[Starburst]

Good job Taylor.

[Eternium]

Taylor Swift is clearly a bitch for wanting a parody where she gets murdered and her face cut off removed from Youtube.

[BTrisc]

I kind of like the parody, but this is definitely not the kind of thing that any major YouTuber could get away with.

That skull bashing alone.

[Jezang Looz]

It WAS too violent, just for the sake of 'humor'. It wasn't even good, just literally skull bashing and killing.

He deserved to have it removed.

[revel8]

Originally posted by Sazare

The video is hardly any of those things, though. Its violent/gory content is intended to be funny (even if it's not); it's not supposed to be "sensational or disrespectful." I mean, it's possible it could fall under the "shocking" umbrella, but if that's the case I have to wonder if videos like Please Don't Leave Me would also violate YouTube's guidelines. It's nearly as violent, even if it's not as graphic.

The video does not depict any actual stalking or threats, which is what that next rule is intended to counter--Shane's video is fictional. And it most certainly does not "incite others to commit violent acts."

You are only pretending to defend the video because you always hate on Taylor. If it was about anyone else, you wouldn't defend a vid depicting stalking someone, murdering their security and then murdering them. The vid also shows bodies being mutilated. Not sure how that doesn't transgress the youtube guidelines.

youtube is not supposed to be used for people to satisfy their snuff video fetishes.

If he made that video but instead had Obama the target instead of Taylor, you can bet the Secret Service would have knocked on his door as they would have interpreted the video as a death threat. Taylor has security guards for a reason. There are people out there who are sick psychopaths wanting to murder celebs. That is a real situation. Depicting that so graphically is only going to encourage these nutters that such behaviour is acceptable.

Shane Dawson should quit whining about celebs when he makes a living from their creativity and popularity.

[Ichinaru19]

There are other Black Space parodies and they are all online and not taken down

[Tristan]

Originally posted by tell_me_a_lie

i hope they wont delete bart baker's parodies as well

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[NE.]

People still watch Shane Dawson? I got tired of his tired racist, crude, and violent jokes like 5 years ago.

[theworldfamous]

I understand he has his right to freedom of expression, but if what they're saying about the parody video is true (making fun of suicide, violent, etc.) then Sony was right to ask to take it down.

Slightly off topic: Shane Dawson gets progressively more flamboyant with every video. Did he come out yet?

[Rhythm]

The clip features a man murdering his gf, stalking taylor, meeting her, murdering her security, and finally killing her and sowing her face on.

Forget Taylor. I'm sure this violates YouTube's terms, conditions, and online etiquette SOMEHOW.

[Samuel]

That parody is disturbing.

[Sazare]

Originally posted by revel8

You are only pretending to defend the video because you always hate on Taylor. If it was about anyone else, you wouldn't defend a vid depicting stalking someone, murdering their security and then murdering them. The vid also shows bodies being mutilated. Not sure how that doesn't transgress the youtube guidelines.

youtube is not supposed to be used for people to satisfy their snuff video fetishes.

If he made that video but instead had Obama the target instead of Taylor, you can bet the Secret Service would have knocked on his door as they would have interpreted the video as a death threat. Taylor has security guards for a reason. There are people out there who are sick psychopaths wanting to murder celebs. That is a real situation. Depicting that so graphically is only going to encourage these nutters that such behaviour is acceptable.

Shane Dawson should quit whining about celebs when he makes a living from their creativity and popularity.

This is not a real situation. He was neither promoting violence nor endorsing the bodily harm of Taylor Swift; his character is supposed to be seen as deranged and unstable. The video was of course tacky and gross but none of it really obviously falls outside of the guidelines, at least no more than plenty of other unfunny videos that remain on the site. A video depicting the same thing happening to Obama would be deleted as well, but that's because the Secret Service operates on a hair trigger, not because they're actually justified in most of their actions. At the very worst the video should've been flagged for adult viewing only.

Literally nothing I said before was either wrong or an endorsement of Shane's video or of any of the activities that are depicted in it. Please stop making baseless assumptions about me and attacking me just because I don't like your favorite singer. Thanks.

[mushdoom]

All I'm going to say is.... this video was EXTREMELY disturbing ! I see why he was asked to take it down OMG!

[Life Savers]

Wasn't Bark Baker's Royals parody taken off and then reuploaded?

[beherebynow]

She's not even under Sony

It was a good move for removing that sick parody

[GlitterBitch]

Originally posted by KatyLegendperry

He has done parodies of other Taylor songs before and those videos are still up so he clearly went too far with the Blank Space one. Its not "freedom of speech" when you're trying to make suicide funny. Its just trash

And mess at him saying that its not copyrighted because its a parody. The instrumental that you used is copyrighted. And an even bigger mess at him talking about Sony when both of Taylor's record labels (Republic & Big Machine) are subsidiaries of Universal. This is either a publicity stunt or he's just stupid

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[MusicLoverDude]

I think Taylor had the right to take it down. That was basically a death threat.

[KillerChinchilla]

The fact that he is still relevant on Youtube.......

[Adonis]

They did the right thing by removing this video. It's too violent and probably violates the TOS.

[Pastoral]

Originally posted by revel8

You are only pretending to defend the video because you always hate on Taylor. If it was about anyone else, you wouldn't defend a vid depicting stalking someone, murdering their security and then murdering them. The vid also shows bodies being mutilated. Not sure how that doesn't transgress the youtube guidelines.

youtube is not supposed to be used for people to satisfy their snuff video fetishes.

If he made that video but instead had Obama the target instead of Taylor, you can bet the Secret Service would have knocked on his door as they would have interpreted the video as a death threat. Taylor has security guards for a reason. There are people out there who are sick psychopaths wanting to murder celebs. That is a real situation. Depicting that so graphically is only going to encourage these nutters that such behaviour is acceptable.

Shane Dawson should quit whining about celebs when he makes a living from their creativity and popularity.

I find your post pretty ironic. If he didn't do a parody of Taylor's song but someone else's, I doubt any Taylor fans care. I also find Taylor fans quite paranoid by taking the parody too seriously. Seems that people just like to jump on bandwagons to hate people nowadays.