Another update. This is a view of the EPI network as it currently stands. 69305 nodes, 125935 connections between nodes. I've colored it with modularity community detection and clustered it loosely so that you can get a clear view of all the segmentation of users between their respective groups. A connection on this graph is defined here as one user being on another user's friends list, or a user being a member of a group.
Brown (16.28%) - feminization and raceplay groups
Purple (10.96%) - fart fetish groups, also furry-related
Teal (8.15%) - groups that sell clothing that's meant to be skimpy or basically just non-clothes so your avatar can be nude
Blue (6.55%) - more feminization and raceplay
Green (6.13%) - all feminization
Orange (5.85%) - all clustered around one big group with no description or store items. Members list seems to indicate it's another raceplay group
Magenta (5.36%) - all clustered around a different big group. Can you guess what it's about? That's right, it's about raceplay
Dark green and off to the left (5.25%) - himbo groups for gay bear enjoyers
The non-colored nodes are generally also members of some disgusting fetish group or other, but they get smaller from here and this covers most of the network. When you see the little gray clumps, those tend to be groups that split off from other, larger groups.
An interesting takeaway I find from this data, which doesn't really come as a surprise but a confirmation, is that these nodes are all pretty strongly linked to one another, and there isn't a clear boundary between any two types of degenerate behavior. For example, if you started in the dark green cluster on the left, which generally seems to be for gay males, you can easily trace a path to any other fetish content, despite the fact that the graph's content is straight content for the most part. In fact, the diameter of this network as it currently stands is 10, meaning that if you pick any random point in the network, you're no more than 10 steps away from any other point in the network. I'm making an assumption here, but it seems to me that this confirms the idea that the focus of these groups is more about intentionally corrupting what should be innocent, and that the fetish content is a means to do that but not the primary focus.
I'm a little confused as to why raceplay and feminization seem to be such core themes here. I mean, it's content for degenerate porn addicts, sure, but why raceplay and feminization specifically? And furthermore it strikes me as strange too that all of the content that I've seen so far, outside of the clothing groups which offer pretty generic nude/skimpy customization options, doesn't seem to feature normal sexuality at all. I mean, it's EPI groups on a children's game so none of the content is going to be
normal sexuality, but what I mean is that it's odd to me that there's nothing that's just regular sex between two people without any kind of fetish element.
After I contacted Ruben one of the things he advised me to do was to focus on groups rather than individuals. This definitely seems to be the right direction and I'm thankful for his advice about this. Here's another view of the network with all of the group nodes removed, so only user nodes remain.
In this view, you can see that there's still a closely connected core community of users, but that without the groups as a structure for the EPI network, the connections between the majority of the nodes are severed. If Roblox were to completely ignore the users participating in this network and only focus on banning or shadowbanning the offending groups, that wouldn't solve the problem, but it'd severely hamper the EPI peoples' efforts for a minimal amount of work.
Take a look at this bean-shaped cluster in the first and second images of the network. In the first view of the network, it's relatively easy to reach from any other point in the network; head towards the center from wherever you are, then head out to this cluster. In the second view though, this cluster is entirely disconnected from all other nodes. Without the one group present that linked all of these nodes, it seems that this entire group of users wouldn't have been exposed to the raceplay content.
Anyway, pornographers should be put in jail and China is right about severely restricting childrens' access to the internet. That's all for now.
