• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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    11 days ago

    The soccer mom moms were first checking to make sure it was a safe site, since Anderson Cooper had recently at the time said it was a site for pedophiles.

    I mean, it literally was at one point, considering that r/jailbait was massive.

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      There were a ton of creepy subs. At least from what I heard. I didn’t subscribe to those. But the good subs were good. So I felt that blanket statement from AC was kind of a dick move. Especially for someone who considers himself a responsible journalist. Lost a lot of respect for him over that.

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        11 days ago

        Man, if 9 good subreddits sit down at a table with 1 pedophile subreddit…

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          11 days ago

          You can build 100 bridges and do they call you the bridge builder? No. But you fuck one sheep…

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          on the one hand yeah, but on the other i had no idea about any of that when i joined in 2010, which i assume was more common. i mostly kept to small, closed communities and never saw the stuff on the front page unless i got logged out. and that was alwaysa weird experience, like the youtube trending page.