Posted on 05/07/2022 7:53:37 PM PDT by Hojczyk
A Forbes review of hundreds of recent TikTok livestreams reveals how viewers regularly use the comments to urge young girls to perform acts that appear to toe the line of child pornography — rewarding those who oblige with TikTok gifts, which can be redeemed for money, or off-platform payments to Venmo, PayPal or Cash App accounts that users list in their TikTok profiles
It’s “the digital equivalent of going down the street to a strip club filled with 15-year-olds,” says Leah Plunkett, an assistant dean at Harvard Law School and faculty associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, focused on youth and media. Imagine a local joint putting a bunch of minors on a stage before a live adult audience that is actively giving them money to perform whatever G, PG or PG-13 activities they request, she said. “That is sexual exploitation. But that’s exactly what TikTok is doing here.”
The transactions are happening in a public online forum open to viewers almost anywhere on the planet. Some of the demands are explicit — like asking girls to kiss each other, spread their legs or flash the camera — and some harder to detect, masked with euphemisms. Commenters say “outfit check” to get a complete look at a girl’s body; “pedicure check” to see their feet; “there’s a spider on your wall” to get girls to turn around and show their rears; and “play rock-paper-scissors” to encourage girls to flirt-fight or wrestle with each other. Phrases like “put your arms up” or “touch the ceiling” are often directed at girls in crop tops so viewers can see their breasts and stomachs.
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Just what the ChiComs want.
HA! Well done!
Seems like an enormous waste of time to me. Practically all forms of “social media” seem this way to me.
“Tik Tok? It’s my favorite flavor!”
Hmmm, I installed tik-tok because one of my sisters kept sending me videos that seemed to stop before they were done, I assumed it was because I wasn’t a subscriber. After viewing videos for a bit, I concluded it is a platform for 40+ divorcees to seek attention validation. Social media is a cesspool.
You mean “anti-social media”.
As documented by LibsofTikTok (bless you lady!).
I no longer have to deal with quite so much of the bone deep ignorence from people who want to claim the Union of Groomers and Pedophiles (AKA Teachers Union) are a bunch of high minded saints who are over worked, underpaid and oh so pure.
It is beyond pathetic that so many people think so little of themselves that they will so sickeningly debase themselves in front of the world for a few minutes of attention.
It’s creepy that we have a generation (probably two) that has absolutely no concept of privacy or its value.
This unhealthy need for attention and “validation” (whatever that really means) can’t be fulfilled and will dominate them for their entire lives. And, I believe, the attention they do receive will become less and less satisfying as time goes on. Like a drug addition.
All those blue hairs with the lines shaved into their eyebrows.. no thanks.
The one I actually liked (birdsofoz) stopped recently :(
If they’re not taking their clothes off, how is it a strip club? Words have meanings.
Yeah, and just think if similar things are or could be happening in a school, parents should not even have a right to know according to the left. I can’t believe this Harvard assistant dean would be so prudish.
Don’t post anything Christian.
It will be gone in 5 minutes.
A friend of mine did so at my behest.
5 minutes. Tops.
Groomers gonna groom.
Something tells me if you posted something nice about Islam, they wouldn’t take the video down. If there were any nice things about Islam, that is.
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