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5 min readIn 2011, CNN’s Anderson Cooper aired a segment on a corner of the internet most people had never heard of: a Reddit community called r/jailbait, dedicated to images of underage girls. The segment was a bombshell, but Reddit refused to shut the subreddit down. The company’s leadership argued that the content was legal and that removing it would violate their commitment to free speech. It took an actual federal offense—a user posting explicit images of his underage ex-girlfriend—to finally force the platform’s hand. That moment, and the investigation that followed, exposed not just a single depraved community but a broader pattern of exploitation that Reddit had been hosting for years.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:05) **r/Incels** - The host introduces the first banned subreddit, framing it as a toxic community that grew from a rebellion against a quarantine.
- 2 (08:24) **Violent Rhetoric and the Elliot Roger Connection** - The host details how the community escalated from hateful talk to advocating violence, culminating in their celebration of a real-world mass murderer.
- 3 (17:01) **r/Jailbait** - The host pivots to the second subreddit, describing it as a relic of Reddit's "Wild West" era where the platform prioritized profit and free speech over protecting minors.
- 4 (23:47) **Why r/Jailbait Survived and Fell** - The host explains the two main reasons the subreddit wasn't shut down sooner, and the specific event that finally forced its removal.
- 5 (33:18) **The Creator: Violentacrez** - The host reveals the identity of r/Jailbait's creator and the consequences he faced after being exposed by an investigative reporter.
- 6 Standout Quotes
- 7 (03:44) "It stands for involuntary celibate, which roughly translates to little boys who can't get a date because they're self-important, misogynistic pigs."
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Reddit is a cesspool... attracting degenerates and incels alike... and today, we’re diving into the places where they gathered… communities so vile that they eventually became some of the most disgusting subreddits Reddit has ever seen.
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