[hdhfjkrkrme]

Since some parents actively control what their kids watch it makes sense to create a show optimized for that niche - you increase parent appeal, but this will decrease kids appeal, so now you have an optimization problem to solve.

It would be interesting to see a chart with kids preferences - I bet kids enjoy Bluey far less than other shows since it's not optimized for them, but for parents.

When I was a kid it was a free market - I had a bunch of channels with a bunch of cartoons and I chose which ones to watch.

If you think about it, kids crack like addiction to cartoons doesn't make sense to adults (there are theories), so that raises questions if adults can pick for kids, and not for what they imagine kids would enjoy.

[bombcar]

Kids are not a reliable demographic; without being “trained” to like things they’ll be perfectly happy watching baby shark on repeat.