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In a two-hour period the BBC was connected at random with 12 masturbating men, eight naked males and seven porn adverts
There are now more than 9.4bn views of Omegle videos on TikTok alone
There is no age verification process or registration required to join video chats
Child protection charities say Omegle is being used by groomers to gather child abuse material
Leif K Brooks created Omegle when he was 18 and is still the owner
Mr Brooks on a staff outing with a separate company he founded - Octane AI
A BBC investigation has found what appears to be children exposing themselves to strangers on the website
Warning: this story contains disturbing adult themes.
A BBC investigation into the increasingly popular live video chat website Omegle has found what appear to be prepubescent boys explicitly touching themselves in front of strangers.
Omegle links up random people for virtual video and text chats, and claims to be moderated - but has a reputation for unpredictable and shocking content.
Global child protection groups are increasingly concerned about predators using the site to gather self-generated child sexual abuse material.
The founder of the website, Leif K Brooks, told the BBC his site had increased moderation efforts in recent months.
According to new research collected by data analyst Semrush, Omegle grew globally from about 34 million visits a month in January 2020 to 65 million in January 2021.
Interest has spiked particularly in the US, UK, India and Mexico.
In the UK alone, traffic increased by 61%, with 3.7 million visits in December from predominantly people under the age of 34 - many of them teenagers.
Omegle has been the subject of recent viral videos from popular social media influencers including KSI, Charli D'Amelio, James Charles and Emma Chamberlain.
On TikTok alone, videos tagged with "Omegle" have been viewed more than 9.4 billion times.
TikTok told the BBC that, as a result of our investigation, it had now banned sharing links to Omegle. The company says its safety teams have not found any harmful Omegle content on its platform but would continue to monitor the videos.
"It's a trend now on TikTok that everyone's doing Omegle, so me and my friends thought we'd go back to it," says 15-year-old Keira from the US on video chat on the site.
"Men being gross is something me and my friends see a lot. It should be better monitored. It's like the dark web but for everyone."
In the last six months, many schools, police forces and government agencies have issued warnings about the site in the UK, US, Norway, France, Canada and Australia.
During the approximately 10 hours that we monitored Omegle, we were paired with dozens of under-18s, and some appeared to be as young as seven or eight.
Omegle's disclaimer states that users should be 18 or over, but there is no age verification process in place.
During just one two-hour period, we were connected at random with 12 masturbating men, eight naked males and seven porn adverts.
There is also the option to find matches based on interests, for example "football" or "movies".
When we inputted one generic keyword relating to adult material, we were paired even more frequently with people engaging in explicit activity.
We were also paired at random twice with what appeared to be young prepubescent boys masturbating live on the video chat.
One of them identified himself as being 14 years old.
These instances were not recorded, and we ended both chats swiftly before reporting them to the authorities.
A spokeswoman from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the US said: "The speed in which you found possible child sexual abuse material should underscore the necessity of age verification on social media platforms."
Mr Brooks, the website's owner, says he has now blocked the use of the keyword, but the BBC has not been able to verify this.
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), which is responsible for finding and removing images and videos of child sexual abuse online, said the results of our investigation were troubling but followed a recent trend.
"We have found self-generated abuse material elsewhere on the internet which has been created by predators who have captured and distributed footage from Omegle," said Chris Hughes, hotline director at the foundation.
"Some of the videos we've seen show individuals self-penetrating on webcam, and this type of activity is going on in a household setting often where we know parents are present. There are conversations that you can hear, even children being asked to come down for tea."
In 2020, the IWF said analysts actioned 68,000 reports which were tagged as including "self-generated" child sexual abuse content - a 77% increase on the previous year.
One parent in the UK who we spoke to said her eight-year-old daughter was nearly coerced into sexual activity with an older man on the website.
She told the BBC: "My daughter had seen some videos go viral on TikTok about people being on this Omegle, so she explored this site and there's no log-in or age restrictions or anything.
"These people were saying she was beautiful, hot, sexy. She told them she was only eight years old and they were OK with that. She witnessed a man masturbating and another man wanted to play truth or dare with her.
"He was asking her to shake her bum, take off her top and trousers, which she thankfully did not do."
Julian Knight MP, chairman of the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, said the problems on Omegle highlighted a need for more legislation in the UK.
"I'm absolutely appalled. This sort of site has to take its responsibilities seriously. What we need to do is have a series of fines and even potentially business interruption if necessary, which would involve the blocking of websites which offer no protection at all to children."
Over a period of three months, the BBC tried to reach both Omegle and founder Leif K Brooks several times for comment.
There is no way to contact Omegle through its website or elsewhere online.
Mr Brooks has not spoken publicly about Omegle for several years.
After six emails to a separate company he co-founded - Octane AI - he finally responded.
He said his site was moderated and that his team did block users who "appear to be under 13".
He also said in an email that he had expanded monitoring efforts in 2020.
"While perfection may not be possible, Omegle's moderation makes the site significantly cleaner, and has also generated reports that have led to the arrest and prosecution of numerous predators," he said.
He also claimed that the site's porn adverts were age-restricted but would not give details about how that was possible without age verification.
He described these explicit pornographic ads as "discreet" and said showing them was a "classic 'life gives you lemons' situation".
"Omegle isn't intended for prurient interests, and when adults visit Omegle with that intent, it makes sense to direct them somewhere more suitable," he said.
Mr Brooks did not respond to any further questions.
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Some of the cartoons feature violence or frightening situations
How to avoid inappropriate videos on YouTube
Thousands of videos on YouTube look like versions of popular cartoons but contain disturbing and inappropriate content not suitable for children.
If you're not paying much attention, it might look like an ordinary video featuring Peppa Pig, the cheeky porcine star of her own animated series. But soon after pressing play on this particular YouTube clip, the plot turns dark. A dentist with a huge syringe appears. Peppa's teeth get pulled out. Distressed crying can be heard on the soundtrack.
Parent and journalist Laura June almost immediately noticed something was not quite right as her three-year-old daughter was watching it.
"Peppa does a lot of screaming and crying and the dentist is just a bit sadistic and it's just way, way off what a three-year-old should watch," June says. She wrote about her experiences on the website The Outline .
"But the animation is like close enough to looking like Peppa - it's crude but it's close enough that my daughter was like 'This is Peppa Pig.'"
It's far from an isolated case - BBC Trending has found hundreds of similar videos of children's cartoon characters with inappropriate themes. In addition to Peppa Pig, there are similar videos featuring characters from the Disney movie Frozen, the Minions franchise, Doc McStuffins, Thomas the Tank Engine, and many more.
Some of the videos are parodies or have such over-the-top content that they're clearly meant for mature audiences. Others are unauthorised copies of authentic cartoons or use the characters in innocent ways - troubling to copyright lawyers perhaps, but not necessarily harmful to children.
However many, like the video Laura June's daughter saw, both contain disturbing content and can pass for the real cartoons, particularly when viewed by children.
Hundreds of these videos exist on YouTube, and some generate millions of views. One channel "Toys and Funny Kids Surprise Eggs" is one of the top 100 most watched YouTube accounts in the world - its videos have more than 5 billion views.
Its landing page features a photo of a cute toddler alongside official-looking pictures of Peppa Pig, Thomas the Tank Engine, the Cookie Monster, Mickey and Minnie Mouse and Elsa from Frozen.
But the videos on the channel have titles like "FROZEN ELSA HUGE SNOT", "NAKED HULK LOSES HIS PANTS" and "BLOODY ELSA: Frozen Elsa's Arm is Broken by Spiderman". They feature animated violence and graphic toilet humour.
The people behind the account didn't respond to Trending's request for an interview. We attempted to contact several other producers of similar videos - and got the same result.
• The YouTube Kids app filters out most - but not all - of the disturbing videos.
• YouTube suggests turning on "restricted mode" which can be found at the bottom of YouTube pages:
• The NSPCC also has a series of guidelines about staying safe online , and there are more resources on the BBC Stay Safe site .
Trending also contacted two companies behind the cartoon series being ripped off, Disney and EntOne - the distributor of Peppa Pig. Neither wanted to comment.
So should parents take more care when it comes to allowing their children to watch cartoons on YouTube?
Sonia Livingstone is an expert on child online safety and professor of social psychology at the London School of Economics,
"It's perfectly legitimate for a parent to believe that something called Peppa Pig is going to be Peppa Pig," she says. "And I think many of them have come to trust YouTube... as a way of entertaining your child for ten minutes while the parent makes a phone call. I think if it wants to be a trusted brand then parents should know that protection is in place."
"I don't think we want to police it for the whole world," Livingstone says. "A lot of this material is satirical, creative - or actually offensive but within freedom of expression. What we need is child protection."
YouTube did not offer a spokesperson for interview, but in a statement said: "We take feedback very seriously. We appreciate people drawing problematic content to our attention, and make it easy for anyone to flag a video.
"Flagged videos are manually reviewed 24/7 and any videos that don't belong in the app are removed within hours. For parents who want a more restricted experience, we recommend that they turn off the Search feature in the app."
The company also suggested that parents use the YouTube Kids app, which is available for mobile phones and tablets, and turn on "restricted mode" which limits flagged content. It can be found at the bottom of any page on the YouTube site, but cautions that "no filter is 100% accurate".
And since Trending began investigating, several of the channels that we brought to the attention of YouTube have been removed - including the one containing the video of fake Peppa visiting the dentist.
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Published: 16:24 GMT, 13 April 2016 | Updated: 18:30 GMT, 13 April 2016
A controversial video showing young children in school uniforms dancing provocatively and twerking has been posted online - sparking outrage.
Filmed in the city of Camaguey in central Cuba, 300 miles east of Havana, it has now been viewed tens of thousands of times.
Jorge Luis Pérez, a father of one of the boys in the video and Camaguey resident proudly uploaded the footage of his son 'showing off his moves,' local media reported.
A controversial video (pictured) showing young children in school uniforms dancing provocatively and twerking has been posted online - creating a social media storm
Two girls, whose ages are not known, are seen dancing with two of their male classmates, replicating the moves seen on music videos.
The girls are seen twerking and grinding against the young boys and bending down on the floor.
At one point, the two girls even fight over one of the boys after the other disappears and he falls on the floor as they each pull at him.
The original Facebook video has taken down, but other versions are circulating on social media and have been watched tens of thousands of times - leading to fury from social media users.
Ricardo Hernandez wrote on Facebook: 'Already we have gone back to brothels and prostitution in Cuba in this age - wow. Where are the parents and the school principal and what moral principles are they teaching in that school? The school is trash.'
While Isa Monzon wrote: 'They teach them, then complain about the prostitution and rape it's a shame what, but what is today's childhood?'
The Facebook video has been watched tens of thousands of times since being uploaded and has sparked fury on social media
Nancy Miranda wrote: 'And I can tell you that none of them could say their multiplication tables, but they can lap dance. Where are the teachers??? And the parents???'
But Rosa Telon said: 'Don't blame the teachers. Where are the parents of those kids what a shame. That is why the world like this. Because of the parents of these kids.'
And Wendy Romero wrote: 'Childhood has now been ruined with that kind of music, if they were my daughters to I would belt them to make them move. That's terrible.'
While Sonia Navarro simply wrote: 'Demeaning'.
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