Candydoll

Candydoll was an infamous and controversial Japanese modelling agency website started at an unknown year by an unidentified person. The company hired Eastern European girls more or less than 8-10 years old, making them pose mostly in suggestive poses while wearing semi-revealing outfits or dresses.

Why It Sucked

 * 1) The website was a softcore child pornography and pedophilia agency website. We kid you not.
 * 2) It used to have a website, but were not going to link the website because of legal issues. Plus, the site is closed and seized, while being excluded from the Wayback Machine and is now a fashion brand in the United States.
 * 3) It is quite obvious that the girls (especially Laura B) were abused before their photos were taken.
 * 4) Thanks to Candydoll, Japan's child protection laws were widely criticized after the 2015 child porn ban. Not because of the child porn ban (it only applied to nude photos), but because they didn't describe the general sexuality of children despite after 2006-2007, when several people were arrested for possessing junior idol pictures.
 * 5) Candydoll also gave rise to a Portuguese artist named Hassan Alexander who made art of those models and posted them on his website "My Candy Art" and YouTube channel, resulting in massive outrage within the YouTube community. Fortunately, Hassan got terminated and got his website shut down.