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The world has changed so much since then. I am only 22 so I think we are pretty much the same age. Kids don't even watch cartoon now. They play games on ipad and make vine videos...

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There's also a lack of cartoons to even attempt to watch outside of the Cartoon Network. Parents were worried about their kids watching too much cartoons, but seem to mostly turn a blind eye to overusing tablets, phones and PCs.

Kids definitely still watch cartoons. A lot. Source: currently watching Regular Show with my 4 younger siblings.

While I agree with your conclusion, one household of data isn't particularly relevant to what most children do.

How about the legion of animation programming that's commissioned every year?

Like I said, I agree with his conclusion that lots of kids still watch cartoons, just pointing out that his knowing a few kids who do isn't proof of this.

To put it into HN cliché phrasing: the plural of anecdote is not data, even if the anecdote matches the data.

How is what yeukhon stated anything other than an anecdote?

I totally think you guys are right about me not having proof either. I think we both can say some people do and some don't, but a lot more younger children are spending time doing things that we once didn't do for those who grew up in the late 80s and 90s - people who grew like from this period of time should had a reasonable access to a machine - be it PC, gameboy or PS1.

Well, it's just patently false. It may be the case in the mind of some in the echo chamber ... but as I seem to almost regularly need to remind on HN ... there is a whole world outside the party line view of what the world is like ... namely, what the world is really like. :)

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