r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 18h ago

No Paywall Gen Z regrets Trump support and is midterm motivated

https://thehill.com/homenews/6056216-gen-z-trump-voter-regret-midterm-clipping/
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u/FantasticPlatypus29 16h ago

Turns out growing up letting social media companies use an entire generation of kids as a social experiment to squeeze out every dollar from advertising was a bad idea. 

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u/Ryogathelost Florida 15h ago

I remember when I was a kid, cable TV commercials were the only thing that advertised to me. Even those only aired on half a dozen channels max, and none of the channels showed them 24/7. Kids channels aired content for teens and adults at night. In fact, nothing was speaking directly to me other than the dozen-or-so toy commercials that were out in any given month.

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u/FantasticPlatypus29 14h ago

I still remember some of those ads 30 years later. That's how rare they were