Image of Working TV from a video that is presumed lost media.

Anomaly #0035

Anomaly Surname: "Working TV"

Anomaly Type: "Model"

Risk to Users: Safe

Anomaly Status: Nullified

Anomaly #0035, known as "Working TV", was a free model of unknown origin commonly used in games around 2009-2011. #0035 didn't ring anything out of the ordinary at first, It was a simple TV model, you press a red button on the back side of it, and it'll turn on and start playing a random "video" more akin to a short GIF made using dozens of decals.

This was all the model was for the first year it existed. However, this would change when #0035-A was born.

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Anomaly #0035-A

Anomaly Surname: "TV-2"

Anomaly Type: "Model"

Risk to Users: Neutral

Anomaly Status: Nullified

On October 1st, 2010, a player on the forums would make the first of many user reports to come, stating that while they were in-game with their friends in one of their places, they heard a sound which they could only describe as "violent jittering" followed by what looked to be an explosion particle coming from a near-by house which contained #0035 in it. What would ensue would mark the birth of #0035-A.

Upon entering the house, they found #0035 had been turned on by itself, and instead of the videos it would usually play, it was now simply a white screen with occasional flashs of random decals. It would stay like this for a few minutes, before suddenly spawning a humanoid in the model that would simply display the text "Updating". After another minute passed, the TV would turn off and the text would disappear.

Upon one of the player's friends turning the TV back on, players present described a moderate lagspike occuring, followed by the TV turning on again after a noticeable delay, now with a larger collection of videos of much higher looking quality, as well as additional buttons able to skip forward or backwards in the TV's "channels".

Following this player's forum post, countless users from all corners of ROBLOX would describe witnessing the same thing unfold in all sorts of games with #0035 in it. Reasonably, alot of players were very confused, as this new version of #0035 was somehow saved permanently to their games, many were upset noting that the new model was also completely unable to be edited or viewed in any capacity even through commands, causing the model to be stuck in their games, even if they overrode the game with something else completely.

Apart from this, the majority of other players would welcome the change, despite its mysterious cause and implications, the model still seemed harmless.

This would change when #0035-B was born.

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Anomaly #0035-B

Anomaly Surname: "TV-3"

Anomaly Type: "Model"

Risk to Users: Dangerous

Anomaly Status: Nullified

On October 1st, 2011, players would flock to the forums to report that #0035 had updated once again, with the same process, and same "jittering noise" previously reported. This would mark the birth of #0035-B. However, this time upon turning the TV on again, players would report that entire servers were either crashing near instantly, or facing severe lag issues that effectively made any game facing them unplayable. These lag issues would persist for the next few days as more games would turn #0035-B on for the first time.

After the crashes and lag issues, players would soon gather into large groups in new servers to see what #0035-B had in store, and upon successfully turning on the TV again, would be met with alot of lag, but now even higher quality videos in full 1080p now also containing actual audio, with the channel switching buttons prominently missing. How any of this was achieved is highly confusing, however we believe it mostly likely used whatever technology #0030-A's ADVEK script would later go on to use.

#0035-B was evidentally ten-fold as powerful though, as one player, who somehow found a way to view #0035-B's main script reported that it contained tens of thousands of lines of code, being so large that it would cause the script viewer to close itself after only a few seconds.

Whatever this script contained made #0035-B capable of playing practically any video at its own will, ranging from random ROBLOX related videos pulled from YouTube, to random cartoons, to a series of videos completely unique to the model depicting a crude polygonal stickman-like figure as a news anchor, who would appear bi-hourly with "news segments" which consisted of an unorthodox sounding text-to-speech voice reading out random numbers at an unusually rapid speed for 10-20 minutes at a time with random sudden long pauses.

Intriguingly, players would soon discover that when in-game with #0035-B during the late hours of the night, #0035-B would frequently diverge from its usual programming to play a much more abstract selection of media, player reports of this media describe:

-Very long segments of completely undiscernable footage & audio.
-Videos of blue & red squares warping in size and emitting random harmonic frequencies
-A notably odd "video" which would somehow display the players screen back to them through the TV.
-A long grating static-like audio which would play over an entirely red screen.
-An assortment of flashing images that are completely lost now, it's unknown what they were.

A few days of #0035-B being active later, passerbys would begin to notice an abnormally large amount of players staying in games for days straight only watching the TV, as if they were under hypnosis, often going completely non-verbal and nearly not moving at all during the late hours that #0035-B's more unusual media would play. After about 6 days, an announcement would play on every instance of #0035-B simultaneously, stating in large text with very broken english that a "special broadcast" was coming in the following days and called for everybody to "keep watching no matter what".

However this broadcast wouldn't come to fruition, as a day later in the late afternoon ROBLOX would finally address #0035 after many frantic reports from family members of those effected. #0035-B would make one final global broadcast before becoming fully nullified just minutes later on the midnight of October, 8th 2011.

Victims of #0035-B's hypnotizing effect on the mind have thankfully recovered, but as a result in the coming years have gone from being highly social to becoming very closed off and introverted even towards their most loved ones, to this day facing frequent dissociation problems and difficulty re-entering society.

#0035 has proved to be another of many cautionary tales of what can happen when dangerous anomalies aren't properly dealt with, ROBLOX failed to adequately protect its users from #0035 in a timely manner, only stepping in last minute due to public pressure being put onto them. Had this been a smaller incident, ROBLOX very well would've swept this under the rug completely.

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