Disturbing Images On Kids TV - What Was the Qubo 'Screen of Death'?
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
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In 2021 It was announced that the beloved free-to-watch children's cartoon network Qubo, was shutting down. The network aired classics like Bob the Builder, Veggie Tales, Jay Jay the Jet plane and many other iconic kids classics. The shutdown date and time was announced to take place on February 28th at midnight. Many kids and adults tuned in to watch the final moments of Qubo on TV, it was expected to be a wholesome send off. But a video has surface on UA-cam allegedly showing these final moments, and it can only be described as extremely disturbing. Today we will be looking into the Qubo shutdown incident and get to the bottom of one of the most bizarre rabbit holes in animation history.
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Also, eggs
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I’m good thanks!
the sarcastic “thanks for nothing” at the end after all that gore really tied it all together
Not to mention the rickroll phone number
I would've put a shotgun in my mouth and shot my tv if I saw that
@@CanOfSpriteFoundInNewYearsEve what
@@CanOfSpriteFoundInNewYearsEve I'm not
@@superk9letsplays419 good for you I guess
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
Finally somebody admits it, same tbh.
Ikr, the hoax video has gore "scaryness", but I feel like the actual abrupt end is a lot more eerie
Even I, who haven’t known Qubo before I see this video and literally almost adult, is kinda scared by this. ;-;
HONESTLY
Ikr? Remember the cessation of Disney Channel?
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
My mom used to watch inspector Gadget glad she hasn't watched this vid.
veggietales :(
Not even the power of brown bricks could save him.
@@mintoctolingwait, VeggieTales was on Qubo?!
Jay jet plane ):
Just take a moment to imagine if this actually happened. Qubo would be the center of international media attention.
and a pretty disturbing way to go out as well.
😭
100%, if it was real, msm would jump on it and parade it around.
@@UntalentedBrick you
@@PTEC lol 🐂 o
"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.
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
Way to call me out 😅
Ya, that sums it up
I knew it was fake as soon as i saw selflessness not selfishness an educational channel would know the correct word to use there
@💕Wittwe Headpat Wuvew💕 Please cope
I love how this creepy pasta was nothing more than "ooh blood gore" and "kids characters dying"
Simple like the old days
Why does this comment have 666 likes
That was children’s horror they didn’t know what other horror.We had like the old classic horror movies those those are gems
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"
@@charliebrown9392Because 666 people hit the like button?
@@worowelfNever😀gonna😫give😚you😘up😏
y'know what? this is actually really creepy. seeing those characters dying like that is actually horrifying. good job to the creator of this!
Ikr
I looked this up after figuring out jschlatts cat is named qubo and I’m up at three in the morning please help me
Thank god cbebbies and other country cartoon series wont do this baffling stuff
Who except a kid would be creeped out by this?
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
just gonna pretend like the eas sound doesn't still make me flinch...
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.
@@professional.commentator am I werid that I used to like those when I was younger?
EAS still scare me and I'm 15
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
One would hope the people running an educational TV network would know the difference between “selflessness “ and “selfishness “.
my thoughts as well, lmao
its fake :]
@@buddyholly855 It is dude.
Edit: stfu dumb me
saving qubo would be very selfless lol
@@buddyholly855 Duh
Even after learning this was fake, there's something extremely creepy about the idea that keeps sending shivers down my spine.
same
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
@@cocoahere875 Yo I had that exact same fear as a kid
@@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.
Seems like something a terrorist would do
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
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.
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)
I remember when Kid's WB became a thing, and the old block on WB basically sad goodbye. Same with Fox Kids and FoxBox
Yes! I always find it oddly scary when something normal stops happening for no reason, like game crashes, or tv networks going down
Disney + killed it, it sucks really bad.
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.
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
im pretty intrigued into this genre of video, does anybody have any good recommendations for videos like this shutdown vid?
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.
So those are the kind of messages that are creepy? Because I’ve been scared of certain wording of sentences for a longggg time.
@@PhantoFantasma There's a burger king Pokemon psa that's a really good example of formal messages being creepy
@@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)
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
"No, boss! I can't shoot Bob the tomato, man, I can't do it!"
“BOSS WE CANT SHOOT BOB THE BUILDER MAN!”
i interpreted it as the shooter trying to make the characters more afraid by making the shots unpredictable
@@JAB_the_Tab do we care
@@Kaxver i'm sure someone does
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
Amber alerts do this to me today
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.
Same
anti-piracy info and warnings are still kind of eerie to me lmfao
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...
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.
My god I feel the same
Even though this is fake, it’s extremely well made. I love analogue horror, and kudos to this person for actually making me uncomfortable.
"kudos"
You mean "qubos" 😏
@@aweirdoschannel HAH
It is fake? bro thank god.
What is your bar for well made content
Thank god it’s fake
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
yeah.
Nah, bro. Either this comment is fake or proof needs to be stated.
@@mr.incognitoyt2235 They mean a children's network in universe asked the powerpuff girls for money, not the powerpuff girls asking children for money.
@@rachelmayes3064 Oh. That makes more sense. I thought the studio was going bankrupt or some shit
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
also, love that rick rolling is still around. its what our nation needs right now
some things never change.
absolute chad Teto pfp
Yeah
Ikr? It's so funny. Ofc the FNAF generation would be making this stuff lmao
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!
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.
People really don't finish videos before commenting
@@Boom2ickleIt did end tho,this story seems legit
@@Mr.Mayonaise it ended but not like that
For real bro what happened????????? IS THIS REAL??????
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...
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 💔
@@nyancat8655 pbs kids doesn't even have babar so what's even the point
@@therealmarioplumber7440 based take
@@therealmarioplumber7440 original babar was amazing except those others spin offs 🤢🤮
Do you think Qubo will return?
This is honestly terrifying. I’m glad corny creepypastas like this are being made today because there is honestly something uniquely eerie about them
(insert smash bros brawl reamfia theme lol😆) *guys our vision genius is showing* XD
yes i know! i wouldnt get sleep for MONTHS.
ikr
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
Yes!! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this!! Something about crudely or poorly made content is more eerie imo
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
do you know if there happens to be any footage/coverage of the pledge drive?
@@skeouspace Yeah! I wanna see
That was your grandmother?
W grandma
Oh my god lmao, I would love to watch that.
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
That’s kinda creepy
THEY GASLIT YOU INTO BELIEVING QUBO DIDN'T EXIST HELP
your profile being TV static like in the candle cove creepypasta is really fitting
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
Graggle Simpson type shit
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.
Check the comments of the actual video, everyone talking about how its real
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
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
The gore and informality are the very things that killed the believability. This would have been a million times better without those.
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.
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.
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
This is the very reason spellcheck exists.
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
Me to tbh
Eric, as in Eric needles from sidekick 🤓, a cartoon show that also used to be on qubo
best bet is James. There’s always a James out there
That would actually be pretty funny
@@gimblesfan4lyfe or John, Jonathan, Susie, Rachael, etc.
I love how this story just boils down to "dumb kid creates bad creepypasta and makes fake accounts; it becomes a meme."
Can we take a moment to realize that this dude had literally the greatest rickroll of all time
Right? I never knew this happened but the Rick roll had me laughing my butt off. I love Rick rolls lmao
I hate rickrolls so much, but this genuinely made me chuckle.
No
Until countdowns, 100 day countdown leading to a rickroll came in, I was a part of it
The creepiest rickroll in history
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.
I believe Newsy was one of those channels, I watch that for all encompassing all sides news.
i still go online to watch archie’s weird mysteries sometimes !
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 😭
I cant watch Jacob two two anymore 😢
All channels I want on optimum now are LAFF and DECADES. Whoever shut QUBO down is STUPIDTO!🤌🤌🤌
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.
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.
I don't think 'Hedgehog' and 'DeviantArt' go well together...
Alfred is 6ft 4in
Ah nostalgia
@@espurrthestupididiot2405 especially the Sonic side of DeviantArt..never going down that rabbit hole again..
The Mysteries of Alfred Hedgehog Omg i havent heard of that show in awhile
Honestly god tier rickroll. Lure in curious minds with a supposed controversial final moments video of a beloved network, then just absolutely destroy them.
Genius
This is big brain time
Traumatizing children is easy. It's not "genius" to traumatize children. It's evil.
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
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.
What does it look like?
Yikes
Atleast they apologized unlike other networks.
Imagine watching peppa pig or something and saving private ryan comes on lol
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 😂
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 was extremely disturbing. not even bob the builder can even fix it
not even Gadget can inspect it
You made me laugh thank you
He-Man didn't have enough power.
Not even Theodore tugboat can tow it
No, he can't.
Every copy of the Qubo shutdown is personalized
In case some people don’t know how Qubo really shut down, here’s what happened:
During an episode of Inspector Gadget, the screen suddenly cut to black with the Qubo logo still in the bottom corner. it stayed like this for a long time.
The bots replied
Oh.
And here i thought it was R E A L.
Tbh that’s still creepy lol
They couldn't have let the show finish?
@@llynxfyremusic no they didn’t, they must really hate that episode
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
New cartoons are braindead tier.
why
@@toceeno874 I didn't wanna be part of the last scarred generation
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.
@@goouls Just read your comment and I could hear the scream play in my head 💀
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 saw that and I was hit with a freighter ship of nostalgia
I’ve watched that before And It’s 3:43 Am in the morning
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.
I never watched it but Yah that one really creeped me out
Fr
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.
Really it’s satisfying I hated that show
@@BrandMath-ns5yc chad
Qubo: *has a disturbing sign off screen*
Creepypasta writers: “WRTIE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!”
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!”
I kinda want to see a creepypasta about an extended version of this
@@wuvsong362ndchannel9 Me too.
*freaky attractions has joined the chat*
wrtie
Love how its 2500 dollars to save a channel, as well as the writer not knowing the difference between selflessness and selfishness
The spelling differences can be explained by outsourcing
it's the cherry on top.
Honestly, 2500 to save a tv station isn't too bad...
@@thecpmr6276 Isn't "save our TV station!" the story of UHF
They just put transparent background Qubo PNGs, the Sonic.exe background, the song from Majora's Mask and random text in and called it a day
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!
Same.
I would’ve started World War 3 if I was into Qubo. I was more of a Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon kid.
@@NotFckingBen yup, I'm very lucky just growing up with Finn and Jake
Nvm I just finished the vid
It's a rickroll
It immediately gave me those ‘fake piracy screen’ vibes. In fact, as I typed that, you brought that up in the video.
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
I thought about that!
@@aspect7582 Same!
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
True
Considering Analog Horror is pretty easy to make, no wonder why theres so many people doing it, other than it creeping people out.
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.
its not a new thing what
@@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.
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
Equivalent of needing 3 more cents to buy the toy you’ve been wanting
Watch it be public domain shows 💀
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.
Yeah these were certainly distributed around the world more often than some may believe.
@@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.
Yeah fr I never new these shows had a channel but I can recognize them
Qubo was a re-run channel with no original programing.
@@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.
When I was younger, I stumbled upon a lot of fake broadcasts and “barney errors”, so I immediately recognized this as fake.
I remember watching barney errors when I was 10 and was scared as I thought they were real lol
@@grizzlydino what are Barney Error?
@@PeiceofNick basically a bunch of dumb kids making fake errors on GoAnimate
me too, thank god i didnt get sucked into the community back then
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’m so glad that content like this is coming back. I’ve missed this 2014 creepypasta style of internet hoax so much.
Me to bro
Same
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
me too
nature is healing bro
Why did this feel so much like one of those anti piracy screens
Idk
But it actually does
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.
Same!
Same!
Yea I'm pretty sure they would be in some legal trouble if they actually did show their characters getting their heads blown off.
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.
I remember reading about "Bloody Gir" from invader zim back in 2021 too, 13 year old now and still liking creepypastas :D
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.
Old inspector gadget is still cool. And the theme song :)
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
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.
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
@@RedPawner I think if you had a deficiency you couldn't even function correctly
Also the phone number it's telling you to call is a rick roll
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.
There’s a clear difference…
Analog horror (let’s take Needlemouse for example)
-features animation pertaining to a game (Sonic The Hedgehog)
-not a hoax, rather explains a plot line (the suffering of Sarah’s friends as they are dragged into the game)
-and includes actual creepiness via visual cues or jumpscares, let alone hyper realism
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The hoax
-contained a number to a RICK ROLL
-showed tons of childhood characters being executed by firing squad with hyper realistic blood and bone
-it disturbed thousands for a prank
-it blamed the viewers for not being “quick enough to save their characters”
-coincidently enough, Qubo shut down after an episode of Inspector Gadget, which is probably why he was killed last
-Majora’s Mask was the father of all creepypastas. Of course it’s gonna scare people
Not like analog horror is actually scary or far from generic🤣
@@LaloSalamancaGaming69 there's a lot of piss poor copycats, but some series are genuinely gems, like the walten files, the mandela catalogue, local 58, gemini home entertainment, and kane pixels' backrooms series. plus much of the appeal is less in how scary it is on a base level and moreso the mysteries behind the narrative. a secret hidden message on a tape means little until you ask why it's there and who it's from
@@LaloSalamancaGaming69 Would take Analog Horror videos over a poorly edited hoax any day.
You: Actually um your wrong.
Glad to see lots of Needlem0use love
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
As someone who loved inspector gadget as a little kid in the late 90s, I would have been so mad lmao
Shirley shenlion is handy
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.
same, daily transmition ends have always freaked me out, no idea why!
will, in a way daily transmission shutdowns still exist with cartoon network becoming adult swim & vice versa
I remember watching "Bob the Builder" and "Veggie Tales" as a small child and just now realized how nostalgic it is
Both have bob lol
Never heard of Qubo at all, first time hearing about it. This sorta stuff is always scarily fascinating to me, I’ve had nightmares about these sorta things since I was a kid (idk how to explain it other than it being something I cannot control and it always being technology related lmao).
Would love to see more of this topic covered.
I haven't seen Qubo in years. It was the hard to get channel next to ion television.
There was a penguin show (besides "321 Penguins" and the one that goes noot noot) that I was obsessed with.
@@GoldPrince2468 pingu?
I was kinda surprised he even covered this ngl, Qubo always felt like "a channel for poor people" (given the only people I knew as a kid who'd ever seen it were as broke as I was) as is so I imagine most of the people getting worked up online about TV nostalgia might not have seen it compared to the usual shit.
I have these same technology based nightmares where I have no control over anything. That’s why I was terrified of computer viruses for a long time.
Yeah me to coz qubo is not available at the philippines
this is really funny, but the video was such an obvious hoax to me that the only conclusion i could come to was that you wouldn't even bother making a video about it unless it WASN'T a hoax, so op did end up getting me in the end after all
Tyes
The Rickroll though, lmao
@@AoiTheIdolLover oh lmao the Rick roll was absolute king shit
I love that the UA-cam video was uploaded before Qubo shut down lol
@@DeerBonesBaby that makes it so much better
This is literally the first time I've heard of Qubo at all (I was a PBS Kids/Discovery Kids baby), so hearing about it having some Creepypasta-style hoax associated with it is kind of hilarious to me from an outsider looking in kind of perspective
Same dude
I've heard of it, but never watched it as I was too old for it as a late millenial.
Same
Same dude
i watched all
I dont think people are realising the true story here. This isnt about Qubo desperately trying to save their company by traumatizing kids, its about hackers hijacking a kids TV show in hopes that they can scam young vulnerable kids into forking over their parents credit cards thinking that it would help the show, while in reality, doing absolutely nothing to help prevent the gruesome scene unfolding infront of them or the company they think is behind this. Thats why all the characters are cheap png images and why theres many spelling errors.
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.
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. 😅
“Selflessness” could be a muscle memory-induced typo. I saw someone at Reddit confuse “commends” and “condemns” because they had just typed “recommends” before, so their fingers remembered the motion. Some of the other grammatical issues might come from English not being Splatkid’s first language.
Honestly learning about this event makes me want to see an analog/digital horror series based off it, like someone getting knowledge of a hidden channel or something still showing Qubo's content, but then the shows and their characters start getting mutilated and becoming increasingly abnormal like what was seen in Splatkid's hoax video.
Maybe Learning With Pibby can get Qubo show characters infected?
@@MJ-kx5eh Warner Bros doesn't have access to that network's characters.
@@CharlesVDoktaur parody law?
Could end up either plagirising Happy tree friends, Learning whith Pibby or even both.
Why not make some dark lore for the horror? Instead of random killings why not make a story of how the characters die and what made them die while somewhat having a connection between all shows? Idk I think having lore or a story can really make something last longer
I love that it’s the stereotypical “kids show characters dying brutally with gore” video, just like the old days of lost episode creepypastas that were obviously fake. I’m so glad I’m still in my creepypasta phase
2:43 skip the ad bro
Thx mate
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
Qubo did have some bangers, especially the Night Owl section
Yeah, I remember watching shows like sidekick and stuff like that
Not sure if anyone addressed the CRT thing, but as someone who used to work selling tv's in the early 2000's I can tell you there were HD and SD CRT's being sold with digital tuners.
Also TV converter boxes were very common among CRT TV owners after the 2009 analog TV shutdown, many bought in part or completely with federal grants given to people who requested them.
The tv looks like the exact same RCA CRT I had growing up with the exact same volume control graphic. I started watching Qubo after the analog shutdown when we got our convertor boxes.
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.
As one of the 3 people in the whole planet that was aware of Qubo existence before it's demise, it feels soo weird that a major channel would talk about this rabbit hole, I never thought that hoax would blow up.
I remember the qubo shows like an show about an ginger hair kid and an show about an cow, pig, and duck
I could not believe something I watch as an 5 year kid could would be talked about
It was clear that was made up because why would an innocent kid channel show disturbing images and blame them for it shut down and the rick roll confirm this
same, i used to watch it so much
i remember seeing this on youtube and laughing hysterically at how bad it was made
i had a thing like that when i was little because i watched happy tree friends and laugh in hysterics as a green moose vomit's all of it's organs
when I first saw that I thought it was a, 1. Kid tryna make a creepypasta or 2. A joke video,
Me to fnaf: haha funny jumpscare
Me to fake qubo shutdown video: my heart is racing and I almost peed my pants
@@camohere i'd say the former. these types of channels are mostly run by 11 year old children with a crappy ipad.
Also, why are the characters just standing there waiting to be shot? Wouldn’t they fight back? Go-Go-Gadget shield?
As someone who loved qubo growing up, when I first saw that video I was pretty scared due to how having a part of my childhood "end" like that was unnerving. Pretty sad that qubo is no longer around, they always was there for the no cable kids and the night owls.
All the Low income/Hood Kids watch it i never had Cable so it meant a lot to me and Qubo is still apart of till this day
@@Goyarxrdi agree I didn't have much money and that show rescue heroes had helped me not be scared of fire and even helped me learn I loved art
The fact he said “more sus than an among us character” 💀
Usually I would find a combination of kids characters and violent crimes funny but that really is disturbing
For example the character doing the violent crime is funny
@John Doe not again
@The Mexican Dude
He was a part of Japanese Mafia. This is why he has four fingers.
@The Mexican Dude "there is a deactivated WW2 bomb! Can we fix it? *YES WE CAN*"
And that's how he ended up there
Yeah
I mean, this is obviously fake, but it probably would have fooled me if I was a kid. That whole "selflessness" error was a pretty big giveaway that there was something fishy about it.
It's too bad Qubo went off the air though. That channel had a lot of cartoons that I loved as a kid in the 2000s. I smiled when you mentioned Maggie and the Ferocious Beast because you just unlocked a huge part of my early childhood memories.
Seems pretty obvious in retrospect but I still love a good story of broadcast hijacks & hacks & goofs & gaffs
feels like a situation like the max headroom incident to me, as if someone hijacked the channel and put the video on
Isn't being selfless a good thing like your helping others In need before yourself
the selflessness was sarcastic
@@dkthis Then why did they also call the audience negligent within that same sentence non-sarcastically? It's pretty clear that it meant to say "selfishness." Sarcasm would make no sense in that context.
I never knew the words, "This is your fault." could be so terrifing
Wait where does this say help
@@Baguettatopsomi At the end of the of the screen of death 2006-2021 thanks for nothing
@@Gelasans oh thanks lmao
It's not that scary to me tbh, I hear that all the time.
@@piranhalettuce so do i i mean its fucking edited
It's always the kids channels that are the scariest 😂❤ earned new sub
Can't believe how I thought this was real 💀💀
The rickroll was a nice touch, it's like saying: "It was just a prank, you don't have to be terrified anymore".
The RickRoll genuinely made me burst out laughing
It will always have a special, nostalgic, place in my heart
3:46. If someone is displaying behaviour that is selflessness, then they'll be charitable, kind and only care about others. The word they're looking for is Selfishness.
There! That's all the proof you need to know this is just creepy pasta
When the Plane Dies by the Shotgun is Terrifyng
Warby Parker has my boy looking sharp as hell
Hi eckhart
4:14 that's brutal. They straight up said "Thanks for nothing" after 15 years of broadcasting.
Despite the obvious faults brought up about that it still kinda makes you wonder if that sort of thing would be genuinely possible if a certain employee (or employees) wanted to do it. In this case had the screen not been a troll the motive could be that they want to get the company abandoning qubo hit with a lawsuit so massive it might get in the way of them running the other channels.
Fun fact as of July 11th 2024, that phone number still works and rickrolls you. Me and my sister were watching your video when she decided to call the number to see if it still trolled you and it does (will edit/reply to give updates of if it still works or not)
I was practically raised on Qubo since I didn't have cable. I didn't know it closed down so recently! I knew it wasn't on the air anymore but I figured it was quite a few years ago.
They had a lot of fun obscure cartoons. I've always been a night owl so I loved when they aired old cartoons at night. BraveStarr ruled!
Yeah I went through a period I didn't have cable and Qubo had me lol. Bravestar was the shit
I completely forgot about Qubo until now, seeing those characters after nearly a decade was surreal
I have watched Qubo a lot as a kid but I stopped watching it when I got a bit old for tv. So this is the first time I have heard about this.
Old for tv?
Too old for tv lol
Who fucking gets 'too old for TV' - That's some im14andthisisdeep shit
The only people I know that watch TV are pensioners
if u say ur too old for anything ur too young to be saying that
I was just wondering if this was actually true before, until wavy showed us what happened when you call the number 💀
this is an amazing source of inspiration, the countdown, seeing a bunch of recognizable characters being disfigured as the channel shuts down. i use this as a source of inspiration this in a segment of my horror game, not quite the same but enough to evoke the same chills i got seeing this happen.
I’m glad that a more obscure topic like Qubo is getting attention from a more general audience thanks to this video. I have warm memories from channels like Sprout, Qubo and PBS, as I grew up without cable. I hope people will continue to keep the network and beloved characters alive with creepy pastas or stories such as, as long as they don’t spread false information. Thanks for the memories Qubo ❤️
i loved sprout. one of my first cats was literally named sprout bc of that channel
I think what I like about analog horror and creepypastas is what it does to your mind. You know it's not real and it can even be a bit silly...but then you stop. Your mind starts to wander. What if it was real? The scariest part isn't the creepypasta itself, but the thoughts that keep your mind racing about it afterwards.
It betrays the suspension of disbelief by its very nature
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.
I'm sorry, but the wiki admin actually getting offended over some spooky video is both sad and hilarious 💀
Tbh I was thinking the same. They could have just ignored it, right?
@@TechSpec814 Exactly. Instead they decided to be petty
@@sivanhedoesstuff Yeah agreed. At the end of the day it’s just a TV channel lol.
Yeah. There was several ways he could’ve reacted and he chose the worst one. He acted like the video was going to damage his and Qubo’s career despite it clearly being fake.
I believe the problem here is his attachment to the channel and how it has effected his life. It seems he has strong feelings for the network, possibly due to his childhood.
im suprised nobody else mentioned this yet i agree completely lmao