If that's all today's kids had access to, I wouldn't be worried about it either.
I work with "average" kids today that have access to far more developmentally-damaging media, and I want the few kids that have parents that care enough to set up controls, to have a fighting chance.
I didn't mean my silly recollections there to be a way to handwave the concerns of people with parental controls nowadays. Those are important.
I just miss those simpler times. The most risque thing we got our hands on back then were low resolution porn clips. Perhaps some odd hentai AVI with mangled translation.
People used to be up in arms about something silly as Carmageddon being damaging to kid's mental health while truly awful stuff such as social media was brewing on the horizon.
Seeing some pretty concerning NEET "battlestations" online I'd think the parents of the 90s were right for at least some of those kids. Doing anything all day to excess to the detriment of everything else is bad, whether it be TV or video games or social media or whatever distraction comes next.
There is definitely poor parenting at play here, and there are also way more, easier access, brain rotters today. 100 years ago, parents weren't giving their babies electronic pacifiers (tablets with YouTube playing).
I mean 100yrs none of that crap existed so yea no shit they weren't doing that. But I'm sure there were things of a similar nature that existed then as well.
If that's all today's kids had access to, I wouldn't be worried about it either.
I work with "average" kids today that have access to far more developmentally-damaging media, and I want the few kids that have parents that care enough to set up controls, to have a fighting chance.