You know what's funny? Pokémon X and Y, specifically Pokémon X.
It has recently come to the media’s attention that, when children have been typing in “Pokémon X videos” into a search engine, they end up with pages and pages of porn starring animated characters. The media is eating this up and, despite my best efforts, I am too. I can’t help it, though! I think it’s the funniest thing ever! No, I am not referring to children losing their innocence to a Google search. That happens to everyone, right?
Parents, I know you think this is the end of the world, but come on. When the first item that comes up on your search is XVideos.com, I think you need to stop and think before continuing down the page. It’s understandable if a 9 year old thinks, “X Videos, huh? I guess Y Videos must be its own site too,” but when parents go, “Oh crap. Porn. Maybe the next one won’t be porn,” you have no one but yourself to blame. Seriously, you just need to include “Y” into the search anywhere and it changes. Believe me, I just did it.
Is Nintendo at fault for not seeing this as a possibility? Should they have just typed the names into the ol’ Google search engine before deciding on the title? This is the age when people access the Internet before most other resources. Maybe it’s not entirely parents’ responsibility. Perhaps companies need to be held responsible. It could be that all of this is really funny because no one expected it to be this bad.
There is now an outcry from some parents saying that Nintendo should change the game’s name. There are some people who are blaming parents for not being stricter with their parental controls. After all, you never know when a 10 year old kid will just be typing “sexy” into Google because he heard it on TV without having any idea what the word means, so he then see pages and pages of naked bodies spread across the screen. This leads to years of searching for Internet pornography so often that the Internet becomes the only way he can interact with anyone. This reliance on text leads to the kid getting a job writing for a Nintendo fan site just so he can feel like he is socializing with people, when he is actually stuck in his room typing for hours on end, searching and longing for a community that accepts him for who he is and not who his parents wanted him to be. Or something.
Guys, we’ve known each other for a while now and...I just...I love you. Oh, no, that’s cool too. I’ll get back to Pokémon. Of course I understand. Sorry...
Pokémon X, you’ve just destroyed my life. I hope you’re happy.
