I'm just now getting a handle on who this Shane Dawson character was and jfc what is wrong with kids these days
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Parents not being aware of what's going on on the internet, mostly.
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Replying to @BreeThePhoenix @Nymphomachy
I genuinely think "parents have no idea what's on the Internet (and there are no adequate filters or controls)" is 100% the explanation for 2000s era YouTube Like that's it, that's the whole thing It's the worst case scenario that completely came to fruition
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"What if there were no controls on children's media whatsoever and also no real money or other positive incentives, so children's media was just 100% creeps who wanted to exploit children" That's... YouTube Like that's just it, that's a straight description
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It's what Newton Minow meant by TV being a "vast wasteland" but so, so much worse It's not a wasteland it's a midden, it's not mud it's shit It's not just that no one cares about quality, it's that this is where the toxic stuff banned everywhere else comes to live
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For me it's not even the edgey humour in his videos so much as the interactions with ACTUAL CHILDREN that absolutely floor me. Kids watching material they shouldn't? That's not that surprising to me - South Park did the same thing. It's the interaction in plain sight.
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Replying to @RogoSprout @arthur_affect and
Growing up my friends and cousins all watched South Park and had South Park toys and stuff... but they weren't meeting with the creators and doing live chats unsupervised with them. It's the unsupervised direct interaction via the internet where this story gets horrifying.
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Replying to @RogoSprout @arthur_affect and
And Shane and his ilk have taught a generation that it's ok for minors to openly flirt and be sexual in messages to adults online. I know of multiple adults in the cosplay community on tiktok and elsewhere that are CONSANTLY begging minors to leave them alone to no avail.
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Replying to @RogoSprout @arthur_affect and
And for every single person speaking up and trying to tell these kids 'no, you need to stay away and and stop flirting with me, that's dangerous'... I ask... ...what about the ones that aren't? I fear more is to come :/
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The way Projared talked about it it really was like "All the rest of you are just stupid or cowardly It's SO EASY to get nudes from your fans why would you not do it '
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Like someone making fun of all the rest of you for leaving the money in the unguarded tip jar all this time "Honor system? Pfft"
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