Hello dear know-it-all.
How do I explain THIS to my niece?
It all started with a cute emoticon she really wanted to have as an avatar for her chat program but couldn’t find a way to use it. Well, it was really tricky to extract it from her chat software for use as an avatar.
You can find it under Rina gives Love and the animation only works as a link.
Therefore I just searched for it using a screenshot. Found a Steam ID. It is an animated Steam avatar from a game with Steam ID 1750200 and the avatar is called “Rina gives Love”. Fitting. So I searched for it on Steam… BLOCKED! This site is not available in your country. VPN is for suckers. SSH-SOCKS-Tunnel to my Coloserver in the USA and tried again.
What. The. Fuck.
Game is called “Sex and the Furry Titty 2: Sins of the City”.
I was on the floor laughing for a minute. A click into the screenshots confirmed that you see lots of hairy critters having sex. On Steam. I do a double facepalm and laugh for another two minutes. So now my questions, dear know-it-alls:
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How do I explain to my twelve-year-old niece that her favorite avatar comes from a pornographic game with animals?
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Is it true that hydrochloric acid can be injected into the brain through a cannula to make things permanently unseen?
Respectfully, a slightly befuddled spectacle.
PS1, the Avatar is really cute animated…
PS2, I do not really intend to explain it to her. I’ll give her some technobabble (Copyright, DRM, Flux-Compensator, Compability) and be done with it. Though I would be really interested how others would explain that.
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Twelve?
I’d probably go with almost exactly the way you typed it… “This avatar is from a pornographic game with furries”
A twelve year old definitely knows the word pornographic unless someone has been very helicopterish with their screen time, and if she has a chat program, she should know enough to recognize predatoryish chat on her own anyway at 12 (that’s just my opinion though). Maybe replace “porn” with “adult”, maybe replace “furries” with something else.
Discussion with her parents first is warranted if that’s a thing.
Be prepared to hear that she knew it was a furry thing too… Probably not super likely, but she might have known what she was doing. My 2nd child told me at 10 years old that she was lesbian. She didn’t fully understand the entirety of what she was saying, but she wasn’t wrong, all her early crushes were girls and it wasn’t “a phase” or anything. Assuming the amount of what they know can put you off your game real quick :) intelligence, curiosity, research ability all vary wildly from one kid to another.
If she’s used it anywhere already, you need to tell her. If you don’t tell her, another teenager will, and in the meanest most embarrassing way possible.
Say that while the emoji is innocent and cute, it’s from a furry porn site. If necessary, “porn is about people having sex, and furry porn is about people having sex in animal costumes” is enough.
If anyone does tease her, she can say “I just found it with some emojis, but what were you doing looking at furry porn?”
I mean she’s 12, she knows what porn is and what furries are.
Not sure what rock you’ve been under, but kids these days are many years worldlier than we were at that age.
It’s fine. They’re fine. They process stuff very differently; a whole lot of different baseline assumptions in there.
Hell, I knew what porn was from the time I was 6 and found a nudie mag.
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So true… I’ll make up some technobabble about copyright, DRM and flux-compensator why she can not use the Avatar…
I’d be honest with her… "The gif is, objectively, cute, but it comes from an adults only game and it would attract unwanted attention from adults who enjoy that kind of game, so it’s inappropriate for someone your age to present it as an avatar.
This is why we can’t have nice things."
I’d say just explain the situation to her. It’s important that kids learn from a young age to hate the degeneracy of furries
Looks innocent enough to me, and how many people out there actually know where it comes from? Especially when it’s not available in your country to begin with.
I’d simply let her use it, and not mention anything. She’ll grow tired of it eventually and move on.
Since she is your niece, you can get in problem with her parents. Say you couldn’t find the avatar if you don’t want any trouble. If she is matured enough, just tell her the truth about the furry origins but don’t give the avatar to her.
Since I’ve been 12 years old once, I think she is perfectly capable of understanding explanation that it comes from adult game, and using it could attract possible pedophiles.
He shouldn’t need to show the game or say more than that.
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I must still have a shred of innocence because all I saw was a heart
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Also, as a native, fuck you and your user name
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…I ain’t one to yuck on somebody else’s yum, but that’s definitely a Valentines Day style heart she’s holding…
I don’t know about talking to kids, but my highschool biology education days that the acid to the brain will do the trick.
I think you just say that it’s not an appropriate picture for an avatar. You don’t have to explain much further. Or “ask me when you’re older”
If it’s the image at the bottom of the post, its tame as Steam avatars go. I’d explain that it’s associated with some notions and run against steam moderation.
As a note, some of my avatars featuring naked anatomically correct men or women (variations of Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man) have never been flagged as inappropriate.
I never doubted that the Avatar/Sticker was cute and harmless. It was the game it came from. Shit, I am getting old. I can remember when a poster of Madonna with deep cleavage was considered “risky”. Well, the time before the internet…
My point is the notion that impropriety due to association may be new on young people. There was a period when Pepe the Frog was banned from brand safe platforms, not because the cartoon was inappropriate by its own merit, but it was a signal in the alt-right community and thus a hate symbol.
It sounds like Rina Gives Love is regarded as inappropriate (by the steam moderators, I’d disagree) because of its association.
I found the RinaGivesLove sticker on the Steam Points Store (and curiously, yes, there is a curious lot of SFW points-store content from adult games). One possibility is to see if she’ll find FemShepLove (similar animation but from Mass Effect) an adequate substitute. It’s human and not a furry, but still, the sentiment is the same.
