OK, but you know what they say about anecdotes, right? I'm sure there are many people on HN that have never watched a show in their entire life; there is an Onion article about "Area Man Constantly Telling People He doesn't Own a TV" [1]. Also, there is a group of people in America I understand called the Amish. That's fine but I'm not sure how to generalize from that .... My response is to this kind of often repeated idea that I think lacks a lot of merit or evidence in reality. For that view to be true, there better be a statistically insignificant number of kids that have ever seen any of these shows or any of their associated advertisments because they are too busy with Snapchat.
One thing I am aware of is that kids have a lot of free time and they do a lot of different things, is what I understand.
1. http://www.theonion.com/article/area-man-constantly-mentioni...