ZariusTwo
10-17-2011, 02:21 PM
"One tit, two tit ahahahaha"
This weekend, Sesame Street's YouTube page was hacked with pornographic content, so that five-year-olds, instead of being greeted with Elmo's latest song about the letter Q, were welcomed with that unrecognised classic, First Anal Quest: Angelica. Which presumably has educational qualities, such as how to fit things into other things and the importance of sharing.
But this story got me thinking. No, not about how humanity has now evolved to such a nadir that somebody would try to make small children watch porn, which is not so much 'taking candy from a baby' but 'taking muppets from a baby and shoving some hardcore sex in their face.' Rather, it got me thinking about Sesame Street and sex. Sexame Street.
Some people seem quite keen on sexing up Sesame Street, and by "sexing up" I mean "sexing down."
Earlier this year, there was an extraordinarily silly campaign that Sesame Street should acknowledge the creeping legalisation of gay marriage in the United States by having Bert and Ernie marry. One could wonder whether yelling for a pair of muppets to marry really does much to help any cause, other than the cause of finding easy jokes for late-night talkshow hosts. Or one could sit back and gawp at this shocking video that clearly shows that Bert and Ernie respect Greek traditions.
This campaign reached such a pitch – making an appearance, if memory serves, on the masthead of the Wall Street Journal – that Sesame Street was forced to issue a statement that said, basically, "Hel-LO! They are puppets, people. Would all of you PLEASE get lives and wash your hands?"
Now clearly the loserville hackers weren't trying to make some amazing Freudian reading of Sesame Street by sticking First Anal Quest: Angelica on to its hallowed YouTube page. Rather, they were just trying to share their wanking habits with a new demographic. But there does seem to be something about Sesame Street that makes some people want to porn it down. Much of the appeal of (the very funny) Avenue Q came from watching Sesame Street-style puppets sing about love and sex and, yes, porn, and, predictably, many of those songs have been redubbed onto Sesame Street by people who have too much time on their hands, and possibly stickier things, too.
It's the equivalent of mooning one's grandmother, imposing ridiculous sex and sexual theories on the TV show that taught you about the letter C.
And certainly, there is much food for a dirty mind to think about when it comes to Sesame Street: just what is the relationship between Big Bird and Snuffleupagus? And how big is he exactly? And why is Elmo always naked?
Yet if the hackers were hoping to disrupt anyone's mental state with their wheeze, then they have succeeded. This story has indeed shot my working day to hell, for I have spent it on the internet. Watching Sesame Street.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/hadley-freeman-blog/2011/oct/17/sesame-street-youtube-hacked-porn?newsfeed=true
This weekend, Sesame Street's YouTube page was hacked with pornographic content, so that five-year-olds, instead of being greeted with Elmo's latest song about the letter Q, were welcomed with that unrecognised classic, First Anal Quest: Angelica. Which presumably has educational qualities, such as how to fit things into other things and the importance of sharing.
But this story got me thinking. No, not about how humanity has now evolved to such a nadir that somebody would try to make small children watch porn, which is not so much 'taking candy from a baby' but 'taking muppets from a baby and shoving some hardcore sex in their face.' Rather, it got me thinking about Sesame Street and sex. Sexame Street.
Some people seem quite keen on sexing up Sesame Street, and by "sexing up" I mean "sexing down."
Earlier this year, there was an extraordinarily silly campaign that Sesame Street should acknowledge the creeping legalisation of gay marriage in the United States by having Bert and Ernie marry. One could wonder whether yelling for a pair of muppets to marry really does much to help any cause, other than the cause of finding easy jokes for late-night talkshow hosts. Or one could sit back and gawp at this shocking video that clearly shows that Bert and Ernie respect Greek traditions.
This campaign reached such a pitch – making an appearance, if memory serves, on the masthead of the Wall Street Journal – that Sesame Street was forced to issue a statement that said, basically, "Hel-LO! They are puppets, people. Would all of you PLEASE get lives and wash your hands?"
Now clearly the loserville hackers weren't trying to make some amazing Freudian reading of Sesame Street by sticking First Anal Quest: Angelica on to its hallowed YouTube page. Rather, they were just trying to share their wanking habits with a new demographic. But there does seem to be something about Sesame Street that makes some people want to porn it down. Much of the appeal of (the very funny) Avenue Q came from watching Sesame Street-style puppets sing about love and sex and, yes, porn, and, predictably, many of those songs have been redubbed onto Sesame Street by people who have too much time on their hands, and possibly stickier things, too.
It's the equivalent of mooning one's grandmother, imposing ridiculous sex and sexual theories on the TV show that taught you about the letter C.
And certainly, there is much food for a dirty mind to think about when it comes to Sesame Street: just what is the relationship between Big Bird and Snuffleupagus? And how big is he exactly? And why is Elmo always naked?
Yet if the hackers were hoping to disrupt anyone's mental state with their wheeze, then they have succeeded. This story has indeed shot my working day to hell, for I have spent it on the internet. Watching Sesame Street.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/hadley-freeman-blog/2011/oct/17/sesame-street-youtube-hacked-porn?newsfeed=true