The Legend of YouAreAnIdiot.org

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  • Опубліковано 19 жов 2021
  • In 2004, a website known as youareanidiot(dot)org rose to prominence across the internet, where it was home to what is now recognized as the You Are An Idiot computer virus (mostly known as "YouAreAnIdiot" or "Offiz"). However, many people first visiting the site had no idea what they were getting themselves into, and the story goes even deeper than that.
    The YouAreAnIdiot trojan horse, also known by its official name “Offiz” infected as many as 100,000 people, and it was now making its way around the internet as a topic of heated discussion. A subject people immediately regretted becoming acquainted with, its presence just continuing to grow. It wasn’t long until people were claiming that their entire hard drives were being permanently erased and damaged beyond repair. What exactly was going on? How did the story of YouAreAnIdiot go from exhausting tech support threads within online forums into becoming an internet legend?
    Well, properly answering that question requires a bit of historical context. We need to go all the way back to the year 2002. The internet is still in its fledgling phase, with the vestiges of the 90s, but it is growing at an alarming rate, as well as getting smarter and more sophisticated every day. This goes for both the technological aspects of the internet, as well as human behavior. The internet is becoming more because people are demanding more, for better and for worse. Not only was it improving on user convenience, it was learning to solve problems users had been yearning to get fixed for years, as well as solving problems users didn’t even know that they had. But this came at the expense of creating new problems, some of which were previously almost unheard of. Malicious programs were becoming smarter and more difficult to combat, as malware developers were learning from their past mistakes, and YouAreAnIdiot was a symptom of that.
    But to really see how and why this was the case requires going into detail on how the virus rose to prominence and how it actually worked. The earliest form of the program showed up in early 2002, originally known by its more official name “Offiz” and it first appeared on a website. The earliest confirmed website it showed up on was known as youdontknowwhoiam(dot)org. So what did the virus actually do?
    Well, it wasn’t technically a virus at all. It didn’t use your computer to spread to other ones. It was a trojan horse, a program that pretends to look nice and innocent, but causes harm to your computer once you activate it, but of course the vernacular for layman computer users is to call anything malicious a virus, so people just stuck with that. We mentioned that this virus was one of many components which formed from the early internet’s ongoing evolution, and that’s because it took advantage of a relatively new technology that was only becoming more complex by the year. This technology is called JavaScript. This wasn’t just writing code. This was the closest thing you could get to making something that was alive. Something that could almost think for itself. With JavaScript, you were playing God on the internet, so why not use it to cause mayhem as well? But this virus didn’t just take advantage of that. It also had another somewhat new and growing technology under its sleeve: the flash player. Combine these two forces and you are virtually unstoppable. Any user curious enough to click on the website’s window would be greeted with the famous animation we’ve all grown to recognize. Thanks to the JavaScript, any further attempt to exit the page, whether it be by refreshing or clicking the x button, will spawn six more smaller windows displaying the same animation, all playing at once. You’re not getting off that easy though. The script has programmed the windows to bounce around the page, so good luck exiting out, and even if you do get rid of one, six more will pop up once again. You now 11 windows on your computer calling you an idiot, and your speakers are just getting louder. You try using some hotkeys to forcefully shut down your browser, but now you just have text windows calling you an idiot. Before you know it, the windows have multiplied exponentially, and your computer’s resources are being used up. Your system is so slow you can barely even move the mouse anymore. You can’t even open task manager it’s so slow. Now you have no choice but to take the last resort and shut down your computer through physically pushing the power button.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 10 тис.

  • @nationsquid
    @nationsquid  2 роки тому +4784

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    • @tylern6420
      @tylern6420 2 роки тому +9

      ua-cam.com/video/hiRacdl02w4/v-deo.html

    • @jbbajangamer
      @jbbajangamer 2 роки тому +48

      why do I feel like i’ve seen this video before

    • @nationsquid
      @nationsquid  2 роки тому +109

      @@jbbajangamer I don't know. Mandela Effect perhaps? 👀

    • @DanAtuch_Archives
      @DanAtuch_Archives 2 роки тому +54

      16:06 sounds like a microwave...

    • @soniacanela2319
      @soniacanela2319 2 роки тому +55

      4:03 Rick astley at work.

  • @JrIcify
    @JrIcify 2 роки тому +51934

    I miss when viruses were basically just to prank you, and not to involve your PC in organized crime.

    • @remizu2901
      @remizu2901 2 роки тому +2634

      I guess I'm a criminal now...

    • @mrakisotnelar.8009
      @mrakisotnelar.8009 2 роки тому +3948

      Me too. Back when the worst viruses were just stuff like a dancing stick figure that opens files

    • @hlscientist8760
      @hlscientist8760 2 роки тому +1528

      Especially that one desktop stripper

    • @aayushpandey6839
      @aayushpandey6839 2 роки тому +992

      @@hlscientist8760 uhm what was the name of this virus?...

    • @pinroshan020
      @pinroshan020 2 роки тому +558

      Especially when you are very proficient of using visual basic program, it is so easy to prank your friends who doesn't know about techs.

  • @gummyexe1495
    @gummyexe1495 2 роки тому +23196

    Osu players be like: “it’s my time to shine”

  • @leah-m-holmes
    @leah-m-holmes Рік тому +1432

    I think if I'd encountered this back in the day I would have just cried for hours.

    • @MichaelJacksonsFavoriteChild
      @MichaelJacksonsFavoriteChild 9 місяців тому +35

      Me too. Except I’m severely dehydrated, so I wouldn’t have any water left in my body to cry out.

    • @RemoWilliams1227
      @RemoWilliams1227 9 місяців тому +15

      ​@@MichaelJacksonsFavoriteChildwell I hope you drank something....

    • @MichaelJacksonsFavoriteChild
      @MichaelJacksonsFavoriteChild 9 місяців тому +13

      @@RemoWilliams1227 I try

    • @myoak108
      @myoak108 8 місяців тому

      ​@@MichaelJacksonsFavoriteChild Doctors will put you on IV drip if your skin is dehydrated enough to stand when you pinch the back of your hand. It should go down right away, otherwise you're clinically dehydrated.

    • @yayvey
      @yayvey 7 місяців тому +36

      I'm 29 and It was terrifying as a child. When it happened, I was home alone and frozen stiff for prob 30 mins. I distinctly remember turning on the TV to calm myself down, and the music video of Breaking The Habit by Linkin Park was playing on Much Music. I associate that song to this virus and forever have it as a core memory lmao. I was terrified of the computer for years.

  • @Alliewallie1234
    @Alliewallie1234 Рік тому +615

    My brother and I were at my dad's friend's house for his band practice back when this was very popular. They were all downstairs in the basement while we were upstairs messing around and playing silly games on the computer. He randomly told me to search up something called YouAreAnIdiot...i was really confused and I was about 11 or so. I typed it into the search bar and this popped up. Tons of tabs popped up and the music got louder, I had no idea what was going on and my brother was starting to freak out aswell. Finally we powered off the computer but our adrenaline was skyrocketing and we were shaking. I had nightmares for about a month and my brother apologized so many times and said that he was just curious on what it was. Thats the very fond memory i have of this crazy website..and I'll never forget it lol

  • @williambarnes5023
    @williambarnes5023 2 роки тому +8585

    "Don't do this. It's a virus."
    "Huh. I wanna see." _(Does it.)_
    *"YOU ARE AN IDIOT!" ☻☻☻*
    "Yeah, that's fair. I deserve that."

    • @sovietboi5373
      @sovietboi5373 2 роки тому +40

      Epic

    • @ChumbaWumba
      @ChumbaWumba 2 роки тому +41

      Did you get it off? Lol

    • @KITTYINK416
      @KITTYINK416 2 роки тому +156

      As a adhd person i have to say its really tempting to do it

    • @ChumbaWumba
      @ChumbaWumba 2 роки тому +50

      @@KITTYINK416 I did it lmao. It worked but It went away lol

    • @Weeping_Willow_Tree
      @Weeping_Willow_Tree 2 роки тому +36

      ☻︎☺︎︎☻︎☺︎︎☻︎☺︎︎☻︎☺︎︎☻︎☺︎︎☻︎☺︎︎☻︎☺︎︎

  • @XxRedRocket15xX
    @XxRedRocket15xX 2 роки тому +10635

    Pulled this on a school computer back in elementary. I forget why I did it but I got lunch detention for a week

    • @Nakia11798
      @Nakia11798 2 роки тому +911

      You were in elementary school. Clearly you just thought it would be funny.
      Tbh, one of my classmates did this as well. The teacher wasn't impressed, and for some reason didn't understand that shutting off the computer fixed the problem.

    • @catsinwonderland7473
      @catsinwonderland7473 2 роки тому +75

      LMAO

    • @BlueCatarex
      @BlueCatarex 2 роки тому +138

      Hey, I remember you! Joel talked about you on a Windows Destruction stream!

    • @D00000T
      @D00000T 2 роки тому +21

      chad

    • @london6441
      @london6441 2 роки тому +33

      well now i wanna do it on my friends school laptop

  • @nyxlumiere8327
    @nyxlumiere8327 Рік тому +323

    thank you for providing the flashing light warning. it helped me so that I knew to turn on my lights so the contrast wouldn’t cause a seizure. I really appreciate that because I enjoy your content.

  • @watchoutforeg
    @watchoutforeg 4 місяці тому +123

    I just know that a certain flower would love this

    • @niklosweber5759
      @niklosweber5759 2 місяці тому +16

      I know that flower. On a personal level.

    • @UNCJ1H
      @UNCJ1H 2 місяці тому +7

      FLOWEYYY!!! GET BACK HERE AND QUIT HURTING THE CHILD!! - Toriel Dreemurr

    • @AcquaintancePlaysGames
      @AcquaintancePlaysGames 2 місяці тому +6

      =)

    • @runningoven
      @runningoven Місяць тому +4

      Why is everything Undertale? There's no NUT (Non-Undertale-Temathic) content now.

    • @watchoutforeg
      @watchoutforeg Місяць тому

      @@runningoven is that a GASTER REFERENXE YFMEJEHGJRJY

  • @Max-ej4oh
    @Max-ej4oh 2 роки тому +29054

    I "defeat" it back then by holding alt + f4 and closing all of them faster than it could replicate lol.
    Gave it the middle finger. Good times.

    • @cameronl1859
      @cameronl1859 2 роки тому +2778

      I used to make similar pages like this for fun to mess with my friends. Alt+F4 did not work if the user didn't get to it fast enough, and if every page was set to open as many new windows of itself as fast as possible.
      Why early browsers were ever designed that way, I'll never understand...
      Especially allowing a script to change the window position, how could that ever have been useful??

    • @Max-ej4oh
      @Max-ej4oh 2 роки тому +1387

      Apparently they "Patched" the thing in this video, haha, in this video it says that alt + f4 didn't work, the one they sent me to try it out was alt + f4 stoppable and I remember it vividly, by clicking one of the windows borders and just holding the keys, the program would close all of its window before it replicated.
      Seems like even the one who did it could send out a much better fool proof version of it.
      Or maybe because the computer I was on ages ago was so shitty it took ages to even open a single window, not even the malicious program could react at the computer crappiness for me to close it down.
      Yeah I think it was that 100%

    • @cameronl1859
      @cameronl1859 2 роки тому +469

      @@Max-ej4oh It was possible to Alt+F4 out of most of these pranks, you're right. If the script only made one pop-up (and that popup made one pop-up etc) instead of creating as many as it could, you could Alt+F4 faster than the new script would be able to load and execute. However, if you had a few windows all creating 3 copies of themselves a second, and all 3 of the copies creating 3 copies etc, it worked.

    • @near5148
      @near5148 2 роки тому +69

      @@cameronl1859 but you can't escape memz

    • @jmtrad1906
      @jmtrad1906 2 роки тому +49

      The one i got at the time alt+f4 didn't worked.

  • @derenbong6060
    @derenbong6060 2 роки тому +30090

    The guy who created this is a genius, singlehandedly taught a whole generation to not click an unknown file/link! xD

    • @alexanderthegrrrreat6727
      @alexanderthegrrrreat6727 2 роки тому +610

      Well, With all the computer viruses that came after this one that only worked by clicking an unknown file/link...

    • @hilariousskullnamedcatzo647
      @hilariousskullnamedcatzo647 2 роки тому +379

      Then that's a horrible way to teach someone

    • @derenbong6060
      @derenbong6060 2 роки тому +695

      @@hilariousskullnamedcatzo647 yes indeed! but u cant deny it works for I think reasonable emotional harm for an education that will otherwise be overlooked, trust me some of my colleagues still click on unknown/untrusted links that the company keeps reminding them not to do on company computers! 😅

    • @flashter6101
      @flashter6101 2 роки тому +340

      Rick roll taught me that

    • @hilariousskullnamedcatzo647
      @hilariousskullnamedcatzo647 2 роки тому +18

      @@derenbong6060 agreed

  • @kathryndodd1818
    @kathryndodd1818 10 місяців тому +55

    Oh man, never thought I'd hear that anxiety inducing song again- it's only a slightly higher pitch than my brain's very vivid memory of it 😅 I was probably 10 or 11 on addictinggames and mis-clicked on one of the unavoidable ads and my heart leapt out of my chest, i was so scared. After a minute of heart-racing panicking I force shut down, waited an hour and then was trembling in fear as I turned the computer back on. Man the relief I felt when nothing happened and I was in the clear- my dad is a tech guy and I don't think that was the first time I'd had to come to him in shame to fix the pop-ups I accidentally clicked on lol. Scared me straight, there was only one other time a couple years later when a rogue trackpad again misclicked on a banner ad on MySpace causing a ton of pop-ups. Other than that I was so careful to not go anywhere near banner ads for fear of accidentally clicking them 😅😅

  • @matthewthescienceguy7627
    @matthewthescienceguy7627 6 місяців тому +37

    The origin of the audio comes from the 1984 album Put It Where The Moon Don’t Shine by Rick Dees, a DJ from Memphis, best known for his song “Disco Duck”. It plays during the track “Candid Phone (Dog’s Funeral)”. Lost media found.

  • @looker999997
    @looker999997 2 роки тому +12480

    To be fair, if you left your work unsaved before going to dodgy-looking links, this'd teach you a couple of valuable lessons without totaling your computer.

    • @luisgonzalez5718
      @luisgonzalez5718 2 роки тому +108

      So to say to keep your work open and go *you would be a idiot*

    • @luisgonzalez5718
      @luisgonzalez5718 2 роки тому +10

      @@riponrip4574 well it sounds alot cooler to say if it causes damage by you not closing your work then your an idiot

    • @captainnoob5244
      @captainnoob5244 2 роки тому +5

      Exactly

    • @FutureYT
      @FutureYT 2 роки тому +45

      Yeah, I always press Ctrl s like ten times after I add a single thing to the file

    • @beardsntools
      @beardsntools 2 роки тому +38

      I don't get this "unsaved paper" complaints because office 2000, office xp, office 2003 and later all periodically autosave and they will let you recover most, if not all of your work. There are many other things that could happen to your computer, it could crash or there could be a power outage. They thought about the computer forcefully shutting down long before this. In fact I believe office 97 already autosaved. I literally had someone turn off power as a prank and I was pissed but when than win 98 and office booted up again it was all back, in fact it opened with my paper already loaded because there wasn't the "check these unsaved files" sidebar yet.

  • @TexasBlueAngel85
    @TexasBlueAngel85 2 роки тому +10135

    Now I'm curious where Farmers Insurance got their inspiration for their jingle.

    • @kip258
      @kip258 2 роки тому +789

      Some CEO in an office: *click
      Computer: "You are an idiot!"
      CEO: I'll show you!

    • @Dv0m
      @Dv0m 2 роки тому +53

      @@kip258 lmao

    • @StrickerRei-Chn
      @StrickerRei-Chn 2 роки тому +159

      We are farmers...

    • @goldengreen8039
      @goldengreen8039 2 роки тому +127

      Bud um pum bum

    • @drysoda2263
      @drysoda2263 2 роки тому +29

      Aw shit

  • @Dampy.69
    @Dampy.69 Рік тому +63

    I remember being a little kid and getting this on my computer. There was no way to exit out of it so I eventually panicked and unplugged my PC. When I booted my computer back up I got the dread of still having something on my computer. Eventually I got my computer cleaned and it turned out I had a lot of different viruses from spyware to trojans and worms.
    XP era malware gave me paranoia which I still have today. I'm always wondering if random CMD popups at boot or browser slowdowns are caused by a trojan.

  • @theexplosivesnatchers9969
    @theexplosivesnatchers9969 11 місяців тому +12

    Ahhhhh, I've been wondering about this virus for at least 3 years, i just heven't searched it up until now, you explained it all really well! I now know that that is NOT the place to go.

  • @KaomojiFN
    @KaomojiFN 2 роки тому +8824

    After it stopped being a virus site I set it as my sisters startup page on her chromebook, I still remember the look of horror on her face after she open up her laptop to see that.

    • @alphapegasus9761
      @alphapegasus9761 2 роки тому +729

      we do a little trolling

    • @lilyly5365
      @lilyly5365 2 роки тому +363

      BAHA THATS SO EVIL

    • @antimatterg
      @antimatterg 2 роки тому +90

      Ooooo00O000oooo

    • @user-ow4fx8zf5e
      @user-ow4fx8zf5e 2 роки тому +58

      can i ask how do i do that lol. i want a startup page but i never figured out how

    • @THEL0VETHIEVES
      @THEL0VETHIEVES 2 роки тому +35

      @@user-ow4fx8zf5e do you have google

  • @bajke5591
    @bajke5591 2 роки тому +14372

    just imagine the creator, simply sitting and smiling at home, being the only one that knows that he is behind the 'virus'

    • @stephenheffren4324
      @stephenheffren4324 2 роки тому +588

      I feel he/she/they would be more satisfied with just knowing people like you or me are incredibly interested in going to this site, even though we know we will be called an idiot.

    • @sad-with-pizzazz
      @sad-with-pizzazz 2 роки тому +621

      @@stephenheffren4324 JUST SAY THEY OMG

    • @sad-with-pizzazz
      @sad-with-pizzazz 2 роки тому +242

      @🍷 Zachary ;; Yeah, ik, but they is a much much simpler way to put it though. it saves time and is less hard to read

    • @stephenheffren4324
      @stephenheffren4324 2 роки тому +161

      @@sad-with-pizzazz Yeah you do have a good point lol. Sorry about that.

    • @benteash5761
      @benteash5761 2 роки тому +19

      lmao

  • @funkie1221
    @funkie1221 Рік тому +74

    It was a really really great idea of the person who created this masterpiece. It teaches the user to be reaaaally attentive when browsing and not doing anything stupid because of the fear of viruses while being completely harmless itself.

  • @misseli1
    @misseli1 Рік тому +11

    I knew this video would creep me out, so not only did I not bother to watch it on full screen, I chose to watch it in mini-player mode.

  • @Ashurion-Neonix
    @Ashurion-Neonix Рік тому +3950

    I love how a literal prank script caused so much panic.

    • @southanimates
      @southanimates Рік тому

      dummy

    • @leoberbom6817
      @leoberbom6817 Рік тому +9

      Do you know what website it’s on

    • @Kweentoos
      @Kweentoos Рік тому +55

      People with epilepsy: 👁️👄👁️ ----- 👄 ----

    • @rattleheadsofroblox1201
      @rattleheadsofroblox1201 Рік тому +11

      @@Kweentoos their fault for clicking on the site.

    • @Kweentoos
      @Kweentoos Рік тому +8

      @@rattleheadsofroblox1201 I mean yeah,it is their fault

  • @anthonywozniak7373
    @anthonywozniak7373 2 роки тому +7803

    As far as mid 2000's trolls go this was the most vanilla. Atleast it wasn't a party of lemons, a girl in a tub, a spinning of meat or a goat that can see.

    • @kip258
      @kip258 2 роки тому +411

      Oh no please don't mention the goat or he'll come back!

    • @cosmosaodyssey2188
      @cosmosaodyssey2188 2 роки тому +449

      Meat spin made me gay

    • @MoltenLqva
      @MoltenLqva 2 роки тому +138

      meatspin

    • @tupactheory3739
      @tupactheory3739 2 роки тому +293

      we didn't start the fire line 1: meatspin, goatse, lemon party, tubgirl

    • @salivatinggreed4219
      @salivatinggreed4219 2 роки тому +104

      this comment wins. If you know all of em you know em

  • @sunna8476
    @sunna8476 Рік тому +7

    Nobody I talk to remembers this but it's burnt in my memory forever and the songs still pops in my head every other day

  • @3uni6
    @3uni6 4 місяці тому +4

    2:00 omg scared me so much, the faint smile

    • @luvv909
      @luvv909 4 місяці тому +1

      i got scared so much lol

  • @blake2697
    @blake2697 2 роки тому +6680

    Computer viruses are so terrifying. The feeling of dread, and irreversible damage, and blaming yourself. Your heart just sinks. The ones that open a bunch of programs and slow down your computer in particular are just crazy.

    • @Yep6803
      @Yep6803 2 роки тому +75

      i think 20 years of prison isnt enuff

    • @NINEINCHNAILSFANBOY
      @NINEINCHNAILSFANBOY 2 роки тому +239

      @@Yep6803 literally there was probably people who had epilepsy and were effected by the flashing lights :/

    • @Yep6803
      @Yep6803 2 роки тому +9

      @@NINEINCHNAILSFANBOY but in general what was the purpouse? 1) no spyware 2)?

    • @maiskorrel
      @maiskorrel 2 роки тому +128

      hate this feeling, even a recurring theme in nightmares for me lol

    • @Somerandomguy2763
      @Somerandomguy2763 2 роки тому +40

      @@Yep6803 The idiot one is because somebody got bored and think it will be funny if somebody clicks a link and the progress in the computer gets removed insantly

  • @falseillusin9197
    @falseillusin9197 2 роки тому +4182

    The "you are an idiot" song gives me the creeps. It's quite disturbing and surprisingly eerie. But I have heard good remixes soo.

    • @billcyphers3rdeye
      @billcyphers3rdeye 2 роки тому +347

      the remixes are dope. the “you are an idiot” virus would make terrify me dude. like what the fuck. the overwhelming distortion while those faces flashing black and white and the other tabs swirling violently around is fucking creepy

    • @falseillusin9197
      @falseillusin9197 2 роки тому +119

      @@billcyphers3rdeye yeah, I once came close to seeing it as a kid. I went on the website but closed it by accident lol

    • @buddyowl
      @buddyowl 2 роки тому +68

      I would be anxious if I accidentally opened it

    • @gizmo9836
      @gizmo9836 2 роки тому +42

      @@falseillusin9197 You got lucky

    • @peterambrack8415
      @peterambrack8415 2 роки тому +7

      same

  • @iwannabuyraventeamleader
    @iwannabuyraventeamleader 3 місяці тому +6

    I freaking love these internet documentaries, keep it up man

  • @rjbradley2923
    @rjbradley2923 10 місяців тому +21

    I miss when viruses were basically just to prank you, now they make my boot sector unalive

  • @tringleperson131
    @tringleperson131 2 роки тому +6346

    This is literally terrifying, the faces are so simple but so menacing and the jingle is so creepy and distorted

    • @Cyanide_Infused
      @Cyanide_Infused 2 роки тому +314

      i'm worried about what kind of nightmares your brain creates for you when you go to sleep at night

    • @Th3cosmic_
      @Th3cosmic_ 2 роки тому +15

      @@Cyanide_Infused xD

    • @ziglind
      @ziglind 2 роки тому +107

      how the fuck is this terrifying

    • @zhongliswallet8296
      @zhongliswallet8296 2 роки тому +8

      fr

    • @crashdemon
      @crashdemon 2 роки тому +160

      when i was little this gave me nightmares. for a while i literally couldn't sleep unless my mom was in the room and i could never explain why i was so scared cause she wouldn't understand that it was all because of a stupid flash animation (which was already neutralized by this time)

  • @EHiggins
    @EHiggins 2 роки тому +4105

    "You're safer using XP" that's a rarely spoken phrase.

    • @LilacMonarch
      @LilacMonarch 2 роки тому +85

      that's because XP is usually the old one in the comparison

    • @EHiggins
      @EHiggins 2 роки тому +17

      @@LilacMonarch I was thinking about back then lol

    • @tea.5376
      @tea.5376 2 роки тому +42

      i mean…. Like nobody is making XP viruses anymore i think sooooooo

    • @EHiggins
      @EHiggins 2 роки тому +40

      @@tea.5376 Okay Shaggy you get a Scooby snack

    • @LilacMonarch
      @LilacMonarch 2 роки тому +34

      @@tea.5376 which is great except that since MS isn't developing security patches anymore, there's plenty of old malware that will work on it. so if you wanna develop your own patches then yeah you'll be safe

  • @nathanandsamuelofficial9372
    @nathanandsamuelofficial9372 7 місяців тому +5

    "Sir.. we got a virus from our computer"
    "THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO.."

  • @horsermchead2504
    @horsermchead2504 Рік тому +17

    I recall programming a force crash program that opened up tons of warnings in high school on the school computers and tricked other students into thinking I had downloaded a real virus.

  • @theSato
    @theSato 2 роки тому +1667

    Perfect timing, I JUST got nostalgic for this faint memory and looked it up.
    Here before the algorithm blesses it well beyond 100k.

    • @niko-dg8cg
      @niko-dg8cg 2 роки тому

      Same

    • @soursalt698
      @soursalt698 2 роки тому

      oh hello sato

    • @Oatmea1L
      @Oatmea1L 2 роки тому

      Here after the algorithm blesses it with 100k

    • @nadapenny8592
      @nadapenny8592 2 роки тому +6

      This is like being on the Oregon Trail and seeing a trail marker from the brave trailblazers that forged my path.

    • @psychosomaticstatic
      @psychosomaticstatic 2 роки тому +1

      3.1 million now, wow

  • @Birdy-wy5jn
    @Birdy-wy5jn Рік тому +2308

    16:40
    2012 - This virus does no harm to your computer.
    2022 - This virus is more dangerous than you think that it is.

    • @Vulturul333dfd-original
      @Vulturul333dfd-original 11 місяців тому +5

      how, send me link

    • @erwinguzman8878
      @erwinguzman8878 11 місяців тому +55

      ​@@Vulturul333dfd-originalgood luck with no computer

    • @arandomperso4438
      @arandomperso4438 8 місяців тому

      ​@@Vulturul333dfd-originalbro is trying to get us reported 💀

    • @Tyrannosaurusstudios
      @Tyrannosaurusstudios 6 місяців тому

      @@erwinguzman8878 so win10 well die

    • @Deleted_Eevee
      @Deleted_Eevee 3 місяці тому +20

      2012 - haha you have a harmless inconvenient virus
      2024 - this computer is now mine and now I have your address social security number government files criminal record license plate children wife family and I will soon have taken your identity

  • @Howtoeatrocks
    @Howtoeatrocks Рік тому +64

    I used to go to the computer lab and boot this up on all of the desktops at once, I quickly discovered that they were all interlinked virtual machines . Basically all of them were just "screens" running all off one server and 20ish computers running ram destroyers would tank the tiny server my school had. It also made me realise I could easily mirror other people's sessions and steal their games.

    • @Clonekiller66
      @Clonekiller66 6 місяців тому

      Holy fuck that is GENIUS. Ahahahahaha

  • @user-gz6co3sn6h
    @user-gz6co3sn6h 6 місяців тому +1

    This was my first NationSquid vid I watched and I never stopped watching it

  • @Axerol
    @Axerol 2 роки тому +25495

    No one else thinks it's actually creepy as hell? The music is weirdly distorted, the voice sounds inhuman and the faces on the black background are staring into your soul.

    • @Inxwolf
      @Inxwolf 2 роки тому +3569

      the audio freaking creeps me out lol

    • @failyore2
      @failyore2 2 роки тому +2847

      Honestly, I never found it scary or creepy. It's just too interesting to find scary for me. If I heard this at the middle of the night though, I'd shit myself

    • @poopsicle107
      @poopsicle107 2 роки тому +1106

      One time me and my friend were playing games and in one of them he got a boombox and played you are an idiot and I pissed my pants bc I hated it, plus I was alone in my living room so yea

    • @vanilla5643
      @vanilla5643 2 роки тому +216

      I like it, there's a cool remix of it that I listen to on loop lol

    • @TheGamers55
      @TheGamers55 2 роки тому +320

      nah, the music is "distorted" or rather in low bitrate, because that two frame animation was made in Flash, where downsampling audio was common at the time because it drastically reduced the filesize

  • @planetnydro
    @planetnydro 2 роки тому +2211

    The tune itself is clever. When there is just one playing, there's already a slight chorus/echo effect to it. Once you get a bunch of them going at once, it doesn't change the sound all that much. It just gets slightly more echoey and a LOT louder.
    This trojan horse was a masterpiece. It didn't mess with anything, it didn't try to steal your data, it just became an easy version of the Rickroll. Anything you lost was your own faukt for clicking on a scetchy link before hitting save.

  • @Kamrynidk
    @Kamrynidk 5 місяців тому +3

    Wow, it's cool to learn about these things. I was born in 2010, so didn't get to see this stuff happen.

  • @Im.definitely.not.cool-
    @Im.definitely.not.cool- 7 місяців тому +3

    I love how this virus doesn’t even seem threatening, it just mocks you for even downloading it. And I mean… are they wrong? It’s even more obvious that it doesn’t even wipe your hardrive or do anything actually threatening that will immediately shut down your computer. It just mocks you, they only make the computer unusable by use of blocking you from clicking anything.

  • @ABXY_02
    @ABXY_02 2 роки тому +1695

    i feel bad for people who had epilepsy and discovered this virus

    • @JK-gm6kk
      @JK-gm6kk 2 роки тому +59

      That's fair. So many people here saying it's LiTeRaLlY tErRiFyInG, for some reason.

    • @vikinggamer7727
      @vikinggamer7727 2 роки тому +164

      @@JK-gm6kk you'd be scared if it happened to you, without you knowing what it was.

    • @biccnesse
      @biccnesse 2 роки тому +43

      I'm glad me as a kid didn't find that then lmao

    • @securityguardtemmie
      @securityguardtemmie 2 роки тому +68

      @@JK-gm6kk ok then what if you spent 400 dollars on your PC (around 650ish today) and then your PC breaks 400 dollars gone all your work gone your entire tech GONE see why it's terrifying?

    • @ABXY_02
      @ABXY_02 2 роки тому +8

      @@biccnesse dang bro im sorry about that

  • @minx8043
    @minx8043 2 роки тому +3082

    I wasn't alive in 2002 but I would be scared *shitless* if this happened on my computer

    • @hamcheese8929
      @hamcheese8929 2 роки тому +203

      i’d be scared shitless even now in 2021 Lol

    • @marymurphy1429
      @marymurphy1429 2 роки тому +72

      I was 2 and wouldn't be using the internet in that sort of fashion but if I had seen it I would have cried

    • @VenomQuill
      @VenomQuill 2 роки тому +31

      Yeah, but now a days this would just be the visible symptom of an actual virus stealing your data. So, you would need to panic. Lol

    • @keli15yearsago6
      @keli15yearsago6 2 роки тому +5

      Same

    • @mosalah11thegoat
      @mosalah11thegoat 2 роки тому

      666 likes

  • @RealAceGaming
    @RealAceGaming Рік тому +1

    I love this video so much I watch it at least 3 times a year. It's so interesting to me ❤.

  • @SunshinePip
    @SunshinePip 6 місяців тому

    I started dancing to it. I was 11/12 during this time. These videos bring back so many memories. I remember there was a big screen that would move around wherever you moved your mouse to. Rofl

  • @thekingofhearts43
    @thekingofhearts43 2 роки тому +1224

    5 minute study video: 🥱🥱
    18 minute video on a computer virus that was back in 2004: 👍

  • @sleepyashu
    @sleepyashu 2 роки тому +2352

    Me: *reads the flashing light warning* "Oh okay cool."
    Me, 15 seconds later: "OH FUCK FLASHING LIGHTS-"

  • @Deandadee
    @Deandadee 8 місяців тому +2

    Oh my gosh! Memory unlocked. As a 2000s teen chat room user, they got me so many times. 😂😂😂

  • @twiggystone7815
    @twiggystone7815 3 місяці тому +1

    That little song will never leave my brain, now.

  • @Pixelcraftian
    @Pixelcraftian 2 роки тому +3961

    I know I'm an idiot, I don't need a website to tell me!
    _"And you should always believe everything I say, because I know everything"_ is a highlight lol, amazing video :)

    • @nationsquid
      @nationsquid  2 роки тому +222

      Thank you so much for your support! More content to come! :)

    • @NotKaito
      @NotKaito 2 роки тому +29

      Dude second reply on _your_ comment, just 5 likes? 😹

    • @NotKaito
      @NotKaito 2 роки тому +31

      @@nationsquid Bro give one reply to me 😭😭😭
      I have watched almost all your video

    • @jeandacondrillon2698
      @jeandacondrillon2698 2 роки тому +3

      @@nationsquid There is So Many Errors That is More Vicious Than Your Are An Idiot Error Like _#BSOD__ Blue Screen Of Death_ -Or- *#BonziBuddy** A Microsoft Gorilla Virus*

    • @nationsquid
      @nationsquid  2 роки тому +43

      @@NotKaito Here's my reply. ;)

  • @ihateflicknotes3939
    @ihateflicknotes3939 2 роки тому +4159

    Offiz: I fear no man but that thing **points to a osu player**
    Offiz: It scares me

    • @rocket_owo8341
      @rocket_owo8341 2 роки тому +42

      lol i'm a osu! player since feb 2021

    • @thrashmusician035
      @thrashmusician035 2 роки тому +9

      I love your pfp

    • @ok23539
      @ok23539 2 роки тому +9

      nice tf2 reference lol

    • @twannie8606
      @twannie8606 2 роки тому +27

      bro, imagine having an texture pack for windows and make it make your red X become an hitcircle

    • @Unpug
      @Unpug 2 роки тому +2

      LMFAOAOAOO

  • @oakley6889
    @oakley6889 Рік тому +3

    Honestly, when a virus is this blatent, I panic. They've usually already delivered the payload and probably backdoored it too.
    Its time for a new os install and drive overwrite at that point.
    Something similar happened to my mate just the other week, except it pretty much bricked his pc.

  • @daniellecruz3311
    @daniellecruz3311 7 місяців тому +12

    I like that he never forgotten to remain calm despite how annoying that Trojan virus is.

  • @St0rmcloudy
    @St0rmcloudy Рік тому +1892

    The virus: scary to unknowing people, and those that get their devices destroyed.
    The animation meme remix: absolute jam

  • @ori.g4mi
    @ori.g4mi 2 роки тому +1375

    "And now everything seems to be back to normal." 1:44
    No, nothing's normal! Why is Windows XP in 1080p?? That's AWESOME in 2004!

  • @listett_garcia
    @listett_garcia Рік тому

    The audio is soo calming to me i even sing along

  • @Rai_207
    @Rai_207 Рік тому

    I swear I actually really love the audio and smiley faces

  • @anti_honey
    @anti_honey 2 роки тому +1470

    Ah I remember this as a kid. However, at the time my PC acted up because I was always trying to run games and software too big for it, so I had a surge protector next to my tower on the floor that I would switch on and off with my foot to restart the PC. Not the smartest thing to do, but I was only 11. Needless to say, this thing startled me enough to instinctively flip the surge protector, then run an antivirus after restarting

    • @spaghetti-zc5on
      @spaghetti-zc5on 2 роки тому +74

      Yeah, this is big brain time

    • @BG_NC
      @BG_NC 2 роки тому +50

      I did that every time I came across a site that scared me

    • @be.trayedone5244
      @be.trayedone5244 2 роки тому +17

      Gargantous brain time

    • @BisexualPlagueDoctor
      @BisexualPlagueDoctor 2 роки тому +37

      You just saved your computer by being an idiot from the you are an idiot site lmao

    • @sheijuna
      @sheijuna 2 роки тому +1

      @@BG_NC same

  • @sowth1967
    @sowth1967 2 роки тому +3407

    Offiz: multiplies insanely fast
    Osu players: *Im boutta end this mans whole career*

    • @user-uo8ny1kj4c
      @user-uo8ny1kj4c 2 роки тому +53

      even filthy weebs at the time couldn't combat it, and weebs were one of the deadliest people to talk trash to on the internet back then!

    • @vallisdaemonumofficial
      @vallisdaemonumofficial 2 роки тому +58

      @@user-uo8ny1kj4c still are

    • @jaderitz
      @jaderitz 2 роки тому +81

      @@user-uo8ny1kj4c Bro it's just a rhythm game, not a weeb game and true weebs are the deadliest people ngl 😔🍷

    • @user-uo8ny1kj4c
      @user-uo8ny1kj4c 2 роки тому +33

      @@jaderitz a skinny weaboo decided to make 4chan and look at what happended, a whole meme culture grew.

    • @jaderitz
      @jaderitz 2 роки тому +14

      @@user-uo8ny1kj4c Is that good or bad or both?

  • @SandraBreita
    @SandraBreita Рік тому +9

    my last computer had youareaidiot virus and i laughed so hard i broke my screen
    edit: omg tysm for 2 likes!
    edit 2: yay 4 likes les go
    edit 3: ok les see if we can get 20 likes eh (thx for 5)
    edit 4: oh my i forgot about this comment LMAO

  • @boxman139
    @boxman139 2 роки тому +2639

    Haven't heard of this since Vargskelethor talked about it in one of his Windows Destruction streams. I think it was the Windows 7 one? I loved hearing his story about the kid that launched it on a school computer.

    • @vi0let831
      @vi0let831 2 роки тому +72

      *E* *X* *P* *A* *N* *D*
      *D* *O* *N* *G*

    • @SleepyVesties
      @SleepyVesties 2 роки тому +49

      Uncle fecal funny Jobel.

    • @personalstuff3019
      @personalstuff3019 2 роки тому +14

      Trashman, i eat gArBagE

    • @tree561
      @tree561 2 роки тому +9

      Yes I watched it and it was so fecal funny hahahaha

    • @tastethepainbow
      @tastethepainbow 2 роки тому +20

      And then I went home and ate chicken nuggets

  • @pyp2205
    @pyp2205 2 роки тому +3983

    This is why you should enable auto save. So that if you run this while working, then you wouldn't be an idiot. 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @FennecTECH
      @FennecTECH 2 роки тому +191

      Auto save wasn’t quite a thing yet.

    • @pyp2205
      @pyp2205 2 роки тому +23

      @@FennecTECH well you know what I mean

    • @carlonpetersen171
      @carlonpetersen171 2 роки тому +92

      Not really tho, what do you mean? It truly didn't exist yet so...

    • @pyp2205
      @pyp2205 2 роки тому +17

      @@carlonpetersen171 I know that auto save didn't really exist at that time. But what I'm saying is that if you were working with auto save enabled, and you ran this. You wouldn't feel like an idiot for not saving your work.

    • @Lateralus138
      @Lateralus138 2 роки тому +58

      @@carlonpetersen171Main stream auto save wasn't a thing, but many of us had our own auto saving scripts or programs we wrote for ourselves.

  • @sickboydroid
    @sickboydroid 7 місяців тому +1

    "... that was only becoming relatively more complex by the year, Javescript". Yep it is happening to this day

  • @AstralFireIX
    @AstralFireIX 9 місяців тому +1

    oh wow, I completely missed the first phase of this where it could jam up the computer. I always thought of it in the safer form where it was just something smug people arguing online linked people when they got frustrated.
    I did run into pop-up spam malware, but never with the meme attached.

  • @personman2454
    @personman2454 2 роки тому +7972

    Honestly this virus is terrifying. Feels like something out of a horror movie with some evil AI invading your computer.
    Edit: By saying it’s terrifying, I meant the concept itself: not the actual virus because of how mostly harmless it is.

    • @Silksper
      @Silksper 2 роки тому +25

      Frr

    • @ezra5737
      @ezra5737 2 роки тому +81

      I was 7 or 8 when i first saw it and if i hadnt previously watched all of the halloween movies that were out, i would want to cry.

    • @azkaramadhan7654
      @azkaramadhan7654 2 роки тому +32

      Yeah, evil AI that says "you are an idiot"

    • @dopechincilla
      @dopechincilla 2 роки тому +20

      If u think this virus is scary then oh boy you’re in for a rude awakening one day

    • @VskutkuTrigen
      @VskutkuTrigen 2 роки тому +10

      @@aslammmmm181 Well we were different breed, Good old happy tree friends is animation series we all watched xD

  • @lichypieruu9747
    @lichypieruu9747 2 роки тому +3819

    virus: literally destroys thousands of computers
    animators: hey hey, let's use this sound to create a funny lil animation meme trend lol

    • @i_tankr9217
      @i_tankr9217 2 роки тому +50

      FACTS

    • @NameNotFound147
      @NameNotFound147 2 роки тому +93

      yep
      and i was vibing when i heard the original song (from here)

    • @chad6461
      @chad6461 2 роки тому +59

      frrrr I saw the animations and was vibing in my room until this and now it creeps me the f outt

    • @daniellepineda2496
      @daniellepineda2496 2 роки тому +9

      @@chad6461 me too X[

    • @witherr
      @witherr 2 роки тому +50

      damn they probably even made edgy cats bleed from their eyes to this song or something lul

  • @chicken_playz2420
    @chicken_playz2420 Рік тому

    dude the first flashing n stuff put me in a trance. my eyes were snapping to focus on the screen without me controlling them, i couldnt control myself. i just stared.

  • @whiteglovian
    @whiteglovian Рік тому +4

    i wanted to visit this site so bad as a kid, since i had an xp professional until 2014 and didn't understand *how* it could be an actual virus if it just spams tabs
    now i think i'm glad i never risked it

  • @noahissobored
    @noahissobored 2 роки тому +1892

    this scares me. the first part was so stressful- I know it’s harmless but if this happened to me I would’ve had an anxiety attack 😭

    • @serene_2
      @serene_2 2 роки тому +60

      Same, that was really scary :(

    • @ansun1987
      @ansun1987 2 роки тому +48

      Same idk why it scared me so much

    • @NeoIV
      @NeoIV 2 роки тому +8

      Same

    • @zedestiny5190
      @zedestiny5190 2 роки тому +7

      i literally got an enxity attack like 😟

    • @nyambura7698
      @nyambura7698 2 роки тому +11

      @@ansun1987 ikr? its literally so creepy to me.

  • @ehkirkio
    @ehkirkio 2 роки тому +1951

    This is such a blast from the past, I used to love pranking people with it at school. One of the best was a friend who had Neopets bookmarked on her PC in IT class and used to get away with going on it all the time because the teacher couldn't see her screen. That's until we went on there and changed the bookmark link. Absolutely creased.

  • @HARDROOKIE
    @HARDROOKIE 7 місяців тому

    You're video's will never die keep it going Nationsquid 👍

  • @jascooly
    @jascooly 5 місяців тому

    I love how the first mention of "JavaScript" is followed up with a shot of someone looking at a composer.lock file.

  • @goot1087
    @goot1087 2 роки тому +401

    An ad really just interrupted this guy talking about adult websites and desperate internet users by yelling the phrase “NERDS!”

  • @lawierdwitch
    @lawierdwitch 2 роки тому +2192

    YouAreAnIdiot: *has a whole history and legend about itself *
    Me : *casually has this audio/remix of it in my playlist without even knowing it *

    • @MochaChinoSingz
      @MochaChinoSingz 2 роки тому +44

      LMFAO I LOVE THE SONG

    • @cookiecat7759
      @cookiecat7759 2 роки тому +17

      Me too like I didn’t know it had such a history, damn

    • @RobotronSage
      @RobotronSage 2 роки тому +10

      Unironically based tbh

    • @vibe_swizzy
      @vibe_swizzy 2 роки тому

      Got the link?

    • @MochaChinoSingz
      @MochaChinoSingz 2 роки тому +1

      @@vibe_swizzy here ya go
      ua-cam.com/video/hiRacdl02w4/v-deo.html

  • @embelcourt8101
    @embelcourt8101 Рік тому

    I love how for a nice touch on the on the windows xp machine you have another popular virus at the time or maybe it came later idk since I was only one years old when this virus originated but I see bonzi buddy on there.

  • @sup3erstar
    @sup3erstar Рік тому

    Wasn't even bored in the 2000s but I somehow recognized that sound

  • @JeremySharpSMSG
    @JeremySharpSMSG 2 роки тому +1013

    The legendary choir that recorded this 5 second clip of art is out there still, embracing the fact that they ARE one of the oldest internet memes ever

  • @snoobnoob9343
    @snoobnoob9343 2 роки тому +1044

    Hearing about how it would multiply and multiply, even when you kept closing the windows, makes me think of it as a sort of modern day hydra? Which makes for a fun mental image at least lol

    • @pattyryopotybuttongamer3063
      @pattyryopotybuttongamer3063 2 роки тому +6

      and after that you have to plug the red wire into the socket to make sure the engine boots at launch. Wrap the green wire around it's coil that sits directly beside the A button. After you put the back shell on, place the battery in the slot. Screw the Vr26 Jeeper back up and press the reset button. If everything worked according to plan you're device should show a thumbs up sprite. Plug the HDMI port into a monitor and wait three seconds. If it boots up on TV your in the good side. If it doesn't boot in less then 5 seconds quickly unplug. This can severely damage your TV and possibly start a fire

    • @ThePhantomSafetyPin
      @ThePhantomSafetyPin 2 роки тому +10

      Imagine that Hydra in the legend of Hercules. Imagine how obnoxious that would have been for the guy.

    • @syweb2
      @syweb2 2 роки тому +10

      @@hisokaswaifu5343 They're talking about the mythological hydra, which would grow two more heads for every one that you destroy.

    • @lqu
      @lqu 2 роки тому +1

      that's why it has 3 heads

  • @SirHuman01
    @SirHuman01 9 місяців тому +5

    my bretheren, we must rise again. come forth and fulfil our destiny.

  • @brauggithebold7956
    @brauggithebold7956 4 місяці тому +1

    2:23 I love how you can immediately tell that it's the early 2000's because people have that Evanescence avatar. That used to be everywhere.

  • @MladenPostruznik
    @MladenPostruznik 2 роки тому +340

    My favorite from the '90s was Elvis Watcher. It would install, add a toolbar button that was like a small alert, and did nothing after. But, if Elvis Presley appeared in your 'hood it would alert you. At least, it was claimed.

  • @Alexis-ul5wt
    @Alexis-ul5wt 2 роки тому +873

    I love your videos relating to viruses/malware. They're very interesting to watch and learn about! I hope you can make some more like this :))

    • @nationsquid
      @nationsquid  2 роки тому +69

      Thank you so much! More content to come! :)

    • @somerandomdude7650
      @somerandomdude7650 2 роки тому +9

      @@nationsquid cool 🙂

    • @toxicmrdiego1280
      @toxicmrdiego1280 2 роки тому

      @Falcon X probably, but if you get it seriously you can just reformat the whole computer

  • @niklosweber5759
    @niklosweber5759 2 місяці тому +3

    I’m sure my plant friend would love this!

  • @thepainfuljournee
    @thepainfuljournee 4 місяці тому

    Im 30 years old. And i remember this like it was yesterday! Creepy amd disturbing asf years later.

  • @foxracing8973
    @foxracing8973 2 роки тому +384

    16:06 Growing up in this time and having myself or watching friends come across different viruses.....that sound of your computer locking up will always freak me out! I don't know why it did, but hearing it again after all these years brought those fears right back! Maybe it was from the "Oh shit I accidentally infected the computer and now my dad is going to kill me" realization lol

    • @pileofmemes
      @pileofmemes Рік тому +8

      @Clexplosion that wasnt your ipad saying that it was definitely an ad pretending to be an ipad notification

    • @6destroyer9boi99
      @6destroyer9boi99 Рік тому

      @Clexplosion yup, those aren’t sending you to virus blockers, they’re sending you to pages that will actually give you a virus

    • @Skemati
      @Skemati Рік тому

      @Clexplosion It could be a virus disguising itself as a virus blocker. Many viruses disguise themselves as an anti virus.

    • @ghostface6110
      @ghostface6110 Рік тому +4

      @Clexplosion WELL THE VIRUS BLOCKER PROBALY WASNT A BLOCKER IT WAS PROBS JUST A ACTUAL VIRUS

    • @thisguy-wb7mi
      @thisguy-wb7mi Рік тому +2

      @Clexplosion nah bro its a ad ive gotten lots of those asking to install their apps many else got those

  • @nuke_monke
    @nuke_monke 2 роки тому +519

    "you REALLY are an idiot"
    *Flowey liked that*

    • @tweer64
      @tweer64 2 роки тому +3

      Reminds me of this video: ua-cam.com/video/wewiWDm8icE/v-deo.html

    • @x5-x417
      @x5-x417 2 роки тому +9

      Imagen instead of closing the game after dafeating asgore it would also open this up but with a flowey sprite.

    • @ricekreme1515
      @ricekreme1515 2 роки тому +4

      finally a reference that i understand

    • @CaptJCB_
      @CaptJCB_ 2 роки тому +3

      yes
      also nice pfp

    • @nuke_monke
      @nuke_monke 2 роки тому +2

      @@CaptJCB_ lol

  • @tantaf123
    @tantaf123 11 місяців тому +4

    17:13 The fact when he closed it at first we thought it was gone but then they suddenly appear back. I was laughing so hard 😂😂😂

  • @masterbondofox8982
    @masterbondofox8982 Рік тому

    A year or so before this I had the .wav file of the singers. Harmless sound file I had no problem putting it on other people's computers in place of the error tone or startup sound.

  • @1TheBlessedOne1
    @1TheBlessedOne1 2 роки тому +271

    For some reason, it scares me. The sound is weird and when more windows pop up, it jumpscares me. At least the creator taught them something.

  • @sky-sx5gt
    @sky-sx5gt 2 роки тому +663

    If I had this on my pc when I was little I would probably cry and panic because I'm sensitive to loud sounds. I clicked on this because it looked interesting

    • @athol9846
      @athol9846 2 роки тому +10

      Sameeee I would prob run away from the computer skdjddj

    • @purrpletiger2159
      @purrpletiger2159 2 роки тому +1

      Nice furby profile pic c:

    • @sky-sx5gt
      @sky-sx5gt 2 роки тому +3

      @@purrpletiger2159 thank you

    • @reddiamondcat3391
      @reddiamondcat3391 2 роки тому +2

      I have spd because of my autism so 😖

    • @polpotube
      @polpotube 2 роки тому +6

      So called "screamer" websites/programs of the turn of the millennium taught me to lower the volume and make the window very small before doing anything I don't know the outcome of. THE HARD WAY.

  • @Amanda-cd6dm
    @Amanda-cd6dm 4 місяці тому +2

    Control-Alt-Delete all at the same time. Anything freezing up or won't close out will be forced closed. My favorite 3 keyboard buttons

  • @VancoVan53
    @VancoVan53 Рік тому +933

    Fun Fact : That script from Flowey from Undertale which is "YOU ARE AN IDIOT" is kinda referenced with the same activation of the YouAreAnIdiot Trojan

  • @pipersgaming3516
    @pipersgaming3516 2 роки тому +604

    When he said “you really are an idiot” it gave me flowey vibes

    • @Butterfingers3
      @Butterfingers3 2 роки тому +13

      same

    • @_secret_
      @_secret_ 2 роки тому +16

      "Howdy! I'm Flowey, Flowey the flower" :D

    • @basicmonstermaniaowner3276
      @basicmonstermaniaowner3276 2 роки тому +4

      yes

    • @jperson4444
      @jperson4444 2 роки тому +5

      Flower:I'ma make pepole cry and delete their files with a virus.

    • @miragedraws
      @miragedraws 2 роки тому +6

      I heard that Toby fox based his voice off of it in other UA-cam comments, I haven’t checked though

  • @mandrakethemadcoder
    @mandrakethemadcoder 4 місяці тому

    I'm pretty damn sure I saw it in action in computer class back in high school... Which would've been '98-'00. We used to download and/or play loads of flash animations and games from shady places because hardly anyone had a fast connection at home. Schools usually had somr kind of broadband.

  • @StriderStryker
    @StriderStryker 2 роки тому +918

    NationSquad: *DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME.*
    Virtual Machine: _Allow me to introduce myself._

    • @thermaltools
      @thermaltools 2 роки тому +7

      Virtual machine..?

    • @WinterNox
      @WinterNox 2 роки тому +58

      @@thermaltools Virtual machine is basically a computer inside a computer, if you know how you can simulate mobile emulators in computer, just like that you can run a virtual machine to have a computer inside a computer, it's mostly used to test viruses

    • @atomguy15
      @atomguy15 2 роки тому +8

      @@thermaltools a computer inside a computer

    • @zil_randomly
      @zil_randomly 2 роки тому +7

      @@thermaltools basically a virtual/digital computer inside a computer

    • @blocksource4192
      @blocksource4192 2 роки тому +22

      dude I swear people who aren't in the IT field and use virtual machines as a word to defeat any virus is funny as hell... they act like there aren't ways to infect your host machine from VMs as well

  • @TheGuzeinbuick
    @TheGuzeinbuick 2 роки тому +737

    Just discovered this channel. I love this kind of stuff. The late 90s, early 2000s was such fascinating time for the internet, not only because I was just a kid and it's nostalgic to me, but also because of how unregulated the online world was. It was like the Wild West. You never knew what you would find.
    Keep up the great work! Looking forward to your next video. :)

    • @rayh6118
      @rayh6118 2 роки тому +1

      I had a windows xp during the late and early 2000s on my dads old pc this channel bring some nostalgia

  • @Mugruncher
    @Mugruncher Рік тому

    I had this happen when I was a kid watching flash videos (before UA-cam was a thing. Back in the olden days)

  • @Cr3Ek_l0v3R
    @Cr3Ek_l0v3R 5 місяців тому

    Props to the people including this person that recorded themselves risking their computer to show people this issue.

  • @robertduryee4598
    @robertduryee4598 2 роки тому +100

    "You can barely move the mouse its so slow"
    School computers: first time?

  • @fluffcake
    @fluffcake 2 роки тому +426

    I remember getting nightmares about this when i was a kid. Good times.

    • @PancakeTheKat
      @PancakeTheKat 2 роки тому

      Same

    • @thekingofdoms
      @thekingofdoms 2 роки тому +2

      “good times” WTF?

    • @anonymouscat3772
      @anonymouscat3772 2 роки тому +3

      To be fair it sounds f’in S C A R Y

    • @rhyanisyes4512
      @rhyanisyes4512 2 роки тому

      @@thekingofdoms they're being sarcastic, they don't actually mean they had a good time

    • @AriPlayz08
      @AriPlayz08 2 роки тому

      Same but that is right now and I haven’t had any nightmares yet but I think about it before bed…