YouTube was busy deleting porn videos on Wednesday after users of forums at a rival site and an imageboard site declared a "Porn Day" campaign against the popular video service.
The forums at video site eBaum's World and 4chan organized the mass porn "carpet bombing" on YouTube, according to Ars Technica.
YouTube has been removing the videos as fast as it can, but even videos that are removed are still showing up in search results with explicit images in the thumbnails, the report said.
It could take a couple of days for all the explicit results to be removed from the search results, Google spokesman Scott Rubin told Ars Technica.
In a phone interview with ZDNet Asia's sister site CNET News late on Wednesday, Rubin said that in addition to the porn videos were removed as soon as community members alert YouTube to them, certain channels where the posters were bragging about the campaign and listing the videos were being disabled.
"This group of pranksters thought it would be funny to load a bunch of porn to YouTube," he said. "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."
This article was first published as a blog post on CNET News.
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dear youtube provider
im a victim of a pornograpic video of one of those bad chatter,,he record my video without telling me then he threatened me that he will post that kind of video..please help me not to post any kind of pornograpic video in you tube it affects my whole life and my whole family..plsss help me
Posted by anonymous on Monday, August 03 2009 07:39 PM