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 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:

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

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

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

Consolidated Third Amended Complaint, paragraph 193.