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<blockquote data-quote="payn" data-source="post: 8613050" data-attributes="member: 90374">Likely unintended, but the Harabo ad for their gummies actually highlights this discussion nicely.[MEDIA=youtube]EAnwmmPFYgU[/MEDIA]In American culture there is this idea that there is a hard divide between kid stuff and adult stuff. Adults shouldn't be silly and/or engage in kid things. So there is a push to make non-serious stuff serious, so its acceptable. So, now everything goes through this process like videogames, anime, and RPGs of going from kid stuff to adult stuff.A lot of how that works is starting by marketing to teens and then those teens grow up. They remember how fun it was and it goes from robots always missing each other to actually dismantling each other in combat. I mean there is no way you cant argue Bayformers was for 35 year olds', as much, if not more, than teens. Meanwhile, boomers are shaking their heads at these child adults and their fun. Not realizing they subjected them to all this stuff as parents lol.Anyways, I think content can be silly or serious, or whatever. It doesnt have much bearing on the activity and how it is seen as serious or not. Some folks may argue that silly content infantilizes RPGs, but honestly, it just seems like they are trying to add weight to their preference against such content. Could also be a knee jerk reaction to bad experiences as a younger RPGer and the treatment that they received. Who knows?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="payn, post: 8613050, member: 90374"] Likely unintended, but the Harabo ad for their gummies actually highlights this discussion nicely. [MEDIA=youtube]EAnwmmPFYgU[/MEDIA] In American culture there is this idea that there is a hard divide between kid stuff and adult stuff. Adults shouldn't be silly and/or engage in kid things. So there is a push to make non-serious stuff serious, so its acceptable. So, now everything goes through this process like videogames, anime, and RPGs of going from kid stuff to adult stuff. A lot of how that works is starting by marketing to teens and then those teens grow up. They remember how fun it was and it goes from robots always missing each other to actually dismantling each other in combat. I mean there is no way you cant argue Bayformers was for 35 year olds', as much, if not more, than teens. Meanwhile, boomers are shaking their heads at these child adults and their fun. Not realizing they subjected them to all this stuff as parents lol. Anyways, I think content can be silly or serious, or whatever. It doesnt have much bearing on the activity and how it is seen as serious or not. Some folks may argue that silly content infantilizes RPGs, but honestly, it just seems like they are trying to add weight to their preference against such content. Could also be a knee jerk reaction to bad experiences as a younger RPGer and the treatment that they received. Who knows? [/QUOTE]

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