Special report: Silverio NewsCenter Wiki interviews Girly51

June 13, 2018

It's been nearly ten years since Kimberly Sanchez, now 25 years old, uploaded a bootleg copy of Selena Gomez's music video for her then-new song Naturally. As a result of YouTube being blocked in Silverio World, she has now become an activist fighting for people's online rights in Silverio World. As a result, one of our freelance journalists, Don Shinevar of Haundrea, Soldina, got a chance to speak to her during the Silverish Internet Rights Conference in Caresa, Cullivana.

Interview
Don: Hi.

Kim: How are you, nice to see you.

'''Don: So today we're going to talk to you about YouTube being blocked in Silverio World. The first thing is what was in your mind when you heard that YouTube was getting blocked?'''

'''Kim: It was complete chaos. There were people complaining on Facebook, which is blocked now, and Twitter and literally every website, and people were, like, "what are we gonna do?"'''

Don: So...

'''Kim: Yeah... It was absolutely sickening to see that YouTube was getting blocked. Remember this was when YouTube was starting to become a thing and seeing it get blocked was bad for the public...'''

Don: What motivated you to upload the Selena Gomez video in the first place?

'''Kim: I was literally in high school at the time and I did not know what I was doing. I had a friend in the media department at school who specialized in pirating music videos and uploading them on YouTube. So I told him "Aren't you gonna get in trouble [for uploading that]" and he was like "No, just be anonymous. Pick a username that YouTube won't recognize and you won't get your videos removed." So I said OK and after school I called him, his name was Jake [Solli] by the way and I called him, he said download this program called Utorrent and you'll be fine." So I download the Selena Gomez video and I uploaded it to YouTube and I just wanted to show it to friends."'''

Don: So how did you find out the video was taken off YouTube?

'''Kim: My parents found out. They recieved a letter from the District Court [of the Silverio Capital Region] and they said if they don't take the video down within 24 hours Disney will sue me. Damn, it was like I'm only a 15-year-old girl what did I do that justified a lawsuit?! '''