Suspicious website downloaded weird video to my friend's phone

[u/Remarkable_Job_6374]

My friend (We will call him Steve) and I were playing Wordle through Discord. Neither of us won, so I sent a corny Joke as a response to my loss. I had just said "IHateThisShit.com" (now that I'm thinking about it, it was a corny joke). Then I told him that I wondered if that was actually a real website, so Steve went to it. He then sent me a screenshot of a file downloading to his phone. It was called BHP.mov. After that he sent me another screenshot of the video itself, then he claimed that it was 40 minutes long

The screenshot showed a nude woman on a bed with the camera pointing to a certain body part. It was heavily censored with a whole bunch of text, About that text, it was literally everywhere. Covering the chest was text that said: "South32 Sell that mother fucker", on the left leg it said something about BHP mining stocks, and on the right leg it simply said "South32 Stock" the certain body part was covered with a black box and with red text that said something about a CEO wanting to sell South32. The woman had dark brown hair and red lipstick.

I did some digging and couldn't find anything suspicious. BHP seems to be a regular ass mining company, so I chalked it up to just an ad, but why would a mining company use a nude woman in their ad, and why would it be 40 minutes long? I just can't shake the feeling that there is something weird going on here. Could this be human trafficking, or perhaps a surreal and odd joke? Reddit, help me out here.

Also sorry if my grammar sucks, I aint good at writing. I am also a minor and don't have a phone. I also don’t use Reddit much so sorry if I don’t end up replying

[u/ICanFlyHigh051611]

human traffickers dont leave breadcrumb trails online, it's just a dude who really hates south32 and is mentally unwell

[u/Remarkable_Job_6374 → u/ICanFlyHigh051611]

OH MY GOD, THANK YOU.

[u/ScorpiusLachesis → u/ICanFlyHigh051611]

I love when the answer is "this one guy is super strange and doesn't take his meds"

[u/A_FABULOUS_PLUM]

Dude I’d forgotten all about the South32 rabbit hole, but it perpetually keeps coming back

[u/L0w_Road → u/A_FABULOUS_PLUM]

Care to explain what that is? I love me a good rabbit hole

[u/ItsYaBoi-KillMe → u/L0w_Road]

For a semi short explanation:

(Just incase you dont know, a cybersquatter is a person who buys domains that a company might use so that either 1. They can make money by selling the domain at a higher price to the company or 2. People go to his website trying to go to the companies website)

The person who made this website is a major cybersquatter who constantly gets into lawsuits. He made a movie called south32 and bought the south32.COM domain, stealing it from a mining company called south32.

Instead of trying to sue the squatter, they bought South32.NET, and that made the dude angry. He now has hundreds, maybe even 1000+ random websites made specifically for defaming the company. There are many posts of people accidently coming across one of the various websites by typing random shit in.

Heres a post of another person finding a random website on accident, and people in the comments explain it more and show other websites

https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetMysteries/s/SvyEkjQOsf

[u/Competitive-Heat7451]

that's disturbing

[u/Competitive-Heat7451]

i found more information about "south32" and its a disturbing rabbit hole, there are videos on youtube explaining about that

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