am begging cookie run fans (especially American ones in the middle of your literal culture wars) to understand that a piece of media being “family-friendly” does not mean it cannot discuss serious/dark topics in extreme detail and with extreme nuance—it simply means that whatever is being shown will be appropriate to show a young child and their parents. Nothing more.
if you ever say any kind of issue is “not family friendly” to depict I am encouraging you to change your mind on this position because what is considered “appropriate” to discuss in front of children (death, gay people, colonialism, etc) has been historically used to control and oppress minority groups. children are exposed to these kinds of things all the time and there are ways to discuss pretty much anything within reason to a child provided you are not being graphic, promoting weird fetish content besides it, etc. Please use your brains before applying this to cookie run and saying “cookie run shouldn’t be used to tell serious stories because it’s for kids” when cookie run has literal plots about dysfunctional/unhealthy parent child relationships (doco&cacao), about cult indoctrination and about colonialism. there’s also a lot of characters with war and generational trauma in this game. use your brains and don’t parrot the language of republican conservatives pls and thx