Recently, a police officer in India named C. Sylendra Babu made a video to call on young people to delete games because he believes they will have a negative impact on everyone’s physical and mental health. The video immediately went viral across gaming communities in India. This police officer believes that gaming will ruin people’s lives. However, there are many people making a living from gaming, such as professional gamers and streamers.
C. Sylendra Babu is currently the Director General of Railway Police (GRP) in Tamil Nadu. This officer is very active on social media and currently has 85,000 followers on Twitter. A few days ago, he tweeted a video discussing gaming culture in India, which immediately received a lot of feedback and 3,000 likes.
This man thinks that those who spend time gaming every day cannot focus on work, study, and are ruining their own lives. He then urged all of his followers to delete all games like Free Fire or PUBG Mobile. He also suggested that people should play “real games” like football and volleyball instead of gaming.
Police in India seem to enjoy talking about games on social media. Previously, the police team in Mumbai posted on their official Twitter: If you are a PUBG player, you can definitely relate to this situation. Entering the Redzone in PUBG is very dangerous, and therefore, going outside during the Covid-19 pandemic is just as dangerous. So stay home. This was a post encouraging people to stay home to protect themselves and their families from the Covid-19 pandemic.
However, this is not the first time the Mumbai police have made such a Twitter post to raise awareness. In 2018, they made a post to remind everyone to wear helmets while on the road, using the iconic PUBG Mobile helmet as a metaphor.
PUBG Mobile faced a very tough time in India in 2019 when it was banned in several places. But many found ways to revive the game by building professional gaming careers to become gamers or streamers. There are year-round gaming tournaments with prize pools comparable to sports tournaments.
However, India is also a country with a high number of addicted gamers to PUBG Mobile; previously, in Bengaluru, India, locals had to take action and hand a teenage boy to the police due to his unusual behavior of throwing stones at homes and vehicles on the road.