A Gawker article informed me about another advertisement informing the American people that if I can get married, we’re all going to die. Oh, lovely.
At the request of a Videogum post (which was quick to note that the acronym for National Organization for Marriage sounds like eating a sammich), I decided to set this ad to “It’s Raining Men”. It works better now.
On a serious note, to respond to the idea that “my kids are going to be taught that gay marriage is okay,” I don’t really see what the problem is with that. Gay marriage is okay. That’s the entire point of legalizing it. But legalizing it doesn’t require teachers to say that it’s okay, even though it is. So fear not, NOM, marriage equality has nothing to do with teaching gay-bashing in school.
Copyright Proven Homophobic as NOM Gathers a DMCA Takedown Storm
Same-sex marriage now violates intellectual property laws too! Who'dve thunk?
Remember that ridiculous anti-gay marriage ad which I made even more ridiculous by replacing the soundtrack with “It’s Raining Men”? Apparently the National Organization for Nomnomnom isn’t too pleased with that sort of behavior. Parody ads left and…well, who am I kidding, they’re all left…have been removed from YouTube because of NOM’s bitching and whining and DMCA takedown notices (Mine hasn’t been touched, probably because the audio confuses the Content ID robots). Included in this crusade against legal and fair use was one for which the creators were recognized as “Homo Heroes” for their brilliance: a group of Reddit readers spliced the word “interracial” in wherever “same-sex” was in the original ad.
NOM has succeeded at infuriating the entire Internet again, but this time it’s personal. If anything spreads faster than a viral YouTube video, it’s a removed YouTube video. Congratulations, National Organization for Marriage, now both gay people and copyright reformers hate you. Now those two groups will converge, and you will face butt pirates.
Sorry, I had to.
UPDATE: YouTube is apparently giving NOM preferential treatment in their own takedown notice predicament with Perez Hilton. It seems highly unlike Google to be supportive of their cause, so I’m gonna chalk this one up to…something else. I don’t know what.