>If depression rates in children and young adults are anything to go by, younger people absolutely cannot ignore ads(sic).

If you had toddlers in the early 00's(the only time I witnessed it), or were a toddler then, you were likely exposed to plenty of Disney Channel and the frequent barrage of 10 second commercials. Bad programming, IMO.

This is why my near two year old is unaware that there is an uncountable number of hours of video made specifically to appeal to his age group. I know he'll find out sooner or later, and that it can even be called up on demand if your mommy is nice enough, but I want to keep those little brain cells engaged primarily with the quiet, physical world as long as possible.

Typically parents at that time had to pay for it.

Now? Youtube is nuts.

> younger people absolutely cannot ignore adds.

The very same people will claim that you can ignore ads and they aren't a problem, and that free market is efficient and doesn't waste resources

> If depression rates in children and young adults are anything to go by, younger people absolutely cannot ignore adds.

There's some reason to think that this has already happened to some extent. In particular, many of the changed purchasing habits of millennials vs genX and boomers are usually attributed to ad-blindness. You'd expect this to go even further in the next generation.