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From r/jailbait to modern grooming networks — how Reddit repeatedly hosted, and was slow to remove, communities that endangered minors.
For its first six years Reddit knowingly hosted r/jailbait, a default-adjacent community built around sexualized images of minors, and acted only in 2011 after national news coverage forced its hand. That pattern — tolerate until exposed, then ban under pressure — recurs across the platform's child-safety record: creepshot communities, networks trading in the sexual exploitation of children, and the criminal prosecutions that followed.
The entries below gather Reddit's documented child-safety failures in one place: the founding scandals, the banned communities, and the criminal convictions of users who used the platform to exploit minors. They are presented in clinical, court-documented terms — naming only charged or convicted defendants, never victims — to show a structural problem, not to amplify it.
Every record elsewhere in the archive linked to the issues above — the convictions, lawsuits, regulatory actions, breaches, and bans that make this a systemic problem rather than a series of isolated events.