I've been thinking about this phenomenon and everything tangential to it for a while now. Sorry if I'm just repeating someone else in this thread, but I think all of this stems from two factors;
- it is really easy to develop functionally private echo chambers on the internet. if you are alienated or otherwise displeased with that community, it is incredibly easy to either leave the community or, especially nowadays, where you can just make one yourself with ease. And despite the internet being a public space, since there is just so much space on the internet, you're able to create large communities without having to butt heads or even acknowledge people you don't like. This is what I mean when I say "functionally private," The door is wide open in all of these communities, but what does it matter when no one bothers to enter or even look in anyways?
- the modern internet is really good at promoting instant, positive feedback with little care for any of the potential consequences in the long term. I'm not just talking about the algorithms companies like Reddit or xitter put in place. They are a apart of a problem for a whole separate list of reasons, but, as an example, nothing is preventing a mindless Coomer or sociopath that is reading this from tabbing out and going onto the Porn/gore/CP site of their liking, regardless of the negative consequences that could come from consuming that type of media.
All of these specific groups that fester degeneracy and exploitative behavior are just symptoms of this if you ask me. Whether it be the boy kisser groups, the foodists, or people like Goonclown or whatever, I think it's just two sides of the same problem.
I saw this one short film that depicted the future as people getting put into small cubes and being constantly fed some euphoric drug. I think today is functionally similar to that, except instead of neatly arranged cubes, it's your uncleaned bedroom, or it's the goon cave you set up in your Airbnb... or your bedroom, and instead of some hypothetical medicine, it's the internet and whatever degeneracy you willingly partake in, whether you're a Gooner frying your dopamine receptors, or a sociopath and their buddies forcing a streamer to eat their own shit for duh epic ween, or everything else in-between. Whatever it looks like, it's all fundamentally the same: a way to indulge in degenerate compulsions with little to no external pushback.
and that's not to say that all of this in a vacuum is comparable to drugs like heroin in terms of addictiveness and destructiveness, but you seriously cannot convince me that anything good comes from exposing kids to this stuff at such a critical stage of human development, or that all of the bad that comes from this isn't exaggerated due to exposing them to this shit at such a young age.
All of this is speculation, but it's the best answer I've come up with that could serve as a universal explanation for why groups & individuals like these develop and gain as much traction as they do.
as for solving it? I don't know. There's no catch-all solution to this. When it comes to CSAM and zoosadism distribution, I forget where, but I remember someone suggesting an agency sorta like the DEA that dedicates resources specifically to combating this issue, and have them serve as the primary coordinators between local, state and federal officials instead of just letting them do their own thing near-independent of each other, I haven't thought this one out though.
as for stopping children from accessing this stuff, perhaps a law would work, but frankly, I do not trust the government to not fuck it up from incompetence or use it as a tool to gain more power over Citizens. But beyond that? I think the best thing to do is to just tell people about this shit. Get the word out, bring attention to this type of shit, Maybe if more people better understood the problem there'd be a larger cultural push to keep children off the internet, and stop others from doing this type of behavior, But what do I know.
