I’m quite lucky in that nothing overly traumatic has happened to me, but my heart hurts for all of you who have been subject to such horrible people!!
When I was younger (13-16) I was part of a Jaydio forum, I’d use it every single day and struck up some good friendships with other users. This was back in the days of webcams and MSN, and it was completely normal to webcam chat with other members all hours of the day. Anyway, there was one particular member that I was quite close to despite never meeting (I never properly met anybody through the site). We’d constantly video chat on MSN and we would text when offline, etc. One day he had to leave mid way through a MSN video chat and asked to leave the cameras on as he wouldn’t be long. I said sure, why not, as I didn’t think anything off it. So off he went and I carried on with my day. He came back and the conversation continued as normal. It was months later through another forum member I’d found out that he’d recorded my video and watched me get undressed and change my clothes (I was 14, he was probably around 17/18). He’d also sent the video to other male members. I was completely naive and felt so stupid afterwards! I’ve recently found out that in 2017 he was arrested for collecting child pornography and molesting a 14 year old boy in his car (now aged 28). Just awful and I’ve been creeped out even more since finding out!