Chapter 455: Family Friendly POV
The boy’s heart hammered in his chest, watching from his sofa while gripping a handful of grapes and a bottle of water.
The moment Bastet and Calypso began their work, the stream’s perspective jolted in his mind. Kaiden’s point of view vanished, much to the boy’s annoyance. He was his hero, he preferred to watch his stream over the girls’! But so did the monster girls’ streams vanish from his sight. A black notification flashed across the corner of his screen:
[Restricted content detected. Switching to an age-appropriate POV.]
And just like that, he was locked out.
No matter how many times he refreshed, no matter how often he grumbled under his breath, the feed refused to return.
Instead, he was stuck watching from Aria’s perspective, who stood with her back turned to the hallway where Elise’s screams crawled through the marble walls. She stood in a different room entirely. Despite that, the cries were there, though in the form of a muffled, broken noise behind stone and distance, blurred enough not to paint nightmares.
Restricting children like this wasn’t Kaiden’s doing; it was the Awakened Media Platform itself.
Whenever the system detected adult-rated content - whether sexual or graphically violent - it reacted instantly. If it were a monster battle with blood and claws, it would splash the screen with censorship, blotting gore behind grey filters and distortion. But when it came to humans torturing humans, or awakened combatants suffering grave injuries, real screams, real agony, the rules were harsher.
The only exception was the underage awakened combatants, namely those who had already leveled up at least once after killing a monster or another human. The platform seemed to be of the opinion that if a child was a combatant, then they deserved to be treated as a responsible awakened.
Some argued that it was likely doing it because restricting their access would pose unfair disadvantages. They were already part of this life-or-death battle against monsters and other awakened humans; not letting them view the same battle footage as the adults could would not be fair.
Anyhow. What mattered was that underage viewers - aside from the aforementioned small populace of awakened combatant children - were cut out. Immediately. No warnings. No countdown.
And the streamer lost them.