Neither movement is explicitly anti-gay, though there are strong undercurrents of homophobia to each thus far, only gay men and boys have been targeted.
Both are modeled on the same form of vigilante justice, and they target different sides of the same coin Occupy Pedofilyay aims to catch pedophiles, while Gerontilyaj focuses on teenage boys who agree to have sex with older men, allegedly in exchange for money. Both Occupy Pedofilyay and its smaller sister movement, 'Occupy Gerontilyaj' (Occupy Gerontophilia), have garnered a substantial following on Russian social media over the past year, spawning hundreds of fan pages and dedicated satellite groups on VKontakte (VK) - Russia’s Facebook equivalent. It's about seeing the emotions.'Īlexei has never been directly involved with any of the videos, though he supports the people who produce them - a loose collective of neo-Nazis and Russian nationalists known as 'Occupy Pedofilyay' (Occupy Pedophilia).
