> Observe kids playing games in real life, they are very rarely as vulgar or sadistic as on online games. Kids are actually rarely vulgar or sadistic when play

> Observe kids playing games in real life, they are very rarely as vulgar or sadistic as on online games. Kids are actually rarely vulgar or sadistic when playing online as well. The toxicity of online gaming communities is a self-reinforcing feedback loop. The toxic kids find a home and either drive all the nice kids out with their toxicity or prompt the nice kids to adapt and internalize toxic ways of engaging. It's not an inherent feature of kids themselves and plenty of online games that were explicitly targeted at children have been perfectly fine without epidemics of griefing or abuse as long as they constrain kids to playing within their own friend-groups rather than against strangers. Most of the foulest people are actually adults with jobs or surly teenagers. The kids are fine.