r/Creepshots just won’t die

Posted on Oct 17 2012 - 12:17pm by Sara P.

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It’s been said that once you ban a subreddit, two return in it’s place. This can be said of the recently shutdown r/Creepshots, as two subreddits with redditors pretending to be part of the LGBTQ communtity have cropped up to replace the deleted forum.

Just this past month, a forum known as r/Creepshots garnered a significant amount of media attention when a high school instructor was arrested for posting photos of his underage students. As a result, the forum was shutdown due to the intense media scrutiny it garnered and also due to the fact that users could not guarantee that the photos being posted were not of minors.

However, just a few weeks later a group from another forum named r/actuallesbians has alerted the media to the new creepshot forums. The forums are not only posting photos of unsuspecting women, but are mocking the LGBTQ community in the process. The first of the forums is r/CandidFashionPolice where users post candid photos of woman and judge their fashion choices. The rules of the subreddit include “Speak like a sassy Diva when commenting or posting.” and have several similar photos that were once on r/Creepshots.

Also, many of the photos that were once on r/Creepshots have also been posted to r/Cshots (a subreddit touted as a lesbian forum) with graphic headlines that wouldn’t be considered inappropriate no matter what the gender or sexual orientation of the poster was.

Not only that but a fan of the former r/Creepshots and well known redditor, POTATO_IN_MY_ANUS is a moderator for both of the forums. Other moderators from both forums have been spamming several subreddits with links to the two forums stating “r/creepshots is gone but now there is r/CandidFashionPolice where we can take candid photos of women and judge them on their fashion choices”

Understandably users that are part of the LGBTQ community are offended by the actions of their fellow Redditors have chosen to take . As a result of the recent attention that this situation has given Reddit, user POTATO_IN_MY_ANUS has been banned, and the forum r/Cshots subreddit has also been closed.

Question:

Nation the photos being posted aren’t pornographic in any way nor are the titles they’re being posted under, is it still wrong for them to be used like this?

Christine Labelle says:

October 22, 2012 at 1:33 pm

When it comes to the creep shots thing I think that its like paparazzi for non celebs, we all hate and love the paparazzi, you kind of feel bad for the celebrity but at the same time they (the celebrity) put themselves in the public eye in the first place and we get a certain amount of entertainment value from it. The fact is porn and creepiness are kind of what the internet is for and their not going to go away anytime soon, and these picture were taken in public places. What’s the difference between this and the hot or not rating sites? And I say this as a women who does dress a little more out there and I do show a lot of skin, I dress that way because I like to, because it make me feel good about myself. I dress up when I go to the club and I like to dress sexy, people do take picture of me. When you dress a little sexy you have to expect a certain amount of attention, both positive and negative. This site is like an online version of cat calling a hot chick on the street, if you turn around and yell at the guy objectifying you you’re only give them the power by letting yourself get up set, rather than just blowing them off and continuing on with your life because they’re obviously they’re not worth it, because at the end of the day you looked fucking hot and that loser is obviously lonely and stupid, same goes for this creep shots site. creepers are always going to creep just like haters going to hate.

Collin J Rabey says:

October 22, 2012 at 4:49 pm

I like your style, but didn’t you watch phil? Its all about the fashion now so its not creepy anymore.

Christine Labelle says:

October 22, 2012 at 5:04 pm

well the question is, is it still creepy, and my answer is yes but no more than how i find the paparazzi creepy

Ryan Smith says:

October 21, 2012 at 3:34 pm

LOL @ Justin Cunningham, I’d imagine most of these people if you complimented their outfit and wanted to take a picture they’d be like oh ok.

Sherry Zastrow says:

October 21, 2012 at 7:34 am

my fellow women: if you don’t want pics of yourself half naked on the internet, then don’t go out dressed half-naked. whatever you wear can and will (depending on how ridiculous it is) wind up on the internet. think before you get dressed in the morning.

Jim Neal Griese says:

October 21, 2012 at 7:34 am

Weird does not mean illegal. This is obvious backlash over the doxxing of several redditors, causing one prominent redditor to lose his job. These people are perverted but that doesn’t mean they also don’t have the same rights as everyone else. Of course the women have rights, and I’m not saying they don’t, but the truth is that these photos are legal, bottom line.

Justin Cunningham says:

October 21, 2012 at 7:34 am

If there were a question, why don’t the photographers just ask the women to pose? Oh that’s right, because what they’re doing is fuggin weird. If you have to hide what you are doing, you probably shouldn’t be doing it.

McFizzletits says:

October 18, 2012 at 5:43 am

This is creepy as all hell, but it makes me laugh.

Matthew Sullivan says:

October 17, 2012 at 6:02 pm

This is just weird, creepy and wrong.. What is wrong with people? How about instead of taking photos of people, go up and say hello to them. How insecure and low are these people and why is it so popular?

Jables says:

October 17, 2012 at 4:58 pm

My response to all of this is I dont think its right to judge anyone even the creepers. Because deep down everyone is a creep. Just some people take the thoughts and ignore them but everyone sees someone and doesnt want to stop looking whether they should o bot but eventually decide they should so they do. Well now picture you have the ability to be invisible. What then would you do?

Tom says:

October 17, 2012 at 4:18 pm

I actually liked POTATO_IN_MY_ANUS… He was kinda funny in his comments. I still can’t believe that he did this

tbreeding says:

October 17, 2012 at 6:17 pm

*Butthead chuckle* (You know why…)

Joaquin Escudero Jr says:

October 17, 2012 at 2:16 pm

This is one of the massive downsides of living in such a massively wired world. People, myself included, walk around with cameras 24/7. The new generation of phones make it a snap (pardon the pun) to take a photo and uploaded to the internet for all the masses to admire.

The internet has made it ridiculously easy for a person to express there opinion in a very public manner. Unfortunately, that does create people voicing there less than sociable notions and opinions about other human beings.

I am not sure if I think it’s wrong…I think that it’s one of those potentially dangerous gray areas of the internet because the age of the ladies being photographed cannot be ascertained.

I believe that when a person chooses to cross the line from harmlessly creepy to illegal they should be punished accordingly, but I don’t think that the trend as a whole should be stopped because a small group of people are making really stupid decisions.

mymouthandi says:

October 17, 2012 at 1:08 pm

Reddit is good for so many things, this just isn’t one of them and is beyond creepy.

Chaz says:

October 17, 2012 at 2:12 pm

I agree. Many smart, kind things come from reddit, but this is just messed up.

Alycia AmpersandsAnonymous says:

October 17, 2012 at 12:42 pm

It’s more wrong for a woman to dress however she wants than someone to take secret pictures of her? That is terrible. This is the kind of thing that perpetuates rape culture. Oh, if you don’t want to be preyed on, you should dress different. Hm, how about we work harder to instill a better sense of morality in our culture than shame women for dressing a certain way. The excuse that there will always be perverts, always be rapists, always be creepjobs is a bad one. It should not discourage us from trying to teach our sons, daughters, friends, and family how to treat a human being the best that we can.

Though the photos aren’t pornographic, it’s still a shitty thing to do. It would make me uncomfortable if there were pictures of me online that I didn’t know about and people judging me like a bunch of dicks with nothing better to do. It would make ANYONE uncomfortable, just put yourself in that position!

Look, if you don’t like someone’s outfit, elbow your friend and quietly say something mean to them like a normal human being and then LET IT GO (or just try not to be such an asshole in general and not judge people by their appearance). Don’t take a picture of a stranger and then put it on the internet to have others tear them down for their clothes, you big lame weiner.

Eric James Salcido says:

October 17, 2012 at 1:53 pm

You had me at “big lame weiner”
No, really though. If you expect people to change based off of your preference, you’re going to have a bad time. These people aren’t bad people, they just have different interests than you or I. You might do things these people find you creepy for. As for cameras, cameras are everywhere now a days. Between cellphones and digital cameras, there’s a lot of opportunity for someone to snap a photo without someone noticing. Yes, the world is terrible. There’s not enough good samaritans to make a difference though, it’s a futile cause. This is why anonymity is important. They just want to do and talk about what they love, which is look at creepy photos of girls on the internet. Let them be. We shouldn’t shame these people for their interests just as people shouldn’t shame you for yours, creepy, or not creepy. If you don’t like that the internet is a place for everyone to express their interests, that’s unfortunate for you.

Makeitgo says:

October 17, 2012 at 9:32 pm

I hear what you’re saying but anyone who dresses in a way that says, “look at me”, can’t get mad if people look. Cameras are EVRYWHERE! If you step outside your house, you’re already on camera. If you don’t like it, travel back in time.
If you’re so against the whole idea, practice what you preech. Throw away all your celebrity gossip magazines, stop listening to radio, throw out your TV and get rid of the Internet. More than half of what you look at it or read is about people who have not given express permission to be exploited for our (in this case, ‘your’) entertanment. If you give up all the afore mentioned, then and only then, will you have a legitimate argument.

Dani Rosenberg says:

October 17, 2012 at 12:32 pm

Also, POTATO_IN_MY_ANUS

Dani Rosenberg says:

October 17, 2012 at 12:31 pm

If I saw a picture of myself up on the internet, specifically my body, used without my permission, I’d be a little unsettled.

Hugh glue says:

October 17, 2012 at 9:42 pm

Dont worry your not that hot

Writer_Girl says:

October 17, 2012 at 12:31 pm

We grow up in a world where we’re told we can be whoever we want to be – how we dress shouldn’t affect that. That’s why things like the “slut walk” were invented. You shouldn’t be treated badly because you choose to dress in a certain way. You also shouldn’t be judged by complete strangers for how you decide to present yourself – especially without your knowledge. I’m against people taking pictures of others without their knowledge and using it for any reason, but these reddits aren’t any worse than something like People of Wal-Mart (except these have a more voyeuristic feel to them).

Alyssa Paige Woodard says:

October 17, 2012 at 12:27 pm

I don’t like unexpected pictures being taken by my own friends, if a stranger were to take photos of me and I found out about it, I would feel disgusted.

Eric James Salcido says:

October 17, 2012 at 12:23 pm

I actually think it’s more wrong with just the way women are dressing, don’t get me wrong, though, I’m all for women expressing themselves in the manner they so desire. But how much they reveal for creepshots is on them, if they don’t like how much they’re revealing, they should fix that. Perverts will always exist, they’re not a problem that can be fixed.. Also, people talking about other people behind their back, even about clothing, has been happening forever, pretty much.

Jam says:

October 17, 2012 at 4:00 pm

Just because things like perverts always existing, or stuff happening behind people’s back being a normal thing – it doesn’t make it right. If it is to the point that it’s so common that it’s expected, then there’s something wrong and people need to rethink what’s going on.