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Imagine a teen friend or a special teen in your life tells you that he's got a crush on a younger boy. He's also got a girlfriend and she's got a crush on both the teen and the little boy. "We're pedophiles!" they announce together. Maybe that exact thing wouldn't happen in your friend group, but things like that happen all the time. Young people "come out" either in celebration of their identity or sometimes asking for help, but there are certain people who would be safe for them to talk to and other people if you found out that the teens were talking to it'd make you extremely anxious. If it was your loved ones, would you want them warmly welcomed here on Boychat? Would you want gross old pervs to hang on their every word, encouraging them to cut closer and closer to the line of what's allowed to be discussed here? Sources say that's the kind of thing that happened back in the glory days of BC. Sex offenders and child molesters urging impressionable young people to accept themselves and let it happen with children. Those types never were the most common or representative of all BCers, but that type of predator probably does still lurk BC regularly looking for content. Those who have been paying attention see those nicknames that never come out except when someone shares a tidbit about their personal life. Like little what's-his-name, who just pops up like clockwork to #me2 it when anybody says they like a person's writing style. "You write so well," he purrs. "Love the details!" or even worse, "I'm a teenager too!" Hounding people and making them feel afraid to expose any personal details is giving them a gift. Monkey should thank BC's unofficial Official Oversharing Prevention Department Head for the rolled up newspaper smack to his nose the one and only time he experimented with describing acosting young children out in public. Autistic people often can't be reasoned with and you can imagine how frustrating it would be to try to make him see anyone's point of veiw besides his own, so in his case a mean comment was the best way to help him. Most people are able to be reasoned with and we can just explain to them why it's not a good idea to get their need for older man attention met here. Being "nice" to story tellers and telling them to just ignore the naysayers and spill the tea is fucked up, on the same level with telling young people to enjoy themselves and have a nice swim in water that you know is full of piranhas and it's under a high bacteria warning. These are dangerous waters and that is before we mention that easy easy link at the top of the page to the chat room where Unofficial Official Counselors "help them," by adding their issues to permanent treatment notes accessible by anyone willing to be supportive for the few weeks it takes to be promoted to Counselor In Training. Not bringing up anyone's business in particular, since that would be against the rules, but did you ever stop to wonder why LL doesn't have a Meta-LL? Saying they are not as open and transparent about their issues as the BC cogs is an understatement. Would you want your loved ones in there talking about their private business? Especially not if they are from some kind of minority group like nonwhite, muslim, or gender fluid, because you know how some of the habituates of this place act when they are dealing with someone on the "other" team. Some willing to dox, swat, who knows what to punish those who fail to accept their "logic." At the end of the day this comes down, as do most disagreements on BC, to the divide between people who respect the dignity and human rights of children, verses people who don't particularly feel responsible for what happens to children or the people who love them. If all you care about is how children look in pictures and videos, then what do you care if behind the scenes they live in a dungeon, but those of us able to maintain friendships with real live 3D kids do care a lot about the repercussions of their choices. Anyone who has listened to that one crazy cunt's stories about rogue cops who infiltrate bl sites in order to murder their trusting penpals needs to realize that those are just the echos of stories that he will never tell the whole truth about, but trust it's naaaaasty what desperate rich people will be forced to have their young penniless co-conspirators endure in order to continue living in the manner of which they are accustomed. If you really care about a young bl, you don't want them anywhere around those guys. It's not all BC. It doesn't have to be. All it takes is one screwed up friendship with the wrong unhinged crazy old man to make someone wish they had never heard of this cursed website. At that point it will be too late. As the jail bars slam shut the victim cries out, "Why didn't someone bully me my first day, so I wouldn't settle in long enough to be taken advantage of???"