The game is full of "language violence" and the Internet anchor "uses ugliness as beauty"

  The swearing Internet is teaching children badly

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  As soon as I see the child teammates chasing and scolding

  At 8 p.m. on Saturday night, Xiao Sun's once-a-week "happy hour" came.

After waiting for a long time, he took over the iPad from his father.

Just two months ago, the 10-year-old grandson made an agreement with his parents that as long as he completed his homework on time, he could play online games for an hour on Saturdays and Sundays.

  Lighting up the screen, Xiao Sun chose a multiplayer online shooting game.

This game, called "chicken eating" by fans, is very popular among minors.

  After going online on time, selecting the mode, and clicking to match, the tablet in Xiao Sun's hand suddenly rang out. It was his "teammate" in the game, talking on the other end of the screen.

  "No. 3, please tell me something, are you a primary school student, idiot primary school students, hurry up and leave, uncle doesn't bring little stupid children."

  "It's rookie time again, please return the garbage quickly, don't be stupid, okay?"

  Hearing the voice in the iPad, Xiao Sun silently clicked the "mute" button. This is another agreement between him and his father - as long as you hear swearing words in the game, ignore them, let alone learn to say them, click "first" mute".

In the next hour, Xiao Sun played a total of 5 games and clicked "Mute" 3 times.

  Mr. Sun has become accustomed to such scenes. In his eyes, letting children play games is a dilemma.

If you don't play, it is difficult to release the child's nature; play, the game environment today is somewhat dirty in his opinion.

"I've heard many times by my side, and I've scolded a lot of people casually, and some people even scolded children."

  According to his observation, there are roughly two types of swearing in the game: at the beginning of the game, some people are full of foul language, which is not targeted, and they are "trolls" in the mouths of netizens; the other is when they see teammates playing poorly. When it's good, start belittling teammates.

Children who are inexperienced in games are often the target of scolding.

This phenomenon is particularly prominent after the launch of online games with a time limit.

  What makes Mr. Sun more gratified is that children have a certain ability to resist foul language in games.

I have also communicated with my children and asked them to "don't listen and don't learn" in order to ensure play time.

However, the children do not fully understand the swear words in the game, and sometimes think it is "fun"; when someone scolds him, the 10-year-old Sun is not only wronged, but always wants to "counterattack".

  In fact, the scolding is not necessarily an adult. Mr. Sun has heard it many times, and he can tell from the sound that the other person is at most a middle school student.

What's more, Mr. Sun has heard the children scolding several times, "The impact on the children is too bad, so I can only deal with them in silence."

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  Cursing people as a bright spot There are many children in the audience

  Not only the uncivilized language in the game, but there are also many "swear words" on the online video platform today, and some people specially edit the swearing and swearing of the anchor during the live broadcast to become the highlight of the video for others to watch.

  On a certain video platform, a video titled "An anchor was banned in the live broadcast room" has a full 327,000 views.

In this 9 minutes and 20 seconds of video, the first 5 minutes are the live broadcast of the anchor playing the game, which is relatively normal.

But after 5 minutes until the end of the video, the anchor seemed to have a conflict with someone, and the video completely turned into a "swear collection", with endless swear words.

Judging from the video barrage comments, the audience is obviously more interested in the abuse in the second half of the video, and the number of comments is much more than the first half.

There are many ridiculing words such as "hahahaha", "little mouth wiped with honey" and "good eloquence", which completely treat the host's scolding as a joke.

The video was released on December 14, 2021. When the reporter found the video, more than 20 days had passed, but the video website showed that 32 people were still watching together at this time.

  Some bloggers scolded people because of conflicts, and some bloggers themselves "use ugliness as beauty", deliberately using exaggerated performances and vulgar language to win the curiosity of netizens.

Among the viewers of these videos, there are many minors.

  "Silly X, why doesn't he wear pants?" "Silly X, get out!" On a short video platform, a 1-minute-long video with more than 360,000 likes appeared twice. The content of the video is just two adults watching educational animations for children.

  Coincidentally, words such as "silly X" frequently appear in other "watching animation" videos of the same anchor, and the likes of these videos are some hundreds of thousands, and many even reach 700,000 or 800,000.

  "If it wasn't for the children studying there, I wouldn't have paid attention." Ms. Chang's child just entered the third grade, and occasionally she would hold Ms. Chang's mobile phone and watch short videos for a while.

Previously, Ms. Chang didn't care when she saw that the children watched videos such as animations and game explanations.

It wasn't until one day that she heard the child learn the cry of "Silly X Silly X" in the video, and she realized the problem - in many videos of game commentary and animation commentary, the video creators even swear words and even swear words. on subtitles.

  Judging from the videos provided by Ms. Chang, the creators of the videos did it on purpose. In order to avoid being supervised, some videos will deliberately replace the dirty words in the voice with other subtitles - the "silly X" is clearly stated in the video, and the subtitles But he became a "handsome guy".

"The videos are all edited, why do dirty words appear so frequently, and subtitles are added to these words?"

  What worries Ms. Chang even more is that the content of these videos is obviously "directed at children".

Because the content of the video is mostly spliced ​​through game videos or children's animations, and then mixed with the creator's exaggerated explanations and facial expressions, it is easy to attract the attention of children.

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  Insufficient supervision and reporting have no effect

  Mr. Sun used the game's "report" function to report swearing players, but after several attempts, he found that he did not see any improvement except for the feedback "your report has been received".

Ms. Chang also reported short videos of swearing words that her children watched, but the result of the feedback from the platform wrote, "According to the current information, the violation cannot be confirmed for the time being."

  Is it illegal or not, and what standard does it refer to?

The reporter saw from the platform's "Community Management Standards" that there is a chapter that reads "Do not produce, copy, publish, or disseminate the following bad information that violates public order and good customs." The bad information listed includes "displaying foul language, using Insulting, discriminatory and provocative language."

It can be seen that the specification clearly states that the display of foul language is not allowed, but the platform does not strictly enforce it during review and supervision.

  The review is not in place, and the report does not work. It seems that parents can only resort to the "teenage mode" of the platform.

In the youth mode, the platform will select a batch of educational, knowledge and other content suitable for minors to watch. Minors cannot watch live broadcasts, and cannot perform operations such as rewards and recharges. The maximum time to use the youth mode every day is 40 minutes, and the platform cannot be used from 10:00 pm to 6:00 the next day.

  The youth model seems to be beautiful, but before, many media have reported the problem that the youth model is "in name only".

Although the parent has set a password, it is still very easy for the child to cancel the youth mode. Just click the button to retrieve the password, and then enter the last six digits of the parent's ID card and the phone number, and then the parent's pre-set release password can be obtained.

  The reporter recently tried the youth model again and found that various platforms have tightened the fence.

After clicking the reset password button, the platform informs that parents need to hold their ID cards and take a selfie, and send the photo to the platform's dedicated email address. The password can only be reset after the platform has verified it.

If the child wants to crack the password by guessing the password, the platform will be locked after five attempts, and the youth mode cannot be released on that day.

  But the reporter also found that the current youth model of some platforms is more like a semi-finished product.

The selected content is not rich enough, and there are many inconveniences to use.

For example, a short video platform does not provide a search function, and children cannot search for content that they are more interested in, so they can only keep refreshing and trying their luck.

There are other video platforms, not only can't search, even video bloggers can't follow, even if the child thinks the blogger's video is very interesting, they can't view the blogger's other video works.

Our reporter Mo Fan and Wu Nan