Teenage girls and suburban moms desperately clinging to their youths were distraught recently to find Justin Bieber's YouTube channel taken down.
The Bieber channel, run by music video site Vevo, was reported to be violating copyright law by a YouTube user named iL Creation. In addition to Bieber, other copyright claims were leveled against Lady Gaga, Rihanna, and Bruno Mars, causing their channels to go down as well. This very well could have happened to other bands as well, such as 3 Doors Down, but with no one watching their channels, how would anyone even know?
Let's be honest though; who gives a sh*t about those other artists? All anyone was talking about is the fact that that Justin Bieber's videos were unavailable on YouTube.
These copyright infringement claims apparently came from a YouTube user called iL Creation. If he's able to take down the king of teen pop, then he must be a man of incredible influence, right? According to all accounts of his profile, iL Creation is a kid who posts videos of cricket matches. Come on, at least post videos of a good British sport.
To try to get into the mind of this criminal mastermind, I thought I would look at iL Creation's YouTube profile. Unfortunately...
... this fool incurred the wrath of every teenage girl angry about not hearing the word "Baby" an ungodly number of times that day. So what does this say about YouTube's copyright-claim verification process? It sounds like anyone could call up, pretend to be a celebrity, and get a chunk of YouTube taken down.
Now, there are two things 14 year old girls are good at- twittering and watching Justin Bieber videos. Much like Daredevil, when these girls lost one of their abilities, the other grew to near superhuman levels. Bieber fans took to their feeds, demanding Vevo get Bieber back on YouTube by making #WeWantJustinBieberVevoBack a worldwide trending topic. And thankfully, once something is trending on Twitter it must occur, #TheyGotJustinBieberVevoBack!
So now Justin Bieber's YouTube channel is once again functional. But did anyone check the pages of the other artists who had false copyright claims leveled against them?
I'm sure YouTube will get around to the non-Bieber artists eventually. In their defense, it is very hard for them to get any work done now that Justin Bieber's videos are back on YouTube.
Wht did you do on the day that Justin Bieber was not on YouTube? Relay your horror stories in the comments!
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