I have to admit I bought the @YACHT sex tape https://t.co/QPVYZ3QoOI and: Woah. More of an actual turn on than most. Probably bc: true love.
— Miranda July (@Miranda_July) May 9, 2016
The Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone, who has hung out with the band before, tweeted a blurry screenshot from the tape:whoever hacked and leaked @YACHT's sex tape should be castrated.
— eric wareheim (@ericwareheim) May 9, 2016
Nick Thorburn from Islands also jumped in, with a cheeky nod, which has since been deleted:In fact, the only photos going around looked like this—G-rated, night visiony screenshots. Typically, once a sex tape is leaked, the internet is flooded with graphic photos and pirated links. But the only things going around were harmless, non-descript screenshots.Over at THUMP, my colleague Michelle Lhooq was one of the few reporters who did her due diligence and had her coworker fork over his credit to purchase the sex tape but was directed to a 404 message, indicating that so many people were downloading the tape that it crashed the server.YACHT’s post started to go viral, and, as someone who appreciates a good troll on the gullibility of an overworked/understaffed media, I could immediately spot this as commentary stunt. The clues were all there in YACHT’s post:“Music isn’t art anymore, it’s just content. We don’t need to write yet another op-ed column to describe the intricacies of why mid-level bands like us are in trouble.”What the f*** is this?! @YACHT is one of my favorite bands. They made a sex tape and crashed a server apparently?? pic.twitter.com/nQIgQ3sIwX
— Jorma Taccone (@jormataccone) May 9, 2016
Jezebel, who yesterday reported on the leak, has published an updated story, referring to an email the site received from YACHT's Claire L. Evans on April 6, informing them that they would be faking a sex tape for the video, "I Wanna Fuck You 'Til I'm Dead":"For the upcoming music video for our song, “I Wanna Fuck You Til I’m Dead,” we’re faking a sex tape leak.In the days leading up to the video’s release, we’re going to pretend we were hacked, share and delete confessional social media posts on the subject of our privacy, then try to “get out in front of it” and sell the sex tape, fake a server crash, etc."Super random but I hate when people put out fake stories to sell their products.
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) May 10, 2016
UPDATE (3:27 PM): YACHT has issued a statement on the video. See below:It's time to state this.
We are not involved in the Yacht situation in any way the idea was devised and executed 100% without us.— Motormouthmedia Judy (@motormouthmedia) May 10, 2016
Dan Ozzi is on Twitter - @danozziWe've written a statement here: https://t.co/9Q6J1Ves3D pic.twitter.com/t2CNtC0qB9
— ˠ ᴬ ꜂ ᴴ ⊤ (@YACHT) May 10, 2016