Do Video Games Actually Cause Violence?
Channel: Shadow Square
Date: 2021-12-31

You read the title. You know the deal. The age old question posed by the mothers of the internet and peddled by the click hungry websites across the web. Video games are becoming an older and older medium for people to enjoy themselves during their downtime away from capitalism. So today, I have decided to prove once and for all using my big brain and large muscles whether video games do indeed cause violence. What will we find? What will our answer be? Well mate, you’ll have to find out.

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Sources: 
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[20] - VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES AND AGGRESSION Causal Relationship or Byproduct of Family Violence and Intrinsic Violence Motivation? CHRISTOPHER J. FERGUSON STEPHANIE M. RUEDA AMANDA M. CRUZ DIANA E. FERGUSON
Texas A&M International University STACEY FRITZ SHAWN M. SMITH University of Wisconsin–Whitewater

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Music used:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jfiC8ib0wg&t=21s 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfLBKHffLLM 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLkOm1Ej0zc&t=3s 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HacwcXAhe7o&t=11s 

I'm writing this at 1 am so sending love and happy new year!