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Watching cartoons/tv shows vs watching 6 hours of 5 seconds content on tiktok/instagram isn't really comparable.

It's like saying alcohol and heroin are the same because "drug"

Oh please, they’re not even comparable?

hm yes ? When I was a kid I had 5 tv channels and that's it. Nothing interesting to watch ? Well get out or find a comic book.

Today: unlimited stream of shit coming from an unlimited number of sources, everything is 2-10s long which destroy your attention span. People competing to trigger your primal needs, everything slowly evolve into softcore porn, the rest is disguised advertising. Look at what's trending on tiktok and ig, it's scary

I had 100+ channels. Do you think my experience was fundamentally different?

Yes, 100%. I went to my grandparents very often for the sole reason that they had 50+ channels to binge watch animes. There was always something available if you looked for it, complete different experience from my parent's place

And would you be in an awful place if you spent more time watching anime than reading comic books?

I'll take your advice and watch 6 hours of TikTok every day for the next 12 months and then confirm to you whether or not you're right about it being scary. Thanks for the suggestion! Looking forward to what I learn.

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