naught to three sad onion

a blog dedicated to cataloguing all of the appearances of the EN-71 toy safety standard graphical symbol for age warning labelling (AKA the "sad onion") on the youtube channel Ashens. may accept other submissions if they're really funny.

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Sad Onion #11: POP Station Watch 4: Fake PSP v2

"Hooray! Always good to see the Sad Onion making an appearance. Ah, makes my day."

mine too, stuart. But wait! There's more!

Sad Onion #12:

"Hello. I'd like to take a moment to speak to you about one of the greatest problems facing society today, but one that goes unnoticed - and indeed, unhelped - by most of the population. I'm talking, of course, about Sad Onions. in the manufacture of cheap electronic products, up to three Onions can be made Sad for each unit produced. That is tens of thousands of Sad Onions created every single day. Without our help, these Onions are condemned to a lifetime of Sadness. But if you can pledge us just £2 a month, you can help make some of the world's Saddest Onions smile again."

"Guh-huh!"

that's right, an absurd PSA about Sad Onions! thank god someone's trying to do something about this epidemic. complete with ridiculously-long phone number at the end. this is a real treat.

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Sad Onion #10: POP Station Watch 3: Netbook Rip-off

"...'don't give it to kids between naught and three', says the sad onion."

and then there's some waffle about how the chinese text above it says that this is unsuitable for children under eight, which of course contradicts the Sad Onion, and also contradicts logic, which dictates that this is not suitable for anyone.

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Sad Onion #9: POP Station Watch 2: GBA SP Rip-Off

"Please use under supervision of adult... *gasp* and it's got that sad onion logo again, eurgh."

i'm glad he noticed it because i sure didn't. good lord, this might be the tiniest one out of all of them. but thankfully whatever it's conveying is also conveyed by the huge red paragraph of text to the right.

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Sad Onion #8: POP Station watch (ZX-338 Street Fighter fighting game championships)

no commentary.

good lord. almost missed this one because the interpolation on this video is strange. everything goes really blurry when it moves. but i'm pretty sure it's there right under sakura's crotch

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Sad Onion #7: Guitar Fever Review

"There's the weird logo they use to show you that babies and children under three shouldn't play with something. I've never understood it - It looks like an unhappy onion. Or if your baby has a tentacle growing out of its head, your least of your worries is what toys you're giving it."

THE BIRTH OF THE SAD ONION! although he said unhappy instead of sad. fun fact: this is also the first ashens video with the bleep bloop intro. what an incredible piece of history.

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Sad Onion #6: KenSingTon Sport Vii Review ('Chintendo' Wii rip-off)

no commentary.

i almost missed this one. it's black instead of red and it's very, very small. and blurry. god this is such a classic video. take 13 minutes and go watch this one

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Sad Onion #5: Neo Double Games - Fortress Guardian Review

very hasty getting this thing out of the box. his thumb was covering it for most of its screentime so i dont even think he saw it.

another popstation, of course, means another one of the exact same onions. it's there, i prommy.

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Sad Onion #4: PolyStation 3 Review

i swear to god he's gonna start riffing on these at some point.

we're operating in slightly higher quality now! AND this is a different product with its own different sad onion! however. it is the same. no funny business.

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Sad Onion #3: POPstation - Submarine Invasion mini-review

once again, no commentary from stuart. hopefully soon.

for those of you keeping score at home, yes this is the exact same one as the last two! and boy getting a legible screenshot of this one was difficult

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Sad Onion #2: Neo Double Games review (DS Rip off)

no commentary. it seems that this early in the channel's life that stuart hadn't noticed the onion.

you can almost see it in this incredibly crunchy screenshot. this is actually the same exact one as the previous one, as the back of the box is almost 100% the same.

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Sad Onion #1: POPstation Review (PSP Rip Off)

no commentary from stuart.

also, sorry for the abysmal quality. this video was uploaded march 28 2006. 19 years ago. which is crazy. this is almost vintage