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The hidden dangers behind OnlyFans and online exploitation · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  You are listening to The Hidden Lightness on America Out Loud Talk Radio.
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  I'm your host, Jimmy Hinton.
• 0:14
  Well, secretive billionaire, owner of OnlyFans, dies at the age of 43.
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  This was pretty big news.
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  There was a big shakeup last week, I guess.
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  And the owner, he's not the founder, apparently, but he is the owner.
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  He had bought OnlyFans from its parent company and then reshaped it into a subscription model for pornographic content.
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  Completely reshaping the way that people make money and the way that people are, or quite frankly, expllited online.
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  And of course, this happened at a time right before COVID.
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  He bought the company in 2018.
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  And under his ownership, OnlyFans was turned from a platform that avoided explicit content into an adults only phenomenon with more than 300 million users and over one billion dollars in annual revenue.
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  It's powered by erotic performers and celebrity influencers.
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  And uh so Leo Radvinsky, the very secretive billionaire owner, ironically passed away at the age of 43.
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  He died from cancer, and this has created a lot of, let's say, buzz, which for today's show is gonna open us up into uh uh maybe a different avenue from what the roof rumors are and a different discussion, but it is on topic, and you'll see where I'm going with this here in a little bit.
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  But the rumors are that Elon Musk said that he was going to buy OnlyFans in order to shut it down, that there was a quote allegedly from Elon Musk, and he said, well, why not?
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  You know, his fans were uh asking him, are you gonna buy OnlyFans in order to shut it down?
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  And allegedly, Elon's response was I don't see why not.
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  And so now they're all kinds of rumors circulating, and the big question is did this really happen, number one, and number two, could it potentially happen?
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  Would there be any benefit besides for having uh young girls think that they need to be exploited uh for profit?
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  Is it a possibility?
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  Is it possible that Elon Musk could buy OnlyFans in order to shut it down?
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  Well, we'll begin with the rumor itself.
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  I looked into this, and there is absolutely zero evidence of an authentic post by Elon Musk.
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  Uh at first, when I saw that Leonard Radvinski, the billionaire owner of OnlyFans, when I saw that he had passed away, I thought that that was a rumor.
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  I thought it was AI because now you have actual articles that look like they're from credible media sources that are circulating all over the place.
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  And this is one of the big problems with AI, is it's getting more and more difficult to find what's actually true and what's made up.
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  And of course, it is true.
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  I did look into it and found from credible news sources.
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  Uh, I use that term loosely, but uh, you know, with the mainstream media, you never really know.
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  But it is true.
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  There's a Reuters article.
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  Secret of a billionaire, owner of OnlyFans dies at 43.
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  The Ukrainian American entrepreneur bought Fenex International, the parent company of OnlyFans from the platform's British founder, Tim Stokely in 2018.
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  He served as a director on Felix's board and was its majority shareholder.
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  Under his ownership, OnlyFans turned from a platform that once avoided explicit content into an adults-only phenomenon, boasting it's 300 million users and a billion in annual revenue.
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  Absolutely crazy.
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  And OnlyFans spokesperson said last Monday, we are deeply saddened to announce the death of Leo Radvinsky.
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  Leo passed away peacefully after a long battle with cancer.
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  His death, of course, leaves questions about who will own the platform.
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  His Fenix shares have been held in the LR Fennex Trust since 2024.
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  And his net worth was right around 4.7 billion dollars, according to Forbes.
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  They're real-time billionaires list.
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  Reuters reported in January, OnlyFans was exploring the sale of a majority stake to investment firm Architect Capital in a deal valuing the company at about 5.5 billion dollars, including debt.
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  The article goes on to say the platform exploded in popularity during the pandemic as millions of people stuck at home globally turned to the web, fueling a surge in content and users.
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  OnlyFans takes a 20% fee, uh, a 20% fee on most subscriptions and content sold on the platform.
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  And of course, this sparked a global shift in culture.
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  I mean, immediately overnight, and that's kind of the strange thing about the pandemic, isn't it?
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  The pandemic shifted culture as we know it in a lot of different areas, and it did it immediately.
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  Think about streaming.
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  Yeah, I still go back and I look at our church's live stream right before the pandemic.
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  And we were like cutting edge at the time, and it was it was terrible quality.
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  It was really bad quality.
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  Not to say the good quality equipment didn't exist out there and services, but it was really clunky.
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  It was really confusing.
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  It was uh it was not user-friendly, and it took a lot if you actually wanted to live stream and have a good audio and video quality and uh trying to find out what the best platforms were to actually stream, and it it was it was complex, it was very complex.
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  I know I was the one who set up our live stream originally, and I had to do a lot of research and it just it was really complex.
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  It was clunky.
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  Well, we used COVID like millions of businesses and churches and individuals, uh, like millions of people did.
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  We used the pandemic as a time to really zero in on it and make it better.
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  And the thought was, at least our thought, and I think a lot of other people, well, the world is shut down, literally.
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  People were banned, even Christians were banned from having worship services because they were not considered essential, and there were other avenues in which people could worship.
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  And they disallowed churches to meet in person.
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  I know in Pennsylvania where I live, we were permitted to have up to 10 individuals in person, which we did.
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  We had uh usually right between eight and ten people, and we live streamed the service.
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  So I still went in and I still taught Bible class and preached, and we live streamed it.
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  And we knew that the quality wasn't that great.
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  So we worked on it, and we we fixed it up.
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  We built uh a media box.
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  You know, we built the essentially a platform, a raised platform in the back of the sanctuary, and we bought more equipment and we bought better cameras and had a better computer that can handle handle the workload.
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  We upgraded our internet.
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  Uh, we upgraded our soundboard.
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  You know, we did a lot of things.
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  We put a lot of money in and and manpower into it, and a lot of churches did that.
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  And so our live stream improved very dramatically.
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  And it's a good thing.
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  You know, that's I think that's something good that came out of COVID.
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  It became easier to stream.
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  Zoom became kind of the gold standard for streaming services.
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  And really had a monopoly.
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  If you think about it, they had a monopoly on live streaming.
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  And now you have so many different things.
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  And it's just no offense, but pretty much everything linked to Microsoft is a bust.
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  And it's it's it's just clunky.
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  Microsoft is one of the one of the companies that with every upgrade you you typically get crashes.
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  It's like things get worse with every upgrade.
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  And I never understood how they could be so consistent and uh just messing things up.
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  But somehow they do.
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  So that's neither here nor there.
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  So the uh the topic is OnlyFans.
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  What's going to happen with it?
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  Is Elon Musk really going to buy it?
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  Well, there's nothing that indicates that Musk is going to buy it, so I hate to break it to people, but I think OnlyFans is here to stay.
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  It's just a question of who is going to buy the platform and how many other platforms are going to crop up.
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  And that's the topic that I'm going to talk about.
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  You know, the issue is the topic of discussion is how much has the exploitation taken off, especially since COVID.
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  And I use the term exploitation because that's what it is.
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  It's convincing young girls and women that they need to sell their sexuality.
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  And you hear you hear it all the time, and the media, the media has glamorized it too.
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  And I don't care what they say, they've glamorized it.
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  That's one thing the mainstream media covers.
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  And how many times have you heard a story about oh, I was a female police officer or a school teacher, and I was having a hard time paying my bills, and I turned to OnlyFans, and now I'm making I make a million bucks a month now.
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  I make more money in a month than what I would have made in 10 years of teaching high school.
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  Or being a police officer.
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  Or whatever it is.
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  And then, of course, the media loves the stories of the double lives, people who work a job as a school teacher, and they moonlight doing OnlyFans with their husband or whatever.
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  And then all of a sudden, a teacher, uh another teacher or a parent or a student finds the OnlyFans page, and then there it's like a national controversy.
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  I've heard dozens of these stories.
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  I've read about them in the news, I've seen videos on them, and the media kind of sensationalizes it to the point where it sounds very appealing.
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  It begins to sound appealing for young people.
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  And they're like, well, if this person can make a million dollars a month or whatever, why would I not do it?
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  Why would I not try it?
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  And what they don't tell you is that those numbers are absolutely incredibly rare.
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  It is very, very rare for somebody to become a top content creator on the platform.
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  I want you to listen to these numbers because this is really important.
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  This is what people are selling their souls for, essentially.
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  And there are millions of people who are getting sucked into this trap.
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  Listen to this.
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  You ready for this?
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  These numbers are absolutely mind-blowing.
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  The average OnlyFans creator earns approximately 130 to 180 per month.
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  That's the average.
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  This figure is skewed by high earners.
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  Most creators, virtually all of them, make less than 100 monthly.
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  The top 1% of creators capture 33% of all revenue.
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  A typical successful creator with a consistent following might make closer to 1,000 to 10,000 monthly, according to OnlyMonster.
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  But that's incredibly rare.
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  1,000 to 10,000 monthly is almost an impossibility.
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  It's off the charts rare.
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  So a lot of people think that, well, I'm just going to fall into success.
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  All I have to do is uh sell a couple explicit videos or photos or both or whatever.
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  And I'm going to make all this money.
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  And young people, especially, they're they're think about the pressures.
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  Think about the pressures and how easy it is for people to fall into that trap.
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  I just talked about it yesterday, right?
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  Young people are facing a lot of different issues.
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  One of the major issues, one of the biggest issues that young people are facing is the affordability crisis.
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  They can't afford houses.
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  They can't afford cars.
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  Repossessions are the highest that they've been in a long, long time.
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  I think since 2008, car repossessions are at the highest.
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  Uh house foreclosures are very high.
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  The average age that young people, first-time homebuyers are buying a house is between 35 and 40.
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  And so there is this tremendous pressure to make more money.
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  And the trap is hey, this is easy money.
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  Anyone can do it.
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  You get on and and you know, shoot a couple videos or whatever, and and uh off to the races we go.
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  The reality is you're lucky if you make a hundred dollars a month.
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  You're very lucky if you're making a hundred dollars a month.
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  And so once that content is out there, it's out there.
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  And this is the problem that's facing America right now.
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  Well, at least a number of questions, but uh at the forefront of people's minds, what is the future of OnlyFans?
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  A lot of people want it shut down because of the exploitation of young women, especially.
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  A lot of young people uh really starting their lives out at a young age, at the age of 18.
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  Uh, there's of course a very controversial one right now.
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  You may see may have seen this in the news.
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  As a matter of fact, just last month, it was all over the news.
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  USA Today did a piece in January.
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  And other people have done pieces in a lot of people have done pieces in February.
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  But it's the young child YouTube star Piper Raquel.
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  I had no idea who this was.
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  I had to look her up.
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  I had never heard of her before, but apparently she was a popular YouTube influencer since childhood.
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  Upon turning 18, she transitioned to explicit content on OnlyFans.
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  And apparently she's somebody who was already making pretty good money from YouTube, but decided that she was gonna kind of destroy that innocent childhood image.
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  And she was going to turn to explicit content now that she's an adult.
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  She's been described as one of the highest grossing creators on YouTube.
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  And it has a lot of people questioning.
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  All right, well, why in the world do you need to turn to OnlyFans?
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  If you're making that much money off of YouTube, why in the world do you need to sell explicit content?
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  Especially when her image was of an innocent child.
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  I think it's a good question.
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  I think it's a great question, actually.
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  I don't get it.
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  Except we're gonna take a peek into what the studies suggest.
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  And I think that that probably has a bigger bearing than anything else.
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  It's the pressure for this to become trendy.
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  Obviously, for her, it's not so much about the money.
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  Although I gotta say, that's definitely a motivator.
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  But she's kind of clapped back at critics, and she's lost a lot of her fans from when she was a YouTube star.
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  She lost a lot of her fans because she a lot of kids looked up to her.
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  Apparently.
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  A lot of kids looked up to her and thought that she was entertaining or whatever.
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  And I don't know.
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  I don't get it.
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  There was a Netflix series, I guess, in the right before she turned 18.
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  It's uh Piper Raquel in the squad kid influencer documentary on Netflix.
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  So I have no idea what that's about.
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  I haven't watched it.
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  I probably will never watch it, to be honest.
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  Uh, but it just it I want to highlight this growing trend.
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  Another one is a very prominent figure, top content creator on OnlyFans.
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  I think she is the top creator, and that's Sophie Rain.
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  Uh she's making millions, and sometimes millions in a month.
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  And uh for me, it points to a bigger pit a bigger issue.
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  Yeah, this is not about it's not so much about the problem with young people and young women being exploited, but the bigger issue is there's this big of a market.
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  There are that many people who pay for this kind of content.
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  Piper Roquel, for example, and this just shows you how creepy people are, in my opinion.
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  It's just protect your kids, people.
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  There are a lot of creeps out there.
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  Keep in mind, she had just turned 18 and was known for her innocent persona, her childlike persona on YouTube.
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  That's what made her so wildly successful.
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  Now you now maybe we know why.
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  But Piper Raquel claims that in her first month, she made 2.9 million dollars on OnlyFans by selling explicit content.
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  That is absolutely crazy to me that there are that many people who the moment somebody turns 18 now, all of a sudden they want to buy, they want to get the explicit content, which begs the question.
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  If it were legal, and I think we know the answer to this, if it were legal when somebody was younger than 18, would people consume it?
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  Absolutely.
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  This is sick stuff, people.
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  It's very, very sick, disgusting stuff.
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  And the exploitation of girls and women has skyrocketed.
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  I I've I've talked about this plenty of times.
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  Uh National Centers for Missing and Exploited Children, they have on their website that since the pandemic, the exploitation of children online has skyrocketed with artificial intelligence.
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  It has taken disgusting things to a whole new level and fast, really, really quickly.
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  There are a lot of studies that have been out, and believe it or not, ICE, of all federal organizations, ICE, U.S.
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  Immigration and Customs Enforcement, their website has some of the best information on exploitation and what the trends are.
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  So I'm going to read a little bit off of ICE's website.
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  And uh it's actually really good information.
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  You probably wouldn't catch a single Democrat anywhere reading anything that ICE writes as credible, but I gotta tell you, this is really good information.
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  I'll link to it in the show notes.
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  It is excellent.
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  And they're talking about sextortion, and that sex tortion is more common than what you think.
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  It reads this.
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  Not long ago, making prank calls was the worst trouble a group of teens could get into with a telephone.
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  I remember those days.
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  You guys remember the days of prank calls?
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  There was no caller ID, we had the rotary phones.
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  There was no way that they could possibly trace you.
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  And we would call people and just mess around with them, and it was good clean fun.
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  At least in my home, we never did anything that was harmful.
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  Uh, we didn't bully people, we didn't haze people.
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  It was just good, clean fun.
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  And I kind of wished that my children were growing up in a time where prank calls were the only trouble that teens could get into.
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  Anyway, the ice article goes on to say, but today predators use phones to stalk blackmail stock and black male teens on social media and dating apps.
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  I just did a show on that.
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  Facebook just got sued two ways to Sunday in New Mexico and California because it was proved that they were exploiting young children.
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  We're not even talking teenagers here.
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  They were exploiting young children.
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  Predators were literally selling people on the marketplace.
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  Children were being sex trafficked on Meta's platforms.
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  I mean, this has skyrocketed since the pandemic.
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  We need to be well aware of this.
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  We need, I know it's not comfortable to talk about this stuff.
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  I you'll hear me kind of fumble over my words today.
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  I've been talking about this for what, 14, 15 years now, and I'm still uncomfortable talking about it.
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  I do not like talking about this subject.
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  But I bring it up because it is so incredibly common.
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  And the question is, what's the alternative to not talking about it?
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  If we keep silent, they win.
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  If if we keep silent, we don't train our kids.
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  If we keep silent, our kids don't know what's waiting just on the other side of that screen.
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  These devices are a window into our children's lives, whether we like it or not.
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  This is an issue.
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  Your children will face some sort of sex dorsi in their life.
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  Statistically speaking, somebody will try to extort them for sex.
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  It's going to happen.
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  So I'd rather be uncomfortable about it.
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  I'd rather fumble over my words and try to find the right way to talk about this.
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  And there is no politically correct way to talk about it.
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  There is no sensitive way to really address this.
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  We've got to confront it head on and say this is a major, major issue facing America.
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  The whole world.
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  But I'm talking specifically about America and what's going on right here in our own backyard.
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  So here's the next paragraph.
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  Sextortion, and again, this is on ice.gov.
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  Sextortion, the act of threatening to share nude or explicit images is more common than you may think.
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  And cases affecting young children, teens, and adults have increased exponentially the past two years.
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  In fact, Homeland Secur investigations received over 3,000 sex tortion tips in fiscal year 2022.
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  One current sex tortion trend targets boys between 14 and 17 years old.
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  Do you find that a little surprising?
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  I did.
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  Typically, it's girls who tend to be exploited the most.
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  But here we have this really bizarre trend where boys between 14 and 17 are targeted really big time.
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  Adult predators pretending to be young girls, feign romantic interest in the boys on gaming platforms, apps, and social media sites.
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  It starts simply enough.
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  A teen responds to an online request to expose parts of their body on a webcam or send a nude photo to a new online friend in quotes.
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  The next thing the teen knows their new friend threatens to expose them by publicizing the photos unless they pose for more explicit photos or send money.
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  I mean, this is messed up stuff.
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  In some schemes, adult predators deceive and manipulate young males into engaging in explicit activity over video, which the predator secret secretly records.
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  The predator then reveals that they've made the recording and threatens to post clips online if the victim doesn't pay up.
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  This terrifying and dehumanizing violation feeds on victims' shame.
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  The emotional results for victims, especially kids, is devastating.
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  Feeling embarrassed, hopeless, and isolated.
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  Many of these teens have nowhere to turn.
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  I mean, how do they report that?
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  How do they go and tell their mom, oh yeah, mom?
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  I just secretly recorded a nude video of myself and posted that to a stranger online.
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  How does a kid tell that to their parents?
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  And I know a lot of parents are thinking right now, well, I have a good relationship with my kids, and they they would tell me anything.
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  If anything ever happened, they would tell me, and we just have that kind of a relationship.
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  I guarantee you're wrong.
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  In cases like this, maybe eventually, and I definitely I am a proponent 100% of having that open conversation with your kids.
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  Be approachable.
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  Be the type of parents that your kids can talk to you about anything, but it's not guaranteed that they're going to do that.
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  With this level of extortion, the kids are your kids are embarrassed.
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  They feel stupid for falling into this trap.
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  They know by now that it's a scam, and they can't undo it.
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  Some even go, listen to this next sentence.
• 33:42
  Listen how chilling this is.
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  Ice.gov.
• 33:49
  Some, we're talking about kids here.
• 33:52
  Some even go so far as to take their own lives without knowing that help is available.
• 34:00
  This is heartbreaking.
• 34:04
  This is why we need to have this discussion.
• 34:06
  And I'm not, you know, you might have thought that I opened the show talking about OnlyFans is like kind of this silly, you know, what's going to happen with OnlyFans, ha ha.
• 34:17
  But this is serious stuff.
• 34:20
  Because this is the pressure that our kids are facing every single day.
• 34:27
  The statistics are frightening, and I'm going to talk about some of the stats.
• 34:31
  Fact, let me look up some of the stats.
• 34:33
  I'll see if I can find them here.
• 34:35
  Um let's see.
• 34:38
  First of all, the percentage of young women, young American women on OnlyFans, there have been different different figures.
• 34:46
  Newsweek did a uh a piece, and they estimated that there are about 1.4 million American young women using OnlyFans.
• 35:00
  Now, doing a little bit of a dig uh deeper dig here, it appears that those numbers are not quite what's being reported.
• 35:11
  It's it's really difficult to get numbers that are actually reported.
• 35:15
  So let's just start by saying we don't know the actual numbers, but we know it's a lot.
• 35:21
  Some media threads, social media threads have claimed anywhere from one in 30 to 10% of all young American women ages 18 to 24 are on OnlyFans.
• 35:35
  These claims stem from rough extrapolation published by outlets like Washington Examiner and Newsweek, which estimate that 1.4 million American women use the platform to create content, explicit content.
• 35:56
  However, we think the numbers are probably a little bit less than that, but we don't really know for sure.
• 36:04
  All right.
• 36:05
  So let's look at some of the numbers.
• 36:08
  There have been a lot of studies.
• 36:10
  There's qualitative insights on peer pressure.
• 36:14
  Uh 2023 NLM PMC study.
• 36:21
  It's a qualitative study exploring adolescent girls' mental health and social media, and it found that girls face a profound pressure to conform.
• 36:32
  Participants explicitly reported that social media uh social and gender norms create an expectation that they must post sexualized images of themselves to gain peer acceptance and approval.
• 36:47
  Because the images are tangibly rewarded with more likes than non-sexualized images, it reinforces the idea that their physical appearance is their primary currency.
• 36:57
  This is fact.
• 37:01
  All right.
• 37:02
  Um, we're up on a break here.
• 37:06
  Let me just cut there, and when we come back, I'm going to look at more statistics, and then we will talk about what do we do?
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• 38:50
  Leon Radvinski, he is the owner, uh billionaire who bought the parent company, Fenix International.
• 39:02
  He bought that in 2018.
• 39:04
  He switched it to an explicit only content or mostly explicit content.
• 39:11
  And he died at the age of 43 of cancer just recently.
• 39:16
  And this has a lot of people questioning well, what's going to happen with the platform because we know that this really is driving sexual exploitation of young women, especially.
• 39:29
  At the same time, we were just looking at some of the statistics, and ICE says that sex torture has increased exponentially in the last two years.
• 39:41
  A lot of this was driven by COVID.
• 39:45
  And it has shifted something deep within our culture in America.
• 39:50
  This is part of why when Trump talked about the extortion and human sex trafficking of young children and the rape of young children who are coming across the border.
• 40:00
  People flipped out, and because Donald Trump said it, it was that was fake, that was fake news, that was it wasn't true.
• 40:07
  He was just trying to use an excuse to shut down the border and to arrest innocent people who came across the border and on and on and on.
• 40:14
  It goes.
• 40:15
  Well, it turns that President Trump was 100% right.
• 40:20
  There is a major issue.
• 40:22
  There was at least.
• 40:33
  Human trafficking and human sex trafficking increased exponentially whenever Joseph R.
• 40:40
  Biden opened up the southern border.
• 40:43
  It was like Swiss cheese where people could just walk right through.
• 40:49
  And it created a lot of problems, but there was kind of the perfect storm because it wasn't just that people are coming across the border, because that doesn't inherently make people corrupt or vulnerable to sexual exploitation.
• 41:06
  At the same time, we had kind of the perfect storm because culturally there's been this really big push, and especially since COVID.
• 41:21
  Not even close.
• 41:23
  The pressure for young people to sexualize themselves and to send nude photos and videos and those sorts of things.
• 41:34
  The pressure was not nearly as strong pre-COVID.
• 41:40
  And you can chalk it up to whatever.
• 41:42
  It's uh I don't people stuck at home, people bored, too much people spending too much time on the internet, uh, going down rabbit trails and finding explicit content themselves, getting addicted to it.
• 41:55
  Uh I don't know.
• 41:56
  I don't know what all the contributing factors are, but what we do know is that COVID catapulted this issue, and OnlyFans contributed majorly to this issue.
• 42:09
  Majorly.
• 42:11
  It is a big issue, and it is here to stay.
• 42:15
  So no only fans is not going to be sold to Elon Musk.
• 42:19
  He's not going to shut the company down.
• 42:21
  That's all rumor.
• 42:25
  So sextortion, which is getting videos and photos of young children, teens and adults, it affects young children, teens, and adults.
• 42:43
  People get the pictures, these scammers, they get the pictures and the videos, they secretly record them, and then they threaten to post them publicly if the people don't send the money.
• 42:56
  It's a highly effective way to extort people for cash.
• 43:02
  And these scuzz sleaze balls are doing this every single day to millions of victims all across the world.
• 43:13
  This has increased exponentially.
• 43:17
  And there's one current trend, it's very troubling.
• 43:20
  It targets boys between 14 and 17.
• 43:26
  And my theory on that, based on the research that I've done.
• 43:31
  My theory on that is because boys, there's a certain stigma that when boys post pictures and videos are sexualized in any way, they especially do not tell.
• 43:45
  When they're victimized, when they're sexual victims, boys especially don't tell.
• 44:04
  This is very strategic.
• 44:07
  And what they're doing is they're they're attempting to guarantee payment, and they're attempting to guarantee silence, those two things.
• 44:16
  And they're very effective at it.
• 44:18
  So they pretend to be girls who are interested in them.
• 44:24
  They post fake pictures with artificial intelligence.
• 44:26
  This is incredibly easy now.
• 44:29
  It's so easy to create people who don't even exist.
• 44:36
  These boys at 14 and 17, the hormones are absolutely out of control.
• 44:42
  They think they're in love, they they see this beautiful bombshell of a of a girlfriend who they think is their girlfriend, their online girlfriend, who may not even be a real person.
• 44:55
  It may be a picture or image, a picture or a video of artificial intelligence.
• 45:02
  You can't tell the difference anymore.
• 45:06
  And then they're convinced to post nudes of themselves.
• 45:11
  They do it, they comply, they think it's fun, they think it's cool, that it's exciting for hormone-filled boys.
• 45:18
  You know, they they think they're falling in love.
• 45:22
  And then they quickly find out it's a scammer.
• 45:25
  The scammer has recorded the pictures and/or videos and threatens to post them publicly.
• 45:35
  And the boys freak out.
• 45:38
  And they'll find a way to get the money.
• 45:40
  They will absolutely find a way to get the money.
• 45:45
  So this is leading to anxiety, depression, uh, severe panic attacks.
• 45:52
  It's tough.
• 45:53
  This is what our kids are facing right now.
• 45:57
  That's very, very hard.
• 45:58
  So uh again, I want to look at some of the statistics.
• 46:01
  There was a study I was saying before the break, a 2023 study, it was a qualitative study that explored adolescent girls' mental health and social media, and it found that girls face a profound pressure to conform.
• 46:20
  Basically, putting themselves out there online very publicly, and to do that sexually.
• 46:31
  It reinforces the idea that their physical appearance is their primary currency.
• 46:40
  No, while magazines and television have historically sexualized women, social media is far more damaging.
• 46:48
  That's again why it's so portent that Facebook or Meta, the parent company, got its pants sued off.
• 46:57
  It's very important to understand this.
• 46:59
  The research is very clear on this.
• 47:01
  Social media is far more damaging than TV or magazines that sexualize women.
• 47:10
  And it's because young bird young girls are comparing themselves directly to their peers and their classmates rather than to distant celebrities.
• 47:20
  So the pressure to participate and to show off their bodies to quote keep up is significantly more intense, according to this study.
• 47:32
  There was a meta-analysis of sexualizing media 2018.
• 47:37
  This was a massive, massive meta-analysis of over 50 independent studies that confirmed a robust positive link between the use of sexualizing online media and self-objectification.
• 47:54
  The study noted that internet and video game use had an even stronger effect on self objectification than traditional television.
• 48:06
  And again, that's an old study.
• 48:08
  That's 2018.
• 48:10
  Look at how quickly this needle is moving.
• 48:14
  That was eight years ago.
• 48:18
  Eight years ago, this study was done and look at how far we've come.
• 48:24
  Not in a good way.
• 48:28
  So the APA task force on the sexualization of girls is another one.
• 48:32
  The American Psychological Association, the APA, it established early on that the sexualization of girls leads to severe consequences.
• 48:44
  Modern researchers continuously build on the APA's framework.
• 48:49
  They conclude that self-objectification resulting from social media directly correlates with three major mental health crises in young women.
• 48:59
  Number one, severe body shame.
• 49:01
  Number two, eating disorders, and number three, depression.
• 49:07
  I mean, this is what's happening right now.
• 49:14
  And there's a tremendous pressure for young women to conform.
• 49:21
  Then there's the threat of coercion and exploitation.
• 49:24
  That's what I was talking about.
• 49:26
  That uh ICE was talking about, but there was just a 2025 meta-analysis.
• 49:32
  It's called the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health.
• 49:38
  It's a groundbreaking global meta-analysis of over 120 studies across across 57 countries.
• 49:47
  It estimates that one in 12 children worldwide have been subjected to online sexual exploitation or abuse.
• 49:55
  One in 12
• 50:02
  How about sex torsion trends?
• 50:04
  Again, ICE mentioned this, but the National Center for Missing Exploited Children.
• 50:10
  The abbreviation is neckmech.
• 50:14
  It reports staggering increases in financial sex torsion.
• 50:22
  Again, the predators were peers, they manipulate young people into sending explicit photos.
• 50:30
  Then they use the photos as blackmail to either send more explicit content or money.
• 50:37
  Or both.
• 50:41
  So the ultimate conclusion, the consensus among psychologists, and pediatricians and sociologists.
• 50:50
  It's very clear.
• 50:52
  The digital environment does not just reflect the societal pressures.
• 50:58
  It amplifies, amplifies and even accelerates them.
• 51:03
  Young women are internalizing the message that their value is inextricably linked to their sexual appeal, and the constant quantifiable nature of social media makes it absolutely incredibly difficult for them to get away from that narrative.
• 51:23
  This is why the whole Facebook, uh, I keep saying Facebook because it's just when I think Meta, I think Facebook, but it's Meta is the parent company.
• 51:35
  Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, all of that stuff.
• 51:42
  That's why these lawsuits that Meta lost are absolutely important.
• 51:48
  They matter, they really, really matter.
• 51:53
  They matter a lot.
• 51:55
  So what do we do about it?
• 51:56
  As parents, as Christians, as parents, as grandparents, as guardians, caretakers, what do we do about it?
• 52:07
  Well, first and foremost, we absolutely 100% essentially must limit the time on devices.
• 52:17
  We have to.
• 52:19
  Never mind the explicit content.
• 52:22
  Just the studies that show being on a device really declines mental health.
• 52:28
  It's crystal clear.
• 52:30
  The conclusion is crystal clear.
• 52:37
  To let our kids just kind of chill out on a device and veg out, and it's their downtime, and we can come up with all the excuses in the world, but we can not replace face-to-face time.
• 52:50
  We must spend the time with our kids.
• 52:53
  It's essential.
• 52:56
  Number two.
• 52:59
  I think that we need to limit, if not e-limit, eliminate all together, eliminate all together.
• 53:10
  The use of devices in our kids' bedrooms.
• 53:16
  When we go to bed, that's when predators especially come out.
• 53:23
  And that phone is a window into your child's room.
• 53:29
  It really is.
• 53:33
  And if our kids are sitting on devices and they're texting with people who they think is their girlfriend or their boyfriend, and you know, it absolutely 100% could be a complete stranger.
• 53:44
  They would never know it.
• 53:46
  You would never know it.
• 53:46
  It's not the kids are dumb.
• 53:50
  It's just that these scammers are getting really, really sophisticated.
• 53:54
  They're getting very good.
• 53:55
  Uh, they're able to uh pretend that they're somebody else.
• 54:00
  You can now take a picture.
• 54:03
  They could find a yearbook.
• 54:05
  They could find a yearbook with your kid's picture in it.
• 54:08
  They could find who they think is one of the prettiest or most popular people in that class.
• 54:16
  Take that picture from the yearbook, put that into AI and make a video and make it very, very convincing, or turn it into pictures or whatever, and convince your kid that they're actually talking to the classmate that they now all of a sudden have a crush on.
• 54:36
  It's very easy to do with artificial intelligence.
• 54:38
  It's happening all the time.
• 54:40
  People are using AI to exploit our children.
• 54:46
  We've got to limit the time that they spend on the devices.
• 54:49
  We've got to minimize, if not eliminate altogether, the time that they spend on their devices at bedtime.
• 54:57
  At bedtime, they ought to be shut off.
• 55:00
  The best thing to do is to collect them, put them in a bin, lock them up, or whatever, so that your kids aren't even tempted.
• 55:10
  It's not even a temptation for them to get their devices out.
• 55:13
  But we also need to communicate with our kids, and we need to tell them that this kind of stuff is happening.
• 55:18
  Now, it can be kid appropriate.
• 55:20
  I'm not saying that to a five-year-old kid, you're like, yeah, you know, the kids are being forced into sending raunchy pictures and video.
• 55:27
  The five-year-old cannot wrap their mind around that.
• 55:30
  You've got to use age-appropriate language, but we have to have discussions with our kids and let them know that it is never acceptable for kids to do these kinds of things.
• 55:44
  It is not okay.
• 55:48
  You know, these young 18-year-olds who are taken to OnlyFans, I man, for the parents that are like, oh, we support them.
• 56:01
  I'm sorry, that's just not good parenting.
• 56:05
  Have open conversations with them.
• 56:08
  Be truthful with your kids, be honest.
• 56:12
  And there is a better way.
• 56:14
  We can avoid most of this.
• 56:17
  We can prevent it.
• 56:19
  But it takes a lot of work.
• 56:20
  That, my friends, is the hidden lightness.
• 56:23
  There's always hope.
• 56:24
  There's always hope at the end of the rainbow.
• 56:27
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• 56:34
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• 56:37
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• 56:44
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