Untitled AI art by @cautious-seagull5

A powerful, dystopian thumbnail for a video titled “Operation: Dark Signal.” The scene shows a darkened, militarized Los Angeles skyline with helicopters overhead, floodlights cutting through thick smoke, and shadowy lines of peaceful protestors facing down heavily armed soldiers and armored vehicles. Above them in the sky, a glowing circular sigil floats—made of concentric rings of binary code, fractured hourglass shapes, and a vertical eye at the center, like an ancient circuit fused with a watchful sentinel. The sigil radiates faint electric violet light and pulses like a digital heartbeat, symbolizing surveillance, forgotten memory, and resistance. The mood is tense, urgent, and defiant. Use a deep red, black, and violet color palette. Place the bold, glitch-style title “OPERATION: DARK SIGNAL” across the bottom third of the image, distorted like intercepted transmission text.