Is anyone else old enough to remember when D&D and rock music was supposedly rui...

lifestyleguru · 2026-01-15T00:39:07

TBH cigarettes were chemically designed to cause addiction, most music stars smoked cigarettes, then kids did follow them and also smoked. Will not even mention alcohol.

JumpCrisscross · 2026-01-15T01:49:12

> when D&D and rock music was supposedly ruining the lives of young people and causing them to worship Satan?

And then the evidence didn’t pan out. Social media and device use looks like cigarettes the more we study them.

gloflo · 2026-01-14T23:28:58

Neither were algorithmically designed to cause addiction.

wnevets · 2026-01-14T23:34:25

Then why are "earworm" songs so hard to get out of my brain? Listening to Kpop demon hunters sure does feel like an addiction.

mcmoor · 2026-01-15T02:20:45

I actually am convinced that it does make Satan worshipping more popular or at least normalized. See: Tumblr. You can say whatever about whether it's good or bad or ironic, but it did happen.