Closing Logos Group / CLG Wiki - Spooky scary TV logos! (NIGHTMARE FACTOR)

Wakko Warner said:
I saw those videos when I was younger and was even confused about them at that age. For example, why are you mixing up Nick Jr. shows with The Simpsons? And why did you just use audio about warfare on a so-called TV promo?
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Again, you can never tell if they're being ironic about it or doing some sort of social commentary in an artisitc fashion. I would see something like this in college but often there was a theme or an idea behind making it work and you'd get it. There was always a statement to be made and even in the visual medium like video, it's easy to bend something as simple as a promo to call attention to the plight of society.

Everything, maybe. That was a logo made for a kids' channel, for crying out loud!
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I'm starting to think TV isn't for everyone.

That almost looked real for a second, until I saw that they put Hole In The Wall on the schedule long after it got cancelled and they put on Goosebumps. I checked out the other pages, though, and some schedules include a fake show called "The Awesome Chronicles of Manny and Khan", which appears to be based on a rejected CN pilot (This reminds me of the people on another crappy wikia, Scratchpad Wikia, putting a show called called Hoop-A-Joop on every single schedule of theirs).
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Well at least its not A Kitty Bobo Show.

Super Collie said:
There's a pretty big difference between being afraid of a giant letter "V" drawn in Scanimate and a signal hijacking that replaces a few seconds of your favorite show with a low resolution clip of a guy in a weird mask trying to talk but the audio quality is so poor it just sounds like television static. The Max Headroom incident is objectively terrifying, no autism required.
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True, imagine if that went on over an episode of Sesame Street or Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, that would terrify the tots greatly.

With all this closing logo nonsense, I have to keep thinking back to 2009's Oscar winning short, "Logorama", which I'm sure fueled this plenty. It's hard for me to get mad at that particular film as it ref. a logo to a local supermarket chain that only existed in a small section of Ohio and Michigan, no French guy behind that short is gonna know that history like I do.
 
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I'm been a member of the CLG Wiki for many years now, and I've always been an upstanding member. I've added content, I've corrected errors, I've never trolled anyone, I even stayed out of the infamous "Cokeburst" debate that seems to have splintered the leadership of the group recently. I frequent it because this type of information-- where the logo was used, the variants it had over the years, the music designed to accompany it that wasn't used on many movies or shows-- genuinely fascinates me (I have Aspergers with ADHD).
 
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Spectrum270 said:
I'm been a member of the CLG Wiki for many years now, and I've always been an upstanding member. I've added content, I've corrected errors, I've never trolled anyone, I even stayed out of the infamous "Cokeburst" debate that seems to have splintered the leadership of the group recently. I frequent it because this type of information-- where the logo was used, the variants it had over the years, the music designed to accompany it that wasn't used on many movies or shows-- genuinely fascinates me (I have Aspergers with ADHD).
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If you're under the impression that this thread is some sort of call-out or that we hate you guys, you are mistaken. We're just confused and fascinated. You have to admit, it is a weird niche.
 
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Spectrum270 said:
I'm been a member of the CLG Wiki for many years now, and I've always been an upstanding member. I've added content, I've corrected errors, I've never trolled anyone, I even stayed out of the infamous "Cokeburst" debate that seems to have splintered the leadership of the group recently. I frequent it because this type of information-- where the logo was used, the variants it had over the years, the music designed to accompany it that wasn't used on many movies or shows-- genuinely fascinates me (I have Aspergers with ADHD).
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As an autist, surely you understand "special interests". Many autists, for whatever reason, have a bizarre fixation on motor vehicles (especially trains) or video games. Some more interesting autists, such as yourself, are fascinated by unusual things like closing logos. You want to catalogue them, analyze them, and debate their values with other like-minded individuals in communities catered to highly specific topics.

Here at Kiwi Farms, our special interest is people like you.
 
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Super Collie said:
What's your opinion on that, by the way?

Mine's the opposite of yours.
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I was astounded when i first saw it, I'd long thought it to be a rumor. Then when I was browsing the CPT page the other day, I noticed the pictures and videos of the Cokeburst had been removed. I looked at the bottom of the page, and found the thread where the evidence to establish the logos as fakes were laid out. I was shocked.
 
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@Spectrum270 what sparked your interest in closing logos? Is there a particular instance you can point to that might have started this interest in them?
 
Meowthkip said:
@Spectrum270 what sparked your interest in closing logos? Is there a particular instance you can point to that might have started this interest in them?
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I dunno when exactly-- when I was in elementary school, I'd often watch random films on demand just to see the logos at the beginning. I was fascinated by the late 90s Orion Pictures logo in front of The Island of Dr. Moreau, for instance. I stumbled upon a now long-gone site called KRS Logos, which was like a proto-CLG Wiki-- you couldn't edit, and updates slowed down around 2007. I got into logo-watching when I discovered YouTube, and when I discovered the newly-founded CLG Wiki in 2009, it was like I struck gold.

Trilby said:
I assume this has something to do with Coca-Cola once owning Columbia Pictures in the 80's.
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Yes, a long-standing rumored logo was a variant of the "Sunburst" logo Columbia used in the 70s, specifically the TV version, having a Coca-Cola byline added on. It only stood as rumor, but then this guy named "SuperMarty-O" provided seemingly legitimate evidence of the Cokeburst's existence. However, the footage was faked, and the argument apparently caused one of the CLG founders to "go rogue" and break away from the rest of us.
 
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Spectrum270 said:
I dunno when exactly-- when I was in elementary school, I'd often watch random films on demand just to see the logos at the beginning. I was fascinated by the late 90s Orion Pictures logo in front of The Island of Dr. Moreau, for instance. I stumbled upon a now long-gone site called KRS Logos, which was like a proto-CLG Wiki-- you couldn't edit, and updates slowed down around 2007. I got into logo-watching when I discovered YouTube, and when I discovered the newly-founded CLG Wiki in 2009, it was like I struck gold.


Yes, a long-standing rumored logo was a variant of the "Sunburst" logo Columbia used in the 70s, specifically the TV version, having a Coca-Cola byline added on. It only stood as rumor, but then this guy named "SuperMarty-O" provided seemingly legitimate evidence of the Cokeburst's existence. However, the footage was faked, and the argument apparently caused one of the CLG founders to "go rogue" and break away from the rest of us.
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Interesting.

Is the Orion Pictures logo your favorite?
 
I've always been a logo-enthusiast for as long as I can remember, even making contributions to CLG Wiki now and again. However, I will admit that the more you dig deeper into it, the more the closing logos-community does tend to get fucking weird. Some of the things I could never get my head around were the countless "Talk to the X Logo" vids, or the shittily done logo "remakes" that look like they were crafted in MS Paint in 10 minutes. Oh yes, and the "taken from X" comments (on literally any upload of any given logo) are indeed fucking cancer.

Sure, as a diagnosed sperg myself, I can understand the facsination with these types of things, but even then this level of autism is difficult for me to understand.
 
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Horny Skunk said:
I've always been a logo-enthusiast for as long as I can remember, even making contributions to CLG Wiki now and again. However, I will admit that the more you dig deeper into it, the more the closing logos-community does tend to get fucking weird. Some of the things I could never get my head around were the countless "Talk to the X Logo" vids, or the shittily done logo "remakes" that look like they were crafted in MS Paint in 10 minutes. Oh yes, and the "taken from X" comments (on literally any upload of any given logo) are indeed fucking cancer.

Sure, as a diagnosed sperg myself, I can understand the facsination with these types of things, but even then this level of autism is difficult for me to understand.
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What gets me is that almost none of these people do anything like get into graphic design or typography, which you'd think they'd pick up on having an obsession with logos.

I wanna believe somewhere out there, there's a graphic design savant whose obsession with closing logos has lead him to do animation work for major networks.
 
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tfw we live in a society where people jack off to porn of decades old corporate logos
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https://www.deviantart.com/andrewsfwandnsfw/art/Viacom-Footjob-Cum-733829242
 
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