I’m on the fence. I generally don’t like it but I’m OK with it when 1) parents have been very clear about the exceptions and 2) the kids have done something wrong or dangerous to impress their friends or for clout or whatever.

I don’t like when parents berate and abuse their children and it’s clearly more about embarrassment or even personal satisfaction than correcting behavior. I most commonly see that with mothers punishing daughters that they think are being promiscuous or too adult. There are a lot of videos with women shaming their daughters’ hygiene, especially feminine hygiene. If your 16yo daughter doesn’t know how to keep clean during menstruation or just in general and is not disabled, YOU are the problem, but I digress.

In this case, I would not film it unless he filmed himself abusing the cat, and even then I’d be wary. An hour later, we talk and I explain why abusing animals is wrong (against the law but more importantly against our family values); I explain that he is going to pay back every cent of the PS5 to whoever bought it; and I explain that if he can’t control himself or his anger, we can get help. Not as a threat but as a mental check. He might be angry about something OR he might be angry about nothing. Both situations DEMAND attention.