Journalists Hate Gaming

[@thingsinhouseb]

'''kids have no say as to what characters say to them.''' this can be applied to literally any form of media.

[@Just_Some_Yonko_With_A_Beard]

this can be applied to real life...

[@thingsinhouseb]

or even the kid’s dreams.

[@mexicancanteen9596]

I have no say in what my school books teach me. I'm oppressed.

[@zimzimph]

@@Just_Some_Yonko_With_A_Beard Can be? Part of growing up is learning that you can't control what others say or do

[@Just_Some_Yonko_With_A_Beard]

@@zimzimph yup lol. their backwards ass logic is so far removed from how things work. the notion that games are evil because they have dialogue is fucking hilarious

[@TheActMan]

Will never forget the time when I was a child and Tortimer asked me for inappropriate pictures as I was chopping down trees. Thanks for the shoutout, man!

[@ImSimplyPhil]

This video was great man, I never laughed so hard! Loved every bit!

[@PrinceOfChange]

Yo wassup?

[@FrostyFin]

The American College Test Man

[@biguzisquirt4206]

he sent me dirty messages in the mailbox 😔

[@MyHeadHz]

What's up? Great video, so keep it up!

[@wisnia9145]

It's interesting how reporters flip back and forth from "kids are too young to be exposed to this dangerous hardcore stuff" to "adults are too old to play this childish stuff".

[@quinl_n]

then the same adults have to play the game to do the research otherwise it's obviously bogus🤦🤦

[@GamingintheAM0801]

It's because they don't actually believe either of those things, they just don't want anyone playing video games, period.

[@Rise65487]

why "flip back and forth"? it make perfect sense kids are too young to play video-games, and adults are too old to play them. clearly video-games should be played by absolutely no-one, it's meant to be a hobby you don't engage with. kinda like peoples who collects vynyles to never listen to them. the way you're meant to engage with video-games, is to buy a shitton of them on steam during sales, and never ever play them. you're supposed to take a look at your steam-page, gaze upon the hundreds of vidyas you own, sigh and then say "damn... i got nothing to play". that's how you're meant to enjoy video-games.

[@xancer.]

@@Rise65487 this is a good point

[@IR-Fan]

@@Rise65487 Edit: So I didn't know that the dude's joking and I fell for it. Well played. you do know that there are plenty of 18+ / M rated games, so who are the target audiences for those mature games? Also the second part of your comment is irrelevant to OP comment at all, like people collecting games and look at your games library is what video games is all about? What on earth are you babbling on?

[@ShoKasaki2k12]

I had a friend who had to sell all of their Pokémon stuff cause the pastor at their church felt disturbing forces coming from their ceiling fan in their bedroom. Said that all the air-type Pokémon that they had cards of had summoned a wind demon who took possession of the fan. I wish I were making this up.

[@ScorgeTheDemon]

“Air type” Flying isn’t even a type in the damn cards

[@hotboiled5]

Wth

[@SD_yessir]

Did they at least get to keep the money they got from selling all of it? If they had to give it all to the pastor/church as a "donation," I'm going to start seeing red.

[@YouKnowImOnMyPeriodYah]

I respect Christians as long as they’re respectful and not delusional, but man is it really hard to respect church leaders

[@insensitive919]

I miss being a Christian, sometimes. It's a lot like living in a fantasy novel where magic and demons are just everywhere.

[@theziptiemechanic]

Though I'm not a journalist nor a head of main stream media, when Charlie said "gamer", I was shaking in my boots

[@clover4624]

I'm da biggest bird

[@calligense02_]

5 bot comments 🤣

[@jangomango66]

@@p-__ how can you say that

[@Nutiiiiiiii]

Internalised journalist 🤨

[@JavaScrapper]

Bro, shiver me Timbers 💀

[@depressedkermit5337]

I like how media makes it look like only video games showcase violence when Books, TV and Movies do the same things.

[@clover4624]

I'm da biggest bird

[@amazonbox8717]

I think they're more focused on the misconception that videogames are only for little kids, and any violent game would infect the children

[@ToyotaChariots]

And just real life too

[@ethanthamouse6695]

shhh you gonna get in trouble for being correct ....no being right now a days

[@fredbearchannel976]

Does that make the paw patrol game violent for children because there do exist educational games

[@PorkysPoker]

The scariest part of my day is when I run a group of pedestrians over in GTA, and realize I was actually just driving to the gym. My brain can’t tell the difference between the two 😢

[@chaoticstarfish3401]

Man I hate when that happens

[@matz921]

thank god i thought im the only one

[@whitykitty2651]

ugh, that happened to me last night! I could've sworn i was at the strip club buying drinks when all of the sudden after driving back to the office, i woke up in actual prison. that's when i finally realized, it couldn't be gta, because usually you just spawn out.

[@zeze3618]

So damn relatable

[@Llnstead]

Man real life sucks, when can I start driving in third person mode so I can see how cool my car looks as I run over pedestrians while going to the gym?

[@caitlinkoivod]

7:41 Hey mother of your own children, if you just saw your child giving away where she lives literally right in front of you, mayhaps this is a perfect opportunity to teach her NOT TO DO THAT. Parents do not want to actually parent holy shit

[@andree9519]

Yeah, if they say those things to strangers that's just the partents' fault that didn't teach them the stranger danger rule

[@russelltindale9428]

Well if they are bellow the age of ten then they need to be supervised while online.

[@Kareem_Ahmed17]

I'm 100% sure that the psychiatrist woman asked gamers why they like videogames and they replied with "it helps me escape from reality for a moment" or something like that, so she decided to twist it into "they can't even tell the difference between videogames and reality anymore!"

[@flameshana9]

Why would I say video game worlds are better than the real world if I couldn't tell the difference? The definition of escapism is lost on this "expert."

[@Kareem_Ahmed17]

@@flameshana9 It's because she couldn't actually find any evidence to actually prove her point is correct, so she had to make up shit. It's sad, but people will go to any lengths just to prove their point.

[@RemoWilliams1227]

@@Kareem_Ahmed17 especially on television

[@gman7497]

I wanted to slap her. She was so condescending and dismissive. That being said this was quite a while ago. Mass media didn't know what to make of video games in those days. At least she apologized later on.

[@JustAHat]

If I couldn't tell the difference between reality and video games then why would I play video games if reality is just like them to me

[@zeze3618]

I remember playing cod and started a match. I was on a 14 kill streak and no one was attacking me. I was confused and then 3 minutes later the police arrived and arrested me. Turns out I couldn’t tell what the difference between reality and games so those studies are 100% true and be careful!

[@BiasIcewing]

We gotta to be careful Man😔✊

[@TheSpeep]

Bullshit that happened, the police wouldve waited outside for at least an hour first!

[@Fleshi_Guy615]

I once attempted to summon the wither to try and get a nether star when it occurred to me that I wasn't playing minecraft. I was then apprehended by the authorities for "the murder of three pedestrians whose skulls were placed in a child's sandbox". And just when I thought my day couldn't get worse I noticed the Wither's health bar in my peripheral vision while chilling in the holding cell.

[@EEE-1409]

They had us in the first half not gonna lie

[@pepekovallin]

Well, it was clearly skill issue on their part ngl

[@DrunkenHotei]

When I was a kid in the 90s, I remember seeing a magazine that said "a new videogame lets you chainsaw babies." I kept reading to see which game they were talking about, and lo and behold it was Zombies Ate My Neighbors, which I already owned. I had to think for a while what the hell they were referring to, and then I realized that they were talking about the NPCs, which were just little sprites that gave bonus points if you touched, but would "die" if you hit them with *any* weapon in the game, causing a cute little ghost animation to appear and costing you some number of points. So given that there was an NPC which had a baby carriage, and there was a chainsaw weapon, technically yes, you *could* "chainsaw babies," but that description is mind-numbingly misleading. Thirty years later and the mainstream media is still shilling the same distorted nonsense... Correction: It was an enemy who had the chainsaw, and if they touched an NPC it triggered the ghost animation. No significant difference really.

[@clover4624]

I'm da biggest bird

[@tempestional]

thank u man ur right

[@CeilinggangAditya]

Man they really went r/technically_correct there

[@madtabby66]

The media loves fear p0rn

[@Gizbornch]

What an amazing game it was. Tons of secrets, easter eggs and references to the horror and sci-fi movies and amazing soundtrack on top of that

[@toastd0g]

i remember getting yelled at for watching overwatch esports at my parents' house. told my mom it was basically no different than watching football and she took the remote, telling me it was a waste of time to watch that stuff. so weird.

[@Fm7b5_]

It’s so annoying when parents do this, they don’t understand and it sucks

[@corpta]

Watching owl is a waste of time. Every games the same

[@toastd0g]

@@corpta so what, i thought it was interesting at the time lol

[@maengah]

@@corpta owl used to be cool as shit when it first started ngl

[@lovelydayspass2121]

Fr. I Watch smash bros and fight game e sports and I swear my family hates on it. Like it’s sports but it’s safe and like wayyy more entertaining then chess

[@skatman1931]

"And I could've been a child molester"was the biggest plot twist I have ever heard

[@deadlyydude5522]

Crazy thing is there were probably tons of parents who ate this stuff up. And they probably still hold those biases to this day. Mainstream news is a plague

[@fattydubs918]

@@SpongeBob-ui5vu you have 0 subs

[@shrimp-ln7nh]

@@fattydubs918 cuz the only way he gets subs is by spaming on better content correctors

[@darrellhicks9024]

That shit took me out lmaoo

[@buglerplayz7497]

What if he is a child molester

[@potatoman2580]

Fun fact: about a century ago (if I remember correctly) adults believed that kids were addicted to reading magazines and that they were harmful the same way the media views video games now. It's not they hate video games specifically, it's that people are against whatever relatively new thing is popular with children at the time.

[@AVI-lh6rm]

its a phenomenon known as juvenoia, vsauce made a good video about it

[@ava4689]

“Its those damn stick hoops rotting their brains” 👵

[@yassodude]

I don't remember what movie it was but it was set in the Wild West and one character said to the other "These damn stories you're reading are gonna rot your brain out, get out there and experience life" or something. He was literally shitting on him for reading books.

[@RagingCookie127]

@@yassodude I think John Marston had a line similar to this when talking to his son Jack

[@OnePieceSS23]

@@ava4689 honestly, I can imagine someone saying it 200y ago

[@Katagara84]

Man, Geoff Keighley has been in the trenches for over a decade trying to legitimize gaming. Bless him and his Doritos.

[@matthewbrandt5053]

May his Mountain Dew never run dry, and may his chip bag be full of food and not air

[@nananamamana3591]

People sleep on our Dorito Pope, but he has, unironically, been one of, if not definitively, the most vocal advocates for gaming as more than just this thing for children and geeks. He has *never* entertained any sort of disparaging of it, even from members WITHIN the community -- there's this great encounter between him and Angry Joe at a VGA where Joe tries to apply "funny meme haha call of duty, more like, call od DOODY amiright Mr. Mountain Dew Dorito guy? Haaaa!" logic to an interview and Keighley no-sells the whole thing. It's like, Joe wanted to break the ice with a joke, which would have diminished the view of gaming, and so Geoff just demolishes him by taking the entire encounter as seriously as he does this interview with this professional psychologist. Sure, it's led to some obnoxious things. Like how ya boy Geoff tends to only get very *photogenic* people to be advocates with him, and tends to shoo away the average "gamer". It's led to a lot of Gaming "Journalism" being an insular space where everyone knows everyone else and either you're "In" or youre not, and it's led to the VGAs being kinda cringy at times as they disproportionately favor the most broadly appealing games over the truly great games (sometimes there's overlap, not always). But, it's also led to *GAMING* being recognized as the largest emergent entertainment industry on the planet. It's led to games being officially recognized as _ART._ It's helped bleed out the stigma of video games being just for children and basement dwellers, and to direct it more specifically at our main man Geoff? It's led to the VGAS pulling more ratings than the Oscars, routinely, for the past 8 years. Geoff get's memed on because he's mainstream. People forget that he's only mainstream because he helped MAKE this shit mainstream.

[@pengu0-]

Geoff destroyed that reported with a simple question

[@potapotapotapotapotapota]

My Lord my God please if it is your will, bless the nachos and doritos and burritos of The Act Man

[@SnipingIsAGoodJobMate]

I've had respect for him ever since he destroyed Angry Joe in that one interview

[@Understandable5]

People never realize that video games can disconnect you from reality. This morning, I just played an hour of Minecraft, and then went to work. I thought I was simply driving on the freeway, but when I *actually* snapped back to reality, I was beating the life out of an innocent woman because I thought he was a tree in Minecraft. 😢💔💔

[@appalacha7278]

I'm glad you're ok after mercilessly beating the life out of an innocent woman

[@adame.9469]

He?

[@aarondavis8943]

That's the third of these jokes in a row.

[@ImTheProblemfr]

@@aarondavis8943doesn’t get any less funny

[@YouKnowImOnMyPeriodYah]

I love how it goes from “woman” to “he” in the same sentence, it really boosts the sarcasm in this comment 💀💀💀

[@kimitohanahala8674]

"Twitter is everyone now" somehow, this is the scariest one sentence horror I've heard.

[@ferhog7705]

The scarier truth is that twitter was always everyone, we just have a place to read what they're all thinking now.

[@infiniwaffle1214]

Eh, twitter is only the people who feel the need to try to force their opinions and worldview on others. The silent majority are just annoyed by it.

[@andrepadilla9089]

What’s an even worse problem is that this is conversation is a perfect example of the damages done of Social media on society too. Not everyone is on Twitter, but at this point it seems that those people are “irrelevant” I think it’s time for a global emp

[@pyramear5414]

People were crazy, xenophobic, trend-chasing maniacs long before the internet existed. Only difference is before people were in such extreme echo chambers, they didn't even know other Echo chambers existed. Now the internet lays bare the reality.

[@austinbatton4849]

It’s not tho, I don’t have twitter and the only related thing I see is Elon

[@gralmakaren9919]

I once saw a girl in the roblox chat say; her entire first and last name, her school and her grade (4th). I tried explaining how dangerous that could be but she didn't understand. I reported her account of sharing personal and potentionally dangerous information. I can only hope that report did something. Parents don't teach their kids about internet safety anymore, they just expect the screen to parent their child.

[@Gelato41_]

creep her out, she'll understand that

[@Reddception]

Hopefully that was just bait and not an actual kid

[@illusionier2623]

Knowing roblox they probably did jackshit.

[@ricktheweeb5382]

id send over the nearest pedophile in their general area to knock on their door

[@veniak996]

You reporting her probably put her on a premium list that is sold to pedophiles. Prime targets

[@linked1836]

Imagine if journalists focused on how game companies treated their employees instead of how "evil" gaming is... I promise you guys the actual villains are RIGHT THERE

[@RemoWilliams1227]

Back to work!

[@XombieLejon66]

It's easier to pick on the regular Joe Schmoe gamer than the head of a billion dollar company with a legal army.

[@laval0910]

Why would you try to get rid of your profit

[@madduck1009]

@@weirdyoutubechannels 🤖

[@weirdyoutubechannels]

@@madduck1009 say that again

[@user9267]

As a girl, I can say I have certainly noticed my male peers failing to distinguish between games and reality. I've had to complete many matches on my own due to my teammates having a mental breakdown when the bullets begin flying overhead.

[@lukabrasi001]

i hate it when that happens, when the damage indicators flash that's when i feel real pain and lose it bruh it's unbearable

[@user9267]

@@lukabrasi001 I'm very sorry.

[@lukabrasi001]

@@user9267 i hope you know i was being sarcastic

[@user9267]

@@lukabrasi001 Yes I was too lol

[@droogabooga9306]

I fuckin hate it when im selling coke to kindergarteners in a videogame and then next thing you know the police immediately spawn in and tackle me! I didnt even get a game over screen, let alone a wanted level indicator! I had to go to this boring level called "court" and then I had to sit in a locked room for a year! And I guess the developers never considered someone would want to quit the game either cause there wasn't any main menu!

[@mobilizedpanda3795]

5:50 I love how he calls it the "DS Unit" like its some kind of tactical device.

[@gman7497]

I swear, alot of these journalists seem so clueless around any tech that isn't their cellphone

[@madtabby66]

@@gman7497 I've worked in IT, the cell phones are not safe.

[@playcube4564]

its done on purpose, adding a word like that makes it more scary to the ignorant. Other media will do something similar and they should always be taken with a grain of salt.

[@SunshowerWonderlab]

*Deploying the tactical DS Unit.*

[@LilMoco]

I was only 12 years old playing Runescape when a player posing as Zezima took me behind the Falador bank and forced his D Long sword in me 😞

[@Tiny_24]

cool story. runescape is fun. on another note, I am wanted for arson in 39 states and homicide in 3.

[@MsMissALot]

I can attest for this. I too witnessed this but I couldn't do anything. I was horrified like the pets in Among Us after watching their owner getting murdered.

[@bobbyslapin8099]

@@Tiny_24 same

[@20IA]

@@Tiny_24 bro put that on your resume

[@TheUnshippedcorpse]

@@Tiny_24 for work or fun?

[@WhatTheFnu]

I can't imagine why any adult would want to escape reality for a while. Especially to an island paradise where you have a home as soon as you land and debts have no time limit.

[@insanesociety4]

I hope you're joking mate 🤣🤣🤣

[@jordancFL]

@@insanesociety4 I think the last sentence sells it mate

[@Enneamorph]

@@insanesociety4 Obvious sarcasm.

[@auramaticz]

it was new leaf 🙄

[@waitthisisnotpornhub3860]

"Video Games Appeal to the Male Fantasy"

[@Peanutsgrowintheground]

I remember rolling a 4 and buying the boardwalk in Monopoly. Apparently I just landed my entire family in impossible debt from me buying that boardwalk, because it was actually in real life, not Monopoly. I couldn’t tell the difference between existence and real life.

[@Teriiiyakiii]

For those confused, in Animal Crossing City Folk you could take in-game screenshots and save them on an SD card, and the game encouraged you to use the screenshot feature. Absolutely no actual real-life photos or other players involved. 💀

[@egg-cafe]

lmao

[@Kookie4uu]

😂

[@soyratt]

@did that's not even grammatically correct you dummy

[@YouKnowImOnMyPeriodYah]

So they DID accuse an NPC of being a pedo? Please no, I prayed to god I was mistaken. Humanity is f*cked

[@blue-halo-elite]

i count 6 bots

[@IOwnKazakhstan]

It would be crazy if these news reporters learnt about how going to the store gives you higher chances of getting kidnapped than playing any game.

[@bobhanson1037]

My uncle who hated video games said it best. "I'd rather have my kids play games after practice, doing homework, all Saturday than doing what I was doing at their age.". He felt that way after he talked shit over a decade ago to 16 year old me, when he tried making fun of me for playing games and not being "tough" like him. Said didn't you drunkly crash your parents car when you were like 15? He said good point and changed his views.

[@Eins3467]

@@bobhanson1037 That 360 kinda wholesome

[@dienstaghd5815]

@@bobhanson1037 "touche"

[@stenzel27]

This just in: leaving your home exposes you to danger.

[@burgerkingfries4941]

@@InstabruhUser. Username checks out

[@lococoa46]

In Korea, they did an experiment where they would turn the power off in one of those pc cafes to prove that ‘gaming promotes violence in teenagers’ Which is not only a stupid experiment because who wouldnt be frustrated when someone pulls the plug on what theyre doing, but the kids actually reacted rather mildly and left to go do other stuff

[@Not_William]

Not to mention they might not've strictly policed what the kids were doing, and if not, likely f*cked over some poor kid halfway through a literary assignment on a different tab who hadn't gotten to save yet.

[@bored_potato]

@@Not_William Man, if I was part of that experiment, I would have just cried at the lost progess lmao. Be it something related to gaming or academics, though more likely if it's academics. I once wrote three pages of an essay assignment back in high school in an internet cafe, the cpu kinda went crazy and it restarted on its own. I called the owner to check on it, and when the computer rebooted back, my document was already gone (': RIP my essay assignment 2019-2019

[@lifegrain6092]

@@Not_William "motherf-, who tf cut the power!? the deadline is tonight!" a loud squeak exclaimed from the other side of the room moments later a few loud crash is heard in the same direction, followed by the rushing footsteps of staffs as they scurry to the source of the noise it was only a few weeks later that the national news reported on this incident, and reported that the violent outburst was caused by "video game" called Microsoft Word it's only a made up story tho, but i would be dying of laughter if i get to see news report of microsoft word as a video game that causes violence or "twitch streamer caught live commiting atrocities caused by the popular video game windows login screen, a game where if the player guesses the secret pass code wrong enough times the game would lock your device" "teen turns demon and broke furniture around the house after playing the video game Zoom meeting, parents report that many teens across the nation is 'participating' in Zoom meeting" "little girl kidnapped due to being distracted by a handheld video game device called 'watch', which contains a popular game that tells time and rewards players for managing their time"

[@thesaviorofsouls5210]

And you already knows it only takes one kid to get mad over losing his essay and presentation to be completely taken out of context and they get a headline. What a wonderful world we live in.

[@lifegrain6092]

@THAT GUY play all the games you want, but you don't ever forget to get that report done by 5 to your boss a lot of war has ended because a soldier on 1 side just happens to forget to submit that report and boom! the entire nation just disappear, nobody even remembers it like it's just gone, never existed in the first place that's how werfrought disappeared from the entire of history

[@Lovinia1]

Markiplier had some insight into this. He was at an award ceremony and all the press ignored him because they knew he wouldn’t provide them desperate attention seeking behavior for them to exploit. They know that people who make their fame on Twitch, Instagram, KZbin, etc don’t need them. It’s in direct competition with their slimy behavior

[@gamingyoshi2280]

Yeah makes sense social media stars dont need a medium to reach their audience they are the medium

[@_setbes]

My farts are better than Charlie's farts

[@Drenchy]

Imagine they actually played the games they report on that would be crazy

[@jamaicanexile]

Look at all these real people making real replies

[@FurretAnimationsIsEpic]

i clicked on this reply section expecting funny, good replies and i was disappointed

[@derangedamerican294]

Even if they did they would suck at the game and then complain about the game being bad

[@chimpzchimpington2006]

That's a fantasy bud. Snap back to reality.

[@mrosskne]

don't read my charlie, my page is better than my content

[@Ozmodeus_]

I still cannot believe they thought tortimer was a child predator

[@flameshana9]

Well I mean he does look like one.

[@cloudyman04]

He doesnt just look like one they clearly said he is one and you can always trust the Journalists

[@bart8440]

He is I’m doing a vid on him later

[@GooberInternet]

alright im getting the pitfalls

[@taylorgoldman130]

He doesn’t look trustworthy

[@WoahItsJeebus]

As a programmer of 14 years on the Roblox platform, I can unfortunately confidently say it’s astronomically easy to come across pedos. I’ve done work with a few individuals on getting some of the victims proper justice that Roblox fails to provide. It’s sad how often and openly it takes place on that platform.

[@allseeingirene]

U r pengling (any discord for me to reach out) since ur a dev? lol :P just want to know if you have any suggestions for resources on learning more about Lua for Roblox

[@burgerkingfries4941]

shitblox*

[@saber777gg]

It matters on which communities you are in

[@d.tcomma]

@@burgerkingfries4941 what is wrong with roblox may i ask?

[@fart7921]

@@burgerkingfries4941 If only ma would admit

[@Justjustinp]

When you said the word “gamer” I literally broke down crying and shaking dramatically like a man who had an epileptic seizure immediately after watching his family get slaughtered by a train. That word is truly a horrible and powerful word.

[@kl41256-p]

Meanwhile I don’t react to anything hearing that. If you did that, you are just weak.

[@ur-mommy3]

@@kl41256-p It was sarcastic he was trying to make a joke

[@plagued3245]

this comment is obviously sarcasm and cracked me up

[@tajee_y9936]

Imagine playing the game so wrong that you think a turtle npc is gathering photos of children

[@figshwg]

biggest clown behaviour

[@MrcreeperDXD777]

EDP has entered the cyberspace and disguised himself as a turtle

[@negligible_reality]

@@MrcreeperDXD777 shaking my smh someone arrest this man! literally crying, shaking, and shidding my pants cause EDP entered the metaverse. 😞😭💀

[@vp_wrld]

The pictochat in the car argument is so crazy. Not only do you have to keep your car in a very limited range but you also have to both have pictochat open and enter the same chat room

[@venomousslime6797]

Also, how are you supposed to know if there's even a child, or other potential victim there? Are you supposed to just pay close attention to what's inside every single car, and how are you supposed to know if they're even on pictochat/have the device needed for it in the first place? Obviously you'd need a separate person driving, because otherwise you're not paying nearly enough attention to drive. (please keep in mind I've never used pictochat vbefore, I may have gotten some things wrong)

[@spankowitzmusic]

@@venomousslime6797 As a long-time owner of a DS, your point stands, it's really only good nowadays for cheating on tests with your friends (assuming you can find one with a DS.)

[@vp_wrld]

@@spankowitzmusic in what scenario are you whipping out a DS to cheat on a test??😂

[@friendlycanadian3150]

​@@spankowitzmusic what teacher is letting you whip out a DS mid test? Are they testing to see if you have what it takes to be a pokemon master?

[@spankowitzmusic]

@@vp_wrld you'd be surprised 👹👹

[@Elizahteb]

I grew up in Mexico, and I remember there was a whole satanic panic where the local churches went door-to-door to deliver booklets about how bad videogames and anime were. I remember gems such as "Pikachu from right to left means demon", "Pokemon means POcket deMONs", "Goku means devil worship"... My brother was so gullible he teared up OUR Yugioh cards and buried them in the backyard after pouring holy water (weird catholic souvenir) on them. I was so mad

[@andresgarza8511]

Ay hermana esos eran los dias de miseria.

[@Elizahteb]

@@andresgarza8511 Sí 💀 pero al menos nos dejó la canción de los Nintendos

[@viscountrainbows2857]

He probably would kick himself if he knew how valuable those little bits of paper would be in 15-20 years.

[@Gelato41_]

You should have fucking skinned him

[@DailyShit.]

Your brother is an idiot.

[@pkcell]

What gets me is that people are completely chill with someone watching a TV show or reading a book for 10-15 hours straight because the story got really good, but god forbid I say I did that with a video game because then it’s bad. I don’t play games that long most of the time, it’s no different from a book being a page-turner.

[@gamingyoshi2280]

Reading a book us good for u bcs it keeps ut brain active, same with videos games bcs u are activly participating but tv thats the actual criminal , u dont do anything

[@russelltindale9428]

@@gamingyoshi2280 I agree, but not all video games are made equal in that respect. some are reall brain dummers, but some are also decent for the brain.

[@freepancakessss]

I saw a story about a kid who at a young age got injured and his sports career was over for life. He got depressed and ending up shooting someone and the media turned it into Halo made him do it.

[@NeoNecrozma504]

"This man shot someone and the root cause of it all was the video game known as Halo." "oh yeah he also had an injury or something that ruined his dream career of sports and thus put him in depression or something but thats not important nor the reason behind this shooting whatsoever" betting 17 cents that this is somewhat of a paraphrase from the article/other media that covered this

[@BlackOrderAlchemist]

That's the guy who got in a bad skiing accident in hs and spent his recovery playing vidya and ended up getting into Halo despite his parents disapproving (they were religious) They then took his copy of Halo and put it in the father's gun safe to punish him for bringing it into their home. Wouldn't you know, the guy knows where the key is and takes both items out. He then shot both his parents and fled. However, I can't quite remember if the father survived or not (iirc, the son did try to set the scene as a murder/suicide); but he was famously caught with his copy of Halo on the passenger seat of his getaway car

[@hyoomanmaol]

Omg why would you say that im so sad why would you say that that is just so sad I mean like how why would you say that that is so rude well it's not rude it's kind of sad but I am so I'm not like really mad at you but I'm I'm kind of mad at you right now like I'm actually really mad at you right now.

[@tikalthewhimsicott2736]

Ah I remember that one.

[@Hi_Just_Fred]

@@BlackOrderAlchemist clearly the copy of halo whispered evil thoughts into his mind from the gun safe. It's the only logical explanation.

[@katemarsh4570]

"Games causes insensitivity towards sexuality and violence." Me playing in Skyrim when I was 14 : "Oh man Mjoll cooked for me and even accompanied me in my adventure, I wish I'll have a wife like her."

[@nacloot8700]

Aw, that's actually pretty wholesome 😊

[@jamesholton3129]

You're a stranger here too?

[@shoguncato84]

Me adopting the little girl in Whiterun so she won't have to sleep outside and beg for money.

[@ava4689]

@@shoguncato84and the girl in windhelm selling flowers to survive

[@HyperNova808]

I’ve heard, but thankfully never seen, that real deaths are actually so horrible that people can uncontrollably vomit from it… I don’t remember anyone who has played a gruesome game for the first time ever have such a violent reaction to a (according to news people) “real” death

[@RealTaIk]

I remember there was a study years ago where they hooked up the brain of the people participating and were watching their reaction showing them some footage. One of them was a videogame shooting someone in the head, not a single person had a emotional reaction to it. The other footage was a real footage (not a movie) of someone shooting another person in the head. Not a single of those people had no emotion seeing this, one of them even vomitted.

[@malevolentsnow9867]

Thats a pretty fucked up experiment. I wonder how long ago that was, I feel like the potential psychological damage it might leave wouldn’t be allowed anymore.

[@tobymacdonald5893]

@@big.muscles.ohyeah you completely missed the point, nice!

[@Bryophytan]

@@big.muscles.ohyeah read the study. It'll have a great abstract that'll prove this comment to be hugely flawed

[@peepawcarney]

@@big.muscles.ohyeah jus thought I'd let you know thst I got your joke and understood what you meant. I hate the feeling of "these people didn't understand and refuse to try" lol

[@kittydemonoverkill]

More proof that video games are not an issue.

[@robotic_lawyer]

14:36 Ah, yes. I remember that time, as a wee bit lad, when I was playing Gran Turismo 2 in my PS1 Slim, when I suddenly disconnected from reality and I thought the Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 that I was playing with in the game was actually real and that I was driving it.

[@Jbandu77]

I did research on this kind of topic in university. It’s amazing seeing how the public jumps from thing to thing to vilify. It used to be books, then went to television and now video games

[@beemillo4741]

Everything, that makes people happy, openminded, and free spirited. Because most governments and big cooperations apparently don’t like those kind of people, even if they claim to.

[@BratMilorad]

@@beemillo4741 because happiness stems from individuality, which is something that would pose a problem for people who want mindless workers/consumers

[@beemillo4741]

@@BratMilorad exactly

[@optiTHOMAS]

Music too! Like how people called old metal back in the day devil's music and shit like that! 😆 😅

[@shoguncato84]

Society always needs someone or something to blame when it's flaws become more transparent

[@michabryg8792]

In this day and age, being called a journalist counts as an insult.

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

Being called a Redditor or a Journalist hurts more than any racial or sexual slur

[@minisnakali]

@@MaxiemumKarnage Idk man being called "feminist" has become the most awful things to be associated with/called, truly a horrifying turn of events I've seen in awhile

[@vito413]

They always have been lol 😂 Spiderman was the only reason it had respect ngl

[@Arareemote]

@@vito413 Which is ironic since most people become journalists because they don't want to rely on the news for information lmao.

[@Sturmgeist978]

Nah, being a United States senator is more insulting

[@Canuck_]

As a kid I played frogger. It led me to push people on the subway tracks later on in life. I now am in gamers rehab.

[@bigman1163]

If I ever grew up to be an Old man with this kind of mindset then I want my kids to pull the plug on me.

[@donlad]

Fax. They are just salty because their life sucks and are pained to see people other than themselves having fun.

[@Tsaooyoh]

I remember growing up and my parents letting us play or watch whatever we want and whenever anyone asked "i trust my kids are smart enough to differentiate between fantasy and reality" i'm glad my mechanic mother is more intelligent than fox news journalists

[@lesliethedragon3700]

To be fair it's not hard to be smarter than most journalists, especially for Newstations

[@PolyphonicWaves]

My parents were like that too. I couldn't play stuff like GTA or most M rated games when I was 10 but once I was like 12 they knew I wasn't a dumb gremlin and would let me play almost anything.

[@ald7282]

this is literally an ability children gain by ages 3-5, it's literally just fearmongering.

[@Birbboy.]

Lucky you im 16, and my mom act like im a 8 year old, she complain when i play games that have guns, curse words and are "violent", but has no problem at all in letting me when i was a child see a movie about the bible with people getting killed or smth, but my dad is like "hey you didnt ran over that soldier is he on your side?"

[@jabuticaba4003]

She's a mechanic, she solves problems the right way, not the easy way.

[@Featuring_Dinty_From_Beef_Stew]

Fun fact: Parents not being parents became the reason why the 70's is considered the worst decade for cartoons.

[@pavma7]

Also Parents not being Parents is the reason the call the Gen X the next generation.

[@lylelylecrocodile2538]

What happened in the 70's?

[@Borderose]

@@lylelylecrocodile2538 The Boomers became parents. And fucked everyone up for years to come.

[@rogoznicafc9672]

@@lylelylecrocodile2538 baby boomers started becoming parents

[@johnhoney5089]

​@@lylelylecrocodile2538Cartoons became heavily censored and sanitized by parent organizations and the FTC (& budgets were shoestring). As the rough edges of the medium were sanded off, the now-common perception of animation being largely for kids began to take root. For example, the 1975 Tom and Jerry reboot removed all the violence that made the originals classics. It took the heart of the series and surgically removed it for a G-rating.

[@CubingAnarchy]

as a child, the only time i wanted to act out the actions i saw was after movies. video games gave me those feelings. i’ve never understood the hatred because it honestly lead to calmer children overall

[@Kazztastrophe]

I had a friend in high school who had a cult-level Christian mother (she was actually raised in a cult so when she got out and got saved she just swapped cult for Christianity, no hate to chill Christians) and he came home from school one day and laid out on his bed were actual books about how final fantasy, pokemon, and two other games were all about luring kids to the devil. He brought the pokemon one to school to show us and it explained that Psyduck was tortured by demons (why his head hurts, psychic demons), Gengar was just demon spawn, and Mew was a psychic demon posing as a kitten. I was like aww bummer all my faves are evil. Oh well. My favourite memory of her was when I was at his house and we were playing some Japanese ROM rip on his dreamcast and we just hear her scream out "GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU ARE DOING". We looked at each other and burst out laughing. She was actually a super nice lady most of the time, in fact she was the first member of his family that accepted him for being gay. Her view was God made him that way so she was supposed to love him just as God made him lol. Early 2000s were just a weird time lol.

[@MaztRPwn]

Lol, a gay AND a crazy mom. Wild.

[@joshnewton1243]

@@MaztRPwn ain't that most gay dudes?

[@BJGvideos]

I wonder what the "Pokémon is sinful" crowd would say about the plot of Legends Arceus considering the goal is to meet and defeat God, and the main villain is a religious fanatic whose zealotry has caused him to both adore and despise that God.

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

This comment sadly reads like an r/Atheism post due to the start, edit the start out and you may have a point... but otherwise... STFU REDDITOR

[@33screamingfrogs34]

@@MaztRPwn I'm going to assume that this reading comprehension error is because english is your second language. The son came out as gay, the mom was believing what the church told her about games.

[@complimentbot7015]

Journalists when they hear the word gamer: 😱

[@antoniooestereich4051]

😱😪☠️

[@Goblin_591]

@@p-__ common bot L

[@MFJ_Boards]

@Don't Read My Profile Picture 🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@NicoEdgy]

Gaming is cool

[@NicoEdgy]

I love to play games in bed

[@MoppyPoppy]

My parents were so neglectful when they raised me. I had a tablet when I was 8 and ended up getting groomed by pedophiles on google plus and google hangouts and my brother found it and showed my parents and I was the one who got in trouble for being groomed because “i knew better” they never seemed to be mad at the pedophiles that took advantage of me. Just the confused taken advantage scared 8 year old who was told if I didn’t give my tablet to them, the old men would come to the house and kidnap me and kill me (even though I hadn’t given them my address or the state I live in) They had every opportunity to teach me the dangers of the internet then and there but they just tried to scare me into never talking to people online again. If your gonna have kids don’t neglect them. And don’t punish them for other people taking advantage of them. It’s not the kids fault, their just a kid. Wish I could tell my parents that.

[@Huxxerberry]

My mom did the same thing when I was groomed, though all she did was yell at me instead of taking anything away from me. Hell, she didn't even prevent me from going on a school trip even AFTER I told her I was meeting those people online there! I didn't end up meeting them, but what would had happened if I did? No one was watching me, and no one wanted to be my buddy during the trip, so I could've easily walked away and met up with them in the empty parking lot. I was between 10-12 then, and had no idea about the dangers of the internet. Even now my mom just lets my little sisters do whatever they want on the internet and it scares the hell out of me that they could potentially be groomed or are being groomed.

[@MoppyPoppy]

@@Huxxerberry I don’t understand why parents feel the need to punish the victim in these situations, like we know what those creeps really wanted to do with us, when we just thought we were cool enough to be friends with older people, I remember vividly my brother randomly taking my tablet and searching through it because “if I find anything weird on here I’m smashing your tablet and locking you in a closet” like I was 8 I didn’t know what I was doing was wrong, I was the child in this situation yet was the only one punished. Not even the pedophiles were talked with or yelled at. Only the confused 8 year old

[@404found00]

Parents explaining why small children are born with the innate knowledge on the dangers of bad people on the Internet (they don't want to have responsibility so they lie out the ass)

[@Hi_Just_Fred]

Good lord. Yeah, that's some f class parenting right there...

[@r.r.4563]

This type of parenting is why the video game scapegoat issue still continues to exist today. Parents who are failures love to neglect teaching their kids what they should and instead scapegoat specific things and blame literally anyone else, including the victim. There’s tons of kids today that are raised more by media and schools than parents. We gotta be realistic here, we can’t keep banning every media and expect schools to literally do everything. Parents need to become ready to parent again. This is the first generation where children are left uninteracted with to this extent, all day, completely alone, with an IPad that got strapped to them since they were an infant. Modern parents love this shit tho and will just ignore their kid all day every day and then you get situations like this.

[@SgtJohnRemairez]

Charlie at 6:50 describing a stranger comming into pictochat reminds me so much of the TellTale Games walking dead game when Clementine is talking to a stranger on the radio in like season 3 or 4

[@Froggy_Bomb]

(Edit- spelling correction) I've loved video games for as long as i can remember. I'm 30 now and I'm a single mom. I introduced my son to gaming first with a PS1 and games like Spyro and Crash, then slowly his taste changed and grew. He has literally always known the difference between whats on the screen and what's real life. Now he is 10 and I am so proud of him, he knows how to be safe online and while gaming with others, he has a good sense of reality and knows not to share pictures or personal info with people online. Even his Xbox friends who he has talked to for a long time. And that is because I have TAUGHT HIM NOT TO BE BRAINLESS, and not overly trusting of literal strangers. I still keep an eye on what's on his IPad and who he talks to on his Xbox. It's really not hard.

[@VonSnuggles1412]

It's also worth mentioning that these platforms have resources for parents to make sure children are being safe online. Games have parental features as well as those built into the consoles themselves. Kudos to you for actually raising your child. It feels like no one wants to raise their children anymore. Also, it's incredible that you introduced them to older technologies first. That's actually really smart

[@team4star1]

Spyro and crash are definitely my go to for a good start in games. Great choice!

[@slackolantern]

Kids are smart, and paying attention to the media they consume and discussing it with them and partaking of it with them goes a loooooong way.

[@aelores]

w mom i think

[@9mmtrilla]

how much money are you making/stealing on that child support? Thats the real question...

[@netslamders6803]

The fact that gamers actively enter such dangerous, predator-filled warzones every day of their lives and still wear smiles on their faces makes them heroes honestly

[@Reddception]

Every last one deserves a goddamn medal I say, the world is truly unjust

[@TheRealSuperKirby]

Or just ignorant

[@lukabrasi001]

i literally don't care about news/journalists talking scrap about gaming, like sure. project your demons onto us. i won't start beating people with cake pans or lobbing grenades because that's the new hype in games. it's simply up to the consumer whether they get triggered or affected by said games, and the companies usually put warnings all over the game upon release and sale, plus you got the whole internet, youtube videos, reviews if you're this insecure about games to make EXTRA sure the game won't trigger something in you so you really have no excuse to say "yeah this game made me punch a woman in a green hoodie because i thought she was a creeper"

[@greatgoofy484]

@@lukabrasi001 "yeah this game made me punch a woman in a green hoodie because i thought she was a creeper" Made me laugh

[@aidenmiller3832]

@@lukabrasi001Normally girls in green hoodies punch me because they think I’m a creeper

[@anuraexe]

my favorite time that gaming has an effect is whenever a new gta releases. companies crumble, school attendance is down to 0, and the articles of gta causing violence are at an all time peak. it’s really beautiful

[@appalachiabrauchfrau]

and yet a lot of school districts have the first week of deer season marked down as a holiday shoot bucks, not virtual hookers, kids!

[@manoftherainshorts9075]

Yeah, I remember when GTA 4 released there were several mass murders that kids did to reenact violence in this game. Also bowling alleys were overcrowded as fuck.

[@autonomousinstinct9595]

That's hilarious, gta4 making people go bowling. 😂😂 Crazy how influencing it can be

[@autonomousinstinct9595]

Well not the murdering tho, obviously

[@TheCloud785]

I missed school the day after GTAV released.. Was glorious :)

[@pipermintpat854]

These arguments against games have always made me die a little inside. This is literally the household I grew up in and I hate everything it stands for.

[@kl41256-p]

Because parents and most news outlets back then were so abysmally backwards they believed a form of ENTERTAINMENT is a satanic evil that must be exorcised. People tend to fear things they don’t understand, but rather than understanding the thing you are fearing, they just make a shitty news article that no one but middle-aged Karens read about how games “corrupt the minds of our children.”

[@cicig1827]

I actually had a short pictochat with another kid in the car next to us. It lasted thirty seconds. We could see each other through the windows and just sent bad renditions of Pikachu.

[@AlexisTwoLastNames]

this was always my dream 🥹

[@tortillachips3911]

heartwarming ❤️

[@snapduke]

You are being very kind to them calling them journalists. That profession has become scripted repeaters in this age.

[@villager736]

I bet in the very, very, near future ai will be far better journalist then a lot of the so called "journalists" of today. You could even make an argument that ai is already superior to them right now.

[@Gus513]

Yeah, this shit's older than SKSE

[@nebunezz_r]

I'd rather have AI interpolating what happened in real world than letting these retard touch any news source.

[@SunsetAssassin]

Journalism is dead, nothing but mouth breathers who fight for the agenda of their tribe in order to make sure their tribe is shown in a positive light while making sure the other side is wrong at every turn.

[@villager736]

@@SunsetAssassin Wow, that's probably the best description of modern day journalism I have ever seen, great job dude!

[@Kriptonic_M]

I was 9 watching a twitch stream, never did anything inappropriate but I was asking questions about a game my brother showed me (binding of isaac) and I was watching this guy, he was around 20 something and I was asking questions about the game, he was very family friendly never cussed never asked any weird personal questions and my mom busted down the door (it was closed not locked and this was at my grandmother's house) and it scared me and I dropped my phone, she automatically asked who I was talking to or what I was watching and then proceeded to yell and scream at me for like an hour and banned me from using KZbin (she thought it was yt) and took my phone for a while. I remember crying throwing up because I thought she was gonna hit me, she never put her hands on me before but instead of teaching me anything about internet safety she just tried to scare me into not talking online at all. She never told me why it was bad or what was wrong with it. And now I don't tell her anything because of how she may react. Apologies for this long story

[@brodiegibb9996]

Ignore the first person that commented

[@DailyShit.]

Fuck that lady. My dad never did this but similar shit. Bunch of assholes who gut kids before they learned to behave themselves

[@Kriptonic_M]

@$hervi in her defense she's has gone to therapy and it has gotten somewhat better, she has a lot of her own issues and it doesn't excuse the had things she has done but there is improvement. And I have to give her props for staying to raise me cuz my dad never did lmao 😭

[@elikyiael8740]

hey, i fully understand you bro, have a good one

[@dismurrart6648]

I'm really sorry. That's such an unfortunate environment your mom created. I hope you still learn(ed) healthy safe ways to be online

[@HKG4]

0:05 bro don’t jumpscare us like that

[@saltiestsiren]

I was a kid in the Milwaukee area when that Nintendo DS story aired. I vaguely remember watching it and thinking, "Uh...no???" and then having to basically fact check the whole story to my parents, assuring them I had never once encountered a p3d0ph1l3 in freaking Pictochat.

[@GamingWithHajimemes]

The worst part is when journalists who are supposed to be GAMERS, hate our guts. It's so counterproductive and sad to see that even media in our own ranks is just so shitty to us.

[@Noooiiiissseee]

The gaming community is full of absolute cringe weirdos to be fair.

[@che3se1495]

It's because they aren't gamers. They're failed journalists who go into game journalism because no one else wanted them. Then they rag on gaming because they're spiteful about the subject they're forced to cover compared to the media they snobbishly laud that rejected them for being talentless.

[@Thisisthegreatestatofalltime]

Aren’t most game journalists just failed regular journalists

[@slick_rickgaming1102]

@@Thisisthegreatestatofalltime sad but true

[@scoutbane1651]

Ngl I kind of understand it. My secondary education was in compsci and it was like 90% gamer bros. It was significantly more toxic than most secondary educational institutions due to them. Most normal people I know who went there despised it and we had significantly higher suicide rates than average, one of my classmates was literally bullied until he did it. And this comes from someone who's played games his entire life and never plans to stop. Games are cool but god do they attract the worst people.

[@GamingintheAM0801]

I remember that Mass Effect news story when it came out, and it was so frustrating. Every time the dude started making a good point, they would interrupt him over and over until they eventually just cut off the interview completely.

[@lifegrain6092]

they knew they lost at "did you play mass effect?"

[@GamingintheAM0801]

@lifegrain The interaction I still remember to this day went something like this: Them: "But you can have sex in this game!" Him: "Yes, but that depends on the choices the player makes throughout the game, so it's entirely possible that scene will never happen for most people." Them: "Oh, right, like teenagers are going to choose the option to NOT see the sex scene." Him: "It's based on the way the player treats the other characters throughout the game and the type of relationships they develop through their actions. The game doesn't just ask you, 'Do you want to have sex? Yes or No.' That's ridiculous." And then they basically ended the interview right there, and before they cut him off, he tries his best to get the last word by saying, "Mass Effect is a great game, the sex scene is just one small part of it."

[@AVI-lh6rm]

@@GamingintheAM0801 did he drop the super obvious bomb shell of "You guys are parents, if you don't like this type of stuff in video games, simply don't buy games that have these for your kids." it's quite literally like taking a kid to an X rated movie, being surprised there's sex and violence and demanding the movie makers to go out of business.

[@johnhoney5089]

​@@AVI-lh6rmThat sadly happened with movies. Parents took their kids to Sausage Party and complained about it, despite it being openly R-rated. They clearly hadn't watched the trailer before then, as it was itself filled with adult humor/nudity if I recall correctly.

[@existskk99]

7:36 “He’s fucking on your staircase right now!”

[@ScrungleSketches]

The fact about not being able to tell the difference between real life and video games is true. The other day I was stomping some goombas and now I’ve been called into court for crimes against humanity. Crazy.

[@mememerchant461]

Stomping.....koopas

[@Oswynwr]

Breaking News: Man stomps black people because he thought they were "Goombas"

[@Birbboy.]

@@Oswynwr black children*

[@dibby1045]

This becomes a lot less funny when you realize that these people are supposed to be the ones who uncover and reveal the truth.

[@Jaguar21010]

Yeah. They are privately owned and operated studios and networks. They technically aren't supposed to do anything but share their opinions. But they've fooled everyone into thinking they report facts. And they've remained unregulated in this vast misunderstanding.

[@mantisdragon6322]

I had a stroke back in 2016, gaming has helped me over the years keep my sense of self, even at some minimal level.

[@RemoWilliams1227]

Sorry to hear that friendo. I agree, games are a good thing.

[@drunkenhobo5039]

I thought you were away to say "I had a stroke back in 2016 and immediately received job offers from Kotaku and Polygon." Just kidding. You're clearly still way above that.

[@dopesickdog]

glad you got through it and got to do something that stimulates your brain and helps you heal. strokes are fucking scary.

[@dimadobrik4516]

Wish you all the best on your further way to your old self and beyond

[@enzoforgets9456]

I love how they say "the signs say it was inevitable" Yet do not think to stop it, but freak out when it happens and blame, not the person, but the software the use on their free time

[@tomasgarza1249]

I loved the yugioh "black markets". I used to purchase cards from a dude that had a my little pony t-shirt, and was carrying a purple pony with him at all times, he would stand on the same spot to sell his cards, and his prices were fair and he was chill. Good times.

[@theflamingskull1094]

7:55 I love how proudly he states "and I could have been a child molester"

[@Epicman31]

I have been a child moldstee

[@Bubaiel]

I KNOWWW 😭

[@LordyT34]

Its happened once or twice, but I always love when they bring actual gamers in to argue their point and the gamers always utterly destroy them

[@thetruenoob7121]

Do you have any examples off the top of your head? I'd love to watch that

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

@@thetruenoob7121 Literally all of gamergate

[@wesleyw7908]

@@MaxiemumKarnage No gamer won anything during gamergate.

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

@@wesleyw7908 Oh you right, women won during gamergate and all video games were banned due to hating women. I forgor 💀

[@wesleyw7908]

@@MaxiemumKarnage No, nobody won during gamer gate. It was all a massive cringe inducing shit show. The fact that you brought it up in 2023 is honestly hilarious if rather odd.

[@giannycrazy9865]

"If anything goes bad in the world mainstream media tries their best to tie it into gaming in some way" Imagine if gaming existed during the 1940s 💀

[@MathematicalVoid]

Well, you know what, or rather, who DID exist in the 1940s? Charlie Chaplin! And we've all seen his mustache. It looks like a toothbrush! And we brush our teeth to get rid of plaque. But who wouldn't want a plaque? People with self-loathing issues! Now, low self-esteem is a problem I don't have, but I do have anger issues. And so does Donald Duck, known for being a terrible healer in the Kingdom Hearts series! And he's the only character to ever use Zettaflare unassisted in any Square-Enix game. Zettaflare is basically if a laser was a nuke. And when have nukes been a problem? Since World War II, a war associated with the political party that ran Germany at the time! But Germany is now one of the most openly-hostile countries to that party's beliefs, so who can we blame for those beliefs making a resurgence? Perchance. Ergo, Twitter debates cause Charlie Chaplin to grow stronger. Someday, he may even win a plaque for unleashing a spell beyond Zettaflare and freeing us from the tyranny of the Moon!

[@giannycrazy9865]

@@MathematicalVoid something about the moon and charlie chaplin, so nazis on the moon?

[@ProlMLGJoe]

It did just without PCs

[@giannycrazy9865]

@@ProlMLGJoe bros were playing post scriptum without computers 💀

[@ProlMLGJoe]

@@giannycrazy9865 Nah ppl back then had knucklebones and jump ropes

[@Yellowredstone]

The only reason I can think this kind of journalism exists is because at the time TV news needed * anything * to fill in the new 24/7 news feed that was implemented

[@TheSpeep]

Theres a good chance thats a big part of it. We dont have anything like a 24/7 newscycle where I live and I've never seen anything like that airing here.

[@Yellowredstone]

@Lasnight if you've heard about the Jon Bénette Ramsey case, that is also part of the reason why that case got so famous. The big media needed stuff to fill in the time. I dont really watch tv, it's just something I've heard about

[@AnarchoTak]

actually it's literally true. the news in America is 24/7 and is also tries to be shocking and entertaining all the time to make money and keep viewers. they will frame things in a way to technically look like they aren't lying but sometimes they straight up lies. some people realize this and other big news media just exploit this and say that they are the real truth and do the same thing (cough fox news). many influencers also do the same but they are allowed to lie more. everyone is incentivized to have a "juicy scary story" for ad money.

[@jayclean5653]

We still have 24 news

[@Yellowredstone]

@@jayclean5653 Never said it went away. You still see shitty stuff in news every day.

[@burp1361]

the fact that tortimer is literally just an npc is the funniest shit ive ever heard

[@Yurik-the-marksman]

Yup

[@Raz-wt5jr]

Me and my newborn baby sister were kicked out of a daycare because I brought Final Fantasy Tactics to play and the adult saw the words "Black Magic" and proceeded to be hysterical until my Mom left work. Was insane.

[@RemoWilliams1227]

Wow. That is in fact insane.

[@naiiin6949]

Wait til one of those people hears about bayonetta

[@weirdyoutubechannels]

my banner look hella cute today

[@dragonace119]

Reminds me of when I took Yugi-Yo cards to my aunts place for the Christmas party to play it with my cousins. They freaked the hell out saying it was voodoo or some shit up until my grand pa said something. That was ages ago when I was still a kid but that was hilarious in retrospect.

[@bobhanson1037]

Yeah my mom would break anything she perceived as devilish. Pokemon play ball was popped right after I got it as a present, games taken, etc. She had a few mental issues that was being addressed but her church friends made her think pokemon yellow would send me to hell. I mean the elite four did make me swear and say shit as an 10 year old lol

[@WallBreakerOfficial]

This type of stuff reminds me of when friends and I started a D&D group at school. We had what was called "Commens Groups," where peers could start groups at the last period of the day. We chose this, and the school granted it. And all was good. Fast forward about a month, the whole school had a presentation to go to where a pastor came in and told everyone there how playing games like this were gateways. Gateways to Satan and damnation. You know, for the 12 of us in the group. But furthermore, he went on to attack harmful music like Van Halen, I wish I was kidding. Long story short we had a group of 12. The pastor said it was bad. More people joined the group. And then they shut commons down. And many of the people in that group became lifelong friends. Thanks, Pastor.

[@magolor152]

Sounds less like God told him to say any of that and more like the pastor was offended by something HE didn't understand and used God to justify HIS lack of understanding on certain things which is ironically not something a Christian let alone a pastor should be doing as it's straight up a deadly sin to use God's name like from what I understand What I'm saying is that pastor is not only out of touch with youth, but is essentially a massive hypocrite for doing that

[@BattleMatt]

Not only do journalists hate gamers, gaming journalists hate gamers too.

[@exotic1405]

So do gamers

[@tominator028]

Gamers. We suffer the most.

[@Davidsworldtravels]

And we hate them back

[@_.Dylan._]

6:39 Even a master of the English language makes mistakes sometimes

[@orangejuice732]

My mom once told me she saw a story of a kid killing his mom because of how much video gaming he did. The real story that didn’t fit in the headline is that the mom punished the kid for something and part of that punishment was getting video games taken away. The kid got pissed and killed the mom.

[@appalachiabrauchfrau]

Something similar, but I remember my dad showing me that news story of some kids pretend-playing as Naruto characters. Kid ended up killing someone in a sandbox. And that's the story of why one of my babysitting clients went batshit bonkers when I let her 13 year old kid borrow the first volume of the manga. She never gave it back, I think she burned it.

[@BlackOrderAlchemist]

@@appalachiabrauchfrau I remember that story! The kid was playing as Gaara and got his head buried in the sand and suffocated. Somehow they ruled it as the kid doing it to himself(???) even though there's no way I can picture it happening without the other kids holding him down. Anyway, sucks about your manga. That's part of the reason I never lend any of mine out :'y

[@Maya-Hayden]

That… is actually worse. The details made it significantly worse. At least without the details it’s ridiculous and easy to dismiss. But someone literally killed their mom because she took away their game….

[@eliminator1472]

@@Maya-Hayden That’s not video games’ fault, if this kid was obsessed with math books and his mom took them away he would have done the same thing. It’s the kid’s fault as he was fucked up in the head.

[@mulliano420]

@@Maya-Hayden exactly, this paints gaming in a worst light but like, it’s all parenting lmao

[@thejuicemaster8127]

The most delicious cherry on top is Marvin Grossberg's theme playing over the Animal Crossing segment, a song used for characters who do nothing but latch onto the "good old days" and/or have a difficult time adapting to the current situation.

[@ccmanxx1]

5:22 gotta love how they both start laughing at the same time.

[@leejordan4629]

What pisses me off is there's a real conversation to be had about how violence is becoming more normalized in media. Not even that is bad per se but what that means as a culture, and it's shut down with childish screen grabs and blatant lies.

[@Y_u_dum]

Its just really dumb. Its obvious that it isnt real blood, and when it happens in real life, its truly shocking, even if you've seen potentially worse in games. I get nudity and language, because kids might start saying those words, or seeing something they shouldn't, but violence is literally nothing. Hell, there's more violence in real life than there is in video games, but thankfully its actually censored or hidden super hard.

[@leejordan4629]

@@Y_u_dum I mean in more than video games as well. What I mean is we become as a whole more expecting of violence in the world, not that it makes people more violent per se.

[@scouse_roar]

Funny how Americans have moral panics about violence in video games yet let six year olds shoot teachers

[@sergeantmoo7832]

My theory is that people are asked to sympathize with victims more these days which has caused cartoon violence to be less enjoyable so there has been a switch to more and more realistic or exaggerated violence.

[@lukabrasi001]

violence is in our nature. we take joy seeing violence because we ourself cannot express this without setbacks (like getting charged with first degree murder, y'know) so we resort to the safe options, video games or movies. the human brain is smart enough to differentiate between reality and fantasy though, but the visual stimuli feels either fascinating, or shocking. images train the human brain, but image training doesn't take away your ability to tell fake from real

[@docpox3900]

I remember when the pokemon satanic craze was going on. My mom was single, raising two kids by herself and when she went back to church and saw this stuff she immediately came to me and was like "please tell me you aren't worshiping demons" and when i laughed we never went back to that church

[@DailyShit.]

Nice to finallly hear a story of someone healthy

[@TheRealSuperKirby]

My friend's mom used to think pokemon was demonic for some reason, my mom argued with her about it because she let him have bakugan which had inherently more demonic themes than pokemon, nothing ever came of the argument but a couple years later she did allow him to have pokemon stuff. I really don't understand why because usually when our parents or grandparents argue if something is demonic or not they use it being from another planet or reality as an excuse for it to be fine because it's just a different world with different creatures. Bakugan actually takes place on earth with creatures from other hellish dimensions making their way to earth, also there was some shape shifting human guy character thing. Still have no clue why that was fine but pokemon wasn't.

[@xx-weirdboi-xx3553]

@@TheRealSuperKirby maybe bakugan was more niche and to the parents they were look more like a toys. Pokemon is way more popular franchise so it had more chance to get noticed in some way or another

[@anomalousanimates]

7:00 then it turns out one of the parents were behind it

[@fklmrek437]

My mom wouldn’t let me play games with any guns or violence in them until I was 14 because according to the only news source that she read, “shooting people in games leads to shooting people in real life” and she didn’t even read the article which had no data or evidence that the headline was true.

[@Hi_Just_Fred]

"Reads the title": *I know everything.* "Reads the article": The fuck is this nonsense?

[@VonSnuggles1412]

I think that games with excessive violence should be held off until a certain age, but not for a reason as dumb as that. Like yeah, don't give your kid doom eternal if they're like 9. Parents forget the ESRB, a thing they wanted, was created for the purpose of telling them what age range ur child should be for a game. And the ESRB (while not always correct in my opinion) is a genuinely good resource that just doesn't get used by parents

[@ravenanne1734]

@@VonSnuggles1412 to me it depends on the kid, some children are more sensitive to others and shouldn't see gore because it'll upset them, but for other kids I think it's better to teach them from an early age that what's in a game isn't real. It's not like it's keeping them from violence, dinner time TV literally shows footage of dead animals, dead people, assaults, shootings, animal abuse, and other disturbing real life footage with a good old "some images may disturb some viewers" before hitting you with blurred footage of a man beating a bobbycow to death with a metal rod. While you're eating dinner with your family. Now games where your player character experiences grievous bodily harm or you get torture scenes or something? That's totally different, that stuff disturbs adults. Goofy pixel murder is one thing but no way am I letting a kid watch the video game equivalent of Saw.

[@VonSnuggles1412]

@@ravenanne1734 couldn't agree with you more

[@uwotm8649]

Man: becomes a serial killer Media: CURSE YOU MARIO PARTY!!!

[@FrostGlader]

Honestly, I could actually see this one occurring. Mario Party can definitely cause someone to go through their Joker Moment.

[@zippedmouthgaming5637]

2:17 I always knew Tortimer couldn't be trusted. Thank you, Charlie, for helping bring The Man In California Police Are Warning About Tonight That Asks For Images From Missouri Children to justice, at last.

[@HairyJuan]

He's probably behind that ankha cartoon

[@EldritchSama]

How is there not a lawsuit for the psp news report? That is borderline unlawful defamation

[@White.Guy83]

“Im about to scare every mainstream media outlet with one single word.” *audience goes silent* “gamer” *everyone gasps* the whole audience is in shock that someone would say such horrible language. The people in the crowd whisper to one another saying “did he just say that” or “am I hearing this correctly” an old couple start walking out muttering obscenities at what horrible actions Charlie has just committed.

[@shadedway5277]

It's like he walked into a Kindergarten and f bombed, we all died on the spot and it was gruesome

[@SirDerpofCamelot]

Gamer is our word, but he can say gama

[@whiskeyhound]

@@SirDerpofCamelot Can he say it with a strong G or is that not cool?

[@duckrinium]

Shootings? "THEY PLAYED A LOT OF GAMES!" person's mental health history: "am I joke to you?"

[@brondermody3409]

Parents: Am I actually not parenting my child correctly? ... No. It's Tortimer that's grooming my kids.

[@cardsfan0776]

I will never forget the time I saw an nbc reporter blame GTA 5 for a child’s ability to assemble a FULLY DISASSEMBLED ak-47 and use it to fire on police. I don’t remember the gun building update in gta but I might have missed it😂😂😂

[@M3m3r420]

"The PictoChat Killer" The movie opens with a group of friends, who are all avid gamers, excitedly discussing the upcoming release of the latest console. As they chat, one of them mentions a strange message they received on their Nintendo DS through the built-in messaging program, PictoChat. The message is from an unknown user and simply says "I'm watching you." The group brushes it off as a prank and continues their discussion. However, as the days pass, the messages become more and more sinister and specific, mentioning the friends' names and daily routines. The friends start to realize that whoever is sending these messages is somehow watching them and knows their every move. As the friends try to uncover the identity of the person behind the messages, they begin to suspect each other and their relationships start to unravel. Meanwhile, the messages become more and more violent and the friends start to fear for their lives. As the tension builds, the friends start to disappear one by one and the remaining ones find evidence that the killer is among them, using PictoChat to communicate and manipulate them. In the climactic scene, the remaining friends finally figure out who the killer is and confront them. But it's too late, as the killer has already set in motion a deadly plan to kill them all. As the friends desperately try to escape, the killer taunts them through PictoChat, sending messages of their impending doom. In the end, only a few of the friends survive the night, but they are forever haunted by the memory of the PictoChat Killer.

[@StockLlama]

This is so good

[@CarrieBearCards34]

blumhouse in 2025 be like.....

[@CarnageRemixes]

@@CarrieBearCards34 blumhouse has been this level of cliche for AGES

[@Shiro_dono]

Journalist: “Video games causes violence!” WAY more violent and gross horror movies and a new John Wick putting down countless people comes out. Journalist: I see no correlation here. Games are rated just like movies are rated, and parents should teach their children between fiction and reality.

[@DaemonicRenamon]

Games are actually rated better than movies and tv shows at this point. You can't get away with a PG rating now, for the same content you could in 2000.

[@Professorlicme8]

saying movies are in any way related to real world violence is as stupid as saying video games cause violence

[@Smileyreal]

@@Professorlicme8 Of course, that's the point

[@redpheonix1000]

@@DaemonicRenamon That's something I've always found stupid. A movie can have literal *gore*, and be rated 14+ or 16+, but if a game dares to say the F word, have a single drop of blood, or - god fobid - even merely mention the existence of drugs, it's immediately 18+ or M rating.

[@ravenanne1734]

That's not even touching on the shit shown during dinnertime news. Like ah yes I'm sure the thing causing children to be desensitised to violence is shooting demons in video games, and definitely not footage of real life atrocities with a little blur filter! The most traumatic shit I've ever witnessed has always been from the news because you barely even get a chance to avoid it with a rating or a warning beyond "some images may disturb" and imma be real, I'm not a fan of watching shootings happen while I'm trying to eat my stir fry.

[@elmo3766]

Gaming is the journalists equivalent to a movie villain, because everyone around them loves it, except for them

[@clover4624]

I'm da biggest bird

[@SpongeBob-ui5vu]

I’m better than Penguinz0

[@weirdyoutubechannels]

my banner look hella cute today

[@tubersloth]

THEY THOUGHT A LITERAL TURTLE NPC WAS ASKING KIDS FOR PICS THATS SO CRAZY LMFAOOOOOOO

[@happydoggo592]

8:38 I got a Nintendo 3DS when I was 8. It had a super low quality camera, and one day third grade humor got the best of me and my brother and we spent the morning making the most obscene pictures we could think of. We thought it was hilarious at the time, but eventually forgot about them. We got older and eventually lost interest in the DS and at some point our parents took the unused DS to goodwill for donation without wiping the memory. So yeah, I’m ashamed to say that there’s a good chance that a Nintendo 3DS with graphic pictures of my buttcrack still exists in this world.

[@kkngd391]

I'm gonna find it

[@jacobafterdark5258]

@@kkngd391💀

[@langstonbelin]

Oh hell no

[@plaguedoctor_6427]

@@kkngd391have you found it?

[@BluSteel]

11:39 As a former Extra Credits fan, it was so hard to be on their side when that video came out. The reasoning that those guys went through for that video was maybe two steps detached from the "video games cause violence" mentality that they had spent the better part of ten years campaigning against at that point. Sucks because their old videos (namely their videos on the Spike VGAs and the God of War trilogy) were *really* fucking good.

[@optiTHOMAS]

"There you are, playing your new ww2 shooter when all of a sudden.... *YOU'RE A NAZI!* you didn't ask for this, but here you are!" That was absolutely ridiculous! I remember several of those videos like that from them. 😅🤣👍🏻

[@Shinobin333]

Yeah the fact that they are on the same level as current mass media now made me very depressed

[@kaijurat]

It's hard to remain an extra credits fan now a-days half of the time they don't talk about videogames since the swap between creators. But that is just my opinion on the content. I know before the original creator had the same message about being aware about the content and not to loose sight of the subtleties and actual message/ideologies the content presents, but recently the subject was presented as "all media is manipulative propaganda that the audience is too dumb to comprehend so we gotta dumb it down for them." Then again the concern with our media isn't completely unfounded because twitter exsists, it's just the solution to the problem that I think is wrong.

[@tehbeernerd]

A few years ago, there was a report about an unnamed hockey player drafted in the first round by a prominent team and how he’d never make it to the NHL because he’d come in tired to practice from playing video games all night. As the journalist put it, “it is that bad.” The following draft, they asked all the top prospects in their interviews what their Fortnite habits were. 😂

[@alexsimon80]

Bruhhhh

[@JJ-fg2wd]

Was that Olli Juolevi? I remember the Vancouver Canucks being involved in some way, and Juolevi was a high 1st round pick

[@randomjoker3936]

i love the "we gotta go" at around 13:20

[@randomjoker3936]

like i think it was at that point they weren't taking her as serious

[@sudanesegamer7886]

The only thing we should be worried about with video games is addiction. But honestly, there are a lot more dangerous things to be addicted to

[@VonSnuggles1412]

Addiction while being very real with videogames, is actually incredibly easy to prevent or even help people get over by just hanging out with them and being interested in being in their lives. Most people that become addicted to videogames are just lonely...at least that was the case with me

[@funkuro]

@@Fancy-Dead-Man 😲

[@negligible_reality]

@@Fancy-Dead-Man epic, got room for one more?

[@lifegrain6092]

addiction is it's own issue, some people are addicted to alcohol some can even be addicted to working but this is how they scare the people it's not addiction to X, it's X is an addiction by that logic, happiness is an addiction because you can't get enough it and you keep seeking for more and it affects the brain, because it causes the brain to have "chemical reaction" and i know 1 permanent solution to never developing an addiction, 100% foolproof but it's price is "not alive" but oh the horror when the news classify dying as addiction too, they'll scare people into living

[@AlexisTwoLastNames]

anything that you’re addicted to is dangerous tho. it steals your life, even if it won’t physically kill you as quickly. i do understand your sentiment but i wanted to make this super clear.