Taiwanese Animators Explain The Reddit Jailbait Controversy

Perhaps you’ve heard about Reddit moderators shutting down Jailbait — the site’s smelly as$hole where some 20,000 subscribers posted and gawked at sexy pictures of underage girls. How seedy was Jailbait? Well, this was one of the subreddit group’s guidelines: “Please don’t post pictures of girls with tattoos…Generally, girls have to be of the age of consent to get a tattoo, so if she has a tattoo, she’s probably also of legal age, and therefore not jailbait.”

Yeah.

The Daily Dot chronicled how the whole shutdown went down

The problems began after internal power struggles led to the ouster of a number of moderators at the subreddit, /r/jailbait. Their replacements attracted the attention of Reddit admins.

According to Reddit’s general manager, Erik Martin, these new moderators “had been repeatedly banned from reddit for various reasons” and the situation in the subreddit “was out of control.”

Essentially, trouble-making users had taken control of a subreddit that features legal but sexualized images of teenagers that border on child pornography.

Martin banned the subreddit.

He then reached out to violentacrez, r/jailbait’s top moderator, offering an olive branch: remove the troublesome mods, or the subreddit would remain banned.

Violentacrez — a Reddit Larry Flynt of sorts, who created many of the sections that test the boundaries of free speech and legality on the site — refused.

In numerous comments across the site, violentacrez claimed that none of the new moderators broke any rules in their time at r/jailbait.

I would not want to sit on any of the furniture at Violentacrez’s house. Anyway, those always hilarious Taiwanese animators have stepped up to explain the whole gooey mess in one of their web videos, and it’s kinda great. Enjoy…

(HT: Slacktory. Pic via Vice)

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