Nicole HennigNew Year's Resolutions of the Past: Vices That Became Virtues newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/new-years-re… #history #radio #reading #cycling #MoralPanics #NewspaperReporting
Nicole HennigNew Year's Resolutions of the Past: Vices That Became Virtues https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/new-years-resolutions-of-the-past #history #radio #reading #cycling #MoralPanics #NewspaperReporting
James Baker📚 18th–19th c. – Novel reading panic
🗞️ Early 1900s – Dime novels & pulp fiction
🦸 1950s – Comic books & juvenile delinquency
🎸 1950s–60s – Rock ’n’ roll
📺 1960s–70s – Television addiction
🎲 1970s–80s – Dungeons & Dragons
🤘 1980s – Heavy metal & Satanic Panic
🎮 1990s – Video game violence and VHS nasties
🌐 2000s – Internet & online danger
📱 2010s–2020s – Social media & smartphone addiction
Arcadiagt5Ok, noting the content warnings, I do think this #SethSkorkowsky video is worth a look re #TTRPG #MoralPanics https://youtube.com/watch?v=OpjV-melB-c&si=PLS8xDeGPveGqVSV
The 3 Waves of the RPG Moral Panic - RPG History
“it’s also commendable how much he sucked”. #SethSkorkowsky having a lot of fun with the “RPG Villains” of the #TTRPG #MoralPanics
Although, I do believe that #SethSkorkowsky should have put content warnings on this one - the #TTRPG #MoralPanics WERE adjacent to a number of cases of self harm or worse. There was no actual connection but there were adjacent cases…
The Skeptic magazineThe Online Safety Act doesn’t make our children any safer
The Online Safety Act may be well-intentioned, but it is a fundamentally flawed attempt to legislate away a complex social issue.
https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/08/the-online-safety-act-doesnt-make-our-children-any-safer/
When the Great Resist conspiracy conference came to the North East
The Great Resist meeting, and its touring band of conspiracy theorists, brought their antivax rhetoric and trans-panic messaging to Gateshead
Polybius: the legendary video game that never actually existed
According to legend, Polybius was a highly addictive 1981 arcade game developed by a shadowy game studio called Sinneslöschen... but it didn't exist
https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/08/polybius-the-legendary-video-game-that-never-actually-existed/
Got any leads? Dog thieves won’t really leave secret signs outside your house
Claims that would-be dog thieves mark their victims' houses with stickers echo old urban legends designed to spread fear and anxiety
