Even without YouTube, mother hated hearing me talk about Digimon and stuff. It was depressing. I had to listen to her ramble about her stupid colleagues, she could have at least pretended to listen to me ramble about Angewomon.
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I feel this deep in my soul. My kids don’t have tablets or phones and are only allowed to watch things with us there that we approve of. And yet, somehow, my youngest wants to talk about fucking Mikey and JJ videos.
There are times my kids want to talk about Roblox/YouTube stuff that I'm not interested or I dislike. But I listen, because I'm a parent and I want my rugrats to share their interests with me.
But yeah, I get where this comic is coming from.
The comic panel has "buy our stuff" there, so i assume it's gonna be about the merch the youtuber about to push
The author agrees with you.
I waaaas going to make a joke here, but you said roblox.
So now I gotta be serious.
You need to take roblox away from your kids. It is a danger to them. Pedophiles play that game specifically because it's easy for 43 year old men to talk to 7 year olds.
And the reason it's so easy is because the CEO of the company that makes roblox has stated in the past they will NOT take actions to stop the very real pedophile problem on their servers. Essentially roblox is pro-pedo.
You need to take roblox away from your kids.
And here I was about to let my kid no longer be the only one of his friends not playing. So my theory that the Internet is dangerous and filled with predators to children still holds up, eh?
Always has been. I remember in the 90s being a 13 year old boy, talking on a chat service thats long dead now. It was called "talkcity".
They were a collection of chatrooms. They had a chatroom for every niche. I hungout in the "teenchat".
I can remember having people message me, claiming to be 14/F/Cali. I was 13/M/Ohio.
So I didn't think anything of it at the time. But those chats were EXTREMELY sexual. Knowing what I know now, I was probably talking to a 40 year old dude living in his moms basement.
Even though talkcity is long dead, that behavior of targeted predators is very much still alive.
Brother it ain't no theory, it's an unfortunate fact.
I’ve suffered through playing Italian BrainRot games with my kids. That is a level of commitment I never knew I had in me.
I am very grateful that my kids still fall in my sphere of influence. I'm passed to day that their favorite games are: Super Hexagon, Super Meat Boy, Ori and the Blind Forest, Super Mario 3D Land, etc. No mention of Roblox, Minecraft or Fortnite in this house.
His name was Robert Paulson.
That's Robert?!
Does he have bitch tits?
You think that's crazy....wait till I tell you that the theme song for the Disney show "Spidey and his amazing Spider Friends" was written and performed by Patrick Stump of Fallout Boy fame.
At least they have moved on from Minecraft. If nothing else it's a good exercise in teaching them critical thinking by pointing out all the grifts and scams that come across their feed and teaching how to use YouTube without using the Algorithm parts.
Implying the videos aren't Minecraft or Roblox related.
father backing child into a corner
"It's time for a six hour road trip listening to my favorite podcasts, son. And after that, I'm making you watch classic movies. And then we're going to play catch in the yard. After that I bought a model kit we're going to put together. And then we're going fishing!"
child-like screaming
That's just the plot of the Goofy and Max movie
No need to talk to me about YouTube or TikTok if I don’t even let my kid use them in the first place.