It actually started a few days ago. The account creating the preteen girls subreddit and posting most of its content was 3 days old. It is very suspect and a plausible explanation is that someone from SA was running a smear campaign from the start.
These sort of subreddits have existed for years, although it is most definitely the case that the actions of Something Awful caused them to be shut down, they did not create them. For example r/teen_girls has existed for 6 months.
Do you really believe those bullshit conspiracy theories?
Yeah, right. Some goon posted CP on Reddit, causing outrage among some Reddit users but also flaming (and highly upvoted) defenses of said CP – presumably all by goons.
There were numerous jailbait subreddits for years. This is no conspiracy. That doesn’t even pass the sniff test.
If they did, good for them. While I don't normally condone the "ends justify the means" approach. I'll gladly make an exception for this one. Because of that persons effort, the world is just a bit better than it was yesterday.
Of course, for that hypothesis to work, it would have to be the only relevant subreddit in existence. In reality, almost every conceivable permutation of the turn "jailbait" had a subreddit that trafficked in the same kind of material.
