Don't be surprised if you find some porn among the sport highlights, children's cartoons or music videos you are looking for on YouTube today. A web forum, the notorious 4chan, has declared today YouTube Porn Day.

To take vengeance for the apparent removal of the popular YouTube account of Lukeywes1234, 4chan called on its members to upload hidden porn onto the site.

But who is Lukeywes1234?

It was the username of an eight-year-old Nintendo fanboy who scored viral success with his hilarious videos. His "shows" featured childish ideas like ghost-fighting with tinfoil on his head directed by his grandmother, and performing his own versions of Super Mario Bros and Star Wars.

The videos attracted attention due to his very direct, sometimes vulgar, language. Members of the 4chan forum found the hilarious videos and gave them a broader audience on their message board, referred to as "/b/".

In the original and now deleted video Lukeywes1234 begged for 50 subscribers by February. Within a few hours, several thousand were following him, and praising him and declaring him"awesome". Lots of fan material is still online, as teenagers obviously sympathised with Lukeywes1234. Now his fans are raging against YouTube for deleting his videos, as you can see here and here and here.

Last May, 4chan started a similar campaign after YouTube deleted a lot of illegal music.

YouTube said that it is not able to comment on individual users, but it is likely that despite his 15,000 subscribers, Lukeywes1234 was suspended because he did not meet YouTube's age requirement of being 13 and over.

Meanwhile, YouTube doesn't sound too worried about 4chan's threat. In a statement it said: "We have heard rumors that a group of individuals plan to upload sexually explicit content to YouTube in a coordinated attack. As always, we are monitoring the site and will continue to remove inappropriate content as we become aware of it."

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It sounds like Lukeywes1234's internet fame will soon be over. Still, there are a couple of questions.

Is it OK if underage children speak up freely and upload slightly embarrassing footage of themselves? Is posting funny videos and replying to them the way teenagers that teenagers relate to each other today? So are they destroying their future or has Lukeywes1234 launched himself into a great media career?

What do you think?

