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  • @nationsquid
    @nationsquid  3 года назад +4920

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    • @tylern6420
      @tylern6420 3 года назад +8

      ruclips.net/video/hiRacdl02w4/видео.html

    • @jbbajangamer
      @jbbajangamer 3 года назад +50

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

    • @nationsquid
      @nationsquid  3 года назад +113

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

    • @DanAtuch_Archives
      @DanAtuch_Archives 3 года назад +56

      16:06 sounds like a microwave...

    • @soniacanela2319
      @soniacanela2319 3 года назад +55

      4:03 Rick astley at work.

  • @JrIcify
    @JrIcify 3 года назад +54693

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

    • @remizu2901
      @remizu2901 3 года назад +2761

      I guess I'm a criminal now...

    • @mrakisotnelar.8009
      @mrakisotnelar.8009 3 года назад +4144

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

    • @hlscientist8760
      @hlscientist8760 3 года назад +1627

      Especially that one desktop stripper

    • @aayushpandey6839
      @aayushpandey6839 3 года назад +1063

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

    • @pinroshan020
      @pinroshan020 3 года назад +595

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

  • @BeastlyMussel61
    @BeastlyMussel61 3 года назад +12278

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

    • @Nakia11798
      @Nakia11798 3 года назад +1028

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

    • @catsinwonderland7473
      @catsinwonderland7473 3 года назад +84

      LMAO

    • @BlueCatarex
      @BlueCatarex 3 года назад +146

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

    • @D00000T
      @D00000T 3 года назад +26

      chad

    • @london6441
      @london6441 3 года назад +38

      well now i wanna do it on my friends school laptop

  • @derenbong
    @derenbong 3 года назад +30672

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

    • @alexanderthegrrrreat6727
      @alexanderthegrrrreat6727 3 года назад +628

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

    • @hilariousskullnamedcatzo647
      @hilariousskullnamedcatzo647 3 года назад +386

      Then that's a horrible way to teach someone

    • @derenbong
      @derenbong 3 года назад +720

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

    • @flashter6101
      @flashter6101 3 года назад +350

      Rick roll taught me that

    • @hilariousskullnamedcatzo647
      @hilariousskullnamedcatzo647 3 года назад +19

      @@derenbong agreed

  • @watchoutforeg
    @watchoutforeg 10 месяцев назад +738

    I just know that a certain flower would love this

    • @niklosweber5759
      @niklosweber5759 7 месяцев назад +63

      I know that flower. On a personal level.

    • @SVJPossessor
      @SVJPossessor 7 месяцев назад +41

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

    • @AcquaintancePlaysGames
      @AcquaintancePlaysGames 7 месяцев назад +21

      =)

    • @runningoven
      @runningoven 6 месяцев назад +18

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

    • @watchoutforeg
      @watchoutforeg 6 месяцев назад +9

      @@runningoven is that a GASTER REFERENXE YFMEJEHGJRJY

  • @gummyexe1495
    @gummyexe1495 3 года назад +23934

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

  • @falseillusin9197
    @falseillusin9197 3 года назад +4497

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

    • @billcyphers3rdeye
      @billcyphers3rdeye 3 года назад +376

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

    • @falseillusin9197
      @falseillusin9197 3 года назад +130

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

    • @buddyowl
      @buddyowl 3 года назад +73

      I would be anxious if I accidentally opened it

    • @gizmo9836
      @gizmo9836 3 года назад +45

      @@falseillusin9197 You got lucky

    • @PeterAmbrack1
      @PeterAmbrack1 3 года назад +7

      same

  • @looker999997
    @looker999997 3 года назад +13196

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

    • @luisgonzalez5718
      @luisgonzalez5718 3 года назад +108

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

    • @luisgonzalez5718
      @luisgonzalez5718 3 года назад +10

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

    • @captainnoob5244
      @captainnoob5244 3 года назад +6

      Exactly

    • @FutureYT
      @FutureYT 3 года назад +52

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

    • @beardsntools
      @beardsntools 3 года назад +42

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

  • @kathryndodd1818
    @kathryndodd1818 Год назад +385

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

    • @bloodassassln
      @bloodassassln 4 месяца назад +10

      i know how you feel with that when i was younger i clicked on a side add by accident and got my computer locked and i was scared shitless because it kept saying it was a microsoft virus protector and my dumbass believed it

    • @fathiralvaro7590
      @fathiralvaro7590 Месяц назад

      Sorry I'm too lazy to read all those 😅

    • @spiidercider
      @spiidercider Месяц назад +1

      holy yappathon

    • @DUSTY_SUSHI
      @DUSTY_SUSHI Месяц назад

      Wait it literally plays the song? I remember having some type of anxiety or panic attack the couple times I had encountered malware. It’s really terrifying

    • @Ardovo
      @Ardovo 2 дня назад

      ​ @spiidercider ​ @fathiralvaro7590 both of yall are braindead

  • @Max-ej4oh
    @Max-ej4oh 3 года назад +29363

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

    • @Max-ej4oh
      @Max-ej4oh 3 года назад +1421

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

    • @near5148
      @near5148 3 года назад +69

      @Cameron Lattz but you can't escape memz

    • @jmtrad1906
      @jmtrad1906 3 года назад +49

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

    • @FakeItemBoxLetsPlays
      @FakeItemBoxLetsPlays 3 года назад +43

      Ctrl + w key would also work. It does the same thing.

    • @Halal_Gaming
      @Halal_Gaming 3 года назад +62

      I put an “emergency reset” button on my pc when I was younger. I just used that.

  • @TexasBlueAngel85
    @TexasBlueAngel85 3 года назад +10673

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

    • @kip258
      @kip258 3 года назад +827

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

    • @Dv0m
      @Dv0m 3 года назад +56

      @@kip258 lmao

    • @StrickerRei-Chn
      @StrickerRei-Chn 3 года назад +167

      We are farmers...

    • @goldengreen8039
      @goldengreen8039 3 года назад +135

      Bud um pum bum

    • @realdrysoda
      @realdrysoda 3 года назад +30

      Aw shit

  • @anthonywozniak7373
    @anthonywozniak7373 3 года назад +7944

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

    • @kip258
      @kip258 3 года назад +418

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

    • @cosmosaodyssey2188
      @cosmosaodyssey2188 3 года назад +449

      Meat spin made me gay

    • @MoltenLqva
      @MoltenLqva 3 года назад +141

      meatspin

    • @tupactheory3739
      @tupactheory3739 3 года назад +303

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

    • @salivatinggreed4219
      @salivatinggreed4219 3 года назад +106

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

  • @matthewthescienceguy7627
    @matthewthescienceguy7627 11 месяцев назад +239

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

  • @KaomojiFN
    @KaomojiFN 3 года назад +8974

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

    • @alphapegasus9761
      @alphapegasus9761 3 года назад +741

      we do a little trolling

    • @lilyly5365
      @lilyly5365 3 года назад +371

      BAHA THATS SO EVIL

    • @antimatterg
      @antimatterg 3 года назад +92

      Ooooo00O000oooo

    • @user-ow4fx8zf5e
      @user-ow4fx8zf5e 3 года назад +59

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

    • @THEL0VETHIEVES
      @THEL0VETHIEVES 3 года назад +35

      @@user-ow4fx8zf5e do you have google

  • @bajke5591
    @bajke5591 2 года назад +14812

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

    • @stephenheffren4324
      @stephenheffren4324 2 года назад +608

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

    • @sad-with-pizzazz
      @sad-with-pizzazz 2 года назад +670

      @@stephenheffren4324 JUST SAY THEY OMG

    • @sad-with-pizzazz
      @sad-with-pizzazz 2 года назад +250

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

    • @stephenheffren4324
      @stephenheffren4324 2 года назад +167

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

    • @benteash5761
      @benteash5761 2 года назад +19

      lmao

  • @Axerol
    @Axerol 3 года назад +25972

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

    • @Inxwolf
      @Inxwolf 3 года назад +3644

      the audio freaking creeps me out lol

    • @failyore2
      @failyore2 3 года назад +2916

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

    • @poopsicle107
      @poopsicle107 3 года назад +1136

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

    • @vanilla5643
      @vanilla5643 3 года назад +223

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

    • @TheGamers55
      @TheGamers55 3 года назад +332

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

  • @3uni6
    @3uni6 9 месяцев назад +59

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

    • @ek.c5j
      @ek.c5j 9 месяцев назад +5

      i got scared so much lol

  • @tringleperson131
    @tringleperson131 2 года назад +6447

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

    • @Cyanide_Infused
      @Cyanide_Infused 2 года назад +321

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

    • @Th3cosmic_
      @Th3cosmic_ 2 года назад +15

      @@Cyanide_Infused xD

    • @ziglind
      @ziglind 2 года назад +113

      how the fuck is this terrifying

    • @acheroncanslashmefr
      @acheroncanslashmefr 2 года назад +9

      fr

    • @crashdemon
      @crashdemon 2 года назад +163

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

  • @Ashurion-Neonix
    @Ashurion-Neonix 2 года назад +4186

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

    • @NOTHING-z6x
      @NOTHING-z6x Год назад

      dummy

    • @leoberbom6817
      @leoberbom6817 Год назад +9

      Do you know what website it’s on

    • @Kweentoos
      @Kweentoos Год назад +57

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

    • @rattleheadsofroblox1201
      @rattleheadsofroblox1201 Год назад +11

      @@Kweentoos their fault for clicking on the site.

    • @Kweentoos
      @Kweentoos Год назад +8

      @@rattleheadsofroblox1201 I mean yeah,it is their fault

  • @EHiggins
    @EHiggins 3 года назад +4233

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

    • @LilacMonarch
      @LilacMonarch 3 года назад +89

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

    • @EHiggins
      @EHiggins 3 года назад +18

      @@LilacMonarch I was thinking about back then lol

    • @ts-z3r
      @ts-z3r 3 года назад +43

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

    • @EHiggins
      @EHiggins 3 года назад +41

      @@ts-z3r Okay Shaggy you get a Scooby snack

    • @LilacMonarch
      @LilacMonarch 3 года назад +35

      @@ts-z3r which is great except that since MS isn't developing security patches anymore, there's plenty of old malware that will work on it. so if you wanna develop your own patches then yeah you'll be safe

  • @rjbradley2923
    @rjbradley2923 Год назад +67

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

  • @blake2697
    @blake2697 2 года назад +6798

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

    • @Yep6803
      @Yep6803 2 года назад +76

      i think 20 years of prison isnt enuff

    • @NINEINCHNAILSFANBOY
      @NINEINCHNAILSFANBOY 2 года назад +250

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

    • @Yep6803
      @Yep6803 2 года назад +11

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

    • @maiskorrel
      @maiskorrel 2 года назад +134

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

    • @Somerandomguy2763
      @Somerandomguy2763 2 года назад +44

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

  • @Birdy-wy5jn
    @Birdy-wy5jn Год назад +2376

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

    • @Vulturul333dfd-original
      @Vulturul333dfd-original Год назад +5

      how, send me link

    • @erwinguzman8878
      @erwinguzman8878 Год назад +60

      ​@@Vulturul333dfd-originalgood luck with no computer

    • @arandomperso4438
      @arandomperso4438 Год назад

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

    • @Tyrannosaurusstudios
      @Tyrannosaurusstudios 11 месяцев назад

      @@erwinguzman8878 so win10 well die

    • @Deleted_Eevee
      @Deleted_Eevee 8 месяцев назад +36

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

  • @minx8043
    @minx8043 3 года назад +3123

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

    • @hamcheese8929
      @hamcheese8929 3 года назад +205

      i’d be scared shitless even now in 2021 Lol

    • @marymurphy1429
      @marymurphy1429 3 года назад +72

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

    • @VenomQuill
      @VenomQuill 3 года назад +31

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

    • @keli15yearsago6
      @keli15yearsago6 3 года назад +5

      Same

    • @mosalah11thegoat
      @mosalah11thegoat 3 года назад

      666 likes

  • @funkie1221
    @funkie1221 Год назад +127

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

    • @Missturtlegirll
      @Missturtlegirll 23 дня назад

      Some people had to get a new computer it's not harmless

  • @planetnydro
    @planetnydro 2 года назад +2242

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

  • @theSato
    @theSato 3 года назад +1689

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

    • @niko-dg8cg
      @niko-dg8cg 3 года назад

      Same

    • @soursalt698
      @soursalt698 3 года назад

      oh hello sato

    • @Oatmea1L
      @Oatmea1L 3 года назад

      Here after the algorithm blesses it with 100k

    • @nadapenny8592
      @nadapenny8592 3 года назад +6

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

    • @psychosomaticstatic
      @psychosomaticstatic 2 года назад +1

      3.1 million now, wow

  • @pyp2205
    @pyp2205 3 года назад +3994

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

    • @FennecTECH
      @FennecTECH 3 года назад +194

      Auto save wasn’t quite a thing yet.

    • @pyp2205
      @pyp2205 3 года назад +23

      @@FennecTECH well you know what I mean

    • @carlonpetersen171
      @carlonpetersen171 3 года назад +93

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

    • @pyp2205
      @pyp2205 3 года назад +17

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

    • @Lateralus138
      @Lateralus138 3 года назад +58

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

  • @sunna8476
    @sunna8476 Год назад +19

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

  • @ABXY_02
    @ABXY_02 2 года назад +1753

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

    • @JK-gm6kk
      @JK-gm6kk 2 года назад +61

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

    • @vikinggamer7727
      @vikinggamer7727 2 года назад +174

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

    • @biccnesse
      @biccnesse 2 года назад +44

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

    • @securityguardtemmie
      @securityguardtemmie 2 года назад +71

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

    • @ABXY_02
      @ABXY_02 2 года назад +8

      @@biccnesse dang bro im sorry about that

  • @leah-m-holmes
    @leah-m-holmes Год назад +2311

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

    • @SunDroid_inc
      @SunDroid_inc Год назад +52

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

    • @RemoWilliams1227
      @RemoWilliams1227 Год назад +24

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

    • @SunDroid_inc
      @SunDroid_inc Год назад +15

      @@RemoWilliams1227 I try

    • @myoak108
      @myoak108 Год назад

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

    • @yayvey
      @yayvey Год назад +52

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

  • @sowth_music
    @sowth_music 3 года назад +3418

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

    • @user-uo8ny1kj4c
      @user-uo8ny1kj4c 3 года назад +53

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

    • @vallisdaemonumofficial
      @vallisdaemonumofficial 3 года назад +56

      @@user-uo8ny1kj4c still are

    • @jaderitz
      @jaderitz 3 года назад +80

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

    • @user-uo8ny1kj4c
      @user-uo8ny1kj4c 3 года назад +33

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

    • @jaderitz
      @jaderitz 3 года назад +14

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

  • @theexplosivesnatchers9969
    @theexplosivesnatchers9969 Год назад +28

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

  • @williambarnes5023
    @williambarnes5023 2 года назад +8837

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

    • @sovietboi5373
      @sovietboi5373 2 года назад +41

      Epic

    • @ChumbaWumba
      @ChumbaWumba 2 года назад +43

      Did you get it off? Lol

    • @KITTYINK416
      @KITTYINK416 2 года назад +159

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

    • @ChumbaWumba
      @ChumbaWumba 2 года назад +50

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

    • @Weeping_Willow_Tree
      @Weeping_Willow_Tree 2 года назад +36

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

  • @thekingofhearts43
    @thekingofhearts43 2 года назад +1272

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

  • @ihateflicknotes3939
    @ihateflicknotes3939 3 года назад +4180

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

    • @rocket_owo8341
      @rocket_owo8341 3 года назад +42

      lol i'm a osu! player since feb 2021

    • @thrashmusician035
      @thrashmusician035 3 года назад +9

      I love your pfp

    • @ok23539
      @ok23539 3 года назад +8

      nice tf2 reference lol

    • @twannie8606
      @twannie8606 3 года назад +26

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

    • @Unpug
      @Unpug 2 года назад +2

      LMFAOAOAOO

  • @ilikeregularshow
    @ilikeregularshow 9 месяцев назад +20

    I freaking love these internet documentaries, keep it up man

  • @ori.g4mi
    @ori.g4mi 3 года назад +1388

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

  • @St0rmcloudy
    @St0rmcloudy 2 года назад +1905

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

  • @anti_honey
    @anti_honey 3 года назад +1477

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

    • @spaghetti-zc5on
      @spaghetti-zc5on 3 года назад +75

      Yeah, this is big brain time

    • @BG_NC
      @BG_NC 3 года назад +51

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

    • @mistah.cheese
      @mistah.cheese 3 года назад +18

      Gargantous brain time

    • @BisexualPlagueDoctor
      @BisexualPlagueDoctor 3 года назад +37

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

    • @sheijuna
      @sheijuna 3 года назад +1

      @@BG_NC same

  • @SirHuman01
    @SirHuman01 Год назад +20

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

  • @personman2454
    @personman2454 3 года назад +7964

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

    • @Silksper
      @Silksper 3 года назад +26

      Frr

    • @ezra5737
      @ezra5737 2 года назад +82

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

    • @azkaramadhan7654
      @azkaramadhan7654 2 года назад +32

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

    • @dopechincilla
      @dopechincilla 2 года назад +20

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

    • @VskutkuTrigen
      @VskutkuTrigen 2 года назад +10

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

  • @Pixelcraftian
    @Pixelcraftian 2 года назад +3993

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

    • @nationsquid
      @nationsquid  2 года назад +226

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

    • @NotKaito
      @NotKaito 2 года назад +28

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

    • @NotKaito
      @NotKaito 2 года назад +31

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

    • @jeandacondrillon2698
      @jeandacondrillon2698 2 года назад +3

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

    • @nationsquid
      @nationsquid  2 года назад +43

      @@NotKaito Here's my reply. ;)

  • @noahissobored
    @noahissobored 2 года назад +1894

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

    • @serene_2
      @serene_2 2 года назад +59

      Same, that was really scary :(

    • @ansun1987
      @ansun1987 2 года назад +47

      Same idk why it scared me so much

    • @NeoIV
      @NeoIV 2 года назад +8

      Same

    • @zedestiny5190
      @zedestiny5190 2 года назад +7

      i literally got an enxity attack like 😟

    • @nyambura7698
      @nyambura7698 2 года назад +11

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

  • @tiana4102
    @tiana4102 3 месяца назад +8

    in 2004 (when I was 10) an AOL kids chatroom moderator sent me this virus, because I was being an annoying little brat online. They also blocked our internet connection and my mum had to call up AOL, and they snitched on me😅I was so embarrassed.

  • @boxman139
    @boxman139 3 года назад +2640

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

    • @vi0let831
      @vi0let831 3 года назад +72

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

    • @MelancholyZeitgeist
      @MelancholyZeitgeist 3 года назад +49

      Uncle fecal funny Jobel.

    • @personalstuff3019
      @personalstuff3019 3 года назад +14

      Trashman, i eat gArBagE

    • @tree561
      @tree561 3 года назад +9

      Yes I watched it and it was so fecal funny hahahaha

    • @tastethepainbow
      @tastethepainbow 3 года назад +20

      And then I went home and ate chicken nuggets

  • @ehkirkio
    @ehkirkio 2 года назад +1955

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

  • @goot1087
    @goot1087 3 года назад +410

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

  • @Im.definitely.not.cool-
    @Im.definitely.not.cool- Год назад +14

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

  • @sleepyashu
    @sleepyashu 3 года назад +2363

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

  • @MladenPostruznik
    @MladenPostruznik 3 года назад +348

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

  • @snoobnoob9343
    @snoobnoob9343 3 года назад +1050

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

    • @pattyryopotybuttongamer3063
      @pattyryopotybuttongamer3063 3 года назад +7

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

    • @ThePhantomSafetyPin
      @ThePhantomSafetyPin 3 года назад +11

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

    • @syweb2
      @syweb2 3 года назад +10

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

    • @lqu
      @lqu 3 года назад +1

      that's why it has 3 heads

  • @Deandadee
    @Deandadee Год назад +9

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

  • @JeremySharpSMSG
    @JeremySharpSMSG 2 года назад +1021

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

  • @VancoVan53
    @VancoVan53 Год назад +937

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

  • @lichypieruu9747
    @lichypieruu9747 2 года назад +3822

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

    • @i_tankr9217
      @i_tankr9217 2 года назад +51

      FACTS

    • @NameNotFound147
      @NameNotFound147 2 года назад +94

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

    • @chad6461
      @chad6461 2 года назад +60

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

    • @daniellepineda2496
      @daniellepineda2496 2 года назад +9

      @@chad6461 me too X[

    • @witherr
      @witherr 2 года назад +50

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

  • @Amanda-cd6dm
    @Amanda-cd6dm 9 месяцев назад +5

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

  • @nuke_monke
    @nuke_monke 3 года назад +523

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

    • @tweer64
      @tweer64 3 года назад +3

      Reminds me of this video: ruclips.net/video/wewiWDm8icE/видео.html

    • @x5-x417
      @x5-x417 3 года назад +9

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

    • @ricekreme1515
      @ricekreme1515 3 года назад +4

      finally a reference that i understand

    • @CaptJCB_
      @CaptJCB_ 3 года назад +3

      yes
      also nice pfp

    • @nuke_monke
      @nuke_monke 3 года назад +2

      @@CaptJCB_ lol

  • @pipersgaming3516
    @pipersgaming3516 3 года назад +607

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

    • @Butterfingers3
      @Butterfingers3 3 года назад +13

      same

    • @_secret_
      @_secret_ 3 года назад +16

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

    • @basicmonstermaniaowner3276
      @basicmonstermaniaowner3276 3 года назад +4

      yes

    • @jperson4444
      @jperson4444 3 года назад +5

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

    • @mmmmmirage305
      @mmmmmirage305 3 года назад +6

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

  • @lawierdwitch
    @lawierdwitch 3 года назад +2193

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

    • @MochaChinoSingz
      @MochaChinoSingz 3 года назад +43

      LMFAO I LOVE THE SONG

    • @kellabdjfoo
      @kellabdjfoo 3 года назад +16

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

    • @RobotronSage
      @RobotronSage 3 года назад +10

      Unironically based tbh

    • @vibe_swizzy
      @vibe_swizzy 2 года назад

      Got the link?

    • @MochaChinoSingz
      @MochaChinoSingz 2 года назад +1

      @@vibe_swizzy here ya go
      ruclips.net/video/hiRacdl02w4/видео.html

  • @HappyD-l1s
    @HappyD-l1s 11 месяцев назад +9

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

  • @sky-sx5gt
    @sky-sx5gt 3 года назад +666

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

    • @athol9846
      @athol9846 3 года назад +10

      Sameeee I would prob run away from the computer skdjddj

    • @purrpletiger2159
      @purrpletiger2159 3 года назад +1

      Nice furby profile pic c:

    • @sky-sx5gt
      @sky-sx5gt 3 года назад +3

      @@purrpletiger2159 thank you

    • @reddiamondcat3391
      @reddiamondcat3391 3 года назад +2

      I have spd because of my autism so 😖

    • @polpotube
      @polpotube 2 года назад +7

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

  • @foxracing8973
    @foxracing8973 2 года назад +386

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

    • @pileofmemes
      @pileofmemes 2 года назад +8

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

    • @6destroyer9boi99
      @6destroyer9boi99 2 года назад

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

    • @Skemati
      @Skemati 2 года назад

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

    • @ghostface6110
      @ghostface6110 2 года назад +4

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

    • @Berryboy23
      @Berryboy23 2 года назад +2

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

  • @Royan356
    @Royan356 3 года назад +488

    I remember falling for this virus back in the late 2000s - early 2010s when I was still a child, trying to pirate games as we couldn't really buy them or such. But, I think It was a different variant of it. It did have the same message, but if I'm correct, a Rick Roll showed up afterwards. Lesson learned.

    • @Silksper
      @Silksper 3 года назад +17

      Wahoo that’s just wow.

    • @ansun1987
      @ansun1987 2 года назад +4

      Wow lol

  • @daniellecruz3311
    @daniellecruz3311 Год назад +15

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

  • @elenapet6446
    @elenapet6446 2 года назад +427

    I remember one of my friends telling me to visit it, and at first I was skeptical but they convinced me. After it started, I spent the next 30 minutes crying and hyperventilating because I thought I had gotten my moms computer hacked. I was like 4 or 5.

    • @bajablastt.
      @bajablastt. 2 года назад +4

      oh wow-

    • @mikezam
      @mikezam 2 года назад

      that’s rough

    • @bee428
      @bee428 2 года назад +13

      Dude your friend is a monster

    • @cactusskeet
      @cactusskeet 2 года назад +20

      you were using a computer at age 4-5???

    • @cyuinanotherlife
      @cyuinanotherlife 2 года назад +2

      @@cactusskeet I had a phone at 5 😭

  • @1TheBlessedOne1
    @1TheBlessedOne1 2 года назад +276

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

  • @AmandaDixson
    @AmandaDixson 3 года назад +1174

    I remember the internet being full of these kinds of viruses, and you had to basically firewall everything. This was the time that the internet was in its rawest form before regulation set in. I spent my entire adolescence and preteens on the infancy of the internet we know now. Kids today literally havent got the slightest clue.

    • @beanie6983
      @beanie6983 3 года назад +44

      @yippee yip and are you a bratty little 10 year old? 💀

    • @spongebobsquarepants8403
      @spongebobsquarepants8403 3 года назад +79

      The internet still has plenty of viruses and malware like this even now. It's just that your browser will tell you it might be malware. And people nowadays don't just click random links anymore.

    • @xtr1plexx
      @xtr1plexx 2 года назад +1

      I remember having at least three virus protectors, in addition to some other firewalls. It was the wild west, but damn, was it fun.

    • @calliecalamity8787
      @calliecalamity8787 2 года назад +34

      "kids thesw days literally don't know" Okay, yeah so? You gotta trumpet the fact you had it harder?

    • @permanent6583
      @permanent6583 2 года назад +1

      @MariaDreamed 这很酷 :3 stfu

  • @niklosweber5759
    @niklosweber5759 7 месяцев назад +8

    I’m sure my plant friend would love this!

  • @BeaIsBi
    @BeaIsBi 2 года назад +214

    As kids, my sister and I watched a lot of RUclips and wanted to create content ourselves. We downloaded a software, tried making more than one video, but my sister deleted it because it was telling her to turn off virus protection. I’m glad my sister was smart and knew to delete the software.

  • @fluffcake
    @fluffcake 3 года назад +429

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

    • @PancakeTheKat
      @PancakeTheKat 3 года назад

      Same

    • @thekingofdoms
      @thekingofdoms 2 года назад +2

      “good times” WTF?

    • @anonymouscat3772
      @anonymouscat3772 2 года назад +3

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

    • @rhyanisyes4512
      @rhyanisyes4512 2 года назад

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

    • @AriPlayz08
      @AriPlayz08 2 года назад

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

  • @abiagilhobbsenjoyer
    @abiagilhobbsenjoyer 2 года назад +849

    I rememberwhen I was a really little kid, I found the website on accident, and ended up going back onto it cause I thought it was funny. I'd do it over and over and just didn't mind turning it off and back over and over again.

  • @Ch405sP1r4lzzz
    @Ch405sP1r4lzzz Год назад +5

    Bruh as soon as he said "and now all of your hours of hard work is gone" I got an ad for taco ball 💀💀💀

  • @kip258
    @kip258 3 года назад +671

    This website is still up as an archived website, but it's just the animation and sound nowadays. Better not go visit it just in case though :p
    Edit: oops he says this at the end of the video.

    • @unkown2343
      @unkown2343 3 года назад +5

      i went to it now im scared

    • @thatisaduck
      @thatisaduck 3 года назад +2

      @@unkown2343 why

    • @jbbajangamer
      @jbbajangamer 3 года назад +31

      take a wild guess as to why Unknown would say that. Not like it’s obvious or anything

    • @SNAPREX
      @SNAPREX 3 года назад +33

      going to the og site still has the script to do its gag, browsers just block the popups

    • @zswu31416
      @zswu31416 3 года назад +5

      I got one pop up and it actually bounced around the screen I was so scared

  • @TheGuzeinbuick
    @TheGuzeinbuick 2 года назад +737

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

    • @rayh6118
      @rayh6118 2 года назад +1

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

  • @Alexis-ul5wt
    @Alexis-ul5wt 3 года назад +876

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

    • @nationsquid
      @nationsquid  3 года назад +70

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

    • @somerandomdude7650
      @somerandomdude7650 3 года назад +9

      @@nationsquid cool 🙂

    • @toxicmrdiego1280
      @toxicmrdiego1280 2 года назад

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

  • @galaxyworldbuddy
    @galaxyworldbuddy 6 месяцев назад +4

    Am I the only one that kinda tears up hearing the "You are an idiot!" Over and over? Idk. I just have a massive fear of failure it just sends me into a dark thought process ig. Idk. It's still a catchy song when the windows aren't piling up as I try to fix it. Only for it to get worse...

  • @BrendanTheWeird
    @BrendanTheWeird 3 года назад +838

    “You really are an idiot”
    -Flowey the Flower

    • @keterpatrol7527
      @keterpatrol7527 3 года назад +65

      OMG!!!😳😳😳😳😱😱😱😱😱IS THAT A DELTATALE REFERENCE????????🤩🤩🤩🤩🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🥰🥰🥰🥰DELTATALE IS BEST GAEM!!!!!!😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎TOX FOBY BEST GAEM DEX!!!!!!😁😁😁😁😁😑😑😑😑😑I CANT WAIT TIL UNDERRUNE RELEASES!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @kikiscosmos4781
      @kikiscosmos4781 3 года назад +14

      @@keterpatrol7527 First it’s undertale second it’s deltarune

    • @keterpatrol7527
      @keterpatrol7527 3 года назад +36

      @@kikiscosmos4781 r/wooooosh

    • @DominikPac-Boy
      @DominikPac-Boy 3 года назад +16

      *omega form is basically a bunch of Windows XP windows*

    • @not_ateral
      @not_ateral 3 года назад +22

      "Its funny how dumb you are!"
      -Bill Cipher -2014 I think.

  • @gigaboom_9618
    @gigaboom_9618 2 года назад +136

    I cant imagine how freaked out i would be if something like this wouldve happened to me when i was younger.

  • @SonOfGoth
    @SonOfGoth 3 года назад +357

    Kinda glad i found this. I remember seeing this on our home computer when i was around 6 years old. I distinctly remembered the sound, but wondered if i just imagined it, so it's nice in terms of memory validation. What i don't remember is the multiplication of the windows. I remember getting rid of it, or rather my mother getting rid of it, without forcibly shutting down the computer, it's possible that we had gotten a friendlier version of it that wasn't intended to cause actual harm. Ofc, i was 6-ish at the time, so i just kinda thought it was funny and memorized the audio. Just kind of a wierd memory now.

    • @Omaha18
      @Omaha18 2 года назад +5

      I remember it being a .wav sound bite on a Wolfenstein:Enemy Territory server i once played on.. Got stuck in my head since so many people kept spamming it to annoy the server lmao... 2006 was wild!

  • @nathanandsamuelofficial9372
    @nathanandsamuelofficial9372 Год назад +16

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

  • @swarple
    @swarple 2 года назад +541

    I feel horrible for laughing so hard when I heard the description of what this actually did, since this legitimately messed up people’s computers, but it’s just so chaotic and wild. Someone definitely made this just to screw with people. It’s kind of horribly beautiful in a way. Definitely a relic from a different time.

    • @techkiller24
      @techkiller24 2 года назад +5

      Yea

    • @cashbrady4074
      @cashbrady4074 Год назад +1

      Yes and it would be like heck if I was in 2002 abd cry and just be like why did I do this and flip it

    • @mycosys
      @mycosys Год назад +7

      at the time computerd did this to themselves every couple of hours anyway. if you hadnt saved you really were an idiot

    • @weeblikeartist
      @weeblikeartist Год назад

      yeah!

    • @weeblikeartist
      @weeblikeartist Год назад +1

      @@mycosys yes lol

  • @StriderStryker
    @StriderStryker 3 года назад +916

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

    • @thermaltools
      @thermaltools 3 года назад +7

      Virtual machine..?

    • @WinterNox
      @WinterNox 3 года назад +58

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

    • @atomguy15
      @atomguy15 3 года назад +8

      @@thermaltools a computer inside a computer

    • @zil_randomly
      @zil_randomly 3 года назад +7

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

    • @blocksource4192
      @blocksource4192 3 года назад +22

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

  • @Stungunwol
    @Stungunwol 3 года назад +342

    The reason it didn't work on 2000 was probably because it got as bad as it did before you took action. Had you spawned as many windows in XP as were in the 2000 example, I bet it would've struggled as well. You basically nipped it in the bud early on there.
    Also didn't know you could multi select programs in task manager for mass close.

    • @YurlynPlays
      @YurlynPlays 3 года назад

      I mean, I don't think W2000 had group shutdowns in its taskmanager 😅

    • @Stungunwol
      @Stungunwol 3 года назад

      @@YurlynPlays yeah, but I'd used both 2k and XP at one point. Though if you kill the process instead of ending task...

  • @kristinepfs
    @kristinepfs Год назад +3

    I am truly grateful that we had Macs in the 2000s.

  • @inieie1397
    @inieie1397 2 года назад +170

    I did that to my old school bully, she cried and i was quietly laughing and the teacher got super mad! I am happy. That is what made her stop. : )

    • @tysonruiz1382
      @tysonruiz1382 2 года назад +2

      Oh yeah this is big brain time

    • @motherfortress2
      @motherfortress2 2 года назад +2

      How tf did you not get in trouble?

    • @t-pos
      @t-pos 2 года назад +3

      A.. _she..?_

    • @livmoved
      @livmoved 2 года назад +14

      @@t-pos Are bullies not allowed to be girls? Oh yeah, they're not allowed to be non-binary or genderfluid or any gender other than boys, right?
      (This is clearly sarcasm and a joke, I'm completely supportive of LGBTQ+, don't attack me.)

    • @t-pos
      @t-pos 2 года назад +2

      @@livmoved yes ik but its just so rare for me to encounter girl bullies lol

  • @nyxlumiere8327
    @nyxlumiere8327 Год назад +498

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

  • @nannikira
    @nannikira Год назад +144

    Can't believe that they made a prank virus that caused thousands(hundreds maybe) of people to panic into a catchy song lmao

  • @informalnarwhals
    @informalnarwhals Месяц назад +1

    16:06 something about audio freezing is more terrifying to me than the loud off-rhythm choir bullying me LOL

  • @mrdevolver7999
    @mrdevolver7999 3 года назад +142

    I remember being on a phone with one girl long years ago. She was very mean, but I loved her and as I was calling with her, I suddenly heard this sound "You are an idiot" coming probably from the speakers connected to her computer. At first I was confused, then I thought it was her way of telling me what she thinks of me. I never really knew that sound was a sound of a virus and now that I know it, it all kinda starts to make sense. I guess it was karma.

  • @charlotte2914
    @charlotte2914 3 года назад +147

    I remember the mad pranks we'd pull on each other in high school I.T class. We thought we were so hilarious...
    We weren't.

  • @dyystr
    @dyystr 3 года назад +120

    It's nice to know people are still making videos about past traumatic events in the beginning of the internet. Makes it feel more relatable to me

    • @loonabest825
      @loonabest825 2 года назад +1

      „Traumatic“ ?idk lol I wasn’t alive in 2002

  • @theultrastar21
    @theultrastar21 4 месяца назад +2

    I am not beating minds of misery in fe2 with this one🗣️🔥

  • @robertduryee4598
    @robertduryee4598 3 года назад +104

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

  • @mariobaic6180
    @mariobaic6180 2 года назад +133

    Fun fact- there is a variation of this trojan, that features pictures from lemon party.... And now imagine how much chaos that caused when one of my friends in school decided to load the lemon party version, on a school pc, during a class.... Funnily enough this lemon party version also had a feature where it said "its useless" and then counted down from 10 to 0 every time you try to close it, and on 0 it just shuts down the pc.

    • @skandababy
      @skandababy 2 года назад +3

      fun fact- my dog digs up catshit and eats it

    • @skandababy
      @skandababy 2 года назад

      @idk Stop trying to speak for other people you ego-maniac

  • @Jiirah
    @Jiirah 3 года назад +82

    That moment when you are in your early thirties and you remember when this webpage first came into existence, and it was used primarily as a teaching tool in 6th grade computer courses about viruses. Back then it was just a funny gag that went away after you forced the computer to shut down.

    • @Katie-hj5eb
      @Katie-hj5eb 3 года назад +4

      This is the version someone sent me in a chat room in the early 2000s it was a pretty good lesson on not clicking links and luckily was gone after a reset.

  • @PrincessOfFriendship
    @PrincessOfFriendship Год назад +2

    Windows XP: Looks like im the one who can stop this virus! Suck on that Windows 2000!
    Windows 2000: Unfair :(

  • @mayita_1234
    @mayita_1234 2 года назад +41

    16:02 THAT GLITCH AT THE END IS ACTUALLY HORRIFYING TO HEAR

  • @browniex5120
    @browniex5120 2 года назад +241

    - Timestamps -
    00:00 Introduction
    03:34 The Speculations Of The Origins Of The Virus
    04:55 The Earliest Form Of The Program And Adult Websites
    05:57 The Underlying And Early Discussion Of The Virus' Existence
    06:37 The Introduction Of Trojan Horses
    07:16 The Use Of JavaScript And The Adobe Flash Player
    07:58 What The "Virus" Did To Its Victims
    08:58 The Word Going Around: A Warning Or A Dare | Rumors And Conjecture
    09:49 The Potential Of Lost Data And The Virus' Startup
    10:30 Comparing The Virus' Damage To Other Operating Systems
    11:32 Using The Virus As A Prank And Its Humorous Respect
    13:26 The Demonstration Of The Virus | Windows 2000 And Windows XP

  • @anonfrom2chan924
    @anonfrom2chan924 2 года назад +325

    Can we just appreciate how this guy even wrote the site’s address with (dot) instead of the symbol in the description? That is some real good thinking, I love it! Imagine people scrolling description down and ending on that site, just because they truly were stupid enough to click that link

    • @Watermeloncat6000
      @Watermeloncat6000 2 года назад +18

      ☻☻☻

    • @wool578
      @wool578 2 года назад +1

      🌚🌚🌚

    • @versusVSversus.
      @versusVSversus. 2 года назад +4

      Most people would probably end there of their own will ;)

    • @ChillavaKirby
      @ChillavaKirby 2 года назад +11

      Does the website really still exist and damage your computer? I find it unlikely.

    • @Capitunist
      @Capitunist Год назад +1

      Nah it still multiplies windows if you click on it but it's easily destroyed by going into Task Manager.