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wonder how much of one's view of this is if you grew up on weird internet shit, or if you came online later/never strayed from safe channels
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gf and I both agree this is wonderful and not fundamentally unlike what we had as kids, author came online at 12 and is aghast
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some people never cope and spend their life falling down rabbitholes but in general internet insanity forces the development of discernment
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this is the content landscape we live in now, better to teach kids early
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What the fuck are you talking about, it's meaningless drivel but also disturbingly violent. No one will remember this fondly.
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Ok let's see, I grew up with stick death. That at least had plot, vision, etc. this stuff is far more subversive.
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well really kids will probably remember whatever media they were exposed to young enough fondly
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gen Xers get defensive over hollywood remakes ruining the artistic vision of their favorite thirty-minute toy commercials
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personally I don't think there's much middle ground between "the latest moral panic is as unfounded as the last" and ...
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... "modern society has been fucking kids up for generations" both of which are potentially valid
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Ok but this just means what kids are exposed to matters, because they are impressionable.
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There are two issues: a) the quality of the content and b) the metaphysics behind the content creation
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Another iteration of 'the eschaton will definitely happen in my lifetime'
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flash cartoons were wierder
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Maybe a variant of uncanny valley effect from algorithmic nature of content, extent to which still being directly created by people or not?
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