4chan, Ebaumsworld Launch Porn Attack Against YouTube
4chan, Ebaumsworld Launch Porn Attack Against YouTube
Posted 05/21/2009 at 12:00pm
| by Paul Lilly
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Jonas Brothers fans and those looking for marblecake recipes on YouTube may get more than they bargained for today. That's because 4chan and eBaum's World have teamed up for "Operation Porn Day," which involves uploading explicit video clips to YouTube using innocuous tags.
Many of the clips have already been removed, but according to Arstechnica, it was able to find others that haven't yet been caught (still reading?). In addition to the false tags, a lot of the clips contain 20 to 30 seconds of seemingly legitimately content, such as a newscast, before getting down and dirty.
"It may take some time for video search results and thumbnail images to disappear from the site," Google spokesperson Scott Rubin said. "Typically, this should not take more than a couple of days, but the videos themselves are no longer viewable."
In other words, you may want to keep your kids and nephews occupied with something other than YouTube for the time being.
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Vegan
May 21, 2009 at 4:17pm
Why don't they use their energy going against something bad or evil, instead of a good thing like Youtube?
Seana7a7
May 22, 2009 at 2:13am
Their pure disney evil they are planning world domination i tell you my brothers cast down the satan spawn.
ozg
May 21, 2009 at 3:46pm
honestly I wouldn't think it's funny if you're exposing pornography to underage kids on youtube... 4chan and ebaumsworld should probably get sued...
ferds7
May 21, 2009 at 1:56pm
The funny part is that those will probably now be the most searched items on Youtube.
Balgaroo
May 21, 2009 at 1:37pm
Well I think this is funny but I really agree with the guy below me. What purpose does this serve, I mean porn is easy enough to come across on the net, why mislabel tags and go through all the trouble? Seems like more of an annoyance than anything.
Ritful
May 21, 2009 at 2:14pm
they did it for one reason and one reason only.
For teh Lulz
This is to be expected from the drainage of the internet.
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