THE RETURN OF THE CORRECTIONS COMMENT: > the zombie EAS audio and the first lines of fight em til you can’t originate from a 2008 halloween prank video, specifically this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F6EdnfHCVEo.htmlsi=z709RQJ3nnb67gMb > sorry about the censoring of the hawaii missile alert! the basketball game in the background got my entire video copyright claimed so i had to censor it. the full video is credited in the description, as always :)
Fun Fact: Jim Carey was in Hawaii during the missile threat. So he went to a beach and watched as the waves went by before the missiles hit. Of course, there were no missiles. So Jim is still alive.
Imagine panicking in Hawaii; you’re driving around and just see Jim fucking Carey sitting at the beach. I’d just stare like I witnessed the second coming of christ
I originally heard that the Hawaii one was a complete accident, but finding out that it actually happened because one guy accidentally said “this is not a drill” during a drill and another guy believed him was wild
I always thought it was because someone was cleaning an alert board (like those control panels full of buttons and stuff) and accidentally pressed one of the buttons that sent out the alert. Man, guess I really had no idea
they probably don't have boards full of buttons otherwise hackings of the eas system wouldn't be possible, they probably use a secret website to log in to send out alerts@@twelved4983
I don't really understand why people find EAS creepy. I mean, it has to be because otherwise people wouldn't pay attention, but at least it is informative. My country doesn't really have any system like EAS. If there is something, they just blast sirens for several minutes or kick the shit out of church bells like it is 1223 and Mongols are invading. There is no message attached. If you don't know how to understand different siren signals, you know only that something is going on and church bells are situative.
I had an amber alert, it only said “do not talk to the man.” And I stood in my room for ten minutes thinking this is some Mandela catalogue crap, finally I went to my dad and told him and as soon I said that another came and said false alarm. Edit: Jesus Christ, did not expect to blow up
I got a funny amber alert on August 6, 2022, sometime 2:00-59 P.M. “Do not approach the male. Please call nine one one.” And then around 10 minutes later I got this: “Please disregard the previous message. Accident”
I have lived in Hawaii since 2012. Nothing could have prepared me for that fateful morning in 2018. Though short lived, for 38 minutes we though we were gonna die. Once they announced it was a false alarm, my dad went "Well, someone's getting fired."
@@AverageConsumer-uj8smif i remember correctly, the person in charge of sending out the alerts was supposed to send out a drill, but accidentally sent out the message they were supposed to use if sh*t hit the fan. so everybody received the false alert and thought they were screwed.
One time i got an amber alert saying "GOTHAM CITY MO PURPLE/GREEN 1978 DODGE 3700 GT MO UKIDME" (that is car that joker drives in the 1989 batman movie), like 10 minutes afterwards there was a message saying that it was an test that sent out accidentally
My mom was on a flight to Hawaii and descending when the ballistic missile alert came through. It caused so much panic on the flight as the pilots insisted on landing because there was nowhere else to land and staying in the air would do no good and burn the fuel they had left. She didn't tell my dad or me or my brother until it was deemed a false alarm, not wanting us to worry. When they got out of the airport she said there was absolutely NOBODY on the streets or in common tourist area until the next day where there were many people selling custom t-shirts poking fun at the whole incident. I have two in my closet, one with a picture of Kim Jong Un with bold text saying "Sorry I press wrong button". We also still have a letter sent to all travelers from David Ige, the governor at the time, apologizing for the incident.
A group of us were on our way to Hawaii that day and an Italian colleague, who had the loosest grasp of English on a good day, was convinced Hawaii had been hit by a missile and was now a Mad Max hellscape nuclear wasteland
Fun fact: exactly ONE day before the 2 year anniversarry of the Hawaii Missile alert, AlertReady (Canada's equivalent system) sent out a false alert stating that a "nuclear accident" had occurred at the nuclear power plant in Pickering, Ontario.
Oh shit I remember, my mom and I were legit terrified because this wasn't regular and some general fumes were coming from that direction. (Different building issue) made us genuinely terrified
Lol we are taking all your money and delete your games when its no longer profitable🤔plus we will take your subscriptions even if the games no longer exists🤔real end of days thing right there!
@@Mattsboy312 omg SAME. I though im the only one who expected a video where it covers controversies. I'm not disappointed tho I had fun watching this, especially the Lady Gaga part it made me choke 😭
Not quite the same level but my county once got an alert for a volcano eruption. I live in rural Nebraska. (They put the wrong code in for a wild fire)
Man, Vinny sure gets referenced in the weirdest places. First that EAS hack in 2020, and then as incidental background noise in a cop show in a whole other state. The Vinesauce community truly reaches far (and wide)
I live in Central Oahu, Hawaii. I would have slept right through the Hawaii warning, but my dog woke me up so I could let him do his business in the backyard. As he hiked his leg to go, my phone got the alert.
If I recall correctly, Vinny Vinesauce was actually streaming when the hack mentioning him took place and couldn’t believe what was happening. After he learned it wasn’t a jape he had to state that he had no idea and wasn’t responsible.
I've always been scared of the EAS tone. Getting a test message while watching TV late at night was the worst thing. I hear it and immediately I fear the worst. Also, I had completely forgotten about the Vinesauce one lol. I watch Vinny all the time and it was so funny to think a hacker would do that.
The EAS tone goes back a while, starting along with the Cold War (I forgot the name, but I believe it MIGHT be Comrade or something close), then with the Civil Defense alert along with the air raid sirens we currently know as tornado sirens and the white and red card alerts (white is like a watch, and red is like a warning. But for bombs), and then we came to the EBS, short for Emergency Broadcast System, which brought along the weather warnings we know and love, and after that we finally came to the EAS, or Emergency Alert System, which is basically an upgraded version of the EBS. After that, we started with the alerts we receive on our phones, which range from blue alerts to the ballistic missle threats. Hope you enjoyed my bad history lesson!
@@Idkmate_ The first system for public notification of a nuke bombing was Conelrad. The broadcasts were on 640 and 1240 kilocycles. The system was so hard on radio station transmitters that the EBS was cooked up about ten years later.
And don't forgot traumatizing as shi As a kid ye definitely 💀💀 The traumatizing of all time in my opinion was the USA EAS alarm, that's just heckin creepy 💀
a bit more info about the lady gaga one: the off the air channel just so happened to be testing the broadcasting equipment at the time, but they couldnt play the actual EAS tone to comply with laws, so they played some songs, which at the time of the alert they where playing lady gagas paparazi. Turns out that they didnt actually know about the alert, and where still playing the music at the time, and the alert tone didnt play because the alarm system was simply muted on the audio interface. Additionally, depending on what channel you where on, you may of had that eas screen for long enough that another song began playing, however very few people seen this screen.
My sister and I were watching tv (we had direct tv and we liked to play the music channels) when this happened and when he brought up what happened it unlocked that memory of us both dancing while wondering why there was the emergency screen
It would be interesting if all of these events split off into their own universes. Kind of like the book "I Survived," but only for alternate reality situations. Like, what if the undead did rise? What if Hawaii was nuked? What if there was a hazardous waste situation for the entirety of the United States? I guess we'll never know.
As a kid my dad would play the beginning of "Fight 'em Till you Cant", which has that fake zombie EAS message first, to scare the shit out of tiny me. So tbh hearing it again is very nostalgic lmao
@@davidmaggiesmith9758 EAS stands for Emergency Alert System (which is what theyre called in america). Theyre basically just loud alerts played on tvs and phones as a way to warn people of approaching danger, usually weather. Youve definitely heard those loud screeching tones warning you of a weather warning before while trying to watch TV. The tones and names of these alert system change with what country youre living in though.
@@davidmaggiesmith9758 Its a song by a band named Anthrax. My dad is into a lot of heavy metal bands, so I grew up listening to some hardcore shit lmao
I've used a similar one (it was for a single pancake not 4) and they work pretty nicely with the caveat that the top pan isn't heated very much so when you flip it you have to wait for the pan to heat up as well. You don't need a spatula tho which is nice if you want to minimize dishes.
@@mediocre_danefreak out from what i hear from my dad. everyone was running to shelter, trying to get through traffic, go to airports but they were so crowded that im pretty sure all flights were canceled cause where else can you hide on this tiny island ? theres no public bunkers and such. its was mayhem.
@@cedrus.forest_. plus obviously a plane cant load up with fuel, cargo, and passengers, taxi to the runway and take off in the timespan of a missile (which is around 20 minutes i think)
@cedar.got.pawzz_. those people that ran to the airport definitely have no Nuclear survival skills thinking they can just run thru security and hop on a plane to take off. Obviously the better course of action would've been the shelters or some place down low or reinforced location
GUYS remember October 24 when the eas system tested and we all were so excited to hear all the phone just screaming inside the lockers, echoing through the building, but in reality, most people had it turned off and it wasn’t loud anyway? Yeah, I was in orchestra class and the teacher was like “oh wait everyone stop warming up, it’s time…” dead silence. That was fun…
We had it but my school didn't have lockers so we just had it in our hands and pockets. Mine didn't go off until two hours later when I turned off airplane mode. Good to know
I was trying to prepare myself for it because i knew if i didn't i was gonna freak the hell out but then it came on 2 minutes early and i freaked the hell out anyways 🥲
My favorite part about the Hawaii missile thing is how the warning messages were set off by clicking some hyperlink on a webpage that looks like it's from 2005. Very sophisticated.
That was the CAP software that they were using. They had created a template to reduce data entry errors in an emergency. But the problem was that the software didn’t really have a “are you sure you want to send this” type of confirmation.
After the Hawaii false alarm I saw a funny GIF where there was a web page with two links: The first one to send a real alarm, the second one to send a test. As the mouse hovers over the "test" button, an advertisement loads into the top of the page, causing the links to move down and the mouse to actually click on the real alarm. I thought that was pretty funny.
Just in case you don't know, you can play SAME headers all you want on youtube, you just cant play them over airwaves like for example, radio, tv, mainly anything that can be picked up by an antenna.
@@RadeonVega64 yes. Otherwise the entire eas scenario genre wouldn't exist on youtube (there's actually good creators, check out @flouridetapwater or @nullDorito for example (i recommend "dark autumn")
I remember one time the EAS went off the air and everyone got to stare at a Fedora Linux Login screen for like an hour. I don't remember where it happened though, it was a long time ago
super interesting that the OS that the eas machine uses is fedora. some of them use windows xp, or windows 10. though quite rare. you can know if they use the microsoft sam voice or the windows 10 tts voice when its airing an alert.
thank you for taking these somewhat lightly and not being scary, this is so much more watchable than other people just blasting the alarms scaring the shit out of us 💛💛
Fun Fact: Around 2019 the chilean government accidentally sent a tsunami warning to every phone in the country when it was just happening in the antartic territorry, i was on vacation at the beach at the time and got scared because i thought i was real. It caused havoc in major coastal cities.
heyo fellow chilean here, idk if that's the same incident since my memory is shit, if it isn't then i'm sorry. but after an earthquake overseas a similar alert was sent out and was called a false alarm, but half an hour or so a pretty big earthquake hit got scared shitless and i was in santiago lmao
the radio station replaying the EAS alert broadcast in full is actually hilarious, because its the tones of the EAS alert that automatically force the radio broadcast equipment into relaying the message, repeat until finished. someone, SOMEONE dun fucked up on that one.
Also, I remember the zombie one, since I lived in Indiana at that time, I tuned into that radio channel they mentioned and for all that i remembered it was some calm elevator music playing
During the Hawaii false alarm incident, young Hawaiians were the most likely to do what they were supposed to do in that situation, and older Hawaiians were the most likely to panic and send goodbye messages, at least according to testimonials left on Wikipedia.
i seriously cannot thank you enough for turning down the beeping and giving us a warning that the beeps will be included. hearing the beeps at random at their full volume often makes me panic and totally shut down, and ive clicked on videos that randomly play these noises without warnings before. having a warning helps so much i genuinely cannot put it into words ℭ.⸜(⠀ ᐢ ᵕ ᐢ )⸝⸜( ᐢ ᵕ ᐢ )⸝𝒰ᵗ♛︎⡱
The USA EAS tone is illegal to use in the States, but not in other parts of the world, where they have different triggers for automated emergency broadcast. Meaning someone may carelessly flip on an EAS if the circumstances just hit right.
I’ve seen broadcasts of the EAS a few times (only at night, and it would only be the audio) but have never seen the classic black screen with white text. And I'll never get to experience an TV EAS broadcast ever again because my parents switched to Fire Stick or Roku.
tbh i think roku has a antenna built into their tvs so maybe if u find it you can watch live tv and see the original black background and white pixelated text or white background and black pixelated text
idk i mean emergency alerts are just getting more uncommon, the last emergency alert/amber alert i got was back in july when there was a tornado (which was real and there was 10 of them that month)
One of the things that gets pushed to generic weather app but isn't a big deal according to the other ones is the Lake Wind Advisory that feels like it happens almost every day.
i remember hawaii's ballistic missile alert. it was early in the morning when i got the message on my phone. my group chats were blowing up with confused and panicked messages. i recall walking up to my mom and telling her about it-she shrugged it off not because she didn't care, but because there was really nothing we could do. we had no bomb shelters to run to, just wooden houses where i lived. if it were real, we probably wouldn't have had the time to make a run for it anyways. thank god it wasn't real. we laughed it off after. tbf tho, the aftermath was pretty bad. i still feel bad for the guy who pushed the button. he was just doing what he was told, yet all the blame got shoved on to him for a higher up's mistake
So part of that is human nature. They say "exercise, exercise, exercise," at the beginning of those calls, but most humans that don't have hypersensitive hearing and brains don't hear the first thing when they pick up the phone. So for example, when someone picks up the phone at a telecom company, their greeting might be, "Thank you for calling Comcast, my name is John, may I have the name on the account?" Most people just hear gibberish. Dude heard gibberish, not "exercise, exercise, exercise," and thought it was real.
I can’t believe it, my boi nimk is back and he made a video about EAS fails. It’s refreshing to see an EAS video that’s more lighthearted and not focusing on being scary. I think my favorite EAS fail in the video was Mr. gerde’s wave broadband hijacking. The fact that “Burger King Foot Lettuce” played on TV is so funny to me
Unrelated to the rest of the video, but I actually live really close to the place the "Would you. Could you. On a train?" one happened. I don't actually live in Utica (I live in a town a couple of miles away called German Flatts) but I do go there every couple of months for appointments. My dad also grew up in a town close by called Herkimer, yet neither of us have ever heard of this incident before until I watched a DTFATI video from nexpo a couple weeks ago. Interesting. Edit: My dad actually grew up in Herkimer, not Illion. I asked him a while ago and I guess I got them mixed up from something else. BTW: All of these towns are located in Herkimer county, which also means there is a town called Herkimer inside of Herkimer county, inception.
0:52 To be honest, falsley announcing the zombie apocalypse could be a super fun concept for a zombie movie, people falling prey to something like the placebo effect and being convinced that there really ARE zombies when in reality there are none
That last one is genuinely terrifying I get it is "typical christian radio broadcast" but being out of context like that is what gets me, i wouldnt put it past a hijacker to splice something like that in for that exact reason
I was the Chief Engineer for KWVE at the time. The way the EAS worked there was that the board operator would press a few buttons on the Emergency Alert System encoder/decoder box that it needed to send a Monthly Test. An EAS Monthly Test is designed to simulate a real alert, but instead of alert-y type wording and text, it says that it’s a “Required Monthly Test.” The EAS box would signal the station’s audio routing system that it needed to go on the air, the audio router would switch the audio from the board and studio feed to the EAS box. The EAS box would generate and playout the SAME header tones and the attention tone, and tell the audio router that it could have the audio back. In this situation, the release of the audio was so that the board operator could play the recorded “This is a test of the Emergency Alert System…” The board operator played that audio, and when the audio was done, the operator was supposed to push the button that again put the EAS box back on the air and play the EOM tones. They forgot and went right back into the audio of the sermon that was on the air. Remember I said that the Monthly Test simulates a real alert. So every radio, TV, and cable system in Orange County was carrying that Monthly Test. The EAS system is designed for a two minute audio message, and if the audio message exceeds that, boxes will automatically send EOM tones and cut off the message. It’s to prevent an accidental takeover by another station. (The only EAS message that doesn’t have a timeout is the Emergency Action Notification or EAN). A lovely back and forth with the FCC ensued and things settled down. But boy was that a fun couple of months…
I onetime got a message warning me of civil unrest outside of the local courthouse, followed up by a correction saying it was false. A week later there was civil unrest outside of the court house leading to loss of life. I never took a screenshot of that initial alert, but it was quite unnerving.
i suffer from sleep apnea, but even long before i got diagnosed i knew that i fall asleep with excessive ease. i once fell asleep though only for a few seconds while standing and drying my hair with a heavy and noisy blow-dryer in my hand. its SCARY how easy it is to fall asleep in situations that youd never think its even possible! ive always been afraid of driving, what with the whole "moving a huge metal machine on my own, but if im not careful about everything all the time i could end lives, and just because im such an airhead" thing, but also because im absolutely terrified of falling asleep at the wheel. going autopilot is a dangerous thing... to this day i still dont have my license. i didnt know about the "would you. could you. on a train?" incident before, but knowing people have made conspiracy theories over it just makes me more afraid... a terrible coincidence led people to invent nonsense over a real and serious accident caused by an awful condition. i hope im mistaken, but i wonder if some people out there got the wrong ideas about sleep apnea over this. like demonizing it...
Its so cool to see a video on the zombie EAS that mentions the fight em till you can't lines- the first time i saw the EAS video i immediately recognized it but I've seen no one else ever bring it up, either in a video or a comment
this is super niche but during hurricane harvey in 2017 (fort bend county) one of the eas’s that were issued was messed bc you could hear music while there was the message on screen after the info for that eas was over and it somehow blended into one that came right after 😭 it was really weird and it freaked me out but i don’t remember much about it bc i was in elementary when it happened hbut i do remember them people messed it up
11:25 I didn't even know the world was supposed to end in 2017 🤷🏼♂️ I only knew about the 2011 and 2012 end of the world theories. After that I really didn't give a crap about the end of the world because if it's my time to go, then it's my time to go.
you got the info about the zombie one wrong. the anthrax song and the EAS alert sampled a faux EAS video from the mid 2000s that (iirc) was from a halloween website. the EAS alert did not sample the anthrax song, they just got the audio from the same source.
Have you guys ever seen the eas alert Maryland sent out? It was just a friendly reminder to wear your masks and then it got all glitched out. I don’t remover it exactly but it was something like “Enjoy thanksgiving! Stay inside, wear a mask and remember Maryland %%6ðrkkfksn%##hjwkichqbjfbwjjcbwjfjqnf”
Fun Fact: Jim Carey was in hawaii during the missile eas, Apparentally he just sat down on the sand texted his loved ones and watched the horizon while he talk about how he had a good life.
6:36 and that line is from the book named green eggs and ham by doctor seuss meaning the hazardous substance the alert was talking about was the green eggs and ham itself
I mean, i'd be freaking the f**k out if I thought a missile was about to explode onto my country. Byt that's just me. Also you should do a video on PETA's crappy "games"
I was actually in Hawaii at the time of the fake Missile warning, my whole family was freaking out, my dad got a T-shirt out of it though. No one in my class cared that I almost died but at least I have a unique core memory 😀✌️
I once got an EAS alert in Washington during the wildfires. It said “Evacuate the area immediately, do not hesitate! Get all your family, pets, children, and leave immediately!” I checked where the location it mentioned was, and it was some 40 miles away. It came back and said, “we apologize for the previous inconvenience. This was a message only meant for a specific location, but we accidentally initiated it statewide. Please continue on with your day.” That was interesting.
fucking hate this video, it plays all day every day in my house to the point i know the exact order of the songs and what song is coming next and what fruits will show up in what video down to the expressions and movements of each fruit it's hell im sorry i js had to get this off my chest 😭
according to another comment, vinny was streaming and was notified live on stream that it was happening, and he had to address that he, in fact, did not hack the EAS
T-Mobile doesn't issue WEAs in San Diego, CA for some reason. We had a tropical storm last year and we didn't get a tropical storm warning on our phones despite one being issued for our area. We didn't get any tests, other severe weather warnings, or AMBER Alerts when issued. Devices had them enabled and work in other areas but not in San Diego (my local area). T-Mobile didn't fix the issue, despite customer service saying their towers are woking "as expected " its dangerous and a major safety hazard.
Good to know! I use T-Mobile so if I ever go there I'll keep this in mind. In the meantime, there's tons of weather alerting apps you can download. I downloaded 8 from the Play Store because what really matters is if _at least one_ works when it needs to. Bonus points because a bunch use alternate mediums to get their point across so even if I'm doing something else I might see something.
