Hackers Attack YouTube

[Zhukov]

Shaking the foundations of the internet by sabotaging Beiber videos?

...

One can't help but laugh at these people.

 

[MercenaryCanary]

Hooray! /B/ is still capable of destruction!

 

[HK_01]

[sarcasm]Well done on "shaking the foundations of the internet"[/sarcasm]

Seriously, that isn't shaking the foundations of the internet, that's messing with one site for a very short time.

 

[deth2munkies]

Well, at least they changed it to something better. I'd rather sit through 2:30 of meatspin than any of that god damn alien girl's songs.

 

[Abedeus]

A prank is fine but really 'shock pornography'?? What the hell...its obvious thats its mostly young girls watching his videos and thats just wrong.

Dammit 4chan!!

That's what they get for liking Twilight or Justin Bieber.


Oh, and very nice of the article to assume everyone on the Escapist cares about an American holiday.

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

HA! thats awesome! That is the best thing eBaums have ever done. I still hate the theiving little pricks though. If it was 4chan. good on them.

 

[RMcD94]

Some people have very strange ideas about "fun". Rather than spend the Fourth of July weekend with friends, fireworks and possibly some tasty beverages

Really? Really? Really?

What a great way to start an article, insulting people.

It was just a joke. Lighten up.

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

So in other words Youtube became cool for an hour or so?

Young, and clearly stupid easily influenced, girls getting Shock Pornogrphy is your idea of cool?.. I'm sure the police would like to made aware of this fact.

I'm sure they'd also like my recipe for spaghetti bolognese. What's your point, snackcake?

My point is that they're not doing it to make a cool statement, they're doing it because they want to show young girls dicks and this is their excuse. It's like trying to act like a rapist is a rapist for some reason other than they are, in fact, a rapist.

wait, what?

Did anyone make sense of that?

I believe the first part is something along the lines of: "They just wanted to show people shock porn, and Justin Beiber was a convenient excuse to do so" but the bolded statement makes no sense to me, I get what it says, but I don't see how it applies to the discussion.

Anyway, 4chan aren't exactly known for making excuses or trying to preserve forum PR, if they wanted to just show shock porn, they would have hit EVERY video with it, not just the Beiber ones.

I do believe thwe bolded part is saying "It's like a rapist trying to say they raoe people due to their puppy dying at a young age, rather than simply admit they are rapists"

 

[The Austin]

Next time, they need to do something like, I don't know, put up a fake PSA announcing that Russia is invading the USA..... Or something.

In fact, that would have been better for me, because I live around Boston. Did you hear about the Russian spies discovered in Cambridge recently? Truly the most surreal thing I've ever lived to hear about.

Yeah, I heard about that.
It's really strange to me though, I thought the USA and Russia were on "good" terms now.

I live in Florida, so as of right now, the news is more focused on the oil spill, but every once in a while we get a few updates on the spy thing.

 

[Rakkana]

Hackers. Nerd rebels.

We salute you!

 

[Danpascooch]

It wasn't a 4chan raid, would everyone stop saying that? They get too much bad press around here from people who've never even been there.

This was the work of eBaum's world.

Dude its the internet, no matter how much we say it was eBaum's world no one will believe...

Who cares? This isn't going to lower anyone's opinion of 4chan, either they like the site and won't believe or think it's funny, or they believe the site is just a festering pit of unbelievably disgusting fetish based porn and already despise it enough that this won't really make any difference

Eh, true enough I guess.

"4chan, able to troll by just not doing a damn thing."

More like: "4Chan, years of trolling forums by posting the most depraved porn ever conceived has PR consequences"

 

[Irridium]

Some people have very strange ideas about "fun". Rather than spend the Fourth of July weekend with friends, fireworks and possibly some tasty beverages

Really? Really? Really?

What a great way to start an article, insulting people.

It was just a joke. Lighten up.

There, thats better.

Wait, is that the sun? IT BURNS!

 

[Tharwen]

I'm sorry, is there a medical term for what's wrong with 4Chan?

Yes. Dickwaddery. It's a recognised condition and usually needs to be treated within hours to avoid serious side-effects. It seems some people didn't make it to the hospital in time and have been prescribed regular doses of Internet to help relieve the pain.

[sub]I think I just took that joke too far...[/sub]

 

[Danpascooch]

So in other words Youtube became cool for an hour or so?

Young, and clearly stupid easily influenced, girls getting Shock Pornogrphy is your idea of cool?.. I'm sure the police would like to made aware of this fact.

I'm sure they'd also like my recipe for spaghetti bolognese. What's your point, snackcake?

My point is that they're not doing it to make a cool statement, they're doing it because they want to show young girls dicks and this is their excuse. It's like trying to act like a rapist is a rapist for some reason other than they are, in fact, a rapist.

wait, what?

Did anyone make sense of that?

I believe the first part is something along the lines of: "They just wanted to show people shock porn, and Justin Beiber was a convenient excuse to do so" but the bolded statement makes no sense to me, I get what it says, but I don't see how it applies to the discussion.

Anyway, 4chan aren't exactly known for making excuses or trying to preserve forum PR, if they wanted to just show shock porn, they would have hit EVERY video with it, not just the Beiber ones.

I do believe thwe bolded part is saying "It's like a rapist trying to say they raoe people due to their puppy dying at a young age, rather than simply admit they are rapists"

Oh thank you, I see the problem now, he should have said it's like a RAPIST trying to act....blah blah blah

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

lol... "hackers"... :')

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

So in other words Youtube became cool for an hour or so?

Young, and clearly stupid easily influenced, girls getting Shock Pornogrphy is your idea of cool?.. I'm sure the police would like to made aware of this fact.

I'm sure they'd also like my recipe for spaghetti bolognese. What's your point, snackcake?

My point is that they're not doing it to make a cool statement, they're doing it because they want to show young girls dicks and this is their excuse. It's like trying to act like a rapist is a rapist for some reason other than they are, in fact, a rapist.

wait, what?

Did anyone make sense of that?

I believe the first part is something along the lines of: "They just wanted to show people shock porn, and Justin Beiber was a convenient excuse to do so" but the bolded statement makes no sense to me, I get what it says, but I don't see how it applies to the discussion.

Anyway, 4chan aren't exactly known for making excuses or trying to preserve forum PR, if they wanted to just show shock porn, they would have hit EVERY video with it, not just the Beiber ones.

I do believe thwe bolded part is saying "It's like a rapist trying to say they raoe people due to their puppy dying at a young age, rather than simply admit they are rapists"

Oh thank you, I see the problem now, he should have said it's like a RAPIST trying to act....blah blah blah

Very much indeed. I don't know where you come from, but here, there is only one way to act like a rappist... and well... It's not recommended

 

[Nitpicker of the Wastes]

It really didn't seem all that bad at first. Oooh, scrolling comments. Really scary. I'm glad that they sorted it out, though. I needed to see the inFamous 2 stuff from E3.

It wasn't a 4chan raid, would everyone stop saying that? They get too much bad press around here from people who've never even been there.

This was the work of eBaum's world.

Just suck it up and admit that your site sucks. It's OK. We won't judge you too harshly.

I think insulting someone just because they don't enjoy being insulted isn't a very nice thing to post.

 

[johnman]

While I wouldn't call youtube as the foundation of the internet, this is still pretty dam funny

 

[Danpascooch]

That obviously means ebaum's world was behind the attacks.

To clarify, Whenever ebaums or 4chan "raid" something, they always act like they're from the other. If people were claiming 4chan was responsible, it was ebaums, if people are claiming ebaums, it was 4chan.

Why is that? To throw off law enforcement?

 

[fgdfgdgd]

"still shake the foundation of the internet."

Uh-huh. Does your life lack such meaning that you need to shake up something that exists as 1s and 0s?
I've never been able to grasp the reason why people do this, it just seems juvenile and ridiculously stupid.

like graffiti, fast cars, explosions, rediculous action movies and other things that kept The Govenator employed through the 90's ?

OP: i see it as 4chan just reminding us that the internet isn't as safe as some people like; kind of a service really, making us keep a certain fear and respect for every link we click and every time they aren't something horrible.