Dark Magic

~ Clarissa

This is causing me physical pain:

People, what are you doing, people? I can’t even watch the clip to the end.

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  1. There’s an entertainment hedge fund called Moonbug Entertainment whose purpose is mining and monetizing this exact reaction in children.

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    1. I understand why these evil shits are doing it but where are the parents? These are babies! My kid is 9 and still unaware of the existence of YouTube. At the age of those babies? Screens should not exist anywhere around them.

      I’m shocked that these parents are posting these videos as cute. That woman can be some sort of a pedo, what are they thinking?

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      1. Moms did the same with VHS tapes and Disney Channel when I was a kid. And justified it with “But it’s educational“. YT is the same thing, but… with thirty more years of psych research, and very finely weaponized.

        We don’t talk enough about kids and overstimulation.

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          1. Yeah, looking back one of the things that TV (awful as it is) had going for it was: the content was limited enough that the smarter kids (and the more active, driven to get out and *do* stuff) got bored with it quickly. We all knew kids who spent all their free time watching TV, and… those kids were dumb to begin with. It was still a tragedy: There were a whole group of us girls who were neighbors, friends, around the same age, played together in the afternoons for years. And then… we lost one. Her parents had cable, and they got her a TV *in her room* (this was pretty unheard of in our social set). We basically never saw her again. We’d still go knock on the door and ask if she could play, and she’d come out and mumble some excuse, usually a show she didn’t want to miss. As adults (we still know the family), it’s pretty obvious she had some intellectual deficits. It hadn’t made a difference to us when we were 8: at that point she was a welcome addition to dress-up games, barbies, and bicycle expeditions. We built a lot of forts together. Adulthood hasn’t treated her well, and it still itches in the back of my head, like… could things have turned out better if she hadn’t been eaten by the TV? Could she have maintained contact with a social support network? Stayed in better health? Had people who cared about her to gossip about boyfriends with?

            Everything about the small-screen revolution seems like that… but x100. Like doping your kid with crack and then handing the whole world access to them. Intelligence and athleticism aren’t nearly as protective.

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