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Man who posted deliberately offensive thing on social media can’t understand why people are offended (newsthump.com)

submitted 5 months ago by DxK@lemmy.world to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The conclusions that OP made about that study is quite interesting to me personally cause I experience both sides of it. There are certain content warnings that I take note of and decide if I have the mental energy to consume the content healthily. Sometimes I'm completely fine, sometimes the warning has me on edge till it happens, and sometimes I decide to nope out for now.

Tho with a young teen in my house, it's helpful to know if an episode of something is going to go into places that will mess with them or if it's completely age in appropriate. If something has an 18+ rating for an episode but only has profanity and gore as the advisory, I'm fine with my 15 year old watching it. If it's got nudity, sexual violence, eating disorder etc, then it's going to be a pass (or at least screened or having a follow up convo).

Considering they share in a lot of the content I'm consuming, and the majority of my time is spent watching internet content rather than produced media. It's one thing for Netflix to have an age rating and content warnings but I really appreciate warnings on YouTube video since it's really hard to predict what's going to come up.

I wonder if there would be significant differences if a wider range of content was included. For example: Books, websites, games, streams, YouTube, movies, series, music, podcasts.

Based on nothing but wild speculation, I think music would be at the bottom of effectiveness and books at the top.

[–] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Really interesting questions and considerations here. My kids are not that old, but I definitely think about how to manage potentially harmful content with them. It doesn’t help that the US has incredibly clear rules about how sex is portrayed on screen, but not blood/violence/gore/sexual violence in particular and the horrors that come with all of that. You go from decade to decade and PG-13/PG just radically shift all over the place - old Bond films are a classic example of this.

In the absence of somewhat legible MPAA ratings I just feel like more specific content warnings are a necessity.