What's your attitude towards the popularity of cartoon/game characters in the younger generations.
Posted by Alokeen011@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 7 comments
I find the amount and sort-of-kind-of sexual theme of what I can see is popular with the characters kind of... weird?
The anime are almost always sexualised (or at least that's what surfaces to r/popular, I guess), there are 'in depth' discussions about a game character having features modelled this or that way...
Not judging, just can't really understand the fascination. I understand adolescent inclinations and needs but "in my time", there were other materials for that...
FullMoonVoodoo@reddit
I asked chatgpt for a picture of a dog and I got a furry with huge tits just because I had referred to the dog as "her"
That was when I got weirded out by this shit
edasto42@reddit
I don’t believe you. That can only happen under a few conditions. Since the general release of ChatGPT is very PG and won’t generate sexually explicit images unless you code it to do so, which requires a few workarounds to get there. And on top of that ChatGPT uses all prior input YOU have given it on top of using info from across other apps and programs to generate bits responses-this might not be a flex that you think.
I use ChatGPT daily for functions of my job and know its limitations pretty well. Even a paid subscription doesn’t get you explicit pictures on accident.
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OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit
You can't understand why people can be sexually attracted to characters that are designed to be sexually attractive? This has been going on for eons; it's nothing new.
Ianthin1@reddit
Not everyone has the same kinks. Not everyone had access to traditional dirty magazines back in the day. Not everyone limits comics to being for children, or needing to remain "innocent". It's been like that for decades. There were adult themed cartoons and comics back to the 60's if not earlier.
Heavy Metal is a peak example of obviously sexualized animated content that was pretty popular IIRC.
edasto42@reddit
I literally work at a comic shop and have a collection of R. Crumb books I’m putting up for sale. OP might be uncomfortable knowing those existed probably before they were born
edasto42@reddit
Have you never walked into a comic shop in the 80’s and 90’s? American comics during that area were notorious for the objectification of women characters. I’ve also had the pleasure to work at a comic shop in both the early 90’s and today, and there was probably more sexualization of characters in the 90’s than there is today.