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Her selfie appeared in a compilation of images tagged #arianagrande, a pop star whose songs appeal to teens and whose innocent pout appeals to older men. In the four years since its creation, Instagram has become a welcome mat for sexual predators, the result of a perfect storm: validation-hungry teenagers who distribute sexualized images publicly and lecherous adults who know that showering them with likes and follows is the best way to lure them closer.Īlex is a 15-year-old Instagram user, according to her public profile. Jessie had stumbled upon the dark underbelly of Instagram, where adults prey on teenagers whose intimate photos sit in plain sight among the sierra-filtered fall foliage and #skinnyarm besties. People who obviously didn't know this boy but were getting off to him." Accounts with blank profile photos, or of older men. "A lot of came from other young people, teenagers," he said. Jessie was creeped out, but what he noticed next disturbed him most: The picture had received thousands upon thousands of likes.

"Like, 11-years-old young boy," Jessie said. But the image, it turned out, wasn't of a "hot guy" - it was of a young boy. Jessie, a 20-something male in New York, had clicked on what he thought was an innocuous selfie on Instagram, the kind of photo we've come to expect from a generation which thinks the best way to prove your worth is to purse your lips while staring into a water-stained bathroom mirror. "I thought it was just a hot guy with his shirt off." "It was on the popular page," he told me.