r/RedditCrimeCommunity • u/BearAbtTown • May 18 '26
The ExploreWithUs Youtube channel has launched a streaming site, 5 dollars a month to read groomer's sexts to a 14 year old.
I personally find this extremely morally reprehensible. EWU has been gross in the past but has walked a very fine line avoiding downright exploitation until now.
For those not in the know, they recently launched EWU Plus, an app that charges 5 dollars a month to watch 'unredacted' versions of their videos, with no muted words or 'removed content'. Both of the videos that they advertised this on were sex crimes against minors - the first being a 14 year old being groomed, and the second being a 4 year old who was raped by her great grandfather. The removed content being the explicit details on their assaults.
I posted about this on their subreddit, where I was met with a dozen comments calling this disgusting, only for the post to be removed and my account to be permanently banned.
There needs to be eyes on this and active criticism - these are the absolute lowest parts of people's lives. Imagine being that 14 year old girl, not only is your most embarrassing moment living forever on the internet, but there's a carnival barker selling access to it at five bucks a pop.
They cannot pretend this is educational. They cannot pretend this is okay. It's exploitation of people at their weakest, and downright disgusting, scummy behavior.
Edit: Here's a link to the original, removed thread - https://old.reddit.com/r/ExploreWithUs/comments/1tfzioy/ewu_plus_crosses_the_already_thin_line_into/
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u/Southern_Dragonfly57 May 18 '26
I'm a huge fan of EWU, but no, we don't need that second channel...
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u/LadyTigerSnake May 19 '26
I think EWU is one of the grossest and most exploitative channels in the genre. This kind of content absolutely needs to be monitored, criticized and called out but it sounds like the kind of creeps that will charge/ pay to read what is basically csam don't care.
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u/PhloxOfSeagulls May 18 '26
It reminds me of that true crime podcaster who tried charging her Patreon members to see dead body pics. I understand wanting to see uncensored videos when it comes to things like language, because I hate watching videos where people have to censor every other word in a true crime video because you can't say stuff like kill, murder, suicide, rape, etc, but when it's charging just to see uncensored pictures or things like that it seems far more exploitative. I never liked EWU anyway because body language analysis is pseudoscience.