Joseph Garrett—better known online as StampyLongHead, a popular children’s Minecraft YouTuber—was recently alleged to have exchanged sexually explicit pictures and text messages with a young girl via Skype. Police investigated and discovered that the girl was sixteen years old. This has been very controversial among the Minecraft community, with some stating that sixteen is “old enough to pee, old enough for me” and others insisting that it’s far too young, especially for someone as old as Garrett. Sixteen, while the legal age of consent within the UK (where Garrett lives), is NOT old enough to negate potential child pornography allegations, which has resulted in Garrett’s arrest.
Garrett is scheduled for a court case on August 15, 2022.