So I was on Facebook the other day, and I’ve been having an influx of friend requests from people I don’t know since the Dream tournament (I didn’t think that win was going to increase my visibility so much, but apparently I was wrong…) anyway, so I just add people as friends on Facebook, even though that may be inadvisable. Normally, I wouldn’t name any of these people– I’ll show you some of the messages because they’re funny, but then I got this one message from someone calling himself “BJJ Liker.”

Right away I figured this guy was a weirdo, since his pictures look like this:

Oh man, this is going to be a weirdo trying to get into my pants or whatever from a world away. I don’t have patience for this, but Liera does, so I turned over the computer to him when the guy messaged me. Bear with me, it’s a little long but there is a point:

This is where I ended the conversation pretty much, because we found this picture on his Facebook:

This guy clearly sexualizes BJJ, triangles in particular, and those are children. I reported it to Facebook but I imagine Facebook won’t do anything because it’s not actually against their rules, even if it is massively creepy. Guh. There are some massive creeps out there. I know people are going to sexualize BJJ and it’s kind of weird, but it’s fun to laugh at because usually the people involved are, you know, adults… but when you bring children into the mix (clearly prepubescent children) things get wrong and weird and fucked up really quickly.

There isn’t really a solution to this problem or anything, I just wanted to bring some attention to this kind of thing. Hopefully the parents of these children can see this and petition Facebook for a removal of the picture or something. Parents, I hope you keep an eye out for what’s being done with your kids’ photos, if nothing else. I hate to see kids used in this way.