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17:58: a sense of belonging l? Bro you gonna be less belonging there as soon as you register in gacha life with that save privacy than any community bruh.
Mental issue glorification and trauma dumping was also a large thing. I remember I’d have to talk someone out of suicide at least once a week when I was 10-13 years old. I saw people praise and envy those with eating disorders, and I’ve seen a lot of posts and conversations glorifying SH as well. Absolutely horrible
Yesssss!!! With how much people glorified mental health(manly depression), I was starting to think that there was something wrong with me for not having anything like that
I was one of the lucky few who had a good experience with Animo. I made 4 lifelong friends there, and it was the place that got me into making my own art. I don't remember anything wrong happening to me on there. I did free art requests, and no one took advantage of them. Been on there for 6 years, and I still browse it once in a while. But my other friends who I made on that app had horrible experiences. So I have nothing but my condolences and the other people who were negatively harmed by this app.
Same. I’ve started using it in 2016, got me into sharing art, and found lots of friends that later decided to move to Discord. I didn’t see anything wrong at that time. I don’t know if they have gone through horrible experiences since I don’t think about it, but I give condolences to others who went through this, also.
Same. Never had bad experiences on Amino. I was on Clique Amino and I mostly posted fanart and stories. Was considering going back last year but the place is basically empty now.
I had a similar experience. I think it helped that by the time I joined I was already an adult and I was active in fandom that had an on average older audience (elder scrolls). I still saw shitty things go down in the tes amino on occasion ofc, they were just not happening to me nor very often
I'm still friends with a handful of people I met on Amino and they're all lovely (Although I did recently cut one of the first friends I made on there...) Amino was dogshit but I can't deny I had a good experience on it, especially because I stayed within small communities so I never ran into groomers
I was a victim of this app. I was only 14 years old when I joined a chat with someone I thought was a friend. Things started out friendly; he sometimes talked about intimate actions like hugging/cuddling and wanting to meet someday, but I thought it was ok because he was a friend. Sometimes he’d make inappropriate references and talk about things like hentai and porn, but I brushed it off as just “harmless jokes”. And then it… completely devolved. He started steering every conversation we had toward intimacy and sex. He pressured me into doing erotic roleplays (which he claimed was fine because it was “just my OC and not me”) and would get angry and threaten to leave if I was uncomfortable. He started calling me sexual pet names and saying he wanted to sleep with me if we ever met. One time, he messaged me “in tears” in the middle of the night and admitted that he was saving my selfies and pleasuring himself to them. This continued for 2 years of me being on the app. When I tried to break it off with him, he began stalking me from alt accounts and tried to sneak into my friend group to send me messages. It never stopped, and I only got away when I deleted my account altogether and didn’t tell him. I was 14 years old when we met, and he was… 26. It’s been 7 years and I’m still completely traumatized by what he did. I still live in fear that he could somehow find me again, or that he still has the pictures of me as a child. To everyone who was a victim… none of you deserved it. It wasn’t your fault, and you’re not alone.
I had a similar and a different experience at the same time. The guy I talked with seemed to be in his early 20s (who knows if he was older) while I was 14. He did the same things, started normal, became a close friend of mine and then the things got out of my hands and he was forcing me into sex roleplay. I was afraid of telling someone else until he began to do it with other female friends too, he even manipulated one of my male friends to do sex roleplay... Fortunately, I got help from a Curator and she guided me with the issue. I confronted him pretty harshly to be honest, told him tons of bad things and harming words to set an end to his vicious acts. I overreacted and kept on harassing him for days, I couldn't control my madness and I was in every group chat he would be to make sure to tell him more horrible stuff publicly. He was astonished and tried to gaslight me that I was not being my real self, and stuff like that while saying lies about me to others. Time later he threatened me that he would suicide because of my betrayal and that it was completely mu fault if he died. I never got to know if he did self harm to himself or even committed suicide but I got scared after that and stayed in Amino for some more time before leaving it permanently.
I really apologize for what you've been through. I wish I could go back in time and prevent lots of teenargers about Amino. But at the end of the day, it was not our choice to meet depraved people and get under their control... ...I hope you are more appeased with yourself despite of all of the trauma you have, and that by sharing your traumatic experience is a good step to let go that weight you carry. Have a wonderful day, best wishes for your life, and take care ❤️🩹
For a while I thought the pedo talk I saw in Amino could just be a joke, but after a while, I realized it might be as the realest thing to an actual Pedophile
@@personal9372 it's disgusting, a lot of them groomed kids and teens on amino and then tried bringing them over onto apps with horrible moderation like Kik
Amino is so terribly dangerous for kids. I was groomed multiple times on amino and all because I wanted to fit in with people but suddenly my dms were filled with older men asking to talk to me and see parts of me. There is really no way that could make this app safer even with regular monitoring from parents. Thank you for covering this!
I have MANY horrible experiences with this app, and I’m so glad you covered it! Let me talk about my experience there. Now, I was basically a child, around 9-10 on the app, and I wanted to share my fan art for my favorite games. And so, I posted a shit ton. I was bullied into the GROUND for it. People would always leave these nasty comments and I just couldn’t take it anymore so, I made a new account. Now THIS account was different. It was just me partaking in the fandom and having fun with other people. This account got so many fucked up DMs, asking me to “erp” or just full on sexual harassment. It got to the point of where I was ignoring them that they started to say things like “If you don’t reply, I’ll kill myself!” and so, I felt pressured, scared, and afraid. Only a few years ago did I fully stop interacting with this app. It harbors many good memories but far to many bad ones.
If I remember correctly I did a "two truths one lie" thingy on a new account. I thought "nobody knows me so it's gonna be funny!" Well. Guess what. Literally everyone was insulting me and saying "you bring nothing to this community!1!!1" Eventually I got groomed so yeah uh...literally no good memories there. And...fnaf community. A reason why I hate fnaf now.
man i thought i was the only one experiencing this stuff back then. definitely made a lot of awesome friends on there but then theres those shitty things you'll encounter that'll scar you everytime you jump on the app. undertale amino was probably my first to download a couple years ago as well. was super popular a long time ago and if i remember not many people are active as it was before.
Good God, I hate this app. Biggest problem for me was groomers and moderation. I'll spare y'all the details of the first part, because moderation was absolutely ridiculous. Essentially, anyone picked by a leader or curator to join a mod position could easily misuse their power. I remember getting kicked from a chat simply because I said I didn't like Billie Eillish. I also got a strike for "not reporting someone using racial slurs" (despite warning them not to). And then I received a SECOND strike for the same incident a week or so later because they just weren't paying attention. In one community, the leaders had straight up dipped. No content mods AT ALL. It was the most toxic community I'd been in. It took half a year before the community got a new leader. Hell, I remember trying to be a curator once. But the community leader assigned an entire essay and put me on a time limit of a few minutes. It really irked me how leaders would act in these communities, and half the time were just children/teens who didn't know how to moderate well enough.
One time, in a community I was in, this guy was preying on a little girl. So, me and my friends spammed their wall, made their life annoying as HELL on the app, and they ended up deleting their account. This guy was just being overly flirtatious to a girl who OBVIOUSLY stated her age; 14. A mod found out about the situation, and banned me and my friends from the community. I tried to go back a speak with them about it, telling them it was a PREDATOR and they replied with “I know, and I don’t care”. Absolutely fucking horrible :(
A group of my friends got banned from an Amino community for exposing and calling out multiple pedophiles. The Global users are even worse, mainly consisting of users interested in erotic roleplay (many of which are degenerates who like ageplay which is disgusting). Going back to the Amino my friends were banned in, the leaders and curators there LOVE to censor people who disagree with them and ban the most innocent words (I had a friend who got banned for saying zesty recently. Stating that it's a derogatory term). I only use the app to talk with friends who refuse to go to Discord. All the while having to deal with degenerates and power tripping staff members
Amino really felt like a trap to get innocent beings to exp0sė themselves and those that went against the preds just got punished by the ones in higher power that many times also were preds
I remember using amino as a child. I was literally addicted. Got groomed for years and even sent (bad) pictures at an extremely young age to people who were as old as 30. One specifically, was a moderator. Of course when I tried exposing him everyone took his side and I got banned. It's just crazy.
I had awful experiences on that app. I got groomed from ages 13 to 16, I had my IP grabbed, I had false accusations made about me and many other horrible things. The only good thing that came from amino was my boyfriend but we both agreed to leave amino a year ago.
@@BlueCuler Do you think is a skill issue? Someone who was groomed as such a young age is a skill issue? Don't you know how horrible grooming is? And you're telling a kid who was ignorant about the dangers of amino a "skill issue?" Take that gigachad pfp off, you don't deserve it.
I got groomed there when I was 10 and was exposed to extreme gore, was addicted to it when I was 10 and didn’t shower for days or eat properly or sleep well (before amino coins were added), had a friend I met on there when I was 13 commit suicide, felt forced to act as a therapist to people older than I was, and then met an ex who emotionally abused me. They went to therapy and we are friends now, but I’m never going to that hellscape again. It has traumatized me by preying on the fact that I was once a young child with barely any friends.
Former Amino mod for a medium sized community here. I was barely 18 at the time myself, the oldest member of the mod squad I was on was 25 and the youngest was 14. Before I was in my second year of college I knew the steps for making an fbi report by heart because grooming was just that common. No matter how many hundreds of foods we stuffed through a day the work always piled up. When I quit the app, it was because I’d found my first real adult job and couldn’t cope with the app anymore. My work didn’t ask me to deal with the worst types of humans regularly. When someone was rowdy at my job at the time, they got kicked out. They couldn’t come back. I didn’t have to see dick picks or sexts or anything graphic. It wasn’t until over a year of separation from the app that my psychiatrist told me I was exhibiting the symptoms of a person recovering from contact trauma. And like… how am I supposed to say “oh I got a clinical diagnosis from being an unpaid internet moderator”. I remember being mad for days on end that I couldn’t just ban someone. I remember tracing back usernames and photos to find the creeps real life accounts, and trying to contact local law enforcement in their areas when I could. I’m still not recovered from seeing some of the shit ya’ll endured. The worst of it went beyond sexual exploitation and into outright gore. I was barely an adult, and if it messed me up that badly I can’t imagine the children… If you were a kid on amino who was groomed - I’m sorry. A lot of us were trying SO hard to protect you. I hope you know that we tried with the limited resources we had literally everything we could to protect you. That doesn’t justify what you went through. It never does. But I hope you all know it wasn’t normal, we knew it wasn’t.
Current mod on Undertale Amino, 17 right now, joined in 2019 I 100% agree. I've seen some AWFUL shit on Amino, and dealing with pedophile reports, gore reports, my god. Aminos just a shit show man..
@@Deltasmiler Hey, I know this is in contrast to my previous comment, but you're currently going through it. I want you to know - this isn't forever. The adults who are supposed to be getting paid to run an app are absolutely failing you and the rest of the userbase. But when life eventually takes you away, be it for work, school, a relationship, friendships, therapy, medical treatment - anything - it gets better. You're trying so hard in a place where so few people are, and I know it doesn't feel like it but you ARE preventing harm. When you have the chance, if you aren't already, get a therapist and a psychiatrist. A good one. Seeing that kind of thing on the regular can mess up anyones think sponge pretty horribly. You deserve a functioning, brain. Keep fighting the good fight, but know when the good fight is to look after yourself as well.
@@Jabberwockia"Keep fighting the good fight, but know when the good fight is to look after yourself as well" This comment wasn't directed to me, but thank you, more people need to hear these wise words
God, I wish you were my moderator back in the day. 😂 The mods in the communities in was in, were problematic like "no touch grass" kind of problematic. They were online dating, "DON'T TALK MY HUSBAND/WIFE, WHY ARE YOU FOLLOWING MY HUSBAND?", like damn... Jealous over someone they have never met. 😂 Or... Ped kind of problematic, there was this "leader" he was 25, and this community is about anime, school stuff, and poetry. I was friend with a girl "L", and she was around 14-16, we did all of these wholesome roleplays in the public groups and interacted with each other with voicemails and stuff... She was so damn cute. I was friends with that leader dude too, we were very close friends. Then... I woke up, finding the damn news that they are together? I didn't say much about it, cause I was literally groomed at that time as well and thought it was "normal". She even sent me screenshots of their interaction and I knew he was sending her lewd messages by the way she was blurring them out. Damn... I just wish I reported him years ago, even though it wouldn't do anything since he is friends with all of the mods.
There's another big problem with amino. I'm in anime, and I met someone named bleed. He is someone who has spam bots (he said once that the bots send 3000 messages of maximum text limit emojis), he also has lag bots too (he can direct it to curtain users). He'll talk about horrible things and if you ban him he'll send 2 spam bots at different times in your chat, and or lag you and make your amino crash. He said he had 310 alt accounts, and he gets banned a lot. It's really bad, we can't do anything about it
@@ShahlaSharmin I actually found new information, he isn't this "crazy talented hacker" he's actually using something called "Amino Butter" which I believe was founded by Herb (he's the original bleed) amino butter is how he gets access to all of his crazy bots and stuff
I know that guy yeah he i think hacked a server i was in and oir whole group was seperated i mean i domt kmow em but i finally found one after like 3 months
@@Dinkii-vd7ff turns out he just uses a program called amino butter, he's not actually a skilled hacker. It's an online thing that anyone can get. It was actually made by Herb (the OG bleed)
As someone who didn't have a bad experience in Amino, I'm really sorry to hear the experiences that people had in that app. I hope you guys are doing okay now.
I agree 100% I have been on it since the early 2016's and never once experienced this much dangerous problems, and trust me there was alot of adults in most of the aminos I joined, and I knew there was, but they didn't bother me. And I didn't bother them. God, to know that there was people who had unfortunately experiences like this is just it's just makes me sick and unsettled.
That's what I'm saying! Until now amino has been great tp me and I've used this app to this day. I don't know if grooming and all the bad stuff is simply much less common on portuguese communities or if I am a lucky bastard, but everytime I read this comment section I see some wild stories. Well, guess every social media as it's bad parts
Amino has severely traumatized me for life. Long story short I was sexually exploited at 11 years old and I had illegal photos of me leaked as an attempt to “expose” me. I didn’t tell my mom until I was 16 years old.
@@XSaltyRamenX usually there are some things you can do legally in those Kind of situations to get it taken down, but the bitter truth that some disgusting filth has it on a hard drive somewhere.
as a young teen on a specific amino, alot of these grooming allegations were common. It wasn’t exactly the norm, but it was definitely a problem. I’m glad the communities (at least the ones I’m in) are more stricter and definitely brought more awareness to the issue.
I don’t remember exactly when I left, but I remember Amino being so good around 2018. I was in a small community of artists and I found it amazing. So sad it lost its charm
There are still some small great communities The problem is mostly on the big ones and on amino app itself The biggest problem is that Team Amino doesn't care about fixing problems
Same here, i remember i mainly used amino to interact with a small fandom group and we all pretty much knew each other and were buddies at the time, so my experiences aside from maybe the vent channels weren't as negative as a lot of folk coming out about this. Though i do remember joining large aminos and would always feel like the odd one out in a lot of ways, i just preferred to share my art n keep my distance. Luckily 13-14 yr old me made the right decisions lol. Now i look at it and wonder how this was the only social media app i used at the time?? Like issues aside the layout of the site sucks and they still have yet to upgrade the desktop version lol.
Yup, thats what done me dropping out of the app, not that i used a lot anyway during that time, but it was very scummy the kik thing and the removal of the ads disable stuff
Interesting video, I personally grew up with amino and UA-cam. Got amino at 12 and was pretty active for like 3 years and 80% of my experience was great, I've met wonderful people and still talk to some. Few years ago amino was better, for example without lives and shorts. Like any other app or anything internet related, there's people with bad intentions. Personally already met some creeps or suicidal people on there though the problem was usually fixed quicker in smaller communities by banning those kinda people. Nowadays amino is probably less safe than it was back then, those lives are mostly half naked people who are adults or bots and so that's pretty disturbing. Nothing in life is safe at 100%, irl and on the internet as well. The best is to be cautious and also still have fun, it needs the right balance. Kids be more cautious and inform an adult when something happens. Also important thing, never click an unknown link and that goes for amino and anything other app, I personally never did that luckily. Have a good day/night
From about 2016-2021 I was a curator, leader, then agent leader for the biggest Amino community (English Anime Amino). I’ve seen so much grooming, gore, and even had an instance where I had to voice call a user and her father (who is a cop) because a man had groomed and blackmailed her with her private images that he told her to send or he’d harm himself (he sent fake blood in a sink and he took advantage of this scared little girl), and so so so much more. The bots. The ads. “Old Amino friends” coming back only to find out it’s not them and their account got hacked. We need an Amino support group.
You missed out the fact that there are ligit bdsm communities on amino that label themselves as "15+" where minors ask adults for drp and the predators there actually allow it. There were literally pics of 15 year olds posting their faces for these groomers to see. I was unfortunate enough to come across a bunch of these communities as a child and looking back at it, it was sickening.
I have gotten groomed on that app and so much worse happened. And many of my other friends too. Plus the app is just toxic as a whole. There are some extremely insane people on there.
As a user of amino, I can definitely vouch for the many many bot users it had. It really sucked because I loved using this app and I still do to this day for role-playing and talking with people that have similar interests. It just breaks my heart that they removed this app from the iOS or Apple store. I still have it on my phone to this day but I just have so many memories on that app but despite it’s flaws it’sis still one of my favorite apps.
17:57 This is what pulled me in, I am autistic and didn’t have friends growing up, therefore I had to find some way to fill my time and now an adult with autism and multiple different issues I can’t get a job. Thankfully I found a group I feel a sense of belonging and purpose.(an actual group of people who have met in person and live in the same area). I have been off of amino for nearly 5 years now.
I was on amino as a teen, and while my experience has been mostly good, as I made a lot of close friends there, some adults could definitely be weirdos on that app
Same, i met some of my closest ever friends who I’m still friends with to this day from there, but the app is GOD AWFUL nowadays. The last time I checked they had a live that bots/pedos would use to spam porn across kid friendly communities like Pokémon or Gacha and what not
Same. On Amino I used to have an ''adult'' friend. Tbh I never had any issues they were never trying to get to know me or do anything we Only talked about drawing and animating nothing else hopefully. They Looked like someone wich wanted to have someone to talk to but people from their age didn't appreciate their art, wich wasn't NSFW it was cartoonish and cool. I never recalled them being creeps.
Same experience some lovely people I spent most of my time on Horror Amino very kind people. I just stopped using it as much due to the in app purchase now. Such a shame what it's become
I've used amino for nearly 3 years, and I'm so lucky that I never had anything bad happen to me honestly. The most that happened to me was getting scammed with amino coins ever once and while.
I used amino as well, and I had the same luck as you did. I heard that the app was bad a while after I stopped using it, but I didn't know that it was THIS bad.
I was groomed by a woman on the miraculous ladybug amino. I was young so I didn’t understand it was wrong. after a few weeks of talking, she asked me to be her girlfriend and I said yes, we would talk for hours casually, but then she started to suggest sexual role plays, I felt uncomfortable but I did agree to them anyway, then she told me to send pictures of myself in underwear and she put porn on the videos for me and her to watch. I was 12 and I blocked her as soon as I knew it was wrong. I reported her account to the miraculous ladybug moderators with screenshots. They didn’t do anything. I’m still angry about it to this day because that woman has probably groomed other vulnerable children and the moderators just let it happen….
Same, the communities i were, were small and well moderated, with very strict anti nsfw rules, nontheless, there were some incidents here and there, like a member bothering us, or even one time where the former first admin messed up the site and banned everyone, luckly we got to go to a sort of secundary community without him, and with time, we managed to recover the original one
Damn, I really forgot about Amino, I drained all my cringe phase in that app. I just remember a lot of role-playing, kinda difficult to find an actual normal chatroom. I remember making 2 friends from differents fandoms and they left the app before me. I wonder where they are now
As someone who was in amino for 6-7 years, I met a lot of nasty people and bullies (especially from art communities). I would always get bullied for the way I drew at that time and people were very toxic. I was yesterday on amino to see what’s goin on after being offline for a while,but nothing was changed. Still the same people. I appreciate that you warn people about this app
Thankful that never happened to me because I was only active in one amino and that was the best Amino community by far! The curators moderated and kept everything under control. Of course, not that stopped me from being exposed to adults and nu d ity things, I got sent those photos privately and that's where things get wrong. Even the most friendly and safest Amino community could not be stopped from kids being there and being exposed to all those stuff... Even if the curators managed everything and took care of it if anyone had reported it. It was probably the best yet worst experience on there. I had a better time there than Facebook... which I quitted long ago.
6 years ago I was on amino. There were grown men trying to groom me left and right and it scared me. I used to be there before the currency was a thing but thank god I got over the app at that point.
same :(( i was 10 when i first hopped into the app and there was this creepy 18 year old dude that kept flirting with me... i didn't realise it at the time but i was groomed. :/ thankfully my parents intervened...
I was groomed by a woman on the miraculous ladybug amino. I was young so I didn’t understand it was wrong. after a few weeks of talking, she asked me to be her girlfriend and I said yes, we would talk for hours casually, but then she started to suggest sexual role plays, I felt uncomfortable but I did agree to them anyway, then she told me to send pictures of myself in underwear and she put porn on the videos for me and her to watch. I was 12 and I blocked her as soon as I knew it was wrong. I reported her account to the miraculous ladybug moderators with screenshots. They didn’t do anything. I’m still angry about it to this day because that woman has probably groomed other vulnerable children and the moderators just let it happen….
@@Ganondorf526 I also had a situation with a 20 year old woman on the Spanish dangan ronpa community, I was really close to her and she asked me to be her girlfriend multiple times. I was 15 and naive and I felt a lot of love and trust towards her, the other users used to say that we were married and I liked that I had someone so nice until I started being close to another user that was the same age as me, she had sudden outburst of jealously and would gaslight me, I just ignored her since it made me feel really bad and that's my copping mechanism, I'm glad I did that.
I joined amino when I was 13 (I'm 21 now) and it was one of the worst times of my life. I got addicted and the wrong people entered my life. I was groomed by an older man and had a relationship with him to the point where he was able to meet me irl and nobody around me batted a single eye. Amino is terrifying and I still have nightmares to this day about him and some of the people I had met. It's such a toxic place and I genuinely hope kids stay away from it.
As an amino user... I truly fucking HATE how amino has become. Back when I was in highschool it was fine 7 years ago. It's become a ground for pedos, scammers and sex bots. At least they removed the live shit. I wish the current developing team would work on fixing and battling this harmful stuff to children than releasing new frames, chat bubbles, and events. They need to fix their shit.
I created the popular Sonic Amino and oh my God the amount of stress this app put on me was insane. Creeps, bullies, toxic fans it had it all. I was treated like dirt from so many just for being a "bad leader" while I was 15. Even when I stepped down I was still picked on. Amino has always been a mess to me. I will say though, I still have several of my best friends from the app. Amino has been responsible for some of the best and worst memories of my life. I'm just glad other options exist for me and my friends to talk on. This app is disgusting
you created the sonic amino? I Met some amazing virtual friends on there thanks for making it possible for me to have some great irreplaceable memories there. And Yeah amino could be terrible for minors to join. I think it's at its best when adults r only allowed there. I Wish there was another application that combined the fulfilling accessibility of making posts and garnering a following with the casual group chat features..
The sonic amino was one of my favorite sections for a while of the internet, I did notice the issues and toxicity there but u never encountered it much myself. I guess cause I'm an adult and I try to avoid drama, but I was able to meet my partner on Sonic Amino and we live together now so it was a good app while it lasted, but it died.
It's wild to see this. Honestly, comments like these make me happy. It's good to know that Amino has made so many happy over the years. It makes the suffering worth it
Your profile pic reminds me of a specific instance I had in the Pokemon amino. God, was that place a trashfire. I was an aspiring artist that wanted attention, like any child does. However, PokeAmino had a very unique problem where the curator/leader team exclusively promoted existing big artists, and these artists were in their own big friend groups. To ever receive recognition on the platform and get featured, you either had to get lucky one day, network your way into these friend groups so you could suck up to the curators, or be incredibly talented out of the gate. This led me to developing a LOT of issues with my self-esteem and artistic talents. I tried *so hard* to get into these friend groups and make it big as an artist that every failure did more damage to my mental health than the last. It led me to developing issues with making friends and maintaining them to this day. I even got the displeasure of experiencing my first bout of Impostor Syndrome because one popular artist liked the same character that I did, and my child brain thought I would be stealing "their thing", since they were better than me. That... ruined my identity. Ever since I left Amino I've been a little bit better but not by much. I still struggle with maintaining relationships and keeping them healthy, and I've completely given up on art as a whole.
During lockdown, I decided to join Amino and got hooked. I was a part of the Attack on Titan amino, which luckily wasn't too horrible, but I definitely noticed it's flaws once I started using it less and less. I made so many friends who I still talk to, but we all left. The amount of drama that happened in that community was insane; it was mostly about moderators. There seemed so be some kind of weird power dynamic, everyone hated the mods or loved them. I have many stories, but I'm happy I deleted that app when I did
I've been a moderator in two different communities and I can definitely agree that moderators have been a huge issue in some aminos. The whole kids shouldn't moderate kids is spot on. There tends to be a lot of power abuse amongst moderators in a lot of aminos- towards users and fellow staff/curators.
I was fine with amino. I was an active user (I was 10 years old at the time) and I joined in 2016. Remained a prevalent user through 2016-2019. It was a great experience for me because I was involved in the autism amino. Which was an amino that helped me grow socially and become a better person
really great informative video! as a survivor of amino, lots of stuff really stuck out to me, like the currency, the UI, and especially the communities while i mostly left amino because of how much it fucked up my mobile speed, another reason i left was soley because of the community, more specifically the invader zim one i used to love the show religiously and made so many friends there, but a multitude of problems arose people emotionally manipulated me and mentally broke me to stay on amino calls for longer than i wanted, my first ex (which i met on there) was emotionally taxing, drama would spout out left and right, and when i couldn't take it anymore and left, everyone i knew followed me to other places like youtube or discord some i'm still cool with, others i never want to interact with again, but still forced to because of my fractured mental state, all thanks to these lunatics manipulating me and emotionally draining me i never wanted to involve myself with anything zim related afterwards, but some of these people remind me of my horrible times in there and never let me cut away from them like this one guy named kevin, a stubborn asshole who starts drama for no reason, emotionally drains and harrasses people he doesn't like, and looks back on what he does to people with no regrets at all whatsoever, almost making a mockery of the suffering he caused others, myself included i implore anyone reading to stay far away from this app as possible, you'll make acquaintances that think they care about you when they really don't
I joined Amino when I was 11, I joined because an animator I liked got sponsored by them and I mistook it for being a animation/drawing app. I was targeted and sexually exploited by many adults during my time on amino. I was exposed to things I shouldn't have been, at my age. I was on the app before amino coins and the redesign, the pink 'A' and green background was what I knew. I try to forget most of my experience on amino tbh, because it was mostly bad. An event that always comes to mind when i think about my amino days though, There was a amino that i believe has over 10k members now, but when i joined it had maybe 4k. The leader/owner of the amino was doing nsfw rp with a ton of my friends, who were likely around my age too, and said friends tried to get me in on it. The leader of the amino was in his 20s. Also the previous leader dated my friend who was like 13 and he was in his 20s too. Trying to remember just makes me realize how many adults were taking advantage of me and many other kids. Its kind of insane, and extremely sad tbh.
Me three.. I thought I was alone, and for the longest time, it messed with my brain because I had a lot on my plate, it felt like no one my age cared😔 I'm glad that it is being spoken about.
I haven't had any really bad experiences like being groomed but I was pressured into erp in some gacha amino and was r worded in a undertale rp once. ive always been in the adopts or fan communities, once I saw a 16 year old moderator get called a pedophile for being a victim of a 19-21 year old admin, it was terrible because people were sending them death threats and inappropriate pictures too. I often think about that mod because I feel terrible for them - the admin was victimized while the mod was left out to dry and the mod team didn't even try defending them or anything.. Ive never been able to look at the community the same way ever since then.. thats also why im slowly distancing myself from amino, when im done with all my business there im deleting the app and moving platforms!
I was on Amino between 2018-2020 and most of my experiences consisted of toxic friendships. It's really sad just how an amazing concept was brought down to this.
I had Amino from 2016-2019. When I was 12, I was groomed and SAed by multiple men multiple times on the app for about a year. I was insecure and suicidal with not the best support system which made me a perfect target. We would be rping buddies and then they would start to prey on me but because of what was going on in my life I would compline for the positive attention I would get back. When I tried to set boundaries and would tell them no they would emotional and mentally abuse me using multiple tactics such as guilting and threats to keep me in the cycle of abuse. At the end of that year I thankfully broke out of that cycle and deleted that amino community I had, it would take me another 2 year to delete the app. I have no idea what happened or became of my abusers or even who they really were and thats something I will never know. I'm doing much much better now mentally but because of the SA I now have C-PTSD.
I used to use this app a lot. I even made my own little community. I never saw anything bad of it… I must have been oblivious. I was going to install it again today, maybe I shouldn’t though… plus it was removed from the iOS store so something must be going on…
I was 12 when i first found amino, I'm now 17. Some of the awful things I saw back in 2018-2021 still haunt me. I was a member of the biggest Assassination Classroom (anime) amino and was on it for at least like 3 hours a day, sometimes going up to 12 when I had nothing to do. Some of it was good, met some of my best friends there, found comfort in my personal struggles and had a place where I was accepted. But like all good things, there were just as many bad things. The biggest one for me was joining the moderation team of a smaller amino. I was 14 at the time, and questioning a lot about myself and tried to find some form of comfort in the people I thought i could trust. Instead, they used the information I shared as a way to shame me publicly. They spun what I said to suit some disgusting narrative and threw me out of the community I helped to build. I don't want to go into full on detail, but that community was one of the most vile and disgusting places I've ever been a part of and it was the reason I left that godforsaken app for good.
Glad someone finally spoke on the shock horror on amino. I was exposed to torture porn roleplays, people glorifying violence and trauma, and worse on some of the biggest kid fandom communities. (Warriors and Wings of Fire) And this shit RUINED me. To this day.
I used to be an admin on one of the bigger wings of fire, and there was so much shit that happened. Kids would come to me and ask for help. I felt so powerless. I would ban the trolls, groomers, and predators, but they would just come back. It was scary.
When i was 14 i had an older "friend" in amino wherein they constantly trauma dump on our dms and tell me all abt their SH tendencies. Whenver i didn't get to talk to them and listen to them, they would make me feel like a terrible person and a horrible friend. It went as far as me being uncomfortable during family vacations because im constantly worried about them ending their life whenever i couldn't access them through the app. I just wanted to see art and share mine, i didn't want to get subjected to half a year of being in such a toxic friendship with someone over the internet.
You should not take responsibility for their life. It's good you got off that app. Even though my experience there was quite good and I cherish every good moments there, not everyone had the same experience...
When i was 11, i met my abuser on amino. It's been 7 years and I'm still dealing with the ramifications of this, getting messages from them and being forced to relive what it felt like to be stalked by them, abused, and be alone online with no help from anyone :(
Current Amino user here! Safe to say I haven’t had this issue. You can be safe on the app depending on which amino you’re in are and the rules you keep to yourself. I only use it to rp for fandoms I love though I don’t pursue relationships for anything further. I also read/post fan content often. The best advice I can give for other people or people starting to rp on the app is 1, Have a rp rules wiki. Maybe have a password for pms just to be safe. 2, Don’t chat with anyone who starts it with “hru” and nothing else because that’s a major red flag. 3, if they have a profile that has nothing to do with the fandom, dni. 4, READ THE OTHER PERSON’S RULES OR ASK AND THEM. Usually they have their age in their rules. Hope this helps, if you have anymore questions I’ll be happy to answer in replies.
its so unfortunate. amino really had a great concept, like ive met a few people on amino and im still really close with them today. it had a great concept to make friends with people who have the same interest as you. its just so sad what could happen with improper moderation
amino was a hell hole long before the bots and the scam accounts, especially when it came to the rp community. i remember changing my profile bio in different rp communities to say that i was lesbian because it kept the creeps away. Other than that the people on amino were just toxic out of all the people i met in my time in the rp scene, i talk to none of them anymore. the only people i did end up keeping in contact with were from a witchcraft community and i only talk to one of them as of recently.
I remember I got groomed and abused by someone who seemed completely safe, that is what scares me most, I joined a amino during a drama and didn’t know what side to join but I was like 12 I had to join one didn’t it? So I saw this user “hexa” she had a pretty pfp and said hi and nice things to me so I joined her side. From there she groomed and groomed me using me to start dramas by pissing me off and then telling me to go to a public chat with her where I’d loose my patience and snap, I was drawn as the villain and the bad person. But she only banned me when I was aware hexa was abusing me. Which made her more rude but more sexual to me, trying to make me like her again but I refused to and I tried to go to a other victim of hers who then Led a few months later without me knowing groomed me just like hexa did. The amino I joined was a grooming hell hole. and it didn’t care about anyones safety just how the mods could use people The main abuser hexa is still a round as well going under “jsabcheetah2” or “shine icon studios” on UA-cam.
@@Xx_D4RK_K1N_xX yeah i have somewhat of an experience like that myself, less on the abusive side and more on the grooming side. i was e-dating this dude who claimed to have a crush on me. dude pulled out all the stops, played the roll very well, until he and another friend got into an argument that i was invited to. i was puzzled for a second before i read the messages one of which read that he wasn't into me at all. and i realized then that he was just using me for erotic role play.
It got to the point where I was pretending to be a male on the Amino app to stay safe. Everytime I would log on as myself, men and a bunch of horny guys would text my account. Blocking them was hell for me and I only found solace when I accidentally found four users that made me feel safe and I revealed my secret and my struggle. It took so long for me to finally change my bio and profile picture back to... Well, me. I still talk to my Amino friends until today- but holy fuck.... Being an adult now... Amino forced me to grow up and understand s**ual phrases and when someone was using them. I also do NOT miss the rampant bullying. One of my old 'amino bullies' somehow managed to find my real social media even though I never gave it to him. Thankfully he's nicer to me now- but when he was in his shitty days, I remember just hating logging on but wanting to talk to my four friends about what was bothering me.
I had the misfortune of being pressured into multiple inappropriate forms of roleplay when I used Amino in middle school. I had learned of the app through my friends who wanted me join so we could chat and share art together. I did and I ended up joining multiple communities. Now I have a serious problem when it comes to denying people of anything so that made me an easy target for multiple people to harass and pressure me into very NSFW roleplay, thankfully they didn't ask for any pictures,but it still makes me uncomfortable to think about to this day.
I remember using this app as a form of escapism in early 2016 to late 2018, I was so young and didn't realize that the way users were interacting with me was inappropriate, I hope the people who manage the app finally do something to protect their young users
I was super active on Amino from 2017-2019. I joined the MCU amino and it was one of the best experiences ever. Everyone was so nice and supportive of my art. I joined so many projects and it has helped me to make the art, analysis, and critical thinking I have now. It was one of the few places I felt accepted in as an autistic teen. I became less active in 2020 due to post block and poor mental health and left for a time. I came back in 2021 and it was still the same. Although the community has a lot of active members, only a handful are online at a time and it’s very tight knit. I did quit in 2022 due to me outgrowing the platform and moving onto Tumblr and UA-cam for fandom content. It hurts to see the app that has given me so much hurt other people like me. I hope it gets fixed.
Happy someone’s talking about this- I was on amino through the ages 9-11, and during that time I had gotten my childhood taken away from me 😭 weird roleplays, creepy people wanting pictures, people sending weird pictures were EVERYWHERE. I personally think that there should be an higher up when it comes to admins and moderators, it could make things safer and it’ll help matters (like the ones in the video) be taken more seriously. I won’t deny though that I did have some good experiences, so the app isn’t all that bad. It still needs fixing though.
Yeah Amino is absolute dumpster fire right now 💀 I usually gravitated towards rp communities and people I met there had no patience at all, spammed me 14 times or more times a day So I just moved to discord with some other decent friends I met on amino
I remember using amino when i was like 14-15 It was such a mixed bag of “the people in this app are so nice” and “why is everyone so awful?” I met some good long time friends there but also had my first online “relationship” which was extremely abusive Drama was like your every day bread too essentially because its all stupid teens being stupid I remember redownloading the app the get back some data from my old account and ah man All the communities i was in felt like ghost towns It was such a hopeless feeling because they were so active and alive
YES!! When amino started to die i just, stayed for a very long while lurking around. The bots started appearing more when the app was less active i think. Before that there werent so many of them. It started when the world chat or something was introduced.
I was (technically still am but haven't been on amino in ages) a leader of multiple medium sized, now mostly dead, but a few years ago rather active communities. I was a person that wanted to help fix issues I saw and tried to do so in every way possible. And in one of those particular aminos I and the other people in there had a particularly nasty experience. When I was a normal member I tried to help and work myself up to a leader role which eventually worked but it was more than horrible. The previous leader was an unpleasant and manipulative person, would abuse their power and acted inappropriately towards a few people which were all children (I was 13/14, I remember beeing one of the older people at the time and consequently felt a certain responsebility to help). A small group of people (approximately 7) banded together to try and take the leadership role and make the community a better place. I was introduced through a person that shildered the problem to me. Me beeing me I wanted to help. The issue was that most of the mod team was friends with that leader. And the only way to ever get ownership of that community would be through talking and getting them to willingly hand it over and you can probably imagine how messy that got. I played a major role in talking with the leader, explaining what we want and trying to sweet-talk them, I remember beeing incredibly desperate to get everything to work out as it has already been a week of constant back and forth, false bans and many muted people. The unofficial leader of the whole operation created a seperate amino due to half of the group beeing unable to interact on the main one to discuss our next actions and comfort one another. Many were stressed but I cannot exactly put into words how that situation felt to us at the time. Trauma dumping was an issue. Somewhere along the way the amino was gore bombed. We knew the person who did it and were incredibly disturbed that something like that could even happen. We felt helpless at the time, not having any actual power to take down posts which is why many people saw them, it was my first (and not last) exposure to extreme gore and the images got burned into my mind, I can still give a detailed description of them today. I tried to not look at them because I knew that it could have consequences for me but we as a group felt obligated to warn the people on the amino to not look at posts or enter public chats (both were flooded with those pictures) which is why avoiding them was impossible for us. We eventually got the leadership role after about a month and could ban the leader. We installed ourselves as the new curators and leaders, as we were pretty much the only ones trying to take care of the amino. Things turned out nicely for it afterwards, we achieved our goal and could finally take care of issues quickly. The amino was gore bombed a second time and I can remember taking the posts down one by one. For beeing a group of teens (oldest person was 17) we did a good job at moderating everything and the amino eventually had a natural "death" of declining activity to no activity after 1 more year. For everything horrible that happened I have very fond memories of the place and the people I met there. I have good memories of a lot of communities I joined on Amino, especially in my first year as the App wasn't that bad there yet. I was on the app all the time and met incredible people, chatted with them for ages and was very happy to have people that share my interests as there were none in my irl circles. I improved my english because of amino, due to the endless amount of chatting I did I got better and better with time and partially because of that experience I am fluent now. I am grateful for those great experiences during the 2 years I was actively chatting and now look back with nostaliga. But I have to acknowledge that some of the things that happened weren't okay. I was a therapy friend, and I talked 2 people down from offing themselves. But I don't want to endlessly talk about all that went wrong, this comment is long enough as is. Sorry for this wall of text! But I wanted to show my experience of Amino, both good and bad. Sorry if it is a little difficult to read, english is not my first language as I mentioned earlier :')
Oh! I remember the Amino protest as beeing one of the last things I took part in by spreading the message in communities I curated. I disabled automatic updates and eventually couldn't open the app anymore due to my version beeing to old. This video showed me that they actually got rid of the Kik thing so I updated it and looked at it for the first time in forever aaaand , like expected, it's just as laggy as ever
I was on amino as a high schooler. Met some brilliant people and learned a lot about my hobbies on a heavily moderated and relatively smaller community. The majority of the app, however, is infested with perverts and weirdos, especially those who target younger teens and children.
Tbh I never knew about this side of amino, I only was in 3 aminos actively. Animal crossing, Mario, Nintendo I didn’t have any negative things happen though I can see how this could happen
I was on amino in it's early days as a young teen. There were creeps, but they were easy to ignore, because they were so obvious. I was sooo addicted! I loved to roleplay. And all day all I could think about was my stories and characters. I miss the old days.
I have an experience to share... At 11 years old (7 years ago) i was groomed in an app called undertale amino, being the young undertale fan I was i decided to join to make friends and talk to people with the same likings as me (because i was a weird kid at school for liking undertale i thought it was a great idea) My groomer, who at that time was a 16 yo, so obviously he knew what he was doing, often forced me to roleplay +18 stuff... it was disgusting and i was traumatized by it all, he threatened to hurt himself if i left, so i didn't until i was like... 13 that i had the courage to unstall the app. Overall it was an awful experience not only I experienced it, a close friend of mine did as well, it was much more common than people think and we felt like we couldn't do anything, the curators didn't do anything either, It just marked me for life. (I'm sorry if my english is bad it isn't my first language)
Surprisingly enough, a lot of adults just want to be there because of life too, a lot of them there to escape, I'm in entire communities full of mostly adults and it's just fun talking to people around the same age as yours about issues that you both have or, something good that happened to you today, hopefully this video blows up better than mine did addressing bots and issues, tho, i gotta make one about the roleplaying comms.
@@egas4679 you're welcome. As a mom of a 15 year old daughter, are there any others flying under the radar the way amino did? I knew about kik but not this one.
I remember using amino when I was tiny, and I was very lucky to not be groomed or anything like that. But I do remember being part of this relatively large amino once, it had tens of thousands of members, and it was all being managed by a 14 year old. Yep. The leader was 14, and all of the team was of a similar age, and you can imagine the drama that ensued. Literally the team crumbled and all turned against each other over petty childish reasons and as a result the community was just full of nothing but drama and taking sides, it was literally just a sharing OCs amino and it got to a point where I never saw peoples art anymore I only saw this awful drama of the leaders ripping each other apart childishly. Tens of thousands of people and that’s what it became in the end. How the creators thought users managing each other was insane, literally anyone of any age can host create an amino
Back in 2019, there was a popular link being spread around by bots containing heavy gore. This was like cooking a dog alive, people harming themselves, etc. Amino STILL hasnt yet taken action about 5 years later. Im still active on the LPS (Littlest Pet Shop) Amino since I have a big part in it, but the way the owners of Amino neglected the app is insane.
I almost got groomed on amino a while back. made an account but i won’t list the name. I joined my favorite fandoms (anime, Drawing etc) and i got around 3 dms i think? 1 dude asked me for feet pics on IG and another wanted to ERP, he asked for my face and i said no. Luckily i knew enough to not get taken advantage of. He made me feel really uneasy so i blocked him and deleted my account. I felt like vomitting and i was so shaky that night i didn’t know what to say. I never told anyone about what happened except my close friend, Though. People below 18 PLEASE be safe. Don’t give any personal information to anyone you do NOT know. And parents please monitor your child’s activity on the internet. To any victims of grooming, I’m so sorry that happened to you. It really shouldn’t have and it sickens me that there are a lot of creeps lurking around apps where children can be present. Lot’s of love and stay safe please! ❤
I was groomed by a woman on the miraculous ladybug amino. I was young so I didn’t understand it was wrong. after a few weeks of talking, she asked me to be her girlfriend and I said yes, we would talk for hours casually, but then she started to suggest sexual role plays, I felt uncomfortable but I did agree to them anyway, then she told me to send pictures of myself in underwear and she put porn on the videos for me and her to watch. I was 12 and I blocked her as soon as I knew it was wrong. I reported her account to the miraculous ladybug moderators with screenshots. They didn’t do anything. I’m still angry about it to this day because that woman has probably groomed other vulnerable children and the moderators just let it happen….
@@Ganondorf526 Holy hell i’m so sorry. You’re very brave for speaking about your experience, You did the right thing. Please stay strong! I hope that woman gets what she deserves, You didn’t deserve that at all and you were only a little kid.
Thank you for spreading awareness about this. I was groomed by multiple adults in a public group chat on amino before when I was younger. I don’t even understand how it has not been deleted and banned everywhere in the world yet. It needs to be.
I remember when I was on Amino, it has traumatised me from thinking "friends" was dying or being groomed or getting told by everyone I will not get anywhere with my art despite how much I showed that I wanted to be a artist and it was awful :(
Amino was a very dark time for me. Not because I got harassed or attacked or anything. Instead it was because I, unknowingly, did some very horrible stuff. I didn't understand how my words or actions effect people and I treated everything like it was a funny joke but people couldn't tell me it was a very very sick joke because I guess, just like me, they felt like our small community was the only friends we ever had. Not only that but we also had a small private chat where we would gossip and make fun of newcomers behind their back in our community which was also not the nicest thing to do. Truth is we were all shitty people, and I think I was the shittiest of them all. For a long time now these people have cut me off and I don't blame them. If I knew the me from 2016 I too would have kicked him out of my life forever and thus I'm happy for them
I had an experience like this too, I'm glad I got off the app and self reflected and got my self Into a better headspace. I was a terrible person on amino and I regret almost everything ever done on there.
Reminds me of the shitty thing I did to my best online friend. I look back and realize what my actions and words could have been interpertated. And I still regret it very dearly. Wish I could apoligize to them now. But I know that will never happen. Lost a great friendship due to my selfish subconcious. But what can I do now? Just move on...
I was also in a similar position. I haven't talked with many people I knew on there since I left...up until they all came together and called me out for my actions. It's been hard to come to terms with what I did and my negative impact on my former peers, and I still struggle with trying to move on past it, knowing that I inflicted a form of trauma onto another person and have disgust paired with their mental image of me. Just know that you're not alone in trying to move past your darkest times. ❤
It's not your problem alone, this everyone's problem in our current gen, every kids defines on what being cool is = Edgy & overjoking & overusing memes, to the fact it becomes way way too annoying, & that why the others keeps doing exactly the same It's not cool anymore
I definitely experienced creeps trying to talk to me on the app knowing what age I was at the time but I remember when the app used to be so fun. Even older ladies who crocheted would be a part of the communities. Thanks, Visual for covering this app! 😊
I had been groomed countless times from when I was 12 to 16. I am now an adult and I’m trying to move on from all of the pain I endured being a member of the Amino community. The moderation was okay for some communities, but the general experience for just using the app as a whole was bad. Men in their 20’s and 30’s would groom the younger people (I had older men talking to me and would be okay with the fact that I was 12 or 16.) into fulfilling twisted desires. I was even manipulated by a bunch of people who I thought were my friends. It turns out that I was just one person of many who was invited to that group chat so we could be exploited by the adults there. ERP’s would happen behind closed doors, and if I didn’t comply, then I would be blackmailed by them and that fucked me up. I still like writing and sometimes I can remember the nights I would feel guilty and cry over this shit and no one would help me. I eventually accepted it and now it has ruined my view of how I write. I feel like if I don’t put that in, I will be punished for it. I had been in and out of friendships but one thing would never change. The fact that every amino I would join there would be countless adults trying to groom me and get me to ERP with them. I am so tired of pedophiles grooming the young. The worst of the grooming would happen in communities catered to children, and the adults would always be looking for someone young to prey upon. This happened in Undertale Amino, Splatoon Amino, DBZ Amino, Anime Amino, and also various art aminos and other smaller ones. I was growing up in the worst environment, which even made me wish to do ERPS more and more (I do not do them anymore.) I am still healing. Seeing that there someone talking about this stuff makes me happier than people would know. I just have to try to forget all that happened with this godforsaken app. It is the reason why I have depression and panic attacks so often. Thank you for covering this. More people need to be aware of the dangers of Amino. ❤️
Just know that you are still going strong 💪 You turned to amino to look for people with similar interests but apparently there are adults on the app with nothing better to do. Just know that everything that has happened to you is 100% NOT your fault. I never went on Amino personally, but it just boggles me that I passed by at least 8 commenters (as of right now) who share the same experience that contain grooming and other things. You are still recovering and that is a good sign, and you deserve so much better. 🫶
It’s insane seeing my early teen years being talked about like this. Amino use to be like one of those platforms little people knew about but there were so many people on it
Same since the only reason I wanted to download it was because of the sponsorships my favorite UA-camrs and I wanted to get art lessons but when I looked at the website I was confused when it said it was a social app community instead and uninstalled it afterwards since I was disappointed I was mislead. Luckily I dodged a whole mess of animo.
I troll on one amino server, it’s hilarious. I keep forgetting the app exists. I don’t think I’ll ever get addicted to it because it’s got a pretty shit design tbh
Honestly, grooming and gore Is like amino's middle name at this point. Adults forcing children to be in a sex*al relationship and people sending pictures of real dead bod*es of people. I've seen it all and experienced it and honestly gave depression for a while.
This is true I was an amino user in 2018 it had a community in which we could learn new languages there was a group chat in which adults(20+) would talk about inappropriate stuff even after knowing that some people were just 11 or 13
I went into my Amino phase, and while I didn't experience anything too extreme on my side during that time, I'm happy that I grew out of that addiction.
I had a horrifying experience in Amino. When I first joined in 2020, I joined an art community where people posted their OCs and roleplayed. There was two people in particular. I think one was a moderator and the other was a regular member. The moderator was a girl and the member was a man. They were basically the most known couple in the community, everyone knew about them and they roleplayed dramatic stories A LOT. Once there was a time where one of them made a blog post to show their real faces and ages. They showed both their faces in the post, their age, what they liked, their OCs, etc. The most shocking part on the post was that the man was 20 and the girl was 15. Nobody cared. Everybody kept commenting and liking the post (even donating aminocoins). Suddenly, they both just vanished off the app and community. If we tried tracing their exterior profiles (profiles outside communities), the accounts didn't exist anymore. Any links to their profiles on blog posts, quizzes, wikis etc. were all redirected to a page saying "This account has been deleted for violating ______" or a 404 page. I also first received a bot on my exterior profile, only one. I didn't fall for that, though, because I did not understand a word the bot spoke (the bot was messaging me in english, they put a malicious link below a nonsense mix of words). The Amino management team NEEDS to be URGENTLY notified of this, as they completely and consecutively ignore reports from users CLEARLY indicating the harm the bots and people make on the app that was right on their field of vision! I had another experience in Amino that was quite traumatic. There was this "organization" or mini-group on Amino that would bomb communities that they didn't like with pornographic and gore images, as well as spamming the Nazi symbol all over community group-chats, blog posts and wikis. The most ironic of it all is that they would try and "recruit" people into their "organization" and if they didn't, they would leak their IP Address and DDoS it. I am still, to this day, trying to survive on Amino and actively trying to bring back the union between fandoms it used to form.
I was groomed twice while on amino, and roleplaying on it severely altered my brain, like how I viewed love, how I saw myself and how to talk to others. I am glad to have been able to move past those dark times, but I’ll never forget how much Amino negatively affected me from 2017 to around 2020
That’s such an important point about grooming, I too had issues in viewing love and receiving love ever since I got groomed on amino. I never realised until now that’s probably why I experienced major anxiety surrounding emotions that are supposed to feel good like romance or friendships. (lucky now I have recovered from the incidents and feel regulated and healthy with my emotions) it’s just shocking how common grooming is on amino and was bypassed/ignored by moderators and even the developers...
Damn, all these people talking ahout grooming when i didn't understand half the messages those pedos sent me. Good thing there were no turks on amino 6 years ago
Omfg finally someone posted this!!! Growing up made me realize that I was groomed so much especially such as age gaps ranging from 11-20 and gawh it was terrible 😭😭… UNDERTALE Amino was so good until it just degraded big time….
Being an Amino leader was torture because the bot issues only got worse-a few are legit burnt in my memory, I've (along with others) sometimes spent hours of my day removing bots or trying to ban bot accounts-and there isn't enough material to work with to consistently keep communities engaging when you got 0 funding.
There's been a Situation way back in 2019 in the "Sonic the Hedgehog!" Amino, a User by the name "Zyro" who was decently popular on the Amino started faking Cancer to get more attention and free art, all of the things people would do for a man in his "dying moments" and eventually he "passed away". People were sad obviously since he seemed to be a loveable guy and was appreciated in the community, his "passing" got him even more art of his Oc. One day however, any Sonic related Community was spammed with alt accounts posting and glorifying Zyro's passing, even throwing in the Hard R every second word. It was really bad and Mods had a hard time catching up. Eventually though those alts stopped showing up again and again, so you'd think that was the end of it and Zyro could rest in peace? Wrong. Zyro decided it would be a smart move to hit up a close friend and eventually blow his cover, he was not dead. Nor did he ever have Cancer, it came to light that he's lied about everything for clout and attention, free art and so much more. People were furious and that man was very quickly dragged through the mud, his close friends contacted his parents about what he was doing and after that we never heard from him again..
I definetly agree with the dangers and overall general issues with the app. I too was victim to the app around 4 years ago, when the pandemic hit. I ended up encountering multiple people who, granted, were nice, but later on I discovered I was really being gr**med. I ended getting groomed multiple times without considering how bad it was at the time. I was a semi-infamous user on the Undertale Amino specifically and the attention was overwhelming for a literal 12/13 year old. The app completely shattered my sense of worth and personal growth, leading me to develop ADHD and Autism once I started secondary school (UK), the scars I got will never heal and thank the lord the Community I used is now completely dead. The Undertale Amino has, from what I last remembered, nearly 1 Million users which is insane. But I understand Undertale became more popular around 2020 specifically, so its completely understandable. But this shouldnt excuse what happened to me, let alone anybody. I pray for everybody and anybody who were taken advantage of during anytime on Amino, its sickening.
I once actually created a tweens amino when I was 12 that required someone to send a picture of their face for me to reverse image search because the one I had joined before had a problem with grooming. Nobody listened to that rule in the slightest except one person so ppl were either rightfully cautious or afraid of being caught. I tried to keep it up for a good two months before giving up. Even removed someone for being a possible pedo. I really liked being a leader back then but I couldn't lead a team that was nonexistent (people ofc liked the other one which had no moderation whatsoever) so I just called it quits.
Tbh an amino like that actually sounds like a terrible idea. Minors sending pics of themselves to a stranger could easily lead to doxxing and/or grooming. Not to mention that the “tweens” on that amino could have easily been users who would use pics of their younger siblings/cousins.
Thank god someone is finally talking about this :( I was groomed on the app during 2017, the account was banned but like any other horrible person they made an alt and slipped back into the community I was in. I left this community and was moderators in two other communities (one being a curator and the other being agent status leader). I wanted to become a mod to try to help this problem, but my efforts fell short. Please stay safe, the things that were said to me at 15 still haunt me to this day. I’m 21 now.
I was a victim in 2 different ways, When I was sixteen I got groomed by someone in a gatcha life amino, doing these ‘Roleplays’ with me, it was horrible, and disgusting. A bot on amino hacked my phone and was download botting on my phone to the point where my storage was full.
I’ve met a lot of cool people through Pokémon Amino as a kid and people I’m still friends with to this day. But holy crap the number of Bad mods, Nsfw content, grooming, drama, ERP, “trolling” and scams I’ve witnessed on that app was honestly worst than Twitter somehow. Thank you for making this video I hope it serves as a good warning to stay away from this app.
im very glad everyone is telling their stories because i was on amino when i was 10-12. I was very cringy and honestly really annoying yes, but i remember a guy that was 19 at the time talking with me in private and asking for information while knowing my age, that was really weird actually. Thanks to this i see a lot people went trough a similar situation
i am a 22 yr old who used to use amino back when it wasnt as bad, it was a great place for anyone with common interests, i used to be a active user in the undertale amino, i even had a popular chat litterally just called undertale chill, and there i met some good friends and even a special someone who turned into a toxic manipulator, but basically the undertale amino along with other aminos were flooded with toxic people left and right, either pedos or the minors that victimize themselves for attention, while there are actual ones in danger, which i hope safety on, you have the ones that are in no danger and bully adults cause of their age. i left it cause it became an even higher toxic fest, i didnt know how to delete accounts so i just uninstalled it, i switched to discord, and i havent heard anything about amino till now as this vid popped up in my feed lol. but long story short, i hope that app burns as it created almost as toxic place as twitter for children and adults who have been on there for a long time
I’m so glad you made a video about this. I was about 9 or 10 when I first downloaded Amino and I had regretted it ever since. I was both groomed and manipulated on that app and it had left an emotional scar on me. I’m glad that people are paying more attention of the horrors of this app and I’m even more glad to see how it’s now off the App store completely. Thank you so much
As soon as I told people I was a girl and a minor, people would literally harass me and force me to take inappropriate pictures of myself. Thank god I didn’t fall for that but I was so young at the time that I did almost consider it, not knowing the repercussions it might have.
reminds me of the time I was roleplaying with someone in the Undertale community when I was a bit more younger the person had mentioned something that's unmentionable and I nor any other child should know about yet until they're older, but I stopped using it due to some stuff on there, it's disappointing that it's not for kids, THUS HAVING A L.O.L COMMUNITY ON THERE.
I joined amino when I was 9. I was in a wings of fire amino. I was bullied by teenagers because I was below 13 and also because moonwings no longer have the powers they had in a roleplay I wanted to join and shamed me for making an op character which I didn't even know what op meant. They swore at me to leave, called me names and spam reported my account which got deleted. My online bestfriend at the time was in that account and I could no longer look for them after it got deleted. I cried the entire night. I just wanted to talk and roleplay about my favourite book series
HOLY SHIT THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO. I was ruthlessly harrassed by the moderation of the Just Shapes and Beats amino, a fairly smaller community, after a member didn't get what they wanted (winning an art contest) because they had won one in the past, to the point even after I was permanently banned from it they would SPY ON ME through my personal Discord server and social media accounts. It's traumatized me because now I have extreme trust issues and difficulty inserting myself into new communities.
lolll i remember joining an amino in 2016, i joined the furry amino, the people were so nice and helped me realize that i was not a furry, and i just wanted to connect to people and have things in common with others. 2016 was prime for the internet, and it's 8 years away now...
Used to be in Amino, I think around 2016-2017. There were barely any ads, I don't think there were Amino Coins yet. It was pure fun and games, and maybe some messed up stuff as well, but I was in Undertale Amino specifically so our biggest problems were Sans fangirls. I joined a group called Determined Artists Swuad, but then we all started leaving the app itself because we were going to college and whatnot. Years later I come back, I think around 2020, and Amino just... It's filled up with spam, ads, etc. I couldn't find a good enough reason to stay anymore, so I never went back again. Now I see this... It's really sad that Amino went down such a horrible route.
Man, it hurts a little to know the app where some of my core childhood memories took place went down in flames. I recently re-downloaded the app and was immediately taken aback by the influx of bots shortly after I'd come online. I had amino when I was 10-13. I remember spending hours chatting, roleplaying as wild wolves with other kids and doing crappy art commissions in exchange for amino coins and never having any creepy experiences. Though I can't tell anymore whether it felt so different because amino really was a safer place back then, or it was just that the one specific amino I constantly hung out in had a mature and genuinely benevolent mod team who wanted to make sure its members are safe. ..yeah, come to think of it, it wasn't safe even then. I remember now, after I'd eventually became part of the mod team in the aforementioned amino, I found out the leaders often had to set the amino to private because of sudden waves of bots, and the reason I never ran into creeps was because seasoned mods were lightning fast at spotting them and banning them. It was also the only amino where people who wanted to be mods had to go through extensive tryouts and training to even be given the title and mod tools of a curator/leader. Now I feel lucky I happened to choose a safe and well-moderated amino to hang out in, seeing how easily I could've otherwise ended up getting groomed and/or scammed. Especially at a point in my life when I was really lonely in real life and was desperate to make friends with other kids online. I can only hope the app gets taken down at this point, for the sake of kids' safety
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Sorry bro. I already have it (amino) downloaded, yet never use it.
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Been subbed for 7 months
17:58: a sense of belonging l? Bro you gonna be less belonging there as soon as you register in gacha life with that save privacy than any community bruh.
Mental issue glorification and trauma dumping was also a large thing. I remember I’d have to talk someone out of suicide at least once a week when I was 10-13 years old. I saw people praise and envy those with eating disorders, and I’ve seen a lot of posts and conversations glorifying SH as well. Absolutely horrible
yes!!!! THIS.
This is what I’m dealing with too so I’m leaving the app fr, sorry y’all had to deal with that shi too 😭
Yes, because of that I learned about SH and faked mental issues (?) For attention it was fucked up AUGH
Yesssss!!! With how much people glorified mental health(manly depression), I was starting to think that there was something wrong with me for not having anything like that
Whats SH
I was one of the lucky few who had a good experience with Animo. I made 4 lifelong friends there, and it was the place that got me into making my own art. I don't remember anything wrong happening to me on there. I did free art requests, and no one took advantage of them. Been on there for 6 years, and I still browse it once in a while.
But my other friends who I made on that app had horrible experiences. So I have nothing but my condolences and the other people who were negatively harmed by this app.
Same. I’ve started using it in 2016, got me into sharing art, and found lots of friends that later decided to move to Discord. I didn’t see anything wrong at that time.
I don’t know if they have gone through horrible experiences since I don’t think about it, but I give condolences to others who went through this, also.
Same. Never had bad experiences on Amino. I was on Clique Amino and I mostly posted fanart and stories. Was considering going back last year but the place is basically empty now.
I also made tons of friends! Only had 2 bad experiences! (No grooming just threats)
I had a similar experience. I think it helped that by the time I joined I was already an adult and I was active in fandom that had an on average older audience (elder scrolls). I still saw shitty things go down in the tes amino on occasion ofc, they were just not happening to me nor very often
I'm still friends with a handful of people I met on Amino and they're all lovely (Although I did recently cut one of the first friends I made on there...)
Amino was dogshit but I can't deny I had a good experience on it, especially because I stayed within small communities so I never ran into groomers
I was a victim of this app.
I was only 14 years old when I joined a chat with someone I thought was a friend. Things started out friendly; he sometimes talked about intimate actions like hugging/cuddling and wanting to meet someday, but I thought it was ok because he was a friend. Sometimes he’d make inappropriate references and talk about things like hentai and porn, but I brushed it off as just “harmless jokes”. And then it… completely devolved.
He started steering every conversation we had toward intimacy and sex. He pressured me into doing erotic roleplays (which he claimed was fine because it was “just my OC and not me”) and would get angry and threaten to leave if I was uncomfortable. He started calling me sexual pet names and saying he wanted to sleep with me if we ever met. One time, he messaged me “in tears” in the middle of the night and admitted that he was saving my selfies and pleasuring himself to them. This continued for 2 years of me being on the app.
When I tried to break it off with him, he began stalking me from alt accounts and tried to sneak into my friend group to send me messages. It never stopped, and I only got away when I deleted my account altogether and didn’t tell him.
I was 14 years old when we met, and he was… 26.
It’s been 7 years and I’m still completely traumatized by what he did. I still live in fear that he could somehow find me again, or that he still has the pictures of me as a child.
To everyone who was a victim… none of you deserved it. It wasn’t your fault, and you’re not alone.
That sounded very, very familiar to a guy I met on there around 13-14. Was it on the Wattpad community?
I had a similar and a different experience at the same time.
The guy I talked with seemed to be in his early 20s (who knows if he was older) while I was 14. He did the same things, started normal, became a close friend of mine and then the things got out of my hands and he was forcing me into sex roleplay.
I was afraid of telling someone else until he began to do it with other female friends too, he even manipulated one of my male friends to do sex roleplay... Fortunately, I got help from a Curator and she guided me with the issue.
I confronted him pretty harshly to be honest, told him tons of bad things and harming words to set an end to his vicious acts. I overreacted and kept on harassing him for days, I couldn't control my madness and I was in every group chat he would be to make sure to tell him more horrible stuff publicly. He was astonished and tried to gaslight me that I was not being my real self, and stuff like that while saying lies about me to others.
Time later he threatened me that he would suicide because of my betrayal and that it was completely mu fault if he died. I never got to know if he did self harm to himself or even committed suicide but I got scared after that and stayed in Amino for some more time before leaving it permanently.
I really apologize for what you've been through. I wish I could go back in time and prevent lots of teenargers about Amino. But at the end of the day, it was not our choice to meet depraved people and get under their control...
...I hope you are more appeased with yourself despite of all of the trauma you have, and that by sharing your traumatic experience is a good step to let go that weight you carry.
Have a wonderful day, best wishes for your life, and take care ❤️🩹
I am currently on amino and i am raiding communities that are open and support sexual content
@@hotarutomoeofficial Glad to know that someone is taking action against them. Thanks to you many teens can enjoy using Amino free from perverts
Amino had/has a huge p-dophilia issue. Majority of teen users throughout the years of amino are definitely victims and it's upsetting
This. It's so sickening.
As an mostly inactive amino user, I agree
Yup saw sooooo many of them
For a while I thought the pedo talk I saw in Amino could just be a joke, but after a while, I realized it might be as the realest thing to an actual Pedophile
@@personal9372 it's disgusting, a lot of them groomed kids and teens on amino and then tried bringing them over onto apps with horrible moderation like Kik
18:16 "If you feel like you don't fit into this world, it's because you're here to create a better one." That sent chills down my spine man.
I truly meant that my friend 🙏
nahh I'm here to destroy
@@fujiwaranonekobiodrando1257 This guy chose violence
Or a worse one. Pretty sure Hitler didnt fit in either
@@fujiwaranonekobiodrando1257 fair enough
Amino is so terribly dangerous for kids. I was groomed multiple times on amino and all because I wanted to fit in with people but suddenly my dms were filled with older men asking to talk to me and see parts of me. There is really no way that could make this app safer even with regular monitoring from parents. Thank you for covering this!
Multilple times? Why did you come back after the first?
I do agree
Lol noob
@@emberframe6994 wdym noob
@@David280GG OP got creeped on not once but multiple times, that's some noob behaviour.
I have MANY horrible experiences with this app, and I’m so glad you covered it!
Let me talk about my experience there. Now, I was basically a child, around 9-10 on the app, and I wanted to share my fan art for my favorite games. And so, I posted a shit ton. I was bullied into the GROUND for it. People would always leave these nasty comments and I just couldn’t take it anymore so, I made a new account.
Now THIS account was different. It was just me partaking in the fandom and having fun with other people. This account got so many fucked up DMs, asking me to “erp” or just full on sexual harassment. It got to the point of where I was ignoring them that they started to say things like “If you don’t reply, I’ll kill myself!” and so, I felt pressured, scared, and afraid. Only a few years ago did I fully stop interacting with this app.
It harbors many good memories but far to many bad ones.
I'm sorry you went through that! :/ I had a similar experience. Especially on Anime Amino.
If I remember correctly I did a "two truths one lie" thingy on a new account. I thought "nobody knows me so it's gonna be funny!"
Well. Guess what. Literally everyone was insulting me and saying "you bring nothing to this community!1!!1"
Eventually I got groomed so yeah uh...literally no good memories there. And...fnaf community. A reason why I hate fnaf now.
man i thought i was the only one experiencing this stuff back then. definitely made a lot of awesome friends on there but then theres those shitty things you'll encounter that'll scar you everytime you jump on the app. undertale amino was probably my first to download a couple years ago as well. was super popular a long time ago and if i remember not many people are active as it was before.
@@imtheg1352 THATS THE AMINO I WAS TALKING ABOUT. All this stuff HAPPENED on UT amino or UTAU amino…
wtf thats atrociously screwed up. losers online really cannot stop trying to erp.
Good God, I hate this app. Biggest problem for me was groomers and moderation. I'll spare y'all the details of the first part, because moderation was absolutely ridiculous. Essentially, anyone picked by a leader or curator to join a mod position could easily misuse their power. I remember getting kicked from a chat simply because I said I didn't like Billie Eillish. I also got a strike for "not reporting someone using racial slurs" (despite warning them not to). And then I received a SECOND strike for the same incident a week or so later because they just weren't paying attention. In one community, the leaders had straight up dipped. No content mods AT ALL. It was the most toxic community I'd been in. It took half a year before the community got a new leader. Hell, I remember trying to be a curator once. But the community leader assigned an entire essay and put me on a time limit of a few minutes. It really irked me how leaders would act in these communities, and half the time were just children/teens who didn't know how to moderate well enough.
One time, in a community I was in, this guy was preying on a little girl. So, me and my friends spammed their wall, made their life annoying as HELL on the app, and they ended up deleting their account. This guy was just being overly flirtatious to a girl who OBVIOUSLY stated her age; 14. A mod found out about the situation, and banned me and my friends from the community. I tried to go back a speak with them about it, telling them it was a PREDATOR and they replied with “I know, and I don’t care”. Absolutely fucking horrible :(
A group of my friends got banned from an Amino community for exposing and calling out multiple pedophiles. The Global users are even worse, mainly consisting of users interested in erotic roleplay (many of which are degenerates who like ageplay which is disgusting).
Going back to the Amino my friends were banned in, the leaders and curators there LOVE to censor people who disagree with them and ban the most innocent words (I had a friend who got banned for saying zesty recently. Stating that it's a derogatory term).
I only use the app to talk with friends who refuse to go to Discord. All the while having to deal with degenerates and power tripping staff members
@@L1nk_l0zAt least you saved that girl and that what’s matter (still we shouldn’t ignore what happened there)
Amino really felt like a trap to get innocent beings to exp0sė themselves and those that went against the preds just got punished by the ones in higher power that many times also were preds
It's the only place people who don't amount to much or wanna fuck kids to join to get the power they will never have cause they are weak people.
I remember using amino as a child. I was literally addicted. Got groomed for years and even sent (bad) pictures at an extremely young age to people who were as old as 30. One specifically, was a moderator. Of course when I tried exposing him everyone took his side and I got banned. It's just crazy.
Shit’s f-cked, man
I had awful experiences on that app. I got groomed from ages 13 to 16, I had my IP grabbed, I had false accusations made about me and many other horrible things. The only good thing that came from amino was my boyfriend but we both agreed to leave amino a year ago.
Skill issue
@@BlueCuler Do you think is a skill issue? Someone who was groomed as such a young age is a skill issue? Don't you know how horrible grooming is? And you're telling a kid who was ignorant about the dangers of amino a "skill issue?" Take that gigachad pfp off, you don't deserve it.
jesus, the only thing i did in amino was being cringe.
I got groomed there when I was 10 and was exposed to extreme gore, was addicted to it when I was 10 and didn’t shower for days or eat properly or sleep well (before amino coins were added), had a friend I met on there when I was 13 commit suicide, felt forced to act as a therapist to people older than I was, and then met an ex who emotionally abused me. They went to therapy and we are friends now, but I’m never going to that hellscape again. It has traumatized me by preying on the fact that I was once a young child with barely any friends.
@@luxill0s skill issue
Former Amino mod for a medium sized community here. I was barely 18 at the time myself, the oldest member of the mod squad I was on was 25 and the youngest was 14. Before I was in my second year of college I knew the steps for making an fbi report by heart because grooming was just that common. No matter how many hundreds of foods we stuffed through a day the work always piled up. When I quit the app, it was because I’d found my first real adult job and couldn’t cope with the app anymore. My work didn’t ask me to deal with the worst types of humans regularly. When someone was rowdy at my job at the time, they got kicked out. They couldn’t come back. I didn’t have to see dick picks or sexts or anything graphic. It wasn’t until over a year of separation from the app that my psychiatrist told me I was exhibiting the symptoms of a person recovering from contact trauma. And like… how am I supposed to say “oh I got a clinical diagnosis from being an unpaid internet moderator”. I remember being mad for days on end that I couldn’t just ban someone. I remember tracing back usernames and photos to find the creeps real life accounts, and trying to contact local law enforcement in their areas when I could. I’m still not recovered from seeing some of the shit ya’ll endured. The worst of it went beyond sexual exploitation and into outright gore. I was barely an adult, and if it messed me up that badly I can’t imagine the children…
If you were a kid on amino who was groomed - I’m sorry. A lot of us were trying SO hard to protect you. I hope you know that we tried with the limited resources we had literally everything we could to protect you. That doesn’t justify what you went through. It never does. But I hope you all know it wasn’t normal, we knew it wasn’t.
Current mod on Undertale Amino, 17 right now, joined in 2019
I 100% agree. I've seen some AWFUL shit on Amino, and dealing with pedophile reports, gore reports, my god.
Aminos just a shit show man..
@@Deltasmiler Hey, I know this is in contrast to my previous comment, but you're currently going through it. I want you to know - this isn't forever. The adults who are supposed to be getting paid to run an app are absolutely failing you and the rest of the userbase. But when life eventually takes you away, be it for work, school, a relationship, friendships, therapy, medical treatment - anything - it gets better. You're trying so hard in a place where so few people are, and I know it doesn't feel like it but you ARE preventing harm.
When you have the chance, if you aren't already, get a therapist and a psychiatrist. A good one. Seeing that kind of thing on the regular can mess up anyones think sponge pretty horribly. You deserve a functioning, brain.
Keep fighting the good fight, but know when the good fight is to look after yourself as well.
Oh wow I never knew those things happened, I got lucky I guess😮
@@Jabberwockia"Keep fighting the good fight, but know when the good fight is to look after yourself as well"
This comment wasn't directed to me, but thank you, more people need to hear these wise words
God, I wish you were my moderator back in the day. 😂
The mods in the communities in was in, were problematic like "no touch grass" kind of problematic. They were online dating, "DON'T TALK MY HUSBAND/WIFE, WHY ARE YOU FOLLOWING MY HUSBAND?", like damn... Jealous over someone they have never met. 😂
Or... Ped kind of problematic, there was this "leader" he was 25, and this community is about anime, school stuff, and poetry. I was friend with a girl "L", and she was around 14-16, we did all of these wholesome roleplays in the public groups and interacted with each other with voicemails and stuff... She was so damn cute. I was friends with that leader dude too, we were very close friends.
Then... I woke up, finding the damn news that they are together? I didn't say much about it, cause I was literally groomed at that time as well and thought it was "normal". She even sent me screenshots of their interaction and I knew he was sending her lewd messages by the way she was blurring them out.
Damn... I just wish I reported him years ago, even though it wouldn't do anything since he is friends with all of the mods.
There's another big problem with amino. I'm in anime, and I met someone named bleed. He is someone who has spam bots (he said once that the bots send 3000 messages of maximum text limit emojis), he also has lag bots too (he can direct it to curtain users). He'll talk about horrible things and if you ban him he'll send 2 spam bots at different times in your chat, and or lag you and make your amino crash. He said he had 310 alt accounts, and he gets banned a lot. It's really bad, we can't do anything about it
That guy still disturbs me with his bots and rape conversations🤡
@@ShahlaSharmin I actually found new information, he isn't this "crazy talented hacker" he's actually using something called "Amino Butter" which I believe was founded by Herb (he's the original bleed) amino butter is how he gets access to all of his crazy bots and stuff
I know that guy yeah he i think hacked a server i was in and oir whole group was seperated i mean i domt kmow em but i finally found one after like 3 months
@@Dinkii-vd7ff turns out he just uses a program called amino butter, he's not actually a skilled hacker. It's an online thing that anyone can get. It was actually made by Herb (the OG bleed)
As someone who didn't have a bad experience in Amino, I'm really sorry to hear the experiences that people had in that app. I hope you guys are doing okay now.
same 😟 i didnt know any of this was going on while i was on the app (i was mostly on when i was 16 and and maybe 17)
I agree 100% I have been on it since the early 2016's and never once experienced this much dangerous problems, and trust me there was alot of adults in most of the aminos I joined, and I knew there was, but they didn't bother me. And I didn't bother them. God, to know that there was people who had unfortunately experiences like this is just it's just makes me sick and unsettled.
i used to love it, then it just became more toxic by the minute to the point where i was harrased by a minor cause i was an adult
That's what I'm saying! Until now amino has been great tp me and I've used this app to this day. I don't know if grooming and all the bad stuff is simply much less common on portuguese communities or if I am a lucky bastard, but everytime I read this comment section I see some wild stories. Well, guess every social media as it's bad parts
Same. I never had bad esperiences there.
Amino has severely traumatized me for life. Long story short I was sexually exploited at 11 years old and I had illegal photos of me leaked as an attempt to “expose” me. I didn’t tell my mom until I was 16 years old.
Oh If its okay for me to ask, did your Photos get taken down?😧since its a really serious Thing.
@@XSaltyRamenX usually there are some things you can do legally in those Kind of situations to get it taken down, but the bitter truth that some disgusting filth has it on a hard drive somewhere.
Unfortunately, once it's on the internet, it's forever on there. Even if you manage to delete whatever was posted.
Nice job! You sent your pics and now you're acting like a victim! Yeah, you are a victim... of your own dumbness
I hope that you are safe now and know it is not your fault
as a young teen on a specific amino, alot of these grooming allegations were common. It wasn’t exactly the norm, but it was definitely a problem. I’m glad the communities (at least the ones I’m in) are more stricter and definitely brought more awareness to the issue.
I don’t remember exactly when I left, but I remember Amino being so good around 2018. I was in a small community of artists and I found it amazing. So sad it lost its charm
There are still some small great communities
The problem is mostly on the big ones and on amino app itself
The biggest problem is that Team Amino doesn't care about fixing problems
I was good back then, glad none of this happened to me.
Same. 2018 just shapes and beats amino was so great
Nostalgia
Same here, i remember i mainly used amino to interact with a small fandom group and we all pretty much knew each other and were buddies at the time, so my experiences aside from maybe the vent channels weren't as negative as a lot of folk coming out about this. Though i do remember joining large aminos and would always feel like the odd one out in a lot of ways, i just preferred to share my art n keep my distance. Luckily 13-14 yr old me made the right decisions lol. Now i look at it and wonder how this was the only social media app i used at the time?? Like issues aside the layout of the site sucks and they still have yet to upgrade the desktop version lol.
Can we also mention that Amino's new developers changed the premium membership so that even Amino+ members see inappropriate ads?
YESS
Yup, thats what done me dropping out of the app, not that i used a lot anyway during that time, but it was very scummy the kik thing and the removal of the ads disable stuff
What the fuuuuuuuckkkkk?
Interesting video,
I personally grew up with amino and UA-cam.
Got amino at 12 and was pretty active for like 3 years and 80% of my experience was great, I've met wonderful people and still talk to some.
Few years ago amino was better, for example without lives and shorts.
Like any other app or anything internet related, there's people with bad intentions.
Personally already met some creeps or suicidal people on there though the problem was usually fixed quicker in smaller communities by banning those kinda people.
Nowadays amino is probably less safe than it was back then, those lives are mostly half naked people who are adults or bots and so that's pretty disturbing.
Nothing in life is safe at 100%, irl and on the internet as well.
The best is to be cautious and also still have fun, it needs the right balance.
Kids be more cautious and inform an adult when something happens.
Also important thing, never click an unknown link and that goes for amino and anything other app, I personally never did that luckily.
Have a good day/night
From about 2016-2021 I was a curator, leader, then agent leader for the biggest Amino community (English Anime Amino). I’ve seen so much grooming, gore, and even had an instance where I had to voice call a user and her father (who is a cop) because a man had groomed and blackmailed her with her private images that he told her to send or he’d harm himself (he sent fake blood in a sink and he took advantage of this scared little girl), and so so so much more. The bots. The ads. “Old Amino friends” coming back only to find out it’s not them and their account got hacked. We need an Amino support group.
anime amino is classic!! im lvl 16 and if u just hop in vcs and have a good time nothing really that bad happens!
@@pleasehelp1390 is this /s? your username makes me think it is
Sounds like a real Obscure Enthusiast
I think i know you,r u nikki?the friend of prey
@@trics8838 she is
You missed out the fact that there are ligit bdsm communities on amino that label themselves as "15+" where minors ask adults for drp and the predators there actually allow it. There were literally pics of 15 year olds posting their faces for these groomers to see. I was unfortunate enough to come across a bunch of these communities as a child and looking back at it, it was sickening.
You be Surprised how many teens actually know about bdsm . Porn is available to everyone so . Due to internet. It have ruined this generation
I have gotten groomed on that app and so much worse happened. And many of my other friends too. Plus the app is just toxic as a whole. There are some extremely insane people on there.
As a user of amino, I can definitely vouch for the many many bot users it had. It really sucked because I loved using this app and I still do to this day for role-playing and talking with people that have similar interests. It just breaks my heart that they removed this app from the iOS or Apple store. I still have it on my phone to this day but I just have so many memories on that app but despite it’s flaws it’sis still one of my favorite apps.
They are just making some updates and adjustments to it, the App will be soon up again according to the Team Amino.
roleplaying? were you on minecraft Amino around 2017??
@@BunnaBean i did roleplay on the ddlc amino in 2018 😅 most of the aminos i saw/see are rp ones
its on the app store for me
My most traumatizing online experiences was on amino, I’m glad someone is finally covering this
...auby?
familiar hmmm
Skill issue
@@BlueCuler its funny that you have a gigachad pfp yet you just spam skill issue
@@tizzy-hizzy thats exactly why I have it
17:57 This is what pulled me in, I am autistic and didn’t have friends growing up, therefore I had to find some way to fill my time and now an adult with autism and multiple different issues I can’t get a job. Thankfully I found a group I feel a sense of belonging and purpose.(an actual group of people who have met in person and live in the same area). I have been off of amino for nearly 5 years now.
I was on amino as a teen, and while my experience has been mostly good, as I made a lot of close friends there, some adults could definitely be weirdos on that app
Same, i met some of my closest ever friends who I’m still friends with to this day from there, but the app is GOD AWFUL nowadays. The last time I checked they had a live that bots/pedos would use to spam porn across kid friendly communities like Pokémon or Gacha and what not
Same. On Amino I used to have an ''adult'' friend. Tbh I never had any issues they were never trying to get to know me or do anything we Only talked about drawing and animating nothing else hopefully. They Looked like someone wich wanted to have someone to talk to but people from their age didn't appreciate their art, wich wasn't NSFW it was cartoonish and cool. I never recalled them being creeps.
Same experience some lovely people I spent most of my time on Horror Amino very kind people. I just stopped using it as much due to the in app purchase now. Such a shame what it's become
I've used amino for nearly 3 years, and I'm so lucky that I never had anything bad happen to me honestly.
The most that happened to me was getting scammed with amino coins ever once and while.
I used amino as well, and I had the same luck as you did. I heard that the app was bad a while after I stopped using it, but I didn't know that it was THIS bad.
I was groomed by a woman on the miraculous ladybug amino. I was young so I didn’t understand it was wrong. after a few weeks of talking, she asked me to be her girlfriend and I said yes, we would talk for hours casually, but then she started to suggest sexual role plays, I felt uncomfortable but I did agree to them anyway, then she told me to send pictures of myself in underwear and she put porn on the videos for me and her to watch. I was 12 and I blocked her as soon as I knew it was wrong. I reported her account to the miraculous ladybug moderators with screenshots. They didn’t do anything. I’m still angry about it to this day because that woman has probably groomed other vulnerable children and the moderators just let it happen….
@@Ganondorf526 I'm so sorry that happened to you. I hope you're better now.
Same, the communities i were, were small and well moderated, with very strict anti nsfw rules, nontheless, there were some incidents here and there, like a member bothering us, or even one time where the former first admin messed up the site and banned everyone, luckly we got to go to a sort of secundary community without him, and with time, we managed to recover the original one
I still have it installed but haven’t logged on for so long. Nothing bad has happeneed to me which is good.
Damn, I really forgot about Amino, I drained all my cringe phase in that app. I just remember a lot of role-playing, kinda difficult to find an actual normal chatroom. I remember making 2 friends from differents fandoms and they left the app before me. I wonder where they are now
As someone who was in amino for 6-7 years, I met a lot of nasty people and bullies (especially from art communities). I would always get bullied for the way I drew at that time and people were very toxic. I was yesterday on amino to see what’s goin on after being offline for a while,but nothing was changed. Still the same people. I appreciate that you warn people about this app
Thankful that never happened to me because I was only active in one amino and that was the best Amino community by far! The curators moderated and kept everything under control. Of course, not that stopped me from being exposed to adults and nu d ity things, I got sent those photos privately and that's where things get wrong. Even the most friendly and safest Amino community could not be stopped from kids being there and being exposed to all those stuff... Even if the curators managed everything and took care of it if anyone had reported it.
It was probably the best yet worst experience on there. I had a better time there than Facebook... which I quitted long ago.
Not to mention there wasn't a single bot... I never received any spam.
i’m so sorry that happened to you, damn those fkn losers
I posted some Dragon Ball art once and got told to kill myself 😂
same
6 years ago I was on amino. There were grown men trying to groom me left and right and it scared me. I used to be there before the currency was a thing but thank god I got over the app at that point.
same :(( i was 10 when i first hopped into the app and there was this creepy 18 year old dude that kept flirting with me... i didn't realise it at the time but i was groomed. :/ thankfully my parents intervened...
I was groomed by a woman on the miraculous ladybug amino. I was young so I didn’t understand it was wrong. after a few weeks of talking, she asked me to be her girlfriend and I said yes, we would talk for hours casually, but then she started to suggest sexual role plays, I felt uncomfortable but I did agree to them anyway, then she told me to send pictures of myself in underwear and she put porn on the videos for me and her to watch. I was 12 and I blocked her as soon as I knew it was wrong. I reported her account to the miraculous ladybug moderators with screenshots. They didn’t do anything. I’m still angry about it to this day because that woman has probably groomed other vulnerable children and the moderators just let it happen….
@@Ganondorf526 I also had a situation with a 20 year old woman on the Spanish dangan ronpa community, I was really close to her and she asked me to be her girlfriend multiple times. I was 15 and naive and I felt a lot of love and trust towards her, the other users used to say that we were married and I liked that I had someone so nice until I started being close to another user that was the same age as me, she had sudden outburst of jealously and would gaslight me, I just ignored her since it made me feel really bad and that's my copping mechanism, I'm glad I did that.
@@cristopherrobin5862 That's disgusting. I hope you are okay nowadays, you didn't deserve that. :(
not just men, i got fucking groomed by full grown women too
I joined amino when I was 13 (I'm 21 now) and it was one of the worst times of my life. I got addicted and the wrong people entered my life. I was groomed by an older man and had a relationship with him to the point where he was able to meet me irl and nobody around me batted a single eye. Amino is terrifying and I still have nightmares to this day about him and some of the people I had met. It's such a toxic place and I genuinely hope kids stay away from it.
As someone who used to spend a lot of time on amino, I am intrigued to learn more about this.
I'm spending a lot of time on it to this day
Agreed. Also im happy that i didnt encountered any preds or smtn. Btw it was before 2020
@@BogdanZelinschisame, amino was my late childhood man 😭
@@alexthefemboy ew username
@@detective2221ew opinion that didnt need to be given to harm someone
You know it's gonna be good when it's visual venture
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
True
@@VisualVenture hey man, when will you talk about kusemek, he's been up far too long.
You’re not wrong
I love when visual said it's venturing time
As an amino user... I truly fucking HATE how amino has become. Back when I was in highschool it was fine 7 years ago. It's become a ground for pedos, scammers and sex bots. At least they removed the live shit.
I wish the current developing team would work on fixing and battling this harmful stuff to children than releasing new frames, chat bubbles, and events. They need to fix their shit.
Fr..
I created the popular Sonic Amino and oh my God the amount of stress this app put on me was insane. Creeps, bullies, toxic fans it had it all. I was treated like dirt from so many just for being a "bad leader" while I was 15. Even when I stepped down I was still picked on. Amino has always been a mess to me.
I will say though, I still have several of my best friends from the app. Amino has been responsible for some of the best and worst memories of my life. I'm just glad other options exist for me and my friends to talk on.
This app is disgusting
you created the sonic amino? I Met some amazing virtual friends on there thanks for making it possible for me to have some great irreplaceable memories there. And Yeah amino could be terrible for minors to join. I think it's at its best when adults r only allowed there. I Wish there was another application that combined the fulfilling accessibility of making posts and garnering a following with the casual group chat features..
Gosh*
The sonic amino was one of my favorite sections for a while of the internet, I did notice the issues and toxicity there but u never encountered it much myself. I guess cause I'm an adult and I try to avoid drama, but I was able to meet my partner on Sonic Amino and we live together now so it was a good app while it lasted, but it died.
It's wild to see this. Honestly, comments like these make me happy. It's good to know that Amino has made so many happy over the years. It makes the suffering worth it
I'm sorry for your experiences.. I actually was on that amino... What a shame that amino is that messed up
I remember using this app as a kid, everyone was so rude towards each other
Your profile pic reminds me of a specific instance I had in the Pokemon amino. God, was that place a trashfire.
I was an aspiring artist that wanted attention, like any child does. However, PokeAmino had a very unique problem where the curator/leader team exclusively promoted existing big artists, and these artists were in their own big friend groups. To ever receive recognition on the platform and get featured, you either had to get lucky one day, network your way into these friend groups so you could suck up to the curators, or be incredibly talented out of the gate. This led me to developing a LOT of issues with my self-esteem and artistic talents. I tried *so hard* to get into these friend groups and make it big as an artist that every failure did more damage to my mental health than the last. It led me to developing issues with making friends and maintaining them to this day. I even got the displeasure of experiencing my first bout of Impostor Syndrome because one popular artist liked the same character that I did, and my child brain thought I would be stealing "their thing", since they were better than me. That... ruined my identity.
Ever since I left Amino I've been a little bit better but not by much. I still struggle with maintaining relationships and keeping them healthy, and I've completely given up on art as a whole.
@@Zorovee sorry to hear that 😞
I aint ever use this app, its the devil, it literally steals your soul
I remember using Amino I hated it people never really talked to me except in the Halo amino
Same, I was active on the WarioWare amino during around 2018 and it was a cesspool. There were only like 2 or 3 people there who weren't toxic as hell
downloading amino at 12 years old was the worst thing I ever did , so many adult men talked to me and “befriended me”
During lockdown, I decided to join Amino and got hooked. I was a part of the Attack on Titan amino, which luckily wasn't too horrible, but I definitely noticed it's flaws once I started using it less and less. I made so many friends who I still talk to, but we all left. The amount of drama that happened in that community was insane; it was mostly about moderators. There seemed so be some kind of weird power dynamic, everyone hated the mods or loved them. I have many stories, but I'm happy I deleted that app when I did
I've been a moderator in two different communities and I can definitely agree that moderators have been a huge issue in some aminos. The whole kids shouldn't moderate kids is spot on. There tends to be a lot of power abuse amongst moderators in a lot of aminos- towards users and fellow staff/curators.
Sounds like amino became a child-friendly Reddit,glad I wasn’t on it for long
I was fine with amino. I was an active user (I was 10 years old at the time) and I joined in 2016. Remained a prevalent user through 2016-2019. It was a great experience for me because I was involved in the autism amino. Which was an amino that helped me grow socially and become a better person
I’m on that one but I will be leaving it
really great informative video!
as a survivor of amino, lots of stuff really stuck out to me, like the currency, the UI, and especially the communities
while i mostly left amino because of how much it fucked up my mobile speed, another reason i left was soley because of the community, more specifically the invader zim one
i used to love the show religiously and made so many friends there, but a multitude of problems arose
people emotionally manipulated me and mentally broke me to stay on amino calls for longer than i wanted, my first ex (which i met on there) was emotionally taxing, drama would spout out left and right, and when i couldn't take it anymore and left, everyone i knew followed me to other places like youtube or discord
some i'm still cool with, others i never want to interact with again, but still forced to because of my fractured mental state, all thanks to these lunatics manipulating me and emotionally draining me
i never wanted to involve myself with anything zim related afterwards, but some of these people remind me of my horrible times in there and never let me cut away from them
like this one guy named kevin, a stubborn asshole who starts drama for no reason, emotionally drains and harrasses people he doesn't like, and looks back on what he does to people with no regrets at all whatsoever, almost making a mockery of the suffering he caused others, myself included
i implore anyone reading to stay far away from this app as possible, you'll make acquaintances that think they care about you when they really don't
I joined Amino when I was 11, I joined because an animator I liked got sponsored by them and I mistook it for being a animation/drawing app.
I was targeted and sexually exploited by many adults during my time on amino.
I was exposed to things I shouldn't have been, at my age.
I was on the app before amino coins and the redesign, the pink 'A' and green background was what I knew.
I try to forget most of my experience on amino tbh, because it was mostly bad.
An event that always comes to mind when i think about my amino days though,
There was a amino that i believe has over 10k members now, but when i joined it had maybe 4k.
The leader/owner of the amino was doing nsfw rp with a ton of my friends, who were likely around my age too, and said friends tried to get me in on it.
The leader of the amino was in his 20s.
Also the previous leader dated my friend who was like 13 and he was in his 20s too.
Trying to remember just makes me realize how many adults were taking advantage of me and many other kids. Its kind of insane, and extremely sad tbh.
Omg I can relate to this a lot, it sucks that you had to experience that though
i joined amino the same way, just i was 9 instead, i mainly did rp on the ddlc amino, tho i was targeted with srp too..
Me three.. I thought I was alone, and for the longest time, it messed with my brain because I had a lot on my plate, it felt like no one my age cared😔 I'm glad that it is being spoken about.
I haven't had any really bad experiences like being groomed but I was pressured into erp in some gacha amino and was r worded in a undertale rp once. ive always been in the adopts or fan communities, once I saw a 16 year old moderator get called a pedophile for being a victim of a 19-21 year old admin, it was terrible because people were sending them death threats and inappropriate pictures too. I often think about that mod because I feel terrible for them - the admin was victimized while the mod was left out to dry and the mod team didn't even try defending them or anything.. Ive never been able to look at the community the same way ever since then.. thats also why im slowly distancing myself from amino, when im done with all my business there im deleting the app and moving platforms!
I was on Amino between 2018-2020 and most of my experiences consisted of toxic friendships. It's really sad just how an amazing concept was brought down to this.
I had Amino from 2016-2019. When I was 12, I was groomed and SAed by multiple men multiple times on the app for about a year. I was insecure and suicidal with not the best support system which made me a perfect target. We would be rping buddies and then they would start to prey on me but because of what was going on in my life I would compline for the positive attention I would get back. When I tried to set boundaries and would tell them no they would emotional and mentally abuse me using multiple tactics such as guilting and threats to keep me in the cycle of abuse. At the end of that year I thankfully broke out of that cycle and deleted that amino community I had, it would take me another 2 year to delete the app. I have no idea what happened or became of my abusers or even who they really were and thats something I will never know. I'm doing much much better now mentally but because of the SA I now have C-PTSD.
SA as in you met up with one of these people??
I used to use this app a lot. I even made my own little community. I never saw anything bad of it… I must have been oblivious.
I was going to install it again today, maybe I shouldn’t though… plus it was removed from the iOS store so something must be going on…
It was taken down because of the many sex bots that started entering the app and bothering everyone
@@leaf-cy4tx I heard about that! It must have been recently (last time I opened it was probably February 2021)
Wait, it was removed? I thought it wasn't removed though.
It’s still up bud
@@lgllystpd the play store is the store for android devices, the app/ios store is for ios devices (a.k.a apple)
I was 12 when i first found amino, I'm now 17. Some of the awful things I saw back in 2018-2021 still haunt me. I was a member of the biggest Assassination Classroom (anime) amino and was on it for at least like 3 hours a day, sometimes going up to 12 when I had nothing to do. Some of it was good, met some of my best friends there, found comfort in my personal struggles and had a place where I was accepted. But like all good things, there were just as many bad things. The biggest one for me was joining the moderation team of a smaller amino. I was 14 at the time, and questioning a lot about myself and tried to find some form of comfort in the people I thought i could trust. Instead, they used the information I shared as a way to shame me publicly. They spun what I said to suit some disgusting narrative and threw me out of the community I helped to build.
I don't want to go into full on detail, but that community was one of the most vile and disgusting places I've ever been a part of and it was the reason I left that godforsaken app for good.
Glad someone finally spoke on the shock horror on amino. I was exposed to torture porn roleplays, people glorifying violence and trauma, and worse on some of the biggest kid fandom communities. (Warriors and Wings of Fire) And this shit RUINED me. To this day.
I used to be an admin on one of the bigger wings of fire, and there was so much shit that happened. Kids would come to me and ask for help. I felt so powerless. I would ban the trolls, groomers, and predators, but they would just come back. It was scary.
When i was 14 i had an older "friend" in amino wherein they constantly trauma dump on our dms and tell me all abt their SH tendencies. Whenver i didn't get to talk to them and listen to them, they would make me feel like a terrible person and a horrible friend. It went as far as me being uncomfortable during family vacations because im constantly worried about them ending their life whenever i couldn't access them through the app.
I just wanted to see art and share mine, i didn't want to get subjected to half a year of being in such a toxic friendship with someone over the internet.
You should not take responsibility for their life. It's good you got off that app. Even though my experience there was quite good and I cherish every good moments there, not everyone had the same experience...
When i was 11, i met my abuser on amino. It's been 7 years and I'm still dealing with the ramifications of this, getting messages from them and being forced to relive what it felt like to be stalked by them, abused, and be alone online with no help from anyone :(
Oh my gosh. Is there anyone around you that can help?
How are you doing now?
@MaiHaiKi still pretty awful and in contact with my abuser despite the wishes my myself and my friends :(
@@sep_timius You can't block him or anything?
Why is every girl's ex an abuser?
Current Amino user here! Safe to say I haven’t had this issue. You can be safe on the app depending on which amino you’re in are and the rules you keep to yourself. I only use it to rp for fandoms I love though I don’t pursue relationships for anything further. I also read/post fan content often. The best advice I can give for other people or people starting to rp on the app is 1, Have a rp rules wiki. Maybe have a password for pms just to be safe. 2, Don’t chat with anyone who starts it with “hru” and nothing else because that’s a major red flag. 3, if they have a profile that has nothing to do with the fandom, dni. 4, READ THE OTHER PERSON’S RULES OR ASK AND THEM. Usually they have their age in their rules. Hope this helps, if you have anymore questions I’ll be happy to answer in replies.
Ok
@@yiiriex I don’t think Amino uses video chats anymore, only voice chats. You can also stream videos in chats, but I think it’s only UA-cam.
@@Star_Gazer_MarsYou got any socials where I can contact youse?
its so unfortunate. amino really had a great concept, like ive met a few people on amino and im still really close with them today. it had a great concept to make friends with people who have the same interest as you. its just so sad what could happen with improper moderation
amino was a hell hole long before the bots and the scam accounts, especially when it came to the rp community. i remember changing my profile bio in different rp communities to say that i was lesbian because it kept the creeps away. Other than that the people on amino were just toxic out of all the people i met in my time in the rp scene, i talk to none of them anymore. the only people i did end up keeping in contact with were from a witchcraft community and i only talk to one of them as of recently.
I remember I got groomed and abused by someone who seemed completely safe, that is what scares me most,
I joined a amino during a drama and didn’t know what side to join but I was like 12 I had to join one didn’t it? So I saw this user “hexa” she had a pretty pfp and said hi and nice things to me so I joined her side. From there she groomed and groomed me using me to start dramas by pissing me off and then telling me to go to a public chat with her where I’d loose my patience and snap, I was drawn as the villain and the bad person.
But she only banned me when I was aware hexa was abusing me. Which made her more rude but more sexual to me, trying to make me like her again but I refused to and I tried to go to a other victim of hers who then Led a few months later without me knowing groomed me just like hexa did. The amino I joined was a grooming hell hole. and it didn’t care about anyones safety just how the mods could use people
The main abuser hexa is still a round as well going under “jsabcheetah2” or “shine icon studios” on UA-cam.
@@Xx_D4RK_K1N_xX thats terrible :( i hate how people like that exist
@@Xx_D4RK_K1N_xX yeah i have somewhat of an experience like that myself, less on the abusive side and more on the grooming side. i was e-dating this dude who claimed to have a crush on me.
dude pulled out all the stops, played the roll very well, until he and another friend got into an argument that i was invited to. i was puzzled for a second before i read the messages one of which read that he wasn't into me at all. and i realized then that he was just using me for erotic role play.
@@Nyla_Corvina honestly same, but more so mine used me to start drama and use as a scape goat.
It got to the point where I was pretending to be a male on the Amino app to stay safe. Everytime I would log on as myself, men and a bunch of horny guys would text my account. Blocking them was hell for me and I only found solace when I accidentally found four users that made me feel safe and I revealed my secret and my struggle. It took so long for me to finally change my bio and profile picture back to... Well, me. I still talk to my Amino friends until today- but holy fuck.... Being an adult now... Amino forced me to grow up and understand s**ual phrases and when someone was using them.
I also do NOT miss the rampant bullying. One of my old 'amino bullies' somehow managed to find my real social media even though I never gave it to him.
Thankfully he's nicer to me now- but when he was in his shitty days, I remember just hating logging on but wanting to talk to my four friends about what was bothering me.
I had the misfortune of being pressured into multiple inappropriate forms of roleplay when I used Amino in middle school. I had learned of the app through my friends who wanted me join so we could chat and share art together. I did and I ended up joining multiple communities. Now I have a serious problem when it comes to denying people of anything so that made me an easy target for multiple people to harass and pressure me into very NSFW roleplay, thankfully they didn't ask for any pictures,but it still makes me uncomfortable to think about to this day.
That's awful ):
i was an amino user back in the day at the ripe age of NINE! i think it has contributed to my severe mental health issues xxx
Ayyy, same here 🤝🤝🤝
same
samee omg
Same here, and I learned porn from amino.
damn
I remember using this app as a form of escapism in early 2016 to late 2018, I was so young and didn't realize that the way users were interacting with me was inappropriate, I hope the people who manage the app finally do something to protect their young users
Same 2018 was my amino year i joined a safe one plus i was young at that time
Nostalgia is real
No they haven't updated there app since 2023
I was super active on Amino from 2017-2019. I joined the MCU amino and it was one of the best experiences ever. Everyone was so nice and supportive of my art. I joined so many projects and it has helped me to make the art, analysis, and critical thinking I have now. It was one of the few places I felt accepted in as an autistic teen.
I became less active in 2020 due to post block and poor mental health and left for a time. I came back in 2021 and it was still the same. Although the community has a lot of active members, only a handful are online at a time and it’s very tight knit. I did quit in 2022 due to me outgrowing the platform and moving onto Tumblr and UA-cam for fandom content.
It hurts to see the app that has given me so much hurt other people like me. I hope it gets fixed.
Happy someone’s talking about this- I was on amino through the ages 9-11, and during that time I had gotten my childhood taken away from me 😭 weird roleplays, creepy people wanting pictures, people sending weird pictures were EVERYWHERE. I personally think that there should be an higher up when it comes to admins and moderators, it could make things safer and it’ll help matters (like the ones in the video) be taken more seriously. I won’t deny though that I did have some good experiences, so the app isn’t all that bad. It still needs fixing though.
Yeah Amino is absolute dumpster fire right now 💀
I usually gravitated towards rp communities and people I met there had no patience at all, spammed me 14 times or more times a day
So I just moved to discord with some other decent friends I met on amino
I remember using amino when i was like 14-15
It was such a mixed bag of “the people in this app are so nice” and “why is everyone so awful?”
I met some good long time friends there but also had my first online “relationship” which was extremely abusive
Drama was like your every day bread too essentially because its all stupid teens being stupid
I remember redownloading the app the get back some data from my old account and ah man
All the communities i was in felt like ghost towns
It was such a hopeless feeling because they were so active and alive
Peppino!
I had the same experience too, I got in a relationship in amino that ended up pretty bad, the worst experience in my life honestly
YES!! When amino started to die i just, stayed for a very long while lurking around. The bots started appearing more when the app was less active i think. Before that there werent so many of them. It started when the world chat or something was introduced.
I was (technically still am but haven't been on amino in ages) a leader of multiple medium sized, now mostly dead, but a few years ago rather active communities. I was a person that wanted to help fix issues I saw and tried to do so in every way possible. And in one of those particular aminos I and the other people in there had a particularly nasty experience. When I was a normal member I tried to help and work myself up to a leader role which eventually worked but it was more than horrible. The previous leader was an unpleasant and manipulative person, would abuse their power and acted inappropriately towards a few people which were all children (I was 13/14, I remember beeing one of the older people at the time and consequently felt a certain responsebility to help).
A small group of people (approximately 7) banded together to try and take the leadership role and make the community a better place. I was introduced through a person that shildered the problem to me. Me beeing me I wanted to help. The issue was that most of the mod team was friends with that leader. And the only way to ever get ownership of that community would be through talking and getting them to willingly hand it over and you can probably imagine how messy that got. I played a major role in talking with the leader, explaining what we want and trying to sweet-talk them, I remember beeing incredibly desperate to get everything to work out as it has already been a week of constant back and forth, false bans and many muted people. The unofficial leader of the whole operation created a seperate amino due to half of the group beeing unable to interact on the main one to discuss our next actions and comfort one another. Many were stressed but I cannot exactly put into words how that situation felt to us at the time. Trauma dumping was an issue.
Somewhere along the way the amino was gore bombed. We knew the person who did it and were incredibly disturbed that something like that could even happen. We felt helpless at the time, not having any actual power to take down posts which is why many people saw them, it was my first (and not last) exposure to extreme gore and the images got burned into my mind, I can still give a detailed description of them today. I tried to not look at them because I knew that it could have consequences for me but we as a group felt obligated to warn the people on the amino to not look at posts or enter public chats (both were flooded with those pictures) which is why avoiding them was impossible for us.
We eventually got the leadership role after about a month and could ban the leader. We installed ourselves as the new curators and leaders, as we were pretty much the only ones trying to take care of the amino. Things turned out nicely for it afterwards, we achieved our goal and could finally take care of issues quickly. The amino was gore bombed a second time and I can remember taking the posts down one by one. For beeing a group of teens (oldest person was 17) we did a good job at moderating everything and the amino eventually had a natural "death" of declining activity to no activity after 1 more year.
For everything horrible that happened I have very fond memories of the place and the people I met there. I have good memories of a lot of communities I joined on Amino, especially in my first year as the App wasn't that bad there yet. I was on the app all the time and met incredible people, chatted with them for ages and was very happy to have people that share my interests as there were none in my irl circles. I improved my english because of amino, due to the endless amount of chatting I did I got better and better with time and partially because of that experience I am fluent now. I am grateful for those great experiences during the 2 years I was actively chatting and now look back with nostaliga. But I have to acknowledge that some of the things that happened weren't okay. I was a therapy friend, and I talked 2 people down from offing themselves. But I don't want to endlessly talk about all that went wrong, this comment is long enough as is.
Sorry for this wall of text! But I wanted to show my experience of Amino, both good and bad. Sorry if it is a little difficult to read, english is not my first language as I mentioned earlier :')
Oh! I remember the Amino protest as beeing one of the last things I took part in by spreading the message in communities I curated. I disabled automatic updates and eventually couldn't open the app anymore due to my version beeing to old. This video showed me that they actually got rid of the Kik thing so I updated it and looked at it for the first time in forever aaaand , like expected, it's just as laggy as ever
I was on amino as a high schooler. Met some brilliant people and learned a lot about my hobbies on a heavily moderated and relatively smaller community. The majority of the app, however, is infested with perverts and weirdos, especially those who target younger teens and children.
Tbh I never knew about this side of amino, I only was in 3 aminos actively. Animal crossing, Mario, Nintendo I didn’t have any negative things happen though I can see how this could happen
I was on amino in it's early days as a young teen. There were creeps, but they were easy to ignore, because they were so obvious. I was sooo addicted! I loved to roleplay. And all day all I could think about was my stories and characters. I miss the old days.
and the online friends QwQ Good times
They were good times at the beginning. I miss those. I nonstop thought about my OCs and the fandoms.
that sounds nice
I made some real cringey stories at the time, but I enjoyed myself. I didn't know the situation was that bad nowadays
i was always roleplaying.... I miss the old times...
I have an experience to share...
At 11 years old (7 years ago) i was groomed in an app called undertale amino, being the young undertale fan I was i decided to join to make friends and talk to people with the same likings as me (because i was a weird kid at school for liking undertale i thought it was a great idea) My groomer, who at that time was a 16 yo, so obviously he knew what he was doing, often forced me to roleplay +18 stuff... it was disgusting and i was traumatized by it all, he threatened to hurt himself if i left, so i didn't until i was like... 13 that i had the courage to unstall the app. Overall it was an awful experience not only I experienced it, a close friend of mine did as well, it was much more common than people think and we felt like we couldn't do anything, the curators didn't do anything either, It just marked me for life. (I'm sorry if my english is bad it isn't my first language)
Surprisingly enough, a lot of adults just want to be there because of life too, a lot of them there to escape, I'm in entire communities full of mostly adults and it's just fun talking to people around the same age as yours about issues that you both have or, something good that happened to you today, hopefully this video blows up better than mine did addressing bots and issues, tho, i gotta make one about the roleplaying comms.
The amount of views you got verses sub count is actually impressive! You got over 1k view! Good luck with ur channel ❤
@@drill4206 well i try, i did share it along s bunch of communities but thank you very much
@@egas4679 you're welcome. As a mom of a 15 year old daughter, are there any others flying under the radar the way amino did? I knew about kik but not this one.
@@drill4206 project z is, full of it as well, maybe even worst than amino.
@@egas4679 thank u! I've never heard of that one either !
I remember using amino when I was tiny, and I was very lucky to not be groomed or anything like that. But I do remember being part of this relatively large amino once, it had tens of thousands of members, and it was all being managed by a 14 year old. Yep. The leader was 14, and all of the team was of a similar age, and you can imagine the drama that ensued. Literally the team crumbled and all turned against each other over petty childish reasons and as a result the community was just full of nothing but drama and taking sides, it was literally just a sharing OCs amino and it got to a point where I never saw peoples art anymore I only saw this awful drama of the leaders ripping each other apart childishly. Tens of thousands of people and that’s what it became in the end. How the creators thought users managing each other was insane, literally anyone of any age can host create an amino
Back in 2019, there was a popular link being spread around by bots containing heavy gore. This was like cooking a dog alive, people harming themselves, etc. Amino STILL hasnt yet taken action about 5 years later. Im still active on the LPS (Littlest Pet Shop) Amino since I have a big part in it, but the way the owners of Amino neglected the app is insane.
Honestly Visual Venture makes these documentaries entertaining. They’re so high quality and well edited! :)
Thank you my friend 🙏
I almost got groomed on amino a while back. made an account but i won’t list the name. I joined my favorite fandoms (anime, Drawing etc) and i got around 3 dms i think? 1 dude asked me for feet pics on IG and another wanted to ERP, he asked for my face and i said no.
Luckily i knew enough to not get taken advantage of. He made me feel really uneasy so i blocked him and deleted my account. I felt like vomitting and i was so shaky that night i didn’t know what to say. I never told anyone about what happened except my close friend, Though.
People below 18 PLEASE be safe. Don’t give any personal information to anyone you do NOT know. And parents please monitor your child’s activity on the internet. To any victims of grooming, I’m so sorry that happened to you. It really shouldn’t have and it sickens me that there are a lot of creeps lurking around apps where children can be present. Lot’s of love and stay safe please! ❤
I was groomed by a woman on the miraculous ladybug amino. I was young so I didn’t understand it was wrong. after a few weeks of talking, she asked me to be her girlfriend and I said yes, we would talk for hours casually, but then she started to suggest sexual role plays, I felt uncomfortable but I did agree to them anyway, then she told me to send pictures of myself in underwear and she put porn on the videos for me and her to watch. I was 12 and I blocked her as soon as I knew it was wrong. I reported her account to the miraculous ladybug moderators with screenshots. They didn’t do anything. I’m still angry about it to this day because that woman has probably groomed other vulnerable children and the moderators just let it happen….
@@Ganondorf526 Holy hell i’m so sorry. You’re very brave for speaking about your experience, You did the right thing. Please stay strong! I hope that woman gets what she deserves, You didn’t deserve that at all and you were only a little kid.
Thank you for spreading awareness about this. I was groomed by multiple adults in a public group chat on amino before when I was younger. I don’t even understand how it has not been deleted and banned everywhere in the world yet. It needs to be.
I remember when I was on Amino, it has traumatised me from thinking "friends" was dying or being groomed or getting told by everyone I will not get anywhere with my art despite how much I showed that I wanted to be a artist and it was awful :(
Amino was a very dark time for me. Not because I got harassed or attacked or anything. Instead it was because I, unknowingly, did some very horrible stuff. I didn't understand how my words or actions effect people and I treated everything like it was a funny joke but people couldn't tell me it was a very very sick joke because I guess, just like me, they felt like our small community was the only friends we ever had. Not only that but we also had a small private chat where we would gossip and make fun of newcomers behind their back in our community which was also not the nicest thing to do. Truth is we were all shitty people, and I think I was the shittiest of them all. For a long time now these people have cut me off and I don't blame them. If I knew the me from 2016 I too would have kicked him out of my life forever and thus I'm happy for them
I had an experience like this too, I'm glad I got off the app and self reflected and got my self Into a better headspace. I was a terrible person on amino and I regret almost everything ever done on there.
Reminds me of the shitty thing I did to my best online friend. I look back and realize what my actions and words could have been interpertated. And I still regret it very dearly. Wish I could apoligize to them now. But I know that will never happen. Lost a great friendship due to my selfish subconcious. But what can I do now? Just move on...
I was also in a similar position. I haven't talked with many people I knew on there since I left...up until they all came together and called me out for my actions. It's been hard to come to terms with what I did and my negative impact on my former peers, and I still struggle with trying to move on past it, knowing that I inflicted a form of trauma onto another person and have disgust paired with their mental image of me. Just know that you're not alone in trying to move past your darkest times. ❤
It's not your problem alone, this everyone's problem in our current gen, every kids defines on what being cool is = Edgy
& overjoking & overusing memes, to the fact it becomes way way too annoying, & that why the others keeps doing exactly the same
It's not cool anymore
I definitely experienced creeps trying to talk to me on the app knowing what age I was at the time but I remember when the app used to be so fun. Even older ladies who crocheted would be a part of the communities. Thanks, Visual for covering this app! 😊
I had been groomed countless times from when I was 12 to 16. I am now an adult and I’m trying to move on from all of the pain I endured being a member of the Amino community. The moderation was okay for some communities, but the general experience for just using the app as a whole was bad. Men in their 20’s and 30’s would groom the younger people (I had older men talking to me and would be okay with the fact that I was 12 or 16.) into fulfilling twisted desires. I was even manipulated by a bunch of people who I thought were my friends. It turns out that I was just one person of many who was invited to that group chat so we could be exploited by the adults there. ERP’s would happen behind closed doors, and if I didn’t comply, then I would be blackmailed by them and that fucked me up. I still like writing and sometimes I can remember the nights I would feel guilty and cry over this shit and no one would help me. I eventually accepted it and now it has ruined my view of how I write. I feel like if I don’t put that in, I will be punished for it. I had been in and out of friendships but one thing would never change. The fact that every amino I would join there would be countless adults trying to groom me and get me to ERP with them. I am so tired of pedophiles grooming the young. The worst of the grooming would happen in communities catered to children, and the adults would always be looking for someone young to prey upon. This happened in Undertale Amino, Splatoon Amino, DBZ Amino, Anime Amino, and also various art aminos and other smaller ones. I was growing up in the worst environment, which even made me wish to do ERPS more and more (I do not do them anymore.)
I am still healing. Seeing that there someone talking about this stuff makes me happier than people would know. I just have to try to forget all that happened with this godforsaken app. It is the reason why I have depression and panic attacks so often.
Thank you for covering this. More people need to be aware of the dangers of Amino. ❤️
Just know that you are still going strong 💪 You turned to amino to look for people with similar interests but apparently there are adults on the app with nothing better to do. Just know that everything that has happened to you is 100% NOT your fault. I never went on Amino personally, but it just boggles me that I passed by at least 8 commenters (as of right now) who share the same experience that contain grooming and other things. You are still recovering and that is a good sign, and you deserve so much better. 🫶
I understand you we share the same pain. Hope you are doing well
It’s insane seeing my early teen years being talked about like this. Amino use to be like one of those platforms little people knew about but there were so many people on it
Children and parents need to watch out for this app. Thank you for covering this.
man i am SO glad we’re finally talking about this app. the amount of weird shit i was exposed to was more than anyone my age should have been lmao
I remember seeing ads for amino, but I never downloaded it. Thank God I missed a dumpster fire. I hope everyone who was negatively affected heals ❤️
This ain’t a dumpster fire
This is a landfill conflagration
Same since the only reason I wanted to download it was because of the sponsorships my favorite UA-camrs and I wanted to get art lessons but when I looked at the website I was confused when it said it was a social app community instead and uninstalled it afterwards since I was disappointed I was mislead. Luckily I dodged a whole mess of animo.
That place was an absolute hell storm I never recovered from 😅
I troll on one amino server, it’s hilarious. I keep forgetting the app exists. I don’t think I’ll ever get addicted to it because it’s got a pretty shit design tbh
Honestly, grooming and gore Is like amino's middle name at this point. Adults forcing children to be in a sex*al relationship and people sending pictures of real dead bod*es of people. I've seen it all and experienced it and honestly gave depression for a while.
This is true I was an amino user in 2018 it had a community in which we could learn new languages there was a group chat in which adults(20+) would talk about inappropriate stuff even after knowing that some people were just 11 or 13
@@roma_Akhtari was also in amino in 2018 and was 16 at the time
I never came across weird people maybe because the amino i joined was safe
I went into my Amino phase, and while I didn't experience anything too extreme on my side during that time, I'm happy that I grew out of that addiction.
Dude even the 13 first seconds of the video have a huge amount of edition and a captivating narration, this channel deserves so much more 😭😭😭😭
I had a horrifying experience in Amino. When I first joined in 2020, I joined an art community where people posted their OCs and roleplayed. There was two people in particular. I think one was a moderator and the other was a regular member. The moderator was a girl and the member was a man. They were basically the most known couple in the community, everyone knew about them and they roleplayed dramatic stories A LOT. Once there was a time where one of them made a blog post to show their real faces and ages. They showed both their faces in the post, their age, what they liked, their OCs, etc.
The most shocking part on the post was that the man was 20 and the girl was 15. Nobody cared. Everybody kept commenting and liking the post (even donating aminocoins). Suddenly, they both just vanished off the app and community. If we tried tracing their exterior profiles (profiles outside communities), the accounts didn't exist anymore. Any links to their profiles on blog posts, quizzes, wikis etc. were all redirected to a page saying "This account has been deleted for violating ______" or a 404 page.
I also first received a bot on my exterior profile, only one. I didn't fall for that, though, because I did not understand a word the bot spoke (the bot was messaging me in english, they put a malicious link below a nonsense mix of words).
The Amino management team NEEDS to be URGENTLY notified of this, as they completely and consecutively ignore reports from users CLEARLY indicating the harm the bots and people make on the app that was right on their field of vision!
I had another experience in Amino that was quite traumatic. There was this "organization" or mini-group on Amino that would bomb communities that they didn't like with pornographic and gore images, as well as spamming the Nazi symbol all over community group-chats, blog posts and wikis. The most ironic of it all is that they would try and "recruit" people into their "organization" and if they didn't, they would leak their IP Address and DDoS it.
I am still, to this day, trying to survive on Amino and actively trying to bring back the union between fandoms it used to form.
I was groomed twice while on amino, and roleplaying on it severely altered my brain, like how I viewed love, how I saw myself and how to talk to others.
I am glad to have been able to move past those dark times, but I’ll never forget how much Amino negatively affected me from 2017 to around 2020
That’s such an important point about grooming, I too had issues in viewing love and receiving love ever since I got groomed on amino. I never realised until now that’s probably why I experienced major anxiety surrounding emotions that are supposed to feel good like romance or friendships. (lucky now I have recovered from the incidents and feel regulated and healthy with my emotions) it’s just shocking how common grooming is on amino and was bypassed/ignored by moderators and even the developers...
Damn, all these people talking ahout grooming when i didn't understand half the messages those pedos sent me. Good thing there were no turks on amino 6 years ago
Omfg finally someone posted this!!! Growing up made me realize that I was groomed so much especially such as age gaps ranging from 11-20 and gawh it was terrible 😭😭… UNDERTALE Amino was so good until it just degraded big time….
Being an Amino leader was torture because the bot issues only got worse-a few are legit burnt in my memory, I've (along with others) sometimes spent hours of my day removing bots or trying to ban bot accounts-and there isn't enough material to work with to consistently keep communities engaging when you got 0 funding.
There's been a Situation way back in 2019 in the "Sonic the Hedgehog!" Amino, a User by the name "Zyro" who was decently popular on the Amino started faking Cancer to get more attention and free art, all of the things people would do for a man in his "dying moments" and eventually he "passed away". People were sad obviously since he seemed to be a loveable guy and was appreciated in the community, his "passing" got him even more art of his Oc.
One day however, any Sonic related Community was spammed with alt accounts posting and glorifying Zyro's passing, even throwing in the Hard R every second word. It was really bad and Mods had a hard time catching up. Eventually though those alts stopped showing up again and again, so you'd think that was the end of it and Zyro could rest in peace? Wrong.
Zyro decided it would be a smart move to hit up a close friend and eventually blow his cover, he was not dead. Nor did he ever have Cancer, it came to light that he's lied about everything for clout and attention, free art and so much more. People were furious and that man was very quickly dragged through the mud, his close friends contacted his parents about what he was doing and after that we never heard from him again..
I'm in that community, that situation was wild...
Oh hey I was in that amino around September 2017. It was really toxic when I was lurking lol
I definetly agree with the dangers and overall general issues with the app. I too was victim to the app around 4 years ago, when the pandemic hit. I ended up encountering multiple people who, granted, were nice, but later on I discovered I was really being gr**med. I ended getting groomed multiple times without considering how bad it was at the time. I was a semi-infamous user on the Undertale Amino specifically and the attention was overwhelming for a literal 12/13 year old. The app completely shattered my sense of worth and personal growth, leading me to develop ADHD and Autism once I started secondary school (UK), the scars I got will never heal and thank the lord the Community I used is now completely dead.
The Undertale Amino has, from what I last remembered, nearly 1 Million users which is insane. But I understand Undertale became more popular around 2020 specifically, so its completely understandable. But this shouldnt excuse what happened to me, let alone anybody. I pray for everybody and anybody who were taken advantage of during anytime on Amino, its sickening.
I once actually created a tweens amino when I was 12 that required someone to send a picture of their face for me to reverse image search because the one I had joined before had a problem with grooming. Nobody listened to that rule in the slightest except one person so ppl were either rightfully cautious or afraid of being caught. I tried to keep it up for a good two months before giving up. Even removed someone for being a possible pedo. I really liked being a leader back then but I couldn't lead a team that was nonexistent (people ofc liked the other one which had no moderation whatsoever) so I just called it quits.
I remember when I was 12 I’d join things like that on amino then leave bc I got scared 💀💀💀💀💀💀
people that ask for face verification are the most disgusting communities
Tbh an amino like that actually sounds like a terrible idea. Minors sending pics of themselves to a stranger could easily lead to doxxing and/or grooming. Not to mention that the “tweens” on that amino could have easily been users who would use pics of their younger siblings/cousins.
@spicyshakes848 yeah I was young and very stupid
@@Eepop_stuffs understandable :P
Thank god someone is finally talking about this :( I was groomed on the app during 2017, the account was banned but like any other horrible person they made an alt and slipped back into the community I was in. I left this community and was moderators in two other communities (one being a curator and the other being agent status leader). I wanted to become a mod to try to help this problem, but my efforts fell short. Please stay safe, the things that were said to me at 15 still haunt me to this day. I’m 21 now.
I was a victim in 2 different ways,
When I was sixteen I got groomed by someone in a gatcha life amino, doing these ‘Roleplays’ with me, it was horrible, and disgusting.
A bot on amino hacked my phone and was download botting on my phone to the point where my storage was full.
I’ve met a lot of cool people through Pokémon Amino as a kid and people I’m still friends with to this day. But holy crap the number of Bad mods, Nsfw content, grooming, drama, ERP, “trolling” and scams I’ve witnessed on that app was honestly worst than Twitter somehow. Thank you for making this video I hope it serves as a good warning to stay away from this app.
im very glad everyone is telling their stories because i was on amino when i was 10-12. I was very cringy and honestly really annoying yes, but i remember a guy that was 19 at the time talking with me in private and asking for information while knowing my age, that was really weird actually. Thanks to this i see a lot people went trough a similar situation
i am a 22 yr old who used to use amino back when it wasnt as bad, it was a great place for anyone with common interests, i used to be a active user in the undertale amino, i even had a popular chat litterally just called undertale chill, and there i met some good friends and even a special someone who turned into a toxic manipulator, but basically the undertale amino along with other aminos were flooded with toxic people left and right, either pedos or the minors that victimize themselves for attention, while there are actual ones in danger, which i hope safety on, you have the ones that are in no danger and bully adults cause of their age. i left it cause it became an even higher toxic fest, i didnt know how to delete accounts so i just uninstalled it, i switched to discord, and i havent heard anything about amino till now as this vid popped up in my feed lol.
but long story short, i hope that app burns as it created almost as toxic place as twitter for children and adults who have been on there for a long time
I’m so glad you made a video about this. I was about 9 or 10 when I first downloaded Amino and I had regretted it ever since. I was both groomed and manipulated on that app and it had left an emotional scar on me. I’m glad that people are paying more attention of the horrors of this app and I’m even more glad to see how it’s now off the App store completely. Thank you so much
As soon as I told people I was a girl and a minor, people would literally harass me and force me to take inappropriate pictures of myself. Thank god I didn’t fall for that but I was so young at the time that I did almost consider it, not knowing the repercussions it might have.
I've seen the same thing happen to boys, saying you're a minor on amino will make these sick bastards instantly try to take advantage of you
I assume you are educated when you were young.
unlike some other people who were groomed at 15 and didnt even know they were getting groomed
reminds me of the time I was roleplaying with someone in the Undertale community when I was a bit more younger the person had mentioned something that's unmentionable and I nor any other child should know about yet until they're older, but I stopped using it due to some stuff on there, it's disappointing that it's not for kids, THUS HAVING A L.O.L COMMUNITY ON THERE.
I joined amino when I was 9. I was in a wings of fire amino. I was bullied by teenagers because I was below 13 and also because moonwings no longer have the powers they had in a roleplay I wanted to join and shamed me for making an op character which I didn't even know what op meant. They swore at me to leave, called me names and spam reported my account which got deleted. My online bestfriend at the time was in that account and I could no longer look for them after it got deleted. I cried the entire night. I just wanted to talk and roleplay about my favourite book series
HOLY SHIT THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO. I was ruthlessly harrassed by the moderation of the Just Shapes and Beats amino, a fairly smaller community, after a member didn't get what they wanted (winning an art contest) because they had won one in the past, to the point even after I was permanently banned from it they would SPY ON ME through my personal Discord server and social media accounts. It's traumatized me because now I have extreme trust issues and difficulty inserting myself into new communities.
Holy shit what?! I knew I couldn't trust them! These people were threatening to end my life!
lolll i remember joining an amino in 2016, i joined the furry amino, the people were so nice and helped me realize that i was not a furry, and i just wanted to connect to people and have things in common with others. 2016 was prime for the internet, and it's 8 years away now...
Used to be in Amino, I think around 2016-2017. There were barely any ads, I don't think there were Amino Coins yet. It was pure fun and games, and maybe some messed up stuff as well, but I was in Undertale Amino specifically so our biggest problems were Sans fangirls. I joined a group called Determined Artists Swuad, but then we all started leaving the app itself because we were going to college and whatnot.
Years later I come back, I think around 2020, and Amino just... It's filled up with spam, ads, etc. I couldn't find a good enough reason to stay anymore, so I never went back again. Now I see this... It's really sad that Amino went down such a horrible route.
Man, it hurts a little to know the app where some of my core childhood memories took place went down in flames. I recently re-downloaded the app and was immediately taken aback by the influx of bots shortly after I'd come online. I had amino when I was 10-13. I remember spending hours chatting, roleplaying as wild wolves with other kids and doing crappy art commissions in exchange for amino coins and never having any creepy experiences. Though I can't tell anymore whether it felt so different because amino really was a safer place back then, or it was just that the one specific amino I constantly hung out in had a mature and genuinely benevolent mod team who wanted to make sure its members are safe.
..yeah, come to think of it, it wasn't safe even then. I remember now, after I'd eventually became part of the mod team in the aforementioned amino, I found out the leaders often had to set the amino to private because of sudden waves of bots, and the reason I never ran into creeps was because seasoned mods were lightning fast at spotting them and banning them. It was also the only amino where people who wanted to be mods had to go through extensive tryouts and training to even be given the title and mod tools of a curator/leader. Now I feel lucky I happened to choose a safe and well-moderated amino to hang out in, seeing how easily I could've otherwise ended up getting groomed and/or scammed. Especially at a point in my life when I was really lonely in real life and was desperate to make friends with other kids online. I can only hope the app gets taken down at this point, for the sake of kids' safety
17:40 the more you think about it the worse it will get, apps will never solve that