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The world has changed so much since then. I am only 22 so I think we are pretty much the same age. Kids don't even watch cartoon now. They play games on ipad an
by yeukhon 13y ago
The world has changed so much since then. I am only 22 so I think we are pretty much the same age. Kids don't even watch cartoon now. They play games on ipad and make vine videos...
- philangist 13y agoKids definitely still watch cartoons. A lot. Source: currently watching Regular Show with my 4 younger siblings.
- corin_ 13y agoWhile I agree with your conclusion, one household of data isn't particularly relevant to what most children do.
- OvidNaso 13y agoHow about the legion of animation programming that's commissioned every year?
- corin_ 13y agoLike I said, I agree with his conclusion that lots of kids still watch cartoons, just pointing out that his knowing a few kids who do isn't proof of this. To put it into HN cliché phrasing: the plural of anecdote is not data, even if the anecdote matches the data.
- randac 13y agoHow is what yeukhon stated anything other than an anecdote?
- yeukhon 13y agoI totally think you guys are right about me not having proof either. I think we both can say some people do and some don't, but a lot more younger children are spending time doing things that we once didn't do for those who grew up in the late 80s and 90s - people who grew like from this period of time should had a reasonable access to a machine - be it PC, gameboy or PS1.
- dinkumthinkum 13y agoWell, it's just patently false. It may be the case in the mind of some in the echo chamber ... but as I seem to almost regularly need to remind on HN ... there is a whole world outside the party line view of what the world is like ... namely, what the world is really like. :)
- yareally 13y agoThere's also a lack of cartoons to even attempt to watch outside of the Cartoon Network. Parents were worried about their kids watching too much cartoons, but seem to mostly turn a blind eye to overusing tablets, phones and PCs.