According to some random Brazilian weeaboo news site, 21-year-old Bowd was supposedly more specifically arrested for having a 2023 tactical role-playing game installed on his phone, which contains “almost [sexually] explicit” scenes with “[sexualized little girl] characters”. Now whether Bowd was actually arrested for having that specific game on his phone remains “unconfirmed”, but what I’m much more certain of is that Bowd is in all likelihood currently having a cringe-induced out-of-body experience, and his mom probably is, too.
That Brazilian weeaboo news site also claims without anything to back it up that “”““most people are outraged””“” at Bowd’s arrest, and shows five supposed comments from anonymous average netizens. Most of these comments are just thinly-veiled pedo talking points which are only really useful as jumping-off points for explaining why they’re wrong, but the first comment was, “How did they know? Did they see him playing?” — which I’m honestly kinda curious about myself. Because either the Gardaí did what I’d consider to really be a pretty severe violation of this guy’s privacy, or he just fuckin busted out the pedo anime sex game in the middle of getting inspected by Homeland Security at an international airport, As You Do™.
In any case, though:
womp womp :anime-cool:
“”““most people are outraged””“”
Personally I’m more anti-gamer than anti-anime in this instance, that game sounds like one of those awful gatcha games that creates an addiction. Anyone who makes one of those should also be arrested.
a gamer turned out to be a pedophile? i’m shocked. i can’t believe it
The defense working on testimony to show that the child characters are actually 1000 year old vampires.
Your honor, the characters depicted in this game are actually 1000 old dragons in human form.
[Camera pans]
Actually, your honor, the lifespans of these dragons extend to over 7000 years. Even in the context of this game, these characters are still juvenile.
or he just fuckin busted out the pedo anime sex game in the middle of getting inspected by Homeland Security at an international airport, As You Do™.
real gamers never go afk 🎮💪
There’s too many anime gacha games with puddle deep RPG mechanics to even begin to guess which one he had.
I decided to omit the title because it isn’t relevant, and because I didn’t want to give the game free publicity. What I can say is that it’s a sequel and it’s evidently obscure enough outside of gacha hog circles that it only has a Wikipedia article in Japanese.
See this issue is actually really interesting when it comes to like enforcement. Because different countries have different laws about that stuff and its super wide spread in certain cough cough “gamer” communities.
I think it could be really cool if a lot of the nations that have logical laws on this stuff got together to enforce it in a serious way, and guys like this basically got a reality check anytime they travel internationally. Maybe it could even pressure other countries (looking at you Japan) to get their act together about stuff like this.
There was an NRK article back in 2023 whose headline was basically “many people don’t realize that sexualized drawings of children are illegal”, I can’t really share that article to this community because it’s literally two years old at this point, but yeah, there is a serious problem with lack of enforcement or even just awareness when it comes to the laws around simulated CSAM. And this is obviously by design: the Purpose Of a System Is What It Does, and capitalism has a lot more to gain from only pretending to fight pedophilia than it stands to gain from actually fighting pedophilia and winning.
Well in many countries for example the US their laws are pretty wishy washy on it too. Like a reasonable person reading the law might think it makes it illegal but theres so many loop holes it might as well be written on Swiss cheese. Which they do on purpose so they can pretend to be moral while not enforcing it.
I translated the NRK article I mentioned in case you’re curious.
gross.
burner phones only for travel to or from the U.S. people
but yeah fuck this guy
Honestly fears of having my own phone checked are a fairly big reason why I don’t intend to return to Seppoland this year myself.
knew a guy who was lucky while getting his phone checked because the officers somehow didn’t notice the several images of him holding guns (neither the country he was from or going to were gun friendly)
Obviously we don’t know for sure, but it seems more likely it would be some sort of CP-coded game than a questionable PNG file on his phone. It’d be easier for the authorities to detect and the language used in the game would make it explicit what it was, whereas an image would require more sifting to find and would have greater plausible deniability.
Other Irish sources do say that the content was “animated” as opposed to static images.
A number of years ago I stumbled upon a Russian-language parody of “Busted” from Phineas & Ferb, featuring an anime-style personification of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications arresting, interrogating, and jailing weeaboo nonces and shutting down their social media. I still think “tebyé krýshka, krýshka, krýshka~!” and listen to that song whenever I see stories like Bowd’s here. Sometimes I even think of proposing emojis of “Roskomnadzor-chan” here on Hexbear, although I do get the impression that the character might have a bit of a problematic history in like Russian imageboard culture or whatever… But eh. I like problematic things. Such is life!
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Judas feck… wth
