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I might actually try this, but it's worth noting that using a commercial VPN isn't exactly picking a pristine IP address at random, it's using an IP address that thousands of other people use for who-knows-what.
When I signed up I wasn't using a VPN, just the home internet that for the last 7 years had only been used by my mid 60s father who can barely use a computer and spends all of his free time playing a slot machine "game" where you do nothing but click the button over and over and it tells you how much you win or lose.
The only real reasons I suggested a VPN are to try to keep it from being associated with your actual existing information if you have any. But it's Meta. I imagine if you just logged out of any account you might have and made a new one it would go that same way.
Yeah, I didn't mean to cast doubt on what you observed, just to say that using a VPN might introduce an abnormal circumstance. I am curious to see for myself. I'm actually hoping to find a different result because man... That is dark.
I didn't think you were being doubtful, just trying to clarify that I hadn't been using one. This was around then the Epstein files stated coming out. Saw a post about how the DoJ released full zips and then started taking down files so I did my nerd duty to grab all the original full archives. Then I had to look, and the lots of talk about "modeling" agencies that definitely weren't that made me wonder about the creepy shit I'd seen with young "models" and "gymnasts" ... it's a shit rabbit hole, especially since nothing is being done about any of it.
Not just the kids, the things like Gabriela Rico Jiménez screaming in public claiming the Epstein & Friends were literally eating children trying to get help then vanishing the next day? It's a SFW video, just her yelling hysterically and sounding crazy in public in 2019. It sounds way less crazy in 2026. :/