The Horrors of Kik Messenger..
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1:30 about the app
2:43 app setup
3:18 the horrors
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11:47 kik's contradictions (cont.)
12:54 using the app live
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Watched this early when you accidentally released this lol
BIGGEST red flag feature of kik is how the chats are not saved after logging out. chats expire and totally cease to exist. its like the app was made for shady activity
Not that I disagree, but how is that unlike Snapchat?
@@toricorbett4509 Snapchat is moderated better, you can save the person's username and report them, idk though
@@chchoerriez also the fact that there's an option on snapchat that allows you to save chats. Kik doesnt have the same thing even to this day
@@bigpoopyemo6218 yeah I haven't ever used kik so I didn't know that, thanks !
@@bigpoopyemo6218 It only allows you to save it for 24 hrs
EDIT: Unless u wanna go through saving every single msg
I remember using this in middle school and there were so many creeps
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Funny how as a kid we were all yelled at for the conversations we had on kik but the adults we talked to were never held accountable and the idea and understanding of grooming didn’t exist.
this really gets to me. I was caught on facebook messaging grown men and my parents got so mad at ME because I AN ELEVEN YEAR OLD should have known better. my mom brought me to the police station and all the cop did was tell me about internet safety. the men were never held accountable and I felt like it was my fault for almost a decade.
@@megansmith8799 yea it was your fault, it takes 2 braincells to understand that's bad
@@yorumad dude up your bait game man this is just kinda pathetic.
@@thishandleisalreadytaken449 it's not bait, i genuinely dont understand how people will let their children be apart of society if they don't even know basic knowledge
Of course children don't know basic knowledge that's why you teach it to them anyone with more than two brain cells would understand that
I'm so thankful that I was never allowed to use Kik. I remember years ago when a family friend of mine, naive to grooming at the time, sent a picture of her house to the person she was messaging on Kik, and then the person actually drove over to her house (I think?). Thankfully she's safe now, but I bet it was extremely scary for her and her family.
I don't always agree with my mom on everything, but I am so thankful she had that conversation about online grooming with me and that she never let me have Kik.
Your mom was very wise in that decision. There are some things you might not necessarily understand until you're older and become more aware of the dangers. Stay safe out there!
@@LoveKillFear777 That's so true! And even as a person who interacts with online friends, I am thankful to have had that education about the risks and dangers of the internet so I can use it today with caution. You definitely need to be careful what you share or who you talk to on the internet.
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@@valianntt True tho.
CORRECTION: I think it was actually the guy that the family friend was messaging who sent her the picture of her house, not the other way around. But either way, still scary.
Yea we all think our parents hate us but they are looking out for us
As someone who's never used Kik, it's extremely concerning to me how many kids have been groomed on this site. Why is so hard for grown ass adults to NOT prey on children?????
Because they are losers who cant meet women their age, and are to weak to try harder
yes grooming is concerning thanks captain obvious
@@b__mart thanks for being rude for no reason
@@Classicalmusicscores1984 you’re welcome, and actually it’s not cause they can’t meet women their age, it’s because they’re pedophiles
@@b__mart I know that, but I was saying that it was extremely concerning HOW MANY kids were being taken advantage of by adults on this site.
In the first group chat I joined on kik, there was a group of teenagers on there that I talked to who noticed I was just a little kid. So they told me to get off the app and delete it as fast as I could because i was too young and there are dangerous people i didn’t need to know about yet. I am so glad they did because knowing my little gullible self, I was a very easy target for online creeps. i just want to thank them wherever they are for helping me :(
Respect to those teens
Yes thank you and good blessings to those teens
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as an adult now, whenever I see someone use kik as their main texting platform its an immediate red
flag
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all i remember was deleting kik in like 2015 and just using it as the main messenger over snapchat and instagram
I wish I knew this sooner when I was a kid in 2012 using Kik.
It still disgusts me to this day what I was exposed to and used for.
lack ofjudgement and control
As someone who was groomed on Kik at a very very young age, I’m glad more people are exposing just how corrupted the place has been for years
Same. I hope kids stop using the app. :/
I got groomed so many times it’s genuinely scary.
I didn’t see the word was and was so concerned.
@@Macethemoth02 it's sad how many people experience that tbh
used it when i was 10 and mostly spoke to my friends although sometimes random people would add me, it’s mostly dead right now except for camgirls and pedos
Even in its prime, Kik was so sketchy and I hated using it, which sucked because most people my age didn’t really have any other type of communications besides Kik; so this made me feel mandatory to download it to keep in contact with friends/family. I have so many creepy stories and flat out disturbing things that have happened on that app + screenshots that I’ve kept in a folder ‘till this day. From stalkers, to grooming, to those creepy ass bots lol. I wish I deleted it when I had the chance; could’ve saved myself from so much stress and trauma smh.
no literally when i saw the vid i was just like im gonna scroll down and see a bunch of grooming stories
Yea I wish I never had the app. Was essentially groomed from 14-17. But thankfully the guy was too scared to meet me in person until I was 18. When I turned 18 I knew better by then and figured out what happened. It's weird to say I'm thankful for that but fr am so thankful it never translated into in person ab^se
Agreed bro.
It was sincerely so bad and the staff was so fucking irresponsible.
Yeah same I used it a lot when i was younger cuz a lot of my friends and cousins used it but even back then most my experiences on there were random grown ppl tryna slide in my dms and it was honestly so weird and I’m glad this app has lost popularity cuz kids rly should not be using it.
I literally almost got trafficked on Kik. I vividly remember talking to this guy when I was like 15/16. I don't remember how old he was or specifics but I remember him telling me how much money I could make, how fun it would be, how much I could travel. Looking back now, I am in utter shock and awe.
oh my god
Broo, the same thing happened to me on IMVU when I was like... 12...
As a victim of multiple kik predators, I can attest that this shit was scary. And I’m sure all my private pictures are on the deep web or some creepy old man’s computer…and that scares me…I was very young and very naive as I grew up with mental health disorders and thought what was going on was okay at first. Between the ages of 13-15 I was in multiple ddlg, furry, and even bdsm groups. This was a very scary thing looking back on it as I remember one person in particular that tried to lure me out of my home and to a local mall…my mom still doesn’t know to this day. I’m fact I’ve only very recently mentioned what happened to my boyfriend. Only very briefly without details…please keep your children OFF OF THIS APP ITS DANGEROUS
Excuse my ignorance but what does ddlg mean??
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@@yessiryessir1756 Here’s the neglected child!
@@xochitlparede6712 a sexual relationship where the dominant male is the daddy figure and a woman plays the role of a young girl.
its only dangerous depending on the way you use it
BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE… Lowkey can relate to this video because I had kik as a kid and the people I talked to and the things I did as a young child really never disappears.. people on kik are predators….
LITERALLY SAME !!! it was so disturbing… glad I’m not on it anymore
Same
Yeah, you never really realise that its wrong (on their part) until you get older
then your like...damn
Same, I will never forgive myself for the things I said/sent, I feel disgusting and vile every time I remember it.
Kik is riddled with predators of many ages. From old men to teens who you think you can trust.. it destroys who you are,
As well as your personality.
Ugh I also sadly relate so much. And it was so so many predators that I talked to and now when I’m older and actually realized what happened to me it just disgust’s me how many grown men it actually was texting me. First video I see about this app. Sad to hear how many others also relate. Hope y’all are doing okay. ✌🏻
Not me but a girl I knew in middle school claimed she had a 25 yr old boyfriend on kik and she would always brag about it to everyone, then she moved outta nowhere and came back junior year of high school and she completely changed into a timid, isolated girl. everyone thought it had something to do with her “25 yr old boyfriend”
I hope you’re doing better Kylie. you didn’t deserve whatever happened to you
Probably groomed her, she sent tons of vids and pics. Then he blackmailed her and tormented her for a very long time for more content.
Good god :(
Horrifically wrong of ANYONE who knew better that she told that to in your school to not IMMEDIATELY report that to the school, her parents, the police, etc
@@jamespeterson4275 it sucks no one said anything about it but again they were middle schoolers, they for sure just didnt know any better. its definitely not on the kids, the blame is on whoever was supposed to parent the girl, and the actual p3do
Dude why name drop her tho
I am convinced back in 2015-2016 I talked to so many pedos without knowing. It’s so gross.
When Kik used to be popular all kinds of fucked things happened. Cp grooming cyber bullying. I think one of the most horrifying things I witnessed tho was one time one girl was forced to carve with a knife the name of her groomer on her arm. If she refused he said he would dox her and disturb her nudes she was a minor I think not even up to 14
thatshorrifying jesus christ
what the fuck.. that is horrifying.
Yeah I remember being in a huge group chat with all my middle school friends and someone was able to join into our chat and they kept sending us isis and cartel beheadings, all type of gore content which we were way too young to see. We tried to report them but it probably did nothing
One time a guy found my address somehow when I was 13 on this app! He tried to send me a pizza one time… and then tried to send me his sweatshirt… If I wouldn’t have convinced him to stop peacefully it probably would have escalated 😬
What’s horrifying is that I’m pretty sure the same thing happened to my former partner. They had been groomed and abused as well, and wasn’t exactly healthy mentally, so they ended up carving their current partner (groomer)’s name into their body.
Imagine being a parent and hearing your kid say, "yeah I have a Kik." I think I'd actually have a heart attack.
I actually had Kik when I was 8 or 9. My cousins told me to download it so we can chat together.
My dad nearly did - it was not good I was like 8?
i used to have one from about 8 to 11 but luckily i didn’t run into anything bad
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My dad made me have a Kik because he decided I was too lonely and didn't have enough friends. I never used it after someone asked me for pics of myself
im so glad you talked about this. as someone who was groomed on kik, had my underage n00ds shared to other pedophiles on that app, and was exposed to so much yucky behavior, im glad at least one popular creator is showing the horrendous underbelly of that awful app
I had the same experience I was in 7th grade bro it scares me everyday that my pictures could resurface some day, sad world we live in.
As much as I wish I was the only one who had to go through this, it's nice to see that others understand what I went through. And to this day still only 1 person knows the extend of it. Kik was such a shitty place. I can't tell u how many times ppl tried to blackmail me, groom me, threaten me, even got sent CP once and it burned the image into my mind. Horrible experiences.
@@hectorhernandez7929 Same here same here. It happened to me in 8th. Am in 10th and I have never truly gotten over it
I know it sounds really gross, but I also sent my pictures, looking for validation whether I looked good when I was in 8th I believe..
I was fucked in the head.. sorry
I feel that so much when u don’t have parents that participated in the online space the only description u think about creeps online is creepy old men not manipulative charming 20 something year olds. I don’t except to ever have children but I would worn them with more detail if I did. Scary to think about the past isn’t it? I love how I’m almost all the way done with the video but there’s so much worse, hopefully this tho I think this was the right amount to show. No one, especially children should be preyed on for their sensitivity and vulnerability. It’s digusting behavior and it will always flow under the radar but the more we educate the less gullible we can be. Pedos are disgusting :(
I grew up in Kik’s golden era and it was… specific.
I got no new friends from it but it was funny how joining kik came with this whole learning curb of “yeah now you just gotta learn to identify predators and spam accounts”.
The app was nice cause you could send emojis back in the day and you were able to send pics without costing, but the app was weird and always made me uncomfortable. However when you’re not too popular but in the group and your whole group doesn’t want to use any other form of communication… yeah you end up putting yourself in that situation.
Thank the GODS that the app is so forgotten about by now
OMG, I’m a senior, retired teacher and just appalled that these perverts continue to find ways to abuse - preying on a young person’s mental health issues. 😮 Thank you for informing myself and your viewers on this little known grooming method.
Please continue to be an awesome person, (thumbs up)!!!
@@nicolenorman8926 you as well Nicole! We’ll continue the good fight to protect society’s most vulnerable.
@@Jan-jn5jhand as a person who has seen multiple bad reviews on this app as well with likee I agree with this statement
Wow. I definitely was coerced by a “nice” man to send pictures of myself when I was in the 7th grade on kik. I am now 24 years old but I think about all the time how someone somewhere has pictures of me as a child and I feel ashamed. Glad this is being talked about on a more serious level since it’s more joked on social media about “cat fishing older men” to cover some fear or shame they most likely have.
This happened to me as well, I’m 23 now and I get sad and disgusted thinking back to all the bad things that happened and pictures I’ve exchanged. I had no knowledge that it was wrong, I couldn’t understand it at the time. Sometimes I think if my pictures are still out there. I’m sorry it happened to you, I wish you the best!
@ it also happened to me :( i too did that without the awareness of the consequences. i still think about it every day fearing they’ll be posted or they’ll be able to be traced back to me gah. i wish you well!
At 37 I wish I can say that nagging bit of shame goes away....but it has been 20 years and I still have it. Even tho I am 90% sure the guy is dead, but that means others may have found those pics. (not online thankfully)
@ this happened to me! I’m also 23 now and looking back I see how messed up it was. When I was around 15 I had an older guy befriend me on kik and he became very sexual with me fast and at the time I didn’t see anything wrong with it, I mean I didn’t think much of it but I was naive back then. I also sent him pictures of myself and I wish I could go back and take it all back.
@ me too and I’m 17 now and I still get threats to this day it’s like haunting
This is gonna sound super corny but seriously as a parent to two early teen boys I super appreciate you making videos like these Tuv. It really helps to have a creator my boys like cover topics like these to guide our conversations. If I just sit them down to say “hey be careful about this thing” it just sounds like “oh mom is gonna nag again”. But having videos like these shows my boys I’m not just being a paranoid parent. Really appreciate you, dude!
Good luck raising them kids bro im a teenager currently and trust me when they get 16 17 thata the worse of it but good luck. Madame or sir
please PLEASE remember to make sure that they know the extent of the dangers of talking to strangers online. even if it seems like they’re too young to be exposed. my parents warned me from the time i could type and it still wasn’t enough to prevent me from getting into some really terrible situations with predators online 🙏
If this was reddit Iwould give you the wholesome award, so well said
thats really heartwarming lol
you sound like a wonderful mom. i'm 20 now, and i wish that i would have taken my parents seriously when i was around 14-16 and was smart on the internet, and i wish that they would have also kept a closer eye on who i was talking to. i know i would have been annoyed, but it would have saved me. please please please watch what they do on the internet and keep in mind if they are frustrated by your security, they're going to appreciate it in the future.
Totally got groomed over kik a couple of times... it’s so creepy to think back now how young and naïve, thank you for this video
Omg same, but never noticed it
It’s hard to take that it happened to me when I had no idea. Genuinely making me tear up a little
I think I want to cry at how many memories this brought up.
I was groomed using Omegle and Kik back in middle school and high school.
It started out with using Omegle to meet “friends” and eventually they’d ask for my kik to keep in touch. It was fun at first, talking to people and I thought I was clever by using a name that wasn’t my real name. I felt cool talking to older people and then they made me feel liked. I was sending photos and eventually sending bad photos.
My parents were fighting and didn’t pay attention to me. I was depressed and suicidal and the predators used that. I got exposed to BDSM elements at a young age and became a “slave” where I’d send bad photos and videos when they would ask. One time I even had a Skype relationship. This went on for years and I went through many ‘relationships’ with ‘men and women’. Who knows where my images are now.
To this day it affects my love life and relationships. I feel so used and dirty. This year I spent some time in a mental hospital getting help for this and many other issues I’ve gone through.
Kik is digesting and I hate that it’s still active.
Sorry for what happened we all have our stories and sadly the app is till running
hi, i am so so sorry you had to go through all of that. i hope you're doing better now, i had a similar experience with connected2me but my situation was no where near as severe as yours. still it scared the shit out of me and i can't even imagine how you must be feeling. please take care of yourself. i'm not one to wish for someone's death but the people who did this to you deserves it and more. child predators should burn.
I'm so sorry you had to go through that. You didn't deserve it at all, and I truly hope you can heal and take care of yourself in a safe manner.
I was groomed and treated like a slave online last year, and the flashbacks from those events have sent me to partial programs multiple times. I'm sorry for saying this. It just hurts.
I used to be so addicted to Omegle and Kik around the same age as well. Wishing you the best ❤️
I’m actually going through a similar thing, trying to get over it from doing it 2 months ago.. I’m so sorry you had to go through that.
I remember using kik in middle school at the one of the lowest points in my life. There were rampant pedos that took advantage of my want to be desired since no one my age wanted to be with me and sent things I shouldn't have. Lowkey still get shivers everytime anyone mentions kik
Edit: I’m not the type to reply but I have read all the comments and I wish you all are in a better mental state
I was also in middle school when Kik was at its prime. Me and my friends were recently talking about how we were groomed on the app lol
Me too. Except for me it was Elementary. It honestly makes me sick to my stomach that people can joke about it :/
I'm so sorry you experienced this. I hope you're doing well, stay safe
That same thing happened to me, some times I have anxiety attacks just thinking about it and I feel so guilty.
The same thing happened to me, I regret sending those things every day, I’m so sorry that happened to you :/
I was groomed and taken advantage of on Kik when I was still in elementary school. I was open on there about my age as well and I was too young to realize that it wasn't cool that they didn't care I was 10, it was disturbing. I still have body issues to this day from that site. Thank you for covering how shady this service is
hey tuv, i'm a 40 year old dude and i find your vids pretty entertaining, was pleased to see you embracing your community and trying to foster a caring atmosphere, good stuff!, it's folks like you that give me faith in the younger generation. wishing you the best!
When I was anorexic, I used kik to join "pro-ana" group chats to encourage my eating disorder. We would compare weights, plan diets, give each other tips on how to deal with hunger, and shame each other when we decided to eat above our calorie limits (which were often insanely restrictive). Most of us were children. Kik isn't safe
Bruh
I had a very similar experience, but one thing I distinctly remember is all the "coaches" who'd message me and ask for nudes and would say horrible, disgusting things to me. I was 13/14 and they took advantage of my young stupidity. I hope all the ana fetishists have a slow, painful death. Also, I hope you're doing better now :)
Lmaooooo
im sorry to hear that, i'm glad youre better now!!
Pretty similar to how tik tok and facebooks algorithm that eventually leads you down an echo chamber of thoughts and ideas that cloud your own good judgement. Glad you got out!
I used Kik as a kid. When you mentioned how predators use the depression tags and groups to prey on vulnerable kids, it hit me hard.
using the depression tag on anything will get you groomed. Don't use discord either
Same:/ with the lgbtq one
Kik is and was a vile place I wish I never got on there when I was a kid
@@yamoyams6625 what do you mean?
Me too. You aren’t alone.
god, that app was such a nightmare. i was a victim of grooming in 2014-2015, so i was 11-12 years old. at the time i didn't realize how messed up it all was because i had been manipulated into thinking it was normal and that it was a game, i was never given a talk on internet safety nor did i know about predators and CP until it was too late. im 20 years old now, and as an adult its horrifying to think about and its such a haunting experience of mine. im glad that this is being brought to attention more and im hoping internet safety, especially for children, gets better and more efficient in the years to come.
I was also 12 in 2015 when kik was at its peak popularity and I remember being in a group chat where a dude started sending through videos of him stroking his dick, I managed to shrug it off and just left that group chat but that was my only encounter with any sort of weird shit on there. If this is how bad it actually was, then I'm surprised they didn't already delete this app a long time ago
I remember downloading kik when I was probably like 12 to talk to some online friend of mine. Luckily, whether they were another real kid or actually a groomer, I'll never know bc I never used it and never chatted with them on there bc I just didn't feel like it😂
The fact that so many children…. including myself as a child, were groomed on this app is deeply upsetting
no we really were..
It gives me really bad shakes and a terrible churning feeling in my stomach whenever I think about my experiences on the app. I feel so fucking bad for all of us who went through this.
Now that im older i cant believe some of the stuff that happened to me on there
I met my ex on Kik when I was 11 up until I was 15
He was 17 when we met, and groomed me
It was a long abusive exploitative relationship
I shouldn't have gone through what I did as a child. But he manipulated my bad home situation to get stuff out of me as a child who just wanted to be held.
Yep this video opened up some memories that were hidden deep inside and now I’m going through a crisis.
When I was 11, I used Kik all the time. I did undertale role-playing and just wanted to have fun. I was groomed for years by multiple men who found me there, and I never considered it bad. I hated my body and always liked the attention, I normalized being exploited and sending inappropriate pictures of myself. I'm near 16 now. I never told anyone what I let happen to me for 3 years. I'm ashamed by my younger selves actions, and now more than ever I'm secretive about my body and always dress modestly due to my shame. I wanted to share my story to get it off my chest, because watching this opened up that void that was there years ago, and I wanted everyone to know what happens when your parents don't care. Stay safe. Much love.
Many of us have been through the same situations, but we are all humans some more humane than others but make sure to look ahead instead of behind so whatevers behind won't step Infront, greatness awaits if u keep on trying.
Man. Your parents didn’t teach you shit. Unfortunate.
Dman that sucks
Hey your gonna be alright 🧐 just stay safe 👍🏻💕
First of all, you are not the person who needs to feel shame. The men are the people who did something very wrong. If you feel comfortable, you should go to someone you trust for help. And if you still know where those men are, you should tell someone that way you can help prevent it from happening again. Just know that you being tricked into something like that when you were 11 is not your fault. I hope that you are able to talk to someone soon so you are able to heal from your past experiences.
I was a minor on this app and I actually used to have over 20+ pedos texting me. My mother took and broke my phone due to this
5:59 is that squidward?
I can confirm 100% Kik has CP. I was once in a group chat with some random internet people I used to chat with when I was 12. We were roasting this one dude hard for being a creep and his response was to spam our group with CP. Like, literal babies. It traumatized me so much I never used the app again. I never reported it and sadly wish I knew to do more at the time.
bruh that's fucking disgusting. you made a smart choice when you got off the app.
I was in a StarCraft 2 group and something similar happened. Fuck this kind of stuff. I Hope ur okay now
I'm so sorry that happened to you, that's so messed up...
Some guy that was around 16 sent me CP and I immediately blocked and reported him. I’m still traumatized and that wasn’t the first time something like that’s happened
Was on snap and it also happened
I actually used this when I was in ELEMENTARY to talk to my friends.. glad I moved to another platform before something horrible happened.
I also used it to talk to friends when I was like 12/13. Sadly I didn't move to another platform and I got involved in some DARK things, still working through it all lol. This app should be taken down at this point.
You think thats creepy? last I had it a freaking 16yr hit me up wanted me to do her… I was 24 at the time and I told her thats super dangerous and she should leave for her safety. Her reply was she has a friend checking on her every hour so when she does this and something gos wrong, Her friend calls the cops like thats gonna be to late already.
What platform did you move too that is better? I hope you don't say snapchat...
@@maineman5757 I shouldn’t have said platform. I moved to using the standard iPhone messaging app. Snap chat is almost as bad as Kik.
i was also on the app when i was way too young and im glad i moved platforms too
When that first notification popped up in the video I actually felt the repressed fear from my early teens in my heart, Kik is literally the most toxic place and it still gives me the shivers. I was sent CP and had to go to the police at least twice because of it
A lot of why I love watching you is just your commitment to creating and putting things out there. It's incredible. Music, vocal preset, UA-cam, podcast, merch, everything. It's absolutely insane. You deserve everything good that's come your way, man
I was groomed on Kik. I'm really glad this is being talked about. I met a man on Minecraft and was friends with him. We moved from Skype to Kik where he asked me for pictures. I was young and thought he was attractive, so I sent them. I would never be able to actually identify his name again, just know his first name was Noah
i had the similar situation as well...that guy name was Noah too...
Yup, same here. Also a Noah as well.
same thing happened to me, his name was Noah as well
Same for me... guy's name was also Noah
I have a gross suspicion that these Noah’s are possibly the same. I’m so sorry everybody, you never deserved this
When Kik was sold it was written in the TOS that they would be in close ties with law enforcement and that they will investigate on their own accord. So to this day Kik is still used by law enforcement to catch these predators. That's a good thing at least.
Source..?
@@PiLLO360 I made it up
@@PiLLO360 I read it on the Kik website when it was changing management years ago. It was an update to the TOS at the time. I could be wrong but I'm certain I read that. But it's true they do work with law enforcement when they can. But the presence of law enforcement was increased drastically around 2016 I think
@@ThatSilverDude such a weird thing to hear that law enforcement is involved with monitoring and yet there’s still sexual ads and bots everywhere. Idk I feel like either the law just doesn’t care about this app or they’re lying about how much involvement the law has with the app
This can't be true, otherwise there wouldn't be that much cp on Kik.
I also got groomed on kik at 13 by 2 grown men 😭 I remember at one point feeling really werid cuz they added me to a group chat so I blocked them and deleted it
i lowkey got scared for you for a sec when i seen that guy in your corner at like 7:45
When I was on Kik as a teen I thought being a guy meant I was safe. Boy was I wrong, I learned really quick that pedophiles will pretend to be a girl your age to try and coerce you into sending pictures of yourself and revealing details about your life. Unfortunately my friend got it way worse, but the police helped her and me. Thank you for using your influence to reveal just how dangerous this app is. I tell every parent to block the app from their child’s phone.
@@BeautifulGreen252 Fucking agreed man. It traumatized my friend and she doesn’t trust guys older than her now. Therapy helped me thankfully.
@@BeautifulGreen252 I’m happy you got on with life. Some people never get over stuff like that. Best wishes to you friend
Same
this hits too close to home I was young and unknowing of what was out there, im not going to place blame soley on this app for ruining my young brain but to this day things haunt my mind
@@xedoghoman Yeah tbh it isn’t just the app’s fault what happened to me. Part of me knew better but my rebellious teenage brain spoke louder to me than the warnings of my parents. I regret not listening to them, and I won’t make the same mistake with my kids.
someone suggested to make an account using a minor age and so i did. and the ads are still explicit, the tags are still full of sex groupchats, and bots still DM you. Though, you can’t join lives as a minor (correcting myself because i thought you could)…you can still host them?? 💀 (check my twitter @mynameistuvv for updates)
/e wave
ok also first comment
fuck 2nd
what da fuq
W A T D A F U Q
W A T D A F U Q
Wack. Same energy as those "safe kid zone" websites
I wasn’t old enough for the kik era, but I discovered it in the quarentine 💀 looking back I’m so so grateful that I lost interest quick. When I was on there, I’ve met the embodiments of 4chan men and it’s just so upsetting to think about what could’ve happened if I had been a little more naïve
I’ve never felt so old until I saw “2013” and “middle school” in the same sentence 😅 I’m 30 so I was well into college by then and Kik was used more like Discord for me for RP and talking to international friends off tumblr. The worst I had ever gotten was bots
Kik is infamous for two things: grooming and its ED chats. Sometimes they went together.
Dont forget the gore chats a neo nazis
whats ed?
@@charaplushie3545 eating disorder
@@selxschk7410 ok ty
@@selxschk7410 I thought it meant erectile dysfunction
I got groomed on kik when I was 12-13. It severely impacts me still til this day at age 23.
Its been so long since anyone really went into detail about the kind of atmosphere Kik was and still is.
I feel the exact same… i had a grown man (i met when i was 14) stalk me well into my twenties.
I was the same age, it was horrible. I don't know the extent of how it messed me up. But suffice to say I don't remember much about that phase of my life
I'm in your walls 👀
The same thing happened to me and I’m 19 and I still have to think about all the gross shady men who groomed me.
I feel for you.
I had the same thing happen.
We really need a therapy session when it comes to this. I’ve felt really in the dark about this part of my life till now. Thank you for sharing.
I started using Kik in 2011 and it was popular then too. It was a breeding ground for predators even in the early days because you could basically be anonymous and catfish easily. I was groomed and/or catfished so many times and my underaged pictures are probably still out there. I have a daughter of my own now and it’s terrifying.
11:21 unlike kik. 💀
💀
So glad someone’s talking about this app. From ages 14-16 I was groomed by a 30 year old and it didn’t stop until he tried to get me to runaway with him and I realized how messed up it was. The app is the source of most of my trauma
that nigga crazy lmao
The same thing happened to me
@@joelle4226 f
soz to head that
😭
im so glad someone is finally talking about kik, i remember all of the awful stuff that happened. i was using the app almost every day ages 8-11, so many things happened to me and others I knew. they don't even respond to reports when something happens. they don't care about their users at all
i used it at that age aswell and luckily nothing bad actually happened except when i was 11 and some grown men tried to talk to me
Same... the amount of grooming that happened on that i'm so sorry you had to go through that we were way too fucking young to have to experience that
Why did your parents let’s you have a phone and social media at 8-11? 😭
@@Aaronn-je8cx Yeah, I got mine when I was 16. Call me a boomer but why do they let kids use this shit so fucking early???????
Tbh yea I wish I had never used that app. I downloaded it at 13 I think. Insecure lonely 13 yr old on kik? Can u guess what happened? I'm just glad I'm older now and healed from that situation.
i’m so happy kik is finally being exposed for what happens on the app, i really hope many other see this so they don’t fall prey to these groomers like i did
ur my fav youtuber
I remember Kik years ago, back in 2014 when I was a middleschooler. There were Dark Web chats which bots would invite you to and they were always full of terrible shit. Snuff, gore, cp, drugs, groomers, etc. I remember getting added to a group when I was 14; it was run by a buncha dudes in their 20-30's and it was meant to "love your body no matter what, no shame". My insecure dumbass self fell for the grooming and sent lewd photos thinking people actually enjoyed me and so on. That app is evil, nothing but pedophiles and sex bots since the day it started.
Man I must have not been far into kik like that. All I did was cringy role-playing shit. Thank God i didn't go that far. That app needs to die 💀 👀✝️✝️✝️✝️
@@raineyartwork fr!
@@raineyartwork no even I participated in those groups. Yet strange men still messaged me out of the blue. I STILL don't know how this happened when the only ppl I talked to was my school friends.
I remember seeing that too. I’m sorry that happened to you. You aren’t dumb. We are ignorant and we learn from past mistakes and hopefully teach others that are young to not do what we did. I’m ashamed of myself too. And I hate how I look constantly angry about my body. It’s really affected me too. And hope you are feeling better. I’m no longer in the dark with these thoughts anymore thanks to how many others share the same story.
@@PoptartParasol there is a search function on Kik where you can find anyone. It will auto fill names for you so people would just shotgun messages out to everyone
I remember being on Kik back in 2011 as a teenager and it was creepy back then, I can only imagine what’s it’s like now 😬
pretty much only camgirls and pedos are on it now, nobody really uses it
Used it again just for fun and it’s full of creeps and bots
It's still a creeper app. When I went onto an alt dating site they all wanted to chat on kik. Gave me flashbacks to when I was a teen and referred towards kik by predators.
can someone explain me how do people fall for grooming?
It can happen in different ways. In regards specifically to creeps taking advantage of minors its often done by love bombing. Predators find a minor who obviously struggles with either self esteem, making friends, family relationships, mental illness, etc, etc. They then basically make this kid feel like theyre the most special person on earth often using the "youre so mature for your age" line. They make the kid feel like theyre actually consenting and in controll of the situation when in reality the predator has been calculating all of this to make the kid trust and depend on them.
You never know whats happening to you until it either hits a really big line which is different for some it can be sending pics, face timing, meeting irl, etc. Some people dont even realize they were being groomed til years later.
Source: Was almost groomed by adult men on kik as a middle schooler and was lucky enough to realize something was wrong and stop it before it got bad. It took me years though to realize it was grooming.
Hope this helps.
Me and all of my friends were on Kik over 10 years ago when we were about 13. I'm not exaggerating when I say that every single one of my friends (myself included) was groomed at some time or another on Kik. And you're absolutely right about these creeps picking on kids with mental health issues. I looooooooved the attention I got back then cause I was always so sad and lonely it just felt SO GOOD for someone to act like they adore you. But it was all just manipulation 🙄 Back then too I think there was still so much ignorance about the powers/ dangers of the internet, we really had no idea what kind of damage we were in for. The worst part is that at that age, you just can't mentally grasp that none of that shit is your fault and that you were being manipulated. So the shame kept us silent and the predators continued on to the next
This. Shit. Right. Here. Somebody really needed to talk about this, it's always bothered me bad, my boy, Tuv, thank you for finally breaking the silence of the vile things going on inside kik.
As a middle schooler and high schooler in the 2010s , I cannot even BEGIN to tell you about all the grooming and inappropriate exposure I endured on kik 😅
I’m so thankful I never downloaded it. I was a victim of Omegle though 😭 I remember my friends telling me about kik in middle school and knew it sounded like Omegle and stayed the hell away
@@chloedebra4130
Victim of Omegle? Can I hear a story from you pal?
OH are you kidding? I WAS LITERALLY SENT UNWANTED NUDES FROM CREEPY MEN
Bruh.... Was I just talking to creepy old men in highschool on that fucking app.
FRRRRR SAME
Damn, I remember back in middle school I used to know an online friend who once used Kik, but eventually we stopped talking for awhile til one day she had told me she was caught up in some black mail and had to get authorities involved, and now just realizing that as an adult just makes me feel terribly bad for her. I may not get to talk to you again but, I hope you're doing better and moved on from that Marlene, I miss you.
goddamn.. that is super rough. i hope shes better now.
Gosh, that was in middle school. No kid should have to go through that...
@@LexNonARegeEstViolanda no kid of any age group should, it's awful
Love your videos and I can't stop rewatching this one
Thank you all for speaking out and sharing your stories.
It’s sad how most of us are all apart of a statistic of children that got groomed by adults on one specific app, but it also is so empowering to know we’re not alone.
yeah...
@@nicolenorman8926 idek how you can get groomed on a app
@@paytonnfg3905 why would u not be able to
@@paytonnfg3905 cuz people lie about their ages plus there was no verification methods so you’d think you were finding people around your age to talk to and become friends with or more
Thanks for this ❤
I remember encountering a super creepy guy masquerading as a girl on Kik once. I remember friending him on PS4 and talking to him in a party. Immediately I felt uncomfortable so I told him I was a minor (16 at the time, I think). He said, in his exact words, "it's ok, I like them young."
I IMMEDIATELY left the party, blocked him on PS4 and exposed him in the group I was in with him, and thankfully they removed him. Ever since that day, I never reinstalled Kik because I genuinely get shivers down my spine remembering that guy
Exaggerated a bit?
Clout chasing
I am really sorry you went through that
@@Jaygotdimes no. theres people who say much more and even more disgusting things, you're extremely gullible if you believe someone may be lying about this.
@@leela8143 ^^^^^
As someone who was groomed by someone older than 18 at the age of 14 (2014) seeing videos like these gives me hope and relief because then todays kids and parents can see this and notice the signs so they don’t have the same thing happen to them. Thank you for this video.
4:43 so typical. They´ll always go for the most vulnerable people and it´s on every social media platform with chatroom options. Discord/Guilded servers are a prime example of this.
Hayyyy love your channellll!!!
omg eudoxia and tuv, my two fav youtubers
YOOO I was just watching one of your videos before this!
@Obama if you just stick to servers/group chats with friends it works well
there's a reason I usually don't go further than that with discord
@@minefield11 good point, I just join my friends servers.
I remember using Kik in middle school and slightly into high school. There was one feature at the time that let you set up your profile on a secondary site that would basically let any stranger message you based on common interests. I would use that and I'd get messages from men as old as 40.
Admittedly it got to a point where I'd seek this sort of thing out because I was an insecure teenage girl and I'd started placing my self worth on the "compliments" these men were giving. Not proud of that but I didn't know better.
Yeah Kik definitely isn't for kids
Dude same. I'm 17 now and only stopped online "dating" older men a few months ago
It's not your fault. Don't be too hard on yourself. You were literally a child, you were not "using" these grown adults in any way. They knew what they were doing was wrong and they didn't care. Hope you're doing well
@@soup229 I’m glad you’ve stopped
You were a kid. Being insecure and vulnerable is what these men try to exploit. Even if you were an adult, it’s not your fault that creepy men seek to exploit the vulnerable
Same here 🤡
10 years later and I now know where all my problems came from. I never stopped to consider the damage these predators had on my mental development and view of myself and sex, I initially went on there after I moved away from all my friends and had trauma and nobody to talk to because a friend I moved away from used it to keep in touch because they didn't have a cell phone yet, cuz we were in middle school and only had ipods at the time. Now when I look back and think about series of events that have lead to where I am mentally, it all makes sense. I didn't even realize this time in my life was slowly destroying me
met so many friends and made so many memories for me gladly I've had only good memories but one weird thing was how the chat never saved everytime you logged out.
Can’t tell you how many older men groomed me for years on Kim as a child. That was years ago now but those men saw me as a vulnerable child and used me for their sexual interests. Unfortunately as a kid I didn’t know what they where up to, I’d even call them during school. Scary shit. My future kids are gonna be very closely watched when online
oh no...
@@blaze-vw9xy 😐
Oh I’m so sorry :(
Same
Same!
Kik is literally an app where children get preyed on. Needs to be talked about more ‼️
It happens everywhere so people focus on the bigger ones
Adding on to what Rey said this app has become more obscure in more recent years so everyone forgets about them and focuses on them less
This app is a shit show.
It's also not open source (bad)
@@Insubordinate-Bottom-69 open source = bad? Makes no sense
I remember when I was 8 in 2013, and I really enjoyed playing minecraft on my tablet. I'd meet lots of people in multiplayer servers, and sometimes I had what I thought were good conversations with these people, before they'd ask for my kik. This went on from 2013 to 2016 when I played on public servers and ran into countless people trying to corner me into downloading kik so we can, "keep talking," and such. I never did, and I'm happy I didn't.
My older brother was also preyed upon by a 15 year old boy when he was 9 years old in minecraft. The 15 year old also managed to get my brother to give him his phone number for his track phone.
@@gloomygothgirl- Glad you didn’t as well, but I’m sorry about your little brother. I hope the 15 year old didn’t harass him in any way. I hope he just lost your brother’s number.
I have so many stories about kik I’m glad it’s being talked about now
I think what you’re doing is so great. It’s nice to see young people protecting other young people from garbage like this. Great job!!
Seconded.
@@sealight78 so then I'm first if your second
I remember using this back when I was like 14 and being 'claimed' as a grown mans wife. Kik is fucked.
the entire internet is fucked tbh
I had a similar experience. He said i was his "doll". I was ten
@@StarDustwolf77 im so sorry to hear that my friend - i really hope you have healed ❤️
@@StarDustwolf77 thats lowkey yo problem ong why you on it when you are 10
@@plutovoid Because my friend had it and wanted a way to talk to me outside of school. Plus, how is a ten year old supposed to guess that theyd get groomed?
Its wild how I only have possitive memories, I made friends and a bunch of good memories
And now he is streaming on kik,madness
He’s streaming on Kick, not Kik
I myself am a victim of grooming on kik, I was 10-12. I’m almost 21 now and I still get nightmares and still have trauma from what happened. These groomers are smart and they knew exactly what to do. Being s3zual*zed from an extremely young age ruined my innocence and life, I struggled with addiction to cope and I still have panics about how somewhere somehow there’s some creep looking at pictures of me as a child. It has taken me years of therapy to get to where I am now. Thank you for bringing attention to this, it could save a life.
I am so sorry, this stuff hits hard. I know what trauma feels like. I hope you get better.
Confront your trauma and it might help suppressing it won't help, if you can try to go back and see what made you that way you will see those parts of you still alive today that is your shadow work on those parts remove them and replace them with skills or hobbies you enjoy. you will relapse you will feel pain but it will make you strong you're 21 so you still have time to save your brain it's in its final maturing ages so if you work on it now and keep going you will succeed like I said though you will feel pain but it's the only way, if you dont your shadow will corrupt you and haunt you for the rest of your life. Don't befraid of the past not and it's important to remind yourself of who you are and what you arent if you can go inward and work on your self instead of finding things in your life such as drugs which are obviously addictive you will only feel worst. Imma say one more time to make it easy to understand as possible go inward remember where you were when the trauma happened why it's happened and how it happened recognize who you were at that time and who you are now and than build who you're going to be in the future and you will succeed only you will know the trues secret your happiness.
I experienced the same thing, and I'm the same age as you. I now struggle with a warped perception of relationships and sex and use sex to cope with the trauma. May we both be able to move past this and heal
I also have been groomed on Kik when I was 6-7 And I am 14 now and I'm now terrified Abt online people
i never thought about how so many people have underage pictures of me from 11-17 im literally sick rn. i had a 22 year old bf when i was 15 years old.
When I was 12, I was going through a hard time due to my toxic household, caused by a step parent at the time. I felt so isolated from friends and family, and so I turned to people on social media, and that’s when I found Kik. At first it was nice talking to strangers that didn’t know me and couldn’t use any judgement. But I was a young, naive kid who didn’t know the ins and outs of internet safety. These adult men manipulated me into sending them CP (of myself) by using my situation as a threat.
I’m 23 now and I feel so disgusted with myself. Please if you let your kids on the internet fucking teach them internet safety, and monitor their activity until they’re old enough to know better.
Hope you are doing well these days. So sorry what you went through. I can't even imagine.
@Silaen Nase bro censored the word fuck gtfo.
@@yorumad you are one disgusting person. Do us all a favor and get out of tuv’s comment section
@@yorumad bro chill 💀.
I don't want you to feel disgusted, I want you to see this as a valuable lesson... Now that we've been through it, we can protect and prevent this from happening with future people any further in the future
the irony that you’re gonna be live streaming on kik
KICK*
Ik this was LITERALLY last year… but holy crap Tuv… Cherry Soda friggin BOPS
*added to my playlist**
I was groomed on Kik and the funny thing is I was the one who got in trouble for it. My mother turned my phone into the school police where I would have super scary meetings of this officer basically yelling at me to tell him who the people are, I didn't have an answer so he would just get more upset. My mother decided it was good punishment to write that i was talking inappropriately online to people with a phone my mom bought on a sign and made me hold it in front of my school before it started; kids, parents, strangers, friends were laughing and taking pictures of me. My mother just stood next to me laughing while I had a panic attack and was deliriously crying. There was only one person while I stood there who just looked at me so sad and told me he was sorry, then his wife smacked his chest and told him he was wrong. I Think that guy was one of the reasons I didn't take all those pills. I couldn't wear the same clothes to school anymore and for weeks people would constantly come up and ask me about it making it a constant reminder. She has never said sorry for it, and I'm not sure if she ever will. I don't think she thinks what she did was wrong, but it caused so many problems for me and so many bad feelings i've never been able to let it go. It bothers me that I was the one at fault when I had been manipulated into so much. Honestly this app should be deleted, from my memory included please.
I feel a similar way. I was groomed by multiple older men while I was 14-16 and when my family found out about it I was the one being screamed at for talking to these men. I never saw the iPad that I BOUGHT WITH MY MONEY again. I'm 23
your mom sounds terrible I’m sorry you had to experience that
I'm so sorry that happened, I despise your mother
I really hope you're doing better. This story disgusts me :(
I am so sorry I wish I could help if I was there I have never been groomed and I'm still a kid but I will try never to get groomed but your mother is a monster
People like that will go to hell someday I'm so sorry again
I was in middle school and I had (have but am recovering) an eating disorder, I had made an online friend who told me about this eating disorder support chat and I joined... it was supporting the disorder itself and it was an absolute nightmare. Body checks and degradation to make you believe this is what you have to do to be someone. The body checks weren't clothed. I was coerced into sending it and if I ever said I wanted to stop I'd get a message with my mom's social media and email and I didn't want her to know. Turns out the person was a full grown man. I still get so scared ill open my phone and see those pictures floating around almost 7 years later. Let this be a precautionary tale to everyone not to let that happen to you or anyone you know
It’ll never resurface in the public domain, it counts as CP. anyone who could ever see it would be inviting more trouble than they could “try” to get you in. Good luck overcoming ED, glad you’re in recovery! Strange how our own brain can betray us in so many ways.
Jesus fucking Christ, that’s just vile, the fact that some little cretin was running a chat like that is horrific. If they do show up online contact the police or any group that helps find where these photos are coming from, whoever this fucker was, he probably doesn’t only have your photos but countless other people’s photos in the chat.
@@b.r.h4088 you're right it's just an irrational fear of mine but this honestly helped so much :) thank you
@@endergamer7483 people can be so terrible the thought that I'm just one of the many people this happened to is just horrible
@@BroadwayBaby1221 I’m glad you’re safe and well, I’d recommend looking at your state’s/countries laws and use resources like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) if you feel the need to ensure these photos aren’t used against you. I wish you further mental wellness.
it’s absolutely devastating to me that almost everybody I know in my generation has a story about how they were abused/groomed on kik
I remember getting kik when the download was only in the thousands, it had zero ads, lightning fast, no chats, no bots. I used it because I liked that it showed messages delivered and read, it was much faster than SMS/MMS. I actually used it for about 3 years... I got back on my account recently after not using it for many years, kind of crazy, instantly Uninstalled.
I was groomed SO badly on this app and I never even realized until much later. I was sent explicit videos and pictures as well and even tricked into sending something back. If I could heal my younger self from something, it would be this. I was between 11 and 15.
I was groomed by this app as well in middle school since I was at my darkest and lowest at the time, I was convinced to send pics as well when I was just 13-14. It really has affected me mentally to this day honestly. Watching this brought bad memories but I’m happy your talking about this, I wouldn’t want any minors going through what I went through and others have as well. Thank you again❤️
Your parents failed you, you have no one else to blame but them
@@EjPwned it's really split between the pedophile and the parents🥳
@@kays_nook it’s actually split between the parent and computer
@@EjPwned they're adults who know better then to prey on children
@@kays_nookand the parents should know better than to allow their children to be in chat rooms
I was groomed on kik for 4 years.. I’m glad you made this video.
I remember using Kik to roleplay as my original characters with other young people’s characters from art sharing websites like DeviantArt, ArtAmino or (now closed) Paigeeworld. To this day i’m so glad i am one of the lucky ones who were never groomed or preyed upon by older people. The type of shit i hear from other who used Kik absolutely horrifies me.
Yeah, I distinctly remember downloading Kik in 2014 because a friend of mine asked me to so that we could chat in the gc. We didn't use it much and eventually moved to Instagram but I do remember getting some..weird messages from strangers that I never responded to. Glad I never got into some serious trouble but I definitely understand how kids could become trapped in awful situations.
Yea same
I’m kinda glad I somehow knew those sketchy messages were bots or something and deleted it
I used Kik back in the day for normal texting. I stopped when the app started dying, but got back on it in like 2017 and did roleplays based on the tv show Bad Girls Club. It was fun and what not, but I do remember alot of grooming and stuff that went on when I first used the app. I got exposed when I was 15 by another kid my age and that def was the worst nightmare for me.
Yeah, I got some , but I was messing with them to make them mad so they be like "sorry, wrong person"
Kik is, like, the second location of social media. I remember being in late elementary/early middle school, going on Omegle, with bots and creeps asking to be added on Kik.
This video hit me in a way it shouldn’t of. I had kik back around 2012 when I was in middle school. I had gotten it because I didn’t have a phone, and had just moved away from all my friends but wanted to talk to them from my tablet I did have. I specifically remember kik having mini “apps” inside their own. It would be an “app” where you posted a picture of yourself or your profile picture to get people to talk to you. Being lonely in a new town and dealing with domestic abuse, I used it all when I was 11-12 years old. The amount of older guys and grown MEN trying to message me and my friends while sending us explicit pictures was disgusting. I remember being about 12-13 and a random guy messaged me one night from one of those apps and threatened to find me and KIDNAP me because he “had my IP address” if I didn’t send him pictures absolutely terrified me. I had no idea if he was being serious or not and couldn’t tell my parents as they didn’t even know I had the app. I deleted kik right then and there.
I was addicted to Kik in high school. Id stay up till 3 am on it on a school night and id go to school tired
For YEARS I thought this was an experience only I went through. The shame and guilt I felt years after realizing what had happened to me on that app lived with me, knowing other people went through the same thing I did was comforting because I knew my experience wasnt the exception, but its so sad that the app is overrun by pedos. I was 12, my heart goes out to anyone else who was groomed on there
i am with you mate
I had this app in 6th grade to talk to my best friend at school. I deleted the app after a bit bc we got bored of the platform and just used regular texting. I’m sure glad I got off the app before anything weird or creepy happened.
Yeah bro some weirdo made me believe they was some random girl when I was 12 and I almost met up w them😭😭
same, I downloaded it because my ex friend had it, so glad I got bored
@@callmejose8965 damn bruh you gotta be smarter with these treeshas bro
@@callmejose8965 that's terrifying
I downloaded it years ago cause of some people I've played an old game that no longer exists as a guild. Literally used it for a few days and then we all switched to another one. Many insisted on switching and I didn't understand why since I had no problems but I guess some of them had the issue talked about in the video :/
I used to use kik back in 2012 and thankfully I'm one of the few who actually had a positive experience with it- my friends and I used it for group chats (even though the max number was 10, so we had multiple groups)
HANG ON YOU CAN JOIN PUBLIC CHATS?? IS THIS A NEW THING OR WAS I JUST NAIVE 10 YEARS AGO??
I used to use this app to message my irl friends and family as a little kid because I had a kindle fire. Once I searched up random usernames and messaged them weird shit because I was an obnoxious child- how did I not end up seeing something I wasn’t supposed to 💀
Sadly i had Kik at 13 and it was only the beginning of me being groomed by multiple men. i am almost 20 now and i still have so many issues stemming from those years of being groomed and not knowing any better. thank you for talking about this because this is a topic i’m so passionate about talking about with my sisters so that they never have to go through the stuff i did.
Do you really though? Do you really have “many issues” stemming from talking to someone on kik, regardless of their intent? I am all for calling out and exposing predators but we also have to stay grounded in reality. When I was a child I was physically abused by my father, to the point that at age 9 I had to testify in a court of law and sit in court while pictures of my naked and bruised body were shown to the court. I don’t consider myself as having “many issues” stemming from that because if was ages ago and I’m an adult now. I’m 34 with my own family and I never even think about it, when I do it doesn’t give me “many issues.” At some point you just have to say to yourself “yep that was shitty and it’s part of my life but oh well” and move on. Just a tip.
@@johnd9357 I was thinking the same thing
@@johnd9357 what the fuck is wrong with you? Why are you invalidating other people's trauma????? You don't know what they feel and what they've been through. Child sexual abuse absolutely DOES lead to lifelong increased rates of anxiety, depression and many other mental health issues.
I fully doubt you're "fine" but if you are then shut the fuck up and stop invalidating other people's traumatic childhoods and experiences.
Just because you were able to move on from your trauma, doesn't mean that others can as easily, if ever.
@@johnd9357 Using your own trauma to invalidate another person's experiences is super shitty. Its well known that people who were groomed as children can develop mental health issues as a result. Just because you deal with your own life a certain way doesn't mean its how everyone should be expected to act. The way you downplay online grooming only defends the pedophiles who target children.
Yeah. My friends in middle school were obsessed with Kik, I cringed every time they mentioned it which was at least once every day.
One, at 14, was dating a 23 year old over it and planning to run away with him. They moved away in 10th grade. I wonder how they're doing now.
WTF, How can you say that so casually!?!?!?
Cringe was the best description to describe the feeling I had towards Kik’s popularity with teens back in like middle school
Running away with someone is fucking serious shit. What is wrong with people man. They do anything for money
@@user-gy1iy4ys8s what money?
@@cr0wzo446 because that story is obviously a lie lol