The social media streamer cum gamer with huge fan base from among the teenagers and youth of 20 years was arrested, recently. The young streamer was in limelight for quite some time due to his abnormal way of streaming. The individual would take up any kind of challenge online and perform it. He would go to an extreme level of violence like breaking the keyboard by hitting on the head, putting in the spicy noodle on private part, and dismantling the YouTube play button were all part of his rage filled streaming. The society always received the foul words repeated by the Individual, in a funny admiring way. The alarming and cautioning part is that young children and youth admired him.
The curious young minds are easily attracted to any thing new and interesting. Brain at this stage will be at receiving end, and so whatever is seen and heard will be imprinted on the mind and are reflected to others. For the children who were born before the technological innovation, exposure to good and bad were less in number. For them film actors were the models to imitate. Imitating on what their favourite actor spoke, eat and talked like was the trends in the town. The action of their parents, the acts by their teachers was something they were likely to learn from and imitate. But it is no more same, to the growing generation of the day. The world is in their hands and most kids have personal access to social media and surfing on the internet.
Being a child, from the most violent teacher in the class to the most minuscule action of my subject, teachers, were part of my play hour mimicking. There were times when all the furniture in the house became the victims of beatings because the teacher is the one who always has sticks and hit the students isn’t it? Same way today social media influencers are the ones children admire.
It indeed was a welcoming act from the police to arrest the individual and give a warning message to the viewers. But if creating an impact on young minds are asked then laws are not what kids understand.
The Policing has to change, and the authorities should adopt technics based on the need. In the social media streamer’s case, the police should think on going live online along the arrested streamer and address the youth. There is a necessity to first address the youth on the impact which is being created in the society. And then approach his mass through his own platform with the apology on the acts and negative impacts of the same and then also take a legal action as part of giving warning to others who come up with same kind of actions. With this, a prosperous society can be built along setting police regulations on the ways of streaming and technologies.