WickedLiquid
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A co-worker of mine who is also a gamer insisted I watch a video where these guys show what Mortal Kombat fatalities would look like in real life.
Naturally that sounds horrifying but I knew it was YouTube so how bad could it be? Probablt just a bunch of college kids messing around with prosthetics right? Erm, well no it was absolutely disgusting. Then out of morbid curiosity I checked out their channel where they have just as equally disturbing and violent content. One video in particular really got me where Ronald McDonald murdered children in horrible and disturbing ways. This is suposed to be dark humour but it was pretty extreme.
Obviously it's all fake and it's my own damn fault for watching these videos. But it got me thinking that kids can access this stuff with ease. A flagged video isn't going to stop a kid with a YouTube account from watching Ronald strangle the life out of a six year old then rip out another victim's tongue. If I watched that when I was a kid I would have had nightmares for sure.
The real idiocy here is we know videos with nudity would be pulled off YouTube immediately while explicit violence and gore is accepted.
So have we come to a point now where we've gone too far? And why is there such a strong tolerance for violence and not nudity?
Naturally that sounds horrifying but I knew it was YouTube so how bad could it be? Probablt just a bunch of college kids messing around with prosthetics right? Erm, well no it was absolutely disgusting. Then out of morbid curiosity I checked out their channel where they have just as equally disturbing and violent content. One video in particular really got me where Ronald McDonald murdered children in horrible and disturbing ways. This is suposed to be dark humour but it was pretty extreme.
Obviously it's all fake and it's my own damn fault for watching these videos. But it got me thinking that kids can access this stuff with ease. A flagged video isn't going to stop a kid with a YouTube account from watching Ronald strangle the life out of a six year old then rip out another victim's tongue. If I watched that when I was a kid I would have had nightmares for sure.
The real idiocy here is we know videos with nudity would be pulled off YouTube immediately while explicit violence and gore is accepted.
So have we come to a point now where we've gone too far? And why is there such a strong tolerance for violence and not nudity?