The Batman sparked many things, but chief among them was the resurgence of the Nirvana song “Something in the Way” (which is featured in the film). Naturally, the next step is a parody, but on TikTok, one such parody is alleged to have been removed from the platform for violating community guidelines.
The parody was first uploaded by TikToker @sansmoney on March 10, close to a week after The Batman’s release, according to Know Your Meme. The rather crude parody has sansmoney sitting in a car and turning the steering wheel. With “Something in the Way” playing in the background, he says, “Something’s in my ass, mmmm” and starts to shake when the latter lyric appears.
The caption reads, “me driving to work after shoving my Batman action figure in my butt.”
The original TikTok has been viewed more than 1 million times, with many people creating their own versions using sansmoney’s audio; enough people made their own version that a nearly 11-minute compilation video ended up on YouTube. The audio was named “Something’s In My Add,” a less explicit version of what the lyrics are saying.
But a couple of days ago, sansmoney says that TikTok took down his audio because it violated TikTok’s community guidelines and that he wasn’t given a chance to file an appeal. In his video, he doesn’t say which guideline he violated, only that it “didn’t make any sense.”
TikTok’s list of community guidelines includes the ban of “Nudity and sexual activity” in content uploaded to TikTok (if TikTok took issue with the lyrics and audio) as well as “Copyright and trademark infringement” (if the rights holders to “Something in the Way” took issue).
The Daily Dot reached out to sansmoney on Instagram.
“That audio was removed from TikTok due to community guideline violations,” he says. “I can’t appeal it, and all the videos under that audio, for all that I know, all of them are gone. I’m extremely frustrated with this because this isn’t the first time that this sort of thing has happened. I don’t think I need to go into detail why TikTok took it down was really, really stupid and didn’t make sense. I’m seriously considering switching platforms because it’s getting extremely frustrating trying to battle with this sort of stuff.”
While sansmoney’s original video is still on TikTok, when you click the “Something In My Add” audio link, no videos are listed. Instead, you’re met with a page that says “This sound isn't available.” He’s since uploaded the clip to Instagram and has expressed his reluctance to continue making videos on TikTok due to the constant worry of making content that could be taken down but also detailed the struggle of having to start from scratch on another platform. (He's since uploaded two more videos to TikTok.)
“It’s gotten to the point where I hate putting effort into something and having the fear if it’ll get taken down or not,” he added. “It’s awful, it’s really awful, and I’m really upset that, a lot of people really enjoyed that audio. There was a lot of videos under that audio and all of them are gone because of community guideline violations that don’t make any sense.”
The Daily Dot reached out to TikTok for comment.
H/T Know Your Meme
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