'Eric Cartman For President' Restored by Viacom

Mar 1, 2020

Well, jeez, I never expected to post anything new here again, but this is a special case. Old watchers of mine (if any are still around) might recall in January 2017, I posted a 30-second video to YouTube called "Eric Cartman for President" as, what turned out to be, one of my last submissions, as seen here: As can be read in my two previous journal entries from back in 2017 linked below, Viacom copyright-claimed my video for looking too much like the actual South Park, despite the fact that I did all the drawings and animation myself and used no copyrighted audio in the video, and blocked it worldwide. No mention as to why other parodies at the time weren't similarly targeted, but whatever. So, long story short, I logged into the old YouTube account today, checked the video, and realized it was no longer blocked. I then checked the analytics and found that, after receiving no views for over two years, it randomly started to again in October 2019. I have no idea what happened