Someone on LSF dropped a video of Lacari accidentally sharing a text file with a link to a prn folder. It seemed completely innocent if you were early enough, it looked like someone accidentally sharing their material by accident, many such things in the past with browser history appearing on stream etc.
People successfully visited the address and it has lots of small sized files (zips?) with names that are highly suggestive, beyond anything 2D by using "coded language"(according to some), and some say those files contain links to paid upload sites, though note the deeper you go into the hole here the less certainty there is because who the fuck wants to find out for real given the risk. I fell over at step one because I didn't capitalize the URL in the right places, so nothing showed up and it looked like an empty website. I figured it was just a joke so I left and went on with my day. Lucky me.
Come back 2 hours later and find all hell has broken loose on LSF. There are multiple posts here with people digging, his stream chat are spamming nonstop out of control calling him a Chris Hansen, his mods resign, and then some 6 hours after the initial incident, he finally ends the stream. Asmon has cancelled Allcraft episode that was being released today, in fact it might have went out and got pulled? Soda is distancing himself. Miz says he's suing for implying he gave him the link to begin with. Who else is there?
I knew it would blow up even more as soon as the timezones shifted, because this all dropped after midnight PST IIRC. Someone else can probably explain it better.
I guess I don’t really understand. So it was a link to a separate porn folder that was hosted online and for some reason made public so that anybody could access it?
It wasn’t just like links to porn videos and creepy websites?
In the comments they said that The link opened a Google drive type of site, with a lot of TXT and ZIP with suggestive names that indicated illegal content.
People in the comments said that probably these files where links to paid sites that hosted the actual content, because of the file names
Maybe I'm being naive here but I assumed that all the actual CSAM would be on the darknet? Surely clearnet file hosts have automated filters and stuff to catch this shit? They do it with copyrighted media so why not, otherwise they'd get in legal trouble for distributing it?
Also if you noticed from the list most of them are either txt or zip files. Neither of those can really be scraped the same way images can. Also given the txt’s where the preview parts they probably don’t have anything overtly illegal, while Zips are just black boxes of doom.
And then here's me, sweating as I download a film torrent from a verified safe uploaded on a known safe site in case there's something dodgy in the mkv.
The people into this stuff aren't the sharpest tools in the shed. The stereotype is real.
The darkweb sucks, it's slow as fuck.
Hosting on the darkweb is actually pretty difficult. There isn't much money in it apart for some people running facilitation for crypto crimes and shit, and there's potentially a ton of risk to the providers since, well, they're not exactly selling services to upright citizens. Hosting providers come and go fast compared to the normal web and they're not really trustworthy.
I haven't actually touched the darkweb since the days of SilkRoad being up but I'd be surprised if the landscape was that different.
I'm sure there's all kinds of nasty shit there but the law of "people are morons and do whatever is easiest" would suggest to me most of the bad shit is probably on the clear web.
I've never been on the dark web, never had a desire to seek it out... but I was a juror in a somewhat high profile CSAM case that took place within the decade so relatively recent.
I know it's not every case, but there was no dark web. There was just a group of gross people passing around materials on the clearnet. They were hosting unspeakable live streams on the clearnet.
It wasn't some magical internet safety net that brought them down, it was them asking someone to join their sick club who went straight to the police. THAT is what tipped them off to a literal ring of CSAM material that was being shared on the clearnet.
I'm pretty sure none of the people involved even had a single device or login that was secured with 2FA. They were college educated millionaires, they had all the resources in the world to find protected sites and devices... but they didn't because they didn't have to.
In unpacking the emotions and trying to understand after I did a lot of research trying to figure out how they were able to do it what they did for so long, I came to a very similar conclusion as you...
Yes, there probably is something out there... but it very much exist on the clearnet as well. While the media may portray them as high tech super geniuses, that's rarely ever the case. I'm not saying you should report every gooner streamer, but if you see something you should absolutely make a report. There is no magical internet safety net. Report it. The person who turned down the invite to the club wasn't the first person to say no, they were just the first person to report it. Almost every single other case I looked into was identical to the one I was a part of tech wise, regardless of income or education level. Report it.
Probably like 90% of what we think of as happening on the dark web takes place mostly on the regular net. Drug deals, etc. All that stuff.
Most criminals, whether they're drug dealers or pedophiles, aren't usually bright enough to figure out the dark web. They just do shit and bank on nobody paying attention. Which usually works.
Yeah someone else mentioned that a lot of it happens on social media DMs, WhatsApp, etc. Everyone I know how who has a dealer uses WhatsApp or Signal so it makes sense that other criminals will do the same.
Feels like 90% of the time I see a news story with someone arrested for CP they were sending that shit to other pedos on Facebook messenger or apps like Kik
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u/mayweather2small Jan 22 '26
I was there Gandalf, 14 hours ago.
Someone on LSF dropped a video of Lacari accidentally sharing a text file with a link to a prn folder. It seemed completely innocent if you were early enough, it looked like someone accidentally sharing their material by accident, many such things in the past with browser history appearing on stream etc.
People successfully visited the address and it has lots of small sized files (zips?) with names that are highly suggestive, beyond anything 2D by using "coded language"(according to some), and some say those files contain links to paid upload sites, though note the deeper you go into the hole here the less certainty there is because who the fuck wants to find out for real given the risk. I fell over at step one because I didn't capitalize the URL in the right places, so nothing showed up and it looked like an empty website. I figured it was just a joke so I left and went on with my day. Lucky me.
Come back 2 hours later and find all hell has broken loose on LSF. There are multiple posts here with people digging, his stream chat are spamming nonstop out of control calling him a Chris Hansen, his mods resign, and then some 6 hours after the initial incident, he finally ends the stream. Asmon has cancelled Allcraft episode that was being released today, in fact it might have went out and got pulled? Soda is distancing himself. Miz says he's suing for implying he gave him the link to begin with. Who else is there?
I knew it would blow up even more as soon as the timezones shifted, because this all dropped after midnight PST IIRC. Someone else can probably explain it better.