Wednesday, May 20, was declared "Porn Day" by members of 4chan (need I remind you of them?) and eBaum's World. In that vein, users from the sites spent the day uploading porn to YouTube.
Basically, YouTube had to spend most of the day deleting videos. The pranksters even got a little clever and uploaded porn with 20 - 30 seconds of "legit" content at the start, to fool YouTube employees.
Google spokesperson Scott Rubin told Ars Technica:
"It may take some time for video search results and thumbnail images to disappear from the site. Typically, this should not take more than a couple of days, but the videos themselves are no longer viewable."Rubin told C|Net:
"This group of pranksters thought it would be funny to load a bunch of porn to YouTube. This is an unfortunate, and I think poorly directed, prank. I think our systems are doing really well at removing content that violates the guidelines."In case you do need to be reminded about 4chan, they hit Time not too long ago, making sure that someone they wanted won the Time 100 Poll for the World's Most Influential Person. Yep, it was "moot," the founder of 4chan.