Video Games and Suicide Rates

Reminder It was always about Video Games. Everything that has happened in the last 10 years. Everything. All of it. US teen and young adult suicide rates are highest on record Suicide deaths among people ages 15 to 24, per 100,000 people 1994 13.6 Golden age of internet and video games 2017 14.5 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 Source: WISQARS/CDC

A screenshot of an X post places sarcastic captions above a chart showing U.S. suicide rates among people aged 15–24 from 1981 to 2017. The chart highlights 1994 during the supposed golden age of the internet and video games, then points to the record high in 2017. The joke mocks simplistic claims that video games caused social problems by ironically blaming everything on them. EN: A screenshot of an X post places sarcastic captions above a chart showing U.S. suicide rates among people aged 15–24 from 1981 to 2017. The chart highlights 1994 during the supposed golden age of the internet and video games, then points to the record high in 2017. The joke mocks simplistic claims that video games caused social problems by ironically blaming everything on them.

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