Drafts/WowWowWow.win

As a rule of thumb on the Internet, I tend to be suspicious of certain domain names, or rather web extensions. Not the standard ones like .com and .org, or even regional ones like .nz or .de, just ones that seem out of place. It may just be my paranoia around scam sites, or the rabbit holes I've gone down that deal with questionable surface web content, but I'm extremely hesitant to use sites with weird domain names. One day, though, I got bored, deciding to face my fear and type in some strange addresses to see if anyone owns them. I remembered some internet mystery being uncovered via that, so I thought I might as well try it out, too. Just to be cautious, though, I used a virtual machine.
I typed in a few addresses and got a whopping zero hints. I tried .xyz, .lol, even .men (which would've probably given me a virus). I kept trying until I got a hit. I was shocked when wowwowwow.win, the least practical-sounding one of the whole bunch, brought up a real domain. Maybe it was a personal site that someone ran for their artwork, or maybe it was some sort of weird cyber-squatting situation. Questions ran through my mind, so I hit "enter".
Believe me, I was confused.
Instantly, I was taken to a bare-bones page. The background of the website was a repeating image of some art from the Nickelodeon show Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! which made sense, given the name. I hadn't thought of it in ages, but memories came flooding back when I saw the characters. There was nothing else to do besides click on a video embedded in, so I did exactly that. The video itself has to be unlisted, since I tried searching for its name, "wowwowwow" and found nothing (could just be the fairly generic name). I managed to snag the thumbnail, though, so I at least have that.
At first, the video looked like someone recording an episode off of their TV, specifically the episode "Daizy's Favorite Place", but it then switched to a Windows Movie Maker-type screen that said "wow!" on it as soon as the title card disappeared, before changing to what I can only assume was a fan-animation.
It started out with the three main characters sitting on a couch, drawn in a slightly-wonky style. Wubbzy was flipping through the TV channels, Widget was just watching, and Walden was reading a book. Widget turned her head to the left, before she said, "aw shucks, I wish it didn't rain all day. I was supposed to show off a gadget, but looks like another wrench in my plans..." She didn't sound like herself, or at least not like her voice actor. It was obviously a kid, maybe a tween at the most. Walden soon chimed in with, "well, it's not all bad. I think this could be an excellent way to use our imaginations and-." His voice actor just kept saying "blah blah blah" over and over again as the camera changed to a fed-up-looking Wubbzy.
A knock then played, and everyone looked over towards the door. Widget was the first to get up and approach the door, which was shown as footage of someone holding a camera shakily and approaching what may have been a bedroom door. As the cameraman reached for the knob, Widget returned, this time with a bit of a surprised expression. The camera didn't show who was outside the door, but it did show Widget standing there, gesturing someone to come in.
"Daizy, what are you doing here?"
"I didn't think you'd be out in this weather, especially with all that dirt on your hands."
"Come on in, I'll get a towel! You must be soaked!"
She walked back towards where her friends were, but paused when she noticed that Daizy wasn't following her. We still couldn't see her, but we did see how Widget was getting more and more concerned.
"Uh, Daizy, you alright?"
Suddenly, the screen played a 3D transition of the camera turning around to show Daizy standing at the door. It was a normal-looking image of her taken directly from the show, standing on some porch. Then, her eyes, nose, and mouth melted together as the background faded to some floral-looking print as her face formed a large, grinning mouth. The colors warped and an oddly deep (pitched-down, probably) voice spoke, reading out the lines that appeared on-screen.
"I can feel your nerves in your body"
"they pound, they throb, they scream"
"They want to be free. you want to be free, right?"
"i'm doing you a favor."
Suddenly, the colors go back to normal, but Daizy still had the human mouth, which unhinged with a metallic effect. She began to blare out a warning siren-type sound before grabbing Wubbzy by the tail and whipping him around like a yoyo, slamming him against the wall repeatedly. Widget screamed as she pulled a dumbfounded Walden away and into another room. Daizy turned towards the viewer, before switching to a 3D-animated, first-person view of her rampage.
"What even are you?!" Widget yelled, this time sounding like an adult woman. Walden suddenly ran out from behind her with a SHOTGUN (yeah, no clue where that came from), and started trying to get a good hit in. Several bleeps were heard in between Walden firing, presumably him cursing in frustration. It was animated pretty well, too, kinda show-accurate but a bit anime-esque. "Hit it! Hit it!" Widget screamed, before a CGI bullet went straight for Daizy's face.
At the end, the Windows Movie Maker text returned, saying "that's all folks!"
I THINK this was some kid's YTP, but it was weirdly high-effort for one, with all the original artwork. I'm well aware of YTPs that have horror elements, but this felt more like a shock video, if that makes sense. Like, a kid thinks this is an episode of their favorite show, then they get... whatever that was? It wasn't that shocking, but if I were, like, 6, I'd be scarred.
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