I'm extremely worried about CBBC's impact on viewers with epilepsy. You see, CBBC has too much flashing images in their programmes and fast transitions. One of the skits in Diddy TV had flashing images, and I'm worried because all the other CBBC shows, including Scream Street, might incorporate quick, bright, alternating flashes in each of their shows every few seconds, just like in the banned Pokemon episode, 'Electric Soldier Porygon'. If CBBC did an event called 'Can You Make It Through The Week?' it would warn viewers to steer clear away from CBBC due to flashing images all week, because every second throughout the programmes aired, the screen will be brought up by quick flashes of red and blue, like in said Pokemon episode. This flashing might cause an estimated 685 British children to be hospitalized after suffering epileptic seizures - two of which will remain hospitalized for up to two weeks.
It's not just CBBC that's the case - a few years ago, CiTV's former programming block Action Stations had a warning that aired before episodes of Transformers and Yu-Gi-Oh about flashing images, in the case of epileptic viewers. So why can't they have a warning for epileptic viewers before each programme telling them about the flashing images featured in this programme? CBBC, if you're reading this, you've been warned about how you treat your viewers. Some might have epileptic seizures by now, so what if there was a disability-friendly version of CBBC for people who have autism or dyslexia or maybe even epilepsy? It would be great, but then the CBBC logo would be either purple or multiple colours.
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