Jesus, is nothing sacred anymore?! Are the anti-Occupy Sesame Street people so devious and evil that they’d hack into the beloved, iconic children’s show’s YouTube page and fill it with wank films? Well, okay, this probably had nothing to do with the hilarity that is Occupy Sesame Street and whoever did this is a staggering as$hole.
With that said, in the interest of being completely honest, this made me laugh spontaneously when I first heard about it last night, regardless of what the motivation behind it was. And yes, I am completely ashamed of myself for doing so.
The show page was taken offline Sunday afternoon, and visitors were greeted with a message from the video website informing them it had been shut down “due to repeated or severe violations of our community guidelines.” Users who called up the account earlier had found explicit sex videos instead of Muppets.
Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organization behind Sesame Street, issued an apology Sunday.
“Our channel was compromised and we are presently working with YouTube/Google to restore our original content,” the group said. “We always strive to provide age-appropriate content for our viewers and hope to resolve this problem quickly.”
Who’s behind this is unclear at the moment, but I can’t help but believe that they may have been motivated in part by this photoshop that’s been floating around the web for a while…
Seriously y’all, this is BLASPHEMY!
(Screengrabs that I obscured via the internet’s dark places, which I won’t link to here.)