It's been a while, but it's time to continue with my context-giving blogs about the Media Archive (and hopefully finish it, I have some stories I wanna tell y'all). In this post, I'll be going over the 1980's posts. Question though...does anyone even read these anymore? Haven't seen y'all talk about even a single one of 'em in a while. Just let me know what you wanna see.
Anyway, going over the archive posts from the 1980's, we have the 4 TV hijackings, 3 radio hijackings, Ederson's execution, and the Luke Delor picture. I'm gonna just lump all the hijackings into one paragraph. But basically, I didn't see or hear any of these. I already explained why I didn't watch the WCBS much in a previous post. I heard people talking about 'em,but that's it. When the first one came on, people just played it off as some stupid prank. Creepy text on a plain background like that, it was some sort of amateur prank or a joke by the WCBS operators. The second one, people just thought it was just some teen delinquent messing around. Side note, the Lake Denton Kayak Race that the main program was about was a pretty lame one. My favorite team was the Lake Dwellers and it was not a good year for them. Anyway...that third hijacking was the one that really hit people. Seeing Luke and all that. I've talked about the 3rd and 4th hijacking before since they were on Daniel's channel but...that's when some people started taking it more seriously. Some still completely ignored them but some actually did start paying attention. That's where the radio hijackings come in too. Trenson went on there, did a little speech before he got kicked off by the radio operators, then just did it again a few weeks later. This went on for basically a whole year. Convinced a lotta people. Again, I didn't pay attention because of the situation with my shop and Julia and everything else in my life, but I heard it from a lot of the folks I talked to. Any crumb of drama in town was something that everyone heard about it, so I got information over time. It was a bit...harsh in my opinion, sorta scares people off unless they're really extreme. Maybe that's why it failed. Besides that, there was the Ederson execution video too. Same as Daniel's version but with the audio still there. The Tour Guide...what a goddamn mysterious person. And really, what is the reason? It just feels unnecessarily dramatic. Still sad to see Ederson go like that though...he was a good candidate. And then just to end this off real quick, there is that picture of Luke dead on the ground. Well, I say "dead", I guess it was some sort of Host body that was...shed. Those worms are confusing little bastards but at the same time, every animal is if you look deep enough. Learned enough about the game in Walker Creek that it's not too surprising. Seeing Luke always upsets me though. Kid didn't deserve what happened to him and it's just....cruel. Anyway, that's all I got. Sorry if it feels like my heart's not really in this one, but I'm just forcing myself through to finish up this media archive shit and go back to telling stories that y'all will hopefully enjoy, unlike these I guess. Might post the 2000's media archive blog today just to get it over with. - Trevor
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