A report aired on a channel like M6 claiming that video games are a shameful passion meant for teenagers. What can go wrong? As you can imagine, this hasn’t happened to many of the netizens who have expressed their anger on Twitter.
Internet, video games… television still has room to grow
Do you remember that episode a few years ago in which Thierry Ardisson publicly tried to humiliate the videographer Squeezy by tying him to a young man who makes his living playing video games in his room? At one time, this excerpt from the Salut les Terriens program caused a strong reaction throughout the Internet sphere. Therefore, television is fighting the Internet (Twitch, YouTube…), although the situation has improved significantly in recent years.
Video games don’t smell like holiness either. If here, too, the vision of television has changed over the years, there is still work to be done. As proof, this report was broadcast a few days ago in the program 66 minutes on M6. We discover a 47-year-old gamer whose passion for video games is described as “a bit embarrassing”. Oh!
more than dubious report
66 Minutes features a 47-year-old accountant who works in Luxembourg and, by his own admission, doesn’t dare to tell colleagues about his passion for video games. So the voice-over is entertaining, but the tongue-in-cheek tone never seems far off when she talks about how she considers her “devouring and somewhat surprising for her age” passion for video games to be “coming out.” Going from cliché to cliché, the report explains that the man “clings to his controller like a teenager.”
Big boomer report in 66 minutes on M6.
Theme: The unspeakable passions of the French.
2023: Video games are still the passion of teenagers. Shame on this 47 year old man. pic.twitter.com/BaypgEERdCJanuary 29, 2023
Other excerpts can be found on the Twitter thread and are suspicious of internet users. We see the so-called Mikael showing us his “PC Gamer” who frankly doesn’t have a PC Gamer head and sends his kids to bed without taking care of them… While we’re clearly in broad daylight. In a word, all these elements quickly annoyed twitterers, who were quick to express their dissatisfaction.
I’m 46 years old, I play almost every day (watch TV, read books…) and it’s not enough for me…
January 29, 2023
2023: HBO invests several million dollars to adapt #TheLastOfUs game. For its part, the M6 teaches us that SP is a shameful pastime, sparking an amazing passion for the 47-year-old. Two visions, two mentalities. https://t.co/dHTklmv995
January 30, 2023
In 2023, we still present the practice of video games as a shame to be hidden, with an addictive and harmful trend.
Wake up #66minutes, the video game industry is now the number one cultural industry in the world. It’s about picking up speed. https://t.co/yGilzPoVgo
January 30, 2023
There is nothing wrong with this thread @66Minutes. You still treat video games as a craze for retarded teenagers when the average age of gamers is 37.
37 years!!! Mess !
January 30, 2023
I’m 45, I play every day, and to be honest, I’m not ashamed.
January 30, 2023
We will associate “coming out” with “shameful passion” mess in 2023. These people are in the Gulag.
January 31, 2023
I am 40 years old, my PS4 is present in my everyday life as a father of two. No worse than 98% of French people glued to their smartphone…
January 30, 2023
Unbelievable they say exactly the same bullshit they did 30 years ago
January 31, 2023
It’s like a guy doesn’t take off his tie before he sits on the couch.
January 30, 2023
Damn the guys who shit in this report, what puppets
January 30, 2023
So I’m 36 (soon to be 37) and it’s my turn to perform…
I LOVE VIDEO GAMES!
Here’s @66Minutes and @M6, as they say!Seriously, aren’t you ashamed of your shitty reporting? Are you surprised that people don’t watch TV anymore? https://t.co/L0FhRQveEp
January 30, 2023
For the M6, playing video games at 40 is like acting like a teenager.
This is a 1990 report, right? https://t.co/9TIGPyez4Y
January 30, 2023