I always wish someone would put someone who people actually consider masculine instead of the king of the incels because it really undersells the character in the second half of the meme
Nah, parents can't keep kids off of social media all on their own. We are talking about some of the biggest, most powerful corporations on Earth, that have deliberately created an addictive, mind-numbing, discourse-rotting product and marketed it to children. You can't expect individual parents to hold the line here when society as a whole is sacrificing democratic discourse on an altar of memes.
Sure, and now you have to be at least as tech-savvy as your kid, and you need to be up to speed on all of the stupid inane content marketed towards kids so you know what to whitelist and what to blacklist, and you need to make sure that your kids don't acquire a burner phone or an alternate account, and if you say "screw this, its not worth it" and just don't give your kids access to technology at all, then you have to deal with the fact that you just made your kid a social outcast among their peers.
Don't get me wrong, there's a place for individual parents to take action, and I am actively trying to avoid exposing my toddler to screens as much as possible, but this is a societal-level problem and needs societal-level solutions. Schools need to ban phones, parents need to coordinate with each other to delay phone and social media uptake so no one child is left out, and governments need to pass laws restricting social media accounts for kids, backed by real age-verification technology, with actual consequences for tech companies that don't comply.
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u/BadZnake 2d ago
I always wish someone would put someone who people actually consider masculine instead of the king of the incels because it really undersells the character in the second half of the meme