• whoever loves Digit@piefed.social
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      Doesn’t look like it to me. Almost all the charts have 2015/16 close to prior years, but in a severe upswing. After 2020 we’re far out of the previous range, with still no downswing. But the article did say 2016 too, so it’s not you being dumb or anything

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        really one of those studies if it had been started a few years earlier could have made all the difference

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          Yeah. I will say, after looking at the data more, the youngest demographic does make it look like smartphones could be a bigger part than I realized. That’s very counterintuitive to me, since smartphones are interactive and great at accessing information, while we had TVs forever before that