Oxford RAG has removed a video from its Facebook page, after accidentally posting a link to pornography.
As a fundraising activity to celebrate RAG Week the charity organised a burrito eating contest at ‘Mission Burrito’. Teams of five competed to complete the ‘Mission Burrito’ challenges with all money raised going to charity. In an attempt to promote this event, the RAG posted a YouTube video titled ‘Burrito Song [10 hours]’ on their Facebook page. It was captioned ‘In an attempt to find Burrito related entertainment on the internet, this cropped up… I don’t know how or why it exist, but there you go… You could be singing this next Thursday’. The video is ten hours of the Burrito Song, running on a continuous loop. Unknown to those who had posted it, after the three hour mark, the video becomes graphically pornographic for around ten minutes, as the caption appears ‘YOU’VE FOUND THE HIDDEN PORN!!!’. It has since been removed from RAG’s Facebook page.
Despite the site’s strictly anti-pornography policy, it has stayed on Youtube. It has garnered comments such as ‘FAP FAP FAP 3:19:40’ and ‘the nude girl btw nice tits but a little bit moore [sic]’. Another reads ‘Go to 3:19:40 kids! Coolest picture ever!!’, dubbing it ‘fappable’. Many have registered their appreciation with comments such as ‘Tits at 3:18 lloovvee it [sic]’. Some however were disappointed with the video, questioning ‘why the nipple so flat’. In response to the question of ‘what am I watching? A SHRIMP WITH A BURRITO!!!!!!!!’ the uploader replied ‘NO I ALSO PUT PORN IN IT SEE IF YOU CAN FIND IT LOL’.
It would appear that the RAG’s organising members are not the first people to mistakenly post such a video with one user commenting ‘whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaattttt noooooooooooooooo( : go dam it [sic] now I have to take it down from fb’.
One of the Burrito eating competition’s organisers commented, “Unfortunately, it seems that in my search for a mildly titillating video about burritos, I instead stumbled upon tits. At lunch in college I was plugging the event, when someone in the conversation alerted me to the fact there was porn in the video, a few hours in.
“Obviously I didn’t believe it at first, thinking for a start that no one could possibly have survived that video for a few minutes, let alone a few hours, and that he could not have got so far into it. However, he explained that if you watched the video on YouTube itself rather than Facebook, the comments expressed a bizarre obsession with one small section of the video. So yeah, that was because of the porn.
“When I found out I was pretty shocked but could obviously see the funny side, and to be honest so have those on the RAG committee whom I have told. Apart from that one person who told me about the issue at lunch, there have been no comments so to be perfectly honest, I don’t think anyone else noticed. I suppose that in future I will check videos a bit more rigorously before posting them, but I think my naivety in this case wasn’t so unforgivable; I mean, who knew there was porn on the internet?”
The reaction from the student body has been mixed. One student commented, “That is honestly the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen. I don’t understand what sort of person would have a children’s song on a continuous loop for ten hours then stick some pretty graphic porno in the middle.
“I feel bad for any kid who has watched it through. It’s fucking weird and makes no sense. Quite funny that the Oxford RAG didn’t realise what it was though but I doubt it’s been that big a deal for them.
“I mean who would actually watch the video through for three hours? It got annoying after ten seconds.”
Another mused that “The fact that people would find the porn at the three hours seventeen minutes mark means that they’d sat through three hours of it just to find the porn. And if they were willing to do that then they’d probably sit through for a further three hours to see if there was any more.”
Some students were adamant that this was not a big deal, with one commenting, “I don’t really know what all the fuss is about!”
