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'''Youth Attracted Person''' (YAP) is a sometimes-used variant of the established term [[Minor Attracted Person]] intended to repudiate the concept of [[Minor|Minority]].

==Publicity==

The term has a mixed, and ambiguous history. It first received widespread media attention in April 2023, following an online controversy involving Twitter owner [[Wikipedia:Elon Musk|Elon Musk]] and ZeebDemon, a trans (female-identifying) pro-[[Paraphilia|paraphilia]], [[Youth liberation movement|Youthlib]] influencer who is also in categorical terms a [[Child Sexual Abuse]] survivor, but rejects mandatory victimhood status.<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12017643/Elon-Musk-suspends-Twitter-user-created-pedophile-flag.html Daily Mail on Zeeb's controversy]</ref><ref>[https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/twitter-user-pedophile-flag-account-suspended FOX on Zeeb's controversy]</ref><ref>[https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-ex-ufc-fighter-rages-twitter-account-elon-musk-suspended-posting-pedophilia-flag UFC Fighter on Zeeb]</ref> ZeebDemon also published a [[MAP Flag|"YAP Flag"]] at the same time.

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File:Yapf1.png|YAP Flag by ZeebDemon
Yapf2.png|Another version by ZeebDemon
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American Conservatives have identified "YAP" as an attempt to push the [[MAPocalypse|"normalization of pedophilia"]] to its "logical conclusion" following the successful spread of "MAP" within academia.<ref>[https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22Minor+attraction%22&btnG= Google Scholar Results]</ref> For them, that conclusion is namely the "abolition" of Minority itself; the death of childhood.

Prior to this (early in 2023), it was mentioned on the temporarily closed video networking site [[FreeSpeechTube]]. Some users believe that in this instance, it was [["Pedophile Activism" hoaxes|used in a hoax]] perpetuated by members of [[Operation Underground Railroad]] or other hostile actors, although this remains speculative and hard to prove.

It is hard to find examples of "YAP" on [[Pediverse]] prior to FST-derivative discussion of the term, but one long-time [[pro-c]] activist has stated that others were discussing it in late 2022.

==See also==

*[[Youthlove]] - A term that has been used by some anti-[[assimilationism|assimilationist]] MAPs and Youthlibs.

==References==