POV: First and third shutdown videos are real, second one is fake

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As far as the first and third shutdown videos goes, they are most likely real. They were uploaded or confirmed around the day the network shut down (September 30, 2009), plus, there are unique MTV Flux and SpongeBob trailers/idents shown on the first one (which was uploaded on September 29, 2009 on Nico video and includes a description that suggests that the uploader had no intention of baiting people), and the third one features credits to a short that people had almost never heard of. The only way the third one could be fake could be if the uploader had actually edited the video of Bull and Red from their Nickelodeon Arabia rip (which was uploaded by the same one, and is the only known copy on the web) to remove the logo, and had stolen the dragon bumper off another upload by crew members who worked on the bumper (such as most commonly found on Vimeo). (besides, just because there are blog posts that confirm the dragon eating the pill as the last image doesn't mean the uploader couldn't take advantage of that and place part of the ident with the end credits of a cartoon that in reality never aired at that time on the network) Oh, I forgot, there's also the UI (user interface), that I find hard to believe the uploader actually created by themselves. (there's this screenshot of the channel unavailable message here: http://blog.livedoor.jp/domo44/archives/1190102.html but there's also the EPG for which there's no exact known screenshot as of speaking, for it to be used for the video)

As for the second shutdown video. First of all, it could be possible that the chicken bumper was taken from one of the aforementioned vids (with the uploader plastering over it the Nick Japan logo). Heck, there are even people who say that the Japanese subtitle under the logo doesn't appear till most of the screen goes black, though I'll need to examine it more to find that out (maybe the fact the girl's skirt is behind the logo at some point can help, though even then, it's hard to tell). Also, the logo appears even after the screen goes black, which is very weird. Then there's the fact the sound can be heard on said screen before the color bars show up. And the fact that the color bars don't fill the entire screen (as a matter of fact, the logo is slightly higher in position than the former) is very fishy. At the very end it immediately cuts to static, with absolutely zero transition. Btw, did this channel ever air in analogue?

An upload of the second shutdown video is also available on nicovideo: https://sp.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm29343906?cp_in=watch_watchRelatedContents

But here's the funny thing... this was uploaded on the exact same day this YouTube video was uploaded (or the day after?.. Dunno, it says 29/07 on a related content sidebar, but 30/07 on search results and the vid itself). The description is also a duplicate of the SpongeBob shutdown one (also on nicovideo).