I don't have any data, but from everything I've observed the "sexting" aspect of Snapchat is wildly overblown. Most people just use it for goofy little communication between friends.

I guess people keep bring it up because they think it's funny or think it makes them seem cynical, but it would be a mistake to think Snapchat is primarily used for sexting.

I would disagree from the reddit threads revolving around snapchat and nude pictures and 4chan threads. I would think its a mistake to think its not used primarily for sexting.

I don't have any data either but I think comments like op above are really trying to legitimize a sexting app. Lets take the recent Tumblr acquisition. Most tumblr blogs involved porn although they were able to legitimize is it as a better blogging service.

Because reddit and 4chan are representative of Snapchat users. Right? Right..?

Seriously, of all the users of Snapchat that I know, only one of them is a reddit user as well.

no but they are representative of their primary demographic. Your personal experience means a lot less than the two biggest sites used by snapchat's target demographic.

And your unsubstantiated statements mean more..?

how is it unsubstantiated ? reddit has subteddits dedicated to sharing snapchats you can see subscriber numbers 4 Chan is a little harder to measure but the fact the threats are brought up several times a day days a lot

Some reddit users are snapchat users != most (or even a substantial minority!) of snapchat users are reddit users.

Statistics 101.

>Most tumblr blogs involved porn

This is blatantly false. It was estimated that about 10% did. Porn was never the biggest draw of Tumblr.

Although it would be unethical for the Snapchat folks to do a statistical sample to find out, I'd estimate that sexting is no more than 1% of Snapchat, probably more like 0.1% or 0.01%.

I beg to differ: http://youtu.be/FarGT40V8tc

This seems like the type of video I'd expect in a response on Reddit. That is, it's a response that's trying to be funny (or link something funny) rather than continue the conversation at hand.

I was really hoping it would be a link providing evidence to one side (Snapchat is primarily sexting) or the other side (only a small % of snapchat usage is sexting).

The joke can't exist in a cultural vacuum. It has a lot of views and resonates with people because sexting on Snapchat is A Thing.

You can't really have much more than anecdotal evidence at this point, so I offered this.

Having cybersex on Skype is a thing, but you people just don't say Skype is used for cybersex.

while the highschool story they spout sounds great on paper, a lot of their primary growth in the early days were early /b (4chan) threads for pics.

The CEO of the company I work at uses Snapchat.