[Slartie]

You forgot #4: young kids have, in comparison to most adults, an insane amount of free time to spend watching content, and usually don't object if that content is of bad quality. They're the ideal audience to suck up truckloads of cheaply produced animations.

[r00fus]

This is also very much contributing to the calc above. My kids hated it when I prevented them from watching YTKids (and subsequently uninstalled the app), and still (a year+ later) complain they want to watch those actors playing with their favorite toys.

They are supremely addicted to that stuff (even the non-objectionable ones), it was scary to witness.

[rednerrus]

My wife and I have taken the pads away from the kids permanently. They're just too crazy when it's time to be done with them.

[r00fus]

Timers + a cool down period before the next activity = less withdrawal symptoms. I'm ashamed we still haven't removed the devices from their weekly allotment of diversions, but we don't have a TV to speak of, so it's their only time.