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by carbocation 4569 days ago
Although it would be unethical for the Snapchat folks to do a statistical sample to find out, I'd estimate that sexting is no more than 1% of Snapchat, probably more like 0.1% or 0.01%.
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This seems like the type of video I'd expect in a response on Reddit. That is, it's a response that's trying to be funny (or link something funny) rather than continue the conversation at hand.

I was really hoping it would be a link providing evidence to one side (Snapchat is primarily sexting) or the other side (only a small % of snapchat usage is sexting).

The joke can't exist in a cultural vacuum. It has a lot of views and resonates with people because sexting on Snapchat is A Thing.

You can't really have much more than anecdotal evidence at this point, so I offered this.

Having cybersex on Skype is a thing, but you people just don't say Skype is used for cybersex.
while the highschool story they spout sounds great on paper, a lot of their primary growth in the early days were early /b (4chan) threads for pics.