It’s official: Reddit has shut down r/jailbait. The official explanation: “This subreddit has been shut down due to threatening the structural integrity of the greater reddit community.”
There was some confusion about this before: Reddit admins apparently had tried to shut it down earlier, but it was still visible to some users who had turned off custom css; now it’s really down.
And Redditors have reacted, well, just about as predictably as you could imagine.
Violentacrez, the guy who started the Jailbait subreddit (and many other equally horrible ones), responded with an indignant post in his own personal subreddit calling the shutdown “bullshit” – and linking to the various remaining subreddits where pictures of underage girls are still being posted freely.
Meanwhile, the top post on the main Reddit also notes Jailbait’s passing. I didn’t read all 4697 comments, but as you might expect there were more than a few indignant comments about the death of free speech posting pilfered pictures of underage girls for other creeps to wank to; some creepy pedo jokes; and somedecent comments pointing out that, you know, maybe it’s not such a good thing for Reddit to allow a forum devoted to, you know, posting pilfered pictures of underage girls for creeps to wank to, especially after it’s been used to facilitate the trading of actual child porn.
My favorite comments are the ones complaining that r/jailbait is being shut down but r/trees, a subreddit devoted to talking about weed, is still up. DeliriousZeus got 45 upvotes for this idiotic comment:
[T]he two subreddits are celebrations of something frowned upon by others. … both are places where joy is the aim, but many view them with hostility.
Poor suffering Jailbaiters, whose only sin is that they’re simply trying to share a little bit of joy. Oh, and pornographic pictures of 14-year-old girls. Why would anyone get all hostile about that little bit of innocent fun?
Jailbait, gone but not forgotten. And because there are still a whole mess of other jailbaity subreddits, not even really gone.
But hey, small steps.
PS: In case you haven ‘t yet gotten your fill of Reddit pedo-apologetics, check out this post in ShitRedditSays, with handy screencaps of r/jailbaiters (before Jailbait’s demise) defending their repulsive hobby.
EDITED TO ADD: Check out this ShitRedditSays thread for some more highlights — well, lowlights — from the megathread on Jailbait’s shutdown.
And here are a couple more threads on the subject:
Today, with the shutdown of /r/jailbait, Reddit has entered a new age…
A new age of slight inconvenience to Redditors looking for pics of underage girls?
And this less pretentiously titled one:
/r/jailbait admins officially decide to shut down for good. Opinions?
That last comment was katz, who can’t type her own username.
@Cwiles
You seem like you’re a TRUE Men’s Rights Activist. Someone that cares about Man’s Rights, since there are indeed several problems that disproportionately affect men, and then you do something about it. I have no problem with that myself. I mostly have problems with all the people calling themselves MRAs which just use it as an excuse to complain about women.
If there were a subreddit like r/sexybutnotporn for subjects under 18, and it were strictly moderated so as to include only pictures the submitters could absolutely prove were of them … I wouldn’t be okay with it, exactly, but my not-okay-itude would be directed at whatever it is about society and their lives that made them feel like this was a good idea rather than at Reddit (and with the 17-year-olds, probably not even that; I don’t spend my time knowingly lusting after teenagers but 17 is close enough to 18 that I don’t think modeling is automatically a sign of something). As soon as people are posting outright porn and/or pictures not of themselves — and so possibly not with the subject knowing about it, understanding, or consenting — it’s safe to presume that the fans of this are bad people.
Way off topic, here, but what do the little red labels say in the picture attached to this post? I looked at the larger version but they were still too small for me to read.
@Rabbit
I think the labels read “Don’t forget to remove the transfer tape ;-)”, but I could be wrong.
Okay, I let you off on the first one, but this is horse shit. Seneca Falls *was* angry. It was also not about “FUCK THE MENZ AND SLAY THEM ALL LETS RETURN TO MATRIARCHY”. Further, Women are the disadvantaged class. Men do take shit, I agree, and there’s some downsides to patriarchal tropes that primarily benefit men as a class; that does not mean that men as a class do not get benefits. Fuck you, and your history distorting ass. Feminists didn’t celebrate destruction and death, or call for it. THe worst the suffragists went was vandalism. Some individual acts of that annoy me, but they’re simply not comparable to the celebrations of violence your movement is so prone to.
SOME!? How very gracious of you, to deny that it is an apparent majority and that even your ‘moderate’ sites are hateful dens of misery.
A movement that openly advocates killing most women and replacing them with robots, removing the vocal chords of little girls, and shooting judges who won’t give you the divorce settlement you want? In bullshitese this apparently translates to “some haters”.
Wanna go argue/hang out with Toysoldier over on the “Feminism or Death” thread?
Hate != anger. The two things should not be confused, and often are not even related. Feminism is often angry; the MRM is nearly always hateful.
But anger leads to hate. And hate leads to suffering.
Ridiculous. The femmes are the hateful ones. They are the misandrists, the man-haters, the hate mongers, the Her Holy Highnesses. They ARE, and the sooner you recognize that, the sooner we can move forward into a better world, a world in which bitches will no longer be permitted to use men as objects. This is the most important fight in the Western world, in my opinion, and I have a high IQ.
You’re not hateful, and yet you’re still going on with the “bitches” and “her holy hignesses” bullshit? Pull the other one, it’s got bells on.
Nothing you’ve posted other than your assertions would lead anyone to believe you have a high IQ.
Ah, whatevs. Stay strong and fight the good fight, MensaBoy!
“This is the most important fight in the Western world, in my opinion, and I have a high IQ.”
And yet despite your high IQ you don’t realize that “femmes” doesn’t mean women, or feminists. Or did you actually mean that only very feminine looking women are hateful? Are butch women nicer, in your opinion?
@MRAL
Yeah, the “bitches” are so hateful. Why, just the other day as I was reading older post here on Manboobz I came across a post where a bunch of the commenters where trying to help you with your self-esteem issues. Truly the height of man-hating.
@mYOO tHANKS 🙂
Oops, somebody forgot to turn off her capslock. ^^;;;
This is the most important fight in the Western world, in my opinion, and I have a high IQ.
Again! MRAL, honey, remember how last time you kept talking about your IQ we mocked you until you gave up and pretended you’d never mentioned it in the first place?
Outside of myself, I do not think anyone has posted their IQ…go on MRAL, see if you top me.
I think he’s given up on making meaningful progress in increasing his self-esteem, and is settling for giving himself quick temporary boosts through good old-fashioned trollin’.
Full circle.
MRAL, if women are the only ones who hate, how do you explain how much you hate us for it?
Also, it’s always weird to spend a little time in the real world and come back to this. I just went out for dinner with friends–men and women–and there wasn’t this great gulf down the middle of the room. I was talking to men and it was like we were two people talking, you know? We really weren’t putting that much effort into hating each other one way or the other.
And I have a high IQ.
Whether or not you have a high IQ, MRAL, you suck at critical thinking. And I don’t think anybody believes you that you have a high IQ.
“I have a high IQ” seems to be MRAL’s version of “but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night”.
I for one am willing to believe your IQ is high MRAL, seeing as how that is no an indicator that you aren’t a clueless twit.
One down, hundreds (if not thousands) of threads to go.
I mean, they got rid of the big one, but the work from here on out will be the equivalent of hand picking fleas from a dog.