4Chan Flooding YouTube with Childrens' Clips Containing Porn

Re:4Chan Flooding YouTube with Childrens' Clips Containing Porn by dtf on Saturday June 13, 2009 @09:07AM (#656103)

This happened nearly a month ago. It's strange how breaking stories go away, then suddenly reappear at the top of the BBC most read list (sometimes months or even years later)... where they get picked up and recycled by social news sites or bloggers, only to cause a second wave of outrage. I wonder what the dynamics of it all are.

Also note that the "I'm 12 years old and what is this?" troll - successfully swallowed up by many of the major news outlets - has now become somewhat of a meme.

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Re:4Chan Flooding YouTube with Childrens' Clips Containing Porn by CGamesPlay on Saturday June 13, 2009 @09:51AM (#656129)

This also happened today, with lots of /b/-style "publicity" and "planning" i.e. it was copypasta'd in every thread.

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Re:4Chan Flooding YouTube with Childrens' Clips Containing Porn by dtf on Saturday June 13, 2009 @10:56AM (#656177)

I'm confused. The BBC link in the title of this thread is to an article dated 21 May 09 (the original attack). Then ComputerGuru posted a link to an "update" (http://bit.ly/l1Lvh), which is dated June 13, and goes on to spout "this time, it's not the Church of Scientology they're attacking, but innocent children. As the BBC reports, members of 4Chan have been uploading videos containing explicit sexual content in droves to YouTube today, specifically targeting children". Yet the source of this post - the linked BBC report - is the still the old one dated 21 May 09. If it also happened today, then it's odd to link to an old news article about a current event (at least without noting that it's old).

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