The Legend of YouAreAnIdiot.org
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2021
- In 2004, a website known as youareanidiot(dot)org rose to prominence across the internet, where it was home to what is now recognized as the You Are An Idiot computer virus (mostly known as "YouAreAnIdiot" or "Offiz"). However, many people first visiting the site had no idea what they were getting themselves into, and the story goes even deeper than that.
The YouAreAnIdiot trojan horse, also known by its official name “Offiz” infected as many as 100,000 people, and it was now making its way around the internet as a topic of heated discussion. A subject people immediately regretted becoming acquainted with, its presence just continuing to grow. It wasn’t long until people were claiming that their entire hard drives were being permanently erased and damaged beyond repair. What exactly was going on? How did the story of YouAreAnIdiot go from exhausting tech support threads within online forums into becoming an internet legend?
Well, properly answering that question requires a bit of historical context. We need to go all the way back to the year 2002. The internet is still in its fledgling phase, with the vestiges of the 90s, but it is growing at an alarming rate, as well as getting smarter and more sophisticated every day. This goes for both the technological aspects of the internet, as well as human behavior. The internet is becoming more because people are demanding more, for better and for worse. Not only was it improving on user convenience, it was learning to solve problems users had been yearning to get fixed for years, as well as solving problems users didn’t even know that they had. But this came at the expense of creating new problems, some of which were previously almost unheard of. Malicious programs were becoming smarter and more difficult to combat, as malware developers were learning from their past mistakes, and YouAreAnIdiot was a symptom of that.
But to really see how and why this was the case requires going into detail on how the virus rose to prominence and how it actually worked. The earliest form of the program showed up in early 2002, originally known by its more official name “Offiz” and it first appeared on a website. The earliest confirmed website it showed up on was known as youdontknowwhoiam(dot)org. So what did the virus actually do?
Well, it wasn’t technically a virus at all. It didn’t use your computer to spread to other ones. It was a trojan horse, a program that pretends to look nice and innocent, but causes harm to your computer once you activate it, but of course the vernacular for layman computer users is to call anything malicious a virus, so people just stuck with that. We mentioned that this virus was one of many components which formed from the early internet’s ongoing evolution, and that’s because it took advantage of a relatively new technology that was only becoming more complex by the year. This technology is called JavaScript. This wasn’t just writing code. This was the closest thing you could get to making something that was alive. Something that could almost think for itself. With JavaScript, you were playing God on the internet, so why not use it to cause mayhem as well? But this virus didn’t just take advantage of that. It also had another somewhat new and growing technology under its sleeve: the flash player. Combine these two forces and you are virtually unstoppable. Any user curious enough to click on the website’s window would be greeted with the famous animation we’ve all grown to recognize. Thanks to the JavaScript, any further attempt to exit the page, whether it be by refreshing or clicking the x button, will spawn six more smaller windows displaying the same animation, all playing at once. You’re not getting off that easy though. The script has programmed the windows to bounce around the page, so good luck exiting out, and even if you do get rid of one, six more will pop up once again. You now 11 windows on your computer calling you an idiot, and your speakers are just getting louder. You try using some hotkeys to forcefully shut down your browser, but now you just have text windows calling you an idiot. Before you know it, the windows have multiplied exponentially, and your computer’s resources are being used up. Your system is so slow you can barely even move the mouse anymore. You can’t even open task manager it’s so slow. Now you have no choice but to take the last resort and shut down your computer through physically pushing the power button.
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why do I feel like i’ve seen this video before
@@jbbajangamer I don't know. Mandela Effect perhaps? 👀
16:06 sounds like a microwave...
4:03 Rick astley at work.
I miss when viruses were basically just to prank you, and not to involve your PC in organized crime.
I guess I'm a criminal now...
Me too. Back when the worst viruses were just stuff like a dancing stick figure that opens files
Especially that one desktop stripper
@@hlscientist8760 uhm what was the name of this virus?...
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.
Pulled this on a school computer back in elementary. I forget why I did it but I got lunch detention for a week
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.
LMAO
Hey, I remember you! Joel talked about you on a Windows Destruction stream!
chad
well now i wanna do it on my friends school laptop
I think if I'd encountered this back in the day I would have just cried for hours.
Me too. Except I’m severely dehydrated, so I wouldn’t have any water left in my body to cry out.
@@MichaelJacksonsFavoriteChildwell I hope you drank something....
@@RemoWilliams1227 I try
@@MichaelJacksonsFavoriteChild Doctors will put you on IV drip if your skin is dehydrated enough to stand when you pinch the back of your hand. It should go down right away, otherwise you're clinically dehydrated.
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.
My brother and I were at my dad's friend's house for his band practice back when this was very popular. They were all downstairs in the basement while we were upstairs messing around and playing silly games on the computer. He randomly told me to search up something called YouAreAnIdiot...i was really confused and I was about 11 or so. I typed it into the search bar and this popped up. Tons of tabs popped up and the music got louder, I had no idea what was going on and my brother was starting to freak out aswell. Finally we powered off the computer but our adrenaline was skyrocketing and we were shaking. I had nightmares for about a month and my brother apologized so many times and said that he was just curious on what it was. Thats the very fond memory i have of this crazy website..and I'll never forget it lol
omg bro, oof
R.I.P. my guy
Osu players be like: “it’s my time to shine”
Underrated lmao
lmaoo
Mhm
Yes sirrrrrr
It's a mouse only player's wet dream.
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.
So to say to keep your work open and go *you would be a idiot*
@@riponrip4574 well it sounds alot cooler to say if it causes damage by you not closing your work then your an idiot
Exactly
Yeah, I always press Ctrl s like ten times after I add a single thing to the file
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.
Can't believe that they made a prank virus that caused thousands(hundreds maybe) of people to panic into a catchy song lmao
I just know that a certain flower would love this
I know that flower. On a personal level.
FLOWEYYY!!! GET BACK HERE AND QUIT HURTING THE CHILD!! - Toriel Dreemurr
=)
Why is everything Undertale? There's no NUT (Non-Undertale-Temathic) content now.
@@runningoven is that a GASTER REFERENXE YFMEJEHGJRJY
The guy who created this is a genius, singlehandedly taught a whole generation to not click an unknown file/link! xD
Well, With all the computer viruses that came after this one that only worked by clicking an unknown file/link...
Then that's a horrible way to teach someone
@@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! 😅
Rick roll taught me that
@@derenbong6060 agreed
just imagine the creator, simply sitting and smiling at home, being the only one that knows that he is behind the 'virus'
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.
@@stephenheffren4324 JUST SAY THEY OMG
@🍷 Zachary ;; Yeah, ik, but they is a much much simpler way to put it though. it saves time and is less hard to read
@@sad-with-pizzazz Yeah you do have a good point lol. Sorry about that.
lmao
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.
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 😅😅
"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."
Epic
Did you get it off? Lol
As a adhd person i have to say its really tempting to do it
@@KITTYINK416 I did it lmao. It worked but It went away lol
☻︎☺︎︎☻︎☺︎︎☻︎☺︎︎☻︎☺︎︎☻︎☺︎︎☻︎☺︎︎☻︎☺︎︎
Now I'm curious where Farmers Insurance got their inspiration for their jingle.
Some CEO in an office: *click
Computer: "You are an idiot!"
CEO: I'll show you!
@@kip258 lmao
We are farmers...
Bud um pum bum
Aw shit
I miss when viruses were basically just to prank you, now they make my boot sector unalive
I remember being a little kid and getting this on my computer. There was no way to exit out of it so I eventually panicked and unplugged my PC. When I booted my computer back up I got the dread of still having something on my computer. Eventually I got my computer cleaned and it turned out I had a lot of different viruses from spyware to trojans and worms.
XP era malware gave me paranoia which I still have today. I'm always wondering if random CMD popups at boot or browser slowdowns are caused by a trojan.
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.
I used to make similar pages like this for fun to mess with my friends. Alt+F4 did not work if the user didn't get to it fast enough, and if every page was set to open as many new windows of itself as fast as possible.
Why early browsers were ever designed that way, I'll never understand...
Especially allowing a script to change the window position, how could that ever have been useful??
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%
@@Max-ej4oh It was possible to Alt+F4 out of most of these pranks, you're right. If the script only made one pop-up (and that popup made one pop-up etc) instead of creating as many as it could, you could Alt+F4 faster than the new script would be able to load and execute. However, if you had a few windows all creating 3 copies of themselves a second, and all 3 of the copies creating 3 copies etc, it worked.
@@cameronl1859 but you can't escape memz
The one i got at the time alt+f4 didn't worked.
The "you are an idiot" song gives me the creeps. It's quite disturbing and surprisingly eerie. But I have heard good remixes soo.
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
@@billcyphers3rdeye yeah, I once came close to seeing it as a kid. I went on the website but closed it by accident lol
I would be anxious if I accidentally opened it
@@falseillusin9197 You got lucky
same
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.
It originates from WLiR
@@codyryan9789 Uh, no, it didn’t.
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.
I love how a literal prank script caused so much panic.
dummy
Do you know what website it’s on
People with epilepsy: 👁️👄👁️ ----- 👄 ----
@@Kweentoos their fault for clicking on the site.
@@rattleheadsofroblox1201 I mean yeah,it is their fault
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.
Oh no please don't mention the goat or he'll come back!
Meat spin made me gay
meatspin
we didn't start the fire line 1: meatspin, goatse, lemon party, tubgirl
this comment wins. If you know all of em you know em
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.
I knew this video would creep me out, so not only did I not bother to watch it on full screen, I chose to watch it in mini-player mode.
"You're safer using XP" that's a rarely spoken phrase.
that's because XP is usually the old one in the comparison
@@LilacMonarch I was thinking about back then lol
i mean…. Like nobody is making XP viruses anymore i think sooooooo
@@tea.5376 Okay Shaggy you get a Scooby snack
@@tea.5376 which is great except that since MS isn't developing security patches anymore, there's plenty of old malware that will work on it. so if you wanna develop your own patches then yeah you'll be safe
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.
the audio freaking creeps me out lol
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
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
I like it, there's a cool remix of it that I listen to on loop lol
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
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
I like that he never forgotten to remain calm despite how annoying that Trojan virus is.
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.
we do a little trolling
BAHA THATS SO EVIL
Ooooo00O000oooo
can i ask how do i do that lol. i want a startup page but i never figured out how
@@user-ow4fx8zf5e do you have google
5 minute study video: 🥱🥱
18 minute video on a computer virus that was back in 2004: 👍
Yep
569 likes ...
Yep
@@scottdamann2327 745 likes ...
@@Pilgrammed in 3 hours?!
I freaking love these internet documentaries, keep it up man
I recall programming a force crash program that opened up tons of warnings in high school on the school computers and tricked other students into thinking I had downloaded a real virus.
This is literally terrifying, the faces are so simple but so menacing and the jingle is so creepy and distorted
i'm worried about what kind of nightmares your brain creates for you when you go to sleep at night
@@Cyanide_Infused xD
how the fuck is this terrifying
fr
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)
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.
i think 20 years of prison isnt enuff
@@Yep6803 literally there was probably people who had epilepsy and were effected by the flashing lights :/
@@NINEINCHNAILSFANBOY but in general what was the purpouse? 1) no spyware 2)?
hate this feeling, even a recurring theme in nightmares for me lol
@@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
"Sir.. we got a virus from our computer"
"THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO.."
I wasn't alive in 2002 but I would be scared *shitless* if this happened on my computer
i’d be scared shitless even now in 2021 Lol
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
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
Same
666 likes
16:40
2012 - This virus does no harm to your computer.
2022 - This virus is more dangerous than you think that it is.
how, send me link
@@Vulturul333dfd-originalgood luck with no computer
@@Vulturul333dfd-originalbro is trying to get us reported 💀
@@erwinguzman8878 so win10 well die
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
I love this video so much I watch it at least 3 times a year. It's so interesting to me ❤.
I used to go to the computer lab and boot this up on all of the desktops at once, I quickly discovered that they were all interlinked virtual machines . Basically all of them were just "screens" running all off one server and 20ish computers running ram destroyers would tank the tiny server my school had. It also made me realise I could easily mirror other people's sessions and steal their games.
Holy fuck that is GENIUS. Ahahahahaha
Perfect timing, I JUST got nostalgic for this faint memory and looked it up.
Here before the algorithm blesses it well beyond 100k.
Same
oh hello sato
Here after the algorithm blesses it with 100k
This is like being on the Oregon Trail and seeing a trail marker from the brave trailblazers that forged my path.
3.1 million now, wow
Offiz: I fear no man but that thing **points to a osu player**
Offiz: It scares me
lol i'm a osu! player since feb 2021
I love your pfp
nice tf2 reference lol
bro, imagine having an texture pack for windows and make it make your red X become an hitcircle
LMFAOAOAOO
This was my first NationSquid vid I watched and I never stopped watching it
Wow, it's cool to learn about these things. I was born in 2010, so didn't get to see this stuff happen.
i feel bad for people who had epilepsy and discovered this virus
That's fair. So many people here saying it's LiTeRaLlY tErRiFyInG, for some reason.
@@JK-gm6kk you'd be scared if it happened to you, without you knowing what it was.
I'm glad me as a kid didn't find that then lmao
@@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?
@@biccnesse dang bro im sorry about that
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.
Fault*
Lol but yea
Your Abuelo Pedro and I *f a u k t*
Maybe a music theorist must speak about You are an Idiot someday!!
Faukt and Scetcy-
I started dancing to it. I was 11/12 during this time. These videos bring back so many memories. I remember there was a big screen that would move around wherever you moved your mouse to. Rofl
Oh my gosh! Memory unlocked. As a 2000s teen chat room user, they got me so many times. 😂😂😂
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 :)
Thank you so much for your support! More content to come! :)
Dude second reply on _your_ comment, just 5 likes? 😹
@@nationsquid Bro give one reply to me 😭😭😭
I have watched almost all your video
@@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*
@@NotKaito Here's my reply. ;)
"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!
LMAO
690th like
there were CRTs capable of more than 1080p in 2004
YAGUS HASKAMASSOON ALLAWOSSOS
Honestly, when a virus is this blatent, I panic. They've usually already delivered the payload and probably backdoored it too.
Its time for a new os install and drive overwrite at that point.
Something similar happened to my mate just the other week, except it pretty much bricked his pc.
You're video's will never die keep it going Nationsquid 👍
This is why you should enable auto save. So that if you run this while working, then you wouldn't be an idiot. 🤷🏻♂️
Auto save wasn’t quite a thing yet.
@@FennecTECH well you know what I mean
Not really tho, what do you mean? It truly didn't exist yet so...
@@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.
@@carlonpetersen171Main stream auto save wasn't a thing, but many of us had our own auto saving scripts or programs we wrote for ourselves.
Offiz: multiplies insanely fast
Osu players: *Im boutta end this mans whole career*
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!
@@user-uo8ny1kj4c still are
@@user-uo8ny1kj4c Bro it's just a rhythm game, not a weeb game and true weebs are the deadliest people ngl 😔🍷
@@jaderitz a skinny weaboo decided to make 4chan and look at what happended, a whole meme culture grew.
@@user-uo8ny1kj4c Is that good or bad or both?
I swear I actually really love the audio and smiley faces
2:23 I love how you can immediately tell that it's the early 2000's because people have that Evanescence avatar. That used to be everywhere.
Me: *reads the flashing light warning* "Oh okay cool."
Me, 15 seconds later: "OH FUCK FLASHING LIGHTS-"
By Talos this can't be happening
mark as unread in real life
Literally same 😩
So, in other words...
LMAO
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
Yeah, this is big brain time
I did that every time I came across a site that scared me
Gargantous brain time
You just saved your computer by being an idiot from the you are an idiot site lmao
@@BG_NC same
"... that was only becoming relatively more complex by the year, Javescript". Yep it is happening to this day
oh wow, I completely missed the first phase of this where it could jam up the computer. I always thought of it in the safer form where it was just something smug people arguing online linked people when they got frustrated.
I did run into pop-up spam malware, but never with the meme attached.
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.
*E* *X* *P* *A* *N* *D*
*D* *O* *N* *G*
Uncle fecal funny Jobel.
Trashman, i eat gArBagE
Yes I watched it and it was so fecal funny hahahaha
And then I went home and ate chicken nuggets
An ad really just interrupted this guy talking about adult websites and desperate internet users by yelling the phrase “NERDS!”
nerd wallet?
@@Commrade-DOGE that’s the one.
Nerds
Unintentional Nerd Wallet W
The audio is soo calming to me i even sing along
I love how for a nice touch on the on the windows xp machine you have another popular virus at the time or maybe it came later idk since I was only one years old when this virus originated but I see bonzi buddy on there.
The virus: scary to unknowing people, and those that get their devices destroyed.
The animation meme remix: absolute jam
yeah
True
True guys!
Fr tho
Fr
virus: literally destroys thousands of computers
animators: hey hey, let's use this sound to create a funny lil animation meme trend lol
FACTS
yep
and i was vibing when i heard the original song (from here)
frrrr I saw the animations and was vibing in my room until this and now it creeps me the f outt
@@chad6461 me too X[
damn they probably even made edgy cats bleed from their eyes to this song or something lul
dude the first flashing n stuff put me in a trance. my eyes were snapping to focus on the screen without me controlling them, i couldnt control myself. i just stared.
How did you get the 2006/2007 capture of oniku1234's music video? Because the Wayback Machine didn't crawl it until 2011.
YouAreAnIdiot: *has a whole history and legend about itself *
Me : *casually has this audio/remix of it in my playlist without even knowing it *
LMFAO I LOVE THE SONG
Me too like I didn’t know it had such a history, damn
Unironically based tbh
Got the link?
@@vibe_swizzy here ya go
th-cam.com/video/hiRacdl02w4/w-d-xo.html
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
Thats epic
I wonder how they feel about being a huge internet meme
That's awesome! They know they're part of internet history, and openly embrace it.
@Joseph same
i wanted to visit this site so bad as a kid, since i had an xp professional until 2014 and didn't understand *how* it could be an actual virus if it just spams tabs
now i think i'm glad i never risked it
my bretheren, we must rise again. come forth and fulfil our destiny.
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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
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
Imagine that Hydra in the legend of Hercules. Imagine how obnoxious that would have been for the guy.
@@hisokaswaifu5343 They're talking about the mythological hydra, which would grow two more heads for every one that you destroy.
that's why it has 3 heads
3:35 “so where do we DINK” Lmfao never heard anyone say think that way in the history of ever.
😂😂😂😭
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 😭
Same, that was really scary :(
Same idk why it scared me so much
Same
i literally got an enxity attack like 😟
@@ansun1987 ikr? its literally so creepy to me.
Wasn't even bored in the 2000s but I somehow recognized that sound
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
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.
Frr
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.
Yeah, evil AI that says "you are an idiot"
If u think this virus is scary then oh boy you’re in for a rude awakening one day
@@aslammmmm181 Well we were different breed, Good old happy tree friends is animation series we all watched xD
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.
This post here officer
what a villain lmao
that was the start of your villain arc
that is evil af
Omg hello
That little song will never leave my brain, now.
Where was the jingle from? It's stuck in my head now lmao
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.
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
@Clexplosion that wasnt your ipad saying that it was definitely an ad pretending to be an ipad notification
@Clexplosion yup, those aren’t sending you to virus blockers, they’re sending you to pages that will actually give you a virus
@Clexplosion It could be a virus disguising itself as a virus blocker. Many viruses disguise themselves as an anti virus.
@Clexplosion WELL THE VIRUS BLOCKER PROBALY WASNT A BLOCKER IT WAS PROBS JUST A ACTUAL VIRUS
@Clexplosion nah bro its a ad ive gotten lots of those asking to install their apps many else got those
17:13 The fact when he closed it at first we thought it was gone but then they suddenly appear back. I was laughing so hard 😂😂😂
I love how the first mention of "JavaScript" is followed up with a shot of someone looking at a composer.lock file.
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.
I agree, I don’t know why, computer viruses scare me tho
100th like, friend! Also love your pfp
so scary, i feel like i'm going to get jumpscared at any second
I agree. Those windows scare me due to that loud hearing
same bro, the song is just unsettling for me
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
oh fr?
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Frfr ong?
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Ong ong ong Fr?
A year or so before this I had the .wav file of the singers. Harmless sound file I had no problem putting it on other people's computers in place of the error tone or startup sound.
"you REALLY are an idiot"
*Flowey liked that*
Reminds me of this video: th-cam.com/video/wewiWDm8icE/w-d-xo.html
Imagen instead of closing the game after dafeating asgore it would also open this up but with a flowey sprite.
finally a reference that i understand
yes
also nice pfp
@@CaptJCB_ lol
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 :))
Thank you so much! More content to come! :)
@@nationsquid cool 🙂
@Falcon X probably, but if you get it seriously you can just reformat the whole computer
Im 30 years old. And i remember this like it was yesterday! Creepy amd disturbing asf years later.
You jumpscared me in the intro💯💯💯
NationSquad: *DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME.*
Virtual Machine: _Allow me to introduce myself._
Virtual machine..?
@@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
@@thermaltools a computer inside a computer
@@thermaltools basically a virtual/digital computer inside a computer
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
When he said “you really are an idiot” it gave me flowey vibes
same
"Howdy! I'm Flowey, Flowey the flower" :D
yes
Flower:I'ma make pepole cry and delete their files with a virus.
I heard that Toby fox based his voice off of it in other TH-cam comments, I haven’t checked though
I'm pretty damn sure I saw it in action in computer class back in high school... Which would've been '98-'00. We used to download and/or play loads of flash animations and games from shady places because hardly anyone had a fast connection at home. Schools usually had somr kind of broadband.
Windows XP: Looks like im the one who can stop this virus! Suck on that Windows 2000!
Windows 2000: Unfair :(
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.
Wahoo that’s just wow.
Wow lol
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.
oh wow-
that’s rough
Dude your friend is a monster
you were using a computer at age 4-5???
@@cactusskeet I had a phone at 5 😭
15:35 it looks like the effect of the cards bouncing from the past solitaire game on classic pc.
I hear it in my head still