Justin Bieber is a popular boy and not just because girls everywhere are swooning over his hairstyle and pinchable cheeks.

Over the Independence Day weekend, Bieber was at the heart of a nasty YouTube attack.  Due to a scripting error, people were able to hack into the comments and redirect people to other videos, to porn sites, or give the viewer nasty pop-up windows when a video was clicked.  Bieber’s videos seemed to be the most effected in the attack, but the hacking was rather widespread all over YouTube.

It hasn’t really been determined if sites 4chan or eBaumsworld are behind the YouTube attack.  Both sites have less than stellar reputations- eBaumsworld has a tendency to post content from other sites without permission and 4chan is notorious for their hacks (they hacked Time’s 100 list in 2009 to put leader “Moot” at the top).

 Speculation seems to go one way or the other, but the attack was nasty.  One example of the hack- Justin Bieber’s “Baby” video featuring Ludacris had a pop-up saying Justin Bieber had died in a horrific car accident and when refreshed had a background image of “OMG FA****” (I refuse to write that word).

Though the trend right now is to blame eBaumsworld, I’m leaning towards 4chan since they seem to have a lot of Bieber hate (they were behind the “Justin Bieber syphilis” search trend not long ago).  Bieber had a contest to have fans choose a country for him to visit during his “My World” tour and 4chan under the helm of “Anonymous” hacked the site.  This normally wouldn’t be a big deal, but for some reason the site wants to send Bieber to North Korea.  Since North Korea tightly controls all Internet access, it’s safe to say that the residents probably didn’t vote nor have they heard of the teen sensation.  This has sparked the search term “Justin Bieber hates North Korea,” since it’s likely that he will not be performing there.

So why is there so much Bieber hate?  I think it all boils down to his overexposure (the boy is everywhere) or that it’s possibly fun to poke at his rabid fan base.  Either way these attacks don’t seem to be killing his career, so hopefully it will all stop soon.