Forum Allegations

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.

Source

Public and archived channel pages for Onision and UhOhBro: https://www.youtube.com/@Onision & https://www.youtube.com/@UhOhBro

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  UhOhBro uploads covering memes, optical illusions, celebrity transformations, toys, makeup, and internet commentary.
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  Additional UhOhBro uploads covering music, relationships, health questions, celebrities, pets, supernatural topics, and unusual internet stories.
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  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 details

  

  A 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.

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.

March 14, 2023: Lifetime YouTube Analytics Show That 81.7% of Onision’s Audience Was Adult

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.

YouTube Studio’s lifetime audience analytics, covering January 29, 2006 through March 14, 2023, show the following age distribution:

• 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%

The combined adult audience was therefore:

41.2% + 22.3% + 10.6% + 4.5% + 1.2% + 1.9% = 81.7%

The analytics also show an almost even gender distribution:

• Female: 49.8%
• Male: 50.2%

What the Analytics Establish

The measured audience was overwhelmingly adult.

More than four out of every five viewers represented in the lifetime analytics were age 18 or older. The largest audience group was adults ages 18 through 24, followed by adults ages 25 through 34.

The data establishes that:

• 81.7% of the measured audience was adult
• Only 18.3% fell within the 13–17 age category
• The audience was almost evenly divided between male and female viewers
• The channel did not attract one narrowly defined gender
• The audience extended across every adult age category
• The channel’s primary audience was not composed of minors

The Forum-Allegation Contradiction

The later allegations portray Onision’s channels as tools designed to locate, attract, and funnel minors into the forums.

The actual audience data presents a materially different picture.

The channels reached a broad, mixed-gender audience dominated by adults. The overwhelming majority of measured viewers were not minors, and no single gender dominated the audience.

This matches the visible channel catalogs, which contained broad entertainment including comedy, music, parody, relationships, popular culture, reactions, commentary, and general-interest videos.

The combination of the content record and the analytics contradicts the portrayal of the channels as specialized minor-recruitment operations:

• The content addressed broad public interests
• The audience was 81.7% adult
• Male and female viewership was nearly equal
• Multiple adult age groups formed substantial portions of the audience
• Minors represented a minority of measured viewers

The analytics directly disprove any claim that Onision’s audience was predominantly composed of minors or that the channels functioned primarily as youth-targeted platforms.

Source

YouTube Studio lifetime audience analytics covering January 29, 2006 through March 14, 2023.

Source accounts include the major Onision-operated YouTube channels:

https://www.youtube.com/@Onision

https://www.youtube.com/@UhOhBro

https://www.youtube.com/@OnisionSpeaks