I think it's just the opposite. Kids who've grown up with this crap will be wise to the tricks. Those who don't get exposed until adulthood have no resistance. Just like how the younger generation is pretty good at using social media responsibly and prioritizing stronger relationships, whereas the older generation get hooked and spend their whole lives yelling in newspaper comment sections.
Dude, you have no idea how particularly fucked (fucked being different than fucked up) gen z is. They are impressionable like all people of that age of any generation, but they are inundated with all kinds of nonsense they are not hip to. They are suffering the fate Frontend developers suffer, which is the landscape changes every 6 months. They are getting bombarded with FOMO, peer pressure, and a rate of change that simply can't end well.
Just on the video game front, developers charge them $70 per year for a new game that has no real updates (NBA 2k series, Modern Warfare, Battle/Season passes), and they buy it (record sales every year). They are absolutely getting fucked with, I genuinely feel bad for them.
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