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Plante, a psychologist and professor at Santa Clara University who has studied the psychopathology behind pedophilia for more than 30 years. In the meantime, Krause said this experience has emboldened him to continue his work, showing spaces gay travelers can go without harassment through out the world.

The vaceyi account used strategies that have become common among efforts to spread misinformation and propaganda on social media, building up a small following by tweeting pro-LGBTQ hashtags and retweeting gay and lesbian aid organizations before sending the pro-pedophilia messages.

Krause said he and his followers repeatedly reported the vaceyi account using his identity to Twitter, which insisted he provide proof of his identity. It has been used in various languages since the early 20th century as a means by which members of the LGBTQ community identify themselves and speak in code with brevity and speed to others.

Sections U. Follow NBC News. [6][14] Reddit has hosted both sexual and non-sexual femboy content. Various efforts to tie the LGBTQ community to pedophilia have been linked back to 4chan , including the creation of a fake rainbow flag for Gay Pride Month that supposedly was designed to show acceptance of pedophilia.

NBC News Logo. 4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard site. The company's rules also bars impersonation and hateful conduct. [1][2]. Skip to Content. Twitter rules do not allow the promotion of child sexual exploitation. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

It later became popular on platforms such as Reddit and TikTok. It has to do with access, impulse control problems, and other kinds of psychopathology. Latest Stories U. By Ben Collins. Search Search. They had no idea their faces were being used to promote an idea they found abhorrent.

Launched by Christopher "moot" Poole in October , the site hosts boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, from video games and television to literature, cooking, weapons, music, history, technology, anime, physical fitness, politics, and sports, among others. Or does he think the person tweeting this is serious?

You are not pro-pedophilia. We are aggressively taking action pursuant with our policies. We try to tell people that we just want to be treated equally. Around , the term femboy was found almost exclusively on 4chan, especially on the /lgbt/ forum. Around Christmas Day, Karl Krause and Daan Colijn started receiving emails from their fans, telling them their pictures were being used to promote pedophilia in several viral posts on Twitter.

LGBTQ slang, LGBTQ speak, queer slang, or LGBTQIA slang is a set of English slang lexicon used predominantly among LGBTQ people. Profile My News Sign Out. Sign In Create your free profile. The account later changed its profile picture to a stock photo of two black men kissing.

They took the fake message seriously and used it to suggest that the LGBTQ community supports the sexual abuse of children. The account then tweeted messages promoting pedophilia. I know that. The account successfully spread across Twitter the deliberately defamatory idea that pedophilia is an acceptable part of LGBTQ life.

IE 11 is not supported. Trolls on the far-right messaging board 4chan have been strongly condemned for attempting to clog-up a suicide hotline for LGBT + youth. Krause and Colijn are gay travel bloggers who tell their followers of gay-friendly and LGBTQ-owned businesses and communities throughout the world.