Emergency Alert Systems Give Me Massive Anxiety...
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2023
- Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at Emergency Alert Scenarios and Systems once again with today being a test day for a national system that's been the catalyst for some rather unfounded claims. The community behind this has still been creating some amazing content and stories using such as a simple medium since we've last looked at it. Thanks for watching!
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We got it too a few days ago
POG
Just got the alert as soon as this was uploaded lmao
Smash
Is this real chat
Smart man! He literally dropped his video at the same exact time as the emergency that is hands-down, the smartest thing I’ve ever seen on UA-cam as a creator 💯
I was literally coming down here to say this, what perfect timing💯
I thought it was just a weird coincidence lmao
Jerking him off a little hard not you think?
Same!!!
So it WASN'T just me.
The fact that this was uploaded right as I got an emergency alert on my phone is insane.
same
real
My God me too
Same
same, nuts timing
My teacher warned us about this today. I was wearing my earbuds when it happened. Surprisingly the alert was not loud and I wasn't spooked at all. Then my ears were blasted with blaring rock music once the alert was over and I nearly fell out of my seat lol
I believe its obviously set to normal volume IF you're wearing headphones, so it doesnt blast away your eardrums.
Imagine if the rock music WAS the EAS tone, that would definitely get people in the mood
I live in Hawaii and that alert really scared everyone. Basically for like 40 minutes we all thought it was the end and now every time I hear that alert it makes me think of that day. It was super crazy that happened and the thing that was even more crazy was how long it took for them to tell us it was a mistake.
my grandma lived in San Francisco in 1989 when the earthquake hit. From what I've been told about it, it was almost like society collapsed for a while, absolutely terrifying to think that could happen in the modern day. I assume the missile alert kind of had the same effect for a while, but I don't live there, so I don't know.
Alert: You will be dead in T-10 seconds. No futher action is necessary.
The timing of this video was amazing. 10/10
Bro DEADASS 😂
Exactly lmao
Scared tf out of me and his video came up in my feed.
He timed it
how did this and the alert come out at the same time wtf
My favorite conspiracy was when people took a clip of a news woman saying that the test will make your phone "go off" and they thought that means phones will be powered down for hours. In reality, she meant "going off" as in the alert, like an alarm "goes off".
The term "go off" never made sense to me as off means inactivity.
@@TheyWantMeGone69Off the charts of normalcy?
@@TheyWantMeGone69well maybe as in turn _off_
Damm i thought “go off” as if it would turn into a transformer or some shet.
@@TheyWantMeGone69 What about "set it off" lol. I have a feeling it comes from southern vernacular.
I love how this kind of test is such a big deal in the US, meanwhile here in The Netherlands they perform this kind of test literally every first monday of the month at 12pm
Probably because the fact they do it every month makes it normal for you. For us, it's only every 3 years (at least for cell phones - they do TV/Radio alert tests fairly regularly) and so people aren't used to it.
waiiiiit in the netherlands is it like an alarm? like basically a big ass horn? rhats how it is in Finland (very fun when you forget its the first AND you live close enough to a flight path... 3 times ive thought its a real alarm and not just test lol)
@@robertc.9503 Ohhhhhhhh I get it now that makes so much sense
Meanwhile in India I didn't even know this was a thing
@@sexonlithium I thought everyone in India would have got this by now, I personally got this 3 days ago and many people I know got this even 2 weeks ago
The EAS tones in Canada used to give me some serious anxiety when I was younger. But this year all those wildfires happened and I quickly became desensitized to it because we were getting emergency alerts every 5 minutes.
Yeah, fires move quickly.
No better feeling than the government making sure you're prepared for a looming catastrophe.
Better than it not working if it needs too. Us not having emergency alerts would be stupid.
It should be a great feeling, considering the multitude of situations that can arise.
Yeah, I do not have a good feeling about this.
Ppfffftt, probably AT THE LAST MINUTE OR AFTER A Disaster!
@@Soundwave142? for what it’s just a test they regularly do
for me the scariest thing about that is the idea of someone somehow hacking these systems and blasting the alerts non stop
If a real emergency happens the alert won't go off. This is to keep people complacent and not cause panic when something does happen bc it won't go off.
@DownWordGames dont forget to pick up more reynolds wrap. Gonna need a new hat soon.
@ofmoosenmen lmao hes not wrong. They will not tell you when its happening. It will just happen and whoevers left alive after is who lives to tell the tale. They are not going to panic everyone when theres nothing that can be done, and will only congest up important routes they need to use for the important people in office and places of power. Continuity of government is their #1 priority above all else. Its written on paper
Imagine that some country would hack that system and trigger random alerts throughout few days, and then they would attack, so when the real alerts come in you would think that it's just another hijacking
Don’t understand how hearing your phone go off over and over in a annoying as noise is a scary concept if nothing happens
I don't know what it is about the sound of the emergency alert system but it instills in me a type of fear that feels very primal. I already knew there was a test scheduled today and it's still terrifying. It makes all sorts of eldritch imagery flash in my head so it's definitely good for getting the imagination juices flowing if you're somebody who writes or illustrates horror stories or something.
I didn't know it was happening, so I got jump[scared and almost thought Russia launched the nukes or something, until I read that it was a test
they pay them government sound designers real good
I knew it was a test as well, and yet was terrified when i heard the sound on my phone. It’s definitely effective that it grabs our attention, but it also scares the sh*t out of us.
I hear our emergency sirens being tested weekly, and I can definitely understand. For me it lasts just 1 second, the time it takes to check the time, but especially living next to russia, I'm glad to hear it every time, atleast after the test is over. (lasts about 5 seconds)
Can understand it being alot worse if you haven't regularly had tests.
Yeah, the tornado sirens that test every first week of the month here did that to me where I lived for the first year.
Honestly this system is so effective that at 3 I knew what it meant and it scared the absolute shit out of me. As a child I was mortified of thunderstorms and everytime a bad one was coming the EAS would come on and at 3 I knew that when that noise comes on something bad was going to happen. It still gives me chills to this day and triggers fight or flight but overall very effective.
That damn tornado warning tone still freaks me out.
Doing it's job even years since I've heard it.
There is a tornado siren right outside my neighborhood, and it gets loud.
Yup, I think the tones are specifically designed to activate your fight or flight response. Just the sound should cause an adrenaline rush in most people.
To be honest I totally get what that's like. I'm still that way myself whenever I hear it over the car radio. Glad it works at least, haha. 😅
I literally just got my alert. Your timing is impeccable
Same.
Same
Same
SAME LMAO
Whole country did
They used to test quite often on tv when I was a kid before cell phones. I can still remember them today. "This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. This is just a test."
I recall years ago getting a tornado warning on the tv and going down in the cellar, it turned out to be nothing thankfully
Yeah I remember this happening at least once a month or so when I was a kid.
12:10 mutahar being so inspirational man.
“If the worst ever happens, human beings always fight through it. All these systems do is give us hopefully 5 minutes to get our stuff together for when stuff hits the fan. And hopefully we’ll survive and come together as people to build for better days.”
The test today happened during lunch while I was at school, and everyone in the lunchroom started clapping and cheering. Definitely one of the moments of my life lol
Im the most distrustful of the government you can find, and I still dont understand why people are freaking out about this like it doesnt happen every three years. People are worse than fish.
And when there was an actual national emergency… 9/11, we got zero alerts. So….. 🤔
How dare you say that about fish.
@tiffanyh1274 Hawaii got none for fires and that was just a month ago
@@tiffanyh1274 Most you could expect in 2001 was widespread notifications via TV and radio, which during 9/11 virtually every news agency was all talking about the situation as soon as they could.
At that point there is no real need to broadcast a nationwide alert when the entirety of private media did it for them.
@@tiffanyh1274 well, given that cell phones weren’t really common in 2001…
I remember back in the 80s, getting such emergency warnings on tv and the radio. With all the talk of nuclear war everywhere, including general entertainment, I kept expecting it to be about that. Now, I sometimes feel a slight disappointment that it isn't. I work second shift, so was sleeping when it went off today. I work up to it and just thought "damn it, I have to go to work still" and whet back to sleep.
I was born in the 80's grew up in the late 90's. So hearing those tones basically meant the world was about to end and the nukes were airborne. Even today those tones give me some anxiety. Talk about war with Russia is in the air, and I feel that testing the alert systems is just another step toward going back to the 80's in terms of the fear of a misunderstanding ending everything. There has been a lot of conspiracy talk about why the united states is choosing to test this now, while russia chose to test theirs the day before, and some concern that the government knows something we don't.
@@vincentwahl391 the government always knows something we don't. And conspiracy theories about it are pointless. Either missiles get launched or they don't. It won't matter how much preparation people do, there will be too much global damage for humanity to make it for long after.
I was driving with my aux in, and it just blasted through my car stereo.
@@vincentwahl391 i don't understand why would you fear a nuclear war though, it is one of the least scary apocalypse scenarios to exist.
@@vincentwahl391 I would have actually thought that people like you growing up during the cold war era would actually be less scared about nuclear war. Did you ever read any of the Civil Defense books or have Civil Defense radiation monitoring equipment? Just wondering since Civil Defense seemed to be all the hype back then and they seemed confident in their books on how to survive nuclear war and the aftermath of it.
I actually find great comfort in knowing this system exists, and is reserved for only like legit "shit is going down right now, you need to know/gotta be looking for that stolen kid"
Not sure why it'd give anxiety to have a scheduled test once per 3 years. It has to have saved thousands of lives.
just the thought of the test being not just a test is scary, especially if its in the case of nuclear attack.
The anxiety comes when you don't know the test is coming, and it suddenly goes off in the middle of a shop at insane volumes from everyone's phones and everyone starts freaking out. The tone itself gives me a panic reaction when it comes from my phone, and in my frenzy to get the damned sound to stop, whatever text was one the screen was gone.
It's not a good system...
@@FranNyanit's not good for everyone, but there isn't really any better way to do it, you gotta get attention somehow, and a screeching is hard to miss
Funny that you mention the Hawaii incident. I was working food service at the time and for whatever reason my coworker and i got the alert late. We decided to just sit and wait in the walk-in freezer since we had no better place to take shelter in.
For those wondering FEMA’s not just there to manage the emergency, they’ll even send out people to pull you from a collapsed building themself. FEMA operates a network of disaster response teams that make up the bulk of rescue and remediation work for disasters. These teams will link up with local emergency services and can do everything from finding bodies to pulling you from a collapsed skyscraper!!
Thats really nice
Thanks FEMA PR!
Sometimes they even start mobilizing to help within a week of the disaster :)
Where were they during 9/11?
They even have the authority to enforce Martial law. Look up readiness exercise 84 (REX 84)
It doesn't even have to be such bad events. You just have to look at some natural disasters where such warning systems would have saved many lives. Just like in an earthquake, tsunami, wildfire, volcanic eruption or heavy rain.
Unfortunately, the only thing that is often missing here is the will to use these systems. In Germany there were floods caused by heavy rain in 2021. If there had been warnings in advance, then many people would still be alive today.
True especially with the hurricane season we had this year
The alarms don't exist to save anyone, though some may be saved by accident. It's there to scare people.
Yet Americans in maui were not notified of the fires
@@ohsweetmysteryreason? Like I'm confused on if you know why these where made?
@@ohsweetmystery?
I live in Japan and yes, I can confirm that this type of systems is a normal part of everyday life and super useful. I don’t have a TV but with earthquakes, the alarm on your phone is usually a few seconds before the earthquake and tells you how strong the quake is, so you can get cover if needed. It happens all the time and because people are used to it, no one panics. I also live near a river and I get alarms and sirens if the river is close to overflowing during typhoons, so that I can be on the lookout and get to higher ground if needed: of course I’m not the only one living there but no one panics, once again because we are used to it. People in certain areas also get ballistic alarm missiles when North Korea shoots missiles, and I can’t tell firsthand, but I haven’t seen mass panic reported (tho as mentioned there’s not much you can do about that if the missile actually lands). Getting people used to this type of thing is great (tho you risk people getting complacent, which is another story and too long for this already long comment). Before living in Japan I lived in Italy in an area with dangerous earthquakes and zero alarms, they would have been super useful and might have saved lives. I am grateful that the government is at least trying to do something.
From what I've seen on UA-cam videos, there are two different alarm systems, with the earthquake alarm system having a calmer audible alert. Such an alert also does not completely cut off TV broadcasts, as journalism teams usually go on air during the alert in order to provide more details on the expansion of the earthquake and whether it is intensifying, guiding the population accordingly.
The ballistic alert is completely different. It interrupts all transmissions with a warning screen worthy of Neon Genesis Evangelion, while a more serious and loud tone is emitted.
I went to Hawaii for the first time early august this year and the tour guide talked about his experience with the false missile alert when everyone was panicking about it. He said somewhere along the lines that he believed he was going to die because what the heck can anyone really do to survive if a ballistic missile hits. And he said, he grabbed himself a lot of beer and got drunk while sitting at his front porch waiting for the missile to hit.
I knew this thing was happening today, and I STILL got jump scared. Still, it’s somewhat comforting to know these things work because even in the case of a natural disaster, it’s good to inform people with that sort of information as quickly as possible.
Issue is, in the event of an attack by sabatuers they will target the communications networks first, making all of these warning systems moot. You'd be better using a legacy alarm system installed in every town, less likely for it to fail country-wide and not as easy to break into as the entirely online world is.
I was at work and a coworker's phone made a regular notification tone. As I was checking to see if it was his phone or mine I remembered that they were doing the emergency alert today, and as soon as I thought that all of our phones started to go off. Actually saved me from a jumpscare. 😅
Eh I was just playing videogames. I’ll probably be dead in an hour if there ever is a real disaster within my area.
Normally gets me too but today I wasn't near any of the phones so it wasn't that loud and it's no longer fire season, the main reason I'd get a real alert, so it was just "oh yeah that's today" and run around clicking all the devices so they would shut up.
@@Rexhunterj depends on the attacker. if you'll be attacked by dumb commies like ruzzians you'll probably have your communications intact. I'm writing it from Ukraine where we had no issues with Internet or alarms (offline ones on the street, PC and device notifications from mobile app). to cut everything off the attacker would need to destroy your cell phone grid, internet grid and electricity grid. but even then you can plug in batteries into old analog radio and receive updates from closest FM station which can work on generators or can be located even abroad.
My boss was in Hawaii when that ballistic missile alert came in.
I remember hearing about it when he got back and it blew my mind.
That would be terrifying to get, real or not.
In oklahoma, tornado sirens are crucial. Those are tested every week, unless the weather is bad during the normal test time. Sometimes the tornadoes are not visible because they are wrapped in rain or it is night time. Those sirens have saved so many lives
Literally got it during work today, and scared the crap out of me. Love how they put "this is a drill" at the end of all the alarming words in the message and after the blaring sound.
bro’s just on time
I know, right?
ONGG
"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you can imagine". ~William Blum
There is no way that muta used the national emergency alert as a notification for his youtube video, that is insane.
You’re gonna get more anxiety if you’re not notified ahead of time in the case of an emergency. What was worse is getting woken up by it while dreaming up a good dream. 😂
Thank for being clear minded Muta! People need it. It took me many years to learn to tread the water and not get lost in the bullshit or rabbit holes that have no factual basis…
I love seeing this stuff covered by bigger channels. The EAS has been piquing my interest since I was a wee lad, and it’s something that you don’t really see other people talk about that much
@@meowmeowmeowmeowcatoncomputer I used to love seeing those as a kid, at least here in the north, it usually meant a blizzard, which meant school was most likely cancelled the next morning.
Same. i upload alot of eas videos.
You know what’s worse: in Canada, we had emergency alart system includes with a sounds that it traumatized me the most (3 am in the morning that hits with the missing children), when I turn do not disturb mode on my phone, it pops up once with sound and I was like: oh boy this is gonna be a long journey to make this happen
As a fellow Canadian, I can't count how many times I get blasted with Amber Alerts for cities that it's 5 hours away from me, even during 3 in the morning. Where now every time I hear that same alert noise, I jokey ask "Alright, Who kidnapped a kid this time?" before looking/hearing the readout.
@@Blue2x2xThey pretty much only use Amber alerts as a psychological tool against the person they are suspecting of the abduction. It just makes them feel very visible and overwhelmed which can hasten surrender. We get annoyed as a byproduct.
@@POVwithRC yeah especially one time that it hits 3 am in the morning while peoples are sleeping peacefully till amber alart hits louder enough
We had that alart I don’t know what exactly when this happen, of course all thanks to that, i will have PTSD with that sounds and if this is test, I’ll glitch out with my AirPods to make a sound quietly a bit then I’ll erased my notification from do not disturb mode
@@POVwithRC Fair enough, most cases I see the Amber Alert, it ended shortly after found safe. So at least it works as indented.
@@Blue2x2x it will works once only if they have been hitting on a missing children that had been detected from states to states
I remember the time that I have seeing a tornado warning in my area (yes… first time hearing this) with no damage on our and their own property which is makes me in fear hearing from the news
I like having these systems in place since they can make the difference between life and death. Even ones like the system used by the RCMP can make the difference in the even of an active shooter or stabber or if there's a missing persons case.
I didn't realize you uploaded at the exact time. I was at the store at the self checkout and everyone's phone went off like a symphony of off beat alert sounds.
I love how this released 10 seconds after the alert hit.
You timed this well
Yeah what the fuck is that timing
Yeah, that scared the crap outta me
thank god you made a video about this man. I needed a sane voice to talk about this
Man always learning something new on this channel
Here's something funny, the alrm test went off and when it ended the notification for this video popped up.
The best part of the Hawaii message was that it was a basic webpage that required a SINGLE CLICK to send a message that would warn everyone in the state they were about to get hit with a missile.
The eerie tone that EAS systems produce will always be unnerving to me. I've only had to hear it just a few times in a year but when it does, it just makes me pause. The one time back then I was watching and listening to an ARG video and I legit thought that came from the video. It was only when I removed my headphones that I realized it was my phone emitting it got freaked out a little from it.
It’s perfect how Muta immediately posts a video just a second when the alert came out XD
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Deadass
"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you can imagine". ~William Blum
@@just_a_turtle_chad "No matter how paranoid or conspiracy minded you are, what the turtle comments is actually worse than you can imagine." ~William Blum
I turnt my phone off. fuck them alerts.
I would watch the fake Emergency Alert systems just to scare myself 😂
fake alerts go something like
"MISSILE STRIKES FROM NORTH KOREA. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY"
Why watch a horror movie when you can hear the EAS sound
@Spartag1706 EXACTLY! Plus Horror Movies don't scare me unfortunately.
Hahaha same! Scary movies don’t do it for me!
@@Spartag1706I remember when I was watching tv at night and the EAS just popped up out of nowhere that shit scared tf out of me
Thanks for the perspective and clarity about the emerg alerts
Def had a few folk talking about "mass EMP" etc etc lol
Me and some buddies actually stumbled across one of those emergency alert scenario channels on accident about 6 years ago. We were playing MTG and it autoplayed one. The crazy thing it was about Russia invading Ukraine, only to have it become a reality years later.
Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 to annex Crimea. Just another one of those “it’s not all connected things are just reasonably predictable” moments.
It’s impressive how you managed to post a video discussing about an event that just occurred a few minutes ago. Well thought out and organized!
Pretty sure creators can schedule a video release. He probably recorded this well in advanced and had it already uploaded. It just didn't go public until today
Ain’t no way you posted this at the same time 😭😭
I could not think of a single thing that gives me less anxiety than emergency alert tests
When it hard the alarm today, the first thing I thought of was that video Mutahar made last year and it’s just stuck with me for all this time for some reason.
thank god Muta is here just in time to explain why the scary alarm went off on my phone, bless this man.
The fact this was posted at the same time as the Emergency Broadcast Tests is the best part about Emergency Broadcast Tests.
Mine was at like 10 this morning.
I didnt know the tones could trigger other devices. Thanks for the extra knowledge!
I love how this is a very well timed video, good job lmao.
Brother, we in the US just had a nation wide alarm test.
He knows and opened with that.
the timing on this video was brilliant. i literally got the emergency alert, went to youtube, and this was the top video in my sub feed
Not only did I literally got a notification for your video after almost everyone's phones in my college class went off with emergency alerts, but some people got alerts long after everyone else. Our teacher got interrupted a few times after the alert test was supposed to happen LOL.
I'm almost 50 and emergency alert tests were ALWAYS a thing on TV once in a while. I never even batted an eyelash when they started coming to cell phones.
Nice one Muta, just in time
For the record, the Chicago tornado siren is the scariest siren I've heard. Everytime i hear it, my anxiety skyrockets
DIdn’t they intentionally make the sirens that way so that no one can mentally block it out like they do regular sirens?
@@TomoEriGotoapparently it's just because the siren is broken.
@ProxiProtogen it's not actually broken, it's a different type of tornado siren
Oooooh, so I guess they either don’t have the money or time to fix it or just said fuck it.
It's not broken, that's just how it sounds. And it's Chicago they'd rather paint streets than to really fix what needs to be fixed
I love it when i hear Muta says people will be anxious when hearing an alert test too often...
The Netherlands, performing monthly audible air-raid tests: "Hold mijn Heineken..."
Exactly. If anything, it causes complacency.
We already do this kind of thing at the state level in some places. (Remember, many are as large as European countries.) Illinois does it's siren testing on the first Tuesday of the month at 10AM, along with it's own EAS alerts that are also on their own schedule. So the real question is doing it at a continental U.S. level? (A Gulf Coast hurricane isn't going to bother anyone up in the Dakotas for instance.) If it really is something that warrants a whole nation responding in this case, it's probably not something the public can do a whole lot about anyways.
@@FreedomPuppy every first monday of the month.... de duitsers komen eraan XD
@@pauljs75 Hey, i didn't knew that about the state level testings. Thanks for this info!
@@pureexile1702 De russen toch? lol...
It does fail sometimes and then everyone and their mother goes tits-up because "what if there really is something happening omg omg omg". But therefore alone it is a good thing to test, equipment can break and i rather find that out during a scheduled test than during an actual bombing by the Moffen.
Funnily enough. This video was posted at almost the exact same time as an Emergency Alert came through in the area I live. The whiplash of being scared shitless because of the alert to seeing Muta grinning in the video thumbnail within minutes was surreal.
Here in Sweden the air raid sirens are tested on the first Monday of each quarter. 20 years and it still takes me by surprise
It went off in the middle of a class for me. It was neat hearing 100+ phones going off at the same time. Also, more phones went off at pure random afterwards. 😅
The town I live in also happened to test the sirens before the alert. Just imagine not knowing what's going on, hearing sirens and then your phone going off.
That’s some timing, must’ve scared so many people around you
@@tebocra4141 yeah but thats a good thing! people need a bit of fear to do stuff, and almost shitting yourself because of a siren maybe helps you come up with an emergency plan. Its also not a real danger for the elderly, they had decades of alert training in the cold war.
The scariest thing for me is that I almost got into a car crash thanks to my phone blasting the emergency alert, all of a sudden I literally see the digital billboard saying emergency alert, this is a test, I had all of the government emergency alerts turned off for a reason, man what a dystopian world we live in…
These are my fav poppa Muta videos
I got ptsd from the missile warning. Literally was calling my family to tell them I was probably gonna die.
Same, I remember staying with my friend who was in the air force at the time and we packed up the pets in the car and tried to drive as far away as we could, hoping to get past the islands mountain range (was living on oahu at the time near hickam-pearl harbor) and I remember the pets freaking out, my friend driving, and me calling my mom. To this day I have nightmares about it, about nukes, and loud noises bring me back to that day.
As harsh as that sounds, but that’s good. People should hate everything about this; it should scare mankind into getting their shit together…
@@meilei333you realize that all this is useless right??? The moment the missiles strike it's overz you don't have time to leave.
That’s a bit of an overreaction.
@@_Cetarialthat’s an appropriate reaction to an incoming nuke lol
I love that they give everyone months to prepare for these alerts and everyone is still shocked when it happens.
Edit because I forget the comment section goes wild: this comment was only about people who complain on social media, a place where you can find news extremely easily. For those who don't ever get news and don't follow any social media, I'm sure this is absolutely terrifying.
😂
Not everyone can get or even know about that kinda information though yk? It’s still scary regardless, it’s hella annoying.
lmfaooo where do they say that though? 😂😂
Tiny issue: I do not watch the news, i do not listen to radio and i do only browse the internet in languages and on sites, that are not equal to the country i reside in.
If my government here decides to do this test, i literally do not know about it in advance, unless it comes up in an every day conversation for some reason
@@D44RK_Iced_Yogs Oh definitely, I'm sure there's people who don't watch or get the news and don't use social media, I totally understand them being shocked. It's a scary thought that the government can take over your phone at any moment.
I really enjoy EAS simulations and media around it. Something especially chilling is looking back at the Protect and Survive information films the UK had in the '70s, not only because it's bleak but because of the fact that those were real broadcasts because nuclear war was a very real worry. Related to that is the film Threads. Such a powerful what if scenario.
I could only imaging how scary it would be to sleep thru the missle message
I'm glad they don't test it often.
The fact a test is able to cause so much fear is a good thing IMO.
The system works, both technically, and practically.
If something really were to happen, people wouldn't ignore it! Which is an important thing for emergencies!
Fear is a bad thing, it leads to panic. Look at the lockdowns of 2020-2022, in Australia we had toilet roll shortages because people overbought toilet paper. There were people using newspaper and tissues to wipe their rears while some other panic induced weirdos were sitting on boxes of rolls they weren't going to be able to use for a few years.
Actually, I am fairly sure this nation is doomed if we ever have to deal with nuclear attack or nation-wide catastrophe, the 2020 period showed that most people have no idea how to prep for periods of lockdown.
it happens around twice a year here in canada, i don't get how it's such a big deal
@@Rexhunterj Then don't do the tests unannounced. Let people know ahead of time when the system test will happen. And yes, the COVID-19 panic was bad and lockdowns were a shitty idea.
Amber alerts and weather advisories make this go off a few times a year.
Not really sure why this one is different.
@@andyfriederichsen They aren't unannounced, though, ever.
The timing was phenomenal. Nearly shat myself in the office with all these alarms going off. Time to relax and watch your video lol.
Mine blasted through the car stereo. I jumped so hard
It was interesting watching people in multiple discords sound-off that they got their alerts and if they got multiple alerts in different languages. And the one single guy who got increasingly distressed that his phone never got an alert. It was interesting watching him live re-capping him asking other people in his office then his network, finding out that yes, everyone got their alert.
He still hasn't gotten one and his area code got two, one in English, one in Spanish.
Muta said the town where I’m from, that’s awesome man
This timing is impeccable. I literally *just* received it.
bruh I swear idk if its just me but I've been recognizing your pfp in random comment sections every now and then for like 6 years now lol
@@iiCounted-op5jx I’ve seen other people have my same PFP every once in a while, but I also comment *A LOT* on many different channels. I’ve been on YT for a very long time.
As soon as I got the alert I got this notif 💀💀💀
The first Wednesday of each month we get the emergency weather alert test. It never crossed my mind that people weren’t familiar with tests like these!
Dude I fucking love EAS scenario videos. Super cool hearing you discuss them here
Right when everyone got the test notification 😂😂
a Muta upload popping up immediately after my phone gave me a heart attack from the emergency alert is exactly what I needed 😂
I used to get storm warnings fairly often, so I didn't think much of it. A couple of my coworkers were talking about it like it was a big deal.
I was on the bus home from college, hear EVERYONE’S phone go off, and I look down at my phone, while it’s blaring, with a vid noti at the top🤣🤣🤣 perfect timing, ya love to see it
The timing of this video couldn’t be more perfect. I just received an emergency alert system just before I received this notification
Same
Same
Same, I was sleeping and it woke me up
Probably one of the most consistent UA-camrs ever.
I work at a silica factory in Norway.
Here we test the air-raid-siren every wednesday at noon.
Gets you anxiety going really good the first times.
Muta, this video is just HILARIOUS.
The timing with this and the National test alarm seems almost intentional
(It was intentional lmao)
I've never in my life been so constantly reminded of something I originally forgot immediately after it happened than going onto the internet hours later. I honestly didn't even look at my phone. Lol.
Right after I got the alert I imagined a horror movie where the test happens and someone gets exposed to the killer
I forgot this year's EAS test in Germany. Got woken up by the emergency sound blaring out of my smartpone. That sure kept me anxious the entire day. 💀
whenever I hear any alert emergency alerts my heart skips a beat
I had no idea the test was yesterday. I was at the public library when the alarms went off. Fifty phones at the same time. My phone didn’t. I jumped out of my seat and nearly started the mass hysteria myself.
I live close to Buena Park and it’s wild to have mutahar talk about where I’m loving even if it’s in the context of a nuclear bomb
Mine just went off lol
My man really scheduled this to go live, not even 10 seconds after the test LMAO.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that felt like I was in the start of a horror movie today when I was in the store and heard everyone's phones going off at the same time.
im anxious because more than one country in close proximity had this test
Literally just got the notification the minute I got the alert, so you're on top of your game Muta