Snarky Jay, one of the many YouTubers regularly watch, dropped a video the other week that I had originally passed on but came back to this morning.
“How ADULT Men TOOK OVER a Show for LITTLE GIRLS… and RUINED IT.”
Of course, it is all about Bronies.
Now years ago I had come across people online reacting to the whole Bronie thing and I think I watched a documentary someone did on the then-phenomenon of adult men finding something in a show and toyline aimed at young girls.
I mentally put that all aside really until I watched this today, from the perspective of a 25-year-old woman who happens to be the exact age for that era of My Little Pony and was experiencing the Bronie craziness as a young girl!
It really is an interesting commentary video.
And she’s 100% right. Adults shouldn’t bring adult-things into properties with children as the demographic.
But of course, capitalism and the quest for the all-might dollars plus the constant regurgitation of these product lines inevitably make for bad bed fellows here.
The toy companies revisit their product lines for later generations of kids, but we now live in a human culture where adults do not necessarily give up their childhood interests. In fact, they can become even more immersed in such things. But that’s not the problem. The problem is that as adults, we can’t merely view the same things from the eyes of a child. We are not children anymore. So we think about things from an adult perspective with our adult world and adult baggage added to it and that shouldn’t be something children need to know. They are rarely if every compatible.
Yes. I’m a South Park fan and have been since the first episode dropped. But South Park is not, nor has it ever been, a show aimed at children!
Oh, using the dressing of 10-year old 4th graders as the general protagonists to tell what are adult stories has of course caused some controversies over the past decades, but the show has never once been intentionally aimed at children nor even teens.
Where was I going with all of this?
I don’t really remember now. I’m tying train of thought here as I most often do.
Oh. Yeah. This Snarky Jay video is excellent. Go watch it.
And yes, adults can ruin innocent things and adults need to stop doing this.
I know the interwebs has made it difficult to separate child-focused things from adult-focused things, but we need to be better humans when it comes to such stuff.
Yeah, the past 30+ years of the growth of essentially being able to post whatever you want abotu whatever you want means that anyone young or old is likely to access something. And yes, many parents are lax with their kids, throwing an iPad at them as a distraction now at far too young of ages.
I could go on and on about the fights I had with my own son and his first smart phone that I refused to let him take to school and all of the years of drama that ensued over that.
Ugh. I wandered again.
Anyway, go watch Snarky Jay.
And serious think about your adult cringe and weigh if it healthy or not in the scheme of this universe and the timeline you inhabit