Playboy: Tits or GTFO

At first, I was surprised to hear Playboy’s YouTube search for their 55th anniversary Playmate flopped. After all, the YouTube community is full of babes. After thinking about the culture of YouTube and the Internet in general, however, it all starts to make sense.

As they say on the imageboards, tits or GTFO — and you can’t show tits on YouTube. Either take off your clothes, or do something cool. The handful of hopefuls who responded, alas, couldn’t do the former and didn’t do the latter. That’s why their views are mostly in the low thousands.

On the other hand, the YouTube babes most likely to do something cool are already online video stars. They don’t really need exposure in dead tree media, even dead tree media as legendary as Playboy.

Now if this contest had been run on a site that allows nudity — perhaps a site run by Playboy itself — things would have been very different. Hugh Hefner needs to get inside online video in a way that’s true to the spirit of Playboy, glamorous nudity included.