“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”

Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction” by tomjen3 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @03:07PM (#26158180)

Almost every Disney movie have the childrens parents being killed, the Swedish childrens author Astrid Lindgren (very popular in Europe, I don’t know about the US) wrote a story called The Brothers Lionheart where the young brother is dying from an incurable respiratory disease and (spoilers) his brother dies saving him from a house fire. The he dies from the respiratory disease.

My point is that children are being told stories that we wouldn’t consider for children all the time. And that isn’t even considering fairytales.

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Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction” by tomc1985 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @06:51PM (#26160484)

You're missing my point. There are people sneaking downright weird shit into kids' feeds on Youtube.

https://www.theverge.com/culture/2017/11/21/16685874/kids-yo...

The difference between brothers Grimm or old Disney films and this is coherence, and possibly motive. At the very least they are trying to tell a story of some kind. But this stuff is closer to porn (except its surreal? instead of titillating), and the motive is unknown.

It's totally different and a new thing compared to the 60s/70s/80s kids argument.

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Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction” by anticristi on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @04:50PM (#26159230)

I recently got a book with the full collection of the Grimm brothers' fairytales. I don't get how those authors got marketed as kids story writers. Some of the stories make it feel like reading Terminator for bedtime is harmless.

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