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TikTok and the digital pimps: Eye Investigates

Mar 3, 2025
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ANECDOTE

Late-Night Livestreams

  • Debula Kemoli, reporting for Africa Eye, discovered numerous late-night TikTok livestreams advertising sexual content.
  • These livestreams featured young women dancing suggestively and directing viewers to private messages for explicit content.
ANECDOTE

Livestreaming Demonstration

  • Afro-Lanka, a TikTok influencer, demonstrated how livestreaming works, from greetings to requesting gifts.
  • She explained the gifting system, where viewers tip creators with virtual items worth varying amounts, with a lion being the most coveted gift.
INSIGHT

Nighttime Shift

  • TikTok livestreams shift in nature at night, becoming more explicit and sexually suggestive.
  • Afro-Lanka revealed that some women solicit money for explicit videos, a trend she observes becoming increasingly common in Kenya.
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