Well, I don’t really know what to make of this, but couldn’t ignore it either. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t end well. For whom, I’m not sure.
4Chan is launching a cyber protest against the online video behemoth, YouTube, for cancelling a user’s account.
The bulletin board site is inviting people to open anonymous accounts and upload porn with a mix of “safe” images included, especially the thumbnail.
For those of you not in the know, 4Chan is particularly good at starting a meme, so there’s a good chance that this will, at least, get some attention. They contributed heavily to the user’s 15,000+ followers, which raised the eyebrows of YouTube execs to begin this saga.
But the odds of it being a successful protest are slim, at least from an outsider’s perspective. 4Chan is encouraging people to set these accounts to “private” so no actual harm is done. Internally, however, there will be a lot of video screening and accounts being cancelled tomorrow.
Either way, we’ll be watching to see what happens.
Here’s the invite:
Corey,
The reason 4Chan is having ppl upload as private is because videos that go into private channels are not screened. The call to action tells people to upload to private channels then you can switch them to public, flooding the site with porn before they have a chance to take all the accounts down.
@ my lost comment: at a moments notice the /b/rothers of 4Chan will take all the private channels public, flooding the site with porn. That’s the idea behind this.
This is from /b:
“/B/rothers!! this is a Call to arms. Our King is being Censored by the dreaded Youtubians. I have a Plan sure to make them Dread the day they Messed with our KING.
1. Post in this thread, then using the last 4 digits of your post, create an account named lukeywes__ (last 4 digits of post goes at end.)
2. Throw lots of porn videos with luring titles, e.i Miley Cirus blah blah blah Need 50 subbers, we’ll need some popular tags. Make sure to make the video private so youtube doesn’t check it.
3. We all put as many videos as we can on our account, and at 9pm GMT we make them all public, kinda a youtube pornday, but in lukeywes1234’s memory.
Por should be available for 18+ users of youtube trough chanenel search with some kind of filter trying to stop it is not the solution
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