Yeah, it just had to be a creepy looking doll that mysteriously shows up in your game that you can't get rid of. It couldn't just be something benign like a toilet or a laundry basket.
Programmer here, it is possible Rebecah never set a default package for the doll, thus the Sims 3 launcher would just assign it to the first hex entry in CC, in turn "attaching" it to other CC. There was no intention to create a virus, IMO
would it have worked in her testing though? Because it seems like it was able to corrupt more than just other cc packages. Im not a programmer but that seems like it would have been broken all along then even for her.
I loved your take on the "virus," but how comes these package files turned out invisible once they started spreading? Regular package files for CC are always visible, so how come hers wasn't? Not sure if this mattered in the long run, though!
I remember something like this but it was a centaur instead, it would always come with everything I downloaded and wouldn’t never go away, it was some sort of replacement for nude bodies so it showed up when they showered, it was so creepy as it was a grey untextured centaur body with high heels on
it was from a removed piece of a Supernatural pack, but the coding for it still existed so whenever you woohoo or shower there's a chance of the Centaur model glitching onto your sim. A few people have experienced this glitch but is more certain to appear when downloading custom content.
omg i had this on my old computer. it was so annoying and i had no idea where it came from. i still play the sims 3 today, and since i’ve got a new computer i haven’t had the issue, but it was so creepy and weird.
Okay, I'm sorry, but that is actually really really funny 😂 I mean, I have no doubt that that was frustrating to deal with, and maybe even a little scary (no one wants to have to think about the possibility of a virus on their computer), but I can't help but laugh at the mental image of one of my sims stepping into the shower and looking down at their horse legs and high heels and thinking "hmm...That was not there before."
Omg, I'm so glad I never ran into this bug as a kid! It would have freaked me out so much if I downloaded a random lot and ended up with a random doll I couldn't delete and a ton of file corruptions 😭😭
Same! But I had a graphic bug in my game that was even creepier..all of my sims suddenly had no eyes O_O I was about 10-11 years at the time and man, that was hella creepy.
@@Kazushiro really? I thought the default skin in the Sims 2 had a set of empty looking brown eyes that sat below the actual eye asset? 😭. Maybe you had a custom skin that didn't have the backup eyes 😬. That sounds terrifying too, lmfao I'm just imagining 11 year old me seeing that sort of thing with no context 😭
The fact that it's a doll, easily one of the creepiest toys mankind has made, makes this both hilarious and horrifying. I feel bad for her though, it's not her fault this happened
i mean it also happened with some hooker boots, a vampire shirt, and a crappy untextured centaur model but those aren't creepy enough to turn into a vid 😂
srry but as a person who knows about coding i can tell that this is a very well coded virus. a small bug or coding error cant result in the content attaching itself to other files.
@@xo7462 There were other corrupted content that popped up in my sims game as a result of downloading custom content that didn't appear to have said corrupted content however, I never had this You're going to tell me there's not a possibility of this happening randomly? How much corrupted content was made then?
I'm a bit late to this- but Maxis cannot yet hire any new staff. Maxis works under EA games as a branch company, and at EA they give a certain game or franchise a limited amount of workers based on how big the project or game is. Hope this helps!
My theory is that it was created and uploaded EXACTLY as the game updated and when the game went to update itself and clean/respawn the items it messed up the code so that it always resets/respawns within the files, meaning it would always want to spawn regardless of whether you have it in the household or not thus causing a duplication glitch within the files. Or because there are different variations of the doll perhaps the code wasnt properly executed and attempts to use all variants on one item/model.
Also she wouldnt get the code wrong unless she had two tabs of meshes on different docs. If she did make that mistake with swapping another code then she would have gotten 1-8 warnings both from the os and the virus software and only if she clicked "proceed" the virus would operate and would give her many warnings about possible risk of data loss from a harmful javascript.
@@saraaaa8642 I mean when Origin updates the game it goes through every file in the game, so theoretically if it's going through but the mod comes in somewhere around the same time it may cause some sort of error where it may scan the item over and over even when deleted. And when it comes to the several tabs, there were different variants of the items so its possible she opened several to mesh them all properly and code them in. But in her attempt to code each in at once the game simply couldn't register whether it was singular or many items with similar names.
@@Daxter-hl7dw Either way the sane method happens. Also i dont think the gsme could habe confused dome files because she only had one copy and it would have asked for rebecahs consent to mske copies
Did anyone else feel slightly disappointed that this didn't involve a doll having a mind of its own and haunting it's sims type thing? Lol still this is the first time I heard of this
Maybe it was intentional to make a bigger difference between regular kid and a doll? Since it's like literally the same model used but smaller xD Idk why but watching the footage of a kid playing with literally smaller almost exact same looking version of himself made me feel creeped out And the dolls always have exxagerated flawless hair so its kind of realistic
I don’t think she had anything to do with the virus itself. Why would she upload so much content just to upload one that had a virus? Why would she purposefully mess up her entire following by sending out a terrible virus? It makes no sense. I think someone else had to have done something to the file.
@@Nobodyhere001 I was just adding my opinion and adding onto the video. People definitely thought she did do it on purpose. I said I don’t think she did and that someone else tampered with the file.
@@soapstar77 At the time a lot of people were and I’m sure there still are people who do. I don’t think she did it on purpose. I was just adding onto the video and adding my opinion on the matter.
Imagine if it was a killer bathroom sink lose on the game, wrecking everyones saves and infecting lots and game files, your whole computer even. That would lowkey be really funny, but I think the fact that "iTs A dOlL-" makes it much creepier
i mean it also happened with some hooker boots, a vampire shirt, and a crappy untextured centaur model but those aren't creepy enough to turn into a vid 😭
@@greatestaxolotl4933 I STILL HAVE THOSE BOOTS IN MY GAME TO THIS DAY. I've tried everything to get rid of them but they just won't go away lmao At this point I'm just making my peace with it, might as well since they are clearly there to stay
I don't think this was on purpose. The Sims is a very complex game so getting this kind of bug isn't the weirdest thing that could have happened. I wonder if, in a way, this was an accidental computer virus, spread by all those The Sims websites. That would make this story really, really interesting.
its a very well coded virus and the way rebecca noticed this 2 months later is so suspicious, didn't she test her creation on her own game to see if it's working properly? there is so many questions to ask.
Admins of TSR would've had access to files uploaded there's a possibility that someone modified the old version and made it look like there was no modifications to it I think someone could've purposely made a corrupted version that would cause all of this
I think in general dolls tend to be, and when you attach the idea of it being a virus/malicious in some way it subconsciously makes you feel like it's creepier.
I’ve played the sims 3 since it came out and I downloaded sooooo much cc and stuff from the exchange and I am beyond baffled and grateful I never had this doll in my game o.o I loved the imaginary friend from generations because it was a little creepy but fuck, that doll?? No thanks lol
same.. i might have had it very briefly on the old ass pc i used to have around that time.. (it died after a thunderstrike on my home though.. i booted my sims 3 up that weekend and POOF dead.. apparently that thunderstrike was what ended in my pc frying it'self at the time..) after that i only ever encountered the centaur thing and these high heels that were the worst and you couldn't get out of your game no matter what
Same I had sims 3 for a very long time and I’m very glad I didn’t get this creepy Annabell bitch, now i never heard this back then but why did it pop back up in my recommendation? I’m a little nervous to download anything.
Sadly I did and I never realized until now bc I was 9-12 years old throughout the time I played it and I didn't really think much off it I thought my game was just messed up but after some time my entire pc was dead
@@LenasEdits didn't have to be from the doll though.. the pc death that is.. if it was old or if you had some other viruses on there (wich is very much possible i've had my fair share as a kid even once had windows shit it'self on me it wasn't a virus in that case as once i reinstalled windows i was good to go.. i did manage to save some of my old saves from that pc though.. the biggest annoyance i had back then were my skyrim mods.. i tried redownloading it all but some of them i couldn't download anymore because they were taken down or under curation )
Real OGs remember this, and even realer OGs remember when Rebeckah made THE BEST toddler CC for Sims 2. She was my absolute favorite for that. I didn't know she made Sims 3 CC until this info dropped, and I was definitely around for when it happened
I cry from fear everytime in TS4 when my CC is broken and I get that weird texture with the black question mark on the Sims’ head, I would throw my computer out of the window if this happened to me
Lmao sims 3 has way creepier glitches. I had sims turning all black like a demonic shadow walking around and sims half centaurus I never downloaded. I went back to 4. Lmao
@@angelmalaika8058 I simply just cannot handle it whenever I see a glitch or something broken in a game. That’s why I play TS4 lol, bc the broken Sims 3 CC was too much for me but I can’t play the Sims without CC
@@blushchuu same but I stopped getting cc because I was careless and I got 2 I think virus 1 is like a thing that pops up at the start I got used to this one but the second one oh man so once I downloaded it but right after that my screen cashed and so many things pop up like “VIRUS DEDUCTED” and it freak me out so much I had to reset it, and it was on my dad computer so when I got my laptop I just stopped downloading cc
GDD literally caused me to cry when I realised I nearly broke my mum‘s computer by downloading stuff from the Internet. She was super understanding but I was 10 and thought I’d be punished for life
I remember going mad on downloading a ton of sims 3 cc and I guess one of the folders I downloaded included a horse like outfit which made the sims bottom half have a horse body and legs. It came it two colours (Black and Brown) it was used on all sim ages except babies. Townies would rock up in town half horse and when sims aged they would automatically have the horse body. Not only would their default outfits be the horse but sometimes certain sims would shower or bathe and their pixelated nude state would be replaced with the horses body. Couldn’t get rid of it no matter what I did.
I wanted to look up some videos of Sims 2 corruption, since that's already a spectacular programming failure, but this right here, this shows that the people at EA Maxis (because it's not Maxis anymore) really, and I mean REALLY messed up The Sims 3. From my own experience, it lags very badly with all the expansions and additional packs, even after applying various performance improving mods. And the infamous corrupted baby glitches are another example of just how badly the game was coded. I only wonder what kinds of eldritch abominations summoned by unholy EA spaghetti code Sims 4 will give us.
as much as i love all the games that aren’t sims 4, sims 3 feels like it’s moments away from falling apart completely when i play. it’s definitely the flimsiest of the lot.
I got the sims with all expansions and it worked just fine?? Maybe it’s just a cause your computer is not so strong at handling all the many files and options and open world causing it to lag.
How did this happen? How does an innocent mistake end up being such a game breaking virus? I want to get my hands on the og code and investigate, i also really want to talk to Rebecah, poor girl
Who would have thought a random comment on a video would lead me down this kind of rabbit hole on the sims of all things? Great vid, well researched and great presentation! Keep it up!
given how weird coding is, my best guess is that something went wrong in the code that allows it to be downloaded over the internet and passed around, and it became a virus. i doubt it was intentional or malicious originally, as there’s no evidence of it doing anything other than it replicating itself and lagging games, but man is it creepy
Wow! I never heard about this doll before (I guess I've been living under a rock haha). There's something odd about the whole situation. As you said, how could the virus attach itself to all those files without someone intentionally designing it that way? The fact that the virus came in a doll certainly adds to the creep factor. I try to be really careful when I download CC, but this encouraged me to check out the Custard Tool. This video was well-made and informative, thank you :)!
@@grellowny6978 Exactly, for the sims 2, you have to use a tool while building a house to share, to remove all the cc you don't want to share with that file. Because for some strange reason, a bunch your cc will try and attatch itself to the house package.
@@jimmyhopkins3748 Those were anything that involved global mods. Not quite the same thing as having CC objects. Anything which affects the environment across lots but also saves data per lot (lighting, time, seasons, weather), adds behaviours, changes notifications, or which tags relationship files onto Sims will also tie onto a lot.
To be honest, things like this happen in Sims 4 with bad files, not latching onto other files but just making the game lag or crash is super common with either old, corrupted or wrong files.
If she’s still posting content and was able to post another version that is not corrupt I’d say this virus didn’t come from her someone else did this or it’s crappy sims script
@@Skul1ManEXE i was a lot younger when i played sims 3, so i was downloading cc, any cc, like crazy😂 the open world made my shit glitch very badly alone. i couldn’t stand to have the graphics on low either!
Someone else definitely messed with the file and did this when they reuploaded it into lots, she only got backlash for it since she created the doll, but the people who reuploaded it didn’t get any repercussions, I highly doubt she’s responsible in any way for this, someone made a virus and put it in the doll’s file and then uploaded it into a cc lot on the exchange.
I remember some similarly broken custom content for horses. It was an escadron (??) blanket for horses that basically attached itself to a horse and was very hard to get out of your game
This just showed up in my recommended videos and I was surprised how extensive this was, even talking about the creator and explaining how it spread! You have a talent for explaining things
from what i understand about Maxis/EAxis's games from poking through Spore with it's modding community, Maxis relies heavily on "tree" type data structures to make games the way they do. with the spaghetti code that the Sims 3 probably is, and Maxis' revolutionary ideas on file sharing (Spore's .png sharing and their ubiquitous "Pollination" file sharing systems, for example), it's not a surprise something got tangled in the wrong way and exponentially fucked over the entire Sims 3 community.
Please do the centaurus!! I have/had that after buying the sims 3 some months ago and downloading cc. Don't know if it's still there I went back to 4 😆😆😆
The sims 3 exchange was so corrupt 😭😭 Horrifying memories. Its really not that big a deal, though. Just mistakes people made coding items and uploading/downloading exchange items.
agreed.. there were actually several items that once installed you couldn't get out of your game.. along with this doll there also was a pair of high heels and a centaur body
@@jazzyg6059 yep.. i also remember a basegame shirt and a naked body one.. they were annoying.. and why i don't download off the exchange anymore.. unless it's a sim i know is safe because i uploaded them myself (like the ones i recently uploaded.. despite two not even showing up AND I PUT MY ALL INTO BOTH OF THEM so it just hurts)
maybe she had a virus on her computer that attached to all her files while she was making the first doll, uploaded it and then realised she had a virus and removed the virus and uploaded the second version?
this is actually heartbreaking. poor Rebeccah only wanted to bring cool new things to the sims universe, and it ended up doing all this. at least it cant spread to the sims 4. the doll: *challenge accepted*
Late theory but... what if someone just happened to download it when they had a virus or malware or something already on their computer and it somehow infected the doll which caused it to glitch the file completely and curse everyone's computer with it but because it was a game file it couldn't really get that far
@@bbykyky what is the exchange? Like I download my cc from tsr and modthesims but what exactly is the exchange so I can avoid it lol. And yes I do have the mods/packages and put EVERYTHING on there
@@beans6242 the exchange is part of the sims 3 official website where other simmers can upload sims and lots etc with cc included but it can contain bad cc like the doll which can be hard to get out of your game because it attaches to other files.
@@bbykyky honestly in general you have to be careful since the file attaches it's self to other cc files, who knows if someone uploaded cc and didn't know that they had the doll and the doll got transferred to you?
I dont actually think it was RRebecca's this is my theory: I think Someone saw that it was creepy so they decided to make a virus as a "joke" but it went to far so the virus has not been Patched.
Theres no way that doll wasnt MEANT to be a virus.. look at it, the skin is so pale & yellow & the eyes are creepy. Why would anyone want that anyway? I have a feeling it’s some conspiracy to ruin the sims 3 for people so they would go back to the sims 2 where most of her mods are.
@@deedferreira4211 why else does the doll look like that? You saw what the doll looked like in the sims 2, it had proper colourings and a bunch of different ones to choose from too. This one looks so odd in comparison. It just doesn’t seem right at all.
@@ameliefrench that's pretty fair. Maybe it was a prototype or something? But now that you mention it, it's weird that it looks more creepy in the sims 3. But it was dumb of her to do that if that's true. The doll was obviously a success again. A success big enough to spread the virus so i don't know why she simply would do that and ruin her reputation
i mean it also happened with some hooker boots, a vampire shirt, and a crappy untextured centaur model so i think that its just a coincidence that it was a doll this time 😂
There is a more simple answer, the Doll that Rebecca posted was glitchy bc of the talk to, but it would be like child Sim to stand there without doing anything but that's it, but, maybe somebody downloaded it, but this guy/girl is a bad person, so, she/he decided to make a virus to Destroy other people, since the creator was Rebecca nobody would suspect that this dude would be the culprit, so, she/he proceeded and uploaded it to exchange, and thus the beggining of the virus began
I actually saw that official warning in the Sims main page, and was like "how can a doll create such a ruckus in the game?" And then I remembered the cursed ring from another game (just looked into it, it was "Second Life", and the ring self duplicated, crashing many servers and forcing the game to be closed down for several hours). Things like these are quite dangerous, and can easily spread everywhere.
@@w1u4 It was a golden ring in the game "Second Life", which started to duplicate itself all over the server if someone decided to wear it. It crashed several servers world wide, and the game creators had to close it for a while to get rid of it.
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I don’t know why its just ironic that it’s a doll, one of the creepiest horror tropes.
Yeah, it just had to be a creepy looking doll that mysteriously shows up in your game that you can't get rid of. It couldn't just be something benign like a toilet or a laundry basket.
No one would make a video about it if it was a washing machine
Irony isn't coincidence.
@@gorillan3433 tbh I feel like that would've made it funnier, but maybe I'm just weird
Thats the reason why i wasn't sure of clicking on this video. It made me think it was a creepypasta xD
The Sims 2 doll: cute, beautiful, nice
The Sims 3 doll: THE NAME, THE FACE, THE CONTENT, ALL CURSEDDDD
xD
@•Bella Studios• lel
Programmer here, it is possible Rebecah never set a default package for the doll, thus the Sims 3 launcher would just assign it to the first hex entry in CC, in turn "attaching" it to other CC. There was no intention to create a virus, IMO
So interesting! Thank you for your take! x
would it have worked in her testing though? Because it seems like it was able to corrupt more than just other cc packages. Im not a programmer but that seems like it would have been broken all along then even for her.
thank. you.
@@CHLOCHLOLP Well that is the frustrating thing about being a programmer, many famous last words have been, "It worked fine when I tested it" 😂
I loved your take on the "virus," but how comes these package files turned out invisible once they started spreading? Regular package files for CC are always visible, so how come hers wasn't? Not sure if this mattered in the long run, though!
I remember something like this but it was a centaur instead, it would always come with everything I downloaded and wouldn’t never go away, it was some sort of replacement for nude bodies so it showed up when they showered, it was so creepy as it was a grey untextured centaur body with high heels on
That's so creepy! I"ll definitely look up more info about it😍
it was from a removed piece of a Supernatural pack, but the coding for it still existed so whenever you woohoo or shower there's a chance of the Centaur model glitching onto your sim. A few people have experienced this glitch but is more certain to appear when downloading custom content.
omg i had this on my old computer. it was so annoying and i had no idea where it came from. i still play the sims 3 today, and since i’ve got a new computer i haven’t had the issue, but it was so creepy and weird.
Okay, I'm sorry, but that is actually really really funny 😂
I mean, I have no doubt that that was frustrating to deal with, and maybe even a little scary (no one wants to have to think about the possibility of a virus on their computer), but I can't help but laugh at the mental image of one of my sims stepping into the shower and looking down at their horse legs and high heels and thinking "hmm...That was not there before."
riderpls can you make a video
Me: downloads a pair of shoes CC, thinking there's no virus.
The doll: *hippity hoppity, your game is now my property*
Me intentionally trying to get the doll so I can look at the files
Wait u stole it from a fnaf comment on a trailer
@@leoaceves2652 No many people make jokes like this.
Im dead 😂😂😂😱💀
did you get it out? hope you did cause hippity hoppity shes living on your property.
RIP to Rebecah, may she be remembered more for her talent and commitment to the community than this entire disaster.
Rebecca is cool for being in her *50’s* and still playing video games!
Not only that but she's very skilled in programming, a rare specimen of a boomer
@@viniciusyugulis7278 Agreed.
@@viniciusyugulis7278 The people that invented coding were literally boomers. 😂
@@viniciusyugulis7278 tf??? that’s the stupidest thing i’ve ever read. people who created video games are boomers. are you like 10?
@@userjoao I think you're the stupid one, everybody knows the average boomer can't even boot Windows let alone advanced programming
No one:
This doll: SURPRISE, SHAWTY
HSJSHSJAJAAA
LMAOOOO
LMAO
lol
😭
Installing random cc*
Doll: allow me to introduce myself
Day and Night hooker boots:
;)
*all the dolls start tap dancing*
Omg, I'm so glad I never ran into this bug as a kid! It would have freaked me out so much if I downloaded a random lot and ended up with a random doll I couldn't delete and a ton of file corruptions 😭😭
Same omg I would have nightmares
Same! But I had a graphic bug in my game that was even creepier..all of my sims suddenly had no eyes O_O I was about 10-11 years at the time and man, that was hella creepy.
@@Kazushiro really? I thought the default skin in the Sims 2 had a set of empty looking brown eyes that sat below the actual eye asset? 😭. Maybe you had a custom skin that didn't have the backup eyes 😬. That sounds terrifying too, lmfao I'm just imagining 11 year old me seeing that sort of thing with no context 😭
It's gonna be everyone's nightmare to encounter something like this tho
The fact that it's a doll, easily one of the creepiest toys mankind has made, makes this both hilarious and horrifying. I feel bad for her though, it's not her fault this happened
i mean it also happened with some hooker boots, a vampire shirt, and a crappy untextured centaur model but those aren't creepy enough to turn into a vid 😂
@@greatestaxolotl4933 To some hooker boots might be scary! A grey skinned, alien like centaur sounds horrifying too xD
Lool imagine if it was just some toy train or something
given that the sims is coded in spaghetti code, it’s not hard to believe that this was an honest mistake
srry but as a person who knows about coding i can tell that this is a very well coded virus. a small bug or coding error cant result in the content attaching itself to other files.
@@xo7462 There were other corrupted content that popped up in my sims game as a result of downloading custom content that didn't appear to have said corrupted content
however, I never had this
You're going to tell me there's not a possibility of this happening randomly?
How much corrupted content was made then?
Wait Is The Sims Coded In Spaghetti
@@niceguynice5920 No, spaghetti code means that it's coded very messily/not easily readable
@@xo7462 Sims 3 is glitchy and bedridden with bugs at launch. No wonder even high end gaming PCs struggle to run Sims 3 at high settings.
Why doesn’t maxis reach out to these persons and hire/ contract them. Modders are so talented 🤔
Are you talking about the creator of the virus?
@@tallprivilege5900 she didn’t make a virus,
Imo she could be hired by CIA
I'm a bit late to this- but Maxis cannot yet hire any new staff. Maxis works under EA games as a branch company, and at EA they give a certain game or franchise a limited amount of workers based on how big the project or game is. Hope this helps!
@@Cosmic_Love plz no
My theory is that it was created and uploaded EXACTLY as the game updated and when the game went to update itself and clean/respawn the items it messed up the code so that it always resets/respawns within the files, meaning it would always want to spawn regardless of whether you have it in the household or not thus causing a duplication glitch within the files. Or because there are different variations of the doll perhaps the code wasnt properly executed and attempts to use all variants on one item/model.
thats honestly possible
Im sorry but thats not the truth. Back on sims 3 even if there was a mod file respawned in a new game it still had no difficulties
Also she wouldnt get the code wrong unless she had two tabs of meshes on different docs. If she did make that mistake with swapping another code then she would have gotten 1-8 warnings both from the os and the virus software and only if she clicked "proceed" the virus would operate and would give her many warnings about possible risk of data loss from a harmful javascript.
@@saraaaa8642 I mean when Origin updates the game it goes through every file in the game, so theoretically if it's going through but the mod comes in somewhere around the same time it may cause some sort of error where it may scan the item over and over even when deleted. And when it comes to the several tabs, there were different variants of the items so its possible she opened several to mesh them all properly and code them in. But in her attempt to code each in at once the game simply couldn't register whether it was singular or many items with similar names.
@@Daxter-hl7dw Either way the sane method happens. Also i dont think the gsme could habe confused dome files because she only had one copy and it would have asked for rebecahs consent to mske copies
Did anyone else feel slightly disappointed that this didn't involve a doll having a mind of its own and haunting it's sims type thing? Lol still this is the first time I heard of this
Y'all expected a herobrine storyline didn't you lmao
@@deedferreira4211 yes :)
@@deedferreira4211 You know we love that type of shit hahaha
Well it wasn't stated that the doll didn't developed a mind of her own xD
Yeah I wanted some sort of creepily realistic conspiracy theory😂 I'm lowkey dissapointed but liked the video anyway
I like how the hair on the doll has better hair than the kid she's posed with.
I almost got offended until I realized we're talking about sims and not real children lolol
Damm
modders always make stuff look so much better than the base sims game, not even on purpose, the sims is just always so ugly
Maybe it was intentional to make a bigger difference between regular kid and a doll? Since it's like literally the same model used but smaller xD Idk why but watching the footage of a kid playing with literally smaller almost exact same looking version of himself made me feel creeped out
And the dolls always have exxagerated flawless hair so its kind of realistic
Lol
I don’t think she had anything to do with the virus itself. Why would she upload so much content just to upload one that had a virus? Why would she purposefully mess up her entire following by sending out a terrible virus? It makes no sense. I think someone else had to have done something to the file.
No one is saying she did it on purpose
@@Nobodyhere001 I was just adding my opinion and adding onto the video. People definitely thought she did do it on purpose. I said I don’t think she did and that someone else tampered with the file.
@@soapstar77 At the time a lot of people were and I’m sure there still are people who do. I don’t think she did it on purpose. I was just adding onto the video and adding my opinion on the matter.
@@dianac3052 exactly! Especially after the release of the doll. People blamed her for it consistently.
yeah lol i literally someone in a thread in this video claiming she made the virus herself like.. ? why would she plan any of this lol
Imagine if it was a killer bathroom sink lose on the game, wrecking everyones saves and infecting lots and game files, your whole computer even. That would lowkey be really funny, but I think the fact that "iTs A dOlL-" makes it much creepier
i mean it also happened with some hooker boots, a vampire shirt, and a crappy untextured centaur model but those aren't creepy enough to turn into a vid 😭
IKR LIKE THE FACT ITS A DOLL-
@@greatestaxolotl4933 those stupid boots..
@@tallprivilege5900 THOSE FLOATY FUCKS ARE THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE
@@greatestaxolotl4933 I STILL HAVE THOSE BOOTS IN MY GAME TO THIS DAY. I've tried everything to get rid of them but they just won't go away lmao At this point I'm just making my peace with it, might as well since they are clearly there to stay
doll:replicates content files and is unwanted
people:go away
doll:no i dont think i will
I like your name and icon
I don't think this was on purpose. The Sims is a very complex game so getting this kind of bug isn't the weirdest thing that could have happened. I wonder if, in a way, this was an accidental computer virus, spread by all those The Sims websites. That would make this story really, really interesting.
its a very well coded virus and the way rebecca noticed this 2 months later is so suspicious, didn't she test her creation on her own game to see if it's working properly? there is so many questions to ask.
@@xo7462 could be the reuploader doing
@@Yun_er did you watch the full video? it was the first version of rebecca's official modthesims post of the doll.
Admins of TSR would've had access to files uploaded
there's a possibility that someone modified the old version and made it look like there was no modifications to it
I think someone could've purposely made a corrupted version that would cause all of this
Well, despite being a good game the Sims 3 has bad case of spaghetti code, it's why the game constantly crashes for no reason.
Why the doll so creepy tho?
I think in general dolls tend to be, and when you attach the idea of it being a virus/malicious in some way it subconsciously makes you feel like it's creepier.
rebecah’s stuff was always creepy as fuck but nobody wanted to admit it
@@CloverLovesTT idk sims 2 doll was pretty cute, maybe it was just because she used the same sims 2 face in sims 3 and lighthing made it🕵️
Man your pfp is hella creepy but I love it 😂
This isn't related but what is your pfp?
This video needs more views. It's so cool and creepy! Thanks for explaining everything well too.
Thank you so much! You're so sweet x
I’ve played the sims 3 since it came out and I downloaded sooooo much cc and stuff from the exchange and I am beyond baffled and grateful I never had this doll in my game o.o I loved the imaginary friend from generations because it was a little creepy but fuck, that doll?? No thanks lol
same.. i might have had it very briefly on the old ass pc i used to have around that time.. (it died after a thunderstrike on my home though.. i booted my sims 3 up that weekend and POOF dead.. apparently that thunderstrike was what ended in my pc frying it'self at the time..) after that i only ever encountered the centaur thing and these high heels that were the worst and you couldn't get out of your game no matter what
Same I had sims 3 for a very long time and I’m very glad I didn’t get this creepy Annabell bitch, now i never heard this back then but why did it pop back up in my recommendation? I’m a little nervous to download anything.
@@ChillwithAlexis Same
Sadly I did and I never realized until now bc I was 9-12 years old throughout the time I played it and I didn't really think much off it I thought my game was just messed up but after some time my entire pc was dead
@@LenasEdits didn't have to be from the doll though.. the pc death that is.. if it was old or if you had some other viruses on there (wich is very much possible i've had my fair share as a kid even once had windows shit it'self on me it wasn't a virus in that case as once i reinstalled windows i was good to go.. i did manage to save some of my old saves from that pc though.. the biggest annoyance i had back then were my skyrim mods.. i tried redownloading it all but some of them i couldn't download anymore because they were taken down or under curation )
I wonder if the creepy doll in the new Paranormal Stuff Pack is a reference to this?
ooo that would be smart, it also a lil scary
I wish it was. But it doesn't look like it.
As if TS4 producers would think THAT further
That would be too clever for the sims 4 .... But could be
They're probably just referencing Anabelle.
Hot damn, that's some prime creepypasta material you got right there!
with the heaps of CC i've downloaded you think I woulda ran into this evil little doll by now
Same i was worried for a sec cus i just downloaded a bunch of toys for sims4
i think its basically a rarity for newer cc to have the doll, you just have to be careful on older cc
@@EE-gz5xu this is for sims 3 bud they dont affect eachother
May Rebecah Rest In Peace
That's like a creepypasta but without the hyper realistic blood and a exe file.
She seems like a lovely lady
Edit: clarifying that this isn't sarcasm and I feel bad for her. I don't think she did this on purpose
Real OGs remember this, and even realer OGs remember when Rebeckah made THE BEST toddler CC for Sims 2.
She was my absolute favorite for that. I didn't know she made Sims 3 CC until this info dropped, and I was definitely around for when it happened
I cry from fear everytime in TS4 when my CC is broken and I get that weird texture with the black question mark on the Sims’ head, I would throw my computer out of the window if this happened to me
SAME LIKE I WOULD CRY
Lmao sims 3 has way creepier glitches. I had sims turning all black like a demonic shadow walking around and sims half centaurus I never downloaded. I went back to 4. Lmao
Oh, and the baby monster glitch from shoes
@@angelmalaika8058 I simply just cannot handle it whenever I see a glitch or something broken in a game. That’s why I play TS4 lol, bc the broken Sims 3 CC was too much for me but I can’t play the Sims without CC
@@blushchuu same but I stopped getting cc because I was careless and I got 2 I think virus 1 is like a thing that pops up at the start I got used to this one but the second one oh man so once I downloaded it but right after that my screen cashed and so many things pop up like “VIRUS DEDUCTED” and it freak me out so much I had to reset it, and it was on my dad computer so when I got my laptop I just stopped downloading cc
GDD literally caused me to cry when I realised I nearly broke my mum‘s computer by downloading stuff from the Internet. She was super understanding but I was 10 and thought I’d be punished for life
why am i watching this before going to bed, it's so creepy
IKR I AM SCAREDD
I remember going mad on downloading a ton of sims 3 cc and I guess one of the folders I downloaded included a horse like outfit which made the sims bottom half have a horse body and legs. It came it two colours (Black and Brown) it was used on all sim ages except babies. Townies would rock up in town half horse and when sims aged they would automatically have the horse body.
Not only would their default outfits be the horse but sometimes certain sims would shower or bathe and their pixelated nude state would be replaced with the horses body.
Couldn’t get rid of it no matter what I did.
Lol I'm surprised you played long enough to witness all of that. I got too creeped out 😅
I wanted to look up some videos of Sims 2 corruption, since that's already a spectacular programming failure, but this right here, this shows that the people at EA Maxis (because it's not Maxis anymore) really, and I mean REALLY messed up The Sims 3. From my own experience, it lags very badly with all the expansions and additional packs, even after applying various performance improving mods. And the infamous corrupted baby glitches are another example of just how badly the game was coded. I only wonder what kinds of eldritch abominations summoned by unholy EA spaghetti code Sims 4 will give us.
I do need many MANY mods for it to work decently xD
as much as i love all the games that aren’t sims 4, sims 3 feels like it’s moments away from falling apart completely when i play. it’s definitely the flimsiest of the lot.
I got the sims with all expansions and it worked just fine?? Maybe it’s just a cause your computer is not so strong at handling all the many files and options and open world causing it to lag.
Isla Paradiso lags so much I can’t play on it. But any other town is fine. There is lag but it’s bearable.
An awesome, non-laggy game! Plus the animations are good!
How did this happen? How does an innocent mistake end up being such a game breaking virus? I want to get my hands on the og code and investigate, i also really want to talk to Rebecah, poor girl
curious myself
Have you seen the code? I wonder what caused it to affect other packages.
Lmao watching the kids play with the Sims 2 doll is hilarious because it looks like they are just DEMOLISHING a sibling or twin in a wrestling match
Who would have thought a random comment on a video would lead me down this kind of rabbit hole on the sims of all things? Great vid, well researched and great presentation! Keep it up!
Thank you so much for your kind words xx❤️❤️
THAT IS QUITE THE CREEPY VIRUS
watching this feels like a creepypasta
given how weird coding is, my best guess is that something went wrong in the code that allows it to be downloaded over the internet and passed around, and it became a virus. i doubt it was intentional or malicious originally, as there’s no evidence of it doing anything other than it replicating itself and lagging games, but man is it creepy
I wish I knew about this BEFORE I accidentally got this doll lmao
RIP
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Did you get rid of it?
Update!!
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Wow! I never heard about this doll before (I guess I've been living under a rock haha). There's something odd about the whole situation. As you said, how could the virus attach itself to all those files without someone intentionally designing it that way? The fact that the virus came in a doll certainly adds to the creep factor. I try to be really careful when I download CC, but this encouraged me to check out the Custard Tool. This video was well-made and informative, thank you :)!
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it❤️
Cc have a tendency to attach themselves to other objects, even those correctly done, so that is not a virus
@@grellowny6978 Exactly, for the sims 2, you have to use a tool while building a house to share, to remove all the cc you don't want to share with that file. Because for some strange reason, a bunch your cc will try and attatch itself to the house package.
@@jimmyhopkins3748 Those were anything that involved global mods. Not quite the same thing as having CC objects. Anything which affects the environment across lots but also saves data per lot (lighting, time, seasons, weather), adds behaviours, changes notifications, or which tags relationship files onto Sims will also tie onto a lot.
I’ve got the evil thigh high boots and women’s t-shirt stuck in my game 🙄 the one that makes babies glitch into monsters
SAME
AHAHAGAWGWVWHHHA
To be honest, things like this happen in Sims 4 with bad files, not latching onto other files but just making the game lag or crash is super common with either old, corrupted or wrong files.
I feel bad for rebecah, she just wanted to make another sims happy with her creations, i hope she is fine now
If she’s still posting content and was able to post another version that is not corrupt I’d say this virus didn’t come from her someone else did this or it’s crappy sims script
it’s so fitting that this would happen in the glitchy ass sims 3- the only thing more terrifying than a doll, sims 3 glitches😂
I literally cannot download cc without it going corrupted and my sims turning black 😂😂😂
I’ve been playing sims 3 for years and all ive seen so far is a glitch where a sims arm gets twisted
@@neamhdhlisteanach6720 must b nice 😐
@@nyquilhoe You have to trigger many of the glitches in The Sims 3 on purpose. That, or by downloading faulty CC.
@@Skul1ManEXE i was a lot younger when i played sims 3, so i was downloading cc, any cc, like crazy😂 the open world made my shit glitch very badly alone. i couldn’t stand to have the graphics on low either!
it’s should have been name as “Annabelle” because only annabelle would do that
EA should put an easter egg about this doll in The Sims 4
I think there is in the new paranormal pack
At this point I would delete the whole game
No just buy a whole new computer at that point the doll couldve done bad damage outside of the game with no one knowing 💀💀
Someone else definitely messed with the file and did this when they reuploaded it into lots, she only got backlash for it since she created the doll, but the people who reuploaded it didn’t get any repercussions, I highly doubt she’s responsible in any way for this, someone made a virus and put it in the doll’s file and then uploaded it into a cc lot on the exchange.
I watched this 20 times and still need to know more
I hope this never happens to the sims4
Hahaha! Thanks for the views xx
sims 4 is so boring without mods/CC- a game-destroying mod/cc circulating around would be really scary
I know it's something fascinatingly creepy about this😆😆😆
i DONT EVEN HAVE THE SIMS AND I'M SCARED THIS DOLL IS GONNA CORRUPT IT
I can’t wait to wake up in the middle of the night and see that at the foot of my bed. Good video tho
sounds like a sims creepypasta though its eerie how its actually real
I remember some similarly broken custom content for horses. It was an escadron (??) blanket for horses that basically attached itself to a horse and was very hard to get out of your game
Thanks for the video, definitely deserves more views on the lore of the doll.
I feel bad for Rebecca, she seems like a nice person
she’s talented. i can only imagine how she felt about what the doll did
I've never had to deal with this but I always get the weird boots. The one that glitches out toddlers. The bane of my existence
and babies are born with them?
these are called the "day and night" hooker boots and they are the bane of my existance 😔
I have never played sims 3 before but damn
that doll is staring at my soul
This just showed up in my recommended videos and I was surprised how extensive this was, even talking about the creator and explaining how it spread! You have a talent for explaining things
Omg I randomly came across this topic on the sims wiki the other day!! So glad you made a video about this!! 😎
thank you so much for your sweet comment x
riderpls You’re welcome!! 😎
BRB just quickly opening my Sims 3 to see if I have it...
And did you?🤔
@@HulaZombiex nope thankfully not
I'm scared to check :'(
I HAD THIS DOLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sweet memories of being scared not to click on it or my game would crash :')
9:32 i was totally expecting to hear “a game theory”
lol i remember those black laced heels/boots from the exchange
I hope she knows we don't blame her.... Being a modder isn't easy, and it was clearly not her intention.
I’m happy to see that she’s still making content for the Sims 2!
WOW SHE MADE CHICKENS? WELL DONE TO THIS LADY WELL DONE
how creepy would it be to randomly see a doll in your library that you never downloaded and not be able to get rid of it
from what i understand about Maxis/EAxis's games from poking through Spore with it's modding community, Maxis relies heavily on "tree" type data structures to make games the way they do. with the spaghetti code that the Sims 3 probably is, and Maxis' revolutionary ideas on file sharing (Spore's .png sharing and their ubiquitous "Pollination" file sharing systems, for example), it's not a surprise something got tangled in the wrong way and exponentially fucked over the entire Sims 3 community.
Saw the thing in Flippy's video and the only one vid that explains what it did was this one. Kongrat on 1K subs!
oh thank you so much! it means a lot x
OH SHIT I REMEMBER HAVING THIS IN MY SAVE WHEN I WAS IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
So the gothic doll features in the coming stuff pack is not scary at all compares to what Rebecah creates.
The doll clearly is monika but monika fears it.
I don't think the fact that the doll looks haunted asf helps either.
I love your voice! You should really consider making more creepy videos, you’re good at it!
Thank you so much! This comment really made me smile x
@@riderpls More Sims videos please? You did well!
@@sunshineyrainbows13 I really want to make a video about the centaur body in the sims 3! thank you for your support x
Please do the centaurus!! I have/had that after buying the sims 3 some months ago and downloading cc. Don't know if it's still there I went back to 4 😆😆😆
The sims 3 exchange was so corrupt 😭😭 Horrifying memories.
Its really not that big a deal, though. Just mistakes people made coding items and uploading/downloading exchange items.
agreed.. there were actually several items that once installed you couldn't get out of your game.. along with this doll there also was a pair of high heels and a centaur body
@@litchtheshinigami8936 hated those 😭
@@jazzyg6059 yep.. i also remember a basegame shirt and a naked body one.. they were annoying.. and why i don't download off the exchange anymore.. unless it's a sim i know is safe because i uploaded them myself (like the ones i recently uploaded.. despite two not even showing up AND I PUT MY ALL INTO BOTH OF THEM so it just hurts)
@@litchtheshinigami8936 lol best game so volatile ❤
Litch The Shinigami OMG that fucking centaur body I remember that 😭
"Killer doll on the loose and its not chucky"
Me whos a Chucky and sims fan : **processes to laugh head off**
maybe she had a virus on her computer that attached to all her files while she was making the first doll, uploaded it and then realised she had a virus and removed the virus and uploaded the second version?
This video is absolutely fascinating.
this is actually heartbreaking. poor Rebeccah only wanted to bring cool new things to the sims universe, and it ended up doing all this. at least it cant spread to the sims 4.
the doll: *challenge accepted*
6:44 “Karen1916” *IT’S A KAREN*
Late theory but... what if someone just happened to download it when they had a virus or malware or something already on their computer and it somehow infected the doll which caused it to glitch the file completely and curse everyone's computer with it but because it was a game file it couldn't really get that far
I never thought things like this actually happens...
Thnks a lot😃😃
poor rebecah :( i feel so bad for her
She did it on purpose don’t play dumb okay
ngl still terrified of downloading ts3 cc to this day
Just avoid the exchange, the launcher, and install cc in your mods /packages folder only and you’ll be fine.
@@bbykyky what is the exchange? Like I download my cc from tsr and modthesims but what exactly is the exchange so I can avoid it lol. And yes I do have the mods/packages and put EVERYTHING on there
@@beans6242 the exchange is part of the sims 3 official website where other simmers can upload sims and lots etc with cc included but it can contain bad cc like the doll which can be hard to get out of your game because it attaches to other files.
@@bbykyky honestly in general you have to be careful since the file attaches it's self to other cc files, who knows if someone uploaded cc and didn't know that they had the doll and the doll got transferred to you?
Same goes with those stupid Night Time Daytime Everyday shoes..
I dont actually think it was RRebecca's this is my theory:
I think Someone saw that it was creepy so they decided to make a virus as a "joke" but it went to far so the virus has not been Patched.
So this is why my Sim 3 saves just glitched out of nowhere...
The sims 3 already looks scary and now this is just even more scary 😭
That is one creepy doll-virus.
Theres no way that doll wasnt MEANT to be a virus.. look at it, the skin is so pale & yellow & the eyes are creepy. Why would anyone want that anyway? I have a feeling it’s some conspiracy to ruin the sims 3 for people so they would go back to the sims 2 where most of her mods are.
Why would you make an intentional virus creepy? If you actually wanted people to not be suspicious of it, you wouldn't make it creepy.
@@deedferreira4211 why else does the doll look like that? You saw what the doll looked like in the sims 2, it had proper colourings and a bunch of different ones to choose from too. This one looks so odd in comparison. It just doesn’t seem right at all.
@@ameliefrench that's pretty fair. Maybe it was a prototype or something? But now that you mention it, it's weird that it looks more creepy in the sims 3. But it was dumb of her to do that if that's true. The doll was obviously a success again. A success big enough to spread the virus so i don't know why she simply would do that and ruin her reputation
@@deedferreira4211 Just to sabotage the sims 3 maybe? It’s a stretch I know 😂 but it’s just a theory.
i mean it also happened with some hooker boots, a vampire shirt, and a crappy untextured centaur model so i think that its just a coincidence that it was a doll this time 😂
There is a more simple answer, the Doll that Rebecca posted was glitchy bc of the talk to, but it would be like child Sim to stand there without doing anything but that's it, but, maybe somebody downloaded it, but this guy/girl is a bad person, so, she/he decided to make a virus to Destroy other people, since the creator was Rebecca nobody would suspect that this dude would be the culprit, so, she/he proceeded and uploaded it to exchange, and thus the beggining of the virus began
Well boys, we've got ourselves a new SCP!
I believe it replaces the value for the original child's toy, because of some corruption shenanigans
I actually saw that official warning in the Sims main page, and was like "how can a doll create such a ruckus in the game?"
And then I remembered the cursed ring from another game (just looked into it, it was "Second Life", and the ring self duplicated, crashing many servers and forcing the game to be closed down for several hours).
Things like these are quite dangerous, and can easily spread everywhere.
Cursed ring-😳
@@w1u4 It was a golden ring in the game "Second Life", which started to duplicate itself all over the server if someone decided to wear it. It crashed several servers world wide, and the game creators had to close it for a while to get rid of it.