It's possible you missed it in my edits as I was editing things in, but the answer is, it didn't follow you home. When I got home, I could be broadcasted at by

It's possible you missed it in my edits as I was editing things in, but the answer is, it didn't follow you home. When I got home, I could be broadcasted at by the TV, but I had no peer-interactive media other than voice phone calls, which are structurally unsuitable for this style of peer pressure. The TV could set the parameters of the peer pressure, and then I could be pressured at school, but there was no dynamic, real-time blending of the corporate agenda-setting and my actual peers reinforcing it in a live loop. And if memory serves, honestly, even that loop was non-linearly weaker than you'd think (or, if you prefer, the aforementioned dynamic loop is non-linearly stronger than you'd think from the parts, since it's iterative). Yeah, some kids were really into that peer game, but it was pretty easy to check out, and the peer pressure was easily lost in the ambient level of general bullying and child unpleasantness. Yeah, I wore the wrong shoes, but it was something I heard about infrequently, and even if I had been wearing the right shoes it was pretty clear it would just have been something else. It wasn't the dominant playground topic, every day.