"It's worth stressing this now, especially in light of the controversy surrounding its release on Vimeo a few months ago, where it was given the coveted Staff Picks badge (guaranteeing it thousands more views), then quickly taken down two days later for fear of its graphic content by Vimeo's Legal and Trust & Safety team for being inappropriate for younger viewers. Luckily (or not, depending on the circumstances), YouTube has very few safeguards against content."
""Bug Diner" is on YouTube with an age-restricted notice on the page, and for good reason. Hart's stop-motion animated film features bugs in a diner, most of them horny, lovesick, or both. The waitress/fly nervously tries to get the attention of the mole who cooks everything underground and wears only an apron. She has kinky S&M fantasies about two of them hooking up in the steamy kitchen."
Phoebe Jane Hart's Bug Diner is an explicit stop-motion animated short portraying sexually charged interactions among anthropomorphic insects in a diner setting. Vimeo initially promoted the film with a Staff Picks badge and then removed it days later after its Legal and Trust & Safety team flagged its graphic content as inappropriate for younger viewers. YouTube hosts the film with an age-restriction notice and applies minimal content safeguards compared with Vimeo. The film depicts a waitress fly, a mole cook, kinky S&M fantasies, an anteater longing for a squirrel, and grasshoppers engaging in public seduction. Younger audiences rarely encounter similar festival shorts because viewing habits center on YouTube.
Read at Roger Ebert
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]