We here in NZ had a recent unfortunate episode of a person asking for young
people to slime themselves for photography. person and reasons unknown.

Our local police quite rightly put out a message warning the public against this -

I bring this up because of another website getting caught up in something similar,
most likely by inference, as you will read.

Some of you may remember the documentary 'Tickled' from a couple of years back
about the tickling fetish or implied trickery around this. It was a controversial but very
well put together programme, by David Farrier.

It is the same person who has penned this article for a local website here - sliming being
the topic this time. I'm sure it will stir up some debate amoung you, but a worthwhile read
all the same.
Cheers!

https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/26-10-2018/a-website-tricking-people-into-making-fetish-content-sound-familiar/?fbclid=IwAR0-sO92fBq_SeHxmhkjh5wzAYAduqOT-H2FWhb3kVwuuWSUIKVcgPN__UM

Nothing good will come of this... This goes right along with the other two recent posts about creeping, and Facebook links.

Obviously I'm not in favor of actual underage creeping (really!), but this Farrier guy sounds like the Kink Police and he can fuck right on off.

We know...all your creeping has been directed full fledged models, and a dead actress.

I get it's not straight up nudity or sexual activity, but nothing good can come from people getting tricked into making internet porn, even if it is niche specific porn. ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S KIDS!

Shows like nick or the old challenge programs might have involved sliming or digging through whipped cream, but it wasn't made to be just a clip just them getting messy, divided by gender, and sold in an online forum advertising it as messy.

Just makes our little known fetish look bad when people finally find out about it.

I really liked Tickled, but Farrier is really overreaching here. In Tickled there was legitimate journalistic interest - the guy behind the site was harassing and terrorising people, as well as duping the models, who didn't understand what they were starring in. Whereas SplatHQ has a full statement on its website explaining that all of the models are fully briefed that they're appearing in fetish material (which has always been my understanding - it's obvious, especially as some of them also do porn). Farrier just straight up ignored this in his quest for sensation (despite at least one of his followers pointing it out http://twitter.com/Nobody96245647/status/1055922801805328384) and went public on Twitter and in the NZ media... worst of all trying to link the site by association to some guy in NZ who has been going around trying to mess up children. It's incredibly disingenious and also counterproductive - I can think of a couple of dubious WAM producers who post videos with innocent "friends" getting messy (who have no idea they're appearing in fetish content), but no, Farrier has to go and attack SplatHQ, which is totally above board and one of the best-known sites. He's really gotten carried away with his own brand.. there's no diligence. A proper journalist would have waited to establish whether or not the models were correctly briefed before publishing the story.

Proper journalism is an increasingly rare spectacle. It's all about sensationalism, and to hell with the facts. Entire judgments of people's pasts and lives are summarized into 5 minute interviews, or other pundits who have never met the person reacting to them. There are no forums or public debates anymore for a person to defend or justify themselves. IF there are, such as the case with US Presidential elections, they are short, maybe 1 hour. All candidates do not get equal time. They are paid for by advertisements. And this is to sway people to consider who to choose for arguably the most powerful person in the world. Such an important decision is generally made on slander and libel, not facts, or time making careful consideration.

We live in a world gone mad, where everyone is now offended by everything, and sometimes they can't even articulate WHY.

The article reads like it was rushed to press without giving Splat! HQ a fair chance to respond, though IMO their later reply was perfectly adequate. Writers don't always get to choose the headlines for their articles, but even the headline for the article, "A website tricking people into making fetish content? Sound familiar?" accused Splat! HQ of deceiving its models without even determining whether that was the case. And despite anyone's opinion on fetish content, the site is someone's small business.

It was unfair to conflate a website that hires 18+ models with full consent with a guy who was luring children into filming fetish content. Agreeing hard with piecub here, and putting myself in the shoes of a model, I'm pretty sure if I was paid to be lightly clad in a tee and brief shorts or a bikini and then covered with slime, I wouldn't kid myself into thinking I was acting in an art film! Heck, in college I hung out with the "art crowd" and was in one guy's campy (fully-clothed) film and we all knew what we were getting into. That said, I can see why a site would include a CYA notice that the models were debriefed on the nature of the footage. I'll have to look up the Tickled documentary, because that sounds like a different situation altogether.

As for the guy luring children into being slimed or sliming him on camera, I hope he's been dealt some vigilante justice by now. Reading between the lines of the police bulletin that was sent out about his activities, it sounds like police know exactly who he is and are just warning kids to ignore him. Are they really not able to do anything to stop him from luring in kids?

What he's doing is scary because so many tweens want to be YouTube stars; I recently read that a high number of kids cite "YouTube personality" as their dream career. And it follows that if offered the chance to film something outrageous like his slime "game," they'd be willing to go for it if it held the promise of attention on YouTube.

Farrier's article about kids being exploited through YouTube challenges was an excellent warning for families. Kids have been told to report anyone asking them to send nude photos or video, but if offered a messy challenge or any number of other challenges that involve a fetish, they may not even have their guard up. They see nothing wrong with it because they're clothed and the activity seems innocent enough.

As an example, two years ago I filmed an ice bucket challenge in cosplay as part of a lost bet in an online fandom. I was already on UMD and knew all about WAM, and I found it hilarious when my intentionally unsexy video found its way onto an adult Tumblr dedicated to "humiliating lost bets." (The joke's on them; I had a blast doing the challenge.) But I feel bad for those who did the ice bucket challenge in a bikini or clothing that went see-through and are probably on adult sites now with no idea that their footage has been reposted.

IMO we should do our part to "police our own" and always report obvious attempts at trickery/luring in YouTube videos, in the comments, etc.

https://quillette.com/2018/11/21/the-betrayal-of-asia-bibi/

I mean...sure seems like that's the way the world is going. Great Britain won't let this person in begging for asylum from being executed by radical Muslims (even when the Pakistani supreme court acquitted her).

ACTUAL Rapists get off with slaps on the wrist. Killers get out of jail on parole. Meanwhile there are people wrongly convicted of crimes and non-violent offenders serving life sentences.

We live in an insane world.