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gender-euphowrya · 2 years

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ngl the parents clutching pearls about huggy wuggy are funny as hell trying to pretend that oh it’s the evil internet’s fault for letting their kids be exposed to horror with cute aesthetics like oh that damn night freddy and them momos making my kid too scared to sleep

as if their generation didn’t grow up seeing absolutely fucked puppets on tv and fucking mr blobby and the yearly child trauma ritual of forcing kids to sit in the lap of some dude in a very disheveled and shoddy easter bunny suit

#like don’t get me wrong i get that the scale of the impact & ease of access to scary content that looks like kids content is different #but like. putting the blame for its existence on the internet as if that hasn’t just… been a part of human culture since forever #i mean ffs fairy tales are the Ultimate form of content geared towards kids #and the OG ones from balls centuries ago were all about like. murder and death and r*pe and whatnot #heehee hoohoo hansel and gretel two little kids who love candy :) THEY WILL GET EATEN ALIVE good night baby !!!!#it’s just always been a thing so #instead of blaming the internet for having content that has existed for All of human history #how about you blame yourself for not monitoring what kind of content your kid gets exposed to #how about you blame yourself for just dropping your kid in front of an ipad for hours on end without offering other forms of entertainment #how about sitting your kid down to explain to them what horror is and what fiction is #look i don’t get it either i don’t get why horror and gore is something that’s made to be compatible with children audiences #but the fact is. it exists and it always has and some kids do genuinely love it in the same way an adult would love horror movies #and ! even if you shelter your kid from all of it ! kids have nightmares and get scared of fucking anything !#I HAD NIGHTMARES FROM THE MR BEAN MOVIE !!!! kids are just like that !!#you can not prevent your child from being scared #all you can do is comfort them when they do and help them feel safe again #it’s not the video game dev’s fault it’s not the plush manufacturer’s fault it’s just #a thing that is bound to happen eventually.#but don’t get mad that it does happen if -you- haven’t put in the effort to try to prevent it #you can’t just let your kid watch anything on youtube and then be mad they watched something you don’t like #if you’d checked with them or ! prepared your own playlist of stuff you deem acceptable or w/e #them you’d have nothing to complain about

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