That was definitely something but we had to actively pick what we were going to be exposed to for the most part, we also discussed it more with our peers when they showed us. I remember some kids showed me that journalist getting killed and i told my childhood friend about it and he like refused to talk to me for months calling me sick. Nowadays kids just get shown an endless feed of stuff and binge on it with no real discussion outside of what they see in comment sections. Now add onto that with factors like much of social media comments and outreach being manipulated by bots and the current day youth never has a chance to be mentally prepared for what they are going to be exposed to. We are talking trauma on levels we never can imagine. Plus a large majority of people don’t believe in teaching their kids critical thinking and encourage cognitive dissonance and many of them are deep down internet rabbit holes themselves. I feel for the new generations, they are being dealt a terrible hand.

YouTube, Twitch, and Tiktok the holy trinity.

I don’t think we will see the true effect of these things until a lot of these kids born 2008+ are adults

There has been. Maybe not as much as twitter and tik tok but yeah there has. A lot of weird childrens content. The far right pipeline. Clout in general