatoKernels

2 жыл бұрын

This is big brain time

@charliek7896

Жыл бұрын

Traumatizing children is easy. It's not "genius" to traumatize children. It's evil.

As a 21 year old currently, my family couldn't afford cable T.V. back when it was very popular. So I grew up watching Qubo or PBS as a child. And I had absolutely no idea it shut down? Man 😭

I love how this story just boils down to "dumb kid creates bad creepypasta and makes fake accounts; it becomes a meme."

I LOVED Qubo as a kid, but my parents claimed it didn’t exist and there was simply no network with that name, and that the shows I watched (Turbo Dogs, Jakers, Maggie and the Ferocious Beast, etc.) were me misremembering other things. For a while I believed Qubo was some Candle Cove shit that only I remembered, which makes this even more fitting to me

@-LQM-

2 жыл бұрын

That’s kinda creepy

@mackback319

2 жыл бұрын

THEY GASLIT YOU INTO BELIEVING QUBO DIDN'T EXIST HELP

@kitma9

2 жыл бұрын

your profile being TV static like in the candle cove creepypasta is really fitting

@m.nic.5080

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao I didn’t even realize that, it’s actually a cover image for an album called The Static Channel so it’s even more fitting

@quietestdawn

Жыл бұрын

Graggle Simpson type shit

Can we take a moment to realize that this dude had literally the greatest rickroll of all time

@theclownsystem9429

Жыл бұрын

Right? I never knew this happened but the Rick roll had me laughing my butt off. I love Rick rolls lmao

@Sage-Thyme

Жыл бұрын

I hate rickrolls so much, but this genuinely made me chuckle.

@nictuniema762

Жыл бұрын

No

@hollowwallsendmiseryforest8709

Жыл бұрын

Until countdowns, 100 day countdown leading to a rickroll came in, I was a part of it

@izaacreatherishere

Жыл бұрын

The creepiest rickroll in history

This video is oddly rewatchable

I hate how this project was taken as pure fact by TikTok and now half of the internet thinks it was a real event. Has it not occurred once to anyone that the huge scary organization known as the FCC would come in and shut that down or investigate it if it was real?

Several decades ago during a PBS call-in pledge drive thing my grandma, who worked at the local PBS station, went on camera to say that Big Bird was very sick and he was in the hospital and needed a lot of money for an operation. She told kids to tell their parents to call and pledge to save him. She was permanently disallowed from going on air ever again. I don't think she thought this plan through all the way, but who knows, maybe it was effective

@skeouspace

Жыл бұрын

do you know if there happens to be any footage/coverage of the pledge drive?

@oldchannelawhellnah

Жыл бұрын

@@skeouspace Yeah! I wanna see

@Voidaken

Жыл бұрын

That was your grandmother?

@anthonyjohnstone695

Жыл бұрын

W grandma

@ArtOwl

Жыл бұрын

Oh my god lmao, I would love to watch that.

Even though this is fake, it’s extremely well made. I love analogue horror, and kudos to this person for actually making me uncomfortable.

@aweirdoschannel

Жыл бұрын

"kudos" You mean "qubos" 😏

@horrordoll.mp4

Жыл бұрын

@@aweirdoschannel HAH

@putinsthirdtoe8800

Жыл бұрын

It is fake? bro thank god.

@Vie.w.

Жыл бұрын

What is your bar for well made content

@MrStark-up6fi

Жыл бұрын

Thank god it’s fake

I'm honestly so thankful you made this video I loved creepy internet stuff in 2022 and since I'm back into that kinda niche content, I remembered the qubo shutdown. But then when I looked up the video, everyone in the comments genuinely believed it to be real and I honestly thought I was going mad, for being the only one who didn't. Like those were probably just gullible kids, or maybe they were in on it for fun and maybe the uploader even deletes questioning comments to upkeep the horror, but I felt so disconnected for seeing how obviously that could never happen and this grounded review helped me snap back to reality So in the end, the video DID manage to scare me, just not in the way it intended 😅

The audio message when you call the number is the most terrifying thing of all!

@NickyXL989

2 ай бұрын

What is it?

@darkxsuperphsyco17

Күн бұрын

​@@NickyXL989a rickroll

If I were to actually air something like this on TV, rather than use gory imagery that could face legal issues, I would just put a random name in the message like "Thanks for nothing, Eric" and completely freak out any kid watching with that name

@johanflores8928

Жыл бұрын

Me to tbh

@supertoddlemalrolllittlelu3192

Жыл бұрын

Eric, as in Eric needles from sidekick 🤓, a cartoon show that also used to be on qubo

@gimblesfan4lyfe

Жыл бұрын

best bet is James. There’s always a James out there

@asingularleaf10

Жыл бұрын

That would actually be pretty funny

@piranhalettuce

Жыл бұрын

@@gimblesfan4lyfe or John, Jonathan, Susie, Rachael, etc.

The video really seems like an homage or love letter to lost episode creepy pastas. it has all the same tropes those stories would have ("hyper realistic" blood and gore, vague and disturbing text, children's characters dying in graphic ways, etc.) The rickroll of course cements it as a hoax. It's great I love it.

this dude makes it less scary, great job dude

@whocares9033

8 ай бұрын

You found this scary in the first place?

I remember watching "Bob the Builder" and "Veggie Tales" as a small child and just now realized how nostalgic it is

@StellarAuraMegaLatias

2 ай бұрын

Both have bob lol

Qubo was really popular with low income families and people who couldn't afford paid cable like you said, so an old CRT TVs from a thrift store or something with a cheap antenna is fairly common in my experience. Not saying its real, its definitely not.

@blue-slushy

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe back in the early 2000s, but now it's very hard to find a crt at a thrift store. Goodwill stopped accepting them years ago. I went looking for one for some retro games years ago, and couldn't find one even at the non-goodwill stores. I feel like these days a family like that is more likely to have a cheep 720p lcd tv

@ingloriousMachina

2 жыл бұрын

@@blue-slushy We still have several working sets in my house that we just haven't gotten rid of.

@migsy1

2 жыл бұрын

@@blue-slushy this was the case well into the late 2010s (for me. It was also probably the case until it shut down). CRTs are still used by a lot of families that haven’t been able to get newer TVs, as they typically aren’t very expensive. Qubo didn’t even exist in the early 2000s. If you really want to find a CRT TV, check smaller thrift stores, Facebook marketplace, Craigslist, yard sales, etc.

@ciclon5682

2 жыл бұрын

@@migsy1 i only know 1 person that still has a CRT TV and its just a second TV they kept because it still works. they have a modern 4K LED screen on their living room while the CRT is plugged up in one of the upstairs rooms because it still works and its not like its used or anything.

@SCIFIguy64

2 жыл бұрын

Most CRTs aren’t resold except in owner operated antique stores. Most are just recycled because they’re worth more in weight than function.

It would have been a lot more believable if they hadn't mixed up "selfless" for "selfish". It is little mistakes like that which ruin the believability of a creepypasta.

@bruhdoublebruh6934

Жыл бұрын

Honestly the way it presented itself felt as if it were one of those rushed and unreasonably edgy creepy pastas that used those niches to mask how unfinished it actually came out as

@pokelover3602

Жыл бұрын

This is the very reason spellcheck exists.

Thanks for debunking this. What I wanna know is how they got the video on the CRTV.

This is terrifying but also at the same time one of the most genius rickrolls of all time

Qubo: *has a disturbing sign off screen* Creepypasta writers: “WRTIE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!”

@jerricaleonard2123

2 жыл бұрын

Realistic version: Splatkid802 productions: *makes a disturbing fake sign off for Qubo while pairing it with a Rickroll prank call* Creepypasta writers: “WRTIE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!”

@wuvsong362ndchannel9

2 жыл бұрын

I kinda want to see a creepypasta about an extended version of this

@jerricaleonard2123

2 жыл бұрын

@@wuvsong362ndchannel9 Me too.

@fireentertainment5

2 жыл бұрын

*freaky attractions has joined the chat*

@whalesharkgirI

2 жыл бұрын

wrtie

Yeah, I grew up with Qubo as a kid, it defined my childhood along with others who couldn't or used to watch big name kids channels. The show that I remembered the most was "The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog", it had a small following on DeviantArt (with fanart being made about the characters or the OCs), and I still cherish the show to this day. I think it's safe to say that Qubo was definitely a channel at the right place at the right time for many 2000's kiddos like me! Such a shame that the network had to shut down, I'll miss it big time.

@espurrthestupididiot2405

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think 'Hedgehog' and 'DeviantArt' go well together...

@mellow63656

2 жыл бұрын

Alfred is 6ft 4in

@Foxhunter258

2 жыл бұрын

Ah nostalgia

@TheQuestionmarkstudi

2 жыл бұрын

@@espurrthestupididiot2405 especially the Sonic side of DeviantArt..never going down that rabbit hole again..

@redcoffeez

2 жыл бұрын

The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog Omg i havent heard of that show in awhile

it's interesting but it's hard to take seriously because of their choice of having done it. one of the things that makes real life analog horror interesting is that the horror comes from the uncanny, ultra serious wording, silence, etc. the shooting faces, "this is your fault", etc just detracts from it.

@Jaiden.On.Pawz.

Жыл бұрын

Ikr

@bwc1976

11 ай бұрын

For me it was the $2500 amount they were asking for, that's a drop in the bucket for a big corporation like Scripps.

@thepinkestpigglet7529

7 күн бұрын

It's something some middle schooler would have made to be edgy and posted to KZread in the mid 2000's

I remember watching Qubo, but I was too young to know or I just forgot it’s name. I can barely remember watching anything other than Bob the Builder and Mike the Knight as well.

It’s a shame QUBO went off the air. Many of their shows could only be seen on QUBO, and now they are wiped of the face of the planet to go in obscurity. Also, QUBO was shut down because when Scripps bought ION, they got many of their tv stations. Scripps already owned multiple tv networks and wanted to use the ION tv channels to put their own networks on the ION channels. QUBO and also a channel called ION Plus were shutdown to make way for the Scripps channels. In addition, 3 other new networks were launched to be put on the ION channels.

@BuddhaMelffyQueen

2 жыл бұрын

I believe Newsy was one of those channels, I watch that for all encompassing all sides news.

@evrton

2 жыл бұрын

i still go online to watch archie’s weird mysteries sometimes !

@nyancat8655

2 жыл бұрын

THATS WHY I CANT FIND THE CHANNEL ANYMORE i swear the other day I turned to channel 30 (my channel for qubo) and it was all news broadcasts. I wish it never went off the air it was my childhood 😭

@jacksonbruns9429

2 жыл бұрын

I cant watch Jacob two two anymore 😢

@Suarez05

2 жыл бұрын

All channels I want on optimum now are LAFF and DECADES. Whoever shut QUBO down is STUPIDTO!🤌🤌🤌

this was extremely disturbing. not even bob the builder can even fix it

@kevindube7096

2 жыл бұрын

not even Gadget can inspect it

@Larrylikesthomas

2 жыл бұрын

You made me laugh thank you

@emrass7721

2 жыл бұрын

He-Man didn't have enough power.

@allenginesgofan101iambeing4

2 жыл бұрын

Not even Theodore tugboat can tow it

@legofan1014

2 жыл бұрын

No, he can't.

I'm ancient and I can remember when many local stations would go off the air at midnight. The messages they played and then maybe an old distorted looking & sounding version of The National Anthem or Taps followed by static - that shit was genuinely terrifying to me as a kid. I suppose I'm not the only one as some of the horror ARGs like Local 58 incorporate elements of those going off the air messages.

I believe in the power of spite. On a level, it is relatively believable that some hacker that enjoyed Qubo or someone working for Qubo would be angry enough to do a “if you don’t do anything, you’re coming down with me” stuff. Even though it’s fake, I could see this happening on some level of believability. Mainly because I believe people could be heinous enough to pull it off.

bro its obviously fake as hell. That kid who made that video was just upset that the program was shutting down. Everytime someone says "its fake" he gets all defensive

@concerningproductionz

2 жыл бұрын

yeah!

@Neillan

2 жыл бұрын

Apparently if you called the number all you got was a Rickroll. If this actually happened, we would not be hearing the end of it for a long time!

@concerningproductionz

2 жыл бұрын

@@Neillan lol that is genius and the meme music in the background

@blackquagmire5205

2 жыл бұрын

NO WAY ITS FAKE IM CRYING RN OH MY GOD

Y'know what, I'm lowkey glad that "childhood trauma" in the form of cartoons, tv shows and ads/commercials are still a thing, or are at least continuing to be made

@disgruntled4627

2 жыл бұрын

New cartoons are braindead tier.

@toceeno874

Жыл бұрын

why

@switchblade6

Жыл бұрын

@@toceeno874 I didn't wanna be part of the last scarred generation

@goouls

Жыл бұрын

my little cousin played scary maze game recently. he’ll always have that stock scream sound effect + exorcist girl combo in the back of his mind just like i did when i was his age and i think that’s a beautiful thing.

@NorwayDuck

Жыл бұрын

@@goouls Just read your comment and I could hear the scream play in my head 💀

I used to watch qubo. It was the only kids channel available at my granny’s house, and I had to go every weekday during summer and the pandemic bc my dad had to work. I watched it for hours, and sometimes fell asleep watching it. One day, it was gone. I was so confused. I never knew the answer until now. Thanks.

I saw this one time and I kept thinking that it wasn’t real, I was that traumatized and I had to go to an ASMR comfort video to help calm myself down.

It immediately gave me those ‘fake piracy screen’ vibes. In fact, as I typed that, you brought that up in the video.

@aspect7582

2 жыл бұрын

fake piracy screens and the creepypasta esque hoaxes like these have to be one of my favorite things- i find them and videos about them pretty interesting

@UniGamingSisters

Жыл бұрын

I thought about that!

@UniGamingSisters

Жыл бұрын

@@aspect7582 Same!

This kinda reminds me of an accidental broadcast that actually happened when I was a kid. One afternoon, I was watching TV like normal, I must have been around 5 or 6 at the time. Partway through the show I was watching with my sister, the screen cut out to what I think was a horror movie or a war movie, something like that. It scared the everloving shit out of me and I ran to go hide in the bathroom. When I came back, a network employee had come on a live broadcast and started apologizing for the mistake before they changed it back to the regular program. Good times.

@retrosampleguy

Жыл бұрын

What does it look like?

@eclat4641

Жыл бұрын

Yikes

@dejus_e

Жыл бұрын

Atleast they apologized unlike other networks.

@panzersusmander3728

9 ай бұрын

Imagine watching peppa pig or something and saving private ryan comes on lol

@pvshka

8 ай бұрын

When I was a kid, they'd play Robbie Williams' Rock DJ music video in the middle of the kids' morning programme. Needless to say, I found it quite a bit disturbing when he started tearing his flesh off 😂

while its fake, it can be slightly believable depending on your age and maturity, if you're a little kid you would most likely think this was real, plus that was a BRILLIANT scheme to rickroll people

it lost me at “$2,500 to save the network” like im pretty sure the rights alone to one of their shows is far more than that

I used to watch Qubo sometimes when I was a kid, grew out of it long before this happened. Needless to say, had this been real there would be a national controversy!

@thegrandxbunny2073

2 жыл бұрын

Same.

@NotFckingBen

2 жыл бұрын

I would’ve started World War 3 if I was into Qubo. I was more of a Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon kid.

@shainne3

2 жыл бұрын

@@NotFckingBen yup, I'm very lucky just growing up with Finn and Jake

@shainne3

2 жыл бұрын

Nvm I just finished the vid

@shainne3

2 жыл бұрын

It's a rickroll

As a kid I used to love JayJay the Jet Plane. This sort of creepypasta-esque 'kids shows with blood on them' stuff doesn't usually bother me but there was something shocking about seeing JayJay's face torn clean off with a shotgun. I think in this instance the low quality edit just makes it really jarring and unexpected.

@LocoMan123

2 жыл бұрын

I never watched it but Yah that one really creeped me out

@DarkVeil857

2 жыл бұрын

Fr

@alexjames1756

2 жыл бұрын

As someone with similar memories and foolishly reading the comments at like 12:30 AM, agreed. I had to let the ads play to get it off the thumbnail because I left the video, due to even after knowing it was a total hoax, the view of Jay Jay's skull and Bob the Builder with his normally innocent smile were kinda staring into my soul.

@BrandMath-ns5yc

2 жыл бұрын

Really it’s satisfying I hated that show

@kitkatrina1337

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrandMath-ns5yc chad

Oh my gosh! I remember Maggie and the Ferocious Beast! Truly an underrated gem! Born at the very beginning of Gen Z though.

the best thing about this is the fact the sponsor is warby parker.

Love how its 2500 dollars to save a channel, as well as the writer not knowing the difference between selflessness and selfishness

@wolfetteplays8894

2 жыл бұрын

The spelling differences can be explained by outsourcing

@ddjsoyenby

2 жыл бұрын

it's the cherry on top.

@thecpmr6276

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly, 2500 to save a tv station isn't too bad...

In case some people don’t know how Qubo really shut down here’s how it really shut down: During an episode of Inspector Gadget the screen had cut to black with the Qubo logo still on the screen, nothing else came on the screen. it stayed like that for a long time, but I don’t know what happened next

@sheldontheartistseal

Жыл бұрын

The bots replied

@V8ArtBFBSReal

Жыл бұрын

Oh. And here i thought it was R E A L.

@michelleobamafootcream9292

Жыл бұрын

Tbh that’s still creepy lol

@llynxfyremusic

Жыл бұрын

They couldn't have let the show finish?

@snowkitten3285

Жыл бұрын

@@llynxfyremusic no they didn’t, they must really hate that episode

i haven't seen something related to this in so long and the moment i see this video pop up again i get a wave of "oh my god"

Qubo: *Kills the characters one by one* WavyWebSurf: Yo guys look at my new glasses!

Didn't know Qubo went off the air. I remember watching it at my grandma's every so often and even watched it a bit as a teenager when it was still an NBC cartoon block. I still remember their first jingle, "Qubo is a PARTY!! Qubo's for everyone!". The fact someone made a creepypasta out of it is pretty interesting, it's like a campfire horror story turned into a rumor spread around school. One of the highlights of the channel was when old cartoons aired at night, I loved watching Inspector Gadget on there back in 2020.

@MarcinOsadowskiNiePrawdziwy

2 жыл бұрын

Old inspector gadget is still cool. And the theme song :)

@BlazeHeartPanther

2 жыл бұрын

When NBC Universal owned part of Qubo, they aired their Filmation library as part of the Qubo Night Owl block like He-Man, She-Ra, GhostBusters (their version based on the live-action tv series The Ghost Busters) and BraveStarr

@quandaleprogg

2 жыл бұрын

Wait that is mine

I could tell it was a hoax right off the bat because it just looked like those fake anti-piracy messages that were popular around the same time. I grew up with Qubo also and watched it briefly on a CRT early last year, not even knowing it would be shut down soon.

@RedPawner

2 жыл бұрын

I also could tell it was a hoax right off the bat because of the CRT and the crude nature of the video, i initially thought it was made by a kid with a deficiency of some sorts

@iwaju9227

Жыл бұрын

@@RedPawner I think if you had a deficiency you couldn't even function correctly

@aohou

Жыл бұрын

Also the phone number it's telling you to call is a rick roll

the fact that I still watched qubo (even as a teenager cause cmon even as a teenager when ur bored and have nothing to watch) that way the channel actually ended was that it was just playing a franklin episode and then it switched to courttv content and me and my mom were so confused lol

Why did this feel so much like one of those anti piracy screens

as sloppily made as this is, it's really nostalgic in a way and just reminds me of those awful lost episode creepypastas i would read when i was in elementary school. when i was a kid i always wanted to make one of those and get really popular so whatever 12 year old made that is out here living my 8 year old self's dream.

@nobleneonshadows4439

2 жыл бұрын

Same!

@umbraecrystalheart9345

Жыл бұрын

Same!

@jakeford12

Жыл бұрын

Yea I'm pretty sure they would be in some legal trouble if they actually did show their characters getting their heads blown off.

@SamtheToaster

Жыл бұрын

Is this objectively bad and shoddily made? Yes, absolutely. Am I still unnerved by it because of pure nostalgic connections of other usually badly made media from when I was a kid? Yes, absolutely. Can I bring myself to hate it? No.

@SATADELUXE

Жыл бұрын

I remember reading about "Bloody Gir" from invader zim back in 2021 too, 13 year old now and still liking creepypastas :D

When I was younger, I stumbled upon a lot of fake broadcasts and “barney errors”, so I immediately recognized this as fake.

@grizzlydino

2 жыл бұрын

I remember watching barney errors when I was 10 and was scared as I thought they were real lol

@PeiceofNick

2 жыл бұрын

@@grizzlydino what are Barney Error?

@Kairos_Hell

2 жыл бұрын

@@PeiceofNick basically a bunch of dumb kids making fake errors on GoAnimate

@BigOlSmellyFlashlight

2 жыл бұрын

me too, thank god i didnt get sucked into the community back then

@c0r390

2 жыл бұрын

My first thought after seeing the video is that it was eerily familiar to those “Barney videos” I saw back then. I’m guessing the uploader must have been part of the community in some way.

I find it funny that when I first saw this is scared the crap out of me. I completely paused it and couldn't bear to think about it. But when I see something that scares the crap out of me, I do what any very creative child would do, I made an OC out of it. And as somebody who absolutely loves Adult Swim, Arizona PBS, and other TV channels, I pretended that this Qubo OC had two sides. The one where it was completley fine, since it was airing well and being pretty popular, and then an evil edgy side, the one that killed characters for fun. I imagined when they ceased airing they bought red LED lights and got cardboard cutouts of the characters with McDonalds ketchup packets taped to ther faces, and when they got shot the ketchup would blast everywhere to look like blood, until my Adult Swim oc came, turned off the LED lights and told the Qubo oc to "get a life, your wastin gyour time on petty messages and even if I shut down, I'd just be cool with it." So thats my over-active imagination.

@gamesnsuchco

3 ай бұрын

that's actually hilarious, i love it.

@venusflytrapyt

3 ай бұрын

Glad to see my autism amuses somebody@@gamesnsuchco

Man. I love lost episode style creepypastas. This made me so weird nostalgic.

Hard to believe we've moved on from creepypastas about old video games, to old TV channels. Though I guess it's fitting considering how popular "analog horror" has gotten, lol

@maric7558

2 жыл бұрын

True

@maric7558

2 жыл бұрын

Considering Analog Horror is pretty easy to make, no wonder why theres so many people doing it, other than it creeping people out.

@amelialonelyfart8848

2 жыл бұрын

Creepypasta as a medium has always been evolving. It was initially about monsters and characters, everyone needed a mascot like The Rake or Jeff, then that got old. Cursed media II don't think wiill ever get old though, because it prays off nostalgia so well, from fake piracy screens to those weird stories about evil comic books.

@turtle6648

2 жыл бұрын

its not a new thing what

@ExtremeWreck

2 жыл бұрын

@@amelialonelyfart8848 Yeah that most definitely won't die. Yeah there is some crappy lost episode creepypastas still about but there are good ones in there too & analog horror is definitely another form of creepypasta in that regard.

I’m so glad that content like this is coming back. I’ve missed this 2014 creepypasta style of internet hoax so much.

@animatedalex619

2 жыл бұрын

Me to bro

@henryplayzpokemongo3703

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@HomekittyL2

2 жыл бұрын

Like another comment put it, it's like the horror factor still reaches us today. I think it's like the genre "grew up" alongside us all, now the people who suffered from them can put their own spin on it. In an odd way, it's endearing. The cycle continues

@dogelover148

2 жыл бұрын

me too

@tyjuarez

2 жыл бұрын

nature is healing bro

I think creating and having a "what if" mind set is great. it leads to some of the coolest projects ever made.

I was watching Nick GAS when it went off the air, but all it did was hang up in the middle of a Legends of the Hidden Temple episode and stay that way for a week before becoming static

Although the execution was clumsy, there's something that I love about the concept of creepy channel shutdowns... These are already unsettling on their own, not to mention something that only a few people get to witness. On a smaller scale, daily transmission ends have always been uncanny to me as well, not sure if these still exist.

@helenavioleta

Жыл бұрын

same, daily transmition ends have always freaked me out, no idea why!

@mrqwerty567

Жыл бұрын

will, in a way daily transmission shutdowns still exist with cartoon network becoming adult swim & vice versa

I loved qubo because it introduced me to old shows that I never saw as a kid that were really interesting. the shut off was just a cut off of the inspector gadget show, immediately replaced by grit

@Zulf85

2 жыл бұрын

As someone who loved inspector gadget as a little kid in the late 90s, I would have been so mad lmao

@ThiccSteveYT

2 жыл бұрын

Shirley shenlion is handy

3:39 "Go go gadget hyperrealistic bleeding eyes"

@Boowompland69

Ай бұрын

Go go gadget pixel reducer (Start chain)

The kid at 4:38 is clearly a sock puppet account.

@not_kjb

Жыл бұрын

Good thing this isn't what Wikipedia then

@renderjay6035

Жыл бұрын

But No Sock Puppet Video

@plainrocky4209

8 ай бұрын

@@not_kjbwhat?

When you mention Maggie and the ferocious beast it made me feel special, I adored that show when I was little and it's sooo underrated.

@somebonehead

2 жыл бұрын

I don't remember a single moment from that cartoon but I still say 'Great googly moogly' to this day. I just tell the cool kids that I got it from Frank Zappa. 😅

0:38 The fact that I can actually recognize and identify more than 85% of the shows, despite not living in the USA and never even watching Qubo, says something.

@ExtremeWreck

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah these were certainly distributed around the world more often than some may believe.

@kaydubsthekoifish

2 жыл бұрын

@@ExtremeWreck I still have DVDs of some of the older shows, and Minimax (TV channel that mostly airs in South East Europe) even had rights to a few years ago. Some were even picked up by our national TV and later by our cartoon channel. So I got really lucky by having a chance to see those. And I'm glad.

@Jozzuh1

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah fr I never new these shows had a channel but I can recognize them

@ThatOneGuy0006

2 жыл бұрын

Qubo was a re-run channel with no original programing.

@kaydubsthekoifish

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThatOneGuy0006 Ah. That certainly explains. I'm not an expert on this, and this video is also the first time I heard of it. Thank you for correcting me.

Shoutout Maggie!!! Remember that airing on Knowledge Kids when I was young lol