YouTube has plenty of graphic videos of topless women that they are fully aware are hosted on their site.
When did the internet get so prudish? Well, it hasn't really. Even the NYPD officers who appear in the video couldn't find anything wrong with what this woman and the photographer were doing (once they were out on the street, where women are allowed to go topless in NYC). For uploading videos, we simply used other YouTube accounts, or other platforms like Vimeo and Brightcove.Īccording to YouTube's Community Guidelines on "Sex and Nudity," nudity "is not allowed, particularly if it is in a sexual context." However, exceptions are made for "educational, documentary, scientific, and artistic content, but only if that is the sole purpose of the video and it is not gratuitously graphic."Īxing the 2010 video was understandable-it's essentially graphic amateur porn, even if we were posting it as part of our ongoing editorial commentary on subway etiquette.īut this week's topless woman video was decidedly tasteful, and done as part of a photography project. The suspension lasted a few months, and was mostly just annoying because you cannot get embed codes when your account is suspended.
The others (two for the same video, described below) came in February of this year. Our account was previously suspended after receiving three strikes from YouTube-the 1st came in 2010, when we uploaded a video of a man going down on a woman on the 5 train. Please be aware that you are prohibited from accessing, possessing or creating any other YouTube accounts." There was no way to reply to the robot that sent this notice, nor was there any warning. However, the full, NSFW version is still up on a VEVO account.This week, we posted a video of a woman going topless at a rooftop bar for a photography art project, and in less than 24 hours we received an email from YouTube stating: "Your account has now been terminated. UPDATE: As expected, YouTube has removed the original upload of the video. It’s really only a matter of time before YouTube drops in and cuts this booby brigade offline, but until then… Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” ladies and gentlemen. (His VEVO channel offers a second iteration, one that’s running pre-video ads and contains considerably fewer boobs.) Robin Thicke is not at all a no-name artist, and this video currently streams from his main YouTube channel, which has more than 3.3 million views so far. There’s also this image, which comes at the 3:14 mark and forever can’t be unseen. In addition to Pharrell and the six other wayward boobs, the video also features a banjo the rapper TI a typically suave Thicke, who at times will appear eating an ice cream cone a hilariously grandiose syringe one of those big foam #1 hands and an extra-tall stationary bicycle. Posted to YouTube yesterday, the song has more than 17,000 views and has somehow managed to remain online despite its incessant disregard of YouTube’s anti-nudity Community Guidelines. Those are all the seconds within the first 20 seconds of Robin Thicke’s new music video “Blurred Lines” in which there’s very obvious nudity going on among Pharrell (just kidding) and a few attractive women, one of which appears very comfortable holding a goat.