WARNING- if you’re sensitive to pedophilia don’t read this.

I wanted to get something off my chest but I wanted to do it in a sub where women can understand and support me.This is a story about how I was blackmailed by my own pics by a 20 year old when I was 13. I have never told anyone about this because I feel like it’s my fault for being stupid. This all started because I was looking for players to play with on Xbox. Someone joined my game and we started becoming friends, let’s call him joe. Joe and I became close and I found out he lived in the same city as me. When he told me he was 20 I didn’t think much of it because I didn’t think he was a threat. Over the next week to weeks we would play all night and just have conversations (I don’t remember what we talked about). We eventually became friends on Snapchat and starting talking more on there. He would try to talk dirty to me and eventually I gave in and said stuff back because I used to be a cool girl and people pleaser. His ex friend told me to stay away from joe because he gets close to underage girls and manipulated them into sending pics. I wish I had believed him when he told me that it would’ve saved me so much trouble. Anyways, joe would always say I have a flat butt or something and I don’t know why It pissed me off so much so at one point I got fed up and sent him a picture of my butt with underwear but without my face in it. It didn’t say he saved it on Snapchat( remember this). Joe and I were still friends after that and I stopped talking to him for a week because my phone broke and when I looked at Snapchat i saw that joe sent a pic back saying he owed me or something bc of the pic I sent. This made me think he didn’t save my picture because why would he send me a pic of his d*ck?i think this was a fake pic or a tactic to get me to trust him more. Later on he sent me the picture of my butt and I got so scared and just blocked him. Months after I was in Costa Rica by myself with my moms best friend (she’s like my aunt). And I was in my room I was staying at and I had seen that someone sent me a text on tik tok. It was someone impersonating me. At first I thought someone I know was trying to be funny or play a prank so I didn’t think much of it. They would say weird things like theyre my number one fan and that they love me and stuff. When I stopped messaging them the account sent me a threat. They told me they had my picture and that they would expose me if I blocked them. My heart dropped. I couldn’t be dealing with more stress as during the time this happened my mother had breast cancer. Joe had friends who did the same thing as him and I think it was one of his friends who were messaging me and threatening me. They kept on messaging me asking me why I would send a pic to a 20 year old and stuff like that , blaming me. They told me they had a file of me, my pic and the messages and stuff. They thought that what they were doing was helping young girls. They said their intention isn’t to expose me but to make me learn my lessons. At that moment I thought to myself how fucked up does someone have to be to do that stuff. So I just played along to get them to delete and said “I’m sorry I understand what you’re doing is smart. “ I just wanted to get it over with and faked being nice. After that I didn’t hear from them again.

TL;DR 20 year old and friends have a group where they manipulate and fake a friendship with underage girls to get pics to make them “learn a lesson”.