Comment by Eueudhsbsj32

2 days ago

Why just western kids? Cell phone and tablet use by little kids in Asia is on a whole other level.

The content children in Asia are exposed to seems to be entirely different in nature. For instance, with Tiktok: it intentionally pushes brainrot content for western users, while in China it pushes educational and in general positive content. Speaking only from what I've read on the subject, and I'm entirely willing to accept that I'm wrong about that, but the point remains that the screens aren't the issue, it's the content on them that is.

  • did you read any studies that accounted for brain rot short form content vs non brain rot short form content? from my n=1 sample, this content format is universally destructive, regardless as to specific information conveyed

I have no experience with the way children are raised in asia and am horrified that this phenomenon is not constrained to one particular region