Unpopular opinion time (super alpha no pony edition)

That’s fine. No one is making you

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@Just Wayne
Tell that to people who think 18 and 19 are still a minor and not an adult.

I mean, with people hating the idea of 18/19 year Olds dating someone older, and with good reason, why does R and M have 17+ instead of 20+ if they’re not old enough to date or drink?

@Hollowfox, Always The Worst Person
Frankly, it’s all arbitrary. Like how the age of consent is less than 18 in some US States and as little as 12 or 13 in some countries. Or like how weed is legal in California, Nevada, Colorado, etc.; but not in Texas, Utah, Idaho, etc.

The ESRB, like the MPRA are non-governmental industry groups. Their content ratings aren’t actually law abiding at all and are directed primarily towards the assumed purchasing guardians of children by making up ratings to broadly advertise the content of the video games (or movies) they reviewed in order to chill criticism by parental groups. In the case of the ESRB it was the backlash by parenting activists in the early 90s over Mortal Kombat and Doom and the threat of congressional oversight in the time of Focus On The Family.

The ratings max out at 18, because at 18 you are legally free of parental oversight in all matters so it doesn’t matter anymore. You get all sorts of financial freedoms as an 18 year old than you would as a 16 year old or even a 13 year old. So it makes even less sense to establish parental control ratings for anyone who is a legal adult

Going to be honest, I’m surprised that Magiswords creator’s misdeeds are even known about outside the tiny niche of Magisword fans. He’s not like a well known figure like John Lasseter after all.

I miss Dark5’s old types of videos where there was no narration and it was just appropriate music combined with the text. I’m not a fan of their newer videos with narration where he talks fast and out of breath like a nuke is about to strike his house or something.

Pokemon 10th anniverserary should have been 2008 in America not 2006. Because Pokemon only came out in 1998 in America and in 1996, kids focused on Mario and Power Rangers not Pokemon.

@Background Pony #967B
I cared more about Pokemon than Mario and Power Rangers when I was a kid. I’m not American.

@Just Wayne
Of course you weren’t around when the Pokemon craze first showed up. It was already part of the average pop culture by the 2000s just like Spongebob.

Pokemon conquered the world. Even today Power Rangers or Transformers is a footnote compared to the power of the Pocket Monsters.

@Background Pony #967B
Duh, I was practically born with Pokemon so I think it’s recognition deserves to be from the very beginning.

Every gaming subreddit should strive to be like r/Arkham, r/Silksong and r/Pikmin.

Why haven’t others done so. Are they stupid?

I don’t like watching images that involve visual illusions.

It’s odd how people like to post that kind of stuff but I’m not a fan. I know the primitive human brain causes a weird interpretation from the thing I’m watching, that’s not fascinating…that’s creepy to think how easy it is to fool the brain.

All of the people who whine about batman’s no killing rule as stupid are people who fundamentally do not understand batman as a character.

@harasha456
I don’t agree with it but I don’t find it stupid. I understand why he does it.

The chair is not real.

I like Dragon Ball, but it shouldn’t be the poster boy for treating fictional characters like they’re real.

Imma need some clarification on why Dragon Ball earned that title.

@Zincy
I would but Derpibooru hates Twitter.

Anyways, here is an example.

@Hollowfox, Always The Worst Person
Im not sure how A DBZ character beating up an anime girl posted by a “lolicon is important culture” dude is supposed to be a bad thing

@Icicle Niceicle 1517
And I am not sure how treating fictional characters like they’re real to the point of making fake accusations to ruin lives (like what Kyle Carroza did to Ang Vondra) over it is supposed to be a good thing either.

I am confident most people know that fictional characters are fictional and the people who think they are real are the ones in the “unpopular opinion” category.

@AaronMk
It’s not like Twitter allows people to falsely accuse people of pedophilia and care about a fictional character’s age over NSFW works of FICTIONAL characters.

Lusting over underaged fictional characters is a bad look

@AaronMk
Then why say that last post (before my reply) if you’re gonna treat them like they’re real by saying that?

It kinda defeats the purpose of fictional characters being fictional, even though ever since that mentality was created a long time ago (maybe by a minor), and thus it led to problems and no safe space for NSFW content as well as shit like the Kyle Carrozza/Ang Vondra drama.

I hate drama channels like MorePegasus, Acheeto and the like. Not only are they what they are, reporting on stupid drama while adding their opinion on it, but they also creep into my recommendations whenever the drama of the week happens. These are just the video equivalent of those celebrity tabloid magazines you find in stores and I hate that these videos get millions of views. I overall don’t get the fascination of following public drama of some YouTuber, even if that person most likely deserves whatever backlash they get, I get no catharsis or enjoyment out of it. Dare I say they make YouTube an even worse platform more than YouTube and their botting system themselves.