06/27/03 broadcast interruption (Video)

"06/27/03 broadcast interruption" is the 30th video posted on the official plantysan Youtube channel, posted on October 9th, 2021.

Description
"06/27/03 broadcast interruption", or simply Broadcast Interruption, is a video which apparently seems to show an interruption or signal hijacking during a cable broadcast. The video begins with the final 9 seconds of the 2002 plantysan tv ad video, which fades out and transitions to an advertisement for Zoobooks. Video glitching can be seen at the very beginning of the ad, and static begins to appear over the video slowly. 16 seconds in, the video begins to heavily degrade, with the narrator's voice slowly deepening and the images becoming heavily distorted in color and overlayed with static. At 0:21, the video glitches heavily on a warped image and a single syllable of the narration repeats before cutting off. At 0:23, the video and audio returns to show a clip from the Max Headroom signal hijacking. Apart from being slowed, the video for this clip appears normal - however, the audio begins to rise in pitch over time. During this clip, the hijacker can be heard apparently crying and saying "oh, Jesus". At 0:35, the video sharply cuts to a silent and heavily glitched video which appears to have been filmed underwater, an image of which can be seen in the thumbnail. Throughout this clip, the same music box tone played at the end of Hollabear Dust can be heard, however the spoken messages are different. The TTS voice has been replaced with a high pitched human voice. Three number messages, separated by music, are spoken: "ten eighteen", "fourteen five eighteen", and "twenty-one eighteen five eighteen". Before the second message plays, the images switch to a warped clip of a spinning planet Earth. Just before the third message, the clip ends and switches to a slideshow of visually distorted images from the Golden Records on the Voyager crafts. The images and audio end with no final riff at 1:50. There is 1 second of silence accompanied by black screen, before an image appearing to be a visual depiction of the Arecibo message is shown at 1:51, scrolling through the screen. At 1:53, a deepened audio clip plays; this audio is a pitch-shifted version of the English "hello from the children of Planet Earth" message on the first record. At 2:01, a second distorted audio clip plays, which seems to be taken from the film The Room; it is specifically the character of Johnny, as portrayed by Tommy Wiseau, speaking the line "God, forgive me". At 2:07, the video fades out. There are 2 seconds of silence accompanied by a black screen, before at 2:09 the video cuts sharply back to the Zoobooks ad, apparently where it left off. It continues normally until 2:15, at which point the video sharply cuts to a black, staticky screen displaying the words "NO SIGNAL" in the lower left corner. This is shown for 4 seconds before the video ends.