I didn’t want to like this article but it was quite good. And I didn’t want to believe its thesis but then I realized I was subject to the same phenomenon.

I never developed an interest in watching movies or tv and still don’t. I mean it was interesting to see people in different situations, but in the 60s and 70s they never had people who looked like my family, so they weren’t that interesting or engaging for more than a short time.

So there’s at least some evidence that this phenomenon is real.