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E-rated games discourse (and how YouTube “handled” COPPA)

The really funny part about the whole adults-playing-E-rated-games discourse is that it implies that adults should only and exclusively consume media that's full of graphic violence and explicit sex, which raises some frankly fascinating questions about what these people think adulthood is. There's discourse about this? Adults playing E-rated games? This is a hill people feel like dying on right now? I refuse, this can't possibly be a thing, this is too stupid for you to not be making it up. It has to be made up. It needs to be. Nah, it's a real thing - and not just a Tumblr thing, or even an Internet thing, either. Broadly speaking, there are three major strands to the argument: 1. That adults engaging with media that appeals to children – regardless of whether the media in question is in fact aimed at young audiences - is a sign of immaturity or emotional regression, and that a mature and emotionally healthy adult would naturally only wish to engage with media that's explicitly and exclusively intended for adult audiences. 2. That adults engaging with media that appeals to children represents an inappropriate crossing of boundaries, typically grounded in the notion that any social interaction between adults and children that doesn't consist of the adult exercising authority upon the child is inappropriate, and that adults engaging with media that appeals to children creates an unacceptable risk of such interactions occurring, regardless of whether or not they in fact occur. 3. As a corollary of points 1 and 2, if we take it as given that a. no mentally competent adult would enjoy engaging with media that appeals to children, and b. adults engaging with media that appeals to children creates an inherent risk of inappropriate boundary-crossing, the obvious conclusion is that adults who voluntarily engage with media that appeals to children must be doing so for the explicit purpose of courting such boundary-crossing interactions. None of these are new ideas – all of them date back at least to all that Moral Majority horseshit that was going around in the 1970s. The only real novelty is that there have lately been efforts to re-frame these ideas as progressive, particularly in the context of video game fandom. Oh wow that... might actually explain why youtube “handled" the children's content thing the way it did. If it believes this, then obviously it would want to make e-rated content harder to access, not let you make playlists from it, and punish creators who make it. No, that's a completely unrelated thing – it's really about advertising. In a nutshell, in late 2019 Google was fined 170 million dollars by the FTC for engaging in targeted advertising to minors under the age of 13; that is, for tracking kids' online activity in order to build profiles of their consumer preferences and serve ads tailored to their interests, which it may not surprise you to learn is straight up illegal. What should have happened after that is for Google to stop running targeted ads to anyone who hasn't registered for a Google or YouTube account and warranted that they're over 18. What actually happened is that Google cooked up a piece of legal bizarro logic arguing that it's actually totally okay for Google to build targeted advertising profiles of minors as long as those profiles are never actually used to expose a minor to a targeted ad, and that it's the responsibility of individual content creators to prevent minors from being exposed to targeted advertising by voluntarily demonetising any video that might possibly appeal to kids under 13. This way, Google can continue building targeted advertising profiles of kids, and if anyone is ever able to prove that those profiles were used to actually run a targeted ad, they can claim it's the fault of the individual content creator for choosing to monetise that video knowing that a kid might potentially watch it. I trust you can see where the problem is.

The really funny part about the whole adults-playing-E-rated-games discourse is that it implies that adults should only and exclusively consume media that's full of graphic violence and explicit sex, which raises some frankly fascinating questions about what these people think adulthood is. There's discourse about this? Adults playing E-rated games? This is a hill people feel like dying on right now? I refuse, this can't possibly be a thing, this is too stupid for you to not be making it up. It has to be made up. It needs to be. Nah, it's a real thing - and not just a Tumblr thing, or even an Internet thing, either. Broadly speaking, there are three major strands to the argument: 1. That adults engaging with media that appeals to children – regardless of whether the media in question is in fact aimed at young audiences - is a sign of immaturity or emotional regression, and that a mature and emotionally healthy adult would naturally only wish to engage with media that's explicitly and exclusively intended for adult audiences. 2. That adults engaging with media that appeals to children represents an inappropriate crossing of boundaries, typically grounded in the notion that any social interaction between adults and children that doesn't consist of the adult exercising authority upon the child is inappropriate, and that adults engaging with media that appeals to children creates an unacceptable risk of such interactions occurring, regardless of whether or not they in fact occur. 3. As a corollary of points 1 and 2, if we take it as given that a. no mentally competent adult would enjoy engaging with media that appeals to children, and b. adults engaging with media that appeals to children creates an inherent risk of inappropriate boundary-crossing, the obvious conclusion is that adults who voluntarily engage with media that appeals to children must be doing so for the explicit purpose of courting such boundary-crossing interactions. None of these are new ideas – all of them date back at least to all that Moral Majority horseshit that was going around in the 1970s. The only real novelty is that there have lately been efforts to re-frame these ideas as progressive, particularly in the context of video game fandom. Oh wow that... might actually explain why youtube “handled" the children's content thing the way it did. If it believes this, then obviously it would want to make e-rated content harder to access, not let you make playlists from it, and punish creators who make it. No, that's a completely unrelated thing – it's really about advertising. In a nutshell, in late 2019 Google was fined 170 million dollars by the FTC for engaging in targeted advertising to minors under the age of 13; that is, for tracking kids' online activity in order to build profiles of their consumer preferences and serve ads tailored to their interests, which it may not surprise you to learn is straight up illegal. What should have happened after that is for Google to stop running targeted ads to anyone who hasn't registered for a Google or YouTube account and warranted that they're over 18. What actually happened is that Google cooked up a piece of legal bizarro logic arguing that it's actually totally okay for Google to build targeted advertising profiles of minors as long as those profiles are never actually used to expose a minor to a targeted ad, and that it's the responsibility of individual content creators to prevent minors from being exposed to targeted advertising by voluntarily demonetising any video that might possibly appeal to kids under 13. This way, Google can continue building targeted advertising profiles of kids, and if anyone is ever able to prove that those profiles were used to actually run a targeted ad, they can claim it's the fault of the individual content creator for choosing to monetise that video knowing that a kid might potentially watch it. I trust you can see where the problem is.

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Economics 101

pissvortex going to the gas station and spraying the gas everywhere while the cashier frantically hands me crisp dollar bills, due to the negative oil prices 2,835 notes

pissvortex going to the gas station and spraying the gas everywhere while the cashier frantically hands me crisp dollar bills, due to the negative oil prices 2,835 notes

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there is a pear/pair dad-joke somewhere in there

bridezillas-deactivated20130208 Today I put my hand in my backpack and felt a stress ball and I was like "oh? I have a stress ball?" and I squeezed it and it was a pear and it exploded and now I'm much more stressed than I was

bridezillas-deactivated20130208 Today I put my hand in my backpack and felt a stress ball and I was like "oh? I have a stress ball?" and I squeezed it and it was a pear and it exploded and now I'm much more stressed than I was

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like, what is the backup plan?

havocs physically im here but mentally im still thinking about that ceramic battle axe... havocs kronostherevanent Ceramic Battleaxe: Extremely powerful, but heavy and very fragile. Only good for one instant-kill hit, make it count.

havocs physically im here but mentally im still thinking about that ceramic battle axe... havocs kronostherevanent Ceramic Battleaxe: Extremely powerful, but heavy and very fragile. Only good for one instant-kill hit, make it count.

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Alt right gender neutral pronouns

closet-keys I saw some a------ use "cu**s" on a youtube comment and I can't for the life of me figure out if they are trying to imply “nt" or “ck" gogret Shrodinger's cu** bears-official glad to see the alt-right is developing its own gender neutral pronouns Source:closet-keys 42,454 notes

closet-keys I saw some a------ use "cu**s" on a youtube comment and I can't for the life of me figure out if they are trying to imply “nt" or “ck" gogret Shrodinger's cu** bears-official glad to see the alt-right is developing its own gender neutral pronouns Source:closet-keys 42,454 notes

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The worst part is that’s there’s actually E-rated video game discourse

professional-dog-hugger callout posts in 2014: this user is sending mean messages to people! please be warned! callout posts in 2015: this user is stealing bones from cemeteries for witch rituals! callout posts in 2016: this user Actually A Nazi callout posts in 2017: this user watches an anime I don't like callout posts in 2018: i went through this user's youtube like history and found a video from JonTron that they liked in 2012, proving that they're a bad person callout posts in 2019: this user plays E-Rated Video Games, which are meant for children, which seems pretty sus to me idk :/ callout posts in 2020: this user stole 5 gallons of purified water from the New DC Resistance Camp and was last seen headed towards Sunken Brooklyn ave-aria what I REALLY don't like is this post was made in 2017

professional-dog-hugger callout posts in 2014: this user is sending mean messages to people! please be warned! callout posts in 2015: this user is stealing bones from cemeteries for witch rituals! callout posts in 2016: this user Actually A Nazi callout posts in 2017: this user watches an anime I don't like callout posts in 2018: i went through this user's youtube like history and found a video from JonTron that they liked in 2012, proving that they're a bad person callout posts in 2019: this user plays E-Rated Video Games, which are meant for children, which seems pretty sus to me idk :/ callout posts in 2020: this user stole 5 gallons of purified water from the New DC Resistance Camp and was last seen headed towards Sunken Brooklyn ave-aria what I REALLY don't like is this post was made in 2017

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TFW Google Made You a Spider

THIS GENERATION WAS THE FIRST TO BE RAISED ONLINE Google TAUGHT MEWHERE THE CLIT IS tumblr TAUGHT ME HATE You Tube TAUGHT MEGONDAM STYLE Vine GAVE ME ADHD deviantART TAUGHT MEPEOPLE ARE REALLY F----- UP Blogger TAUGHT ME TOwhat the f--- is blog facebook. TAUGHT MEALL MY FRIENDS FUCKINS SUCK Instagram TAUGHT ME TO FILTER PEOPLE WILL BUY ANY S--- Etsy TAUGHT ME YOU MAKE IT OUT OF STRING AND BEADS twitter TAUGHT ME The Iron Shek ghe utheik Aa Nantcy Grace YOU FAT DUAG BTCHI Ceat he tuck out of you tak bad atout my wresting brother GO F--- YOURSELF YOU DEAD DOG W----

THIS GENERATION WAS THE FIRST TO BE RAISED ONLINE Google TAUGHT MEWHERE THE CLIT IS tumblr TAUGHT ME HATE You Tube TAUGHT MEGONDAM STYLE Vine GAVE ME ADHD deviantART TAUGHT MEPEOPLE ARE REALLY F----- UP Blogger TAUGHT ME TOwhat the f--- is blog facebook. TAUGHT MEALL MY FRIENDS FUCKINS SUCK Instagram TAUGHT ME TO FILTER PEOPLE WILL BUY ANY S--- Etsy TAUGHT ME YOU MAKE IT OUT OF STRING AND BEADS twitter TAUGHT ME The Iron Shek ghe utheik Aa Nantcy Grace YOU FAT DUAG BTCHI Ceat he tuck out of you tak bad atout my wresting brother GO F--- YOURSELF YOU DEAD DOG W----

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Gamers are now executing game devs

Another game developer chooses death by caving to SJWS Raging Golden Eagle 69,585 views 9:59 ceeberoni wait wait wait are gamers now executing gamedevs who try and be less s----- or ceeberoni gamedev: hey im gonna make a protag who's not a cishet white dude gamers: then die (pulls the trigger) ceeberoni ppl are complaining that im not talking about what the actual video covers in my joke so from what i gathered it should really be: gamedev: hey im gonna give these character less tiddy gamers: then die (pulls the trigger)

Another game developer chooses death by caving to SJWS Raging Golden Eagle 69,585 views 9:59 ceeberoni wait wait wait are gamers now executing gamedevs who try and be less s----- or ceeberoni gamedev: hey im gonna make a protag who's not a cishet white dude gamers: then die (pulls the trigger) ceeberoni ppl are complaining that im not talking about what the actual video covers in my joke so from what i gathered it should really be: gamedev: hey im gonna give these character less tiddy gamers: then die (pulls the trigger)

propaganda

tchaikovskaya none of yall know what propaganda actually is, do you? tchaikovskaya its when a british person takes a good look at something ashleyetc this is legitimately the absolute funniest thing anyone has ever added to one of my posts, thank you for your service

tchaikovskaya none of yall know what propaganda actually is, do you? tchaikovskaya its when a british person takes a good look at something ashleyetc this is legitimately the absolute funniest thing anyone has ever added to one of my posts, thank you for your service

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the black death workers

vampireapologist Hey guys I just found out in this class that during the Black Death, aka The Great Mortality, the gravediggers guild in Florence negotiated themselves a higher salary and political power because they were suddenly the unexpendable laborers supporting society..Just An Idea from 700 years ago Source: vampireapologist 6,203 notes

vampireapologist Hey guys I just found out in this class that during the Black Death, aka The Great Mortality, the gravediggers guild in Florence negotiated themselves a higher salary and political power because they were suddenly the unexpendable laborers supporting society..Just An Idea from 700 years ago Source: vampireapologist 6,203 notes

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helpful tips

spinel-is-baby y'all ever remember something extremely embarrassing and just feel horrible about it fuuzis-trash-dump Pro Tip: Try to think of something embarrassing some else has done. You probably can't. Which means no one else remembers the cringe thing you did. spinel-is-baby wait that actually helps so much Source: spinel-is-baby 37,427 notes

spinel-is-baby y'all ever remember something extremely embarrassing and just feel horrible about it fuuzis-trash-dump Pro Tip: Try to think of something embarrassing some else has done. You probably can't. Which means no one else remembers the cringe thing you did. spinel-is-baby wait that actually helps so much Source: spinel-is-baby 37,427 notes

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scents

Do you ever catch a whiff of a scent that smells unmistakably of something really random like the twenty-third day of first grade and you're just like hOW DID I REMEMBER THAT SOMEONE ACTUALLY PUT THIS INTO WORDS

Do you ever catch a whiff of a scent that smells unmistakably of something really random like the twenty-third day of first grade and you're just like hOW DID I REMEMBER THAT SOMEONE ACTUALLY PUT THIS INTO WORDS

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aliens

kmart aliens humans

adam and eve

just-shower-thoughts Adam and Eve had to raise teenagers, but they were never teenagers beforehand. teaboot Eve holding the first ever baby: what the F--- is thiS teaboot Adam, talking to God: hey buddy so uh I don't know if this is like "normal- or what but my wife just shat out a fat bald monkey and now it won't stop screaming? Are you doing okay up there bro 5,784 notes

just-shower-thoughts Adam and Eve had to raise teenagers, but they were never teenagers beforehand. teaboot Eve holding the first ever baby: what the F--- is thiS teaboot Adam, talking to God: hey buddy so uh I don't know if this is like "normal- or what but my wife just shat out a fat bald monkey and now it won't stop screaming? Are you doing okay up there bro 5,784 notes

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ska

diaryofababywitch For Your Consideration Emo: The world is broken, and I'm sad because there's nothing I can do to fix it. Goth: The world is broken, but there's an odd beauty in the dark parts. Punk: The world is broken, and I am angry, and I am going to fight to fix it. patrickdiomedes Ska: Maybe the world is broken, but I've got a f------ trumpet.

diaryofababywitch For Your Consideration Emo: The world is broken, and I'm sad because there's nothing I can do to fix it. Goth: The world is broken, but there's an odd beauty in the dark parts. Punk: The world is broken, and I am angry, and I am going to fight to fix it. patrickdiomedes Ska: Maybe the world is broken, but I've got a f------ trumpet.

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vin rock

BECA mattandjones: lightbluesoldier i fused dwayne johnson and vin diesel (dwin johnsel) together and he looks surprisingly more innocent than his two contributors I trust him

BECA mattandjones: lightbluesoldier i fused dwayne johnson and vin diesel (dwin johnsel) together and he looks surprisingly more innocent than his two contributors I trust him

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what do teens like?

boredlord What do teens like?!? Is it memes? Memes about skeletons? Piss? Communism? sexhaver this post is 20x funnier if you imagine a CEO shouting it at his board of directors Source: boredlord 451,275 notes

boredlord What do teens like?!? Is it memes? Memes about skeletons? Piss? Communism? sexhaver this post is 20x funnier if you imagine a CEO shouting it at his board of directors Source: boredlord 451,275 notes

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online classes

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writing prompt

2 writing-prompt-s The Anti-Christ came and went, but no one noticed because he wasn't worse than the current state of the world already is. The rapture followed, but no one went to Heaven, so we didn't notice that either. We've been living in Hell for the last 5 years, and no one has noticed, yet. probsjosh oh I didn't realize this was a writing prompt Source: writing-prompt-s

2 writing-prompt-s The Anti-Christ came and went, but no one noticed because he wasn't worse than the current state of the world already is. The rapture followed, but no one went to Heaven, so we didn't notice that either. We've been living in Hell for the last 5 years, and no one has noticed, yet. probsjosh oh I didn't realize this was a writing prompt Source: writing-prompt-s

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