YouTube as a means of crime?

BOSSPLAIN_PRESS
Aug 26, 2017 · 3 min read

<BOSSPLAIN TF Team> The team consists of eleven Youtubers, fifteen translators, six legal advisors, seven copywriters, thirteen designers, and nine promotional team member

As the first step of our journey, we have released a trailer video to declare the beginning of the action. The second video will be released on August 19, and the public protest will be held on August 20.

We will continue our work through filing civil complaints and lawsuits, submitting news reports to local and international news media, protesting, and so on.

We are always waiting for your contact. bossplainteam@gmail.com

You MANaged to survive, let us WOMAN live- trailer / Eng , Chi, Jap, Rus, Ger sub
You MANaged to survive, let us WOMAN live/ Eng , Ger sub

Circumstances

a. God Gun-bae

YouTube streamer went viral for mimicking Korean male Overwatch users’ misogynic actions and comments, simply replacing the words ‘women’ to ‘men’, well known as a term ‘mirroring’ in Korea.

b. Male YouTubers who harassed God Gun-bae

Publicly threatened ‘God Gun-bae’ in their videos, constantly attacking her with some serious verbal abuse.

(Name of involved Male Youtubers are: Poo-war, Kim Yoon-tae (channel terminated), Lee Byoung-wook YouTube, Shin Tae-il YouTube)

c. Threats of privacy invasion, life threats made by the male YouTubers and the said videos

Claiming that a woman they found was ‘God Gun-bae’ (who actually was an innocent person that had nothing to do with her), they exposed her personal information (phone number, name, age, home address) in a video that had around 4,000 to 10,000 viewers at that time.

<Reference from [Shin Tae-il Youtube]>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NB0xLmKsnc

1:28 “You see these tools? I’m going to fucking stab these inside your pussy you bitch, and seal the labia. I’m going to seal that fucking pussy of yours and spin it. Do you know what that will be? A fucking washing machine cunt.”

“Your pussy will be torn down and organs all ripped off,”

<Recorded Live Stream from August 10, [Kim Yoon-tae]>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blIaesijM24

0:30 “I will go to your place, find you and fucking stomp you to death today.”

1:27 “If she spits her words out like a bitch, if she speaks like a motherfucker, then I’m just gonna punch her fucking nose and go to jail, that’s it.”

5:35 “Run away from me just in case. Because, I mean, if we face each other for real, you might really die. Why are you doing this? You could die for real.”

1:40 “Are you watching this? I’ve received three addresses: Bucheon, Seongdong-gu, and so on.”

<Recorded Live Stream from August 10, [Lee Byung-wook]>

https://youtu.be/-ICygo9IIzI

0:33 “If that photo is really you? Then you’re going to fucking die, for real.”

1:42 “Now see what I’ll do, bitch.”

3:42 “My goal is to catch that fucking bitch today,”

4:02 “Whenever you(viewers) give me the addresses, I’ll find there”

Not a single male YouTuber have found this situation problematic nor felt guilty during the entire process. Moreover, < Lee Byoung-wook Youtube> and < Kim Yoon-tae> decided to go step further and literally drove to leaked addresses to hunt down their “target” — ‘God Gun bae’. One of them was caught in action and investigated on-site by the police on standby, after receiving multiple reports from the viewers. However, he was only fined about $50 for ‘creating public anxiety’ and was released soon without any further custody.

Such incident, male Youtubers’ attempt to physically harm a female Youtuber, and the response from police department show how much oppression and harassment were given to women in Korea.

Youtube has still not imposed any kind of restrictions against the violent contents even when it contains severe death threats. Even after one of the videos provided the decisive motivation for the ‘waxing salon murder case(refer to the link below),’, which occurred just a month ago. Moreover, contradictingly, Youtube has been applying double standards towards male and female Youtubers in terms of account strikes, suspensions, and channel terminations. For these reasons, Youtube needs to sincerely apologize and take proper measures to avoid further dispute.

(Man tracks down and murders female waxing specialist featured in YouTube video)

We will continue our movement through filing civil complaints and lawsuits, submitting news tips to local and international news media, protest, and so on.

We look forward to your attention. bossplainteam@gmail.com

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<BOSSPLAIN TF Team> for Discussing and Raising Awareness of Misogyny, mainly active on Youtube and various SNS in South Korea. bossplainteam@gmail.com

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