Watching Liquid Television, a source of inspiration that Sam Hyde cited in an interview, and looking at the decadent behavior it sets out to normalize (either knowingly or unknowingly), convinces me that mass media is indeed a reinforcing psy-op meant to keep whoever is sad or stupid enough complacent enough to consoom content and want more afterwards. This just happens to be poor people - of all races, mind you, not just the ones you’re thinking of, and you could extend the scope to all late-night stoner shows on Adult Swim and the like.
Funny enough, the network producers are doing a lot better than the peons they cater to. Give a rich person and a poor person the same stimulus and the outcome on average will appear biased towards the former, but not because they are inherently better or worse than another, but because of how the System games a lack of self-control and delayed gratification for it’s own propagation, like a virus (Kaczynski point - the System’s output is primarily that which makes it grow faster). For example, there are no weeaboos in private universities - at least, not the ones that wrap their car with hentai like in public universities and community colleges. The people on top are too busy networking on top of their yachts (true story) and have moved their signaling to more concrete signs of economic leverage rather than the aesthetic taste that the wannabes and artistic types settle for, usually in crowded urban places.
Never forget about the Trash Taste interview about the Jojo’s animator that gets paid in ramen per frame but wouldn’t trade his job for anything in the world; he has sold his soul to anime, the art form, because of those who did so before him that created the shows he, in turn, watched. As great as it would be to say that there is an inverse correlation between amount of media consumed and net wealth, that is not the case. The consumption simply takes on a different form, as well as those who have the material and moral luxury to throw their hat into the ring and consolidate all the media they consumed growing up have higher odds of striking it rich - bringing us back to comedians of Sam Hyde’s caliber.
This train of thought is repetitive and circular, but is my humble attempt of uncovering why open feeding your kids TV and internet is a bad idea, just like open feeding your cat (leaving the wholesale-sized bag of cat food open and never checking up on them) is a bad idea. Granted, maybe the children of parents lazy or overworked enough to do just this were doomed genetically from the start, but let’s not bust out the black pill yet teehee~