"Tough Love in the Digital
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| Illustrates a Chinese dad and son (game addiction) via @mindset page on fb |
Age: Chinese Father Hires Gamers to Sabotage Son’s Online Addiction"
In 2013, a desperate father in China took extreme measures to break his son’s gaming addiction—by hiring professional players to repeatedly hunt and eliminate him in-game.
The 23-year-old, who had dropped out of the workforce to play video games obsessively, found his virtual paradise turned into a nightmare. His father, hoping to force him back into reality, paid skilled gamers to target his son’s character, making gameplay unbearably frustrating.
Originally reported by Sanqin Daily and later picked up by Kotaku and the BBC, the unusual story went viral, sparking global debates on parenting, screen addiction, and the limits of "tough love" in the internet era.
Did it work? The outcome remains unclear—but the extreme approach certainly got the world talking.
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