But in reality, many of the tweens engaging in challenges aren’t tweens at all they’re ‘pervs’…on the hunt for a certain kind of child porn,” writes Vocativ.Ī channel called YouTube Video Alert made an entire video warning underage vloggers that those asking to see their feet aren’t doing it as an innocent dare, but because of sexual intent. “The dare exchanges-a sort of play-date for the digital age-are common among kids who find themselves bored after school.
The requests come in innocently enough as suggestions for videos that will give the kids more subscribers and views. “Feet dares” for both male and female tweens have become so pervasive that many make videos specifically to address how they won’t do feet dares. Vocativ reports on YouTube “Feet Dares,” a creepy trend of men, sometimes disguised as fellow tweens, asking tween vloggers to show their soles, suck on their toes, or open a banana with their feet.
Behind even the most innocent-seeming YouTube trends can lurk predators intent on exploiting young kids.
