Boy, 11, died trying social media craze - family
It is about time those who make these videos were prosecuted, and held to account, in the meantime hold the CEOs accountable and responsible for EVERY DEATH.
Ofcom need to grow some and take action, they are the regulator for the online safety bill.
I remember this; whilst it was somewhat overblown and had little effect on usage patterns as we got to our later teens, drug usage wasn't normalised as much (I was a raver back in the day and even then we kept very quiet about what we did outside our circle of friends and didn't encourage younger teens to partake, at least until they had finished high school and there was even an element of harm reduction on this scene)
+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
Things like this don't 'just happen' people have to make the videos to tell people to do these things
I agree society is broken, that is part of a wider issue, accountability is surely one part of how to fix it
@zleap @br00t4c i'm going to digress a bit here.
i think there are many things taught as "good" in schools now which are pretty harmful ideas. first and foremost the whole doomsday cult putting "climate rescue" onto the shoulders of kids. eat the wrong thing? climate killer! might be well-intentioned (i have big doubts though), those kids will be guaranteed to have anxiety or other issues.
same goes for other things. i'm still confused that in my youth we were told that it doesn't matter what you are but what you do. now the polar opposite seems to be sought after: it's absolutely central for your personality to revolve around "what" you are and nobody cares jack shit for what you do anymore. that will wreak havok on the psyche of a whole generation. much more than the token systems of my youth did manage to do.
nobody cares jack shit for these things, see picrel.
with regards to the video: in the end someone failed to tell the kids to not believe _anything_ on the net.
creating legislature to jail people for shit video challenges is lazy and definitively _will_ be used to silence political opponents.
@zleap @br00t4c
if glue sniffing / solvent abuse had been portrayed as anything fun/positive on kids / youth TV in my younger days, the programme would have been instantly taken off air and the producers would find it very hard to get work in the industry again (this didn't stop producers discussing the subject and warning of the risks)