Sounds weird, but, I entered the toonator website and I saw that it's not “your connection isn’t private” anymore. It shows a television with a remote control. When you turn on the TV and put in certain channels, it shows a recall of the toonator website and some animations. The more I could found is a odd timer running negative. I didn't find anything like a enigma to solve, but I'm hoping this is some ARG (even if it doesn't seems to). Also, the tab title is "Nostalgia TV". I couldn't find topics about this anywhere, so I'm writing here (I'm new at this forum). Warning: The TV noise after turning on is kinda loud.

the site now says "Not now" with nothing notable i can see in Inspect Element. i was just tangenting about this website to some friends (i used it 6-7 years ago as Beemoboy) and looked up a username and just now saw your thread here. wtf is happening.

by the way, for anyone looking at this, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO MAKE WAYBACK MACHINE CAPTURES OF TOONATOR.COM each time there's an update to whatever is happening. i see there already are recent captures which is amazing, but keep doing so!!

YES IT DOES. WHAT.

checked the source code too - just the "not now", nothing more.

maybe my beloved (toonator) won't come back :<

also I'm still WAWA on the timer running negative, since it seemed to do nothing

It's nice to see people still care or remember about this website, I also want to thanks who saved the page on August (wayback machine) IDK how to do that :P

insane, a Toonator revival in the big '25 was not on my bingo list

especially finding out about it from a newgrounds thread, lol

Was the domain bought by someone else? or could it be the creator returning?

going on toons sister site,

multator.ru,

its the exact same thing. the tv and remote were fully interactable and shows the old mascot for multator/toon

insanity

I searched this website up assuming that it was still up only to find out it just says "not now"

im back with the milk

well, today i've been made aware of some information thanks to a google document made by an individual named karakuliiii!! i was sent the following earlier in my own bluesky about this situation > THE FOLLOWING IN QUESTION (LINK)

karakuli's document doesnt uncover any extremely recent events about this but it does explain a lot about what led up to this, it explains the television channels and their context, and yes, it even explains the Channel 0010 countdown...

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so as a TL;DR (not much shorter albeit) (note that though this is a generalization of the information in this document, the following is my consensus after MACHINE TRANSLATING the webpage for the document ; as such i feel my consensus is transformative and concise enough to not contain inaccuracies largely but if anyone who knows Russian sees this i highly hope the following is correct)

Also note some of the following information comes from Karakuli's own neocities, which itself is a web shrine for Toonator : THE WEB SHRINE WITH MORE INFORMATION AND IN ENGLISH

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After support for Flash was widely discontinued, Toonator saw a great fall from any grace it had prior; after its editor centered entirely on an SWF file became unusable, after its community fell into disrepair, after moderation started depleting, and after Russian authorities attacked Multator.ru due to trolls posting illegal content, Kirill in 2022 would announce the discontinuation of Toonator, which followed soon after. but for anyone concerned, they were to fear not - Toonator was ending after its great 12-year run, but the future was just beginning - and the future was Toon.io ; Kirill's new successor to Toonator with a more modern (and still actually pleasing) UI, a better editor, and more.

The future only lasted 3 years. In April of 2025, it was announced (way less pessimistically than the former announcement) that Toon.io would too be closing - further, on August 15th it would be converted into an archival mode which allowed users to only download materials from the site (toon.io even gives a tutorial on using the Wayback Machine), and that on January 1st of 2026 toon.io will be closing for good. this is where things get very interesting...

On July 2nd of 2025 RealMultator on toon.io would upload a short animation with a link to toonator - which now showed a sight maybe familiar to the people in this thread - a television (not just any television... retrospectively this is likely the mascot of toonio for reasons i will get into), a remote, and Oleg (a mascot of the former Toonator).

There were many channels in the television, and they are all listed and screencapped in detail in karakuli's document. However, here are just a few highlights. Also note at this point the remote was not present and these were all accessed by simply clicking the television in random orders (this works on the Wayback captures) :

FUTURE REMOTE CODE 0001 - the page with the announcement of the closure of the tunnel + "Someone already knows"

"Someone already knows" refers to text displayed over the visual of the announcement : also according to karakuli's document a phenomenon occured when visiting multator.ru in the Wayback Machine - a capture is present for January 17, 2010; the month of Toonator's launch. Though now this capture is inaccessible and redirects to a normal February capture of multator.ru, this Jan. 17 capture instead showcased the text "Someone already knows" at some point.

FUTURE REMOTE CODE 0010 - countdown to 00:00 15 August 2025

yep, you're reading this right. The countdown was not foretelling an epic Toonator revival - it was reiterating the date to the essential closure of the last remaining genuine official remnants of Toonator, the archival conversion of Toonio. As far as I can gather contextually this date wasn't a red herring nor has it "rolled over", August 15th came and passed. this countdown has served its purpose.

On July 4th of 2025 (hinted at by another animation Multator uploaded to toon.io) a remote would appear at the bottom of the page. Multiple number combinations result in morse codet, but these are not directly important with the information we have now afaik and can be seen discussed in detail in karakuli's document. Another combination, 1335, resulted in (at 13:35 Moscow / London time) a ticket appearing and information telling you to not give the code out to others, despite the number portions of the ticket itself being censored.

At around the turn of September, after the conversion of Toonio, Multator.ru and Toonator.com were converted to their own new states - their own unified style-less page stating, "not now". and from then until as of now mid-November, this is where we've been.

The document also reveals that Kirill has both toonator and multator's domains paid until February of 2026, when Toonio definitively closes itself.

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welp, this was bittersweet. as much as i could write everything here off as just some farewell to toonio, it also feels too involved to just end here. and wtf is with the "not now"????? it's also important to note that despite the apparent frustration evident in Toonator's closure announcement, the closure announcement for Toonio seems to be way more sentimental. maybe Kirill despite moving on feels more sentiment for toonator and toonator's successor now accomplice in ephemerality toonio, and as such wanted to at least do one thing to garner people together again for essentially the last time anyone will even speak en masse about toonator even albeit how niche it is? even if "now" never comes and toonator and multator and toonio just fade away, at the very least people could talk about it again, and their memories, refind people they haven't seen in half a decade or longer, and maybe that's the real sendoff?

if by any means this is an attempt at some ARG still despite my consensus, something will definitely happen between now and January. even despite my consensus still, if I forget to do it I hope at least someone will keep watch of toonator from here on until the inevitable.

in the time i've spent fixated on this situation ive found that not only am i not the only person who hasn't forgotten about toonator, but many people remember it, and to be genuine karakuliiii sending me this document is the best thing that could've come out of looking into this compared to just nobody caring. i was shocked even seeing someone having made a thread about this on newgrounds this is legitimately just some random russian website where you could make silly little animations and there were silly little spooders and the fly thing and oleg and some of the first interaction with furries i'd ever had in my life, or at least i thought toonator would be considered such. maybe with every little aspect of online culture and just how many people use the internet i shouldve figured SOMEONE else would remember toonator but i didn't expect this thread, or this document, or THIS. but im happy its there. whatever this amounts to im happy anyone has talked about this and of course read this monstrosity, im aware in retrospect toonator was a pretty decisive community that had its own scum even if i didnt personally encounter it, and obviously Kirill closed it on a very bad note, but even despite that people still remembering it fondly tells me at least i spent my 2 years on that site very well. and i met my first furries

Amazing summary!! Couldn't have written it better myself, was really interesting to read even though i already know all about it haha!!

A quick correction though, Kirill did NOT make Toonio. Tim (now kr0tyara) a prominent Multator user did. Toonio is NOT an official Toonator successor, but a spiritual one. So, the sentimentality surrounding Toonio's closure stems not from Kirill's regrets, but from Tim's understanding of what it's like to witness a website's death without warning.

Also when the timer reached 0, it started counting backwards to negative numbers, so that was pretty confusing too.

Hopefully something actually comes from that "Not now" thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

oh tysm for correcting those!!! thankful since i already figured some things would be off because of translate but the misattribution with kirill is a huge slip oopsies. idk how i didnt gather toonio /=/ kirill at any point but either way ty

in the message i do generally draw the conclusion that either way this is meant to at least reinvigorate interest around toonator and or considering the situation toonio, but i am still open to "not now" actually turning into something! that ticket really intrigues me specifically. hopefully smtg will happen with that because goodness - i did find the css file for it in the URL capture files for toonator from july 6 - aug 22 and would love to have some big bang from it but as you mention in the document the ticket is in fact, personalized and the other css and js files dont seem to contain hidden messages sooooooooooo