Alright I feel like I need to rant.
So a little while back, I stumbled across this book that was practically just made up of these... suggestive photos and stories written and told by the creator, and from what I could tell, this user appeared to be very underage, 15 or something if I remember correctly. I know the laws in the UK are drastically different to those in the US or just any other place in the world. I live in NZ, and the age of consent is 16. I'm 17, but any and all details of my personal life are personal for a reason and I would never go around sharing any information to people online, that could potentiallly put me at risk of being gr**med or m*lested, but this person was underage and she was putting up selfies of herself in bikinis and skimpy clothing. She had other girls included in the photos (who I assume to be her friends) but she thankfully had their faces scribbled out, so I guess she had some common sense before posting them. And before anyone comes at my throat for saying that, I just want to make it clear that this girl DID know what she was doing, and she was fully aware of what she was posting. The kinds of people I spotted in her comments were also very concerning and the only reason I bring this up is because I'm worried about the future of Wattpad. This is the area where me and other writers alike, should feel safe in creating their works, but with the DM feature having been terminated, I feel like we could be at danger of losing our work for good, due to people posting things like this. Now I won't expose this person, because I don't know her personal life, nor her struggles and hardships, and I'm not the kind of person to apply to that kind of pressure. But I'm also worried about underage users posting stuff like that to the platform, and putting themselves at risk of being sexually manipulated online. It's troubling. Anyway, sorry for the random rant, I just needed to get this off my chest.
