YouTube Strikes Again
April 17th, 2007
It certainly took a while, but YouTube has finally gotten around to removing Spiff’s First of May video for being too dirty. As they say in their email to him, it was “…flagged by members of the YouTube community and reviewed by YouTube staff…”
Narcs!
Wow, what a bunch of pansies. Youtube is sucking more and more each day.
They couldn’t have waited just two more weeks?
is it hosted on google videos? I know they are technically the same company.
I’ll host it on my podcast site….libsyn have no moral standards
Haha,agreed Glenn…just two more weeks! There were so many people i wanted to show that video to >_
My first six videos are still hosted on FilePlanet (http://www.fileplanet.com/filelist.aspx?s=106171&v=0), so you can still get it there. I’ve heard that this doesn’t work when viewed with a Mac (stupid FilePlanet), so be forewarned.
When I first got the email, I tried to work myself up to be mad, but really, it was inevitable, and there’s no fighting it — it is in fact inappropriate (deliciously so).
Kerrin, if you want to host the videos, I say go for it. I had been trying to keep all the videos on YouTube because that way I could keep a running tally of the total number of views for each (Re: Your Brains = 290,430, Code Monkey = 327,102. Thanks for asking), but I’m not sure how much I care anymore. Anyone in the world who wants the videos, you can have them!
In the meantime, I just posted up First Of May on my server: http://www.spiffworld.com/videos/first_of_may.mp4. Feel free to grab it and show it to whoever you like.
Inappropriate? Dirty? I don’t get it. Was it the part that COMMENT REDACTED
Hey! That’s not fair. All I was doing was pointing out the part of the video where the COMMENT REDACTED
lol
waaaaaaaaaaaah!!! just when i discovered it… i was gonna show it to some friends but its gooooooooone!!! damn those narcs… i hate when people report/flag stuff… grrrrrrrrr…
and i tryed getting it from your server, but the link isnt working for me…
EvilEastJoe… look at it man, ya can’t have a trailing dot. just remove it or use this one: http://www.spiffworld.com/videos/first_of_may.mp4
thanks Phu… i got it… weeeeeeeeeee!!!
Hey, looks like my earlier paranoia has finally paid off. I just remembered that back when I was first posting First Of May to YouTube, I was worried I’d be banned or something, so I made a Google Video account too. I just checked, and First Of May is still available there. Go figure.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8456995878011926927&hl=en
Oh my god…
…Wow, Spiff. Just… wow. When you break the YouTube user agreement, you definitely go for the gusto.
The scariest part of the video is the dancing and copulating naked gnomes.
Although the Jonathan Coulton cameo certainly deserves mention, just for the fact that you were daring enough to put him into the video… but not as the narrating character. (yay?)
Youtube has gotten so lame. First they remove the YuGiOh Abridged series (a funny ass parody off of yugioh I hate yugioh but love the parody) Now the video for “First of May!?!?” It was even labeled as “mature content.” There are things floating around the net that should be taken down. That video was not one of them.
I don’t get how YouTube works. They took the video down a couple of days ago, buy my “total views” number for the video is still going up. In fact it spiked to 1000 new views for yesterday, almost as if people heard that it had been taken down and so went to view it, except that it’s supposed to have been taken down… My head hurts now.
Yeah, I’ll bet the YouTube staff “reviewed” the video. I’ll bet they are STILL reviewing it. *wink wink* Anyway, the part that cracked me up most was the little guy chasing the sheep everywhere.