The author shares humorous stories about getting caught by their parents for accessing inappropriate content on the internet during their preteen years. They recall downloading explicit songs on their phone, which their mother discovered through the browser's download history, resulting in the phone being taken away for five days. The author also shares a similar story of a friend who got caught by his mother for visiting adult websites, leading to harsher penalties, including losing access to the computer and phone for a month and having their allowance stopped. The author concludes by joking about how watching adult films actually helped them avoid getting caught by their parents.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. The speaker is recalling a time in the sixth grade when they downloaded explicit songs on their phone via Bluetooth.
2. The speaker's friends had downloaded the songs from a kid whose parents didn't monitor his internet activity.
3. The speaker was the youngest in their class and wanted to prove they were "cool" by listening to the explicit songs.
4. The speaker downloaded around 40 explicit songs.
5. They forgot to clear the download history on their browser, which their mother later discovered.
6. The speaker's mother took away their mobile phone for about five days and started strictly controlling their computer activity.
7. A friend of the speaker's got in trouble for visiting a website with explicit content on their parent's laptop.
8. The friend's mother was stricter and took away their computer and phone for a month, as well as stopped giving them pocket money.
9. In the seventh grade, the speaker got their first Android smartphone.
10. The speaker discussed the sexual attractiveness of their classmates with a friend on VKontakte, a social media platform.
11. The speaker forgot to log out of their VKontakte account on their mother's laptop, and their parents discovered their conversations.
12. The speaker's parents took away their laptop for a month and disconnected their phone from Wi-Fi.
13. The speaker's parents printed out their VKontakte conversations on A4 sheets and left them in the room as a reminder of their bad behavior.
14. The speaker's older brother got in trouble for installing an application that put a looped GIF on their wallpaper, which also installed a virus on their phone.
15. The virus wrote off money from the speaker's SIM card, which their parents discovered and were suspicious of.