It’s Not Offensive When We™ Do It

I don’t think it’s any secret that I keep a watchful eye on the “movers and shakers” of YouTube, as well as keep track of news relating to the website itself. What can I say, I’m a guy that likes to be In The Know.

So I know of course that YouTube has been having trouble selling ads against their videos. Less than 3% if the stories are correct. So I can understand why they would call up one of their Partners (read: douchebags) like SXEPhil, and make him remove a video because it’s too offensive.

I can dig that; YouTube’s got money to make and they need to make some gains in the Advertiser Confidence Department. The website needs their stars to keep it PG-13 or it hurts everyone in the long run.

What doesn’t make sense to me though is is when they do an about-face when it comes to a Big Name Star like Seth MacFarlane. The Calvacade of Comedy is supposed to serve both as original content for the website, as well as something to sell advertising against; essentially a polished version of a YouTube celebrity/Partner, or the “Platinum Partner” as it’s rumored to be called in YouTube HQ.

Now someone like DeFranco says a lot of stupid, semi-offensive bullshit in a failed attempt to seem edgy, but I fail to recall anything he’s done that would scare advertisers away in comparison to MacFarlane featuring a couple with 5-foot long nipples talking to a boy that sneezes out a football-sized lump of shit.

Am I missing something here?

~TS

~ by TheeStranger on September 24, 2008.