• quarrk [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    If older gen z were watching, then so were younger millennials… both of these creators were popular in the early 10s.

    I don’t think pewdiepie deserves a mention

    Fair, I don’t know that much about him except that he was the biggest YouTuber and had a few scandals for saying slurs.

    Maybe I’m an optimist but I think it shouldn’t be that alarming that kids watch offensive things. They always have, forever. The millennials especially grew up in a new internet environment with minimal guardrails. Millennials saw a lot of gore and porn and edgy incel shit which was way easier to stumble upon than it is today, and with none of the warning labels. It probably felt cool to see that stuff, like flipping through grandpa’s playboy magazine, but that’s just angsty teenagers being angsty. I don’t see much cause for alarm in my personal experience with zoomers.