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

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.

==Publicity and development==

The term has a mixed, and ambiguous history, and it is unknown when it began to be used. Nevertheless, considerable publicity was seen in 2023, and it has continued to be used on sites such as Tumblr, where is is perhaps less conspicuous and more easily [[assimilationism|assimilated]] than the alternative "MAP".

===ZeebDemon, Elon Musk and [[Alice Day]]===

"YAP" first received widespread media attention in April 2023, following an online controversy involving Twitter owner [[Wikipedia:Elon Musk|Elon Musk]] and ZeebDemon, a trans-woman, pro-[[Paraphilia|paraphilia]], [[Youth liberation movement|Youthlib]] influencer.<ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12017643/Elon-Musk-suspends-Twitter-user-created-pedophile-flag.html Daily Mail on Zeeb's controversy], [https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/twitter-user-pedophile-flag-account-suspended FOX on Zeeb's controversy], [https://www.sportskeeda.com/mma/news-ex-ufc-fighter-rages-twitter-account-elon-musk-suspended-posting-pedophilia-flag UFC Fighter on Zeeb]. Now on [[Pediverse|Mastodon]] at @LittleDemonLoli@freak.university</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|A rotated YAP Flag was posted at the same time
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What is rarely mentioned about this controversy, is that ZeebDemon was at that point not a self-identifying MAP, but a [[Child Sexual Abuse]] survivor against [[Debate Guide: Power disparity|gaslighting]] and mandatory victimhood status. They had over 2000 followers<ref>[https://archive.is/http://twitter.com/ZeebDemon ZeebDemon's archives], see also [https://web.archive.org/web/20230425231826/twitter.com/ZeebDemon WA], [https://web.archive.org/web/20230426195810/https://potluckpony.tumblr.com/ Tumblr]</ref> with a high interaction rate and made regular contributions that were at best adjacent to MAP discourse. It is therefore highly likely that Musk and Twitter's actions inadvertently recruited a sizable number of followers to the [[MAP Movement]] and alliance.

===Possible prior use in trolling===

Prior to this (early in 2023), it was mentioned repeatedly on the first incarnation of the video networking site [[FreeSpeechTube]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20230208175207/https://www.freespeechtube.org/user/EQF-OLF Two users of the MAP Community adopted the term, but it was soon adopted by trolls]</ref> Some users believe that this promotion [["Pedophile Activism" hoaxes|was a hoax]] perpetuated by trolls from [[Operation Underground Railroad]] or other hostile actors, although this remains speculative and hard to prove. It is likely that some of the users adopting the term were trolls, although those who suggested its use might have been sincere.

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.

===Derivative of "MAA/MAP"===

Researcher, [[Sarah Jahnke]] has seen the term in limited use in 2021, among her participants.<ref>[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-022-02331-6 Jahnke, S., Blagden, N. & Hill, L. Pedophile, Child Lover, or Minor-Attracted Person? Attitudes Toward Labels Among People Who are Sexually Attracted to Children. Arch Sex Behav 51, 4125–4139 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-022-02331-6]</ref> As early as the 00s, an online magazine and forum for MAPs (at the time MAAs - Minor Attracted Adults) [[Youth Attracted Network International|used the term "Youth Attracted"]].

==See also==

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

==External links==

*[https://fstube.net/w/oN9tEhu4UeSMqbSScig1wf Sky News Australia] segment, in which a talking head admits that they endorse censorship.

==References==

[[Category:Official Encyclopedia]][[Category:Censorship]][[Category:Cyber Activism]][[Category:Youth]]
[[Category:Terminology]][[Category:Terminology: MAP]][[Category:History & Events: International]][[Category:History & Events: 2020s]][[Category:History & Events: Moral controversies]]