>all this energy . . . might be better focused into social disapproval of the portrayals of murder, rape and the rest of the violence we inundate ourselves and our kids with on a daily basis.
I tend to agree, and the "rekt/gore" threads on 4chan strike me as particularly low-hanging fruit.
At least 4chan is in a narrow corner of the internet - most people don’t get exposed to it, ‘specially not like prime time TV and mainstream movies, which contain just gratuitous levels of physical/sexual violence and are readily and regularly accessed by the majority of society. 4chan is comparatively inconsequential I think.
I tend to agree, and the "rekt/gore" threads on 4chan strike me as particularly low-hanging fruit.