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Onion
Level 7

Re: Half screen sexualized drag queen & cross dressing adds on the "Roku Home Menu"

Replying in sound bites usually means you really have no intelligent or insightful ideas of your own. “Woke” is an overused word that is quite ridiculous. Having an intelligent discussion about content on advertisement and or how to manage TV content for your children is legitimate. Posting a ridiculous sound bite indicates you have nothing of substance  to contribute to the discussion.  

lidellsassi
Level 7

Re: Half screen sexualized drag queen & cross dressing adds on the "Roku Home Menu"

How do I remove myself from a conversation thread? 

atc98092
Community Streaming Expert

Re: Half screen sexualized drag queen & cross dressing adds on the "Roku Home Menu"


@lidellsassi wrote:

How do I remove myself from a conversation thread? 


Scroll to the top of the page. Just below the purple header, there is a breadcrumb line to the thread. All the way to the right are three vertical dots. Click the dots and a menu opens, and one of the options is to Unsubscribe. This works both ways, you can subscribe to a thread to receive emails, or unsubscribe if you no longer which to receive the notifications.  

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Portalogem
Level 9

Re: Half screen sexualized drag queen & cross dressing adds on the "Roku Home Menu"

I can't believe I'm adding myself to this conversation when another is asking how to remove themselves from it, but while reading this thread, I had developed this image in my head of this disturbing dystopic future in which U.S. citizens didn't vote to keep many of the rights they once had (with the exception of that second amendment right which now includes all types of arms which were once not legal), by which a group of people are throwing their Roku devices in a fire pit. Of course, the irony is that the toxicity from the melting plastic blows right back at them because I guess they're just not woke enough to realize the harm of combusting plastic. 

Now what I think is problematic -- in this reality -- is that while I was in the same room with my mom while looking at the HBOmax channel, no matter where we scrolled on her Roku device, we couldn't escape "Rap Sh!t*."

And I could just imagine this scenario: "Mommy, mommy, what's sh!t mean?" while a young child is looking for "Sesame Street."

Now that would make more of a sensible topic to engage in than this one, especially if that showed up on the Roku commercial portion of the home screen while people then posted screensavers of that from the HBOmax channel, which had nothing to do with the topic of "Rap Sh!t" flinging itself up on the home screen. Oh, and pretty please post pictures of an advertisement of that if it happened to occur because now that would be problematic, agreed?

But we're not in that reality, are we? Instead, we're in a thread in which the OP is afraid of a young child seeing rainbows and social norms that are different than their narrow beliefs of how the world should must be while "Rap Sh!t" isn't a problem because children in this dystopian future aren't woke enough to be able to read. 

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*According to Wikipedia: "Rap Sh!t" is an American comedy streaming television series created by Issa Rae for HBO Max. I realized 8 hours later that people might not know what I'm referring to, so I thought I'd add this tidbit and clarify my post a little. But this show was literally all over HBOmax for a couple of days, but now it's hidden away after people probably complained about it after this scenario probably played out. 

demsd
Level 13

Re: Half screen sexualized drag queen & cross dressing adds on the "Roku Home Menu"

IDK. I don't see anything sexual about minors. Weird that you do.

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demsd
Level 13

Re: Half screen sexualized drag queen & cross dressing adds on the "Roku Home Menu"

In all the years I have been using Roku, I've never seen anything like that on my Roku Home screens.

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demsd
Level 13

Re: Half screen sexualized drag queen & cross dressing adds on the "Roku Home Menu"

Parents should be parenting their kids. people who don't have any should stop clinking on ads for content they don't like seeing.

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demsd
Level 13

Re: Half screen sexualized drag queen & cross dressing adds on the "Roku Home Menu"

You're problem is you are seeing something that just isn't there. That I think is more of an issue than the fact that the ad was on the home screen.

The question I have is, why is sex something you think about when you see an image of Vinessa Shimmer? What do you find sexual about a minor child?

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demsd
Level 13

Re: Drag Queens and LGBT+ "Roku Home Menu"


@FamilyFriendly wrote:

I see in you advertisements a constant and relentless barage of gay and queer programs. Generation drag. Book of Queer. Always Proud. Trixie Motel.
I wonder what happened to family programming. Is your channel exclusively gay and queer. U certainly would not want my young grandchildren exposed to this hyper sexualized programming 24/7.
Thanks


No one is forced to use Roku, or click on advertisements for shows they are not interested in. I'm an atheist. I wouldn't click on ads for bible thumping **bleep**, nor would I come here and complain about it.

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demsd
Level 13

Re: Half screen sexualized drag queen & cross dressing adds on the "Roku Home Menu"


@Onion wrote:

I find almost all these remarks are homophobic and that is the real rub here. There are technical ways around this but this is really about your agenda. Grow up. Your kid already does or should know that there are all kinds of people in this world. It’s up to you to teach your kids how to navigate life.


This. What we have here is a small group of people, who got their unders in a bunch, believing they are are going to force their will upon the populace.

Kudos to you!

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