Mod Carousel’s fantastic gender-swapped “Blurred Lines” parody (which we posted the other day) has been saddled with an 18+ age restriction on YouTube since going viral. Interestingly—or maybe not, I’m not quite sure—Robin Thicke’s original video is still up on YouTube with no age restriction.
Now, Mod Carousel’s version is a direct parody of Thicke’s unrated video, which features topless ladies cavorting in flesh-colored thongs. The women in Thicke’s, uh, rated original are wearing big white briefs, not thongs. So, I suppose, the be-thonged male performers of Mod Carousel are technically wearing less clothing than the women in the non-age-restricted “Blurred Lines” video. Although Thicke’s video does contain some footage from the unrated version, which means thongs do appear from the side.