“I highly suggest you don’t download this s**t,” one user posted on 4chan. In fact, those who have already downloaded the Snapchat image file said many of the pictures constitute child pornography.
One of Snapchat's central features is that images are only supposed to be temporarily viewable to recipients - which means some teens are using the app for sexting. That means downloading these images could open any viewers to child pornography charges. These images and videos are now showing up on Reddit and 4chan.īy some estimates, 50 percent of Snapchat users between the ages of 13 and 17. But not before hundreds of copies of the file, containing 85,000 images a 9,000 videos, were downloaded, according to Yahoo News. But anyone caught viewing them may face legal trouble.Ī 14 gigabyte file surfaced on, which was quickly taken down.
Upward of 100,000 images – many of them explicit – transferred through Snapchat were released to the Internet yesterday.
