What forms of Media were considered evil in your day?

[STB93]

Since:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NewMediaAreEvil

I would like to know what new forms of media were considered evil when you were growing up.

Even though I may be 19 I have grown through some of the whole: New forms of entertainment is bad. Such as:
Video Games: Not only are moral guardians like Jack Thompson quick to tell people that violent video games will make you violent. But psychologist are also thinking that excessive gaming is an addiction. Also the usual, games rot your brain, waste your time, etc.
Social media sites: Sites like facebook, twitter, myspace, are always under attack for making kids lose their social skills
Pokémon: Pokémon is said to teach the theory of evolution.
Harry Potter: Same thing as Pokémon but teaches witchcraft

 

[Tahuti]

Do you know you just inspired me to think that people appreciate art on how sincere they consider it?

If there would have been a Christian version of Pokemon made, specifically to promote Creationism, it would just suck, because it would be so horribly insincere.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Magic:The Gathering supposedly taught us to summon demons, to gamble, and to be promiscuous, depending on which small-minded adult you were talking to.

 

[MilesGregarius]

Dungeons & Dragons.

And woe is us, we missed the Kickstarter.

 

[Wrymouth3]

Those damn Redditors.

 

[Lord Baal]

Video games have been evil my whole life. Television isn't exactly evil, but it is stupefying. Also, t-shirts with "anarchic" messages on them.

 

[STB93]

Do you know you just inspired me to think that people appreciate art on how sincere they consider it?

If there would have been a Christian version of Pokemon made, specifically to promote Creationism, it would just suck, because it would be so horribly insincere.

Nice!

Dungeons & Dragons.

And woe is us, we missed the Kickstarter.

I just bought DnD starter set.

 

[bhsup]

Pravda
Village Voice
Backward masking to conceal DEVIL MESSAGES!

 

[Kyriakos]

Computer games used to be even stranger and satanic-like in the past. Like almost any Amstrad game...

This is the infamous Altered Beast, a game where you got altered to a lycanthrope and just fought on.

That still is from the Sega megadrive version, in the Amiga it looked even more bleak.



This coin-op seemed scary to me at the time too, and i always sucked at it. It is called Golden Axe.

 

[Dachs]

Letter-writing is evil.

 

[Tahuti]

Letter-writing is evil.

Wait, did I see Fox? That's evil! Coming to think of it, this could be added to the list, despite the fact I am of opinion that Fox absolutely deserves to be called that way!

 

[Lord Baal]

I just remembered that music was evil. Especially rap music.

 

[Cutlass]

Link to video.

 

[MilesGregarius]

I just bought DnD starter set.

REPENT!

Mustn't forget backmasking of Satanic messages by Zeppelin and Queen among others.

 

[STB93]

*removed post*

 

[Atticus]

I think there was some kind of Dungeons and Dragons panic in the late eighties.

Then in the nineties when cellular phones came, they were frowned upon. People told how "this man just talked to a phone in the grocery store", and there were urban stories of people talking to a tv's remote control on the street to show off.

Later that turned to a moral panic of tabloids (so, not necessarily of real people), which wrote how kids cheat in tests and tease each others with text messages.

Oh, and I remember when they wrote in ~2000 that the anarchist leaders gave orders with cell phones to their lackeys in a demonstration turned into a squabble.

 

[dragonprobably]

Shouldn't this be in Arts & Entertainment?

I'd have to say Video Games, because of them my teachers think I'm lazy and wasting my life. Because trying to pass the time is wasting your life.

 

[Traitorfish]

Grand Theft Auto and Marilyn Manson. Part of me thinks that this was a roundabout marketing ploy, because it was a sure-fire way to generate interest in two products which in the sober light of adulthood don't actually have much going for them.

 

[Kyriakos]

80s horror used to scare me. In fact so much that i almost never saw an actual horror film before i went to highschool.

I still recall the local video-club which had a huge poster of this film on one of its walls, always terrified me back then

I was also extremely afraid of the trailer of Boxing Helena, which i saw on tv near the end of my elementary school years...

 

[classical_hero]

Nickelback is evil. I love this quote from Dave Grohl.
"If you play Nickelback songs backwards, you hear a message from the Devil. Even worse, when you play them forwards, you hear a song from Nickelback."