Lockdown Era

The Lockdown Era was the 16th era in the ATBW Timeline, characterized by mass cancellations and delays of many events, virtual events, lockdowns, and other things during the great lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This era first started on March 15, 2020 after ATBW Theme Parks and ATBW City were closed to the public four days after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, and ATBW Store and Zippy Land both reduced hours and even closed as a result of the recession caused by the pandemic, which is the worst recession globally since the great depression. It succeeded the Reincarnation Era, which had been going on six years prior.

Many events were cancelled or postponed and the pandemic had a substantial impact on film, music, TV, sports, and many others, and it forced changes in daily lives including mask wearing, social distancing, and capacity limits. Production of already existing TV shows forced actors to continue from home and TV shows including Hanging With Seychelle, Martha Woods Animated, and Dance Legends became dominant TV shows during the pandemic, airing on Martha Woods Network, both having protocols such as mask wearing and social distancing, especially with the latter.

In addition, CCTV Productions became popular during the early months by purchasing Revolver Media to air content on CCTV Network to keep viewers entertained during lockdown, and it's two online games at the time were attacked by Caltrose25V5 and Secrose54V5, the latter being confined to one community server owned by David Burkins. The former of the two though was more significant in that it caused a recession and an unrest after the company kept the games open but not allow more than a certain number of players on them. Both were still notable trojan attacks on ATBW Blog in 2020. Phastworm attempted to take over almost all major ATBW Blog companies in the following year, but failed as it was eventually eliminated.

On July 29, 2021, Takash Puterr announced plans to move ATBW Store, Zippy Land, and other store chains to Zippy Holdings LLC, which was completed on February 20, 2022, ending almost 59 years of ATBW's department store business, and on April 20, 2022, after 32 years, also sold ATBW Blog to PBLOG Group, which also bought ATBW's other subsidiary PBLOG that same day. Since this time, ATBW Holdings now only focuses on mainstream entertainment from ATBW Label Networks, ATBW Theme Parks Group, and ATBW Interactive. Many pre-2022 ATBW Blog shows and movies, including California City and Calligraphy Deer however, are still available on ATBW+ and the ATBW Viewer as they still continue to profit the company.