If you attempted to access the Sesame Street website over the weekend, you might have noticed that the site seemed to be brought to you by the letters X, X and X.

Hackers took over the show's YouTube page over the weekend and replaced kid-friendly videos with pornography, prompting moderators to shut the section down on Sunday "due to repeated or severe violations of our community guidelines" and to issue an apology.

"Our channel was compromised and we are presently working with YouTube/Google to restore our original content," Sesame Workshop said in a statement. "We always strive to provide age-appropriate content for our viewers and hope to resolve this problem quickly."

None of the videos posted by the hackers actually featured the puppets from the long-running children's series, although one message beside the videos asked, "Who doesn't like porn kids?"

The offensive content, some of which ran as long as eight minutes, was up for a total of 22 minutes before Google became aware of the violation and shut it down. As of Monday morning, sesamestreet.org's video section was back up and running.

"Right? Everyone loves it," the message continued. "I'm MrEdxwx and my partner MrSuicider91 are here to bring you many nice content! Please don't let Sesame Street to get this account back kids :-( Please...let me and MrSuicider91 have it and we gonna make all the America happy!"

The real Mr.Edxwx took to his YouTube account to deny the claims, saying that he is "an honest YouTuber" who works "hard to make quality gameplay videos" and respects community guidelines.