• Acute_Engles [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    95·
    17 天前

    Mary kate and ashley olsen from Full House had a website (edit: created by a creep, not themselves) dedicated to a countdown until they turned 18.

    marx-joker

    As a child at the time it seemed weird

    • KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      29·
      17 天前

      I predict that 2026 will be the “year of the pervert.” Trump will pardon Ghislaine Maxwell. Every twitter post will have 100 replies to it containing AI nudity. You know how they say every technology, from photography to the VHS to DVD to Blu-Ray to the internet is propelled forward by pornography first? Apply that truism to LLMs. Apply it to humanoid robotics. Apply it to AI slop videos.

      Marx once said that as the contradictions of capitalism intensify, “All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned,” and after capitalism has commodified relationships with dating apps, now they will commodify every aspect of human interactions. Shame will die. The Overton window will shift in the direction of commodifying people’s bodies for sexual gratification being an “inevitable” outcome of the free market.

      • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        9·
        16 天前

        A part of it as well is this kind of “hedonist” movement is also probably the only answer these people have to capitalist realism. When you cannot imagine the system ever changing, or things ever improving, what else is there to do besides self-indulgence?

        • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.mlEnglish
          9·
          16 天前

          That’s exactly the trap that got me deep into alcoholism for most of myof my 20s. Funny enough, getting sober quickly reminded me why I had been a radical before. Only now, I had the development level to dive deep into theory and came out a commie instead of a teenage anarchist.

  • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    60·
    17 天前

    This kidfluencer thing is fucked up and exploitative. To think there have been creeps watching this little girl until she became “legal” sickens me. Reminds me of poor Emma Watson and the sexualization she was subjected to at a very young age.

  • vegeta1 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    51·
    17 天前

    stupid fucks did the same thing with that cash me outside kid. Wait until she turned 18. Theres so many of these damn cases of sexualizing these kids

    • Cysio@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      20·
      17 天前

      This shit makes me feel like most straight cis men are inherently pedos, given that if they get to do pedo shit with impunity they go for it immediately

        • BobDole [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          28·
          17 天前

          I think it’s mostly a cultural issue. The media (owned and operated by wealthy pedophiles) glamorizes and reinforces it. As a boy, I remember men my current age talking about girls in high school and shit, and I can’t imagine seeing them as anything but children now that I am this age.

          I don’t mean to imply I’m special, but I think rejecting mainstream ameriKKKan culture (and leaving reddit-logo especially) helped a lot.

        • demerit@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          20·
          17 天前

          Nah its definitely a decent chunk of straight men, sorry. Before the 2010s - there was a very widespread acceptance of teens dating young adults to adults, even growing up in the 2010s some of my classmates had boyfriends that were like 18 to 25 or so, yes even the parents knew about it, and they were only 13 to 15.

          • Ishmael [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            9·
            17 天前

            Even with celebrities back then you had 28 year old Jay Z dating 16 year olkd Beyonce, 30-something Paul Walker dating a 17 year old, 39 year old Jerry Seinfeld dating a 17 year old… The list goes on

      • WasteTime [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        16·
        16 天前

        Not so long ago it was common for men in their 20s to 40s to marry ~15 years old girls in western societies and it isn’t much different in other parts of the world. It wouldn’t be surprising if a considerable portion of men today still find teenage girls attractive. Many see women “at their prime” when they are around 18 and >25 is already old.

        Spend enough time around all-men groups and you’ll hear them saying the most heinous shit about women. It’s like their brains paused their development at their adolescence when it comes to sexuality. Of course “not all men”, etc. but when they get involved in a group that encourages this behavior most choose to go along with it. I’ve heard enough distasteful pedo “jokes” and comments to say for sure at least half of them would have sex with a minor if they could get away with it.

        • Ishmael [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          8·
          17 天前

          I remember working with a guy in his 60s at a marathon type event and he made a comment about some girls in athletic gear who were probably 16-18 and I guess he expected me to be like “hell yeah brother” or something because he seemed shocked when I responded to him with disgust that they were probably born when he was 35.

      • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        8·
        17 天前

        I think it’s fundamentally a consequence of the sort of entitlement and predatory outlook most men have towards whomever they’re attracted to. Like I see this core undercurrent that seeps into absolutely everything with a lot of them, where it’s like this libertine chauvinist entitlement where everything and everyone must be subordinated to their own desires whether this is media treats or people. You can also see this in action with how absolutely weird and rabid they get about gooner shit in games or TV shows.

        This means that when they’re attracted to someone, that person’s own agency doesn’t really play into it except as something that can get in their way. They look at adult women (or young men, for some of them) this way, and since the key problem with an adult having a relationship with a teen is the latter’s comparatively limited agency and life experience they can’t comprehend that actual problem and instead see the risk to themselves from legal or other community consequences as the real problem. So they do “legal” entitled gooner shit or try to do “legal” groomer shit to their chosen target, breathlessly awaiting the time when the law no longer gets in between them and their desires.

        I think that’s also why a certain type of guy is so very insistent on splitting hairs between pedophilia (as colloquially used to refer to the crime of an adult preying on minors) and pedophilia (the specific psychiatric disorder of being attracted to prepubescent children): they see their own attraction to and feelings of entitlement towards teens as “normal, but illegal” and are very offended by being lumped in with icky “disordered” people; they don’t see the problem as violating someone’s agency and consent, so they view the law as the problem in one case (it can hurt them if they break it) and the ickiness they feel in the other, rather than the unifying problem that minors cannot legitimately consent and lack a great deal of personal and legal agency with children just being an even more extreme subcategory of this with them being unable to reciprocate or consent and having even less agency.

  • BGDelirium [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    41·
    17 天前

    There is a Netflix doc about Piper Rockelle’s rise to fame as a YouTuber, Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing. Watched it a few months ago

    It shows how the adults in her life abuse her and other children with crazy filming schedules and pairing the kids off for stan and romance drama.

  • spectre [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    27·
    17 天前

    There is some evidence that she was lying about getting $1m from it, but nonetheless the whole thing is quite distasteful. Same goes for “Lil Tay” last year who did the same thing.

  • Lowleekun [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    25·
    17 天前

    Man i wish i could filter everything happening in the u.s. from my feeds forever. To be fair, by now i am so desensitized that this made me feel nothing aside from thinking “average amerikkkan ‘success’ story”.