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@Doug73 Whatever the kids are doing, there's somebody panicking about it.

First it was socrates ranting about how young people's memory deterriorates because they rely on writing instead of learning things by heard. Then it was books. Then it was "devil's pedestrian-killing machines", which we now just call "bicycles." Then it was vinyl records and the unknown impact of hearing the exact same sound more than once on the human soul. Then it was radio, TV, cigarettes, earphones and the walkman, Dungeons and Dragons, heavy metal, Gameboys and pokemon, sweets, cable, calculators, computers and game consoles, strangers on the internet, posting pictures to Facebook, now it's Chat GPT and Tiktok.

Out of those, cigarettes and sweets were the only two that actually had a kernel of truth to them.