YouTube Flooded With Porn Clips
The “/b/tards” strike again.The teenaged pranksters of 4chan.org’s /b/ discussion board flooded YouTube with pornographic clips Wednesday and Thursday, according to various reports.
YouTube has strong filters and dedicated employees seeking out and deleting porn from the site, but it wasn’t enough to handle the onslaught of uploading clips. To get around the filters, many of the clips appeared innocuous for the first 20-30 seconds, the tech blog Ars Technica reported, but then cut abruptly to hardcore sex scenes.
A spokesman for Google, which owns YouTube, said most of the porn had been removed by Wednesday afternoon.
“It may take some time for video search results and thumbnail images to disappear from the site,” Scott Rubin told ArsTechnica.
“Typically, this should not take more than a couple of days, but the videos themselves are no longer viewable.”
