{"id":49741,"date":"2026-11-07T18:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/farewell-roku-aquarium-popular-screensaver-will-be-removed-following-billion-dollar-fox-acquisition\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T18:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T17:35:12","slug":"farewell-roku-aquarium-popular-screensaver-will-be-removed-following-billion-dollar-fox-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/farewell-roku-aquarium-popular-screensaver-will-be-removed-following-billion-dollar-fox-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Roku aquarium: Popular screensaver will be removed following billion dollar Fox acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Table of Contents                          <\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 6, Fox closed a <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/fox-buys-roku-22-billion-streaming-deal\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\">$22 billion deal<\/a> to acquire streaming device giant Roku, and the merger already has an unforeseen casualty: The end of the Aquatic Life screensaver.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, fans of Aquatic Life \u2014 a relaxing aquarium filled with swimming fish \u2014 noticed an alert popping up on their Roku devices, warning that their fish would soon be gone. Because it was such a fan favorite, users <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Roku\/comments\/1xlwbcz\/aquatic_life_screensaver_ending\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\">took to social media<\/a> to mourn the screensaver&#8217;s end or plead for its future. Many wrote that Aquatic Life had become an essential part of their lives. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before my father passed I gifted him a Roku and one of the last conversations we had was him telling me he loved these fish so much,&#8221; wrote one Reddit user.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/what-happened-to-roku-aquatic-life-aquarium-screensaver\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table of Contents On Nov. 6, Fox closed a $22 billion deal to acquire streaming device giant Roku, and the merger already has an unforeseen casualty: The end of the Aquatic Life screensaver. Last week, fans of Aquatic Life \u2014 a relaxing aquarium filled with swimming fish \u2014 noticed an alert popping up on their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":49742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-49741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}