http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2010/01/youtube_porn_4chan_lukeywes1234.htmlThanks to the members of the online community 4chan -- regarded either as merry pranksters or trolls depending on your perspective -- YouTube woke up this morning to newly uploaded videos that intersperse innocuous footage with images that are most decidedly NSFW.
But 4chan's declaration of YouTube Porn Day isn't a mere prank. It's much more personal than that -- it's revenge. And it's all because of a kid called Lukeywes1234.
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Remember when I mentioned he was eight years old? Well, that's five years below YouTube's minimum age requirement. When you try find the original videos from his channel, you're greeted with a message saying his account was suspended for violating the site's terms of service. From a site management perspective, it was a perfectly logical thing for YouTube to do given his young age, but it was tantamount to throwing the gauntlet at 4chan.
Now 4chan is exacting its revenge. They've encouraged their members to upload videos containing a blend of both innocent and adult footage, with the video set to private, so no one could see it initially. Then once today came around, they would switch the videos to public, leaving Youtube scrambling to remove the videos before unsuspecting users looking for cat videos and whatnot found themselves accidentally watching fetishes that couldn't even be described on NPR without the FCC blowing a gasket.
Do not mess with 4chan. It's one of the biggest unwritten rules of the internet, right up there with "Do not hotlink images from somethingawful.com."
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