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Thursday, July 25, 2024
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Jennifer Hanson / Creative Studio Media: creativestudiomagic@gmail.com
COMEDIAN’S VIRAL VIDEO REMOVED FROM YOUTUBE, AGAIN,
18 YEARS LATER
Comedian Jessica Delfino’s beloved viral indie music video about the magic of vaginas was removed by YouTube, who claimed the video violated a nudity policy.
In 2006, YouTube, and the internet were a wildly different landscape.
Perhaps that’s partially what fueled the algorithm that picked comedian Jessica Delfino’s original tongue-in-cheek anthem about the magic of vaginas, prominently featuring a word that is a euphemism for “cat,” wink wink, and carried it on its cyber wings to viral infamy, receiving some 50k views in just a few hours–a lot for the dawn of social media.
It might also be what prompted YouTube to quietly remove it from the platform just a day later, upon selling the company to Google for $1.65 billion.
“Overnight, it was an internet sensation,” said Delfino, an accomplished comedian with appearances on ABC’s Good Morning America, BBC, and The Dr. Demento Show.
“And then that magic vagina got shut down,” added the Recording Academy and WGAE Indie Film Caucus member.
The video’s director and animator, using the username FrankDaring, quickly returned the video to the site, replacing the two S’s in the euphemism with two 5’s, where it stayed, for almost 18 glorious years, parked at the same link on YouTube, racking up nearly half a million views from fans around the world who left fawning comments and marveled at its lyrical and visual, well, magic.
Until July, 2024, when YouTube removed it again, citing a violation of policy on nudity and sexual content. “Of course, now that it’s old enough to vote, they shut it down,” Daring quipped.
Maybe it was the animated vaginas, maybe it was the magic sparkles being portrayed as shooting out of Delfino’s (fully clothed) nether regions. Perhaps we will never know.
But the song, which was publicly attacked in a press release by the U.S. Catholic League and William Donohue, still lives online, on YouTube, no less, in audio and a different video form.
As for the video, Daring may have something up his magician’s sleeve, with a “faux 3D version” he has been working on. Stay tuned.
Daily Musings:
Hopefully this video won’t be taken down anytime soon | Don’t Tell Comedy
A hilarious and mean thread about My Pu55y Is Magic | Reddit
Another version of Magic, filmed in Scotland | YouTube (haha!)
Just For Fun | MedicalNewsToday
Yes, of course it’s on your favorite music platforms | Spotify
Tom Brady Roast most important comedy of 2024 | Cracked
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The 5 minute comedy set that landed me in the finals | YouTube
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