For example #leagueoflegends produced a very famous and popular, animated tv series called #Arcane. #imaginedragons produced the intro track and the artstyle got very popular, to the point where people also did their make up like this or cosplay.
Gaming is part of global culture and is only growing in importance. It started to influence the international market and different industries - which obviously means a lot of money is connected to gaming and the community.
Not how china does it currently by restricting access to gaming for the youth. I mean 3h per week only on weekends? This is too strict. Especially because it is from the government. It only makes people try to jail break gaming for their kids.
Sure there should be limits and parents should check the games their kids are playing, but it should be left to the parents discretion. Screen time limits are helpful, but they should be individually tailored to an individual child.
Gaming does not only have negative effects on children, it also improves certain aspects. Starting at simple things like typing speed and by complex stuff like emotional regulation.
Sure there have been studies connecting gaming and gaming addiction to mental illnesses and how it impacts people’s lives and yes, gaming plays a role in adolescences display of aggressive behaviour, but that doesn’t make gaming bad per se.
In this #tagesschau article they have to specifically say that the motivations of the murderer of Charlie Kirk can not be linked to video games. www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amer...
A lot of parents and especially older people who have never touched a game in their life are afraid of the consequences of gaming (in general). Everywhere every form of aggression (like gun violence) gets attributed to gaming.
During the #pandemic gaming became a #escape for many people who all were confined to their own four walls. Games gave them the opportunity to forget and focus on something else. It was a possibility to pass the time while having #fun.
The #WHO added #gamingaddiction to the ICD and defined it as “increasing priority given to gaming over other activities to the extent that gaming takes #precedence over other interests and daily activities, and continuation or escalation of gaming despite the occurrence of #negativeconsequences.”
In #StrayKids, muscles & power appear through performance and choreography, channeling discipline & intensity. Their “soft” sides (aegyo, emotional openness) redefine masculinity by showing that strength can coexist with vulnerability.
Maybe, and hear me out on this one: the problem of the “rise of feminine china” is not with K-pop but with the toxicity of masculinity china wants to force on its male population. Because 👏🏼the patriarchy is bad for men too👏🏼. And the enforcement of toxic masculine traits is 👏🏼also bad for everyone👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Sure these pictures are obviously for the female gaze, but if chinas concept of masculinity is that fragile it can be “destroyed” by some singers of some bands of another country, maybe the problem is not the other countries fault.
Does it work? Probably not. Also, please look at this picture of a “random” K-pop idol (San, Ateez), and tell me this is not masculine. I fucking dare you.
Maybe the reason for that unlogical fear is a response at the rising of #globalinfluence of Korea. Maybe China feels threatened by the success of K-pop and wants to use it as a scapegoat to get people to stop consuming that media.
So if we follow that logic and add china blaming the rise of femininity on Korea (or rather K-pop) does this mean they use this “problem” to just have a reason to block #Koreanculture?
But let’s be real for a second: if china was right and there is a rise in “femininity” among men, what is their problem? Realistically, if more men would have “ #femalecharacteristics” like not picking up weapons at every minor inconvenience, would that not solve the threat of war entirely?
The chinese government argues that a “feminine china” (read: men that are not up to the government’s definition of masculinity) will not be able to defend China if an invasion would come. Because in their pov a man needs to be “muscular, reliable and career oriented”.
