Sandy co-designed Doom II and Quake. We went through this when the Internet first came to prominence, and was blamed for sex crimes and pederasty. We went through it in the '50s, when comic books were attacked as perverting our youth, leading to the death of EC Comics and the establishment of the Comics Code Authority. We went through it in the '30s, when LaGuardia took his hatchet to pinball machines across New York. Hell, we went through it with rock 'n' roll.
Young people are the ones most open to novelty.
Consequently, they lead the way in the adoption of any new entertainment medium. The nature of our journalism-industrial complex being what it is, some pundits seize on the fear as a means of achieving an audience. The most threatening aspects of the medium are puffed up into a major threat to civilization. Kids find their medium under attack, and respond, naturally, by embracing the aspects under attack most wholeheartedly. Sometimes, as with EC Comics, congressional hearings and an abject surrender by the industry result.