likee: the new app that is putting kids in danger
While Likee has been around for a few years, it is suddenly growing in popularity among young viewers. With lots of children using this app and very little moderation, it has become an extremely unsafe space.
Chapters:
0:00 - The new app that is putting kids in danger
3:44 - A mother's terrifying experience
6:57 - Lies behind the app's policies
9:12 - Disturbing reviews
15:08 - Diving into the app (do NOT download this)
19:50 - Why this is an issue
The fact that I’m an adult and have never heard of this app until now is very telling. It’s for kids.
agreed.
I completely agree as well, I hadn’t heard of this steaming pile of filth until now and I’m an adult. You’re absolutely right of how telling it is.
Same here
I haven't heard of it either and I'm in the usual age demographic for social media. Definitely for a much much younger audience
Hell, I'm 16 and have never heard about it.
It’s horrible that apps that are meant to be safer for kids just turns out way worse for their safety than before.
Right! Bc sick people cant just let the kids have SOMETHING appropriate for them. Smh
My daughter is 12 now. A couple of years ago some of her friends got this app because the age restriction was lower than on tiktok. I doubt that their parents know about these features and all these controversies. The worst part for me is that the app doesn't really allow users to go private or effectively block certain people
@@lapatti i’d suggest talking to ur daughter about this in particular… maybe even watch Teh Mimi’s video with her since we all know that simply telling our kids “No” gives them the ideas of exactly what they wanna do & how they’re gonna do it- WITHOUT our knowledge… 🙄 😂 but (from my own personal experiences) making sure that they understand we’re not just being irrational, over-protective parents by showing them that we trust them & respect them as ppl- not just as OUR kid(s) shows them that we really do believe in them… hope this makes sense btw since i’m literally at a loss for words from this sh*t like, c’mon Sniper Wolf? i highly doubt she needs the EXTRA income but (imo) she just can’t see PAST dollar signs🤦🏽♀️ unlike a lot of parents i encounter, u clearly care about what’s right for both urself AND ur daughter (& even her friends) so yeah 😅 i’m sure u got this covered, mama just remember, (when ur heart & head are in the same place of logical reasoning) u really do know best 😉
@@dm924 true children can never have children things and spaces. Can never leave children alone.🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Unfortunately any app targeted towards kids are ped0 magnets as well. The really scary thing with this app is it's making it so easy for creeps to interact with kids
"Greetings from *strangers* will show up here!" Ah yes, what a safe app for our kids...
Yeah very safe!
lie they didn't greet me unnistall
The fact that they have a 😉 emoji
Yeah..definitely a good app for 13 year olds…
Im worried about my female classmates they use likee everyday i might warn them
As a young teen, I have never heard about this app until now.
Don’t get me wrong, Tehmimi is absolutely right about these sites being dangerous, but what also makes them dangerous is parents not taking the time to teach their children about the dangers of the internet.
A lot of parents enable this, I see it all the time on Instagram. Some parents even dress the children up, making them look a lot older than they really are, and even recording suggestive videos for them. It’s disgusting.
One of the problems is their parents don't bother learning about what they can do to keep them safe. I have no idea why these children are allowed to have independent accounts on their smart devices. It's easy to set up a child account on Android and iOS so that their usage can be monitored.
Yeah here i was the whole time like "Why does your 9yo have unsupervised access to this shit in the first place???"
It's times like this where I'm glad my mom is overprotective.
exactly and children under 13/14 have to be monitored. I knew how dangerous the internet was at a very young age but I still got into trouble on there because no one was checking my devices
why do companies still think saying “no users under [age]” actually prevents people under that age from creating an account
It's just to cover their ass in case something happens to a minor, while said minor was using their website. They can just go, "well we have a policy, it's the parent/guardian's fault for not monitoring activity" and still retain some hope of their website not getting shut down over it.
They don't, it's just an attempt to avoid responsibility.
Its to prevent liability if sued
COPPA laws in the US, where most major tech platforms are hosted, is the reason for that requirement
@John Joërgson what phynix tea said, why do you have cp drawings as your pfp and why did KZhead let you. Edit to add it’s worse on their channel.
I was a kid, I recorded 3 videos and I received a DM from a man saying "we're friends, let's talk" I said no and deleted my videos, then I deleted the app and installed it again to just watch the videos. It was 2019, the number of regular videos was quite large compared to today, the videos were very similar to those on Tiktok at the time. In 2020 I dropped the app and migrated to Tiktok. At the time I didn't understand anything that had happened and thanks to my mother always talking to me so I wouldn't talk to strangers I didn't talk to that man, seeing this nowadays my innocence didn't let me be practically harassed online.
I am so glad I came across this video because I am 13 years old and it's rather sad to see what people my age are being exposed to especially because they come with the intentions of just having fun and expressing themselves. I have subscribed to this channel and will continue to educate myself of the very real dangers of the internet. Thanks for the informative video Mimi.
When I was 13 I wasn’t much mature as you seem to be, I’m proud of you :) (mature? Is that the right word? Basically understanding the dangers of the internet is what I mean.
Stay safe on here. You seem to be doing well so far, but always keep an eye out for weird stuff. 100% if anyone contacts you and they seem weird or off- alert your parents no matter the circumstance. Again, stay safe online. Hope the rest of your day is going well.
Me too, I hadn’t even heard of it until now and my god I’m glad I know now
As someone who has been groomed, I can understand the child's perspective horrifyingly well. As much as your kids don't want it, parental controls are a nessecity on kids phones. I'd rather have a kid hate me than a kid who went though what I did.
It’s unfortunate that people have to go through what you did, I am so sorry
Yeah same
@♡︎yung melanie 5♡︎ when your 14? that.....
@♡︎yung melanie 5♡︎ so you can watch anything?
@♡︎yung melanie 5♡︎ I just think 14 is abit young to have complete access to everything on the Internet, even though you may think you're safe from predators, they know how to manipulate people. Especially teens Just a word of advice
It’s one scummy thing to use the whole “this app is for 13+” as a way to get out of legal trouble, but it’s another level of sick to make a block function that doesn’t block anything. I’m convinced this app was made for predators to have easy access. It’s ridiculous to not be able to delete or private your account when that’s a basic widespread function on many if not all other apps. The only reason I can think of not having those functions is to enable harassment and such.
For real, it feels like every "security feature" comes with a wink and a nudge on this app
Is youtube 13+? All social media? Is youtube supposed to be from the same age as twitter, even tho one takes effort and isnt misused as much for stuff like harrassment and the other is the opposite? They really do just avoid the law
@@infinignite If they want to follow COPPA laws, yes KZhead and any site that allows you to engage with others are required to be 13+ However it doesn't stop kids from lying about their age
@@ncisfan1002 i know, i was on yt before i was 13, and they do nothing to stop you. My point tho was then based on a misunderstanding, so i now will say this: the coppa law is stupid in that case, I as a child bellow 13 felt safe on yt and perfectly fine on yt, but wouldnt touch discord twitch instagram and so on, but now i feel safer being on those, the law shouldnt be a flat number for ad purposes it should be to actualy protect children and things should be reviewed
Now you're getting it
As someone who didn't have parents who paid attention to what I was doing online as a young child, I was groomed by someone who claimed that they were young just like me. I was tricked to take pictures and do things that a 7 year old should not have even known of. It is really important for people to speak up about things like this, and I'm glad that you did Tehmimi
So I'm in my 20s, and I remember when the internet was becoming really widespread and commonplace in every household in my late childhood years/early teen years. Facebook was a big deal and everyone was starting to make new friends online, which had previously been unheard of, and overall it was a very exciting time. However, I also remember that there was seriously heavy emphasis on internet safety. Like we had entire days in primary school dedicated to lessons about staying safe on the internet, like not posting photos that have anything that shows your location (i.e. your school uniform or a recognizable landmark from your hometown), not giving out your password to anyone, not telling internet friends your real name or address, taking a grown up with you if you ever arranged to meet someone from the internet, not sending photos of yourself to people you don't know, taking screenshots if someone sent you something sketchy etc. This stuff was drilled into our heads with frequent lessons and pop quizzes on internet safety, and everyone took it really seriously. Obviously I haven't been to school in a while now, so I'm wondering: are those things still being taught to kids? Because seeing how much free roam kids have with the internet these days makes me wonder if that stuff is still being taught or if people are just assuming that everyone knows about internet safety and don't bother to hammer it into kids' heads like they did for my generation? On top of making apps that are actually safe, I feel like we should continue teaching internet safety in schools or at home, given how integrated the internet and our daily lives are nowadays, if they aren't already being carried out that is.
I had a suspicion that dollar store TikTok was shady, but, my God, didn't know it was THIS shady!
Same
I used to see this app on ads, me and my brother were so annoyed when they came on, because it just looked like a TikTok ripoff, I had no clue it was this evil.
I had this app when I was younger sooo
getting ads for it and updates auto installing the app made me INSTANTLY suspicious of it because of the literal children in the ads and such and it doesn't surprise me that nsfw videos are circulating on it...
Dollar store TikTok is a great name for that trash lol
I’m so glad someone is covering this! I’m seeing more and more young children popping up on my instagram, as well as tiktok, and the comments are just enabling this. Parents should not be allowing their children to have such a strong media presence at such a young age (referring to the parents that help their kid, and allow old men to compliment them in the comment section). It’s disgusting, seeing how easily adults can get into contact with children
My daughter is 9 and has a watch phone. No young child should be on the internet to be frank. The internet is like the wildwest.
@@MackenzieNerdyEMT agreed. People are messed up on there, too. I’ll be supervising my kids’ every move, if I ever have any
I used to use LIKEE, I always posted videos on there. I was only 9 :') I didn't know it was dangerous back then since it was so cool for me, now I know the truth I should probably delete that account
@@sarasadaf6806 to be honest this app was really different back in the day.
Agreed. I didn’t make an account online until I was 12 (it was a DeviantArt account), which is still early, but I never told anyone online my last name, age, or location apart from the United States, and I didn’t do a face reveal until I was 15, and, even then, it was on my _private_ Instagram account with less than 30 followers. The first time I’ve been open about my last name, age, and state (but still not city), and openly showed my face is on this KZhead channel, which I started at the age of 16, but I still didn’t do a face reveal until a while after turning 17. (I just checked; the first public video on my channel with my face in it is from August 2021, and I turned 18 last April.) So, with that in mind, I can’t even fathom children under 13 publicly displaying their face on the internet. Their parents should’ve taught them internet safety and stranger danger.
Girl, can I just say I love what you do, and many people greatly appreciate you! It's amazing what you do, shedding some light and spreading awareness on this disgusting un-dealt with issue. Keep doing what your doing, and I hope your channel blows up ❤️
When I was young I was also manipulated into sharing explicit pictures and the thought that a 9 year old feels at all the way I did afterwards is heartbreaking. No one should ever be in that situation let alone a child
I got threatened by old men as a kid and got tricked into sending pictures, when my mom discovered she blamed me and called the cops to show them my pictures and ask if it looks like I had taken them myself. Still traumatized from that. She wasn’t mad at the men, just me.
That Is Horrible! I Can't Imagine Something Like That Happening To Me Or Anyone I Care About.
@@TheAllAmericanHoneyBadger wow.. thank you actually. I’ve never had anybody validate that. /g
Yeah I remember my mum found out and showed my brothers, mum still blames me for it and my brothers still bring it up "jokingly" as if it was my fault and its seriously hindering my progress to fully accept it.
I remember getting this spam email from quora about this grandpa who did that to his granddaughter. It was so horrifying to read that. That poor girl was basically told that it was her fault and that she shouldn't tell anyone about what had happened. I really hope she told a more responsible adult and she's doing better now.
@@yuichan6032 I’ve never even thought of it as that bad, I thought that was a normal reaction until I got these replies. It really does mean a lot to have people validate it as real trauma.
Being a 90's-00's child, I kind of grew up along with the internet. But even back in roughly '98-'99 this sort of thing was everywhere. My step sister and I would spend literal hours in chat rooms or IM on the weekends. Those rooms were filled with people declaring they're looking for cute boys/girls. I never thought twice about it at the time, but looking back you can see what was really happening. This is also one of the reasons why I'll never understand why some parents insist on giving their young children fully functional iPhones or iPads. There are plenty of alternatives that don't give your kid free reign over the internet.
In 99 I was 20 and I got my first phone then. It definitely didn't have Internet access, it was just for calls and SMS. I didn't have a computer with Internet access at home, like most of my friends. I went to uni that year and that's when I actually started going online. It was from the school's computers so we didn't have social media. The first messaging app that I can remember is ICQ and I know I've got it few years later. Here, in Italy, we got Facebook in 2008 but in the States it started in 2004. Before that there was MySpace, but it was 2003. I don't know, maybe it's because I'm Italian, but I don't see that to be true in those years
Right! I sat here and thought about how I would go in "kids only" chat rooms all the time when that was still a thing -- when AOL still came in the mail on those CDs lol -- and I can 100% remember what it was like.... and at the time it didn't occur to me WHATSOEVER that these people were all freaking predators. We were so naive. 😩
yes! this is why im so against giving kids their own cell phones at such a young age. just give them a basic phone for emergencies and to call family...no access to internet what so ever! my ex bff had a black berry during elementary that was only for emergencies. if my kids want a phone im giving them an old ass phone (flip phone or something else that has very little to no internet access) to use until i feel they're mature/old enough for a proper cell phone.
I remember being on a chat website in the late 00’s/early 10’s, and the max age for the chat room was 19, but oddly enough, people above 19 kept sending those “gender, age, location” private chats. I remember I asked once, why they were in the teen chat room when they weren’t teens (I was 16~ish at the time) and they “justified” it by saying that the 19+ chat was boring since there weren’t that many people in it. I wonder why …
@@lapatti Hotmail/MSN used to have chatrooms I was on them for sure around 2001 already when I was about 13. There were themed chatrooms, official hotmail chatrooms and also user created chatrooms. I mostly visited the Harry Potter themed ones and there was a lot of people all over the world on there. I think it was finally closed down due to massive infestation of sexbots and other creeps.
Thank you so much for informing us about this horrible app, Mimi. This is truly disgusting, but you are spreading awareness. I feel so bad for the children on here, and I hope that more parents realize how unsafe going online without supervision is.
if im being honest,online is more dangerous than offline tbh 😭
This is so disgusting. I was born in 1996, I grew up alongside social media in a way. The fact that this is what it has come to is so vile. This type of thing sadly has always happened, and probably will continue to happen, which is why parents need to monitor their children online. But the fact that it seems to happen so much on this one app, without any protection for the users makes me think that the creators of this had malicious intent.
In Egypt the government banned this app long time ago, because it was exposed for paying influencer to promote the app to teenage girls, I mean they would only target under age girls.
this should be done everywhere
@@linuxization4205 Agreed
then im very glad i live in egypt lmao
YES I REMEMBER THAT! im glad it got banned omg
Egypt giga chad
when I was 12 I was on the app "geeking", it was a roleplaying app that i found out got banned and is shut down. I had used it to pretend to be characters and ocs, pretend to have superpowers and literally just "play pretend" but it was a cesspool of creeps. I was groomed, forced into disgusting situations and sought after countless times on that app and nothing was done until I saw the app was banned years later. yeah I should've been monitored more online but not every child has someone telling them not to trust everyone online. no clue what can even be done but apps like these need to be enforced and monitored closely.
I was on geeking too when I was like 13 that app was full of creeps and there was people posting constantly how they wanted to roleplay with someone underage. I'm really sorry that happened to you that app was absolutely awful.
I used to use chatzy, which was pretty wild. Idk if it still exists, but I hope if it does that kids don't use it.
@@Nakia11798 unfortunately a quick app store search brought up that it's still around. I would like to think that there aren't minors on there but I hate that there's a huge possibility of that being the case.
Parents need to teach kids the dangers a lot sooner and make them feel trust to report to the adults if something happens. Letting them know predators will be adults or way older ppl trying to interact with you which is always wrong. And letting them know predators lie with their threats and to immediately go to the adults who will take care of it. A lot of kids don’t realize it’s wrong AND don’t trust their parents to not punish them for not knowing it was wrong. For instance, I was the one punished as a 13 year old for sending someone nudes and grounded rather than consulted and taught and sympathized with.
Yea I remember that app when I was younger..
Tehmimi, thank you so much for bringing light to these topics. I was very young myself when I got social media (around 11) and it took less than a day for me to get harassed. Luckily, my stepdad is a parole officer, so it was not hard to make sure justice was served. I'm so glad you make these videos so parents and young kids don't have to make the same mistakes that I made.
As a older sister this horrifies me. It terrifies me to think that this could happen to my younger sister and I don’t want her to go through that. I’ve went through stuff that was similar to this but except I was verbally abused, I don’t want my sister to go through the crap I had to go through and it makes me so mad that there are people like this using kids apps to manipulate kids. She gets mad at me for hawking her well she uses roblox but she doesn’t get I’m trying to protect her and I’m scared for her safety. I understand why my mom is so protective over us, and why she doesn’t want us using apps like that and roblox, because people like this exist. I’m scared that she will get hurt like how I did… Basically I was verbally abused, and manipulated by my cousin and he did it digitally, he managed to get money out of me, and he covered it up by saying ‘it’s just roleplay’ even though he knew I wasn’t doing mentally well and he knew all my triggers plus he made me relapse and now I’m back on meds and therapy and I’m still hurt because of him. he had a lot of access to try to attack me, like roblox, tiktok, etc. so my mom deleted those apps and I got my phone took away fro awhile, and now I understand her actions. And I know that there are people like that piece of crap on the internet and I’m scared for my sister
Damn, I feel sorry about what you had to go through
I'm a big sister and I've been through a lot of online bullying and it has just disgusted me how people are so rude, savage, and naughty. I do not want this to happen to my little sister. I'm so scared for her.
i highly recommend blockman go and pk xd bcz there are no creepy old men and they are kid friendly
i've honestly never heard of this app, but the fact that there's adults out there watching videos of minors and saying gross things about them is disgusting. hopefully those disgusting creeps got reported and had the cops called on them, because what they're saying to minors is beyond messed up. also, you'd think that when an app says that it's "safe for children", it's going to be a million percent safe for children, because no child should ever be exposed to things that can traumatize them or make them not feel safe anymore.
The app is more popular in asia
@@nesiachan4534 is it really?
@@arcticxabyss from my experience yes I got introduced to it first rather then tiktok in 2016 was it? It was a while ago i was pretty young Thankfully i didnt get popular or something like that I was bored out my mind of the app because i don't know what to do so i deleted it Never heard of the word likee said that much now so i guess it was odd but tiktok pretty much took over
@@nesiachan4534 I'm glad you deleted that app, because that app isn't safe for children. at all. hopefully the app gets banned forever and the creeps get caught for what they're saying to those poor kids.
@@arcticxabyss i have decided to check on the playstore for this app just to check 500+m Downloads This is in indonesia(my country just for context) The reviews didnt say anything negative about the interactions so i think most of the pedofilia is from America Bassicly most of the reviews is complaining about not be able to use the filters The amount of adds Internet draining An app for kids I Saw one that was complaining that the adds Were 17+ And they said your using pornography to boost users
The fact it even has the “messages” app when the company is aware that kids 5+ use, is already a red flag.
FIVE?? I WAS PLAYING WITH TOYS AND WATCHING TV. I joined the internet when I was 7, but when I was 7-11 I would actually do normal kid things, I am turning 15 and I still try my best to be careful because of people like this.
FIVE!?
Thank you for making this video. I never even knew about the Likee app and I’m always about social media. 100% down to make new friends all the time. But finding out what goes on in the app makes me so sick to my stomach that I’m currently feeling like I’m going to throw up. I have two little cousins who are under the age of 13 and I’m going to warn their mothers about the app ASAP. I’m also going to send a link to the video as well. I can’t have my little cousins and younger stepbrother be subjected to such inappropriate and traumatizing behavior. This genuinely means a lot to me because finding out something that draws this many kids to one platform, yet so dangerous to said kids, is honestly completely unacceptable. Again, thank you for talking about this and getting it out into the open.
CHILLING! I don’t understand how this app hasn’t been reported to authorities, or banned. Thanks for telling me!
Just a few days ago, a stranger on Discord asked me for nudes and used alts to harass and threaten me for a while with threats like leaking my location or deleting my account after I said no. I'm fifteen, and that was horrifying and creepy enough, even though I held my ground and tried to remain rational to properly secure myself and hopefully others from this person. I can't imagine the horrors of these younger children... this must be so, so much worse for them then just what I went through, and that was bad enough.
i think it'd be a good idea to turn off friend requests and/or dms
@@spectralotl Yeah, I've stopped accepting random friend requests and turned on explicit content screening for DMs from everyone, as well as reported the involved users to Discord itself. Thank you for the advice!
discord hides your ip, so if you didnt click on any links or have connections you can see on your profile where you actually can grab someones ip (like spotify) then you should be safe from getting doxxed. still, stay safe. i hope youre doing okay now
@@Buvucyxfubvydrztcib And even if they DO grab your IP, (this happened to me when I was 14), they’re often not really experienced/have the knowledge to do anything. A guy threatened to hack my wifi and completely slow it down but he “had to wait for his friend to get home” (and I made fun of him until he blocked me, I was an insane child) obviously there ARE some super dangerous hackers out there but some of them are quite literally all talk and might try and exploit you with threats of things they cannot do. If it happens I would recommend anyone to tell their parents, friends, or law enforcement.
My gf had a "friend" who said he's 15, and she told me they were talking for years on discord. After awhile of dating, she told me she sent nudes to him. I got scared and frustrated bc to me she's my world, I asked my gf what did he look, after seeing a picture of him, I was terrified, he looked 16-20. I told her to delete her dms, and nudes, and block him. I understand what you went through, and it's sad that these companies don't do anything about these predators. I wish I could have helped you, I wish I could catch these ppl and make them suffer. Thank you for sharing your story
Just like Sniperwolf to be on a creepy app. She needs to leave our kids be and go influence someone not young and impressionable. Gross.
Didn’t she used to be a pornstar or something???
She's making money off the views so she probably isn't going anywhere although I agree with you.
tik tok is just as gross
@@PongoDaMan AGREE
@@PongoDaMan I mean, it doesn't cause kids to post pics of their...
Thanks for letting us know! Didn’t even know this was happening. I left the app because I felt uncomfortable being on there and I believe I deleted my account? Just to add something, Likee is not a new app. It’s been out for a few years.
The part of the minor being 94 years old in the app is kind of normal. I remember back then lying about my age to play +16 online games because of mild nudity and violence. My best advice is parents being aware of these situations and help their kids navigating through this app or other apps in general. Also, teach stranger danger and what conversation is ideal for the kid's age, since it's easy nowadays for predators to pretend to be kids.
All I needed to see was that it had a chat feature to truly know enough. As a 29 year old, chat rooms are legit some of the most toxic, unsafe magnets for kids to teens and predators and that's just my own experience with older social media.
Well also was doing research if this was true. I went in the chat rooms and people were saying death threats to little kids now they are saying it back to them and to me, they should even be saying it at all.
Fr unless you know people in the chatroom irl, stay away
Most children are smart enough not to get tricked/manipulated by older people. Those who aren’t should 100% not have assess to the internet.
As a 14 year old who has used (and still using) Discord for a year now I can confirm that Chatrooms are the worst place to be there as a teen or a child I mainly use Discord as a way to connect to my irl friends
@@bushcatbandit2566 Every child thinks that they're much more mature and responsible than they really are. That's normal. Children who do end up being tricked/manipulated aren't dumb, they're just acting like kids, thinking that they have total control over the situation when they really don't.
Even as a young adult, I’m still wary of who I talk to. The “don’t talk to strangers” or “don’t put your personal information out there” was metaphorically beaten into me growing up and has stuck since. Those lessons are why I’m astonished at what other parents allow, because no matter how safe a platform or app may be- there’s always bad people lurking after children. I wasn’t even allowed to have Snapchat or Instagram until at least eighth grade. I’m glad my parents were strict with social media because it saved me from possible creeps in the world.
How does this have 186 likes and 0 replies
It makes me think that they’re not teaching kids internet safety in schools anymore. I was taught about internet safety in elementary school and it frightens me to see a ton of kids using social media and putting out their personal information. I haven’t even put my full name out there and refuse to use Facebook because it was drilled into me to never share my personal information! Even if they aren’t preyed on, someone will use their age/gender/mental illness/triggers against them that could grievously harm them. I’m of the opinion that kids shouldn’t be allowed to make social media accounts until they are high school age, that or they need to be taught internet safety!
@@Force-hiddenmasquerade 11 y/o here, they teach it, but very vaugly. And barely do. Plus, no one cares abt internet safety. Personally, I do.
@@AlexxHonda I'm 11 too lol
@@Force-hiddenmasquerade I remember Phineas and Ferb making a PSA about internet safety back in the early 2010s. I wonder what happened to those days.
This video was fantastic -- I subbed because of it. More than that, I didn't know how awful this app was at ALL. I only heard about it because a little boy snuck into a Discord server I was in and shared his "Likee" account. That's all I'd heard about it until I got recommended this video. I want to learn more about this. I think I'm going to make a video where I try Likee for myself and see how bad it really is and report as many accounts as I can. Thank you so much for getting all of this out there. Don't apologize for talking about the dark stuff -- people ABSOLUTELY NEED to know this!
I LOVE your hair in this video! Also, thank you for covering this.
Also as a mother to 4 teen girls and a toddler (all girls) I seriously appreciate you covering things like this! I have had many many talks with my girls about the dangers of the internet and a lot of them are all thanks to your videos! Thank you again so much for taking the time to make videos like these! 🙏💗
God bless your children! If you’re their mother i know they’ll have a good future!
Heyyy quick question, how do you sit them down and talk with them about the dangers of the internet, what topics do you recommend going over? How do you word it, make it convincing and things like that 😂💕
5 kids and all are girls? 😁 Funny/interesting!
@@_KenKenYouNot_ Maybe show them examples of what can happen and telling them how serious it was
@@_KenKenYouNot_ just don't go over the top and just list the things in this video
I was 9 when I first got social media and I was completely unmonitored. kids are curious, and no matter how much you trust them it's so easy for them to be groomed or influenced by the stuff online and that's exactly why I'm going to heavily monitor my kids' devices if I ever have them. the stuff I saw wasn't the worst, but I still have trauma from it even though it didn't bother me at the time. children should never be exposed to these things and I'm genuinely so upset that no one ever cared what I saw online. I grew up thinking I was so much more mature than everyone else but looking back I was just a damaged kid who acted way too old for my age thanks to apps like this
Same, I literally got groomed into having a relationship with a 30 year old man when I was 14 and he would mail packages to my families home and call the police constantly to do "wellness checks" even though he had never met me it was mortifying
Yeah, when I had discord at a young age and tried to innocently find old servers to see active, I was never normal again.
I was monitored a healthy amount by my family when i was little. But they only had access to my phone, i found my moms old tablet and used it for other things (or when my phone was dead) I found stuff with that tablet that i definitely regret finding, it made me believe that some things were ok and i did some bad things to people at such a young age. I will carry that with me for the rest of my life, my poor family honestly couldn't have done better. They monitored me without making me feel like they were encroaching on my privacy
looking back, our parents had no idea either. i was born in 98.
Maybe don't be stupid and you won't be groomed
My friend’s little sister just had to testify in court against a man who assaulted her on this app. This is no joke, please be safe guys
I’m actually quite shocked that parents don’t seem to teach their children the dangers of the internet. When the internet was just exploding (it’s been around for a very long time but became a household thing around ‘96-‘97) there PSAs, people went around to schools discussing the dangers, special episodes on sitcoms and the like all covering the dangers. Anyone remember A/S/L? I guess people forgot the dangers the internet holds.
Yes. ASL in AOL chatrooms!
@@sabrinawilliams8717 Yeah, I know. I’m old. I was already in high school by this time.
I wonder if people just assume it's something everyone should know of by now? Like, I was born in '99 and was taught VEHEMENTLY growing up to not talk to strangers or join apps without my parents' permission, to where it's just sort of second nature to me by now. Even at 22, I think twice about talking to people online or getting accounts on websites. So when I hear stories of children talking to strangers or sending photos online, I think, "Don't they know not to do this?" It can be hard to remember that kids are naturally very trusting of people, especially adults, and don't know about the dangers of the world. I'm not trying to excuse these parents or anything but it's just an observation I've seen in myself that may explain the thought processes of others. We grew up with the internet and it's become interwoven with our everyday life that you sometimes forget you aren't born just knowing these things.
@@leileyaravencroft we got our first desktop in '97. I wasn't trying to be rude. Just agreeing with you...
I was born in late 2003 and had many lessons on internet safety growing up
Fun fact I am a mother of two girls 16 and 9. Well just two months ago I had my 9 year old’s friend own mother tell me about how “great” this app was. Like always I download the app myself (before my kids are allowed) and eventually look into the apps I heard about/get told about. I found countless of scary stories and even found a person who’s daughter had a very bad experience with it. I deleted the app and forbidding it near both girls regardless of either of their ages.
It's cool of you👌👍 to use the app before you let your children use it. Its a good method to find out stuff. Also other googling of course. 🏆Good of you and thank you for sharing. Maybe someone will try it themselves.
You sound like an amazing mother!
You need to also teach them general internet safety because if it’s not this app, it will be another app, predators are all over the internet and the best way to combat it is teaching internet safety to kids
Yeah its very much an app that sorta trains little kids to be into selling their bodies and such, which shouldnt be something a child should think or do.
Good mother :)
I remember having the App back in 2020 when I was pretty young and naive. A man had messaged me and said something about how old I was and that he would like if we could date. This man was around 45-50. I didn’t realize how bad this was until about 1-2 years later.
I’m so glad you realized now😅 I hope your safe now
This was actually my first social media app I used when I was like 8. I dont think it was as this dangerous back then, or maybe I was just never noticed. Im glad I got off the app after a few months or so. I never knew there were these kinds of things happening on this app, I honestly thought it was really unpopular.
Holy... this can’t be allowed
It is tho ):
David! I didn't know we watched the same things:)
@@dinkle._.berry3597 oh for sure. This is quality content
Thank you!
@@DavidTheBaker Hey David, I'm a huge fan! :)
I actually aided in getting a young child off this app. She had this t shirt she cut to be cropped and would dance very suggestively. Thankfully she had a facebook linked to her profile. I messaged her brother and provided screenshots to him of everything that was going on and within the night her profile was gone. That wasn't the worst tho. There was this other child on there who was pre-pubescent who would stuff her top and wear short shorts showing off in different ways. I deleted the app after 4 days.
That’s disgusting
you did a good thing
I will never trust adults other than my parents and people like you that literally make content like this, I had access to social media at a very young age and I learned quickly to never tell my age, my location, my full name, photos of myself/my body glad that there is people like you showing stuff like this to spread awareness
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS i was groomed by someone as a kid on something like likee (I forgot the name) and was forced to send noodes cuz he was very easily able to find my home address. Hopefully this helps other children stay safe and not traumatized by horrible people like this
There's a reason my daughter doesn't have her own phone or access to the internet outside of her curated Amazon tablet which has web browsing turned off and requires approval for new apps. I've been told I'm paranoid and overprotective, but she's safe and gets to be a kid without being exposed to harmful media.
I only had my first phone at 12 years old and it was a flip. My very first touch screen phone that I had was at 15 years old. My first social media account I created was around 12 to 15 years old (I had friends that had it before me and I couldn't text them easily with my phone) and my mom created an account to watch what I was posting or to share her own things. I wasn't and I'm still not the type of person to take selfie a lot and I've been told to not post pictures of me online and I wouldn't have done that at all. I guess that it depends on how you teach your kid on the dangers of the internet. I would totally agree on the fact that kids under 13 shouldn't have cellphone and no social media until 15 years old. I created my facebook account around 15 years old. You just won't be able to control everything on the internet and the only way to help kids or teens is to teach them how to be safe online. Though, having an eye on what your kid is doing online would be required. I sometimes think that flip phones should still exist as a phone for kids if they have an emergency or have problems on their way home. You can't go online with a flip nor downloading apps (if it has game, it'd be snake).
I feel as if this is def necessary for young kids up until they’re like 14,15, depends on the kids personality/ability to trust adults and listen. So possibly even older. The web browsing id personally curate with the whole parental controls bc I think that actually works on the internet apps (correct me if wrong, I don’t have a kid so I wouldn’t know since I haven’t tried) but again that’s if they’re old enough too. I just think there’s a lot of nuance but honestly being more safe than sorry is better so I totally respect the strictness of it because it’s not the end of the world to not have personal access to the internet as a minor.
@@lilianabacilio5812 I do understand it as well. But it's not gonna help the kid when they'll become a teenager. I mean, yoy better introduce them to safety online than not as a safety precaution because they'll confronted to that one way or another. And there are also friend's influence that can play a role in wanting social media as well.
@@oiseaufeu I didn't have internet access outside of school until I was 17, same age I got my first flip phone. I appreciate my mother for it now. I probably won't keep my daughter from it that long, but she is not mature enough for it yet. She just turned 9. We homeschool, so she doesn't have the peer pressure to manage. When she's with groups it's during camp and park days, so the internet is the last thing on their minds. I definitely want her to understand the dangers before we ease up. I can tell you for sure she is more polite and well mannered than the kids we know who have access to social media. I will never apologize for that!
You aren’t paranoid or overprotective, you are doing the correct thing to do. I can’t believe people think that this is ridiculous.
Okay obviously it's always primarily the fault of the predators But I remember having to work really hard to be trusted by my mom to play The Sims 2, which was rated T for Teen, when I was 12, so almost a teenager, to play a game with no online functionality at all. So it's just mind blowing that all these parents are allowing their kids who are even younger to have an account on these websites. Like I said of course the predators are at fault, but they're always going to exist so it's just baffling to me that parents do basically nothing preemptive for this kind of stuff. I mean I'm an adult and I still don't like to give my name or age or real photos of myself JUST IN CASE, because of how much that was hammered into me as a kid to not share private info on the internet because there are creeps out there. But then there are people letting their 9 year olds make social media accounts completely unmonitored?? Likee and other websites should make it more difficult for predators to do stuff on there, but the fact is that Likee is not in charge of parenting your child. YOU are.
Exactly, parents are too willing to trust faceless companies with looking after their kids, I also don't get how many parents give their very young kid the tablet to keep them quiet. I know keeping kids occupied is hard, but generations of parents did it without parking their kid in front of youtube unmonitored.
Yeah to me it’s excusable for parents of the early internet to not have known, but by now? It’s very obvious and widely discussed, warnings about the internet are everywhere. When I was a kid it was all new so my parents did do SOME monitoring but they didn’t realize how extensive it should’ve been. Thankfully nothing severely traumatic happened to me but my friends have horror stories surrounding the internet as a kid. Now my parents monitor my kid siblings stuff way more because of how they’ve heard about it on the news and in media. Parents these days who have this happen to their kids (over and over, not like a one off experience they barely missed bc they only check weekly and not daily) know there’s dangers but just diminish the severity in their heads, which is wrong, so they can be neglectful with “justification” in their eyes.
@M1ddleBroth3r it used to be good tho like a lot cheaper/more manageable and the base game was actually full. Sims 4 tho? Money is def their goal and it sucks
My mom didn't let me play sims either because you could woohoo in it lol.
@M1ddleBroth3r Sims 1, 2 and 3 weren't scams.
Thank you for making this video. Alot of people don't understand the danger of likee. I didn't even know likee was this dangerous.
June, 21st, 2021. My best friend introduved me to the app, i wasnt aware that bad things could happen to me. me and her were stupid children. 2 years later, trusting her saying, "its a safe app" was my biggest regret in life. NOTHING couldve prepared me for every single one of those people on the app, the people i thought i could trust told me they always hated me. I regret installing the app. If i could go back into time and stop myself from installing this horrible app, i would. so if you ever do install it, be aware.
Coming from someone who’s a minor, It’s heartbreaking to see children as young as even 5 being treated like this. They’re just children and are told to obey everyone if they’re older so unless they’re taught about things like that, which many kids aren’t since they’re “too young too know” about that stuff, they feel like they **have** to send the photos. It’s just disgusting, horrible, and sickening. I feel so bad for the poor kids.
Woow
I believe this problem starts with people not being taught about consent, lack of emotional and sexual maturity, and an overwhelmingly easy access to the Internet and child-filled spaces. Aside from being a good parent and monitoring your child’s online activities, what can we do?
If I had a nickel for every time a new social media platform marketed to kids was dangerous I would have 3 nickels. Which isn't a lot but its weird that it happened 3 times.
im so obsessed with ur vids theyr so well made keep it up
"We deleted the app off my little sister's ipad" Okay, like... this is part of the issue. Little kids do NOT need THEIR OWN ipads. They can use an ipad, iphone, whatever during designated hours of the day, but it's mom or dad's device. I know when older people complain about stuff it's like "get with the times, old man!" but everyone survived their childhoods not having their own tablets and phones. Stop letting your literal children have their own devices. And stop allowing them to post online.
And what's more is that having access to all this technology early on does not make the kids "technologically literate", there are a lot of teens/young adults who grew up using social media and the internet who do not know how any of this works, who have never ventured to the "security" or "confidentiality" pages of any apps they use, who do not understand how their personal data is being exploited and how, who do not know what an IP adress is etc...
There is a reason that I have a passcode on my phone and tablets. It isn’t to hide anything. It’s to keep my clever child (5) out of them.
Finally, someone addressing this. Children don't need their own devices, and I'm tired of people not acknowledging that at the end of the day, giving a child unrequited internet access is the root of the problem. You don't have to worry about your young child being exploited online if they don't have internet access in the first place.
I agree. If I ever have kids I’m sorry I will not be allowing my child to use social media. And maybe honestly probably not the internet on their own. It’s too dangerous and scary.
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!! I'm so sick and tired of full on adults falling for literal peer pressure. Watch your kids for God's sake!
One of the big problems is that if a child wants to get on the platform, they will do it anyway. They will bluff their age just like people have always done to access parts of the internet that are supposed to be restricted to adults. The biggest guard against this is to make sure you are aware of what your child has on their phone or other devices.
Or better yet, don't give them their own devices. Wait for them to be older.
Or even better, they don't have a smartphone or a tablet for themselves
No wonder
My kids don’t have anything they can go outside and play and when they get a job and move out they can’t buy themselves whatever they want .
I used to use likee years back because when I saw all the glitter effects in an ad it appealed to me since I was a young editor at the time and I loved adding glitter effects to my edits, I’m really glad I never experienced any grooming situation within the app but I feel really bad to others who have, it breaks my hear hearing all these stories and I hope the people involved are doing better
Thank you for this video!!! You actually inspired me to talk about this app and grooming in my context!
This is so disgusting. Even though my younger freind uses this app, she has never told me its this dangerous. Maybe she hasn’t been caught in this situation but i really have to tell her about this. Thank you for making this video, I’ve never used Likee and im glad i never did.
Sauce s pfp?
likee sounds like the name of a mascot with a history of liking children a little too much
likee lore
I shouldn't laugh at this 😭
Any apps like TikTok, KZhead, Instagram, Twitter, etc. shouldn’t be able to be downloaded on younger children’s electronics. KZhead kids is for kids. That’s all that parents should allow.
Same thing happened to me! Back in 6th grade, me in my friend was just making an innocent video where we would hug each other (it was a trend) i was so happy to see that someone duetted my video but it was actually some old guy j3rking of to our video, we we’re just 11 years old and we clearly looked young because we wore our school uniforms. Me and my friend didn’t know how to react to seeing something like that so we just deleted the video. Im 14 now and it hurts to see other kids going through the same pain as me. Thank you so much for speaking up about this horrible app.
I am so sorry that happened to you guys that’s disgusting
Thank you for talking about this topic, Mimi. I'm a survivor of childhood abuse, and was subjected to photos/videos being taken of me as a young child in inappropriate ways. Thankfully this happened before apps like this ever existed, so I've (hopefully) not got pics/vids floating out there on the web. My heart breaks for the children who have been forced to send such disgusting things to these monsters, and will probably have that stuff out there for the rest of their lives. When I was young and going through my abuse, I was kind of in an ignorant bubble where I thought it was a rare thing happening to me but as I get older, I'm consistently horrified with just how common this really is. These disgusting people are ruining these childrens' lives and they just don't care. I really wish there was something I could do to help! (Reporting these monsters seems to make no difference at all)
Im so sorry that happened to you. It’s truly a horrible thing to happen to anyone, and is only unfortunately getting worse with the easy access of the internet. I pray to all souls who have gone through such disgusting things :(
@@noobyari4420 Thank you very much, that's very kind of you! Thankfully I'm in a better headspace these days and I'll be getting very specific therapy later this year, too :) I did apply to one other place and heard back a few weeks ago but it wasn't right for me, but oh well, at least I'm finally at a point in my life where I feel ready to seek out professional help ^_^ (shame it took around 15 years for me to finally get here though!) You're definitely right about it getting worse and it's absolutely horrifying. I just hope any victim of these kinds of crimes comes out of the other side and gets help, too!
I am also a survivor, you are not alone at all and I know exactly what you mean. you really don't know what's happening when it's happening and for me it wasn't until i was a fully grown adult that i realized that what happened to me was abuse. I'm proud of you for telling your story, you are so strong!
I’m so sorry :(
Omg I’m so sorry, I hope that you are ok now.
this is exactly what happened with amino. chat rooms with no moderation and a demographic that’s mainly young kids. because all the different fandoms have different leaders and curstors the quality of safety varies heavily
I was bullied several times on amino. I also heard a story about an amino community for younger girls (maybe 16 and under). Apparently you had to send the leader of the community, or a curator, a picture of you topless (keep in mind these girls are minors). You would be threatened with being banned form the community if you didn't comply.
I am in the percy Jackson community and in the middle they did very strict censorship but then they ended up losing members:(
On amino it’s very easy for a child to get into calls with adults, I’ve seen it happen multiple times when I used to have it. Some communities are also very toxic and just hateful. It’s why I had to delete it
@@RC.- I agree! Even though I only got on call one person that I trusted, I have seen some people get a little...shaken after a group call or so
i used to go on there alot and thankfully never had anything like this happen
My best friend had Likee a few years ago and would make comedy videos. She sometimes would show her face when we would do videos together. We would do things like most likely to videos. The amount of disgusting men that commented about our bodies on these videos were insane. She was 9 and I was 8. She would get dms from “kids” that claimed to be “our age.” A guy who claimed he was 14 or 15 at the time asked A 9 YEAR OLD LITTLE GIRL to be his GIRLFRIEND. After she replied with, “No thank you I’m not interested,” he proceeded to send her numerous photos of his you know what. She told me instantly and I told her delete the app right then and there. Although we were young we both knew this man was disgusting and this wasn’t okay. This man was obviously not the age he claimed to be and we both knew that. Before deleting the app, she reported the man’s account. She had gotten the app another time after that. She was 11 and I was 10. This time it was even worse. There was more creepy men than ever. She instantly deleted it after all of these disgusting comments were made about her body. Men were asking for her address, explicit photos of her body, sending her explicit photos of themselves, and asking to meet up. We have ever since been traumatized. Never go near this app and never let young loved ones near this app. Stay safe out there the world is a disgusting place.
It seems like this is another case of why young children should not be on the internet unsupervised. People are way too trusting of social media and the internet as a whole.
11:07 What's the purpose of having a block button if you can't prevent the people looking at your profile and content. The hell is this.
Fr, and they said they could still message AND save the videos… like what???
KZhead’s block button is horrible. I still get a user I blocked on my feed all the time and in my shorts too :/
@@theeliblog4559 blocking only prevents you from not getting notified if that person replies to a comment you made or comments on a video you made. It’s really stupid
you're not the only one who agrees.
Not gonna lie, your videos are pretty long and perfect, which I like!
One problem with these apps that have age restrictions is parents will open the accounts for their kids - sometimes because the parents have the IQ of a rock, and sometimes because they pimp their kids out for likes, money…whatever. And if it’s not parents, I’m quite sure they have no way to verify someone’s age.
Okay, I’m not trying to blame the kid, but why does a 9 year old have a smartphone anyway? Maybe I’m out of touch but 9 seems too young to have a smartphone of their own
I agree completely. I didn't get a phone until I was 16
my niece was given a smarphone at 5 (she's almost 7 now), and she mainly uses it to watch tiktok videos, and when i tell my brother that he should take it away and limit the time she's on the phone, he just says that there's no harm in that...
I didn't get one until I was eighteen. I had a flip phone before that in case I needed to call someone.
I agree. My sister got a phone before me (She was like 6/7/8 and i was 8/9/10/11) and I found that really stupid, although that was out of jealousy. Also.. I ended up getting groomed in the end, and I'm worried about her.
for sure. I got my first smartphone at 12 and you couldnt even download apps on it, it was just a flip phone. And I thought I was super young...
Honestly not shocked. "Safe app made for kids!" Is always bullshit, it's never safe.
Crazy thing is I had this app about a year or 2 ago… insane finding out the danger I put myself in
Me too, I was 11 and didnt know better..so glad my parents deleted it quickly😮💨
Thank you so much for reminding us
I was exposed to the internet at a young age and was pretty much one of those kids who saw things not appropriate for my age. Eventually thought this was normal and then grew up with the mindset that I was "mature for my age" A crazy 16 year old when I was around 14/13 tried to stalk me and a group of friends and almost got my address, a weirdo tried to do nsfw rp with me in DeviantArt, and finally grew up being in general overwhelmed by the amount of stuff that there is on the internet. For the love of what you believe in. DON'T. ALLOW. CHILDREN. TO HAVE SOCIAL MEDIA. Monitor them, don't allow them to talk to any strangers and make sure they are spending time outside the internet, it can be damaging if you let the internet be your children's babysitters.
happened to me too :// but the whole “stranger danger” thing is also harmful imo
@@gustavus0013 Fr Stranger danger is only told the kids but as you get older you eventually realize that there’s certain contacting you should use with strangers and that you don’t need to avoid talking to them at all costs
The Internet is completely full of strangers The the Internet is full of misleading information And inappropriate content for children
my brother was exposed to this type of content and he's scarred for life----- (mostly bc of moblie ads) moderation these days r so stupid...
Kids shouldn't have ANY electronic devices at all, kids should go back to the basics and go play outside like previous generations has (note I'm a gen z) of course with parental vision.
Literally almost every app that has a chat function has this problem: Discord, What'sApp, Twitter, Amino, Instagram. I've even had experience with predators on discord. It's just a problem that shows up everywhere on the internet
At least those companies do something about it.
@@fayclair328 For real! Likee be like "Oh there's a pred? What are we supposed to do something? Deal with it lol lol lol."
Also include tiya. I’ve been “sexually harassed online” and I’m only 13. I deleted the app.
Even telegram. Some girl sent me nudes and her sex tape
i remember using this app very frequently around 3 years ago, and i think im very very fortunate to not have any of these terrible things happen to me at the time. i dont remember why i stopped using the app a while ago, but in hindsight, im honestly glad i did
Same
To be honest, I think that the developers were secretly setting up kids to be gr00med and disguised the app as a kid friendly version of TikTok.
I thought likee was the safer alternative to Tik tok 😭
We should harass those groomers on Likee
That's what you get for thinking
hell nah..have you even read the reviews. I was gonna download it just too see if these stories were true but then it got detailed..it's a no for me, likee makes tiktok look like a playground
@@gwennnn_ no before this video I had never read the reviews. The only reason I thought this was because from the advertisements I saw it looked like an app that was “kid friendly” in a way, so I assumed it was a more child friendly alternative to Tik Tok
@@khloeflores8381 I never saw Likee in "kid friendly" to be honest, every app still has predators, and you can't deal about them being in the way. (I was groomed when I was 11) Because of that, I'm scared to go on social media again.
Apps targeted to children under 13 do NOT need to have private messaging features, that is so incredibly dangerous. But unfortunately it’s so difficult to keep kids completely safe on the internet because even if they themselves don’t make the accounts on these apps, their parents make them and then don’t supervise. Or they are involved in the account and don’t care or even exploit their kid(s) for money. It’s so gross.
I have never heard of this app but thank you for bringing attention to it. I just am so baffled at like... what is the point of a block feature if it DOESN'T DO ANYTHING????
That app is freaky! Thanks for the information!!
I'm glad you're spreading awareness about this, I've found your channel a few days ago and I absolutely love your content! My mom gave me a pc when I was a kid (around 6 - 7 yrs old) she didn't had a lot of time for me as I was very energetic and wanted to play with her. I only used my pc to play games and watch youtube videos like gameplays or cool animations from people however my mom always checked my historial and warned me that if I use social medias like fb, insta or those apps where you talk with strangers I wont have the pc back until I get to 16, I used to hate her for that. At my school there was a lot of people with phones (they had social medias, and they told me their mom didn't really cared about it which is concerning) and I thought why can't I have one too then? I didn't got one anyways and kept the pc. I got my first phone around 2020. I have Instagram, youtube, discord and whatsapp, now that I have social anxiety I HATE using any other social medias where I talk with strangers as I know they could be bad persons (and many other reasons), I've already met pedos and groomers however I always reported & blocked them after they start saying gross things and now I regret hating my mom for protecting me back then.
At this point I believe these sort of apps with these features do it on purpose. Kids bring a lot of views and pedos bring in a lot of attention for the creators. This is making me sick, especially for the first girl. I went through this when I was a pre-teen on KIK (that app is a pedo's paradise :( ). I hope the girl can heal. I am literally now at 20 in therapy trying to get better.
I remember Kik! My friends used it as pre-teens too but I refused since it felt really off to me but I didn’t know why at the time. Hope you’re doing better now that you’re in therapy!
Yeah, I went through the same thing but I was 10 and the site was, omelge + kik. It was filled to the brim with pedophiles, luckily I didn't know how to write down my address or else I don't think I would be here.
This is literally so messed up. When I was young I didn’t understand why my parents wouldn’t let me use social media and post vids of myself, but now that I’m older I understand why and thank them for it. The internet can be hella scary sometimes, even for me.
toilet bound
A lot more people should be talking about this app it’s very dangerous, I downloaded it thinking I’d find hidden gems of memes and was shocked that something like this even existed
I just wanted to take a second to thank you for making this video. I am a survivor of online grooming (not on this app -- i'm older, so this was on places like omegle and other random chat room websites) and I can't express to any parents who might be reading this how serious it is. I have had problems for my entire life because of the abuse that took place of the course of about 5 or 6 years, and I hope that by watching your video even one child might be spared the horrific trauma that was inflicted upon me. In my opinion this type of thing is not taken seriously at all and is treated as "not as serious" as other forms of child abuse because it's over the internet, but the truth is that it is just a serious and damaging to the child it's happening to. Sincerely, thank you for covering this.
❤️❤️ I agree
I downloaded likee a few months ago and had nothing but children on my timeline. They were doing very s3xual moves. Not even a dance lol just plain old nasty. I deleted it and just hoped a KZheadr bigger than me would call them out.
thx for the info i have this app and did not know about this thank you so much
This is so sad💔 it’s sad that I had this at SEVEN-EIGHT and I got groomed and posted cartwheels and weird videos just bc of one man that was supposed to be 10, but looking back at it he was prob 60-80:/
I used to have likee and the amount of notifications I got from strangers was just too much. Every few minutes I got like 20 notifications from strangers.
I remember in like third grade thinking that having a facebook account is the worst thing you can do since everyone’s parents had common sense and instilled proper rules for how to use the internet. It’s disgusting seeing parents really enable their kids and make them accounts when they’re clearly too young for social media. In some cases I even see parents dressing up their kids to look older and stuff like that.
I really never realized how awesome my parents are for teaching these things
Exactly! So many of my friends grandchildren have Facebook accounts and keep asking me why I don't accept their friend requests. I always reply that my Facebook page is an adult 420/alcohol/curse word friendly space that's not appropriate for anyone under the age of 21🤷🏾
I don't think a facebook account is bad for a kid. It can be used for messaging family and friends at school which is what I do until now.
@@LisztApologist Yes, but it can also be misused by the kid very easily. I think there are better alternatives to facebook, and not to mention the sheer amount of personal data facebook collects about you.
Yes! I remember i was like 7 and my friend ( she was the Same age as me) had a Facebook account. I wanted one aswell But my family wouldnt let me ,honestly i am really happy that it didnt happen, my childhood Could of got ruined At a young age.
As the mom of a young girl, I appreciate your efforts so much. Thank you for helping us keep our kids safe 💜
Thank you! On likee i saw a mom feeding her daughter cat poop! Really bad idk how to stop this
When I clicked on this I was NOT expecting a full blown movie-esque intro
Commenting for engagement, people NEED to see this video especially parents, as someone who has experienced online harassment from older people as a minor on apps like twitter or even Snapchat parents NEED to know about these types of things, if you want to do research on things like this there are…certain forums on the internet that are completely unmoderated and the stuff I saw as a kid really scars me to this day, please keep making more content like this so parents can be aware of the things their children experience on the internet, love your content, keep up the good work ☺️
I remember having this app when I was like 10, tiktok was still called musically, a girl send me a picture of her in her underwear and tried to convince me to send one too, because it was 'funny' according to her. She looked to be about 16-20. I luckily knew not to send pictures and told my parents. I didn't realize how weird this was until I just thought back to it 😬
It’s a good thing you did that because it could’ve been a pedo who just took an image off of google and said it was them. I sure you didn’t know how to reverse image search at age 10 either. So good on you for not replying back with a “funny” picture.
God wth.. you did the right thing, these kind of apps disgust me
gross
Woow
have you ever thought of the possibility that someone else other than a female may have been behind that account? Such as someone collecting pictures of other women by creating similar situations and using it as disguise.
The "new app"? I remember hearing about this like 2 years ago. I remember an app with a heart logo and the name "like" that looked like tiktok. Only problem is the heart wasn't rainbow but orange-yellow
I have a personal experience with this app. Me and my friend downloaded it a while back; few months; too find out more of bepop and Bebe. Me and him (who’s name is Aiden) decided to do a stream on his old account that’s name was something along the names of “coco deer” Makes you think that whoever made the account is most likely 5-9, right? We went on live. Our voices are very high pitched and we are very young minors. (At the time we were in elementary.) Anyways. We moved onto the live. I was at his house when we were streaming and we showed our hands in the video too show there was a human behind the stream. Then, there was an old man on the stream. My friend was the one talking in the stream because I was watching a musical and was too busy watching it too talk. Then the old man said “can I see your friends thighs?” I was very young at the time and didn’t really take that as a horrible thing and since I was really confident I went ahead and said “sure!“ And showed my legs. Etc. I’ll never forget that. Edit: he, talking about Aiden, made a video before what happened too me, so mind he was very very young, he showed his body in his video since his dad let him show everything except for his face. Someone talked too him later on after seeing the video complimenting him and saying ‘you have a nice body.’ That was some creepy stuff.
Thank you for this! My sister is 11 and she’s always trying to find new copy-cat TikTok apps, and I’ve heard her talk about this one a few times. I don’t think she has it but I will make sure.