#and none of these kids are being shy about telling adults they've seen these shows

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Anyone wanna hear about an interaction at work that made me feel icky? It's about minors and Hazbin, I'll put it under the cut bc it's kinda long:

So I have a tattoo of Angel on my forearm. It's highly visible all the time but it's literally just his head so who cares

EXCEPT one of the kids at work recognized it. This kid is in 5th grade, I think he just turned 11 like last week. Still plays with Thomas the Tank Engine toys, watches Bluey, very much a YOUNG CHILD.

So he sees my tattoo and is like "That's from Hazbin. Who's your favorite character? Mine is Alastor." And I tell him I don't want to talk about Hazbin Hotel with him because it's an R-rated show and I feel like he should not have even seen it before. He says "Oh I saw the version that doesn't have any gore or swear words." ??? I don't think that's a thing...

So I'm refusing to talk to him about the show and he goes "Why? I've already watched it." Then he starts chanting "ANGEL DUST, ANGEL DUST" at me. So now I have a small child yelling the name of a drug in the middle of a room full of other small children.

Then he says "I bet you didn't know Angel Dust is a boy." I confirm that yes, I knew that, in as few words as possible, and idk what to make of what came next...

Small child: "Don't you think it's weird that he's a boy?"

Me: "Um... No? I don't understand. Why is someone's gender weird? Is it weird that you're a boy?"

Small child: "No but isn't it weird that he ~does what he does~ even though he's a boy?"

Me: 🙃 "I don't know what you mean. What do you mean, what he does?"

Small child: 👀 "you know" 👀 "what he does"

Me: "TV characters do a lot of things, I'm not sure what thing you mean."

Small Child: "Nvm I don't wanna talk about it"

Which he said very much in the same tone kids use when they're trying to talk around something inappropriate

The whole interaction made my skin crawl because whyyyyyy has an elementary schooler been exposed to this show? Do his parents know? If not, why? And if yes, even more why???????

I don't even know where to start with unpacking my feelings about it. One of the things that really stuck out to me is that he seems to think the most inappropriate part of the show is "bad words and gore" when obviously there is so much more that he probably didn't even comprehend.

I have a friend who has a 10-year-old and ig she watched Hazbin at a sleepover. Now she walks around singing about sucking dick and bukkake and shoving things in peoples' holes. Doesn't even think twice about it.

Idk if I have a point other than, can we please keep children away from this show?? Holy shit.