Yesterday, visitors to Sesame Street’s YouTube channel were greeted with content that wouldn’t usually be associated with a children’s show.

The channel had been compromised and the usual child-friendly videos were replaced with hardcore porn.

The content remained up for around 20 minutes, before the channel was suspended.

As well as uploading the videos, the hackers also edited the channel’s information and added the following message:

WHO DOESN’T LOVE PORN KIDS? RIGHT! EVERYONE LOVES IT! IM MREDXWX AND MY PARTNER MRSUICIDER91 ARE HERE TO BRING YOU MANY NICE CONTENT! PLEASE DON’T LET SESAME STREET TO GET THIS ACCOUNT BACK KIDS PLEASE…LET ME AND MRSUICIDER91 HAVE IT AND WE GONNA MAKE ALL THE AMERICA HAPPY!

It’s hard to believe that if MREDXWX was responsible that he’d be stupid enough to sign his work.  Only time will tell I guess.

YouTube has since reinstated the account and the content is back to usual.  The channel’s info bar now contains the following apology: