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My tremor was bad today so I don't think it turned out as well as I would have preferred, but I still think it's cute!

Hope you like it!

Now, this is a very obscure topic. In fact, I only found out about it by accident while looking for SaH content on the Korean web. I ended up stumbling onto some "mysterious lost media page" in Korean, which then led to me discovering this:

Now, iirc, this is part of a much larger "TV broadcast accidents and hijackings" website-but I was instantly intrigued by the description, which roughly translates with AI to the following:

04/25 | NHK BS1 | Yankees Vs. Angels

"At around 13:41, a North Korean animation program was suddenly mixed in for about 5 seconds. According to NHK, it was due to a connection error by KDDI, which connects video lines from overseas. NHK, which noticed the abnormality, immediately switched to a still image and resumed broadcasting the big league in less than 1 minute. The mixed animation was titled "Squirrel and Hedgehog" and was produced in North Korea in the late 70s."

You can find some pictures of it on old websites, such as this one.

Something like this seems absolutely insane and that it should be more talked about, right? A North Korean cartoon, suddenly playing on NHK BS1!? Where was all the coverage of this, the YouTube videos talking about broadcast accidents or whatever?! I scraped around for so many sources, most being dead, but some from around the time. Most of them date this incident to being on 04/25/2003 at 1:41 pm. I remember checking NHK BS1 broadcast archives, and there actually was a baseball game playing around that time... I also read in a couple of sources that it had the presenter profusely apologizing afterward as it was paused for a minute before going back to the game. The episode is the beginning of 22, if you're wondering.

(chart by Rootabagel on Reddit for a post I made trying to research this topic to illustrate what could've happened) The story NHK states makes sense too-KDDI, the telecommunications company, probably accidentally switched the signals over to a North Korean channel. At those big telecommunications stations, they monitor a ton of signals from different country's TV broadcasts, and just a small bump on a switch can accidentally switch the satellite signal to another one. It's a bunch of like, techno mumbo jumbo but that's what lead to the NHK BS1 logo being at the top right, if you've noticed that. I linked my sources here if you want to dig into this topic more.

But here's the craziest thing of all:

There's a video.

Now-video recreations for this kind of thing is pretty commmon. Just look at how many there are for stuff like the Wyoming Incident. The thing is, there's two things that are rather odd.

This is a very obscure incident. At the time of me researching this, the video had only around 1,500 views. For something like this, shouldn't it be way more?

The video is...perfect, is the thing. Everything lines up perfectly with what would of happened, how a instant signal switch instead of an intrusion would be, the appearance of the footage...this very well could be one of the few broadcasting accident videos that might just be real.

Also, I did end up getting a non-ai translation for what the presenter said at the end, which is the following: "Right now, the broadcast (footage) from the site has been cut off. We are extremely sorry. Please (we would be grateful if you could) wait there for a moment."

So yes, that's all very interesting. I dug deep into this topic, but if it sounds familiar I also sent it over to a YouTuber who covered it at 15:21 in this video. (yes that is indeed my Reddit username, rip)