Westworld site warns of disaster as ominous hacked message promotes season two
HBO TV series Westworld is a boundary-pushing show that deals with the moral implications of humans treating sentient androids as disposable units. This conflict is now being reflected by the show's website in a neat bit of digital marketing that has captured the imaginations of fans.
Westworld alert
The Discover Westworld site is alluding to some unrest in Westworld with a mysterious staged hack requesting help from the outside world; in it, an unknown user asks:
“Is anybody out there? Something's gone wrong. We need help, can you hear the… [sic]”
This animated, chat log video is then interrupted by the messaging: “All is well. Celebrations continue..” hinting that not all is right at the park.
The digital trickery, first spotted by i09, has always sparked conspiracy theorists and fans of the series to pour over every frame of the GIF on Reddit to detect what to expect from season two after a far from subtle cliffhanger ending.
Check out the site here. Unfortunately the alert message will not play ball with UK users who are redirected to the Sky homepage.
The show is set to land in 2018.
It comes as the broadcaster adopts all sorts of digital initiatives to promote its shows. Most recently it ran out a knowledgeable Game of Thrones chatbot that The Drum had a brief interview with.