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0:00 [Music] foreign [Music] ladies and gents it's time once again to delve into the Forgotten and deleted side of YouTube's history now in today's video we're going to be looking at one of YouTube's more recent and controversial decisions when they decided to take down PewDiePie's diss track Coco now we'll also be looking into whether this decision in turn
0:47 caused PewDiePie to actually call an end to his music career so PewDiePie has a well-known history of diss tracks back in 2018 he dropped [ __ ] lasagna probably the catchiest diss track made by a YouTuber and that was certainly shown in the numbers [ __ ] lasagna is the most viewed diss track made by a YouTuber currently sitting on over 300 million views whichever will it be set the [ __ ] down T-Series I'm here to Spill the real tea you trying to Dethrone me from spider number one but this track was aimed at the Indian company and YouTube channel T-Series during their subscriber battle which revolved around who would be the first to reach 100 million subscribers
1:32 while T-Series would run out to be the eventual winners PewDiePie would get the last word in when he released his second diss track congratulations it was a tongue-in-cheek swipe at T-Series after they ended up hitting 100 million subscriber Mark before he did congratulations [Music] congratulations I won't delve too much into the diss track era but if it's a topic that you are interested in I do have a video on my channel which covers that subject which you can check out so PewDiePie is no stranger to making diss tracks solely aimed at large companies rather than individuals so when children's channel
2:18 Coco melon started to Edge ever closer to overtaking him in subscribers in 2020 his fans started to ask the question as to whether there would be another subscriber battle similar to the one pewdiepie had against T-Series Felix would post a video about the subject but would eventually play down the idea of going head-to-head with Coco melon T-Series peace we need to join forces to defeat this evil they're gonna take over both of us unless we join forces I am joking of course but still am I I feel like I'm doing the same thing here where I'm literally just making really dumb unironic jokes against a company but we've already seen how that went so I'm not going down that road again all right all memes aside I'm not trying
3:05 to start a whole thing against another company because yeah okay but I did the math we have about eight to ten months until cocomelon takes over PewDiePie channel at the current's growth rate subscribe subscribe but while Felix played down any chance of there being another subscriber War he would eventually change his video intro as a joke to match cocoa melons alright we need a cool intro we need a cool intro side can you do this oh I needed a little mascot too a little tiny tiny side next to me foreign [Music] these intros would gradually evolve over
3:51 the next few months when fans started sending in their versions for him to use across his videos however not many would have expected Felix to release a diss track on Coco melon but in an episode of lawai titled I hate kids he teases it at the very end of the video and says that one is coming very soon Coco melon diss track very soon and I see you guys next time brofist then came Valentine's Day 2021 and Pewdiepie uploaded a video titled Coco sadly I'm not able to show the video due to the fact that YouTube will likely strike it down but the video featured different scenes with Felix dressed as different characters in one scene he was dressed as Mr Rogers in another as a Samurai and in another as Patrick
4:37 Bateman from American Psycho the song's lyrics poked fun at CoCo melon and the amount of views that they get and it was co-written by Felix and David Brown of the channel boy in a band he also featured in the video as a soldier of PewDiePie's Bro Army there was also a scene of Dave dressed as a ladybird that was shot but never ended up being used in the Final Cut of the video it also featured a group of children throughout who played numerous different parts but in the end the kids would eventually overpower Felix now on the set they played a censored version of the song in order to make sure that no swear words were played for the children to hear the video itself was very well edited and included some pretty cool graphics and some high-end animation that were made
5:24 by the channel bad history but that's about as brief a summary as I can give in 30 seconds overall the music video went on to rack up over 10 million views in around 48 hours and it was well on its way to being a certified YouTube classic but unfortunately YouTube stepped in and decided to take the video down shortly after it passed 11 million views initially when you clicked on the videos link it said the upload was no longer available as it had broken YouTube policies on harassment and bullying now that seemed odd considering that there was no harassment or bullying in video at all however YouTube would later release a statement when responding to a tweet about why the video was taken down they said across
6:11 two tweets to clarify this violated two policies number one child safety by looking like it was made for kids but containing inappropriate content including violence and number two harassment we allow criticism and also diss tracks in some cases but with both policies in mind this video crossed the line in their second tweet they said also any re-uploads of the original including full length or partial re-uploads Clips Etc will be removed too still images are okay and just like that the video was gone never to be seen again now at the time there were lots of different YouTubers who spoke out against YouTube's policies and they failed to understand what part of the
6:57 video would have been considered harassment and bullying here's the question right why not Mark the video as mature 18 plus if YouTube did that then that would completely stop everything and if we're going to talk about violence or whatever shown in the music video how how many music videos have we seen on YouTube with violence and threats of violence I mean come on again I always try to report from a non-biased viewpoint but with this one I sort of completely disagree with YouTube's decision but I can see where they're coming from I could see the reasoning behind it but I think taking it down is a bit too harsh with that I I don't know it's a bit much YouTube looked at this situation as if kids were gonna click on this diss track and pretend wow maybe
7:43 I'm watching a cocomelon video oh [ __ ] PewDiePie said [ __ ] mom come over here PewDie this guy on the internet said the f word and then that's pretty much what I think YouTube was all about Felix would take some time to respond to the deletion of Coco but eventually he would speak out about it briefly in a live stream stating that he was very disappointed with the decision that YouTube had made to take the video down if there's a place for me to address it it's not during a live stream but I also really want to play today so I'm just gonna say I'm really disappointed and I obviously disagree but yeah I'm not I'm not gonna address it further than that today sorry guys another potential casualty in the aftermath of Coco being deleted was
8:30 PewDiePie's other music tracks that he was planning to release he actually teased one track which sounded pretty good just before the release of Coco my [ __ ] lethal you've got some fans that got 1.3 percent of people a bit lispy I noticed the nation of artists I might run for office I will win if I try [ __ ] if Trudeau could do it so can I epic gamer commentator all right Gateway nihilist the pleasure and you've seen how good my life is my drugs from Billy eilish got my attitude from you I got my DNA from Vikings they said I would never be bowling but I literally have a ball and it bounces like bounce bounce bounce I could
9:16 dribble it a little bit I'll take a break a belt elfino the tongue hangs out [ __ ] I think I killed the vibe all right let me try something and there have been no more release any more music from PewDiePie and of course this could still be coming however with his move to Japan it does now seem less likely than before but perhaps the final nail in the coffin came in December of 2021. Felix revealed that [ __ ] lasagna had been claimed by an unknown company said to be working on his own behalf I don't know if you noticed this but if you go to [ __ ] lasagna you can see that it's been claimed by a company called repos Network and then princesses on behalf of
10:02 PewDiePie nah you can't just say it's on behalf of me I don't know I don't know how this was possible that someone can claim my own video and say it's me how is that possible YouTube If I counterclaim a bogus claim you'd think that YouTube would say yeah that is a bogus claim they re they rejected my dispute that's awesome the [ __ ] is this so with all the challenges Felix has faced from YouTube around his songs you would have to assume that for now he has called an end to his music career but of course only time will tell regarding Coco it did feel like YouTube themselves made a big mistake with this one as we've seen sadly too many times before YouTube has a side of the site dedicated specifically two children's content and
10:49 anything outside of that within reason should be fair play especially considering that it was a parody but once again it is another classic gone from the site that will remain in the YouTube Vault with all other deleted media from over the years never to see the light of day again thanks very much for watching and if you like any of the graphics in the video they are all available to buy as After Effects templates on my website jfx.co.uk there's over a hundred graphic templates and bundles for all types of creators to help take their videos to the next level so go and check it out thanks very much for watching [Music]
