The parenting guide FLIMMO provides recommendations for parents on what their children should watch and what not. German Twitch streamers are also included, but only one receives a positive rating.
What kind of parenting guide is this? The magazine FLIMMO is a parenting guide that regularly provides consumption recommendations to parents for their children. Series, films, or other media content are evaluated using a kind of traffic light system. Red means that the content is definitely not suitable for children, yellow indicates some problematic aspects where the content can be consumed together with parents as supervision, and green is safe from the specified age onwards.
If FLIMMO finds a content particularly recommendable, this will be indicated separately with a green heart. FLIMMO also provides corresponding age recommendations for when children should consume a certain content.
Individual points in the media content are also rated with green, yellow, or red.
Of course, FLIMMO cannot check and review all content from a social media channel. The channels are therefore checked on a random basis. If a social media channel fulfills a red or yellow point, the entire channel is rated with that color. You can read more about the exact ratings on the FLIMMO website.
“Inappropriate media content”
Who has the only positive rating? The Twitch streamer BastiGHG is the only one among his colleagues who receives a green rating. BastiGHG is a Twitch streamer who primarily hosts content about Minecraft. However, he also frequently plays other games, such as GeoGuessr or League of Legends (source: SullyGnome).
The FLIMMO website highlights positively that BastiGHG’s content is suitable for different age groups, tailored for children, and presents different hobbies.
However, FLIMMO also issues a warning: the Twitch streamer sometimes holds 24-hour challenges. He is supposed to “push his limits” and document this on YouTube. This could “encourage children to imitate” (source: FLIMMO). Additionally, the videos might be too hectic for some children.
What is criticized about the other Twitch streamers? BastiGHG’s Twitch colleagues have already faced considerably more criticism. They all received a red rating from FLIMMO:
- Trymacs (Rating on FLIMMO): According to FLIMMO, Trymacs also presents various hobbies in his content, but he also plays video games that are only approved for ages 16 and up. Additionally, some content is said to be frightening.
- Papaplatte (Rating on FLIMMO): FLIMMO does not say a single good word about Papaplatte in the green category. Instead, there are only yellow and red points. The fact that Papaplatte sometimes mocks others and uses “inappropriate language” is rated yellow, while the “inappropriate” and “sexualized content”, as well as the “borderline humor” are rated more harshly.
- Gronkh (Rating on FLIMMO): Although Gronkh is considered the “dad of Twitch”, FLIMMO does not see his content as suitable for children. Product recommendations in the streams (by sponsors) are given, and there are “inappropriate” and “frightening” content.
- Gnu (Rating on FLIMMO): Gnu’s only positive point: She offers a wide variety of topics. However, she also provides FLIMMO-rated yellow product recommendations and red-rated “inappropriate”, “sexualized”, and “frightening” content. Additionally, violence is said to be shown.
How can such ratings occur? A precise description of why FLIMMO rates the individual Twitch streamers this way is not provided by the parenting guide. However, the ratings can be derived from some examples:
- Trymacs occasionally plays horror games in his streams that are not suitable for all age groups of children. Perhaps Trymacs is also a bad influence on children, because he doesn’t want to eat vegetables.
- Gnu and Gronkh also regularly play horror games that are primarily unsuitable for young children.
- In Papaplatte’s case, in addition to horror games, other factors may have led to a recommendation against. For example, the fact that he played GeoGuessr drunk in a Twitch stream.
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