- Apr 14, 2017
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I'm relatively new to IG and so have been casually searching for teams and accounts to follow. A couple times I've followed a cheer account to find that it's more of an "adult" cheer site where the goal is not to highlight cheer as a sport, but more to publish images of women in cheer uniforms. Some are actual pro cheerleaders in their element, others are just models in costumes. But whatever. That's not my issue. If people want to post publicly available pics of appropriately-aged women in cheer attire, fine.
It's the pics of little girls and teenagers placed literally right next to them that bother me.
There are way too many accounts out there that do this. I've reported them to IG but since they're technically not doing anything wrong, there's not much they can do. Placing one pic next to another isn't against the rules. But the implication is there: "Here's a pic of a twenty-something cheerleader with a bunch of cleavage. Now here's a pic of a five-year-old in a crop top that you should also find sexy." And you don't even want to read some of the comments directed at teenage cheer-lebrities on these sites. So disturbing.
So anyway, I just thought maybe I could create a post where we can list these accounts and then report them en masse. That might get their attention.
That's my only goal here. I don't really want to get into who's really "at fault:" the pervs for sexualizing these perfectly benign pics of kids, or the parents for making their kids accessible in the first place (it's the pervs who are at fault, btw... you should be able to post pics of your kids without some scumbag exploiting them).
So in the spirit of last year's epic pervert takedown -- the one where we all got that pathetic POS fired, arrested, and kicked out of his house for comments he made about extremely underage AS cheerleaders -- I thought I'd create some place we could report inappropriate social media stuff and maybe do something about it. I don't know how much good it will do but I also feel like if I don't at least try to do something about it, I'm complicit. Plus cheer already has enough unnecessary BS surrounding it. We don't need this too.
It's the pics of little girls and teenagers placed literally right next to them that bother me.
There are way too many accounts out there that do this. I've reported them to IG but since they're technically not doing anything wrong, there's not much they can do. Placing one pic next to another isn't against the rules. But the implication is there: "Here's a pic of a twenty-something cheerleader with a bunch of cleavage. Now here's a pic of a five-year-old in a crop top that you should also find sexy." And you don't even want to read some of the comments directed at teenage cheer-lebrities on these sites. So disturbing.
So anyway, I just thought maybe I could create a post where we can list these accounts and then report them en masse. That might get their attention.
That's my only goal here. I don't really want to get into who's really "at fault:" the pervs for sexualizing these perfectly benign pics of kids, or the parents for making their kids accessible in the first place (it's the pervs who are at fault, btw... you should be able to post pics of your kids without some scumbag exploiting them).
So in the spirit of last year's epic pervert takedown -- the one where we all got that pathetic POS fired, arrested, and kicked out of his house for comments he made about extremely underage AS cheerleaders -- I thought I'd create some place we could report inappropriate social media stuff and maybe do something about it. I don't know how much good it will do but I also feel like if I don't at least try to do something about it, I'm complicit. Plus cheer already has enough unnecessary BS surrounding it. We don't need this too.
