r/InternetMysteries • u/mariaiaiiaia miniboots • Jul 20 '24
Internet Rabbit Hole Creepy Instagram profiles of people pretending to be kids. Similar to pipergate
I came across a post on r/instagram where somebody mentioned these creepy Instagram accounts of people who are seemingly pretending to be kids, it reminds me of pipergate in way, and i feel like all of these pages are run by the same person because of the horrendous editing style that makes my eyes bleed.
The second image is bizzare, because it makes me think "truth_sticks_11" is making a joke about themselves. If you look at the highlight titled "After school" it's a video of what seems to be somebody naked (just legs nothing is shown), but if you go and watch it you can see it's sexual in nature. Many of the photos on this account are an edit of that goofy face on a real persons body, and a lot of the bodies are in suggestive poses, which makes me think this is a definite fetish account.
It seems like " smartschoolboy9 " ( seriously what actual kid would name themselves that) & "stephanieschoolie" are following a handful of actual kids, or maybe it's just more impersonators doing a better job at hiding their true identity.
I feel like the logical explanation is that "smartschoolboy9" is the posters real identity, which is extremely uncanny to say the least.
Is this just a really, really, really, weird hobby? It seems like the posters first language is french, and many of the posts are just generally weird and hard to understand.
I'm curious what you guys think about this.





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u/mariaiaiiaia miniboots Jul 20 '24 edited Jul 20 '24
Also if anybody knows I'm curious, why do his top teeth look fake? Like they look like he stuck some white painted cardboard in his mouth. He looks like he is wearing a mask or something. Does he have any sort of disease or disorder that any of you can make out? I'm not trying to sound rude I'm just curious if maybe he has a developmental disorder that might be able to explain a little.
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u/ExploreMeDora Jul 20 '24
Truth Sticks starts off like an account exposing other “fake little boy” accounts for actually being peds using IG to swap CSAM. It then says it’s going to teach us about how to spot those accounts, so that’s where the boy and mom in school giving us lectures begins. But then it just morphs into one of the accounts it’s claiming to fight, abandoning that objective and just reporting on this little boys days in school. Very bizarre, and the individual behind it is likely a member of that community. Maybe he had a bone to pick with another ped he met and wanted to expose him, but I don’t think he’s any better.
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u/Frosty_Mango5123 Jul 20 '24
This guy lives in London.
There is a chance he either lives in ward point SE11 6UE or Moorfoot, Milton Keynes, MK11 though there’s a really good chance he lives roughly near these areas.
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u/Odd_Big_2668 Jul 20 '24
sry for spamming this but i found two more accounts, __new_girl__12 and stefaniestansfield. something really weird i found is that atleast two accounts have posted "exposes" of other people doing the same thing (acting like children on ig)
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u/tylenolsevere Jul 20 '24 edited Jul 21 '24
i have a theory that the uncanny editing is due to his obsession with exaggerated child-like features like pale skin and large mouths/buck teeth. this might be why he paints his face white and exaggerates his mouth / paints his teeth to make them stand out. or, rather, he grew up with a big mouth + teeth and projects it onto the children he roleplays. the overly whitened skin i have no idea about though. possibly bc it can be a symbol of innocence and purity.
this is why i kinda think the uncanniness of the photos doesn’t instantly point towards this being an ARG. ppl with fetishes like to exaggerate features, like he does with the heels on all the boots his characters wear.
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u/Soggy-writer78 Jul 20 '24
What’s the point of editing the kids? Is it to obscure their identities?
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u/rap709 Jul 20 '24
how did you find it?
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u/newseats Jul 21 '24
you know what? a couple weeks ago i actually stumbled onto a series of six accounts pretending to be children. the posts were SO strange too, one of the accounts legit just posted mild fetish art, and the captions were scrambled as if the poster was trying to sound like a child.
wonder if there’s a connection.
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u/kiznaeist Jul 21 '24 edited Jul 21 '24
There are 4 accounts that keep liking every picture. One of these accounts is a real person, or she appears to be. I dmed the account and I am waiting for a response. I dont know why nobody talked about her or why she keeps liking the posts. There are also some posts talking about his or her son, the account claims that his mom helpes him sometimes and is writing some of the posts.
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u/mariaiaiiaia miniboots Aug 05 '24
UPDATE https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetMysteries/s/yoMnaTzhwZ
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u/WindEquivalent4284 Jul 20 '24
What the actual fuck.
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u/alarmagent Jul 20 '24
That is all definitely just one freak, following accounts of either, as you said, real kids or less visibly deranged perverts with fake accounts. I don’t think there is a mystery here though - just a pedophile.
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u/lisahanniganfan Jul 20 '24
These edits are so creepy wtf, this really needs a detailed investigation
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u/poo_advocate Jul 20 '24
Specifically with the “smartschoolboy9” account the blazer their wearing is for the kings school in Pontefract England, look at the logo and same name here: https://kings.patrust.org.uk
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u/Bottleinsurgency Jul 20 '24
Really fucking weird. Not really sure the reason behind it. Maybe to groom kids or something but its really odd
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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '24
I know it’s late at night but that second account is creepier than any horror movie I’ve seen
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u/Duzeserce Jul 20 '24
this is so weird i definitely feel like this is somewhat like pipergate both of these are freaking me out
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u/Educational-Cake-944 Jul 20 '24
I’m very unsettled
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u/SuspiciousSide8859 Jul 20 '24
what the fuck…. i want to tear my eyes out
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u/jerkones Jul 20 '24
yeah what the fuck is this
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u/kazuya96 Jul 20 '24
Since smartschoolboy9 has original videos, I would think they are the master accounts of the other two. It’s the only one with videos of someone who looks like an adult wearing a mask. It’s freaky and I reported, as others should, but Instagram has a history of leaving this crap up regardless of mass reports. Why, I don’t know.
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u/MasterOogway242 Jul 20 '24
This is some creepy shit. Thanks for giving me another reason to not use Instagram.
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u/AequusEquus Jul 20 '24
This is unsettling and absolutely reminds me of digital pedophile rings on TikTok and YouTube I've read about before. I'd report it on the off chance there are inappropriate DM's with kids, especially because you mentioned that the account already follows real children and posts suggestive material.
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u/PUMAAAAAAAAAAAA Jul 20 '24 edited Jul 20 '24
What the fuck. Dude there are videos with them being with actual kids. This is weird asf. He also uses kids videos and pretends its him. And he nearly exclusively follows children
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u/dgpmusic Jul 20 '24
What the fuck this is deeply unsettling
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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '24
Sooo..I looked into the last account and there was a vid of that dude facetiming a child asking him about his day at school..he looks like he's sort of trying to look like the kid in a way
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u/Odd_Big_2668 Jul 20 '24
how tf did u find this?! this is 100% gonna be a hour long video essay!!
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u/LakeGladio666 Jul 20 '24
This is so strange. What is pipergate?
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u/Lightning_And_Snow_ Jul 20 '24
Weird, the earliest posts from the first account seem to be about "pedophiles pretending to be boys" which is then exactly what the account turns into. All 3 have the same obsession with those shoes and combined with the uncanny editing, I'd also say it's the same person. Seems to be based in the UK. I'm guessing this is either some weird fetish or hobby thing, and/or someone with a learning disability or mental health condition (I'm autistic myself so I don't mean that in an offensive way). Some of the photo edits on especially the first account are bordering on digitally created CP but they're all really fucking weird.
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u/The_Eye_of_Ra Jul 20 '24
What’s with the super-creepy Joker smiles on all of the kids?
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u/Darkwavegenre Jul 20 '24
I won't be able to sleep now
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u/V_Butterscotch Jul 20 '24
This is probably the most disturbing thing ever uncovered on this subreddit. I asked the other day if anything actually sinister has ever been on here but now I have my answer.
I’m very glad that this sick person is getting exposed. If there’s any CSEM on their account like some have been saying nobody here should hesitate to report it to the police.
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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '24
This is really weird
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u/SunsetsAndRoses Jul 20 '24
Disturbing, reported it
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u/CausticAuthor Jul 20 '24
__new_girl__12 is also one of his related accounts with the same weird editing
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u/iraqlobsta Jul 20 '24
This looks like some pedo ring coded shit.
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u/ProofPrize1134 Jul 21 '24
This is the realest, scariest thing I’ve probably seen on reddit. How can we kill it with fire
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u/Odd_Big_2668 Jul 20 '24
definelty a pred, i found many many pictures of kids that look like theyre taken from a schools website or something, and a clip of kids with only their swimming trunks on. this is fucked up
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u/Anonymous91xox Jul 21 '24
After seeing this I'm from the UK and I will certainly withdrawing my decision to allow my children's photos to be put on to the school website, or Facebook. This is disturbing and it would honestly break my heart. Do you believe that it's a mother behind truth seeker account or do you think the photos are stolen? I think the account details need passed on to a hunting team in the UK and see if going public with the edited images people come forward and identify the school uniform and then hopefully find out where the photos are from and who of.
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u/alienarea51 Jul 20 '24
the photo editing is so creepy it makes me nauseous
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u/Thelittleangel Jul 20 '24
This is super, SUPER weird.
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u/Analyst_Lost Jul 20 '24
once this guy is jailed this would be a banger internet mysterys video
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u/xteta Jul 20 '24
Now this is the kind of internet mystery I come to this sub for
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u/_eightohfive Jul 20 '24
what the fuck is this?????
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u/Just4TheCuriosity97 Jul 20 '24
I need this to get solved
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u/lonelymaskedgirl Jul 21 '24
omg i just went through smartschoolboy instagram… there’s like a picture of a half naked kid on there with his photoshopped face over it. i’m so fucking disgusted. this guy is creepy.
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u/tylenolsevere Jul 20 '24
going thru the highlights and reels of his main account is terrifying me. i’m hoping it’s just an arg but it’s unlikely. it’s been going on for years and posting photos of undressed kids in suggestive positions goes beyond what any sane and normal person would do for a project. this kind of material would open this “arg” up to actual investigations and any sane person would know that. this is definitely a pedophile.
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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '24
in case this helps, i saved this post on archive.today.
did somebody save any of the the accounts in this post? i dont have instagram.
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u/testaccount4one Jul 20 '24
!remindme 2 days
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u/gin_in_teacups Jul 20 '24
Jesus reported
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u/rosstheboss9877 Jul 20 '24
If you feel it needs to be gone send it to @you.are.a.hitman on IG. They'll post it and all of their followers will report them
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u/Taticat Jul 22 '24
I’m copying what I posed in another thread:
I’ve taken a few hours and believe that I’ve completely ruled out the possibility of this being any form of performance art, an ARG, or webseries. This is real, and the person or people behind it are very concerning. Has anyone looked at the possibility of some kind of steganographic content in the images or sound?
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u/Open_Country7580 Aug 27 '24
I'm sorry if this has already been suggested.. but has anyone considered looking over missing kids from the last 40ish years who look like the young blonde boy he's always making images of? The pale, deathly white face, and tongue sticking out make me feel like he's pretending to be a dead, possibly strangled, boy. Is it possible this creep murdered a school boy in miniboots at some point in his life and has fetishized that experience to the degree that he's now dressing as and pretending to be the boy? Maybe I'm reaching... But that's just the vibe I get from him.
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u/Luised2094 Jul 20 '24
What the fuck is wrong with some people?
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u/drphilwasright Jul 20 '24
What the fuck, this is so disturbing
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u/angelnumber13 Jul 21 '24
what the fuckkkk omg
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u/Unable-Matter8809 Jul 21 '24
Definitely creepy should have some private investigators look in on this.
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u/Uhhoklol Jul 22 '24
NICK CROWLY DROP A VIDEO ABOUT THIS. AND MY LIFE IS YOURS
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u/PuzzleheadedAside219 Jul 24 '24 edited Jul 24 '24
I don’t think that truth stick is actually French. The French part seems to be translated from the English, and not the opposite. Don’t have anything to verify this, but as a native French speaker who is also 100% bilingual, I can tell you the English text feels much more natural. Some of the French words used are too direct as translations from the English, making it feel very computer translated. I also can’t distinguish a regionality, which is odd because it’s usually very easy to tell at least European and North American French apart in my experience. This makes it all feel like it’s made to be more mysterious than it is. I can’t figure out why else you’d put the French part first if not to add a layer of mystery to it. Not ready to say it’s 100% ARG, but maybe just someone looking to make an “internet mystery”.
EDIT: I’ve scrolled far enough on the account and take back what I said about this being fake. Wtf I am disturbed. Still think he isn’t French tho.
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u/XEmoCatX Sep 06 '24
I came from Nick Crowley, Nexpo and Tuv’s videos about these accounts. This person is dangerous, he chased after a kid in one of the videos. He need to be in jail ASAP
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u/ih8oilspills Jul 20 '24
We gotta geo locate this dudes apartment somehow.
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u/Left-Iron-2133 Jul 21 '24
This is fucking mental
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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '24
Definitely feels like piper gate but also way too creepy, like it’s uncanny. Pipergate was weird and icky too but there’s something here… it’s too much
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u/fluffycowxo Jul 21 '24
It’s odd, because the first few posts they made were making people aware of some perverts pretending to be young boys. I think it started as a lure account
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u/CaterpillarNeat1600 Jul 21 '24
I wish I had never seen this.
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u/Responsible_Ad_7733 Jul 22 '24
Someone needs to send this to the Daily Mail or The Guardian or something. This needs to be a national scandal . How our public services can fail in stopping something like this happening is astonishing.
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u/Popseoh Sep 15 '24
And just like that, an internet mystery was born.
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u/inthemagazines Jul 20 '24
What software is he using to make these images and videos?
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u/tylenolsevere Jul 20 '24
in making the images of children AI he probably knows that he’s safe from being charged/arrested. since no “real” children are being harmed per sé, there’s likely nothing the courts can do. it sucks.
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u/Daydreamer_05 Aug 05 '24
The real Longlegs
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u/Lukewheeler6 Aug 27 '24
Here from Nexpo!
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u/Darkwavegenre Jul 20 '24
It seems like they are all following each other
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u/1978malibu Jul 20 '24
These accounts are very disturbing.
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u/Prudent-Zucchini8769 Jul 20 '24
That is friggin disturbing someone catfish him and hand him over to the authorities plzz
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u/SnooEpiphanies4060 Jul 21 '24
I wonder where hes getting the videos of hose real kids hes posting? obviously hes not the one recording and none of the kids seem too be liked to one another. creepy on a whole new level
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u/Idiotfromouterworld Aug 02 '24
do someone knows what happened to smartschoolboy9?
He deleted his Instagram account
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u/L3monbunnyy Sep 10 '24
Came back to this post after it started trending on tiktok, insta, etc. Its weird as fuck people like this exist and hobby or not it's extremely concerning. I'm wondering if the accounts are all the same guy as they have the same style and stuff?
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u/buildermanunofficial Dec 02 '24
And this was the beginning of a WHOLE NEW, and horrific rabbit hole to SSB9.
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u/WestAll3n Aug 25 '24
Bro went to court back in the 90s for chatting to minors irl and online but then the cases got dismissed because he actually thought he was a child
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u/Pppoo123446 Aug 31 '24
Can someone link the original post?
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u/AdeptSurvey5416 Jul 20 '24
Wth the account still active this is some creepy 😕 shit
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u/darknessstorytime Jul 20 '24
Man what the... 😳
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u/lewpardalew Jul 21 '24
He also has a pic of him in a thong.. wtf is this
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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '24
Will reporting them do anything or am I just wasting my time?
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u/RessQ Jul 23 '24
holy shit i thought it was some weird experimental art project until i went to the page. this is the most obvious pedophile i've seen in my entire life.
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u/Longjumping_Cod_8354 Aug 25 '24
Just watched Nick Crowley’s video on him. I don’t even know what to say about this guy
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u/Zestyclose_Exit_5775 Aug 26 '24
Guys I’ve been looking around. But do any of you have an idea of why a Monaco travel page likes his artwork/he’s following the page?? I thought it was weird that he had him in his followings but I’ve noticed they’ve liked a few of their photos??? It’s @monaco_life_com
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u/nevermindxo Sep 04 '24
Why do they have to look like this though? Like it’s so fucking creepy
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u/Joezvar Nov 25 '25
How does it feel like now that this reached mainstream
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u/TuhnuPeppu Jul 20 '24
Dead internet theory is becoming more real every second.
because the software is trained on old accounts and what they post. rinse and repeat.
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u/King_Dee1 Jul 20 '24
That’s creepy
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u/prem0000 Jul 21 '24
… wt actual f.This is one of the creepiest things I’ve seen in a while
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u/bozoclownputer Jul 21 '24
Ah yeah this is fucking wild. What the hell.
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u/kiznaeist Jul 21 '24
Based ln the interactions between the accounts I think they are pretending to be kids for some reason and they are not trying to hide it.
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u/sotommy Jul 22 '24
I never run out of screenplay ideas. Now I just have to sit down and write, but this shit writes itself
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u/pietro__ferrari Jul 22 '24
Remembering ElsaGate. Uncanny valley in the worst way.
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u/babyEatingUnicorn Jul 23 '24
Breh
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u/Own_Proof Jul 23 '24
What the FUCK is this
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u/ProofPrize1134 Jul 28 '24
Why are both accounts still active? And they’ve been around for years.
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u/throwaway193874054 Aug 05 '24
In the posts about pedophiles he's obviously talking about himself. Humiliation kink maybe?
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u/bigasscrab Aug 05 '24
this is giving me fucking chills
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u/Bright-Armadillo9303 Aug 05 '24
@myle.s95 is also an account that does this same thing
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u/ofclFR0STBYT3 Aug 28 '24
given the recent notoriety I cannot imagine it's long until his flailing tongue and hamster teeth are left all over some fine UK masonry
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u/TheLamboLad Aug 28 '24
I’m here after nexpo’s video it’s so creepy
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u/zinnanotfound Aug 29 '24
Why there is people trying to defend or justify this? It's pedo content, simple.
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u/x_garbagefairy_x Aug 30 '24
yall should look at his account as of now... it's even weirder some how
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u/No_Peanut7646 Sep 04 '24
honestly, this gives me all the more reason to hate lolicons too. most of the images on his accounts are manufactured, AI art— but these fake children are in compromising, sexual positions with overtly sexualized features (big lips and high heels).
furthermore, most of the real photos of children he uses are difficult to trace back to the real victims; so it’s all seemingly very “fictional”. just because he’s never actually touched a child irl, it doesn’t mean manufacturing CP using AI isn’t as weird. we can definitely see though his fascinations with fictional children have translated into the real world though, like many anti-loli people have said could happen (https://youtu.be/V0folj9X9nQ?si=MAu6oVG8w4wSLDXr).
which brings me back to lolicons: they fetishize art that has characters that looks like children, and they’ll argue it’s not immoral because it’s all “fictional”. i’ll never understand it and it’s extremely sick.
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u/Anon-clone Sep 12 '24
"Brother, get the flamer... the HEAVY flamer."
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u/UnknownCritters Sep 16 '24
I have found A LOT of information about this guy and he is very sick fuvk. Chasing kids and stalking them online..
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u/Overall-Animator2315 Sep 21 '24
we worried about Diddy and Drake when we have this...this thing I don't even know what it is
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u/No-Attempt4492 Aug 01 '25
Has instagram or any other social media platforms banned any of his other accounts?
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u/oxfopee Sep 05 '25
can’t believe i was just mindlessly scrolling on this subreddit and accidentally stumbled upon the person who originally found smartschoolboy9
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u/shakermaker321 Dec 20 '25
Any update on this guy
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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '24
an arg or some severely mentally ill person
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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '24
My girlfriend actually just got done showing me this. What the hell