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People Are Using Among Us Lobbies For Sex - Kotaku

People Are Using Among Us Lobbies For Sex - Kotaku

People Are Using Among Us Lobbies For Sex - Kotaku
Sep 29, 2022 1 min, 44 secs

The Mafia-style game from Innersloth grew in popularity at the start of the pandemic, to the point where its merch fills the shelves of every toy store, and still carries a following of devoted players who use their PCs, consoles and mobile phones to make false accusations and call each other sus.

Cybering has been around in multiplayer games and chat rooms for decades.

The pre-game chat feature is the conduit for communication; whether it’s flirtatious foreplay, or getting detailed and dirty.

With the lack of official gating to keep children at bay, it raises concerns these could become an arena for underage players to experience online grooming and sexual harassment.

This virtual chat room, aimed at young people, has hosted customizable avatars in different public and private rooms for over 20 years.

I would load into chat rooms that appealed to my interests, like “Emo Room” or “Anime Clubhouse.” For the most part, those subjects were discussed in the room.

Many of these romantic proclamations would lead to being isolated into a private chat room, and then awkwardly peer-pressured into engaging in cyber sex.

Instances like my own are typical examples of children engaging in sexual exploration, but also highlight the vulnerability and fragility of the safe-guards implemented to keep underage players safe while gaming online.

The game’s developer, Innersloth, holds a very firm stance on maintaining a gaming environment that is not only enjoyable for all audiences, but safe for child gamers as well.

“One of the features we launched early last year was the implementation of Child Accounts and a related Quick Chat feature.

These account users are only able to play with others that use Quick Chat, the pre-drafted phrase selections that can be used to communicate in-game, rather than typing.

Along with the chat feature, usernames in this mode can only be selected through a random generator with user-friendly verbiage.

While Chan encourages players to report any behavior that negatively impacts the game, players regularly use slurs and hate speech in-game, albeit with some spelling or punctuation modifications to bypass the censors.

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