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Society is fucked right? Gross game.

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RozHuntleysLeftHand · 19/09/2021 10:37

So This is a video from a guy on Twitter calling out a free game that is being advertised to kids in other games adverts.

I will add a trigger warning for sexual assault, cos though it's a cartoon game it's fucking disturbing.

In it, you play a teen boy who finds his step sister asleep at a party, the options are "do not disturb" or basically "undress without waking".

Now we all know nobody is going to take the first option, it'd be like starting one of those pick your own adventure books with "go home" or "have adventure", no ones going to pick the go home option. Hmm

The game then goes on, but if you do happen to wake her, she then acts like she's "up for it".

Having been on the receiving end of this type of assault, this is just fucking awful, but then add in the "step sister" bit, the fact they're teens, and that this is being advertised to fucking children, never mind the fact that this fucking game exists in the first place......

AIBU to think we are fucked as a society when this is what we are peddling as a bit of fucking entertainment??

Rape and sexual assault as a fucking game??!!

Am I going fucking mad?

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TSSDNCOP · 19/09/2021 10:39

I don't want to click on the link. Could you just tell me the name of the game so that I can check with the kids?

ArblemarchTFruitbat · 19/09/2021 10:40

Can you report this to Twitter? (I'm not on Twitter so don't know how it works) It sounds vile.

Annoyedanddissapointed · 19/09/2021 10:42

I don't think it's kids game. This sounds like teh ads for the games I used to see sometimes.
"He is married, you are pregnant with his baby you
Tell the wife
Tell your ex it's his"
Type of bs. I don't believe the game really is like that. Just probs something to get clocks on

worstdaughter · 19/09/2021 10:43

do not ever let your children play a game which has adverts. every game on the google app store tells you if there's adverts, don't know about iOS.

it's like any online advert, complete game of whack-a-mole with unacceptable content like this.

worstdaughter · 19/09/2021 10:44

yanbu op by the way

WithMyEncyclopedia · 19/09/2021 10:44

I've seen a similar game advertised on my WordsWithFriends2 (scrabble)! It's outrageous. Rapey and grim.

It's got nothing to do with Twitter, Twitter is where the person criticising the game has been posted.

RozHuntleysLeftHand · 19/09/2021 10:46

Sorry maybe I wasn't clear....the video on Twitter is a guy calling out Google for having it at all on it's platform, it does include a brief screenshot video of the start of the game, but it's actually calling it out so I don't want to report the video to Twitter cos that'd be counter productive IYSWIM!

His name is Michael Mc @TizzyEnt on Twitter if you want to check it put without clicking on my link.

It's just fucking gross that someone thought to even make it, never mind stick it in ads during brain training type games and stuff.

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MasterBeth · 19/09/2021 10:47

The game is not on Twitter. The game, according to the guy on Twitter, is available on Google Play. There’s no point complaining to Twitter, any more than there is complaining to Mumsnet about a post about Twitter about a game on Google Play.

And, yes, it sounds appalling rape culture violent misogyny.

RozHuntleysLeftHand · 19/09/2021 10:50

Just the fact that games even exist that are like this has really made me despair.

Even if it is just clickbait, this has happened to too many women and the fact that even for a minute you can play a bit of a game where you sexually assault your step sister is just absolutely horrific.

I mean, what the actual fuck??

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Twinstudy · 19/09/2021 10:51

I see loads of this sort of thing on Duolingo. Games where you choose what a women should wear to go on a date then the saying 'you look like a slut, you disgust me'. Not as bad as the op but it's still just grim.

RozHuntleysLeftHand · 19/09/2021 10:52

And you're right worstdaughter this is why I won't let DS have free games, you never know what the ads are going to be for, and if they are for games like this...?

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RozHuntleysLeftHand · 19/09/2021 10:54

Twinstudy God it is just fucking grim isn't it?

I feel a bit old because I never realised there were so many games like that out there.

It's literal rape culture in a cutesy animated game!

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RozHuntleysLeftHand · 19/09/2021 11:14

I mean what hope is there for kids growing up in a world where games like this exist?

"Hey kids! Sexual assault is fun! Girls love being assaulted in their sleep! Click now!"

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floppybit · 19/09/2021 11:18

Oh god this is so utterly depressing

RozHuntleysLeftHand · 19/09/2021 11:26

Forgot there was voting!
If you want to vote I guess
YABU- It's just a game, get over yourself
YANBU- It's gross

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