Silly things you weren't allowed to watch/read/have as a kid?

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Most of the restrictions placed on me as a small child were lifted once my younger sibling was interested in said thing - i.e. I wasn't allowed to play video games but once they were old enough to be interested, of course we were allowed to go to the arcade. This was more infuriating than not being allowed to do the thing in the first place, and half the time made me not want to do whatever it was regardless of my parents approval.
 
my grandparents wouldn't allow me to make any noise in the house for a long time, I'd move a chair or flush the toilet and set off a rant about how disrespectful I am and then they would threaten to kick me out of the house. Their favorite threat to use on me was your going to make your mother homeless and it's all your fault. I spent a lot of my time just reading in my room waiting for them to go to work so I could actually do things.
 
My parents banned Oreos. Oreos, specifically. No other cookie or dessert was affected.
They were also very weird about what I wore. T-shirt and jeans -> "that looks terrible. You need to dress like other girls." Clothes other girls wore (tank top and jeans) -> "You look like a fat slut." The joy of growing up female...
Also I was apparently going to die a homeless drug addict since I wanted to take regular English class instead of honors English.
Other than that, they didn't really give a shit about what I was doing. I watched ISIS beheading videos at 9 and I think I first found porn when I tried to look up Princess Peach on Google at age 5. Growing up Gen Z was weird since I don't even think my parents even had a conception of what I was actually exposed to. When I have kids I'm gonna lock that shit down.
 
My mom drank the Tipper Gore kool aid big time, so basically any video game or album we bought had to be vetted by a Parent Committee. We weren’t religious so nothing was “satanic”, but my parents were sure I’d shoot up the school if I played any video game with a gun in it. Once I borrowed GTA II and Tomorrow Never Dies from a friend, and this instigated a full intervention where the parents and their kids came over to my house to voice concerns about what games were circulating among the kids. The parents were blaming one another, the parents were blaming the kids, and the kids were blaming me for starting it. Nobody lended or sold a video game to me ever again. I think I played Spyro the Dragon 3 for a straight year because I didn’t have any other games.

Strangely, movies were never a concern. My grandfather used to babysit us n the weekends, and he watched whatever he wanted. I think I watched both Scarface and The Shining when I was 12.

I remember distinctly years later when I was 20, I was playing Tekken 3 and my dad said “those kind of video games are not allowed in this house…” Within 24 hours I had arranged and was living with my friends.
 
My parents banned a LOT at my house; cartoons like Ed, Edd, & Eddy and anything that could be regarded as "too weird" were banned. Vast majority of the internet was banned; games like Runescape and similar were blacklisted because of "freaks online". Most video games were similar; anything with any guns or violence was strictly not allowed, because like @Carlos Thin above, my mother believed that I would automatically become a school shooter if I ever played one. Hell, I wasn't even allowed to talk to most people IRL; I had to be friends with the people my parents chose, which was often old ladies or guys that didn't have a single grasp on what the younger generations wanted.

Part of the problem was because my brother was a complete ass that kept making poor choices, so my parents naturally decided to overcompensate with me. The other was that my parents were some of those "ultra-religious" types that believed having your child being ignorant of the world around them was "good", because it would "help them a proper Christian". Ironically, they both tended to watch shit like 50 Shades of Grey and 1,000 Ways to Die.
 
Scream Aim Fire said:
The other was that my parents were some of those "ultra-religious" types that believed having your child being ignorant of the world around them was "good", because it would "help them a proper Christian".
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The funny thing is, the effect is often the exact opposite. Heavily sheltered kids grow up to be the biggest degenerates out there.
 
Scream Aim Fire said:
Part of the problem was because my brother was a complete ass that kept making poor choices, so my parents naturally decided to overcompensate with me. The other was that my parents were some of those "ultra-religious" types that believed having your child being ignorant of the world around them was "good", because it would "help them a proper Christian". Ironically, they both tended to watch shit like 50 Shades of Grey and 1,000 Ways to Die.
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I'm sorry that happened to you.
Lone Wandering Courier said:
The funny thing is, the effect is often the exact opposite. Heavily sheltered kids grow up to be the biggest degenerates out there.
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That's what happens with lots of parenting. Or they turn overly trusting and get easily taken advantage of when their parents practically locked them away from the outside world.
 
There was a bunch because my mom is chrischun, but she had a particular dislike for Batman Beyond.

I hate that I get why, learning all the ways these types of people view things as dork sided just to avoid another lecture was extremely exhausting.😒
 
I wasn't allowed to play or even watch video of people playing Halo for some reason. Specifically Halo. I guess because it was rated M, but it never made sense to me because even back then I could tell Halo didn't really deserve an M rating. Plus it was Sci-Fi which I loved. So one day I decided to test this rule by asking them to by me a book Halo: The Flood. If you know anything about that book you know it's a novelization of Halo Combat Evolved, the game I wasn't allowed to play or watch. They bought me that book without any questions asked. The book is so much worse than the game btw, very graphic, plus there's a whole added subplot about a marine being zombified by an infection form and he describes what it feels like. Thinking about the irony of that still makes me chuckle to this day.
 
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