Why was the "don't talk to strangers" moral so often in old cartoons and why was it eventually phased out?
Why was the "don't talk to strangers" moral so often in old cartoons and why was it eventually phased out?
Why was the "don't talk to strangers" moral so often in old cartoons and why was it eventually phased out?
Because you can always depend on the kindness of strangers
>why was it eventually phased out
For discord grooming
>discord grooming
What did you just say? Discord grooming? Bro, Discord means grooming!
>Why was the "don't talk to strangers" moral so often in old cartoons
Kids were really frickin' stupid back then i guess.
>why was it eventually phased out
Internet made it way easier.
Zoomers don't go outside
Overcorrection for the 1950s era of near complete trust for strangers both from children and their parents
It's really just these. The thread can end here.
At least from anyone that wasn't gay. There's at least one PSA that had all the trimmings of what would come later, but restricted it to homosexual men (pedophiles).
Funny fact: Sonic says did a bit about learning things from a stranger
>Why was it in cartoons
After some high profile abductions by strangers, there was a push to promote telling kids not to talk to adults they don't know, generally.
>Why was it phased out
The overwhelming majority of abductions are by adults kids are related or are familiar with. The age range of people that are abducted for human trafficking is typically 13-18, too old to be watching kids shows with safety lessons.
Has any cartoon done a PSA of what do do if somebody you trust tries to molest you?
Parents were REALLY freaked out by pedophiles in the 80s because the media actually started covering them instead of ignoring the problem like they'd done for decades. Eventually cooler heads prevailed and people realized that the local priest, gym coach or creepy uncle is far more likely to molest little Timmy than a stranger in a van.
Also, teaching kids not to talk to strangers backfired because kids who got lost would actively try to avoid any adults that could help them or were looking for them.
>Also, teaching kids not to talk to strangers backfired because kids who got lost would actively try to avoid any adults that could help them or were looking for them.
I would love to see statistics on this, but it definitely does feel like children would get lost more often that they would get abducted.
>in the 80s because the media actually started covering them instead of ignoring the problem like they'd done for decades
What made them suddenly start reporting on it?
They wanted more ratings and to sell more papers.
Because ((they)) made a lot of money pretending that children where in some great danger in the past.
Explain further
The news makes a lot of money by perpetrating fear and paranoia over statistically rare events. Most missing children get kidnapped by their father after a divorce or run away. It's extremely rare for a stranger to hurt a child.
But the first milk carton missing labels were done for free by a concerned dairy processing factory and only locally?
I had a friend whose niece was in the force and when it comes to kids. It was harder for predators to get them before internet era. Now, with organized and globalized crime, they can just get kids from russia already trained and shit or simply pass in the border. It's a very complicated system to even fight, with people in power in every possible place you can think of.
Think you would have to evolve that moral to be "never go on the internet" at this point.
The funny thing is that there was a version of that for a while. Those of us old enough to remember the internet's early days know that there were years where you were told to never, ever tell anyone online your name or share any personal information. Indeed, the idea that internet use should be largely anonymous was a big part of the DNA leading into Cinemaphile.
But that message of caution eroded as people used the internet for more and more stuff, and your online presence grew larger than your IRL interactions with others. Nowadays, most people don't just freely share their information on social media, they are *eager* to do so.
If these were still common, we would get characters telling children to not enter discord servers or post their nudes online
>why was it eventually phased out?
Phones
It seems unreal now, but back in the day as a parent you just let your kid out, they went to go hang out with a friend or something and there was a set time they came back. During this usually you had no way to contact them, unless you called the house you knew they were at.
This. As an 80s kid, I remember leaving my parents notes with crudely drawn maps when I met new kids.
I don't think milk companies sold more milk due to the missing children pictures, but they did get tax breaks.