Tiktok is the most accessed web resource in 2022, with only a small number of people using it. Worst of all, it is the teenagers that lose their lives there. A grandma playing candy crush - sad but not a societal problem. Teenagers that miss out on school, or young moms that don't anymore look at their kids, or young workers that can't focus - enormous societal problem.

> Very few people end up yelling at everyone around when something does not work out in game.

I remember growing up many people's parents getting mad for weeks over football game outcomes they had no control over.

Computer games have had a counter-backlash for the past few decades against moral panics such as they cause violence. But with the advent of loot boxes and the like, the new angle of addiction and games might turn that tide. The old inapplicable moral panic has come and gone, and one based on more easily-quantifiable reality will give way to a more broadly acceptable moral panic.

As for your point on social media, the past year’s spate of articles on revenge sleep procrastination would seem to refute that suggestion.