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Kids today wont know about Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network,Disney channel. A sudden relazation.

CosmicPanda

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Kids today are watching Netflix, Twitch, Youtube, etc. I justed talked to my 11 year old niece and she said that she never watched any of those channels before she just watch videos on her tablet.

She will missed out on

CN CITY


Cartoon Network powerhouse


Lets watch a Disney Channel Movie


Valt Disney Bump
 
Zombegoast

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Oct 30, 2017
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What about Fox Kids and Kids WB?

4kids Dub of Pokémon is still the best because of the humour.
 
Zombine

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Man your niece is a pre-teen girl lol. Her interests are shifting in general. I can comfortably say that working with kids they are all exposed to CW and Nick lol. They just don't have the familiarity with the weekend cartoon blocks that we grew up with—that's because they have unlimited access to cartoons all of the time.
 
Gentlemen

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Things kids of today don't know much about:
VCRs
Rotary Phones
Stickball
Hypercolor t-shirts
Garbage Pail Kids
Pogs

Pastimes change. It's part of how life works.
 
Fat4all

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i cant believe kids wont even IRONICALLY talk about pogs!
 
ExoExplorer

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It's not impossible for kids to get interested in older content. I just started to watch the Animaniacs because I heard it was being revived. Most of these tv channels know what's up too. I expect them to keep growing closer to established streaming services.

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I bet there are users on ERA who have never used floppy disks or cassette tapes.
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That'd be me, I grew up just as CD's were taking off. lol
 
Kapryov

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Oct 27, 2017
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My brother's kids don't have their own tablet (in fact their tablet time is very strictly limited) so they watch cartoons on TV. So yes, they do know of the Cartoon Network.

One of the few I suppose.
 
thecouncil

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yeah, they also don't know about friday night TGIF on ABC and saturday morning cartoon blocks on all the major networks. so, like, oh well!
 
Ryuelli

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You'd be surprised.

I'm an elementary school teacher and had a 1st grader tell me all about the Dreamcast last week.
 
jwhit28

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There isn't much of a difference anymore with the binge scheduling those networks do.
 
GCQ

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Even if they didn't know the channel, the shows usually have their channel tag on them before each episode on streaming so they'd have *some* awareness of them.
 
Ryuelli

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super-famicom said:
Did you ever wonder what the save icon in Microsoft Word was?
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Related, but I'm the technology teacher (switched from 3rd grade ELA, which is what I taught last year) and in a few of the grades we were going over icons/symbols for one of our first units. I asked this same question (although Google Docs, because Word is... irrelevant to most of them, especially since they're largely using Chromebooks). One of the kids said it was an SD card, and I rolled with it because a floppy disk means nothing to them and an SD card is more relevant to them and does essentially the same thing.
 
Garp TXB

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My kid is seven. He has no concept of what a "TV Network" is, because all the media is a massive waterfall of everything from everywhere all at once... logos all over the place, streaming or not
 

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guilhermessg said:
i have never seen any of those things in person lol
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actually found one of my VH cassettes earlier after hearing the news of Eddie Van Halen passing
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mute

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In some ways it sucks that the things they look back on fondly won't be the same as ours, but that is ok.
 
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RoadDogg

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Oct 27, 2017
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My kids are 5 and 8 and watch all 3 of those channels.

In fact we went to the Nickelodeon resort last year and we're planning to go to the Cartoon Network hotel this year before the world fell apart. They are still bummed about not getting to go.
 
-Peabody-

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If anything because of the internet they can binge all of 90's entertainment much faster than we ever could.
 
Mariolee

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Its pretty wild that teenagers nowadays are nostalgic for Disney Channel TV shows I haven't even heard of before.
 
Ultimate Bear Cub

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This may turn out really interesting in the long run. They will certainly have a very different starting point.

The only loss is the confusion to all my old-ass dank memes.
 
dyreschlock

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Remembered when you were growing up and watching Dragonball Z. At the time, you probably thought another cartoon like The Flintstones was so old. The Flintstones premiered in 1960, so it was about 30 years old at that point.

Dragonball Z premiered in Japan in 1989, so it's about 30 years old at this point. Kids these days will think DBZ is just as antiquated as we thought the Flintstones was back then.
 

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Nickelodeon is still on, my kids watched Spongebob the other day and we took them to a Nickelodeon stage show before COVID showed up
 
Bjomesphat

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My kids are 3, and I'm just glad they like the old stuff as much as the new stuff. Sure I have a Plex server and try to feed them stuff I grew up with, but they love the 30s and 40s Disney shorts as much as the new Paul Rudish Mickey shorts. They've even started watching the 80s Thomas the Tank Engine show, and man, is that super slow paced compared to the new CGI one.

Sure they won't know about TV networks, but I feel that as long as I'm giving them access to the classics, that's as good as I can do.
 
jwhit28

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dyreschlock said:
Remembered when you were growing up and watching Dragonball Z. At the time, you probably thought another cartoon like The Flintstones was so old. The Flintstones premiered in 1960, so it was about 30 years old at that point.

Dragonball Z premiered in Japan in 1989, so it's about 30 years old at this point. Kids these days will think DBZ is just as antiquated as we thought the Flintstones was back then.
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I think the feeling is more that such a large majority of kids were limited to the same stuff. If Cartoon Network or Nick ran Looney Tunes, well of course most other kids knew about them because their media is limited to those 2 channels too. We knew what Flintstones was cause Cartoon Network had shown Flintstones. If I had a magic device that only showed me DBZ all day I probably would have never watched Flintstones.
 
dyreschlock

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jwhit28 said:
I think the feeling is more that such a large majority of kids were limited to the same stuff. If Cartoon Network or Nick ran Looney Tunes, well of course most other kids knew about them because their media is limited to those 2 channels too. We knew what Flintstones was cause Cartoon Network had shown Flintstones. If I had a magic device that only showed me DBZ all day I probably would have never watched Flintstones.
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The Simpsons is probably a better example, also debuted in 1989.
 
mjc

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My three year old watches Cartoon Network almost every day....
 
Joeyjoejoeshabadoo

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I showed my son a CD and he had no idea what it was. These things happen. Pretty soon your kids will bemoan that "kids these days don't know about Netflix. They are always getting their media on the Tesla network being beamed directly to their brains. "
 
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