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It’s a bad ad and Google should feel bad about it. In an age where kids are already becoming too tech-dependent, making ad as about how we can make a kid depend

It’s a bad ad and Google should feel bad about it. In an age where kids are already becoming too tech-dependent, making ad as about how we can make a kid depend on tech to do one more thing is kind of dumb.

Der_Einzige 2y ago
Tech dependency is only bad when it's bad content consumed with that tech. Ipad toddlers are really only bad because of moonbug entertainment and whatever the heck this is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate. If my kid gets addicted to Minecraft, Among Us, Factorio, Dwarf Fortress, or any paradox interactive map painting simulator, I know that they are much more likely have a gainful career ahead of them (assuming AI doesn't automate them away, in which case, all such thoughts are forfeit anyway). Load up 50s era cartoons onto that Ipad and I've got entertaining attention span building happening. Swap the language to french and suddenly my kids are learning a new language. I find it absolutely disgusting how common it is on this forum to see the opinion that "the kids are too tech dependent", and advocating for taking away phones, restricting access to the internet/computers, etc. A huge amount of these pedagogical luddites themselves only became worthy of working a high paying tech job through their own tech/screen addictions. We should celebrate them here and respect the insane ROI that such addictions provide to us as "hackers". The self-hatred and authoritarian parenting styles advocated here should leave all who witness those who hold these opinions ashamed. And yes, the kids do have genuine "brainrot" like skibidi toilet or whatever nonsense memes they're making today. I've seen the videos that young kids watch of GTAV characters falling from buildings ad infinitum. We cannot forget the millennial MLG 420 air horn brain-rot of our own era, or the crap TV/movie brain-rot like American Pie, Borat/Bruno, or Reality TV, or the crap from the 90s like bad tabloid talk shows like Jerry Springer, or crap from the 80s designed to sell toys like Transformers, or crap beach movies from the 60/70s like Beach Blanket Bingo and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, or literally all of Mad Magazine, or formulaic Westerns in the 50s... ? I for one will relish in high quality entertainment with my child and won't condemn them to getting only tiny glimpses of the wonderful world of art that is within the screen. Addictions to entertainment like books, art, etc are naturally features found in the best writers, painters.
- deng 2y ago
  I'll go out on a limb here and say that you don't have kids. Aside from your obsession with careers and "ROI" and such, which are simply disturbing, you obviously have no idea that the modern entertainment industry has nothing to do with what you grew up with. The amount of heavily addictive shit and outright gambling targeted at kids is simply astonishing, and makes me wonder how people programming this stuff can sleep at night. And this might blow your mind, but kids are different. Some can cope with this stuff, but many cannot. Good luck giving your kids access to Youtube thinking they'll watch Numberphile and 3blue1brown all day. Guess what: parental controls in Youtube are a joke, because Google has zero interest in kids not watching crap for hours and targeting ads at them. And it's the same with every other platform. Spotify has tons of "ASMR porn", hours of TikTok "meme videos" disguised as music videos, right-wing podcast bullshit, and all you can do is enable an "explicit content" filter because god-forbid the kid might hear the F-word in a song. All these terrible free-to-play mobile games have loot boxes or wheel of fortunes or other crap that constantly pressure kids to buy some monopoly money so they can win some stupid skin so they don't get bullied in the chat. Once you have your kid crying because of this shit, maybe you will second-guess if that is the ROI you had in mind.
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Der_Einzige 2y ago

Tech dependency is only bad when it's bad content consumed with that tech. Ipad toddlers are really only bad because of moonbug entertainment and whatever the heck this is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate. If my kid gets addicted to Minecraft, Among Us, Factorio, Dwarf Fortress, or any paradox interactive map painting simulator, I know that they are much more likely have a gainful career ahead of them (assuming AI doesn't automate them away, in which case, all such thoughts are forfeit anyway). Load up 50s era cartoons onto that Ipad and I've got entertaining attention span building happening. Swap the language to french and suddenly my kids are learning a new language. I find it absolutely disgusting how common it is on this forum to see the opinion that "the kids are too tech dependent", and advocating for taking away phones, restricting access to the internet/computers, etc. A huge amount of these pedagogical luddites themselves only became worthy of working a high paying tech job through their own tech/screen addictions. We should celebrate them here and respect the insane ROI that such addictions provide to us as "hackers". The self-hatred and authoritarian parenting styles advocated here should leave all who witness those who hold these opinions ashamed. And yes, the kids do have genuine "brainrot" like skibidi toilet or whatever nonsense memes they're making today. I've seen the videos that young kids watch of GTAV characters falling from buildings ad infinitum. We cannot forget the millennial MLG 420 air horn brain-rot of our own era, or the crap TV/movie brain-rot like American Pie, Borat/Bruno, or Reality TV, or the crap from the 90s like bad tabloid talk shows like Jerry Springer, or crap from the 80s designed to sell toys like Transformers, or crap beach movies from the 60/70s like Beach Blanket Bingo and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, or literally all of Mad Magazine, or formulaic Westerns in the 50s... ? I for one will relish in high quality entertainment with my child and won't condemn them to getting only tiny glimpses of the wonderful world of art that is within the screen. Addictions to entertainment like books, art, etc are naturally features found in the best writers, painters.

deng 2y ago
I'll go out on a limb here and say that you don't have kids. Aside from your obsession with careers and "ROI" and such, which are simply disturbing, you obviously have no idea that the modern entertainment industry has nothing to do with what you grew up with. The amount of heavily addictive shit and outright gambling targeted at kids is simply astonishing, and makes me wonder how people programming this stuff can sleep at night. And this might blow your mind, but kids are different. Some can cope with this stuff, but many cannot. Good luck giving your kids access to Youtube thinking they'll watch Numberphile and 3blue1brown all day. Guess what: parental controls in Youtube are a joke, because Google has zero interest in kids not watching crap for hours and targeting ads at them. And it's the same with every other platform. Spotify has tons of "ASMR porn", hours of TikTok "meme videos" disguised as music videos, right-wing podcast bullshit, and all you can do is enable an "explicit content" filter because god-forbid the kid might hear the F-word in a song. All these terrible free-to-play mobile games have loot boxes or wheel of fortunes or other crap that constantly pressure kids to buy some monopoly money so they can win some stupid skin so they don't get bullied in the chat. Once you have your kid crying because of this shit, maybe you will second-guess if that is the ROI you had in mind.
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