Jerks on YouTube are digitally unmasking #SilhouetteChallenge videos

CultureThe body-positive #SilhouetteChallenge, which started on TikTok, quickly got hijacked and is leading to abuse.ShutterstockIf you use TikTok or Twitter, you may have noticed a deluge of videos recently where people, especially women, post recordings of their silhouettes to celebrate their bodies to a remix of Paul Anka’s Put Your Head On My Shoulder. It’s called the #SilhouetteChallenge. On Tuesday, according to The Rolling Stone, various channels on YouTube have published videos where they teach massive audiences how to remove the red hue from the #SilhouetteChallenge videos to view the raw post. It’s a privacy nightmare, as many participants in the trend are in various states of nudity to capture their silhouettes. In many cases, these videos come with advertisements, which means they are monetized on the network. In one case, according to The Rolling Stone, a video sharing a tutorial on how to remove the red filter from the clips received over 233,000 views on YouTube. Input has asked Google for a comment on the issue and will update this report accordingly.What will YouTube do? — In order to see how rampant the issue is, I put “how to remove” in YouTube’s search field and was given these suggestions…
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