Netflix hits 'adolescent' fuel, struggling to teach boys online aversion risks

London – Netflix's global hit single “Adolescent” has officially become the largest drama ever in streaming services, amassing over 120 million views and entering slot 3 on the list of Netflix's ever-popular English shows. It has also ranked the streaming giant in the first 10 performances in the U.S. over the past five weeks.

Grugged drama about universal radicalism, violence risk Miso content online – This world is barely visible to the world, and is barely visible to the British audience and has sparked a nationwide conversation that extends from school gates across the country to the British Prime Minister’s office in London.

The show forces viewers into an unbearable reality that captures parents’ worst nightmare. “Pupils” tells the story of Jamie, a 13-year-old boy arrested for a murder whose parents simply can't believe he has the ability to commit it. But soon he did, his motivations shocked, initially plagued by the police and the large number of viewers on the show.

It also causes chords in the corridor of power.

“As a father, watching this show with my teenage son and daughter, I can tell you it’s hard to hit,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer told reporters at a roundtable two weeks ago.

“This is not a challenge that politicians can simply legislate. Trust me, if I could pull the leverage to solve it, I would. Only by listening and learning and learning from the experiences of young people and charities can we solve the problems raised by this breakthrough show.”

What is given to viewers is that most people may be the first glimpse into the online world of corrupt Jamie. His victim – a female classmate – bullied him, calling him an “incel” of “involuntary celibacy”.

Jamie rolled in social media feed for hours and was spent for hours, and Jamie was influenced by the incel community – spitting out hatred online and encouraging violence against most women, who said they didn't find them attractive.

These views among Gen Z teenagers are widely ubiquitous in the UK, with Amnesty International UK UK polls between the ages of 16 and 25 found that 73% of Gen Z social media users witnessed misogynistic content online, and half said they encountered it every week.

Starmer announced that Netflix is ​​offering free shows to high schools across the country to help students understand “the impact of misogyny, the dangers of radical online, and the importance of healthy relationships.”

While some fears that negative behaviors may be normalized, experts in child welfare told CBS News that emitting focus on this issue is long-term.

Susie McDonald, CEO of British charity Tendering, told CBS News: “We have to protect children by enabling them to see the material and be able to critically evaluate theirs, is this something I should see?”

Tenders have twenty years of experience working with students to prevent violence and abuse. The group provides schools with guides and resources to support teachers, parents, and caregivers to have conversations around topics that are popularly discussed in Netflix.

In early April, the tender held a workshop at a West London school to help children aged 9 to 11 learn to navigate difficult topics and identify controlled behaviors through games and drama. The workshop involves children who define phrases, such as “toxic gas,” and wielding physical red flags to determine that the language in question hears it in the expressed conversation.

“They rehearsed the relationships of friendship through scripts and through different games and practices,” McDonald’s said. “As they get older…as relationships may become closer or more romantic, they can apply everything they have learned from friendship.”

Noel McDermott, a psychotherapist who works with young people who commit violent crimes, told CBS News that a better education on the topic is needed, especially for young people.

“We have to start teaching our boys that you have to be responsible for who you are, what you are and where you are in life,” he said.

McDonald's warned not to over-focus on the susceptibility of boys and young men, risking reducing the focus on violence against women, but said she especially needs to be protected at a young age.

“What we can't do is blame the boy,” she said. “But we have to change the narrative. We have to pay attention to the boy, we have to protect boys from being perpetrators.”

“Forever, we’ve been looking at how to protect and prevent girls from becoming victims,” she told CBS News. “But if we want to achieve this, we have to work with boys in a truly supportive way, ‘You can be part of preventing violence against women and girls.”