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To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave
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At the risk of being trite:
this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2026
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Yet no one does… which is why there is a pedo president. No one actually cares
You may head to Instagram instead, or give Threads an honest go, or start writing down your thoughts on smooth rocks then throwing them at various windows across your neighbourhood. It doesn’t matter.
Recommending Instagram as an alternative to X is sort of like recommending Mussolini as an alternative to Hitler. It does matter. Of those ideas, the rock throwing will probably do the least damage.
If you’re still on that shitty site and you aren’t someone who needs it for professional reasons, like journalists, I don’t want you in any of the spaces where I am. Stay there.
Remind me why journalists need X? I know it's an oft-cited reason for being on X but... surely it's possible to be a journalist without it.
Nobody still on that site has any principles mate, sexual abuse content is not going to be anybody's "final straw". Very naive.
X is a hive of scum and villainy
Referring to fiction produced without sexual abuse as sexual abuse content is an abuse of language akin to referring to fictious depictions of murder as snuff film.
That logic would make sense if we were talking about, say, someone writing or drawing or animating a fictitious depiction of rape or something. To my understanding though the controversy here is the AI being used to produce images of real people in a sexualized context, or transform images of them into that, which isnt quite the same thing as a depiction of a fictional character (or for that matter, a portrayal of a fictional act by consenting actors). The reason its getting called sexual abuse content isnt so much that the images are pictures of sexual abuse, but more the notion that the creation of the images is a form of sexual abuse, because the people depicted did not consent to be portrayed that way.
To be more precise, the reason it's getting called "sexual abuse" is that this has proven effective in affecting people's emotions and forestalling any annoyingly controversial philosophical nitpicking about whether or not creating images resembling some real person counts as abuse of that person even if they know nothing about it. Since this form of it is a new thing we don't have a better name for it yet.