4chan at it again

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Pornographic videos flood YouTube
By Siobhan Courtney
Interactive reporter, BBC News



Video-sharing website YouTube has removed hundreds of pornographic videos which were uploaded in what is believed to be a planned attack.

The material was uploaded under names of famous teenage celebrities such as Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers.

Many started with footage of children's videos before groups of adults performing graphic sex acts appeared on screen.

YouTube owner Google said it was aware and addressing the problem.

Disturbing videos

The BBC was made aware that scores of sexually explicit and inappropriate material was uploaded.

In one video titled Jonas Brother Live On Stage, a user posted a comment saying: "I'm 12 years old and what is this?"

This kind of raid showed how easy it is to upload porn to a website that millions of people browse on a daily basis
"Flonty"

Under other uploaded videos, online users posted comments such as: "Take the tags off, you'll get us caught." Another said: "Your gonna kill us all!"

As the disturbing videos were being uploaded, many viewers added them to their favourites and rated them highly.

The BBC's interactive reporter Siobhan Courtney contacted Flonty, one user believed to have uploaded some of the pornographic material videos.

His profile states that he is 21 and from Germany.

He said: "I did it because YouTube keeps deleting music. It was part of a 4Chan raid."

4Chan is an organised group that describes itself on its website as the "home of the sickest, strangest, and most horrifying stuff on the internet".

"Anything and everything can, and usually does, happen here. We have our very own unique culture, and there is no group quite like us anywhere out there," it says.

Community guidelines

When asked if he was concerned that children can freely watch such inappropriate material on YouTube, Flonty replied: "Children will find inappropriate material around the internet anyway.

"This kind of raid showed how easy it is to upload porn to a website that millions of people browse on a daily basis".

Google spokesman Scott Rubin told BBC News: "We are aware of the slew of pornographic videos that were uploaded.

"We are addressing them as we would any video that violates our community guidelines.

"In addition, any account we discover that has been set up specifically to attack YouTube will be disabled."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8061979.stm


I'm torn betweeen amusement and awe at how 4 chan work, they surely have randomness on their side.
 
lol 4chan, they are pretty awesome with their pranks. Didn't they change some baseball team's opening tune to rickroll - against the wishes of all of their fans?
 
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And so a new meme is born...

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Hmmm, I had to ask the same question about who/what 4chan was. It just seems to be a simple message board with pictures. Unless I've got the wrong site.
 
J.B said:
It is amazing what they can pull off.

Sheer size of bored nerds is a force to be recking with.
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Which is kinda worrying when they decide to do something like this, it's starts off as harmless fun such as fixing the outcome of internet polls, progressing to porn spam like in this case and onto who knows what in the future.
 
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