General Gaming Kotaku pens article with CG child porn images

[crispy4000]

It's on the internet, I won't provide a link because they don't deserve the clicks.

The article includes graphic Harry Potter porn with a Hermione likeness, so its clear its under-aged.  Some BoTW and Pokemon stuff too.  And no, it's not censored. (as if that would make a difference)

The author was trying to make a point about how porn games aren't 'sexy' enough and should be less gross. Excited to share all their research, they lacked a filter.

 

Oh Kotaku.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Jesus Christ 

[Xbob42]

I gotta get there fast!

[Bloodporne]

Guess worrying about Kojima's tweets' tone was too important to worry about shit like this.

[AbsolutSurgen]

They, fortunately, removed the pics.

[Mr.Vic20]

Guys, you had one job... 

[crispy4000]

58 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

They, fortunately, removed the pics.

 

After they first replaced the Hermione images with more Zelda Zora porn.

 

What a shitshow.

[CayceG]

Here's their statement:

 

Quote

Editor’s Note - 5:25pm: This story, part of our regular coverage of the intersection of sex and games, originally included screenshots from several porn parodies with a note that they were Not Safe For Work. We’ve since removed those images. While the intent of this article was to provide a snapshot of the kind of gaming and geek porn that’s out there now, it’s clear in retrospect that, in terms of the images and the analysis you expect from us, we made a mistake. Readers are understandably uncomfortable about these kinds of depictions of characters who are often depicted as or thought of as teenagers. I am, too and apologize. We can do better, and we will. - Stephen Totilo, Editor-in-Chief

 

 

What an absolute fuckup.

[Xbob42]

On the other hand... 

[Bacon]

I have seen both of those Zelda ones. There is also a Urbosa one as well. The are really well made as all the characters look like the in game models with the cel shading and shit. Most SFM or Blender porn has this generic look to it because they don't match the art style of the game the characters are based off of.  

[crispy4000]

Heard it here, Hermione is only thought of as a teenager.

[AbsolutSurgen]

1 minute ago, crispy4000 said:

Heard it here, Hermione is only thought of as a teenager.

 

 

  The internet tells me she was 17 in the last book.

[crispy4000]

4 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

  The internet tells me she was 17 in the last book.

 

It’s more the fact that the imagery was based on a young Emma Watson’s likeness.

 

Yup.  She could actually go after them for running this.

[LazyPiranha]

Against who?  It’s not like Kotaku made the porn in the first place and good fucking luck figuring out who created the original.

[crispy4000]

4 minutes ago, LazyPiranha said:

Against who?  It’s not like Kotaku made the porn in the first place and good fucking luck figuring out who created the original.

 

The person and/or news outlet that chose to directly publish animated child porn of her.

 

Kotaku isn’t some anonymous entity.  This was a writer with a known name, and their editors signed off on it.

[AbsolutSurgen]

Given viewing animated child pornography is illegal in Canada, I reported her to the Montreal police via their child porn website.

[RedSoxFan9]

4 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

Given viewing animated child pornography is illegal in Canada, I reported her to the Montreal police via their child porn website.

 

No one likes a tattletale 

[AbsolutSurgen]

1 minute ago, RedSoxFan9 said:

 

No one likes a tattletale 

When it comes to child porn, everyone SHOULD.

[crispy4000]

I guarantee you’re not the first to report it.  Internet loves to pile on.  Which in this case is for the better.

[AbsolutSurgen]

I have no idea how stupid you have to be to document committing a felony in an article on a website.

[Brick]

Fucking Kotaku... 

[skillzdadirecta]

Videogame "Journalism" strikes again...

[Kal-El814]

Read the OP as “Keanu pens article...” and was temporarily devastated. 

[LazyPiranha]

1 hour ago, crispy4000 said:

 

The person and/or news outlet that chose to directly publish animated child porn of her.

 

Kotaku isn’t some anonymous entity.  This was a writer with a known name, and their editors signed off on it.

 

Sue them for what?  As stupid as the decision to publish this article is, suing Kotaku for reporting/critiquing something created by someone else hosted by someone else, that sets a really weird precedent for future cases where people publish indecent material for more newsworthy purposes.  

 

Besides, if people were actually bothered offended by this then they'd be spending a lot of time reporting the actual porn sites actually hosting these videos to the proper authorities.  I'm sure @AbsolutSurgen reported Pornhub to the FBI for hosting simulated child porn as soon as he was done reporting this Kotaku person.  Surely.  He's that outraged after all, so why limit his rage to the small fry at the bottom?

[AbsolutSurgen]

1 minute ago, LazyPiranha said:

 

Sue them for what?  As stupid as the decision to publish this article is, suing Kotaku for reporting/critiquing something created by someone else hosted by someone else, that sets a really weird precedent for future cases where people publish indecent material for more newsworthy purposes.  

 

Besides, if people were actually bothered offended by this then they'd be spending a lot of time reporting the actual porn sites actually hosting these videos to the proper authorities.  I'm sure @AbsolutSurgen reported Pornhub to the FBI for hosting simulated child porn as soon as he was done reporting this Kotaku person.  Surely.  He's that outraged after all, so why limit his rage to the small fry at the bottom?

I have never been to pornhub, so I don't have anything to report.  Nor am I an American, so I would probably report any child porn to a Canadian police force, if I ever went there and saw it.

 

A "purportedly" mainstream website that I frequent on a daily basis (probably out of nostalgia for the Crecente days), posts an article containing child porn, and graphically describes themselves consuming child porn, written by a Canadian resident.  Of course I reported it.  How could anyone be comfortable with a so-called journalist trying to normalize the consumption of child porn to a mainstream audience?

 

 

[Keyser_Soze]

16 is the age of consent in Alabama.

[LazyPiranha]

2 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

I have never been to pornhub, so I don't have anything to report.  Nor am I an American, so I would probably report any child porn to a Canadian police force, if I ever went there and saw it.

 

A "purportedly" mainstream website that I frequent on a daily basis (probably out of nostalgia for the Crecente days), posts an article containing child porn, and graphically describes themselves consuming child porn, written by a Canadian resident.  Of course I reported it.  How could anyone be comfortable with a so-called journalist trying to normalize the consumption of child porn to a mainstream audience?

 

 

 

So you've never been to a mainstream porn website, but you do daily browse kotaku and then intentionally click on the link that explicitly says "video game porn" in the title?  

[crispy4000]

2 hours ago, LazyPiranha said:

 

Sue them for what?  As stupid as the decision to publish this article is, suing Kotaku for reporting/critiquing something created by someone else hosted by someone else, that sets a really weird precedent for future cases where people publish indecent material for more newsworthy purposes.  

 

Besides, if people were actually bothered offended by this then they'd be spending a lot of time reporting the actual porn sites actually hosting these videos to the proper authorities.  I'm sure @AbsolutSurgen reported Pornhub to the FBI for hosting simulated child porn as soon as he was done reporting this Kotaku person.  Surely.  He's that outraged after all, so why limit his rage to the small fry at the bottom?

 

Child porn (including simulated depictions of it) has further legal consequences than other indecent material.  Even moreso when there’s nothing to suggest (or even to say) the depicted are of legal age.  It doesn’t all go back to the creators of the content - with child porn, it can also be the distribution and possession of.  I’m not sure you’re giving that real consideration here.

 

Websites aren’t allowed to distribute this material in most countries.  But there is some precedent for protection in case a random user uploads it and the company seeks to remove it.

 

The bigger question is if this writer and Kotaku can be held legally responsible.  It wasn’t some anonymous user who decided to go rogue.  It was this person, and these editors.  They directly broke the law on their own website.  It’s also entirely illegal in Canada, the writer’s home country. 

 

Add to the fact there’s a real person who was depicted underage.  They could have a claim, but it also doubly confirms the underage nature of the content.  I think it’s as much of a mess as it appears to be.  

 

 

[Bloodporne]

When can we expect the Jason Schreier exposé on Kotaku normalizing kiddie porn? Time to put his money where his mouth is.

[Paperclyp]

Kotaku is 90 percent standard gaming stories and 10 percent opinion pieces that really trigger people I guess. 

[crispy4000]

21 minutes ago, Paperclyp said:

Kotaku is 90 percent standard gaming stories and 10 percent opinion pieces that really trigger people I guess. 

 

The writer did several sex in games articles on Kotaku before this.  Possibly triggering some, but never garnering much attention.

 

A line was crossed here.  Involving kiddie porn tends to.

[Paperclyp]

1 minute ago, crispy4000 said:

 

The writer did several sex in games articles on Kotaku before this.  Possibly triggering some, but never garnering much attention.

 

A line was crossed here.  Anything involving kiddie porn tends to.

Oh sure, and she deserves to be called out for it and all that. 

 

But I guarantee a large portion of the pilers-on give 0 shits about the child porn aspect and just wanna "get" her. 

 

I've said it before and I'll keep saying it - I think most people who claim to hate Kotaku never even visit the site, which is about as sterile as can be almost all of the time. 

[crispy4000]

55 minutes ago, Paperclyp said:

Oh sure, and she deserves to be called out for it and all that. 

 

But I guarantee a large portion of the pilers-on give 0 shits about the child porn aspect and just wanna "get" her. 

 

I've said it before and I'll keep saying it - I think most people who claim to hate Kotaku never even visit the site, which is about as sterile as can be almost all of the time. 

 

I'm not cynical enough to believe that the outrage is manufactured to a degree that makes the child porn aspect secondary.

This is about a journalist directly posting cg child porn, attempting to editorialize about how it could be more tasteful in all manner of ways besides
taking kid depictions off the main fucking stage .

 

I've thought highly of Totilo before this, and have since before he went to Kotaku.  But him saying that an actor's under-age likeness is "often depicted as or thought of as [teenage]" beats much too far around the bush.  There needs to be a clearer admission of just what happened here, and a vow to end a business relationship with this writer.

[Paperclyp]

11 minutes ago, crispy4000 said:

 

I'm not cynical enough to believe that the outrage is manufactured to a degree that makes the child porn aspect secondary.

This is about a journalist directly posting cg child porn, attempting editorialize about how it could be more tasteful in all manner of ways besides
taking kid depictions off the main fucking stage .

 

I've thought highly of Totiio before this, and have since before he went to Kotaku.  But him saying that an actor's under-age likeness is "often depicted as or thought of as [teenage]" beats too far around the bush.  There needs to be a clearer admission of just what happened here, and a vow to end a business relationship with this writer.

I believe your concern is real. But I am otherwise that cynical lol. 

[crispy4000]

6 minutes ago, Paperclyp said:

I believe your concern is real. But I am otherwise that cynical lol. 

 

I don't entirely blame you.  There are pockets of the internet that would react more negatively to Kotaku and (bad) female journalists than to child porn.

 

Still doubt that's the majority though.