Who Was Behind the Max Headroom Incident? - Tales From the Internet
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Published 2018-05-10
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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All Comments (21)
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The Story Behind Loss Memes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQzOndOU4bY Reddit's Mystery Hard Drive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo567CIqdHM Was Borat a Ripoff? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7mGkKDaZ_c
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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.
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me: enables subtitles because I can't understand what max is saying subtitles: "[AUDIO FROM THE MAX HEADROOM INCIDENT]" thank you subtitles, very cool
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Genius doing it during Dr who. Most people probably thought it was part of the plot
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Max: ÆïçØ€xßūñ£¶∆œÈ¢jF¥ Whang: "The Chuck Swirsky he's talking about..."
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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.
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Nobody cared who he was... Until he put on the mask.
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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?"
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It's even worse that he sounds like a modern Cyberman, Doctor Who thing, it's so fucking creepy.
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The man will reveal on his death bed that it was him. Ultimate. Troll.
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Maybe the real Max Headroom was the friends we made along the way
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That one Russian dude on the csgo server with a bad mic
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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.
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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.
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“Who was behind the Max Headroom incident??” gets spanked on live television
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If he was just trolling, that would be the pinnacle of it.
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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.
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I had no idea that the part where he got an ass spanking even existed
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This feels like something [adult swim] would do
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I used to confuse Max Headroom with Mac Tonight.
