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>>babelf+(OP)
> “I Spent 50 Hours In Ketchup”

> In general the more extreme the better.

I may be sounding like "get off my lawn" guy right now but should there be some realization that these people are a cultural analogue of if not heroin than at least cigarettes? They are making a good living from making things objectively worse in a society by tickling the base instincts of the addicts. I am not calling for government intervention or any of such BS but is it too much for me to expect at least some cultural pushback here?

>>smsm42+e6
Maybe more "old man yells at cloud" but I am kinda with you in thinking it's trash. The thing is that every generation has had its own equivalent swill for kids, this one is no different. His channel won't last, there's too much baggage around it, but it'll get replaced with something equally trashy.

>>smcl+r7
I have a lot of memories in my childhood, but I can't remember anything on this level. Sure, I grew up in a very different environment than the US, but even in the US - say, was there a constant stream of content aimed at kids that is optimized to be maximally extreme and maximally attention-grabbing? All I can remember was cartoons - but were kids spending hours glued to the screen watching cartoons? I surely wasn't.

>>smsm42+Kg
> All I can remember was cartoons - but were kids spending hours glued to the screen watching cartoons?

In the US in the past few decades? Yes. Absolutely.

Going back to at least the 1990s a kid could watch cartoons before school and then for several hours afterwards on broadcast channels.

For households with basic cable there were also very popular networks running all day full of children’s content (Disney Channel, Nickelodeon etc.)

These networks were very successful because they excelled at grabbing attention and keeping eyeballs on screens. For one example of these corners of hyper-popular children’s entertainment that kept kids glued to screens before YouTube just look at the works of Dan Schneider. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Schneider