• @[email protected]
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    -227 months ago

    While the blackmail is terrible, if you don’t send random dick pics while you’re in a relationship, you probably won’t feel like your life is ending when someone threatens to share them

    • @scorpious
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      287 months ago

      Right. “Don’t ever make a mistake and nothing bad will ever happen.”

    • @[email protected]OP
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      197 months ago

      They’re not sending “random dick pics” — they’re sending ones that the scammers have asked them to. Most of us don’t send random dick picks, but expecting a teenage boys to turn down online-profile-with-attractive-photo seems unlikely.

      • @LotrOrc
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        -77 months ago

        The literal first paragraph in the article says the 17 year old had just kissed his girlfriend goodnight and then got this message on Insta.

        If you’re sending random dickpics to random people you don’t know, while in a relationship, that is most definitely on you. Don’t be a scumbag and it won’t happen.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          Teenage relationships are unstable in part because a big chunk of the population hasn’t figured this out yet.

          • @LotrOrc
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            -57 months ago

            Generally teenage relationships are unstable because kids aren’t mature at that age

            But generally by 16 to 17 most kids know cheating isn’t a good thing

            • @[email protected]OP
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              87 months ago

              About 1/3 of boys that age haven’t figured that out yet. That’s an awful lot of potential victims for this kind of extortion.

              • @LotrOrc
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                -17 months ago

                What’s your source for that? I’m actually asking, not trying to be dismissive.

                • @[email protected]OP
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                  My recollection of a study about 20 years back where they asked college women to ask out guys at random. About a third of the guys who said yes were in a relationship.

                  • @Feathercrown
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                    17 months ago

                    Idk man if you’re in college and haven’t figured that out yet…

                  • @cactusupyourbutt
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                    07 months ago

                    oh thats interesting and sad. do you know which study that was?

                    also not trying to be dismissive, but I wonder how they asked the men out. like was it clear that it was a date or could it be mistaken for someone who was looking for someone to drink a beer together?

    • @hperrin
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      117 months ago

      You ever make a mistake?