#eas alert

Earlier, I was watching a video compilation of Civil Emergency Alerts (the one by AntVee Productions), and heard a very familiar TTS voice in one of the alerts. (Timestamp starts *after* alert tones.)

TTS voicebank is Festvox Kal. I know I’ve heard it somewhere outside of EAS alerts. Maybe from some kind of internet or analog horror video? I can’t remember, but I know the source creeped me the hell out.

If you were one of the people who said stuff like “The alarm is gonna be so loud, other countries will hear it” or “your phone will be shut down and blare a ear peircingly loud sound” and all that stuff, i want to say from the deepest place in my heart, fuck you. i promised i would never swear online again to my dad but seriously you dont understand how much anxiety it has caused me. my dad had to take me to his work because i was so scared to be alone (im fifteen.), i had a shaking and crying filled panic attack because i thought bad things would happen while phones were shut down, all because people decided to spread rumors sourced by: just trust me bro. please know that this stuff has genuine effects on people and you cant just make stuff up and say that these things will happen, dont hype up a literal EAS alert in discord servers by pinging everyone and counting down to it. You all made it seem like the end of the world and all it was was a notifcation that you could mute.