I'd love someone to collect together media has a sharper message but in "breaking containment" whether by kids adopting it, intentional dilution, or remakes/iteration it is warped to something anodyne or at least different. Aesop's original fables were more brutal, right? Monopoly originally a critique of itself. The Starship Troopers to Helldivers translation. FNAF feels like it belongs in here somewhere, too, as a horrification on the child entertainment centers of our youth.
I'm not acutely bothered by kids absorbing weird assemblages of more adult media around them. But it's a fascinating process and dance on the creators' ends.
Really appreciated this write-up and wanted to say thank you. I don't have kids and, outside of a few nephew/nieces, really in a kid-free zone, so this is ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING.
I'd love someone to collect together media has a sharper message but in "breaking containment" whether by kids adopting it, intentional dilution, or remakes/iteration it is warped to something anodyne or at least different. Aesop's original fables were more brutal, right? Monopoly originally a critique of itself. The Starship Troopers to Helldivers translation. FNAF feels like it belongs in here somewhere, too, as a horrification on the child entertainment centers of our youth.
I'm not acutely bothered by kids absorbing weird assemblages of more adult media around them. But it's a fascinating process and dance on the creators' ends.
Really appreciated this write-up and wanted to say thank you. I don't have kids and, outside of a few nephew/nieces, really in a kid-free zone, so this is ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING.
Thank you for reading!