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I miss the good ol' days when mass-market TV is what rotted kids' brains. Brain-rotting TikTok slop is totally different from that.
yeah, but those of us who grew up on tv didn't have ubiquitous access to screens either.
I grew up in the '70s. My parents limited us to one hour of TV per day, but I had friends who spent nearly every waking hour when they weren't in school parked in front of the television. Like, six to seven hours per day and more on the weekends. The stats back that up, too.
Though pre-DVR TV and especially a household too poor for cable the television was... a bit less continuously interesting. Having even a VCR was just amazing and that was a royal pain meaning you really had to pick and choose what to record. Most of the time you didn't even have anything you wanted to watch that happened to be playing right then. Even when you did want to watch, good chance it is a rerun and you only half paid attention if you bothered at all.
The on-demand nature of it and the volume of it are really what makes it just constant.