Went on a Conspiracy Binge This Morning... Anyone Heard of ElsaGate?

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It started with me reading a subreddit called NoSleep, particularly this story:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/7d5in3/a_group_of_perverts_are_targeting_kids_on_youtube/

It was an interesting story. Anyone who doesn't know about Reddit's NoSleep section, its a subreddit for scary stories. Everyone in the comments are supposed to act like the story is real and not call bullshit, for the sake of the page.

This one didn't follow that trend though and the comments began to discuss a conspiracy picking up steam about child traffickers targeting young children through these strange youtube videos. I youtubed "elsagate" and saw a bunch of videos exposing these sick fucks and it really started turning my stomach.

"ElsaGate" is a conspiracy picking up steam that involves child pedophilia rings / traffickers looking to desensitize and confuse children through strange youtube videos that use well known disney/marvel characters. Youtube has done nothing to address the issue.

I've never been one to believe in conspiracy theories but these videos are all STILL UP on Youtube!! You can easily look them up. Why they haven't been removed is beyond me. They're strange as fuck, obviously not for children yet they depict children disney and marvel characters to get them to click. Youtube has seemingly done nothing.

For anyone who looks into it, note the comments. Often in Russian and other languages or just sequences of letters and numbers that people seem to think are code for people interested in pedophilia.

Anyone who is interested in conspiracy theories, look into this one. It's pretty unnerving. I don't have children, but I have a niece who is always on YouTube and this kind of stuff is very worrisome. Here are some videos posted to YouTube "exposing" the conspiracy.

There's also an actual Subreddit for Elsagate now. https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/

Here is a very in depth write up, thanks to @BEER for summing it all up.

Okay, let's do this. I'm going to explain what #ElsaGate is, what theories are floating around, and the disturbing shit you find when you dig deeper:

#ELSAGATE:
#ElsaGate began when someone found out what kids are potentially watching when their parents hand them an iPad to watch Youtube videos. As most of you know, there is a suggested video autoplay feature both in the Youtube app, the Youtube Kids App, and on the website itself. While you can hand your kids an episode of a kid friendly Disney-themed video, it can quickly devolve into the type of disgusting videos a lot of people have discovered browsing this thread as a starting point.

So what are the videos? Youtube seems to have AI content creators. The videos are often low-budget productions that are likely made in an automation program. They tend to feature Disney and Marvel/DC characters. Most of these videos are head-scratchingly dumb with no substance, but also something you can see your toddler watching for an hour without complaint while you wash dishes or some shit. The videos that has the internet raging are often in the same format: Low-budget, automated productions, with a twist: These videos tend to have adult themes; Drug and alcohol use, sexual content, scat, needles, spiders, etc. A running theme seems to be female characters tied up while male characters poop on them, or "dryhump" them.

This will have more detail a bit further down, but some of the videos are live action, featuring children.

THE THEORIES:
A common theory floating around is that these videos, down the rabbit-hole of suggested-video auto-play, aim to condition children to internalize negative behaviors. We all know if you throw it at the wall (metaphorically representing the psyche), it sticks with children. The theory being that it's a type of subconscious grooming for children. The theory kind of loses any hold because, presumably, the children who see this content are completely random. They're not individually targeted, and there isn't really a way to track who is watching the videos.

Another theory [or anti-theory] is that the content is just automated for ad revenue. While it's true that there are some notable channels with this very same content hosting multiple ads-per-video while getting millions of [likely botted] views, most of these videos have very few views and no ads. Often, channels will have only a single video uploaded.

Another anti-theory is that the videos are being provided for weird fetishists and aren't meant to be seen by kids at all; However, none of the videos are marked as "age-restricted", and are in fact available for viewing on the Youtube Kids app.

Then we have the pedophile ring theory: Some people theorize that a pedophile ring uses these videos to communicate in the comment sections. Most of these videos have gibberish comments. Usually strings of numbers and letters. Some suggest that it's just toddlers smashing away at the keyboard, but most people think the likelihood of that happening consistently on every video is pretty low. So, some think that it's some sort of code. People on Reddit are working at figuring out whether or not it means anything. Perhaps the comments are a way with screwing with Google's algorithms to make kids more likely to find the videos. Some users have pointed out that just searching gibberish letter combinations will often bring up these types of videos; So perhaps the comments are just bots randomly generating these combinations.

DEEPER IN THE RABBIT HOLE:
I noted that some people think the gibberish in the comments may be code. As it turns out, some of them are Youtube video URLs. These videos seem to be almost exclusively young girls dancing in small outfits. Other users have found that some comments are simply dates and times, but when input into the Youtube search, more videos of young girls dancing or playing with toys pop up. They seem to be stock Webcam recordings; On a lot of webcams, if you upload a video without titling it, it will simply be titled "Webcam [Date/Time]". For instance: "Webcam 5/28/15 07:43", and other variations. Due to these types of videos, Redditers found that you can input dates and times in the Youtube search bar, and pretty much any modern date and time will just have hundreds, if not thousands, of videos of young children. Now, plenty of people are technologically illiterate, and a lot of webcam software comes with direct uploading capabilities. That would explain it.

Except for the views. These often candid (though plenty of videos are kids who are aware that the camera is on) videos can have tens of thousands of views. Once you get into this territory, the suggested videos seem to become more and more pedophile-based in nature. A lot of Russian language videos of young girls suggestively posing for the camera or bathing. A lot of it is under the tag "morning routine".

Circling back to #ElsaGate itself, eventually the two types of videos converge. Little girls in surreal "home movies" involving the same sort of themes as the AI-generated videos described above. One channel in particular focuses on a young Russian girl and a "Crazy Doctor". The videos feature simulated shots to the little girl's bottom, legs, and even tongue.

There are other videos, stop motion claymation style stuff that people have found to have messages hidden in the audio. These videos feature clay characters speaking gibberish, but when slowed down, they seem to advertising child pornography. Other people have found short videos that are uploaded but almost immediately deleted that show children, and are speculating that the videos are showing children that are for sale.

#ElsaGate is something more than just ad-farming. There's more than the surrealist cartoons. Youtube seems to be utilized by pedophiles buying, selling, and even producing child pornography. Perhaps even human trafficking operations. This rabbit hole goes deep.

Everything in this post is mined from time spent reading about ElsaGate on Reddit. I don't have the stomach to go clicking down that particular dark corner of Youtube. Some people have that mental fortitude and are doing good work in uncovering what's really going on with this whole thing. I don't recommend to anyone to go to Youtube looking for this shit.
 
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It started with me reading a subreddit called NoSleep, particularly this story:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/7d5in3/a_group_of_perverts_are_targeting_kids_on_youtube/

It was an interesting story. Anyone who doesn't know about Reddit's NoSleep section, its a subreddit for scary stories. Everyone in the comments are supposed to act like the story is real and not call bullshit, for the sake of the page.

This one didn't follow that trend though and the comments began to discuss a conspiracy picking up steam about child traffickers targeting young children through these strange youtube videos. I youtubed "elsagate" and saw a bunch of videos exposing these sick fucks and it really started turning my stomach.

"ElsaGate" is a conspiracy picking up steam that involves child pedophilia rings / traffickers looking to desensitize and confuse children through strange youtube videos that use well known disney/marvel characters. Youtube has done nothing to address the issue.

I've never been one to believe in conspiracy theories but these videos are all STILL UP on Youtube!! You can easily look them up. Why they haven't been removed is beyond me. They're strange as fuck, obviously not for children yet they depict children disney and marvel characters to get them to click. Youtube has seemingly done nothing.

For anyone who looks into it, note the comments. Often in Russian and other languages or just sequences of letters and numbers that people seem to think are code for people interested in pedophilia.

Anyone who is interested in conspiracy theories, look into this one. It's pretty unnerving. I don't have children, but I have a niece who is always on YouTube and this kind of stuff is very worrisome. Here are some videos posted to YouTube "exposing" the conspiracy.

There's also an actual Subreddit for Elsagate now. https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/

On topic bud I can't even dive into that type of conspiracy, just find it overly creepy. I know that shit is rampant but I have no interest in learning anything about it
 
On topic bud I can't even dive into that type of conspiracy, just find it overly creepy. I know that shit is rampant but I have no interest in learning anything about it
I feel you. It made me very uncomfortable.
 
Surprising youtube isn't touching this shit just because they're dicking on so many other channels
 
I’ve basically had to disallow my son from watching you tube on his iPad without me.

He’s 4 and all these sick ass videos with superheroes and other children’s characters pop up all the time.

They are bent as fuck. They all need to be taken down. Some of them should almost be on porn hub they are so suggestive
 
I’ve basically had to disallow my son from watching you tube on his iPad without me.

He’s 4 and all these sick ass videos with superheroes and other children’s characters pop up all the time.

They are bent as fuck. They all need to be taken down. Some of them should almost be on porn hub they are so suggestive
Yeah man, it's scary shit. Most parents allow their children on these tablets without all that much supervision. It isn't hard to stumble upon any of this shit on youtube. The crazier shit is they aren't doing a thing about it, it seems.
 
Drinking from toilets, eating poop, drinking urine, and smearing feces on people’s faces

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Surprising youtube isn't touching this shit just because they're dicking on so many other channels

Liberal media loves perverts and pedophiles so that's probably why. Youtube = Liberal.
 
Surprising youtube isn't touching this shit just because they're dicking on so many other channels

A couple of my MMA prediction vids were pulled down due to 'promoting violence'
But this shit can carry on heh
 
Surprising youtube isn't touching this shit just because they're dicking on so many other channels

Exactly, cracking down on pewdiepie while all this dirty shit is all over, i think this might be connected to the "conspiracy of silence"
 
Yeah man, it's scary shit. Most parents allow their children on these tablets without all that much supervision. It isn't hard to stumble upon any of this shit on youtube. The crazier shit is they aren't doing a thing about it, it seems.

Since Google took over, they only care about revenue.
 
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