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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @07:20AM (#39989407)
There's this old stat about video games, oft quoted a decade or more ago in context of Zynga, etc., that one of the largest game market is casual games, and the players are predominantly working-age women.

There's also this hypothesis I saw the other day, that the above is a misattribution: it's not the working-age women who somehow have time to play so much, but rather babies and kids playing on their mothers' devices.

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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @07:55AM (#39989678)
> There's also this hypothesis I saw the other day, that the above is a misattribution: it's not the working-age women who somehow have time to play so much, but rather babies and kids playing on their mothers' devices.

I also wonder what the breakdown of Netflix streaming hours is. I suspect a huge chunk of it is just toddlers and pre-schoolers watching the same episodes of Cocomelon over and over again.

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