SmartSchoolBoy9: An Analysis
I wasn't active on social media at the time smartschoolboy9 blew up, but I remember having many thoughts, and with it resurfacing over the last few months, I thought I could write them down, and maybe share them.
Smartschoolboy9, who's name is largely believed to be David, is a man who keeps multiple facebook and instagram account posting as school-aged children. You can see him dressing up, roleplaying, and even singing, along with collages that very much fall in a weirdcore aesthetic.
Now, I will go ahead and get this out of the way: taking people's pictures to modify them for collages without their permission or even knowledge is bad, especially when said people are teenagers or children.
Outside of that, though, a lot of people point out videos of school classrooms and children, saying he took them. Thing is, when i first saw these, i thought it was pretty obvious that these were not taken by him. There are very few occasions I can think of in which he's have had the opportunity to film schools, and if the videos of children were taken by him, the cops would've been called way sooner (thinking specifically of the one running after a kid).plus, considering the editing and the fact he shows himself in all other videos, I think it's poretty safe to say these are just stolen as well.
Now, outside of that, people all over are alledging knowing him or seeing him around schools. Turns out, none of these claims have been successfully verified.
The police, after multiple schools and parents panicked and were scared of sending their kids to school, issued a statement to watch over your children. A while later, they confirmed no investigation would be taking place.
Now, the police is mostly useless unless you're in the government, but you can't seriously tell me they wouldn't jump at the occasion of going after a black man. Though this is more common in America, it certainly is still prevalent in other western countries. I eprsonallybelieve that if smartschoolboy9 was lurking around school and playing with children in the streets, they would have at least looked into it (if not because it's their job, because the parents would have kept reporting it).
Now, he might be talking to kids on socials, but we don't know that for certain, and even if that ever was the case:
- If you've ever talked online, chances are you've chatted publicly or privately with a minor
- The chats could be innapropriate, but they could also be assinine
- Teens under a certain age and children should not be on socials (watching youtube on their parents account is very different to having an instagram account). And if/when they do, they should be educated! Now either way, kids getting hurt over internet is not the kids' faults. What I'm saying is: please educate your kids on internet safety!
The only facts we are are:
- he roleplays and dresses up as a school kid
- police said no investigation will be taking place
So, what do I think could be going on? If we're very cynical, we could still believe in a predator, slick and hiden from view. However, with how slick he's being both on his personal account and with his alts, I have my doubts.
I personally believe otherwise.
I think smartschoolboy9 is a transage (possibly transrace or others as well) paraphile.
Now, don't read that last word and run back to the word predatior just yet. Words are becoming more and more conflated. We are losing 16 to 17% of our vocabulary over each generation. And why does that matter, you may ask. Well illiteracy and lack of proper education is one of the leading techniaues of fascism. Oh but Ika, why the hell are you talking about fascism in a post about smartschoolboy9? I know but let me cook. We're loosing language, loosing the abaility to express thoughts acurately and connumicate, meanwhile America is on red alter for genocide, the far right is rising in Europe, wars are background noises, nukes have become unlimited, and celebrities, millionaires and politicians are flaunting their child trafficking abuse ring in out faces without retributions. But I'm sure these aren't correlated and will have no consequences whatsoever. Point is, language is important.
Predator is defined as "one who injures or exploits others for personal gain or profit" (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).
A paraphilia is "a pattern of recurring sexually arousing mental imagery or behavior that involves unusual and especially socially unacceptable sexual practices (such as sadism or pedophilia)" (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).
There are a few key differences:
- Predators aren't always paraphiles. A lot act out of a need for control, or anger, not sexual motives.
- A predator acts or has acted, meanwhile paraphilia doesn't always include actions: they can be limited to thoughts.
- If action is involved: a predator acts on others, a paraphilia can lead one to act on others but can also just be reading about said topics (masochists reading BDSM erotica for example) or with others for some (once again, BDSM).
In short, while the two terms can be linked, they aren't synonyms. While a paraphile can be a predator, not all predators are paraphiles and vice-versa.
Now, back to my "smartschoolboy9 is a transage paraphile" theory.
He roleplays as a school kid, and seems to genuinely immerse himself in said roleplay often, if not all the time. Doesn't this sound like transition OtY to any other rqdqueer or flaeuraison?
Same thing with the school thing: he's probably transschoolboy, transoccupation to going to school.
The face paint makes me think of atypical dysphoria as well, transwhite or maybe transdead (as people have pointed out his make-up looks like the pale skin and inflated forms of a corpse).
Then why am I saying he's a paraphile? The boots and some other reoccuring details make me think his identities are very linked to his sexuality. Leather boots especially are often associated to kink wear. Now there's nothing wrong with that ! Your identity and sexuality interacting and overtlapping makes a lot of sense, after all identity is who and what you are, and affects all aspects of one's life.
Adding on, I believe that his calling out of predators, seeing how self-aware he is, stems from a fetish for being discovered or being considered a weirdo. He might also be attracted to the idea of himself being groomed.
As for the suggestive edits he does, I believe he is an autopedophile, or someone attracted to themselves as a child. Now, I do believe he is also a pedophile period, however let's remember that paraphilia doesn't equal action, and so far, we have nothing concrete leading us to the conclusion of child abuse.
This is all speculative of course, just as much as the theory of him just straight up being a predator who films children is. I just thought I'd share my interpretation of what we've seen so far, as what's online is all very similar in opinion.