[wickedwiesel]

There is solid research out there suggesting that this is different. Large n, several years, multiple countries all pointing to all increase in tune with the advent of visual social media (Instagram, TikTok - not Facebook or WhatsApp). The time series analysis makes this not merely correlational.

I point to my sibling post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38201807

Visual social media like TikTok and instagram seem to be a different beast than TV, WhatsApp and other media.

[friend_and_foe]

Everything is a different beast than what came before it.

Notice, I'm not saying the panty wringers were wrong about all the stuff that came before. I've come to terms with the fact that they were largely right. The corruption of each successive generation actually happened. What I'm saying is, it seems that this is just an artifact of culture rather than standalone negative impacts of new things. I don't know what to do with that information, but it is staring me in the face.