It is still frequently mentioned on Reddit and social media to this day.
Here is the post copied w/archive links so you don’t give spez traffic:
Greetings my delicious petite pooties!
It was decided from GAWD above that all zoomers must be eradicated from our hallowed halls so our fabby bot master set up a presh computer robot to ban everyone that has ever posted (a healthy amount of comments) in r/Teenagers. How fun! We did our bestests to make sure that we weren’t just banning randos that found their way there from r/all and really did a super duper job of making sure that we were banning consistent users of that subreddit. We don’t want any of those pesky zoomer scums in our pristine internet forum, now do we?
Our ban message simply said “Underage” and we got a lot of responses, mostly from people declaring that they are totes adults, namely - middled aged people.
We. Got. So. Many responses from people that are way too old to be posting r/Teenagers that we took a look at their post histories.
Turns out a lot of them are fucking disgusting.
Here’s a 35 year old man hitting on a 14 year old.
And for your consideration: a 45 year old man talking about “Hot tween pussy”
How fun!
##EDIT2: Thank you for gold! You’re fabulous. <3 <3
##Edit3: The mods of r/Teenagers responded with a boiler plate “We can’t police a million people” type of response which is fair enough.
Inb4 c/drama has it’s c/teenagers moment
/r/teenagers was annoying because it would pop up on the front page (all, popular, whatever) and I’d read something and comment, not realizing it was in a “teenager” sub, and then if i mentioned I wasn’t under 20 people would be “OMG you pervert why are you in a sub for teenagers??”. And I’m just, what? The topics don’t necessarily have anything to do with being a teen so I didn’t notice.
It doesn’t help that tons of the content on there (the last time I looked) is sexually charged. Also, if a subreddit consistently makes it to All, then no one should be surprised that all of the users interact with the content.
I always checked what subreddit I was looking at, and blocked any users who posted on /r/teenagers
I guess it was a moot point now that I don’t use the site anymore
After weighing up the pros and cons, we’ve also decided to ban pedophiles from Threads.
Damn, no wonder the place is crashing lately
They should have been named and shamed
In the not too distant past, my best friend found out her husband had an affair with a mid-teenager. He was careful not to break the consent age, but the whole thing is Yuk all round.
I called him a Paedophile. She argued he’s not. Hebephile is the word - its still effing disgusting to have middle aged men training their sexual interests on people too young to be trusted to drink, to vote, etc.
That’s some hardcore copium on your friends part. Changing the word doesn’t change the action. Seeking out people half your age who are just barely over the line of consent is disgusting predatory behavior.
Just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s ethical. Lots of reprehensible things have been legal at different times including the present.
Some weirdo on a Lemmy chastised me a while back for saying I thought a 40 year old dating an 18 year old was inappropriate and weird. That was exactly their logic… “it’s legal, but a 40 year old + a 14 year old isn’t, so that is immoral”. Hmm.
Only a pedophile argues about the difference between pedophilia, hebephilia, and ephebiphilia
I hope they got into a list.
That is sparkly juicy drama
