Update: YouTube reached out to Wheedon via Twitter on Wednesday afternoon, informing him the video has been reinstated citing a “mistake on our end.” We’ve edited the story to reflect this. Maybe YouTube can get around to dealing with those actually problematic anti-vaxx videos next. Of course, Weedon’s video will continue to live on eternally through both the wonders and horrors of the internet, so there’s no chance of the clip disappearing for good. To see someone behind the curtain randomly deem a well-known 14-year-old video of two teens goofing around inappropriate feels extremely, if unfortunately, on brand for the company. YouTube’s content policies have long facilitated the spread of dangerous misinformation and hate speech while simultaneously flagging completely unproblematic videos.
“Can't wait to see it remove all of the racist, homophobic and violent content that a 15 year old clip of me being lamped in the face is worse than, absolutely no question.”
I ended up looking like a pirate or scar from the lion king for one summer because my best friends family demon Chihuahua decided me sitting on the couch one afternoon was too much for him and went after my face. “Extremely excited to be here at the forefront of YouTube cleaning up its act,” he wrote. Idk about being too small to do anything.
We actually can believe YouTube did this - Weedon, who is working with friends on a documentary exploring his life as an internet meme, summed up YouTube’s absurd hypocrisies well during his Twitter thread recounting the original video’s strange saga.
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