Do you have any evidence for it?

Perhaps more importantly, would you personally be generally more at-ease if this were more true than the alternative?

I ask because it seems to me like it would be simpler to take them at their word (i.e that they are genuinely disappointed that advertising GIFs are where so much of this generation of tech's effort is spent). It doesn't seem out of character for people to express disappointment about that sort of thing without their personal salaries being a factor.