Who Was Behind the Max Headroom Incident? - Tales From the Internet
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- The Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Interruption Incident that occurred in Chicago of 1987 is probably the most infamous of any such hack. Despite the FCC's efforts, the people behind the Max Headroom Incident have remained at large for over 30 years.
There were two incidents, one during a news broadcast on WGN TV and second one during a broadcast of Dr. Who on WTTW TV. The first hack on WGN had no audio, but during the second one, a person in a Max Headroom mask rants about Chuck Swirsky, WGN, The New Coke and a number of other things.
There are a number of people who were suspected to be behind the broadcast intrusion, including a musician named Eric Fournier, who was responsible for a character named Shaye Saint John that starred in videos with a very similar aesthetic to the Max Headroom video. A Redditor who was involved in Chicago's hacking and phreaking scene in the 80s and 90s had a few suspects that he believe might have been behind it. There is also a theory that the Max Headroom incident was an inside job.
This video gives context to the Max Headroom incident and investigates the various suspects.
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I DON'T KNOW DUDDDDDDDDDDE THAT MY CHILDHOOD AND TWEEN YEARS
My buddy watched this live when he was a kid. He now dresses up like a rabbit and sings rock and roll songs. Coincidence? Check out Nobunny, it's fuckin' tight!
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cool channel; great job
It wasn't a hack it was a leak... wait, what were we talking about? :-)
I bet the hacker is reading the comments on these videos and just laughing. He truly is one of the greatest pranksters of all time.
Thanks.
what
Probably dead already
I reckon he’s probably around middle age by now. Seems like he was a young adult or something at the time, considering the type of humour involved...
Or He's Just Autistic Or Something?
Genius doing it during Dr who. Most people probably thought it was part of the plot
Until the fly swatter came out.
My mom: "This show has been going downhill since series 10 .....no wait!!!"
@@coltino99 Idk Doctor Who can get pretty wild
There have been actual episodes that got weirder than the interruption,
Not likely, the Max Headroom video had higher production value and better writing
I honestly imagine one day someone will go through their deceased father's stuff and discover a box with a Mask Headroom mask and a VCR cassette and get it transferred to DVD and be like "Dad?"
😂😂
I hope it will happens and we will be finally be able to know who did this and see the full version of this tape, since im sure the tape was longer than what it was shown on tv
🤣🤣🤣
@@X-RAGE Wonder how much that mask would fetch.
That guy was smart, so would have been tossed away long ago it's evidence against him.
Nope. You'll never know them and never find out who they were; all you have is conjecture from redditards of all things. God Millennials are stupid.
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Whang: "The Chuck Swirsky he's talking about..."
Exactly what I thought lmao
He says something about a “fucking nerd” and giggles
He Said Chuck Swarskys a fucking nerd
@@gryotharian I heard that too
He said "I think I'm better than chuck swirsky"
me: enables subtitles because I can't understand what max is saying
subtitles: "[AUDIO FROM THE MAX HEADROOM INCIDENT]"
thank you subtitles, very cool
deaf people : :o
I thought the same thing lol
Still unable to understand what he's speaking lmao
fschutt there is a video up with subtitles but not sure if they’re official
@@TheLadySquid yeah it's the official words, the guy who made the maxheadroom incident video uploaded the subtitles himself..
imagine being high as a kite, flippin through channels on that fateful night in 1987, and then suddenly this comes on. that'll change your life.
Yep. Was there too.
You were there with my cousin? Lol that's exactly what he was doing when he caught this.
Thanks for that laugh . . . I really needed it
@Razor Ramone form a mental image
i think getting high and watching tv is what most americans did back then, so it's a high chance they caught this
It's even worse that he sounds like a modern Cyberman, Doctor Who thing, it's so fucking creepy.
the fight at canary wharf except the cyberman send max headroom to be their spokesperson
daleks: "identify yourself"
max: "shut up you fucking nerd hahahahaha"
daleks: "exterminate"
max: *gets his ass smacked with a fly swatter*
honestly starting to wonder if doctor who based their modern cybermen voices off of this incident...? just a theory lol
Dr. Who sucks
"A frickin nerd"
nah it’s actually pretty good
If I recall correctly, the Max Headroom show was about a dystopian world where a reporter makes powerful enemies and gets sucked into a TV which turns him into a vengeful talking head who helps the heroes resist corporate control of the media. So there could have been some satire or protest angle to all of this.
I also am a fan of the SNES Shadowrun soundtrack btw.
Max headroom started as an advertising mascot for New Coke, it somehow morphed into a TV show.
@@michaelcowanmichaelcowan969 No it didn’t. The Coca-Cola advertising was in 1988. Max Headroom started in early 1987 as a British television film, “Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future.” Later that year came the series, and then after that, Coca-Cola entered the picture.
@@deepspire incorrect. The New Coke commercials featuring Max Headroom came out in 1985, the US series came out in 87. Any argument otherwise is moot, as my reply is still correct and if max did exist prior to his appearance in US commercials and his US show it would be highly unlikely to have been seen in the US, and therefore not an influence on the hack.
Max headroom was a British invention, from channel 4.
Being sure of yourself, being wrong, then saying it's moot.
You look a bit silly dude
@@Guitar-Dog I think you meant to reply to someone else?
“Who was behind the Max Headroom incident??”
*gets spanked on live television*
@Blindi it looked like a young kid
Which makes this way more scary
Who was behind max headroom *Spank spank*
That was so disturbing.
dummy thicc
@babatunde fc Everyone has the ability to spank
The man will reveal on his death bed that it was him. Ultimate. Troll.
stfu
Hell take it to the grave
Dru_da_gangstar also quite possible
meow bastard no you
He was the D. B. Cooper of TV, lol.
That one Russian dude on the csgo server with a bad mic
I'm the 70th like. Ruined the 69 likes HAHAHA
@@kgkbuugj literally no one cares
@@dirtydeeds576 well obviously you cared to comment
@@kgkbuugj oh shit you got me
@@gone1483 fixed it
If he was just trolling, that would be the pinnacle of it.
hi
I was NOT prepared for how creepy the musician dudes other video character was.
Right? I've seen it in thumbnails for like "top 50 weird videos" and that kind of stuff but I wasn't expecting it here. Her voice sounds like a South Park character though, so that takes some the freakiness a little.
The other character extremely bothers me and I have to look away
OPJuiceBox me too, It really scares me and I just close my eyes
I hate seeing it so much I really don't deal well with creepy things anymore, wish the picture wasn't cut to so much
that character doesn’t scare me, it’s the thumbnail for a Top15s scariest video compilation, and in that compilation is a video called “obey the walrus” which terrifies me. so everytime i see that character i think of obey the walrus and get freaked out.
I had no idea that the part where he got an ass spanking even existed
Mr FiZzLe same lmao
your avatar is so perfect lmfao
Ur pfp was my reaction to that
I knew about it but never saw it because I thought his dong was out
I remember seeing the spanking when I was like 8 on a YT video I stumbled upon
The Max headroom incident was and still is one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen. I will honestly say that for what ever reason it made me feel unsafe or vulnerable. I feel like someone is there trying to and successfully touching me... right before the world ends.
Your delusional
I don’t think he’s creepy I think this guy is hilarious one of the greatest trolls to live
lol, time to head back to your "safe space". Go call up that shrink and schedule another appt.
When you want to show people your funni parody sketch but you have no way to do it, so you hijack two TV stations and somehow remain completely anonymous for years afterward.
Yes
epic.
Nobody cared who he was... Until he put on the mask.
Getting caught wasn't part of his plan
He's the hero that town needs but doesnt deserve.
Guys,The dirlo! Go get it
Here comes the thot patrol that sounded like a Batman quote or something
J O J O R E F E R E N C E
This feels like something [adult swim] would do
Yeah, probably... Probably Justin Roiland, and/or Dan Harmon
Adult swim wasn’t even an idea at that time. This was a long time ago
Aha! Mike Lazzo did it!
matanuska high wooosh
@@MatanuskaHIGH I didn't say it was.
I used to confuse Max Headroom with Mac Tonight.
Matt Frewer, Doug Jones, both weirdly skinny dudes, I can understand 🤓
Yeah both wear tuxedos, both also wear sunglasses and both have something to do with Coke
We all confused max headroom for Mac tonight
Come on make it Mac Tonight!
@@supersix-four9509 you're my hero
Could it not have been that the two brothers made the video and someone within pulled off the hack and used their video? There could be multiple parties involved in something like this. I love this story because I was watching Doctor Who that night as a wee lad growing up in suburban Chicago. It kind of scarred me for life lol
exactly what i was thinking! its totally plausible to me that J and K could have worked with someone on the inside to pull this off. just because the culprit(s) would have had to have inside knowledge doesnt automatically mean J and K are completely ruled out.
this is, of course, assuming the original reddit post is even true, since anyone can go on reddit and post whatever bullshit they want for internet points.
@@kitteneyejo also the fact that they admit they didn’t put it all together at the time leads me to believe that this person isn’t necessarily perceptive enough to consider this.
I’m glad I wasn’t alone in thinking this.
Maybe the real Max Headroom was the friends we made along the way
We are all maniacs
FCC: HANDS UP!
Madlad jahn
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Ok boomer wins the interwebs 💗💗💗💗
Wh...Wha.....*WHAT*
I used to watch Dr Who on 11 wttw in the 80’s and 90’s. I remember that happening. I was there for that and that’s my life’s greatest accomplishment.
i can only wonder how terrified you were
Lucky being old enough to have seen old dr who
I dont want to like to ruin the 69
@@HarunX57zt It's ruined, now go make it a 420!
@@erikho6936 of course
You're a hell of a story teller.. You tell me stories I didn't ask for and not only do you get my attention, you draw me in get me invested in your internet mysteries. Most videos I watch on RUclips were background noise.. The way you present these I find my self actively listening
Yeah, i find the story in itself actually pretty dull, but told by Justin i got hooked to it.
All I made out from what the masked guy said was, “He’s a freaking nerd”
I’m glad we don’t know who did this. It was a funny prank and the mystery is what makes it so legendary.
It would be cool to know who he was after all this years tho
Agreed
@@chrisoo22233 but then nobody would believe them
Maybe It Was My Fucking Dad
Maybe It Was My Fucking Mom
MAYBE IT WAS MY FUCKING TEACHER
Nobody should ever know but the people who did this. How many legendary events do you get to witness in your lifetime?
This guy is a role model to me. He commits a crime that could get him several years in prison and give him a massive fine, and all he does is troll around. Absolute madlad.
Here you are see I told yoh
I would crack up😂
Omfg I just shat myself hahhahahahaah
And he never got caught.
This madlad somehow managed to get away without a trace.
Get out of here with your pip profile picture
What makes this even better is the fact legally nothing can be done to everyone involved because of how long it's been and none of them had revealed being involved with it making it one of the greatest troll moves of all time
Its funny to think how this guy could still be alive and be an old man laughing about all this now. I think it was an engineer's teenage son who just wanted to mess around with his friends and by pure luck and accident was able to pull it off. Knowing what trouble they got themselves into all involved swore to take it to the grave.
Old man? I resent that remark!!!
Plot twist: it’s all a Pizza Hut ad
Left4Portal2 bro chill i’m freaking out
steve gaming lol
I hope
Nobody out pizzas the hut
steve gaming fr them Pizza Hut prices too expensive
It's the outlandishness of it that creeps me out. The distorted voice, the swinging background, like imagine just watching tele and this shit comes on
By some twist of fate I saw both and it was freakishly awesome, with the knowledge that I was witnessing broadcasting history. Just add it to all the other nefarious stuff that happens in Chicago.
That's exactly what I was thinking.
Crooty just imagine someone taking acid back then and then seeing this. I've never even dropped and i know I Would ve been freaking the fuck out
If I was alive and saw this whwm it happened, i'd be stoked. I was born in 1992 so I mossed the Max Headroom craze. Which sucks because the concept itself was so interesting to me. They showed cameras that transmit their signal standalone. And a few other things we actually have tpday.
Crooty imagine the one poor bastard who was on acid while this happened 😂
Imagine Beeing a kid and seeing this at night
Everyone else is saying that shut the fuck up with your shitty ass fortnite profile picture.
@@Rick-fn5qg It's stupid seeing the exact same comment repeated a million times.
@@swaggerdagger8976 if anything drag him for spelling being wrong.
@@swaggerdagger8976 Stfu Almost all the comments are the same
being*
“A ‘portion of his anatomy’, haha”
*”I’m so glad the TV is dying.”*
Bro I thought it was frickin scary at first then the ass slapping came and it just turned into a joke
Yeah I got a tiny bit less scared
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@@rhondabrowne4162 Until you realize its a young girl doing it
@@neilpatrickhairless american women are like 4 foot 2 I'm pretty sure she was an adult
@@filler7149 American women aren't that damned small
What if they did it because they just thought it was funny
RaccoonVs that’s probably what happened
For teh lulz
You nailed it. A lot of people really do not understand the hacking culture of this time and often misunderstand why it was ever done. Hackers especially back then, were sometimes known as misfits and had strange sence of humor due to their nature of trying to push the limits of what they can pull off.
Chap, indeed...this was also the height of the Shortwave pirate radio scene as well.
@@jsc315 In the 60s, an 18 year old in Russia suddenly hijacked a radio broadcast and gave an emergency warning that the United States had fired nuclear warheads destined for Russia. This was all for a prank. You can only imagine what happened after that.
Just for clarification according to wikipedia at 2:52 - He only was caught because someone over heard him ranting about the price hikes over a payphone.
" MacDougall surrendered to the authorities, after which he was served with a court subpoena due to a tourist having overheard him discussing the incident on a pay phone off Interstate 75"
I watched the second one live with my dad. Fascination and concern turned to hilarious laughter when the flyswatter came out.
This guy is probably still laughing about it to this day
Yeah I hope someone claims it
He’s 54-60
Oh I still laugh about it indeed
I think he died mostly since this was really long ago
@@drxd3659 yeah, alright mate, believe what you wanna believe
The creepiest thing out of all of this is the Clutch Cargo mouths
Yes, the real nightmare
@@MrTele-Tell yes Apple
Or those fucking weird videos with the mannequin looking thing
@@katastrophixx yeah bro those flippin mannequin things are creepy as fuck and i cant watch the whole video cuz of them
yeah i only just realized that a scene from pulp fiction, has clutch cargo. when butch as a child is talking to christopher walken, he was watching clutch cargo.
" 0:40 to 0:46 " man you can hear Whang losing his breath a little with that last line lol
I’m old enough to remember this, vaguely. I’m surprised the tv wasn’t hijacked more often over the years.
It's not easy to do and now almost impossible as everything is encrypted.
Imagine someone did this today...
Nobody would see it. TV is dead.
exactly 😂
It isn't
casperld shut the fuck up you pretentious twat
@@Mollusc_music_and_memes bad day honey?
TV is not really dead
Wait till this dude just hacks again as a 60 year old man
"You wanna Sprite Cranberry?"
_throws can off-screen_
It shows nobody understands how much power would it take to hack a satellite signal
If he Makes fun of fortnite ima be laughing
@@thecloneguyz The satellite signal wasn't hacked, the STL was. Very easy to do back then, all analog with easily obtainable equipment.
These comments aren’t from 2021 they are from fucking 2019
I swear my uncle would and could have been that guy. He had knowledge and owned all this strange hacking technology of the 80's and was a super smart but odd guy. He totally would have pulled a prank like this. And he lived in Chicago his whole life.
@ SisterAudrey Grey you report it yet?
Ask him lol
Does he know anyone mentioned in the Reddit story about the max headroom incident?
Ask him, if it’s not him then if he was in the hacking group of the 80s chances that he probably knows them
Waht?!
😥
I think the Reddit story could be true. It seemed the original posters just suddenly dropped it and said never mind. It is possible the authorities got involved which could have scared him, and the people involved may have got in touch with him and told him to shut up lol. I don't think we will ever know.
I thought that too, but at the same time, I know nothing of TV broadcasting equipment and what technology/knowledge someone would need to have to pull this off. That said, I don't think the possibility of a group of really dedicated hackers somehow getting their hands on it is completely implausible.
They probably had connections to some people working on the tv stations so they were able to pull this off, im sure this Reddit story is true
Reddit has it all wrong
The authorities can't do anything anyway as the statute of limitations has LONG since expired.
@@TELEVISIONARCHIVES What makes you so sure of that. You seem to be dropping little bread crumbs here and there, whether or not they're relevant, who's to say...
Is it me, or was the normal max headroom terrifying to begin with, if I was a kid in the 80s I would’ve been terrified of him
I was wondering why nobody else thought this, because when I was a kid he did scare me a little. Glad you said it. I think I was around 6 at the time, but remember him very clearly.
He grew up to become Mitt Romney.
not really. i mean the premise itself is scary but no, i personally never found max scary
Depends, are you afraid of a waxed virtual Matt Frewer? He was the voice of the Gresit Bishop in the Castlevania Netflix series.
Kinda like how Mr. Muscle traumatized me
Isn't this what Incredibles 2 is about?
LOL
Plot twist: the innocent guy partner was doing this while making the incredibles 2
That’s. What I was thinking about
yep pretty much
LMAO
That "twisting of the story" may be due to his age now, probably 50-60 years old if it's real
Doctor: Asian Penguinz0 doesn’t exist, he cant hurt you
Asian Penguinz0:
Cant unsee it now
He kinda. Does look like critical...
@@liamfitzgerald4110 broo... Noooooo
he's more like wavywebsurf
Bruh
My mom saw this when she was 13
she was sitting with my grandma
She said
“That’s just crazy”
Did your mom tells to you that she terrified by it or something??
Yah she said she was actually scared because of the noises in the background and the face of the man
We live in Texas and she didn’t see the doctor who one she saw the news one cause it aired all over the world cause it’s the news but yes she said she doesn’t remember a lot but she does remember what she said and what he looked like and she told my to ask my grandma about it so I called her and she said she does remember it and she said she remembers his face but not a lot
InsomniaB If you can’t tell, he’s lying, he talks like a 8 year old (and plays Roblox) his mom wouldn’t be 13 in 1987.
Nickelodeon Stuff honestly don’t judge a book by its cover...and I’m sorry I’m not good with time and age and math and stuff because she didn’t say an exact age but she just said she was around my age that’s why I put 13...and I’m not lying as it’s news I live in Texas it aired everywhere...and I’m not 8 I’m 13. Also there are people in there 20’s that play roblox and anyways this is kinda trash and stupid how you have to be toxic like that :/ and if anything you’re the 8 year old because Nickelodeon is a kids show for young children
I would say my mom lied but she remembers a lot of it and I didn’t even have to tell her anything
Sorry to tell you this but get your facts straight😐
@@accountaccount8707 You're only getting defensive because you know I'm right, and hey, guess what! I play Roblox as well! Still, no need to lie about your parents seeing this.
"Was that the Max Headroom incident of 87?"
Potatofy Gaming 👏👏👏👏
Potatofy Gaming. ah a FNAF fan, you may be mistaken for the Incident of 83. A golden Maxy like being in a purple hat did a creepy message on tv.
@@gamersgamestorm8291 only the irl theorists can solve this
lol
The max behind the slaughter
That character created by Eric is the scariest thing I've ever seen
@Bro-Mendes I’ve been trying for years, ever since I first saw that fucking abomination.
Been binging these for the last few days, and I gotta say, the timing and choices of the music cues are amazing. They also make me want to play SNES Shadowrun again, lol.
I love that he just punished himself by slapping his Butt infront of TV.
Oof
WTF man,i also saw it,his butt is really large,XD
@@alphagaming2ph200 thicc
Whoever did it, will be approaching 60 years old, or possibly older. As an ex broadcast engineer I agree with the sentiment that this was an inside job. Link frequencies to TX's isn't exactly public knowledge.
You wouldn't have to. You could literally point a small satellite directly at the radio tower and it would override the broadcast.
@@jasonwiggins6137 what?
@@jasonwiggins6137 Who in 1987 would have a small satellite at their disposal?
@@thuglifeVol2 Any tech geek. Broaden your definition of satellite. All you need is a small dish, even a listening device. It's been replicated.
@@jasonwiggins6137 This was the 80's technology wasn't really "small" back then, unless you had military grade stuff.
Two Things in no particular order: (1) Captain Midnight, soon after capture, was identified as a satellite tv store owner and not an engineer.. He could’ve been both, of course. (2) There is a theory that an insider did not transmit anything but instead placed a strip of video tape over a spool of recorded tape set to be used later. Seems highly unlikely bc someone would have noticed bulge in tape or someone would have noticed him taking spool out of office or unwinding/rewinding it. Even if he copied the original tape and recorded over a small section, someone would have noticed when or how he did it.
a major clue is the fact that the newscaster was aware of the hijack. if the hijack had occurred outside the studio by overriding the signal, the inside monitors would have not noticed anything. therefore the signal had to have been hijacked in the studio.
I work in a local news station, and that’s not necessarily true. While the primary studio monitors will show the outgoing feed (called ‘Program’), it’s common for at least one to display the over-the-air signal, so staff can monitor network feeds, commercials, and other programming that’s not coming from the studio switchers.
It’s also possible (at least based on the limited footage here) that the anchor didn’t actually see the hacker’s video. I can imagine a scenario where the control room gets an intercom call saying they’re off-air, which they relay to the studio as a stop-down. But then a few seconds later, when the hacker is kicked off, the anchor is suddenly told that he’s live again, leaving him flustered enough to utter the on-air equivalent of “the fuck was that? I dunno, anyway…”
my parents remember this, they were in there late teens/ early 20's and they told me everyone was freaking out about this. We still live in Chicago to this day.
Shiver me timmbers
do u guys get shot at everyday?
@Eazy e just joking
@Faceless black woman don't get offended.
Stay safe on the street's
I think a question just as important of who did it is WHERE it was done, You'd need to be in direct sight of the Sears tower in order to transmit, but you'd also need to be within a mile or two, and with so many buildings surrounding the area, there can only be so many places.
Knowing where exactly would help figuring out who, too, as it'd have to be a spot they'd have enough access to to bring the equipment without arousing suspicion.
I'm not saying your wrong but wouldn't some highly professional investigators over 30 years would know about this.
Did WGN and WTTW both broadcast from there? Maybe they got to the signal before it left the tower.
Bideo, both have stations on the north side. They transmit their signal to a tall building downtown. The signal was hijacked between those two locations.
Its from the car select song from Daytona.
Thank you for reviving Shaye Saint John from the deepest recesses of my memories. I've been trying to remember the name of the channel forever. Sad to hear that it's gone, though. It'd be a time capsule to a totally different time in RUclips history.
I miss shaye so much. There was an even a website for it that lead nowhere and was supposedly full of viruses. People were so freaked out
Freaky love it🖤🖤🖤 keep em coming! Love tooning in after a long day of training love to vibe and space out to you're content, also love the set up might steal some ideas 🙂 love the lighting the. Guitars! 😁
Soooo basically hackers were wearing Max Headroom masks before Guy Fawkes masks.
Eric Garcia They should bring it back.
R H Guy is way older and it’s already got the whole thing about it because it’s achieved meme status. I think using Max might be a good idea
No real hackers wear guy fawkes masks
No these guys are much bigger trolls and brilliant then Anon wish they were
N for Fricken' Newspaper Nerds
I wonder if the man behind the max headroom mask is among the 28k thumbs up...
Gamer McGameface maybe he is, we just don’t know yet
What if he is among your 463 likes?
Then we give him a very nice hello
Gamer McGameface it’s me
BLAWESOME57 what if he was one your 6 likes
Lol this is the video that made me subscribe to your channel 5 years later. Wow time really flies rewatchin it again.
Dang your mustache is on point!
You're telling me that the man could have been...
A B O O M E R?
gosh darn boomers
fuck boomers
Golly gee boomers
200th like lmao
LDBlokland ok boomer
_"A portion of his anatomy. I'm so glad TV is dying."_
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I miss old school hackers. It was all about funny shit like this back then.
Hackers then: Let's just screw around and troll people
Hackers now: Your computer has a virus give me your credit card information
This was a great episode on this. Ive watched many and this one is solid. Im making a movie about this and been working for 5 years on it.. another yter stole my idea and put out a bland version of what ive been working on. Thanks dude this has a little extra i didnt know about and is influencing my film project.
The fact that this happened in 1987 makes it even cooler by far. Because it would take a hell lot of power and experience to do something like this at the time.
It was probably done by someone with a lot of experience in that stuff
Wasn't as hard as you think it would be. He might even have a youtube channel. Lives in Florida from what I hear.
@@TELEVISIONARCHIVES tell more?
Actually, it would be a lot easier (technically speaking) than now. Transmissions weren't encrypted typically. Organizations security were lax because the knowledge and equipment typically were not in the hands of the public. No need to lock doors in a town were nobody is a thief sort of thing.
Me: Puts on captions so I can understand the hacker
The Captions: [Audio From The Max Headroom Incident]
Just found your channel yesterday n I can’t stop watching your videos
Great video. Also no obnoxious commercial at the start of your video. Thumb up all the way!
4chan shitposting [Colorized, circa 1987]
Michael Bloomberg he literally talks like he’s from 2017. Talking about liberals, low key referencing Kanye’s West album the life of Pablo (“your love is fading, catch the wave”),also dropping hints on the OJ case talking about how his brother has the other glove with blood on it... some spooky shit lol.
Time traveller perhaps?
@@gumpling69 catch the wave was literally a Max Headroom catch phrase
There is a high chance that the max headroom guy is dead
Ye
Depends
@Terro how do u know explain do u know the guy
Terro no it’s not u lyer
Terro yhyh ur a ballshiter
Statute of limitations has run out they cannot be prosecuted for that. Great video
Nice touch with the shadowrun music at the end. :D
"The FCC won't let me be.."
And let me be me so let me see
They tried to shut me down on MTV
But it feels so empty without me
Haha one of Mr.Mather's best tunes IMO... I'm from UK & remember having to find out who/what the FCC was ! Haha
I was thinking this to
After all these years of living with the guilt, it was me. I did it.
Despite the fact that I wasn't born yet, and that my mother was a child in a different country, this is just as credible as the Reddit posts. Now give me upvotes.
You serious?
@@personaguy3682 he said "despite the fact he wasn't born yet", of course it wasn't him lol
It was me liar I was born 2013 you weren’t
@@fluidky5012 fuck you all it was me and you can't prove me right or wrong
@@camerabox1 you are wrong because it was ME.
3:40 just the sheer mention of shaye immediately brought back millions of memories back
One theory is they had a satellite dish pointed at either the Sears Tower or Hancock building that was used to broadcast those stations at the time.
Things that happened on november 22nd
JFK gets shot
Max headroom
My birthday.
Coincidence? I think not
They were J And K, Who Is F
malyee my birthday is on chris chan’s birthday and we are both stupid as hell. Coincidence? I think not!
F
@@justaspectator9762 F was added after he died to pay respects
Ur goin 2 jail bub
I remember watching this on TV when I was a kid as it was happening. Good times. Asking my parents why Max was being spanked with a fly swatter was the highlight of the night.
Phathom well. What did they say
Phantom ikr
Kinky
i smell bullshit*
press x to doubt
"Marital aid." 🤣🤣🤣
So first off I’m sorry for the lack of structure and messiness that is my writing. Also if you have any sorta thoughts on this or evidence to disprove it I’d be glad to hear it, and all that.
I know this is many years too late but I have a very solid plausible theory. While J and K didn’t do the hack themselves they made the video. Between speech patterns and jokes, as well as the skipping around and voice distortion (back then it would be quite easy to do the voice effects with the AV equipment they had at the time) I believe that J and K made the video as a fact. They also were big in the phreak scene of the local area and mentioning channel 11 means they knew about it before it happened, something like that wouldn’t be posted on a board because if it was, FCC and internet detectives would have found it by now, also more people would have seen it and watched channel 11 at that time, and I don’t believe they would ruin their surprise early also warning it would draw attention and I believe FCC would have already searched that angle. This means J and K didn’t do the hack. So we have the technician who I will call T from here on out. T was an audio tech who knew J and K either through the boards or as a personal friend. This would most likely be as a personal relationship to J and K that allowed both parties to know and access the skills and knowledge of the other. J and K would probably have done this for fun as well as being like a phreak’s wet dream to fuck with tv. The chances of another person, much less a technician for the broadcasting channels having the same speech patterns as J is very much impossible or close to it. Also I imagine the FCC would have picked up on it if they had exhausted the whole lead of technicians. It would be quite easy to pick up such a unique speech pattern and mannerism of the one the person on video had. So I rule out it being a single tech with a vendetta that did both the video and the hack. I believe the hack was already planned and ready to go at least a week or two in advance, the video was edited and sent to the tech probably hand delivered by J and/or K. I believe that the first channel hack without audio was to make sure they could do it smoothly in a control environment or just to test that it was possible and went smoothly as to test the waters and get a little practice, even teasing the night to come. The tech then put it on channel 11 the couple hours later that it would most likely take to directly go and do everything before booking it. J and K didn’t know a specific time but they knew it would be later that night and probably knew it would be during the doctor who episode. Now we have it after the hack where all three lay low and nobody snitched or claimed it. Thus I believe it was both an outside and inside job, having a guy inside who planned and executed the physical parts and mainly the illegal parts of the plan, and J&K being the ones to make the video. This of course is pure speculation with inferences on a secondary source and for the most part shouldn’t be taken as anything more than my personal belief. Though this is the first thing that sprung to my head, and I feel like it fits both the previous story and the revelation of being an inside job.
TL;DR: J&K made the video, but a disgruntled tech did the hack.
That's what I've been thinking as well
Imagine a guy named John mcdoogle hacking a world wide news channel
Who is that?
@@Jordanthefoo
Popular dude, and was accused of being behind the hijack, also he meant John McDougall
Lmao
FishheadMcgee XD, thanks for the explanation. 😊
Lucas wtf? First time i see an account like that lol (earthbound character i meant)
1980's: some dood hacks the Chicago TV
2019: Hacking air raid sirens.
playing patrick's wee woo on a tornado siren
@@yournamegoeshere7584 yes
Ooh I’m gonna build siren head and hack sirens
I remember being a little kid at the time. My dad was always a huge Doctor Who fan. He would watch WTTW every week. I remember waking up the next morning and my dad trying to explain this ridiculous incident to my mom. All these years later, I’m still just as confused. This dude is legendary. (Oh, it’s La Grange like “range”.)
Living in Chicago, this hack was absolutely incredible even to this day.
Wow the 80s version of Incredibles 2
Aaah my eyes
Wait...aint the incredibles set in the past?....
@@matchyu yeah but isn't it the 70s?
@@crazycarbonara idk...more like 90's or 80's
@@crazycarbonara no 60s actually
I was a whole 12 days old when the first incident happened.
lewandowska The world isn’t all about you
@@thefonzkiss he wasnt saying anything like that he just said it because it was funny
TheIdioticNoob - that's a lady brah
@@jmoney7289 bruh bruh bruh
TheIdioticNoob - breh
This is still creepy even to this day. That hacker had to have been on drugs or was mentally disturbed.
Nah, I think he was just trolling. I found it quite funny actually.
I like to imagine The Max Headroom incident was what happened when Eddy and Double D let Ed come up with an idea for a scam again
Me: sees max headroom
Also me: Eminem?
Somethings wrong I can feel it
6 minutes slim shady you’re on
Travis Harris did u just spam the words on top of the keyboard
The Rap God music video seems like a reference to this.
Vegetable Man that’s what it reminds me of!
Ok but imagine you just watching dr who and then you see a man in a mask getting spanked with a fly swatter.
I did enjoy this video. Thank you
I was literally two weeks old when that broadcast originally aired
God this used to creep me out. But watching this made me realize this was just most likely a troll with no malicious intent. Just a harmless prank. Still i get unnerved at times
Ssj Chixken not just a troll, if only you knew the intelligence and autism required to pull this off, bare in mind in the 80's, you needed alot more tech than people easily let on. You needed highly specialized knowledge In UHF broadcasting, masking etc etc. Give this guy the credit he deserves.
So it’s basicly it’s low budget fetish porn
Ben Phone at the time it would cost 25 thousand dollars
Ssj Chixken me to
There is a theory that the guy behind the mask had severe autism, that's why everything he says doesn't make sense, goes back and forth etc. He mentions his brother and the two of them were said to be big broadcast hackers of the 80s
Hey man, good video. But I just wanted to say that the Reddit story seems fake. He claims someone told him to "watch Channel 11 that night." So he did, and he saw the incident live. Allegedly.
The problem with that is, the attack was aimed for Channel 9 (WGN-TV). That's why "Max" picks on Chuck Swirsky, and "World's Greatest Newspaper" (WGN). That's where the attack first happened, but WGN engineers quickly changed frequencies and stopped it, they didn't even manage to make the sound work. So after that failed attempt, they went for Channel 11, where they got much more airtime, with sound and everything, and they could play the whole skit (which was still talking about Channel 9, even though it was on Channel 11). That's the one on YT which we all know and love.
Had the redditor met the guys who did it beforehand, surely they would have told him to watch Channel 9, not 11, as that was the aim of the prank. That is just one of the holes in his story, which seems like the typical Reddit lying for attention. It literally feels like he picked apart every detail of the video and built a story around it. Max says "my brother has the other one." He knew two brothers. The tape ends with someone spanking him? He had a dirty sense of humor. Max says "ooooh" all the time? One of the brothers also said "oooh" all the time. Just smells like a load of shit to me.
Only 8 likes... :/
Lets not forget that their names are J and K
i wonder where is that mask? and who has it? what happened to it?
someone has it..in a dusty old box in a basement somewhere..
or it was thrown in the trash never to be seen ever again..
@Alex Sava i think you overthought this way to much 😂
@@lesliem8035 it had to be done
nice 80s chicago footage added in the background at 10:50 , great video.
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