Holy shit. Will Smith vs Chris Rock.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

131. Yes, you're correct.

At least in the USA.

My TV showed a frozen last image as the video was temporarily cut off along with the audio, but other TV's might've just went dark.

I was watching it from a local ABC broadcaster via an antenna. My initial assumption was that I had a weak signal at that time, since a frozen image without audio is sometimes what I see when that happens. When it lasted awhile, I then assumed there was some technical glitch at the ceremony.

Reports of what actually happened, from other parts of the world, quickly hit the internet thereafter.

Edit: The video feed was back for me by the time Will Smith was yelling toward Chris Rock in anger, but the audio was still out. Based only on Will Smith's expression, I knew that the video/audio had been cut off intentionally and I started looking for online reports.