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[–]neolib 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Btw interesting tidbit from 2012 article about Violentacrez (r/jailbait mod) - was rereading it 7 months ago and posted an archive:

During the Jailbait controversy, Erik Martin, the site's General Manager, reached out to Violentacrez beforehand to warn him that they were going to have to shut down his prized possession, according to a chat conversation Violentacrez leaked at the time.

"Want to give you a heads up," Martin wrote. "We're making a policy change regarding jailbait type content. Don't really have a choice."

(Martin did not respond to requests for comment.)

https://saidit.net/s/DownTheMemoryHole/comments/c5sa/controversial_gawker_article_from_2012_unmasking/

[–]Canbot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That says very little. Why do you think it was shut down?

The claim at the time, I believe, was that advertisers were refusing to buy adds because of that sub. Do you think that was a lie? If it is true why did the advertisers do that instead of making a simpler demand like "keep the adds off that sub and that sub off the front page"?

[–]neolib 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

advertisers were refusing to buy adds because of that sub

Looking at recent Musk's troubles with advertisers for X/Twitter that looks plausible, actually.

If it is true why did the advertisers do that instead of making a simpler demand like "keep the adds off that sub and that sub off the front page"?

Who knows? I went looking at which entity owned reddit at the time and found an interesting thing (via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities ):

On September 6, 2011, Reddit became operationally independent of Condé Nast, operating as a separate subsidiary of its parent company, Advance Publications.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160722135119/http://www.redditblog.com/2011/09/independence.html

Reddit shuts down r/jailbait

Posted on Oct 10, 2011

https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/reddit-r-jailbait-shutdown-controversy/

Can these two events be connected somehow?

[–]gloomy_bear 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They have stuff similar to that. Like r/barelylegal and r/fauxbait. Also have subreddits with sexualising underage teenagers and children from tiktok. If you look at r/banfemalehatesubs, they look for places to report so it gets banned. Usually rape and cheese pizza stuff. And let's be honest, a 17 year old looks similar to a 19 year old, but you'll know who's which when you hear them talk about life shit.

[–]Jiminy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They don't want poor pedos competing with them and they don't use Reddit they would use guys like Epstein

[–]monkeyboon 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They want THEIR pedophilia normalized.