It doesn’t bode well for society if kids and teenagers are spending more and more time watching YouTube videos and Twitch streamers compared to scripted shows, then.
It probably will make me an old man in the eyes of some portion of the following generation but there’s only so much that I can take of watching a person celebrate opening yet more free shit and yelling and swearing through an inanimate box at people they don’t know.
It’s not all bad, but by I swear there are more “product review” channels than ever and they’re spreading like dandelions.
I’m also of a curious persuasion so I’ll stick it out for a while wondering what people find so fascinating—maybe that I was missing something. But I wasn’t, not so far as I’ve been able to tell yet.
If a majority of what children take in from something as powerful as the immense capacity for information sharing as the internet is watching someone open a material item they covet over and over again I don’t think that it can possibly be healthy for them in the long term—especially with a lack of other contextual framing.