YouTube Hacked Over Tay Zonday?

As a fan of Tay Zonday and the Chocolate Rain madness, I was excited to see a post in my RSS reader that Thursday was being christened “Tay Zonday Day” on YouTube, with the front page getting taken over by all Zonday, all day. I clicked to the YouTube Blog post, but there was nothing there but a blank screen, and no homepage takeover either.
I’ve been piecing together the news, and it looks like YouTube was hacked. According to Mashable, the fellas at the 4chan /b/ forum are claiming responsibility, and the front page at YouTube.com was covered in Chocolate Rain parodies and tributes, as can be seen here. They not only hacked the front page, but they posted about it to the YouTube blog, giving it an air of legitimacy and a special place in the Google cache.
The post, no longer available on the YouTube blog:
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Original post by Nathan Weinberg