With any luck, if you start the video embedded at the end of the full post you'll get a message that the video is no longer available. If it does play, what you will find starts out harmlessly enough, mixing images from the 80's cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe with The Village People song "Macho Man." It looks like the kind of silly fan-created video found throughout YouTube. But then towards the end of the video, a homophobic message comes up, as can be seen below:

One of the disappointing aspects of this video is that it's been viewed over 20,000 times and saved to a user's favorite videos folder by 18 users. Amid all this exposure, saying "All fags burn in hell" has managed to go unflagged by YouTube users (or, alternately, the video has been flagged and passed by YouTube's screeners). Our sister site recently noted how LGBT content on YouTube is frequently suppressed by abuse of the site's "Flag as inappropriate" feature, while similar heterosexually-themed content gets a pass. Here, a blatantly homophobic message is going unnoticed.

It's likely that every time the video has been viewed, the viewer didn't watch it until the end and didn't see the example of hate speech -- therefore having no reason to think the video should be reported. That's a small consolation, however, since that still means a large number of viewers must've gotten to the hateful message at the end and the video remains unflagged.

What's truly fascinating, though, is that someone would spend hours poring through He-Man episodes to find the moments where Prince Adam comes off as effeminate, splicing them together, and syncing them to the music, just to throw in a bit of hate speech at the end. It's gay panic in pen-and-ink. Did the creator feel the need to assert his/her hatred for gays after spending all that time fixating on gay-coded images? What would motivate someone to put so much energy into this spiteful message in the first place? Or is it just a misfired attempt at politically incorrect humor? Whatever the reason, it appears that a large number of YouTube users were fine with "All fags burn in hell." Watch the full clip below.

Fur loincloths and pageboy haircuts may be back in fashion sometime soon (and not a minute too soon, in my honest opinion). Variety reports that Warner Bros. and Joel Silver have announced plans for a new live-action version of He-Man and The Masters of The Universe to be penned by Justin Marks, pending approval of the story by Mattel, the original manufacturers of the He-Man toys.

Though it lacked the obvious homosexual undertone of Race Bannon’s and Dr. Quest’s relationship on Jonny Quest, or the camp affectations of Snagglepuss, He-Man has been a gay fave since it premiered in the 80s. Not surprising considering that Prince Adam went from wearing a white muscle tee to a loincloth, leather boots and a metal harness as He-Man whenever he chose to use his “special powers”. Personally, I was a bigger fan of She-Ra, He-Man’s fabulous sister, but then I spent more than a few hours spinning in the backyard trying to transform into Wonder Woman.

One little point of worry is that the studio seems to be set on emulating the recent massacre-fest 300, at least in terms of style. Hopefully that doesn’t include the homophobic posturing, though the film's massive success doesn’t exactly discourage it.

No word yet on casting, but since the heydays of Stallone/Lundgren/Schwarzenegger-like musclemen are long gone, there doesn’t seem to be any obvious choice. Perhaps an unknown bodybuilder will come to the fore, or maybe He-Man will be slimmed down for the new century. Any suggestions on who you would cast?

On a lighter note, the following He-Man smash-ups give us a little insight into Castle Grayskull’s circuit scene.