I can accept that, it is a generic username.Not the same people.
That Caillou ARG wasn't even their first, amazingly.More background on this incident. The channel uploaded a video called "Theme Song - Caillou" in November of 2016, an otherwise boring ARG video consisting of random horror-themed clips. I will not be linking the video because its title comes from the use of a disturbing clip depicting a man screaming at a crying child to sing the Caillou theme song while scathing him with boiling water. This created a huge shitstorm at the time, forcing one of their associates to play apologetics and claim everything in the video was fake.
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As it turns out, he was full of shit. The video was used in a different ARG around the same time called "WorldCorp", which people discovered had used a ton of legitimate child abuse videos to promote their music. "WorldCorp" is a whole different story entirely, if you're intrigued here's a good video about them and the origin of the child abuse clip SiIvagunner thought would be hilarious to use.
After people began calling them out, they finally admitted that they did not, in fact, know its legitimacy and had no reason to presume it was fake because the video's creator had downloaded it from /x/.
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In summary, these comedic geniuses mixed in actual child abuse content with their autistic ARG because they felt the need to spice things up on their video game meme channel. Then, after people got upset that they'd been tricked into listening to a child being abused, they had their friend lie about its veracity and claim it was fake.
On that note, I'll end this post with the time the group made it onto "r/soyboys" causing them to become very upset.
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And @catpin , a good video you might consider adding to the OP is this one about the channel's origins:
