foreign [Music] [Applause] welcome back ladies and gentlemen to act news I’m your host the reporter man and today I ask the important questions are you giving your child digital heroin I don’t know why anyone would have fortnite in their home because it is like giving a child heroin do you or a loved one suffer from gaming disorder the World Health Organization recognized a condition known as gaming disorder does the new Call of Duty actually allow you to be a terrorist and kill people that’s right folks our top story of the day is on the dangers of gaming what’s up everybody this is the act man here and today we’re going to be taking a look at some of the most interesting news reports on video games I’ve done this before in videos like the war against video games and others but those were more documentary style this is not we are going bottom of the barrel the craziest most out of touch news reports I’ve ever seen I feel like it’s always interesting to see what mainstream media has to say about video games and what they’ve had to say about them over the years is fortnite too addictive how many games put your kids at risk of pedophiles there’s a lot of fun questions for us to answer now when I first launched my investigation it was a slow news day and on slow news day is the only thing the news does is fear Monger but what was I going to fear Monger today naturally it was video games they’re too violent too sexual they increase aggressive behavior in adolescence players commit gruesome like these using top of the line Graphics in stunningly realistic details but where to begin my investigation well I think I found just the right place to start the Mid-Missouri internet crimes task force says adults are now using systems like Nintendo Wii Xbox PlayStation and Webkinz to talk to Children inappropriately that’s right this is the game and you actually create your own character house and even town and when connected to the internet you can talk to people across the country and kids have no say as to what some of these characters say to them for example this character could be the man in California police are warning about tonight that ask for images from Missouri children tour timer could be it could be that or it could be could be the [ __ ] Goose on the left could also be her and kids have no say as to what some of these characters might say to them for example this could be the man police are warning about tonight who asked for pictures from cyrodil children’s I cannot come up with any legitimate reason that an adult would be playing that particular game no reason no reason for an adult to play Animal Crossing only bad reasons Anderson says adults playing Animal Crossing similar games are likely doing it for the wrong reasons Crime Alert we abuse Anderson says it is going to take parents paying attention to keep this problem from exploding what you’ll find in a lot of these news reports from like the early mid-2000s like the news tries to frame the the most innocuous of things as a problem when really all it comes back to is just parents knowing what the [ __ ] their kids are doing now right now we know that only three children have been reported as being involved in this Anderson says this is not a reason to be paranoid but is something to be aware of while it’s not a reason to be paranoid we are still going to produce a new segment to try and invoke those feelings of paranoia within you sponsor time this is either the best decision I’ve made or the worst hell of it is Chief I’ll still be able to buy a pair of the raycon everyday earbuds raycon’s earbuds go for half the price of other premium Brands but they sacrifice none of the quality and sound just as good if not better and with over fifty thousand five star reviews it seems the people have spoken on their quality they come with optimized gel tips that fit perfectly within your ear snug is a bug in a rug and with over eight hours of play time in a 32 hour battery 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handheld gaming the way iPod is redefining music well stop the music because it’s also redefining how vulnerable your kids are to child molesters God how explain to me how you arrived at this point along with the game capability Nintendo DS comes with a feature called piktochat piktochat piktochat oh let me explain you open the DS unit you turn it on you push piktochat and your DS unit is an open book anyone can write your child messages send them sketches anyone who has a DS unit the only reason anybody ever used piktochat was to draw penises and send them to your siblings as you both giggled in separate rooms any other use of piktochat was illegal here’s an example of what can happen with Melanie and Marissa upstairs in the bedroom I was downstairs sending the messages what’s your dog’s name what’s your name where do you go to school where do you live [ __ ] creep where do you live what are you buying where do you live in this house that I’m messaging you in Marissa’s mom was watching as Melanie and Marissa answered my questions and she didn’t like what she saw especially when I saw Melanie write in the address less two four five granted the girls knew it was me sending the messages but they’d only met me minutes before and I could have been a child molester and remember Marissa chatting with her friend in the other car that means a molester driving along could see your child in the back seat and start sending messages while you’re in the front seat totally oblivious to what’s happening oh my God who [ __ ] is driving and like trying to join Picto chat lobbies the the logistics of that alone make my head spin well a Colorado family is looking for answers tonight after they say the Nintendo gaming system they bought for their five-year-old had porn loaded onto it [Music] Brighton Giles had wanted a Nintendo 3DS all year it was a 3DS that had porn on it when Santa brought it to him he was ecstatic but yesterday morning that excitement turned into horror when he turned on the gaming system he found pornographic pictures on the gaming system how does that eat what puts porn under 3DS can you even do that I said Dad dude this DSS porn on it and I ended up the Diaz and it just got up and walked right to the phone I feel so bad for this kid honestly I probably would have done the exact same thing I probably would have been like oh my god dad what the [ __ ] I don’t know what this is and then you got people filming you and like they’re putting it on the news and it’s like tell us about the porn you found on your 3DS I I I don’t know if you guys caught it but I’ll play it again when Santa brought it to him Santa the gift was from Santa Adidas with porn on it so not only did this kid experience some traumatic [ __ ] but he probably hates Santa now his father first called GameStop where he bought the system they told Giles that the images were from a previous owner and they weren’t caught before the refurbishing device was sold so who the [ __ ] puts porn on the 3DS and then trades it in moving on think of all the security dangers we’ve exposed involving online games and interactive sites this one tonight is different I’m so ready ABC 15 investigator Joe Ducey takes us into a fake world creating real problems for one local family he was so upset I mean he was just heartbroken I mean this was his whole Christmas she’s talking about real money lost in a virtual world a world set in medieval times a [ __ ] news report on RuneScape it’s word 11 year old like Timmy Easter of Gilbert can act like someone much older catching shark every shark you catch it’s worth a thousand coins oh man this has not aged well looks like the stock price of sharks in RuneScape has gone way down fighting enemies you killed him yeah you killed him yeah he spent years gaining a high level in an online game called RuneScape Timmy and his family recently learned this virtual world is full of some real life dangers he said excuse me how Slayer can I speak to you for a moment oh my God is this like nine-year-old kid and his RuneScape name is Hell Slayer in just minutes Timmy’s password was hacked stolen his account with all these points and belongings emptied out it’s your items and to have someone steal it without hesitation it’s just wrong let’s have a moment of silence for Timmy and so many others whose RuneScape accounts were hacked thank you you may be thinking who cares it’s just fake points in a make-believe world I care Joe I care then at Christmas it was coming up and I told everybody all the relatives give him cash grandmother Claire Kephart says Timmy received and spent 140 real dollars to buy virtual swords and armor what a what an awesome Grandma give him cash so he can pay his membership fee in RuneScape what a g attorney general Terry Goddard has another concern brought in the they brought in an attorney General on this story The Sinister part of the people the adults leading the 11 year old to another site is the adult sitting 11 year olds to personal contact okay so funny story um this one time me and my brother met someone on RuneScape and we asked them if they knew where our elementary school was and we agreed to meet them and I was in the third grade my brother was in sixth grade and we left a note at home saying we’re going to meet this person we we’ve met online we’re going to Ben Franklin we left that for our parents and we were about to leave and my stepmom came running down the door so like you are not going there like freaking out and I couldn’t understand why because I was so innocent at the time last year a Dutch Court took virtual crime seriously Prosecuting two teens for stealing imaginary items on RuneScape there was a court case for that oh my god let’s move on so you can see right here I’m getting ready to serve all I do is throw that ball up in the air and we’re like oh geez and there goes the tennis rack oh my god dude so many TVs and mirrors and controllers were broken during the week times I remember we got that the day that we came out and we threw that [ __ ] remote so quickly I’m surprised we didn’t break anything accessories are definitely latched on all the way that’s that’s not a good idea and by the way the little Weaver would you like that you like that the Little Beaver would you like that and now we’re going back to the 90s when Pokemon was really starting to take off pokemania they called it before warned if you haven’t been already the hottest thing in the 12 and under set is coming soon to a theater near you Pokemon the Movie [ __ ] yeah I went and saw that movie in theaters man I still got my my ancient Mew cards let me go find them boom check that out that was the sweetest thing in the world to me as a kid check out that sick holographic so what exactly is Pokemon cuddly characters who be who become super charged so they can fight their enemies some experts say the entire Pokemon phenomenon is the enemy but some experts say the entire Pokemon phenomenon is the enemy destroy the capitalist American government in my opinion parents should not let their kids watch Pokemon play Pokemon buy Pokemon cards have anything whatsoever to do with Pokemon if that was my mother I would have hated Life as a child seeing all my buddies playing Pokemon and like my mom is the only one that’s like nope you can’t it’s dangerous violent because the message is violence I foreign the message in Pokemon is violence uh wait till Call of Duty comes out but many parents disagree it’s really I think an okay thing for the kids because they learn to save their allowance to budget for it and they learn to trade and be kind of reasonable with their friends finally a parent that talks some sense I almost feel like this sole report was the inspiration for the chin Pokemon episode of South Park like their their satire was spot on many school officials think the craze has gone too far am I the only one who misses Fat Pikachu write in the comments if you miss Fat Pikachu school officials are finding that Pokemon cards are responsible for fist fights and the constant trading is not only distracting kids from class work but turning the playground into a black market hey Timmy I’ll give you a Blastoise for your lunch money I feel like back in the 90s and early 2000s all of these news reports it was like fear-mongering around children because it was still like somewhat new to parents and they didn’t know what to think of it and the News was right there to be like hey this is how video games and Pokemon are [ __ ] up your child but that psychiatrist who had that quote last that how bad uh Pokemon is I guarantee you these people haven’t seen any of the cartoons at all they have no concept at all this [ __ ] guy I love this guy psychiatrists don’t know a goddamn thing Jairo how do you answer the question is this just toy collectibles is it a movement it is is it a craze is it a phrase for little kids to enjoy themselves with adults are not going to get into this a lot I think through the holidays guaranteed and I can probably guarantee you there’s another year year and a half to this craze it hasn’t even peaked yet it appears it lasted a good 24 years and it’s still going strong actually what else we got call it Pokemon pandemonium as the map based game explodes in popularity players are flooding into public spaces creating some problems Jenny Latimer discovered a memorial plaque for her son became a pokestop where players earn rewards foreign my God oh I don’t know whether to laugh or cry laughing in Vancouver James Roy created a sign to stop players from trampling his garden three nights in a row we had people uh asking and sort of trying to get in through the other gate of our of our yard and you know I was thought well like you know we have kale here we can’t have that like stomped over and stuff that is probably the most Canadian thing I have ever heard all right what’s next new alert from the World Health Organization about video game addiction the organization is now designating gaming disorder as a mental health condition gaming disorder Michael Strahan what the hell are you doing on ABC News talking about gaming disorder some saying it’s about time we recognize the intense pull of video games given the science that shows there could be some addictive nature to them some addictive nature to them just just a little could be some addictive nature to them this morning the World Health Organization raising a red flag for the first time adding gaming disorder to their list of addictive activities likening it to substance abuse and gambling disorders it might be fine to give this its own classification but just like the phrase gaming disorder it’s just so [ __ ] funny well it should be fair I probably got gaming disorder every news report everyone that talks about like video games and the dangers it has on children you can always boil it down to just parents should be involved in their kids lives Anderson says it is going to take parents paying attention to keep this problem from exploding and recommend talking to your kids as a parent there are some things you can do to protect your kids so what this does is it it forces parents to be parents oh moms and dads what’s your job your kids are going to play games play it with them you know so that you can really be there to answer questions and help them do that and you know it’s not always the kid with the problem it may be the parent with the problem you know I mean you have to be involved in what your kids are are looking at it’s up to parents to control what their kids are seeing it could be a growing addiction potentially stunting the development of children one doctor uses the term digital heroin it was only a matter of time before we equated gaming addiction with with hardcore drug abuse they say he won’t stop can’t stop playing video games online [ __ ] intervene in his life man tell him get your ass off the computer chair go outside that’s what my parents would do like I said man it always comes back to like just parents being involved what’s a typical day in Josh’s life sleeping until 11 12 and then he would be on until like one two in the morning 12 hours easily he’s good well yeah instead of enforcing any kind of rules or discipline on our child what did we do we went straight to ABC News why didn’t you just take the computer away I don’t understand [Music] great question because we did take it away there was a lot of problems in our house with this Behavior I don’t have a child but I mean you know my parents took my consoles away when I when I did bed [ __ ] and you know there were problems for a bit but it’s like they’re my parents what am I gonna do you have you beautiful heroin [Music] because I’m a [ __ ] idiot Alan Christina are wondering if Josh’s brain can give them any clues as to what is wrong so they take him for a functional MRI they’re taking a [ __ ] brain scan of this 14 year old kid who plays video games too much just take this [ __ ] away his theory yet to be proven is that excessive gaming may change brain activity Josh’s brain scans are troubling we’ve seen this type of neurological deterioration in Gamers who prefer to play Call of Duty Vanguard there should be much more active there should be more red there should be more red what else we got are the words PlayStation Portable going to end up on your kids Christmas list PSPs are good clean fun right yeah so why are they also known by the name PlayStation pornable oh [Music] we don’t want to spoil anybody’s Christmas but there are hidden dangers parents should be aware of we don’t want to spoil anyone’s Christmas but there could be porn on your child’s video game console portable gaming games are all the rage generation of teens convincing their parents they’re a must-have oh hell yeah dude playing Battlefront 2 yes yeah buddy that’s the right footage right there that’s the perfect footage inside is a high-powered computer with a Wi-Fi connection can access the internet Pirates will watch their child by the internet for the kitchen in the living room but with this you can take it anywhere and that opens up Pandora’s Box what is happening how to how to build a bomb Ku Klux Klan oh my God it went from zero to a hundred so fast a Minnesota boy got into trouble when he brought his PlayStation Portable to school this is an incident that has opened our eyes on a dare Jeff Harris showed his friends how his PSP could display pictures of naked women and that kid was the hero in middle school I like how they said that on a dare that that is just perfect porn isn’t the only day danger out there what is hatred violence and the means to key out deadliest all be accessed through gaming devices within internet connection white power websites who the f what kind of [ __ ] teenager is going with those dude it means you might not take iron crosses all over a website as a warning sign that you should immediately leave and if you don’t leave you might start reading and buying into hateful ideas there the greatest is danger of all may be a child predator posing as another gamer every single one of these man it’s it’s all the same and why do they have RuneScape footage could you wait could you actually play RuneScape on a PSP that would have been pretty sick oh this is this is a classic right here Mass Effect sex scandal sex Box new video game shows full digital nudity and sakes it’s a new role-playing video game that is leaving nothing to the imagination Mass Effect is what it’s called uh it’s made for Microsoft’s Xbox system and it features some in some parts of this you’ll see full uh digital nudity imagine hell yeah you will yeah that’s why it’s a masterpiece baby I’m pretty sure like 90 of the clips I gathered are from Fox News and the ability for the players to engage in graphic sex and the person who’s playing the game gets to decide exactly what’s going to happen between the two people if you know what I mean what press X to thrust is that what you think it sort of cracks me up whenever I hear a company say that you know there’s all these controls in there that you can monitor the time and you can you know but basically the Box Pandora’s Box is open let’s talk about who the video game is for it might be for adults but if you look at the statistics who’s playing video games but adolescent males not their dads so that’s the first thing that damages this we know that all the research shows that violence has a um desensitizing effect well sexuality does too no it doesn’t you dumb [ __ ] and here’s how they’re seeing women they’re seeing them in these as these objects of desire as these you know hot bodies I mean they don’t they don’t show women as being values for anything other than their sexuality and it’s a man in this game deciding how many women he wants to be with Jeff Keeley is going to ask the question that I want to ask and it’s going to be really funny all right let’s get Chef in on this all right completely incorrect yeah it’s completely incorrect first of all you can actually play as a man or a woman in the game Cooper have you ever played Mass Effect no that’s it that’s all you need to know that’s all you need to hear we can move on to the next segment now you like how she’s doing this this like full-on report and she’s so sure of what she’s talking about but she’s never played the game Cooper have you ever played Mass Effect no no no no well I think what’s what’s interesting about this we talk about you know sexuality in the media one of the great things about Mass Effect for people that have played it know this this is a sort of a Choose Your Own Adventure story and it doesn’t Force you down any situation you can actually play through this game without the sexual situation ever happen right and the young boy is going to be choosing not to have sex that’ll be what they’ll choose it’s not a simple choice but Cooper it’s not a simple choice you don’t turn the game it says would you like to have sex or not I love that Jeff is like Shilling for Mass Effect on this Fox News segment and this lady who has never played it and doesn’t know what the [ __ ] she’s talking about is acting like she’s all high and mighty it’s just like modeling your life and I think that’s a much more powerful form of media darling I gotta go with the research and the research says there’s a new study out of University of Maryland right now that says is that boys that play video games cannot tell the difference between what they’re seeing in a video game in the room University of Maryland is full of [ __ ] idiots dude even as a three-year-old playing Mario 64 and Pokemon Red and Blue and Starcraft I knew the difference between real life and what I was seeing on the screen gotta go with the research did you just call him darling Oh my God you’re unbearable fantastic game and sex is a small little part of it all right thank you very much to Jeff and Cooper let’s go on the panel really quickly and get your thoughts on there they gave them like one minute to discuss this before moving on come on Fox we gotta cut him off Jeff is speaking the actual truth of the game we gotta cut it off and we gotta go with our narrative in an adult’s only rating that’s the highest rating that it can have so first of all this board that rates them needs to have their head examined and this made me feel old watching this what happened to Atari and pinball and Pac-Man God you are old you were so old you were you were even older after this clip be careful here let’s face it there’s all kinds of bad stuff coming through the internet through video games and the reality is I would argue that the government cannot and should not censor everything coming across the web and in video games at the end of the day it’s just like Chet said it’s up to parents to control what their kids are seeing finally someone on Fox News talks some sense Brianna is describing the first time she accidentally stumbled into a strip club on Roblox and that’s where we’re gonna call it a day but hope you enjoyed the video leave a like if you did and subscribe to the act man for more awesome content don’t forget to order your everyday earbuds and use my code to get a special discount reporting live from act news this has been the ACT reporter signing out peace