YouTubers are hiding softcore porn videos in fake diamond adverts

YouTube users have been hiding softcore porn videos behind fake diamond and luxury car adverts for years, despite the site’s promise to crack down on sexually explicit content.

Videos usually open with budget diamond adverts but then after a few minutes suddenly cut to shaky close-ups of of scantily-clad women stimulating themselves.

There are thousands of videos hidden under variations of the title ‘Best Diamonds in the Sky’, some of which are hours long, the report revealed.

Earlier this month, YouTube was ranked as the worst offenders when it comes to exposing children to adult content such as sex and violence, despite the site’s attempts to improve moderation.

YouTube users have been hiding softcore porn videos behind fake diamond adverts for years, despite the site’s promise to crack down on sexual explicit content (stock image)

According to a report by The Verge, these videos have been posted on multiple accounts, some with thousands of views.

One video, called ‘Diamond in hight school – Best Diamonds in the Sky – 80005’ opened with rudimentary graphics of diamonds before going on to three hours of footage showing a scantily-clad Asian woman.

The clip showed a young-looking woman playing tennis in a short skirt, suggestively washing herself and dressing up in an erotic nurse’s outfit.

The video had been watched more than 10,000 times and was posted under a Standard YouTube Licence with no age restriction.

The video has since been removed from the site following MailOnline’s request for comment. 

’24 people were just trying to learn about life insurance and pick out diamonds’, wrote YouTube user Vincent Arena under the video.

A similar video called ‘Best Diamonds in the Sky – Jewelry of life Life insurance, Diamond of God #21’ started with similar-looking footage of expensive jewellery.

Then at 2.48 minutes in a message poped up saying ‘thanks for watching’. 

It cut to footage of a large boat for a few minutes before showing a series of images and videos of semi-naked women in erotic poses.

The video – which has also now been removed – was watched nearly 4,000 times and showed 1.5 hours of of soft-porn with several different women involved.

Videos usually open with budget diamond adverts but then after a few minutes suddenly cut to shaky close-ups of of scantily-clad women stimulating themselves (stock image) 

Videos usually open with budget diamond adverts but then after a few minutes suddenly cut to shaky close-ups of of scantily-clad women stimulating themselves (stock image) 

WHAT HAS YOUTUBE DONE TO IMPROVE ITS MODERATION?

YouTube announced in December 2017 it would hire 10,000 extra human moderators people to monitor videos amid concerns too much offensive content was making it onto the site.

Susan Wojcicki, the chief executive of the video sharing site, revealed that YouTube enforcement teams had reviewed two million videos for extremist content over the preceding six months – removing 150,000 from the site.

Around 98 per cent of videos that were removed were initially flagged by the ‘computer learning’ algorithms.

Almost half were deleted within two hours of being uploaded, and 70 per cent were taken down within eight hours.

Miss Wojcicki added: ‘Our goal is to stay one step ahead, making it harder for policy-violating content to surface or remain on YouTube.

‘We will use our cutting-edge machine learning more widely to allow us to quickly remove content that violates our guidelines.’ 

Earlier this year, YouTube’s parent company Google has announced that from February 20, channels will need 1,000 subscribers and to have racked up 4,000 hours of watch time over the last 12 months regardless of total views, to qualify.

Previously, channels with 10,000 total views qualified for the YouTube Partner Program which allows creators to collect some income from the adverts placed before their videos. 

This threshold means a creator making a weekly ten-minute video would need 1,000 subscribers and an average of 462 views per video to start receiving ad revenue. 

This is the biggest change to advertising rules on the site since its inception – and is another attempt to prevent the platform being ‘co-opted by bad actors’ after persistent complaints from advertisers over the past twelve months. 

YouTube’s new threshold means a creator making a weekly ten-minute video would need 1,000 subscribers and an average of 462 views per video to start receiving ad revenue.

These videos generally start with luxury cars, diamonds or information about insurance.

Some of the more popular videos have upwards of 150,000 views and have been uploaded by users who are dedicated to creating fake diamond videos.

A YouTube spokesperson told MailOnline; ‘All videos uploaded to YouTube must comply with our Community Guidelines, which prohibit, among other things, nudity or sexual content. 

‘We review flagged videos quickly, and if we find that they do violate the Guidelines, we remove them.

Repeat offenses result in the termination of the YouTube channel. We have a flag underneath every video on YouTube, and we review content that anyone flags to us 24 hours a day.’

Earlier this month, YouTube and Facebook were ranked as the worst offenders when it comes to exposing children to adult content such as sex, violence, bullying, suicide and alcohol and drug related content 

Earlier this month, YouTube and Facebook were ranked as the worst offenders when it comes to exposing children to adult content such as sex, violence, bullying, suicide and alcohol and drug related content 

WHAT IS YOUTUBE’S POLICY ON NUDITY?

YouTube does not allow pornography on the site. 

It says that videos containing fetish content will be removed or age-restricted depending on the severity of the act in question.

Violent, graphic or humiliating fetishes are also not allowed to be shown on YouTube.

However, a ‘video that contains nudity or other sexual content may be allowed if the primary purpose is educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic, and it isn’t gratuitously graphic’, the company guidelines say. 

‘Videos featuring individuals in minimal or revealing clothing may also be age-restricted if they’re intended to be sexually provocative, but don’t show explicit content.’

The site’s community guidelines prohibit users from creating misleading descriptions, tags, titles or thumbnails.

‘YouTube removes videos and may suspend user accounts found to be in violation of those rules’, the spokesperson said. 

All of the videos flagged in the article by the Verge break the company’s nudity policy and have now been removed. 

Earlier this month the NSPCC, the UK’s highest-profile children’s charity, gathered reviews from more than 4,000 parents and young adults to create a league table of tech companies featuring the ‘riskiest sites’ with adult content.

Facebook and YouTube both posed a ‘high risk’ across all categories, with one in four children encountering adult content.

‘Facebook and YouTube still do not provide any meaningful information on the volume of reports relating to children, and the outcomes of such reports,’ said John Carr, secretary of the UK Children’s Charities’ Coalition on Internet Safety.

‘These are woeful examples of the transparency that we can expect if we continue with self-regulation’, he said.

YouTube announced in December 2017 it would hire 10,000 extra human moderators people to monitor videos amid concerns too much offensive content was making it onto the site.

Susan Wojcicki, the chief executive of the video sharing site, revealed that YouTube enforcement teams had reviewed two million videos for extremist content over the preceding six months – removing 150,000 from the site.

Around 98 per cent of videos that were removed were initially flagged by the ‘computer learning’ algorithms.

Almost half were deleted within two hours of being uploaded, and 70 per cent were taken down within eight hours.

 

 



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