Primary records show written rules, adult-only submission areas, moderator enforcement, repeated 18+ instructions, rejection of youthful-looking adults, and even public YouTube audiences separate from the Forums that were proven approximately 80% adult—directly contradicting claims that the forums were a ruleless “wild west” designed to identify or solicit minors.
2006–Present: Onision and UhOhBro Publish Broad Entertainment for General Audiences
From 2006 onward, the Onision channel published a large catalog of public entertainment. Beginning in 2014, UhOhBro similarly published
An archived Onision channel page showing songs, comedy sketches, quizzes, commentary, and collaborations presented to the general YouTube audience.
broad commentary and reaction content covering numerous unrelated subjects.
The visible catalogs include:
Comedy sketches and parody
Original songs and music videos
Anime and popular culture
Relationships and lifestyle commentary
Internet memes and reactions
Social experiments and optical illusions
Celebrity and appearance transformations
Technology, health, pets, toys, and unusual stories
What the Channel Record Establishes
The channels were presented as public entertainment platforms—not dating services, private youth programs, sexual communities, or organizations created to establish personal access to minors.
The subject matter changes substantially from video to video and appeals to a broad online audience. Adults, fictional characters, celebrities, musicians, relationships, comedy, technology, and general-interest topics appear throughout the catalogs.
Onision’s popular uploads span music, parody, anime, comedy, social experiments, and other general entertainment.
The displayed record establishes that:
The channels covered many unrelated entertainment subjects
Their content was openly distributed to the general YouTube public
The catalogs were not organized around one gender or age group
The channels were not branded as places for minors to form private relationships with Onision
No recruitment or sexual-solicitation message appears in the displayed catalogs
Their overall presentation was that of mass-audience entertainment channels
This is directly relevant to claims that Onision’s channels were created or operated as a funnel for identifying and recruiting minors.
The presence of younger viewers within a large public audience does not establish that the channels themselves targeted minors for sexual activity. The channel catalogs demonstrate broad entertainment programming rather than a specialized minor-focused recruitment operation.
UhOhBro uploads covering memes, optical illusions, celebrity transformations, toys, makeup, and internet commentary.
Additional UhOhBro uploads covering music, relationships, health questions, celebrities, pets, supernatural topics, and unusual internet stories.
Additional Onision uploads covering relationships, parody, humor, social commentary, technology, and popular culture.
2009–Present: The Onision Forums Have Long-Standing Rules Prohibiting Illegal
An early Onision forum rules page prohibiting spam, porn, gore, harassment, discussion of sexual details, revealing personal information, and unlawful conduct.
and Inappropriate Conduct
Across multiple versions of the Onision Forums from 2009 forward, the posted board rules consistently prohibited unlawful, abusive, and sexually inappropriate conduct.
The rule sets shown above include repeated restrictions such as:
No spam
No porn
No gore
No harassment or flaming
No supporting crime or criminals
No supporting non-consensual violence
No revealing personal information
No lying or false identities
No discussion of sexual detailsA later Onision forum rules page again prohibiting spam, porn, gore, non-consensual violence, crime advocacy, harassment, revealing personal information, and false identities.
What the Record Establishes
These posted rules directly contradict the later characterization of the forum as ruleless or a so-
called “wild west.”
The forum was not presented as an unmoderated sexual space. To the contrary, the written rules show that the forum was structured around moderation, compliance with U.S. law, and restrictions on inappropriate conduct.
Another Onision forum rules page showing the same core moderation standards, including bans on porn, sexual-detail discussion, harassment, and unlawful conduct.
The exhibits establish that:
The forum had written rules across multiple eras
Those rules prohibited pornography and sexual-detail discussion
The rules prohibited harassment and other abusive conduct
The rules prohibited support for criminal activity
The rules prohibited false identities and doxxing-type behavior
The rules expressly tied moderation to legal compliance
This is materially inconsistent with any claim that the forum was created or operated as a predatory free-for-all. The written rules show the opposite: an attempt to maintain standards, restrict unlawful behavior, and keep the
forum moderated.
Source
Archived and publicly available Onision forum board-rules pages from Onision.com, Onision.net, and related Onision forum domains, 2009–present.
2010–Present: The Onision Forums Used Explicit Age Restrictions and Content Rules
The forum displayed permanent “Board Rules” and a separate announcement seeking moderators specifically “To Keep The Forums Clean.”
Across multiple versions of the Onision Forums, users were presented with visible rules governing age, imagery, content submissions, and acceptable conduct.
The surviving forum screenshots show:
A permanently displayed “Board Rules” section
A moderation announcement titled “Need Moderators To Keep The Forums Clean”
A section expressly stating, “If you're under 18 do not post here”
A requirement that users submitting photographs be at least 18
A requirement that submitted photographs depict adults
Repeated instructions to keep submissions clean, appropriate, and YouTube-friendly
Named moderators assigned to individual submission areas
Separate review and moderation structures for submitted content
A forum section expressly instructed users: “If you're under 18 do not post here.”
The Rules Were Built Into the Forum Itself
These were not private expectations communicated only after a problem occurred.
The restrictions were displayed directly within the forum interface where users submitted content. Anyone entering the relevant areas was confronted with clear conditions before posting.
One submission section stated:
The content-submission section required anyone posting photographs to be 18 or older and required all submissions to remain YouTube-friendly.“If you're posting photos YOU MUST BE 18+ REGARDLESS OF THE TYPE OF PHOTO!”
It further instructed:
“please keep all content & ideas submitted YouTube friendly.”
Another version stated:
“Please only submit photos of adults & please keep it clean/appropriate.”
A later version again warned:
The image-submission section instructed users to submit photographs of adults only and to keep everything clean and appropriate.“If you are posting any images, you MUST be an adult & all content submitted must be YouTube appropriate!”
Another forum version again required image submitters to be adults and required all submitted content to be YouTube-appropriate.
The language changed slightly across forum versions, but the underlying standards remained consistent:
Adults only in image-submission areas
No sexualized submissions at all
Adult subjects in submitted photographs
Clean and appropriate material
Content suitable for publication on YouTube
Moderator review and removal authority
The Complaint’s “Wild West” Description Is Contradicted by the Record
The Consolidated Third Amended Complaint alleges:
“The Onision Forums had no specific rules or terms of conduct and the forum operated like the wild west. If any rules did exist, they were not enforced.”
This is not a minor difference in interpretation. The complaint describes a forum without rules while the surviving interface repeatedly displays rules, restrictions, moderators, and age controls.
The phrase “wild west” grossly misrepresents the documented forum structure. The actual forum was organized into moderated sections with written expectations that specifically restricted minors from sensitive posting areas and required content to remain clean and appropriate.
The record does not show an online space designed to encourage predatory conduct. It shows a forum repeatedly attempting to prevent inappropriate submissions, separate adult content participation from minors, and keep user-generated material suitable for public use.
Source
Archived screenshots from multiple versions of the Onision Forums, including Onision.com, Onision.net, Onision.xyz, and related forum domains, 2010–present.
Consolidated Third Amended Complaint, paragraph 201.
2015–Present: Onision Repeatedly Told Viewers the Forums Were 18+ and Content Had to Remain Appropriate
A preserved video excerpt quotes Onision explaining that adults could post pictures on Onision.co only if the material remained YouTube-appropriate.
The forum’s written restrictions were repeatedly reinforced in Onision’s public videos.
Across the preserved excerpts, Onision told viewers that:
they were not allowed to post unless they were 18 or older
posters had to be adults
submitted material had to remain appropriate
pictures had to remain YouTube-friendly
he reviewed both Onision.co and Onision.xyz
Onision instructs viewers to make sure their submissions are appropriate and that they are adults.
These were direct public instructions from the forum owner, not rules invented after the allegations arose.
Onision’s Direct Statements
In one video, Onision stated:
“Anyway as you guys know you’re not allowed to post unless you’re 18+”
In another, he instructed viewers:
“Make sure you post them to Onision.co, make sure they are appropriate, make sure you are an adult”
Onision directly tells viewers that they are not allowed to post unless they are 18 or older.
A separate excerpt records him saying:
“Go start a topic on Onision.xyz or Onision.co I review both sites, make sure you’re 18+”
Another preserved quote states:
“We’re using the website Onision.co, where if you’re a grown up you can post pictures about a lot of stuff, so long as it’s YouTube appropriate”
A fifth video shows the forum’s written submission rules in the background while Onision states:
Onision says he reviews both Onision.xyz and Onision.co and instructs users to make sure they are 18 or older.“First off I want to establish that the forums state 18+ only”
The language is consistent across different videos and different versions of the forum.
What the Video Record Establishes
The video record establishes that:
Onision publicly communicated an 18+ posting requirement
He repeatedly told viewers that posters had to be adults
He required submitted images and other material to remain appropriate
He required submissions to remain suitable for YouTube
He publicly stated that he reviewed both major forum domains
The public instructions matched the written standards displayed on the forums
The restrictions were communicated before users submitted content
The age and content standards therefore existed in two separate forms:
Written rules displayed within the forum interface
Direct public instructions repeated by Onision in videos
A video displays the forum’s written 18+ submission rule while Onision states that the forums were 18+ only.
This made the expectations clear both to forum users and to viewers being directed toward the site.
The Complaint Grossly Misrepresents the Actual Record
The Consolidated Third Amended Complaint states:
“The Onision Forums had no specific rules or terms of conduct and the forum operated like the wild west. If any rules did exist, they were not enforced.”
That description is incompatible with the surviving evidence.
The forum record contains:
permanent board rules
section-specific restrictions
adult-only posting requirements
instructions that submitted photographs depict adults
requirements that content remain clean and appropriate
requirements that content remain YouTube-friendly
named moderators assigned to forum sections
announcements seeking moderators to keep the forums clean
The complaint portrays a forum without rules, guidance, or oversight. The actual record shows written restrictions, repeated public warnings, assigned moderators, content-review structures, and direct statements from Onision explaining what users were and were not permitted to post.
That is not a difference of opinion about moderation style. It is a categorical conflict between the complaint’s description and the preserved forum and video record.
Characterizing this documented structure as a ruleless “wild west” grossly misrepresents what the forums actually displayed and what Onision publicly instructed users to do.
Source
Preserved screenshots from Onision videos discussing Onision.co, Onision.xyz, adult-only posting requirements, and content-submission standards.
Consolidated Third Amended Complaint, paragraph 201.
January 23–February 4, 2017: Onision Tells a Moderator the Forum’s Job Is to Keep the Boards Clean
A forum moderator asked for stronger moderation tools, and Onision responded by describing the moderators’ role as preventing spam, offensive imagery, and other improper content so the forums would remain clean.
In early 2017, one of the Onision.xyz moderators emailed Onision’s management account asking for additional moderation tools.
The moderator explained that the forum was dealing with spam accounts and requested stronger powers, including the ability to:
Warn users
Ban users
Moderate more sections
Stand out more clearly as moderators
Onision replied and summarized what he understood the moderators’ role to be:
“Moderators are mostly all just doing their job already right? You know… no spam, no offensive imagery etc. Basically just keeping the forums clean :)”
What the Record Establishes
This exchange shows that the forum was not being treated as an unregulated space.
Instead, the email chain reflects an active moderation structure in which:
Moderators already existed
Spam enforcement was expected
Offensive imagery was not permitted
Users could be warned or banned
The stated purpose of moderation was to keep the forums clean
The moderator’s own request also confirms that enforcement was an ongoing issue being actively managed, not ignored.
Why It Matters
Later characterizations of the Onision forums as a lawless or deliberately predatory environment are contradicted by this exchange.
The record shows that moderators were in place, were discussing enforcement tools, and were expected to keep the forum clean by addressing spam and inappropriate material.
This directly supports the position that the forum had rules, staff, and content standards, rather than functioning as a “wild west” without oversight.
Source
Email exchange dated January 23, 2017 through February 4, 2017 between an Onision forum moderator and Onision / Onision’s management email regarding moderator permissions and forum cleanliness.
2018: Onision Limits a Forum Dating Video to Adults and Rejects Adults Who Look Too Young
Primary Video Evidence
Adult Forum Submissions and Onision’s Rejection of Youthful-Looking Adults
In this 2018 video, Onision reviews forum submissions from people asking whether he would date them. The participants repeatedly identify themselves as adults, with stated ages including 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, and 29.
The video does not show Onision attempting to overlook a participant’s age or encouraging someone he believes appears underage. Instead, he repeatedly treats being an adult as the starting requirement and goes further by rejecting adults whom he believes look substantially younger than their stated age.
When discussing one participant who identified herself as 18, Onision states:
“This person says she’s 18, but she looks about 12, so no.”
He immediately explains:
“I don’t want to be with someone who looks like they’re 12.”
Later, while reviewing another adult submission, he distinguishes between adults who visibly appear mature and adults who do not:
“Adults who look like super adults, great. Adults who don’t look adult at all…”
Near the end of the video, another person identifies herself as 18. Onision again rejects the submission:
“No, no, I will not date you.”
What the Video Establishes
The dating-video premise was presented through submissions carrying stated adult ages.
Onision openly discussed the participants’ ages rather than concealing or disregarding them.
Merely claiming to be 18 was not enough to receive a favorable response.
Onision rejected adults whose appearance he considered excessively youthful.
He expressly stated that he did not want to date someone who looked approximately 12.
The video documents a preference for adults who both were adults and visibly appeared adult.
The significance of this video is direct: in this forum-related dating segment, the documented behavior is age screening and rejection of youthful-looking adults—not an attempt to identify, solicit, or encourage minors.
This evidence materially conflicts with representations of this particular forum activity as a system designed to locate underage romantic or sexual partners. Onision’s own recorded comments show the opposite response when confronted with someone he believed looked far younger than her stated adult age.
Source
Onision video published in 2018.
The video reviews forum submissions from adults asking whether Onision would date them.
Relevant statements appear throughout the video, including approximately:
1:05–1:29 — rejection of an 18-year-old because she appeared approximately 12
2:52–3:10 — distinction between visibly mature adults and adults who did not appear adult
3:26–3:41 — rejection of another participant who stated that she was 18
March 14, 2023: Lifetime Analytics Show Adult-Majority Audiences Across All Three Major Channels
YouTube Studio’s lifetime analytics for Onision, OnisionSpeaks, and UhOhBro show a consistent result: approximately four out of every five measured viewers were adults.
Lifetime YouTube analytics through March 14, 2023 show that 81.7% of the channel’s measured audience was age 18 or older, while 18.3% was between ages 13 and 17.
Onision
Lifetime period:
January 29, 2006–March 14, 2023
Ages 13–17: 18.3%
Ages 18–24: 41.2%
Ages 25–34: 22.3%
Ages 35–44: 10.6%
Ages 45–54: 4.5%
Ages 55–64: 1.2%
Ages 65 and older: 1.9%
Age 18 or older: 81.7%
OnisionSpeaks’ lifetime analytics show that approximately 80% of its measured audience was age 18 or older.
OnisionSpeaks
Lifetime period:
August 11, 2009–March 14, 2023
Ages 13–17: 19.9%
Ages 18–24: 44.1%
Ages 25–34: 21.8%
Ages 35–44: 7.7%
Ages 45–54: 4.0%
Ages 55–64: 0.9%
Ages 65 and older: 1.7%
Age 18 or older: approximately 80%
The individual percentages total slightly above 100% because YouTube displays rounded figures.
UhOhBro’s lifetime analytics show that 79.5% of its measured audience was age 18 or older.
UhOhBro
Lifetime period:
May 27, 2012–March 14, 2023
Ages 13–17: 20.5%
Ages 18–24: 41.4%
Ages 25–34: 21.3%
Ages 35–44: 9.2%
Ages 45–54: 4.7%
Ages 55–64: 1.2%
Ages 65 and older: 1.7%
Age 18 or older: 79.5%
The Same Adult-Majority Pattern Across Every Channel
Channel
Ages 13–17
Ages 18 and older
Largest age group
Onision
18.3%
81.7%
Adults ages 18–24
OnisionSpeaks
19.9%
Approximately 80%
Adults ages 18–24
UhOhBro
20.5%
79.5%
Adults ages 18–24
The platform data establishes that:
Adults were the overwhelming majority on every major channel
Minors represented approximately one-fifth of each measured audience
Adults ages 18–24 were the largest age group on every channel
Adults ages 25–34 were the second-largest age group on every channel
No major channel had a predominantly minor audience
No major channel identified ages 13–17 as its primary age category
The Complaint’s Audience Claim Is Contradicted by the Analytics
The Consolidated Third Amended Complaint states:
“Minors and impressionable young teens were the primary age group that were drawn to Onision’s YouTube channels.”
YouTube’s lifetime analytics show the opposite.
Minors were not the primary age group on Onision, OnisionSpeaks, or UhOhBro. On every channel, adults ages 18–24 were the largest category, while the total adult audience was approximately 80%.
The contradiction is direct:
The complaint identifies minors as the “primary age group”
YouTube identifies adults ages 18–24 as the largest age group
The complaint presents the channels as drawing a child-centered audience
The analytics show adult-majority audiences across all three channels
The complaint characterizes the audience as a pool from which children could be selected
The actual platform data shows that roughly four-fifths of the measured audience was adult
The complaint’s description is therefore inconsistent with YouTube’s own audience records.
Relevance to the Forum Allegations
The complaint’s forum theory depends partly on the claim that Onision’s channels primarily attracted minors who could then be directed toward the forums.
The analytics do not support that foundation.
The channel catalogs show broad entertainment covering comedy, music, parody, relationships, popular culture, commentary, reactions, and general-interest subjects. The audience analytics show that the viewers consuming that content were overwhelmingly adults.
Read together, the evidence establishes:
Broad, general-audience content
Adult-majority viewership
No minor-majority channel
No channel where minors formed the largest age category
A consistent audience pattern across three separate channel brands
A direct conflict with the complaint’s characterization of minors as the primary audience
The data does not support the portrayal of these channels as child-dominated platforms or specialized minor-recruitment operations.
Source
YouTube Studio lifetime audience analytics through March 14, 2023 for:
UhOhBro uploads covering memes, optical illusions, celebrity transformations, toys, makeup, and internet commentary.
Additional UhOhBro uploads covering music, relationships, health questions, celebrities, pets, supernatural topics, and unusual internet stories.
Additional Onision uploads covering relationships, parody, humor, social commentary, technology, and popular culture.
