Glory's Sun

BBC NEWS | UK | Pornographic videos flood YouTube

So the people at 4chan (sorry not a fan at all) decide to protest music deletion by uploading porn with a specific demographic in mind? I could see a flood of music videos being uploaded, but not porn videos with titles such as Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers. Even if a parent is monitoring their children's actions on YouTube, it's a bit hard to know that a Jonas Brothers video is suddenly going to turn into a Bukkake fest.

This is just another reason that I will never understand nor associate with the 4chan community.

Jetée

I believe Crack posted a thread here about the topic a few days ago. Here it is: http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/found-n...-may-19th.html

And to add, it wasn't initially 4chan that launched the attack, it was sparked by ebaumsworld, and it translated over to 4chan later.

Furthermore, I want to clarify that I just learned about 4chan a month ago thanks to stumbling upon this, some twisted form of historical archive of how 4chan has shaped internet humor for the past several years. Despite the sophomoric tone and disgusting bigotry found within nearly every article, I still find it quite interesting.

What's more, after reading the article I found there, the whole orchestrated "attack" on youtube had no real merits, but it was just a lobbied query by some anonymous user; it started by him asking what would happen if he uploaded porn to youtube. Someone responded that it would get promptly deleted; then, he put forth the hypothesis of "but what would happen if ALL of us upload p3rn on YouTube non-stop?". Thus began the idea of Operation YouTube, and I think it was as Crack mentioned before, initiated earlier this week on Tuesday.


Regarding the tags of Disney characters you mentioned, this is what the article explains:

__________________
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Lasereth

Call me a bastard, but this is fucking hilarious.

__________________
"A Darwinian attacks his theory, seeking to find flaws. An ID believer defends his theory, seeking to conceal flaws." -Roger Ebert

silent_jay

I as well find this hilarious, gave me a good chuckle with my morning coffee.

__________________
Absence makes the heart grow fonder

ShaniFaye

I dont find it very funny when they used tags that my child would use to look for things

__________________
I want the diabetic plan that comes with rollover carbs. I dont like the unused one expiring at midnite!!

Glory's Sun

This just goes to show how far out of the loop I am when it comes to things like these.

Sure, attacking a major site like youtube could be seen as funny, but for me the fun ends when it's number one not addressing the issue they were upset about and two, the fact that the tags were in some instances clearly aimed at the minor demographic. It could easily be construed as distributing pornography to minors and contributing to the deliquency of a minor.

Sure kids are going to find what they want, but when they are actually looking for shitty Jonas Brothers clips, they shouldn't be subjected to anal poundings and cum shots.

Jozrael

Pretty much /agree with the OP. I don't have the stomach to sit in 4chan.

LoganSnake

4chan is a cesspool. It's about as fun to be there as wading through a field of waist high shit.

__________________
Maturity is knowing you were an idiot in the past. Wisdom is knowing that you'll be an idiot in the future. Common sense is knowing that you should try not to be an idiot now. - J. Jacques

Willravel

They're concerned about youtube censorship, so they do something that will likely mean that youtube will censor more? Is that meant to be ironic or did they just not think this through?

telekinetic

LOL...any source for this?

---------- Post added at 09:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:50 AM ----------

You say 'they' like it's a counsel of elders who follow parliamentary procedure.

"And does the representative from /gif's motion to form a committee devoted to a letter writing campaign of our proper governmental delegates have a second?"

This was not thought out any farther than lol, pr0n on youtube.

I actually do understand the base of the urge. Censoring triggers the 'you think you can stop content you don't want?" reflex in hive minds and libertarians alike...same reason people figured out you can avoid the swear filters on all message boards that have them by typing
edit: shouldn't code block keep my bbcode tags from parsing? O_o

__________________
twisted no more

Jetée

Other than the article I post above, YouTube battling 'Porn Day' campaign | Security - CNET News

__________________
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Cynthetiq

no, you want the [noparse ] tag.

fu[b][/b]cking sh[b][/b]it

and yes, it's funny to me when someone thinks that its' censored and they find a way to show and display censored content.

__________________
I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not.

LordEden

I agree that 4chan is a cesspool of angry, bitter, racist, misogynistic people who post some of the worst comments/images on the internet... but I still go there. If you have ever laughed at a LoLcat, horrible "inspiration" photos (there has been a few threads on TFP with them) or for being "rick rolled"; then you can thank 4chan. I'd say 99% of the stuff on 4chan is horrible, but when you are there for the 1% that is funny, it's epic.

I agree with some of the posters that this was funny as hell, but I don't have a kid so I have no reason to be up in arms about it. I'm sure if I had a tween or teenager kid that saw one of these videos, I'd be pissed off from hell. I don't, so I laugh.

__________________
Vice-President of the CinnamonGirl Fan Club - The Meat of the Zombiesquirrel and CinnamonGirl Sandwich

mrklixx

Lasereth is a bastard.

__________________
This post is content. If you don't like it then you are not content. Or perhaps just incontinent.

This is not a link - Do not click here

I hate animated avatars.

Willravel

Yes, but it's interesting that not one member of the anarchy (heh, "member of the anarchy", that seems paradoxical... whatever) pointed out that they were trying to put out a fire with lots and lots of gasoline.

telekinetic

Wow, you rebutted yourself

---------- Post added at 11:12 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:10 AM ----------

Ebaums world has never done anything interesting ever. They don't even have any original content. Anytime you hear anything clever or mischievous attributed to Ebaums, it's actually 4chan doing it and giving them credit...think of it as meta-trollling. I'm surprised semi-reputable news outlets still fall for it.

If ebaums started this and 4chan picked up on it, then this would be the first time in the history of the internets.

__________________
twisted no more

Jozrael

Actually, there was that guy who tried to burn down his school with a small tank of gasoline.

Punk.of.Ages

Ebaums did it. There is no such thing as /b/.

*************************************

Anyhow, 4chan doesn't really do anything for much purpose. Most of it's just for the lulz, and to prove they rule the internets.

I personally think this is funny, but I also have no children. Even if I had children, though, they wouldn't be allowed on a site like YouTube anyway. They only disallow nudity. It doesn't have to be naked to be too mature for children.

__________________
"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion..." - Henry Steel Commager

"Punk rock music is great music played by really bad, drunk musicians." -Fat Mike

Jozrael

EDIT: Ty Jet.

Jetée

[Hide] Feature [/Hide] is an acceptable alternative.

the Hide tag needs a title to work is all, e.g. [Hide=Proof On Concept] [ /hide]

__________________
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi