I should clarify that I played Habbo back in its hayday, so things might have changed since then. I didn’t even realise that the game was still going until I logged back in today. I’ll be talking about the game in past tense, even though it technically still exists. If I say something which is now out of date, please correct me in the comments.
Also, beware that this post contains racism, antisemitism, paedophilia, and child exploitation.
If you're ready, then take your room key, open the door, and descend with me into the depths of hell.
#Welcome to the Hotel
Habbo was an online game created in 1999 by Sulake, a Finnish Company, though it found its feet in England. The premise was simple - players created and decorated rooms, customised their outfits, and interacted with others. It found its greatest success in the early 2000s, aimed at people too old for Club Penguin but not old enough for Second Life. While it was possible to enjoy Habbo for free – it cost nothing to sign up and you could spend time in its large ‘public’ rooms – the game became aggressively monetised early on, and pioneered systems which would only become commonplace years later. Since you could not buy furniture without spending money, your rooms would be barren and grey, and you would have very ugly clothing options. The game was based around money and materialism. It was a capitalist playground designed for children. There were a LOT of disappointed parents who found out their kids had snuck out their credit cards, or called the Habbo Credits line during the night. They were simply helpless in the face of a company psychologically manipulating them to spend, and this was before society had come to recognise these techniques.
Players were able to pay real-world money in order to buy credits, the game’s currency, and these could be used to purchase furniture from the game’s virtual catalogue. Habbo set up [numerous brand deals]( http
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I'm not sure why no one else has mentioned this or noticed this. It has come to my attention that TSM has signed RedKohVal as head coach for their women’s Valorant team TSM FTX X. He is dating karnthc, one of the players on TSM FTX X. They have each other in their Twitter bio and post about each other quite often on both Twitter and Instagram. The problem is that he’s 21 and she just turned 17 a week ago. Karn currently lives in the USA.
Sure, you can argue that the age of consent is 16 in many states and SEA countries, but he asked her to be his girlfriend ON her 16th birthday which means AT THAT TIME he was a 20-year-old man talking to a 15-year-old child. I'm making this assumption based off of Karn's tweet regarding their 1 year anniversary on her birthday (which was on 12/31/2021), his 21st birthday being 06/05/2021, and an Instagram post made by RedKohVal himself.
There's no business that an adult should be dating or talking to a minor that is STILL in high school. This isn't the first time TSM hasn't properly vetted their signings.
Questioning TSM’s decision making here on this signing. TSM went through the signing either knowing this fact or not knowing which both seem extremely problematic. Here are some screenshots for proof: https://imgur.com/a/N1nt3Z4
Here he states in his Instagram post "Before we dated..." and the date they started dating was on her 16th birthday (according to the Karn's 1 year anniversary tweet) which means he was talking to her even before her 16th birthday:
https://preview.redd.it/7sc8lbz04ka81.png?width=1078&format=png&auto=webp&s=67b11ee9063a17966fa299c310d45d2c05886f0a
I am a victim of child grooming during my adolescence and as an advocacy, I want to conduct a research about the lived experiences of my fellow victims who have survived. This is for the purpose of raising awareness and prevention. Does anyone here want to share their story? Preferably Filipino victims. Rest assured this will be confidential and private. You can hide your identity.
Let's chat more about the details if you guys are interested.
For those who doesn't know what grooming is:
Grooming is when someone (adult) builds a relationship, trust and emotional connection with a child or young person to increase the likelihood of manipulation, exploitation and sexual abuse. A groomer can be someone in the environment of the child. For example, teacher, family friend, relative, pastor, and etc. They can be anyone.
Stages in the process of grooming involves (1) Targeting potential victims (2) Building trust and friendship (3) Isolating the child (4) Initiation of abuse and maintaining secrecy
Grooming can go unnoticed because the groomer usually befriends and builds trust with the victim's guardians and other people in the community in order for them not be suspicious of the perpetrator's actions.
Hello everyone, this is going to be a heavy subject and this post will probably be edited a bunch. As I feel I will never do it Justice, but let's get started.
First off, I'm going to tell you why this came up. It seems one of the moderators we partnered with to get this sub off the ground has been grooming a 16 year old.
Knowing who the child groomer is I think will help other minors be a lot more cautious of who they talk to and understand that Adults who run the Discords or Subreddits the minor joins are still regular human beings and are just as likely to do Evil vs Good.
I don't want you to Harass them or Dox them or threaten them but People who abuse their power and position in a subreddit or discord need to be called out especially when you use that power to groom children. If I get banned for this I really don't care, I know Reddit's stance is Pro-Pedophile so I probably will get banned. That being said the moderators here are great and I trust them with this community if I do get banned.
The Child Groomer is Uber_Anne she currently runs both /r/DeliciousTraps and /r/FemBoys if I didn't have a previous "relationship" with her I wouldn't of probably said anything. I believe she and the other moderators of /r/DeliciousTraps helped me get this sub off the ground and I appreciate that.
I've always known the dangers a community like this can bring to minors. Having an underage individual trying to figure themselves out puts them in a very vulnerable position and certain individuals will use that to take advantage of them.
We attract a lot of Homosexuals and Trans women and I feel at least 99% of them aren't Pedos or Groomers. But that 1% ruins it for the rest of us by trying to have a romantic relationship with Minors and WE CANNOT CONDONE THIS. I don't blame anyone or any groups of people. The only person at fault here is /u/UberAnne and other Child Groomers.
There isn't anything I really wish to end this with, I guess maybe 5 things.
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If you're a minor, don't DM people you don't know and definitely do not send pictures.
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Call out Child Grooming when you see it.
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Archive this post as I feel Reddit will Censor it.
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If I do get banned for this, let it be known Reddit is protecting a child groomer.
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If I do get banned, This will be my last post and I will say my parting words here. I appreciate you guys and I would like to Thank you for making this community as great as it is. I would like t
Forgive the length. TLDR at bottom.
My daughter (3.5) just started a weekly dance studio thing after preschool. Once a week, we put her in her tutu/leggings(which took me about 10 minutes because I am inept when it come to girl clothes) and we drop her off at a dance studio after preschool. This place has been around even when I was a kid. I'm pretty sure it's just an excuse to dress up like a ballerina so the moms can fawn over their darlings but that's besides the point.
I'm not sure if it is a covid protocol, or if there just isn't room for 20 extra bodies, but it's a no parents allowed sort of thing.
Today was her second session, and everything seemed to be fine. She came home happy and seemed to love her dancing hour. As I'm getting ready for dinner, she is just blabbing a bit and mentions a secret that her teacher told her. My ears kind of perked up and I pressed her a bit about the secret. The more I ask, the more odd it sounds. When I ask directly (but not firmly, trying to play like I'm not even a bit worried) what the secret is, she says something to the effect of "but Mrs. X said I can't tell anyone, even mommy or daddy".
At this point the worst is already running through my head and worse yet, my kid is NOT telling me the secret. She even gets panicked when I say we are going to call Mrs. X and starts crying.
Wife calls the studio, and gets some odd little answer about a pretend game they are playing with the kids that sounds believable enough.
A bit later when things calmed down I reminded her how long it took to get her leggings on, just discreetly prodding for more information. I asked her if her leggings had come off since we put them on and she said no and I have no reason to think that isn't true. There was no distress or hint of bullshit in her answer.
In the end, I dont really think that any funny business went on. I just think that her instructor told her something she really shouldn't have and it really had me worried. A few hours after class, there was a group message about the secret, mentioning its trivialness. Maybe its just me, but having another adult tell my child "you cant even tell mom or dad" reaaaaaally rubs me the wrong way.
TLDR: Adult told my 3 y/o to keep a secret from her parents and it made me think the worst.
Am I an overworried parent, or would this have bothered you too?
I found a page on Instagram that shows what I believe to be a girl who was groomed since she was 11. There are many inappropriate pictures of her on there at many different ages. Apparently she is now 19 so she’s a legal adult. It still makes me uncomfortable, is there anything I can/should do about this?
The page is falcon_labo if y’all want to see what I’m concerned about.
Wait, she’s like, actually a woman. As in born with ovaries and uterus biological woman. No, that can’t be. She has no penis and she look weak. A woman can’t rape because they have no penis. Plus, the “victim” was probably asking for it. I mean all boys technically get very hormonal when they grow up. And he probably enjoyed the experience since hey, it’s his first sexual experience with a woman. I mean he’s probably too eager, amirite?
What do you mean I’m a rape apologist. I’m literally a feminist who stands up for rape victims. The woman is clearly innocent and doesn’t know better.
Okay so I have never posted on Reddit before and honestly typing rn is making my stomach churn because I don’t even know where to begin but I guess I’ll just tell my full story and if you have advice please comment, also apologies for the length I'm not good at condensing. Thank you all in advance.
I am 21F, I was adopted when I was two alongside my 20 yr old brother because my biological parents were methheads and abandoned us frequently. We did stay with our paternal grandmothers for a bit but she had a dying mom and it was all just too much. My brother and I were in foster care for about six months, there was minimal abuse but we ended up with my now adopted family. I have a 22F sister through adoption. Ever since I can remember my adopted mother hated me. She was very abusive, to tell a few examples just so you get the picture, she held a gun to my head when I was 8, in first grade she grounded me from candy the month of October and we had these take-home folders and when I pulled it out of my backpack when I got home one Friday, there was a piece of candy stuck in between the papers in my folder, to this day I swear I did not put that candy there lol, when she saw this she told my brother and sister to go up to their rooms and she pulled out a chair and had me pull down my pants to spank me, she put water on my butt and salt and started beating me. after that she drug me upstairs to our bathroom and ran an ice-cold bath and started shoving my head under the water, she then turned off the lights and left me in the tub for about an hour. She would lock me in her room and beat me, id be screaming while my siblings were downstairs. She was nowhere near as abusive to my brother as she was to me, (not that it matters trauma is trauma I love my brother dearly), but as far as the physical he more witnessed than received, although she did break his arm when he was in the second grade and blamed it on him falling down the stairs to the doc. My adopted sister she loved and adored, I'm not sure what made her hate me so much and love my sister so much, it's something I've always struggled with. But anyway, around 8 I started seeing a therapist, my mother told everyone I was a terrible child who suffered from RAD (reactive attachment disorder), and that's how she would justify the abuse and not allow me to do anything. No one really knew what was going on except for my siblings, everyone saw she treated me differently but never saw the physical side so they also
... keep reading on reddit ➡Here I've selected various excerpts that describe what we've come to understand as the typical stages of grooming and CSA, as well as the systematic behavior of child predators in regards to their choosing, manipulation and discarding of victims. We also see the effects on said victims, who struggle with guilt, shame, and with recognizing that what was done to them was abuse, well into adulthood.
The victim's broken family background
A father, conspicuous only by his absence, who left an unfathomable void in my life. A pronounced taste for reading. A certain sexual precocity. And, most of all, an enormous need to be seen. All the necessary elements were now in place. (…)
The groomer's celebrity background
ONE EVENING MY MOTHER DRAGGED ME ALONG TO A DINNER party to which some well-known literary figures had also been invited. Initially I refused to go point-blank. The company of her friends had become as excruciating to me as that of my classmates, from whom I was increasingly turning away. At the age of thirteen I was becoming a recluse. She insisted, grew angry, used emotional blackmail: I had to stop moping around on my own with my books, and anyway, what had her friends done to me, why didn’t I want to see them anymore? Eventually I gave in. He sat at the table at a forty-five-degree angle, a conspicuously striking presence. He was handsome, of indeterminate age; his head, scrupulously maintained, was entirely bald, which made him look a little like a Buddhist monk. His eyes followed my every movement, and when I finally dared to turn toward him, he threw me a smile, which I confused for a paternal smile, because it was the smile of a man, and I no longer had a father. With his brilliant comebacks and effortlessly well-chosen quotations, this man, who I soon realized was a writer, knew how to charm his audience, and clearly had an instinctive mastery of the strictly codified rules of Parisian social interaction. Every time he opened his mouth, his fellow guests hooted with laughter, but it was on me that his eyes—amused, mesmerizing—lingered. No man had ever looked at me like that before. (…) I stared into space, thinking how privileged I was to have met such a talented man of letters, so glamorous too (in truth, it was the memory of the way he looked at me that made my heart soar), and I began to see myself differently. Looking in the mirror now, I thought I was quite pretty. The toad, whose reflection used to make me flee what I saw in
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I am a victim of child grooming during my adolescence and as an advocacy, I want to conduct a research about the lived experiences of my fellow victims who have survived. This is for the purpose of raising awareness and prevention. Does anyone here want to share their story? Preferably Filipino victims. Rest assured this will be confidential and private. You can hide your identity.
Let's chat more about the details if you guys are interested.
For those who doesn't know what grooming is:
Grooming is when someone (adult) builds a relationship, trust and emotional connection with a child or young person to increase the likelihood of manipulation, exploitation and sexual abuse. A groomer can be someone in the environment of the child. For example, teacher, family friend, relative, pastor, and etc. They can be anyone.
Stages in the process of grooming involves (1) Targeting potential victims (2) Building trust and friendship (3) Isolating the child (4) Initiation of abuse and maintaining secrecy
Grooming can go unnoticed because the groomer usually befriends and builds trust with the victim's guardians and other people in the community in order for them not be suspicious of the perpetrator's actions.
I am a victim of child grooming during my adolescence and as an advocacy, I want to conduct a research about the lived experiences of my fellow victims who have survived. This is for the purpose of raising awareness and prevention. Does anyone here want to share their story? Preferably Filipino victims. Rest assured this will be confidential and private. You can hide your identity.
Let's chat more about the details if you guys are interested.
For those who doesn't know what grooming is:
Grooming is when someone (adult) builds a relationship, trust and emotional connection with a child or young person to increase the likelihood of manipulation, exploitation and sexual abuse. A groomer can be someone in the environment of the child. For example, teacher, family friend, relative, pastor, and etc. They can be anyone.
Stages in the process of grooming involves (1) Targeting potential victims (2) Building trust and friendship (3) Isolating the child (4) Initiation of abuse and maintaining secrecy
Grooming can go unnoticed because the groomer usually befriends and builds trust with the victim's guardians and other people in the community in order for them not be suspicious of the perpetrator's actions.
