Hat Kid was in shock. In all her years of existence, she had never seen YouTube like this. She had seen the website in its prime during her years of popularity. Now the place looked like it had been at the epicenter of an earthquake. Buildings had collapsed, and there were large cracks in the uneven pavement. A scraping noise was present, but Hat Kid Kid did not know where it came from. There were no YouTube users out in the streets. All of them seemed to be hiding inside the buildings. Hat Kid looked a little closer and saw the reason why. Short Robotic figures were prowling the streets. They had circular screens for heads with antennas on their heads which gave them a bug-like appearance. They had speakers on their chests that spurted out random messages. They were YouTube Spambots. There were hundreds of them. There weren't usually this many. Hat Kid spotted a YouTube user trying to leave his house but a spambot spotted him and let out an unearthly shriek. Suddenly every spambot on the street rushed at the poor user.

"read my name!"

"Markiplier sucks ass! my content is better lmao "

"FREE ROBUX ON MY CHANNEL!"

"TAP MY PROFILE PIC TO HAVE SEX WITH ME!1!1!1!1!1"

"don't read my name!"

"i'm subscribing to everyone who subscribes to me!"

The user screamed and rushed back into his house, slamming the door in front of the spambots. The bots spewed out their horrid messages and scratched their claws against the door before giving up and returning to the sidewalk. Hat Kid looked at Mono and Isaac, both were pale with dread from what they saw.

"We're going to have to keep out of sight," muttered Hat Kid, "We'll poke around here for an hour before we leave."

Hat Kid opened her umbrella and gestured for Isaac and Mono to hold onto her. The three jumped off and slowly floated down into an alley.

"I think we should make our way to the center," whispered Mono. That will probably be where the main source of damage will be."

Hat Kid nodded and looked at Isaac who was sifting through rubbish. Hat Kid looked confusedly as Isaac pulled out a bottle of pills. Hat Kid hurried over to Isaac and snatched them out of his hand.

"Isaac for god sake. The last thing we need is for you to eat something that makes you sick."

Isaac looked dejected as Hat Kid threw the pills out onto the street. A pair of spambots rushed at the pills before trampling on them and screaming morbid advertisements. The trio hurried into a building. It looked like the setting of a low-budget sitcom. They found no one inside. The trio went upstairs and found that there was a clothesline that was connected to another building. The three of them used it to get across to the next building. They did this multiple times. Hat Kid had to keep Isaac from picking up random things off the floor that looked edible. Every time they got closer to the center, the scraping noise was growing louder. When the trio entered a large building that had green smiley faces plastered along the walls, their luck ran out. The building was infested with spambots. Spambots crawled along the walls, breaking anything in sight, playing their advertisements or death threats like broken records. The trio hid inside a closet before any of the spambots noticed them.

"How are we going to get past them?" hissed Hat Kid.

"How should I know?" said Mono, "I'm just the getaway driver."

Isaac tapped Mono and Hat Kid's shoulder. The two of them turned around. In his hand, Isaac had a pill.

"Isaac!" shouted Hat Kid as she grabbed Isaac by his hand, "What did I tell you!?"

The entire building was silent. Hat Kid turned pale. A few seconds later, Hat Kid heard footsteps. They were slow at first but were gradually getting faster and louder.

"I'm better than Dream, My content is better."

"I MAKE AWESOME CONTENT👑😏"

"I'M SUBBING TO EVERYONE WHO SUBSCRIBES TO ME!"

" CLICK HERE FOR CUTE GIRLS"

Hat Kid glanced at Isaac who was already swallowing the pill. Hat Kid let out an exasperated shout and tried to force the pill out of Isaac. As she was shaking him, she realized the footsteps were slowing down. Hat Kid dared a peep and saw the spambots were slowing down as if they were being frozen in time. Hat Kid was speechless.

"Now's our chance," hissed Mono as he kicked open the closet door and bolted towards the entrance area. Isaac and Hat Kid followed suit. The spambots were starting to speed up again. The effects of the pill were wearing off. As Mono opened the door, Hat Kid spotted a television at the receptionist's desk and pointed at it. The trio ran past a dangling mannequin towards their ticket out of this madhouse. They were getting closer, closer, closer. Suddenly Hat Kid heard a sizzling sound. Isaac screamed and tackled Hat Kid and Mono to the ground as a blinding ball of energy soared inches above their heads, colliding with the television and vapourising it. Hat Kid whirled around to find another exit but it was too late. The spambots had recovered and were covering all avenues of escape. There were thousands of them, crawling all over the walls and ceiling like termites.

"POOR [little sponges] ALL TRAPPED IN A CAGE..."

The mannequin started to rev up. The lights on its body blinked to life. Hat Kid realized the thing was a gaudy pink robot suit. But it couldn't be. It was too soon. The thing spread its wings that started to flash purple and yellow. The strings that hung the thing started to glow bright green. The flashing lights highlighted the thing's angular body as if it was crudely designed in MS paint.

"No... it can't be..."

The thing's head twitched and let out a maniacal cackle. Two circles where its eyes should be flashed pink and yellow, highlighting a long pointed nose and toothy grin.

"[OOOOOH YEEESSS] IT CAN BE!" yelled the giant robot as it ran its hand through its windswept hair, "IT'S M3! SPAMTON G. SPAMTON!"