A faction of kids on YouTube who believe that changing their profile pictures to Clippy from Microsoft Office Assistant will somehow convince the YT staff to get rid of the site's new AI age verification feature.
What the Clippy Army fails to understand is that YT is simply adapting to the Online Safety Acts being proposed or passed in several countries, and if they want this (universally despised) feature to be removed, they'll have to speak to governments, not to YouTube.
But that's the thing. Most of these guys are too young to vote anyway.
What the Clippy Army fails to understand is that YT is simply adapting to the Online Safety Acts being proposed or passed in several countries, and if they want this (universally despised) feature to be removed, they'll have to speak to governments, not to YouTube.
But that's the thing. Most of these guys are too young to vote anyway.
The rallying cry of the Clippy Army is that as much as Clippy was despised, he "only wanted to help, and he never stole your data." Yeah, tell that to a giant corporation and they'll just laugh at you. A government would laugh even more.
by Haywood Jablowme Ben Dover September 21, 2025
Get the Clippy Armymug.