I’m 20 years old so I don’t exactly know what children are up to these days (besides whatever the hell skibidi toilet is). I was visiting my cousins today with my family and one of them was really obsessed with this anime looking app, I asked them about it and they said it was called ‘gacha life’. They said it was really popular, though it looked kind of weird imo. Is this safe for them to be using?
EDIT: I know what a gacha game is, I just don’t know what this is. Also it doesn’t look like it has anything to do with gacha games, all I saw them use it for was posable anime characters
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GACHA games are inherently designed to make money off of you. Many of them are free to play, and inherently harmless. It is important you do not enable *any* sort of credit card information to be accessed from the app. Failure to ensure this isn’t enabled could theoretically result in your kid buying stuff in game, in a game that’s designed to make you want to spend more money on it.
Or they could just stay free-to-play and never have to worry about it. It’s really up to your trust level and adequate security controls.
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There doesn’t seem to be anything inherently terrible about the app, it’s rated for ages 9+.
Like many apps it has in-app purchases, so hopefully they’re either responsible enough not to use those or their phone has parental controls to disable them.
The one possible issue I DID find is that people were using its little movie maker feature to make creepy/lewd stuff. They seem to have tried to crack down on that with updates that removed some stuff.
Probably no worse than anything they’ll find just randomly browsing youtube though.
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