Disturbing Images On Kids TV - What Was the Qubo 'Screen of Death'?

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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 KZbin 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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[@CoobyPls]

Eggs

[@dumbfluffs]

hu

[@CoobyPls]

Also, eggs

[@deepcharmz]

O

[@tre-engines]

I’m good thanks!

[@TheJingles007]

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

[@erikolsen148]

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

[@markussimicak104]

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

[@MortusSweet]

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

[@TheJingles007]

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

[@uglyaniimals]

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

[@teddyobrien4801]

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

[@UntalentedBrick]

and a pretty disturbing way to go out as well.

[@PTEC]

😭

[@PyroFTB]

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

[@wodhart5971]

@@UntalentedBrick you

[@wodhart5971]

@@PTEC lol 🐂 o

[@ErisIsAnAbomination]

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

[@ril3y649]

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

[@AdrianGuzmanOfficial]

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

[@isabelgiron7762]

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

[@Bruh-zx2mc]

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

[@chronica6457]

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

[@bitzthe8bit668]

Finally somebody admits it, same tbh.

[@abdyrobloxer2]

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

[@yourlocalbuddyhere289]

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

[@thecov3n]

HONESTLY

[@iaport]

Ikr? Remember the cessation of Disney Channel?

[@bandaidgirlcos]

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

[@CanOfSpriteFoundInNewYearsEve]

Not to mention the rickroll phone number

[@yoshikagekira1863]

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

[@ehuve7ygcsygvsuh8v]

@@CanOfSpriteFoundInNewYearsEve what

[@superk9letsplays419]

@@CanOfSpriteFoundInNewYearsEve I'm not

[@CanOfSpriteFoundInNewYearsEve]

@@superk9letsplays419 good for you I guess

[@SoooBUwU]

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

[@Killbayne]

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

[@richardsanchez5444]

Those people are called attention whores

[@novameowww]

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

[@ZetaR0yszawa]

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

[@avetthekiller3080]

I was in china in 1984

[@DaRogueRenegade]

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

[@Gacha_Miko342]

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

[@mintoctoling]

veggietales :(

[@uglyandproud]

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

[@malmart0]

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

[@skeletalflake]

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

[@skeletalflake]

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

[@jared-2]

some things never change.

[@pentexsucks43]

absolute chad Teto pfp

[@limeflashlight4101]

Yeah

[@Zulf85]

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

[@michaelclark6941]

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

[@soulsidejourney2693]

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

[@B0YR0B0TT]

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

[@R3D_Lantern]

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

[@NotFckingBen]

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

[@NeoAya]

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

[@wut939]

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

[@manidevoleper7551]

Ikr

[@gageblymyer6552]

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

[@tirs0d]

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

[@mrkaislime]

same

[@cocoahere875]

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

[@rubykagamine]

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

[@daphnerogers4277]

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

[@BillyLegumbres]

Seems like something a terrorist would do

[@TheGldnSldr]

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

[@Roadent1241]

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

[@BridgetGX]

Way to call me out 😅

[@infiniteplanes5775]

Ya, that sums it up

[@Dovah_Slayer]

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

[@SolarDos]

@💕Wittwe Headpat Wuvew💕 Please cope

[@LeGnomeLMP]

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

[@Enter_the_Toshiverse_1996]

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

[@luckyy3691]

Qubo did have some bangers, especially the Night Owl section

[@Yt_people_are_lowkeyannoying]

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

[@velvet1371]

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

[@charliebrown9392]

Why does this comment have 666 likes

[@MaryTudor28283]

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

[@the.192]

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

[@tolstartheking]

@@charliebrown9392Because 666 people hit the like button?

[@xxbutterfly608]

​@@worowelfNever😀gonna😫give😚you😘up😏

[@Lucy-pp6ru]

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

[@meyers0781]

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

[@LegendStormcrow]

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

[@Fritz1105]

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

[@guffingtonreal]

Disney + killed it, it sucks really bad.

[@weirdanimations76]

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.

[@WilliamAfton-so9vg]

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

[@charlotteshenkenberger345]

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

[@Boom2ickle]

People really don't finish videos before commenting

[@Mr.Mayonaise]

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

[@bucketbutters866]

@@Mr.Mayonaise it ended but not like that

[@plutonix5792]

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

[@ukraineballgeneral5546]

My god I feel the same

[@PredictedCyborg]

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

[@mariared1670]

Which to me made it so unrealistic.

[@indeepjable]

not hyperrealistic enough personally

[@professional.commentator]

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

[@sammiev1918]

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

[@keiviroque5666]

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

[@pyorweaow8247]

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

[@modestmismagius105]

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

[@professional.commentator]

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

[@chip6828]

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

[@kringlez7340]

EAS still scare me and I'm 15

[@dogecoin9562]

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

[@jordanford9320]

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!

[@dommitchell4319]

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.

[@evilemperordude]

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

[@pyro4843]

my thoughts as well, lmao

[@buddyholly855]

its fake :]

[@iamonemillionindebt]

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

[@SillyCreatureSally]

saving qubo would be very selfless lol

[@whaddyawantkiddo384]

@@buddyholly855 Duh

[@PhantoFantasma]

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

[@PhantoFantasma]

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

[@rachelcoyle]

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

[@fuki98]

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

[@Slenderquil]

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

[@kevindube7096]

@@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)

[@Stichting_NoFap]

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.

[@johnnybyrd300]

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.

[@xaungabongsmak]

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

[@waterfizzlet]

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

[@waterfizzlet]

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

[@loomian8961]

Shot

[@annettemaldonado3373]

Yeah

[@camreyes1819]

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

[@flowerzforsaturn]

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

[@themistakingcone]

Amber alerts do this to me today

[@professional.commentator]

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

[@kringlez7340]

Same

[@holygrailtheo1615]

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

[@newaccountBviewssecondsa-ym1jw]

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...

[@strudelsilly]

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

[@Cr_ninetyfive]

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

[@welcometomybrain7385]

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

[@supertoddlemalrolllittlelu3192]

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

[@DingleMcHoppernoodle]

yes i know! i wouldnt get sleep for MONTHS.

[@bababoi6426]

ikr

[@NumeroLetter]

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

[@SallyPuppy123456]

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

[@horrordoll.mp4]

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

[@aweirdoschannel]

"kudos" You mean "qubos" 😏

[@horrordoll.mp4]

@@aweirdoschannel HAH

[@putinsthirdtoe8800]

It is fake? bro thank god.

[@SomeTheEpicDude]

What is your bar for well made content

[@MrStark-up6fi]

Thank god it’s fake

[@hideousruin]

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

[@NickyXL989]

What is it?

[@Hobojoe4464]

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.

[@therealmarioplumber7440]

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

[@nyancat8655]

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

[@therealmarioplumber7440]

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

[@cheez-itman2784]

@@therealmarioplumber7440 based take

[@Yonlrz]

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

[@tre-engines]

Do you think Qubo will return?

[@javabean4383]

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

[@ddjsoyenby]

yeah.

[@mr.incognitoyt2235]

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

[@rachelmayes3064]

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

[@mr.incognitoyt2235]

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

[@yiorn]

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

[@Gravijahz]

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

[@Jaiden.On.Pawz.]

Ikr

[@bwc1976]

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

[@thepinkestpigglet7529]

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

[@zephyrprime8]

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

[@PeiceofNick]

Genius

[@PotatoKernels]

This is big brain time

[@charliek7896]

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

[@m.nic.5080]

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

[@-LQM-]

That’s kinda creepy

[@mackback319]

THEY GASLIT YOU INTO BELIEVING QUBO DIDN'T EXIST HELP

[@kitma9]

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

[@m.nic.5080]

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

[@quietestdawn]

Graggle Simpson type shit

[@alexthegreat265yt]

Every copy of the Qubo shutdown is personalized

[@daniexists6]

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

[@Trillyana]

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

[@johanflores8928]

Me to tbh

[@supertoddlemalrolllittlelu3192]

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

[@gimblesfan4lyfe]

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

[@asingularleaf10]

That would actually be pretty funny

[@piranhalettuce]

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

[@spacequeen2046]

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

[@skeouspace]

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

[@oldchannelawhellnah]

@@skeouspace Yeah! I wanna see

[@Voidaken]

That was your grandmother?

[@anthonyjohnstone695]

W grandma

[@ArtOwl]

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

[@icestreak.]

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

[@StarryAuraMegaLatias]

Both have bob lol

[@shawns628]

this dude makes it less scary, great job dude

[@whocares9033]

You found this scary in the first place?

[@oliveanimates2687]

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

[@theclownsystem9429]

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

[@Sage-Thyme]

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

[@nictuniema762]

No

[@hollowwallsendmiseryforest8709]

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

[@izaacreatherishere]

The creepiest rickroll in history

[@TrashComments]

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

[@jerricaleonard2123]

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

[@wuvsong362ndchannel9]

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

[@jerricaleonard2123]

@@wuvsong362ndchannel9 Me too.

[@fireentertainment5]

*freaky attractions has joined the chat*

[@whalesharkgirI]

wrtie

[@BuckBlaziken]

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

[@annathecartoonartist4819]

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

[@AVK_SAM]

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.

[@randomexcessmemories4452]

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

[@bruhdoublebruh6934]

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

[@pokelover3602]

This is the very reason spellcheck exists.

[@philardo]

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

[@Paddylol]

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

[@pennyforyourthots]

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

[@blue-slushy]

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

[@ingloriousMachina]

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

[@migsy1]

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

[@ciclon5682]

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

[@SCIFIguy64]

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

[@Retriku]

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

[@espurrthestupididiot2405]

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

[@mellow63656]

Alfred is 6ft 4in

[@Foxhunter258]

Ah nostalgia

[@TheQuestionmarkstudi]

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

[@redcoffeez]

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

[@hideousruin]

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

[@mondopatrick657]

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

[@GalleryArtt]

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

[@kevindube7096]

not even Gadget can inspect it

[@Larrylikesthomas]

You made me laugh thank you

[@emrass7721]

He-Man didn't have enough power.

[@allenginesgofan101iambeing4]

Not even Theodore tugboat can tow it

[@legofan1014]

No, he can't.

[@lieutenant_lucky_rocks]

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

[@animatedalex619]

Me to bro

[@henryplayzpokemongo3703]

Same

[@HomekittyL2]

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

[@dogelover148]

me too

[@tyjuarez]

nature is healing bro

[@venusflytrapyt]

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

[@gamesnsuchco]

that's actually hilarious, i love it.

[@venusflytrapyt]

Glad to see my autism amuses somebody@@gamesnsuchco

[@itzkatvr]

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

[@gabrielvaldeswho]

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

[@disgruntled4627]

New cartoons are braindead tier.

[@toceeno874]

why

[@switchblade6]

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

[@goouls]

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

[@NorwayDuck]

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

[@Neillan]

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

[@thegrandxbunny2073]

Same.

[@NotFckingBen]

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

[@shainne3]

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

[@shainne3]

Nvm I just finished the vid

[@shainne3]

It's a rickroll

[@kexard]

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.

[@TheSonicKidMC]

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

[@treacherous-doctor]

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

[@retrosampleguy]

What does it look like?

[@eclat4641]

Yikes

[@dejus_e]

Atleast they apologized unlike other networks.

[@panzersusmander3728]

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

[@pvshka]

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 😂

[@NEILEAS]

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

[@BuddhaMelffyQueen]

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

[@evrton]

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

[@nyancat8655]

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

[@jacksonbruns9429]

I cant watch Jacob two two anymore 😢

[@Suarez05]

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

[@mickenziedavis3068]

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

[@EeveelutionStorm]

We had Cable but we had Qubo. I honestly, dug it a lot as a teenager, because while it was kids programming, it was great for wind down time where I didn't WANT to think about my anxiety or being bullied, I could just quietly watch some shows I liked as a kid and see them again. I am not proud of how often I watched Rescue Heroes, because I felt like I only saw it ONCE as a younger kid and I had no information on where to find it for ages so watching it again was fun. It was interesting watching how the style changed to match the toy line better and how they had all types. (Although I had to laugh at some of the pun names. "Cliff Hanger")

[@UglyBarnical58]

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

[@concerningproductionz]

yeah!

[@Neillan]

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

[@concerningproductionz]

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

[@blackquagmire5205]

NO WAY ITS FAKE IM CRYING RN OH MY GOD

[@FoxeralArt]

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

[@aspect7582]

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

[@UniGamingSisters]

I thought about that!

[@UniGamingSisters]

@@aspect7582 Same!

[@alanacula3855]

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

[@FunniRobloxianman]

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

[@e.9785]

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

[@wolfetteplays8894]

The spelling differences can be explained by outsourcing

[@ddjsoyenby]

it's the cherry on top.

[@thecpmr6276]

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

[@MadameSomnambule]

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

[@MarcinOsadowskiNiePrawdziwy]

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

[@BlazeHeartPanther]

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

[@quandaleprogg]

Wait that is mine

[@sydneyw7375]

3:39 "Go go gadget hyperrealistic bleeding eyes"

[@Boowompland69]

Go go gadget pixel reducer (Start chain)

[@thevideocamman5674]

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

[@ExaltedUriel]

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

[@maric7558]

True

[@maric7558]

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

[@amelialonelyfart8848]

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

[@turtle6648]

its not a new thing what

[@ExtremeWreck]

@@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.

[@DeathbyProxy]

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

[@LocoMan123]

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

[@DarkVeil857]

Fr

[@alexjames1756]

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

[@BrandMath-ns5yc]

Really it’s satisfying I hated that show

[@kitkatrina1337]

@@BrandMath-ns5yc chad

[@tirzahroseroot]

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

[@michaelsaunders1400]

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

[@not_kjb]

Good thing this isn't what Wikipedia then

[@renderjay6035]

But No Sock Puppet Video

[@plainrocky4209]

@@not_kjbwhat?

[@snowkitten3285]

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

[@sheldontheartistseal]

The bots replied

[@V8ArtBFBSReal]

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

[@michelleobamafootcream9292]

Tbh that’s still creepy lol

[@llynxfyremusic]

They couldn't have let the show finish?

[@snowkitten3285]

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

[@tardigradez]

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

[@nobleneonshadows4439]

Same!

[@umbraecrystalheart9345]

Same!

[@jakeford12]

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

[@SamtheToaster]

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

[@SATADELUXE]

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

[@atavious2491]

I know exactly what you mean. I can specifically categorize my life with the kinds of shows I use to watch. While I did watch PBS kids mostly, I also had the luxury of cable for a while in the 2000s. However, after my parents could no longer afford it in 2007, I either saw PBS kids on weekdays or the CW4kids every Saturday morning until 2009. I was lucky if I ever went to my cousin's or friend's house and Cartoon Network, Disney Channel or Nickelodeon would be playing. And then I saw Qubo... And that was the *only* kids channel that was available on my TV, aside from the news and the Spanish channels. My memories kind of associate this channel with the 2008 recession sadly. A lot of the shows I saw there were mainly boring and only a few programs like Marvin The Tap-Dancing Horse and Book of Virtues (and I think Jay-Jay the Jet Plane) were shows I remember once airing on PBS. Other shows like Maisy I remember watching on Nick Jr. All the other shows I quickly found out were mainly Canadian, Christian-based, British (BBC), Australian or New Zealand shows. A handful of these shows I genuinely thought were knockoffs of some kind to well known shows I use to watch when I had cable. Like Alfred the Hedgehog being some knockoff to Sonic The Hedgehog. Animal Exploration w/ J. Miller being a clone to the Kratt Brothers and such. There were times when Qubo would air reruns of actual classics like The Magic School Bus, the DiC Carmon San Diego, Denver The Last Dinosaur, Animorphs and eventually Inspector Gadget of all things! During the summer of 2013, I was at a friend's house and there I saw the 2012 TMNT for the first time and that's when I flat out stopped watching Qubo and began to just bootleg shows on pirate websites or I just watch KZbin.

[@TheNamesComplete]

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

[@pip5528]

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

[@RedPawner]

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

[@iwaju9227]

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

[@aohou]

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

[@kaydubsthekoifish]

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

[@ExtremeWreck]

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

[@kaydubsthekoifish]

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

[@Jozzuh1]

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

[@ThatOneGuy0006]

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

[@kaydubsthekoifish]

@@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.

[@DaxTheWolf17]

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

[@_NInjagoFandom_]

Dude as a kid (Gen z btw) I watched Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network- and I still saw some traumatized sh!t 😭.

[@largeorange4580]

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

[@grizzlydino]

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

[@PeiceofNick]

@@grizzlydino what are Barney Error?

[@Kairos_Hell]

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

[@BigOlSmellyFlashlight]

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

[@c0r390]

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.

[@callmelaterjhon]

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

[@somebonehead]

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. 😅

[@silverfire1248]

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

[@UpTheMightyPool]

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

[@bashfulwolfo6499]

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.

[@GoldPrince2468]

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.

[@anthon_XYZ]

@@GoldPrince2468 pingu?

[@akumatsutranslations]

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.

[@_Kuma_]

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.

[@Eriksimpschristine]

Yeah me to coz qubo is not available at the philippines

[@shirleyjenlion187]

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

[@Zulf85]

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

[@ThiccSteveYT]

Shirley shenlion is handy

[@Jaxon2248]

I can't believe people lied about seeing this happen. But it is still very well made