At least that is what they told researchers at UCLA. The high popularity of romance plots in movies and shows suggests otherwise. Movies and television shows about rich people are the last thing we want to watch.
And skip the sex: we prefer content that focuses on platonic relationships. (There’s enough porn online as it is.) We do like fantasy as a genre, increasingly so.
But please, pretty please, fix how you incorporate social media into storylines. It’s cringe. That is what young people – ages 10 to 24 – think about movies, television shows, video games and social media, according to a study released Thursday.
The study, Teens & Screens, conducted by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that 63.5% of participants said they wanted content that depicted platonic relationships, as opposed to romance and sex. That is up from 51.
5% last year. (Questions involving romance and sex were not shown to participants ages 10 to 13.) Of course, what study participants say and what they actually do can vary wildly.
There is ample evidence to the contrary among shows that are popular with younger audiences, including The Sex Lives of College Girls , a raunchy comedy; Emily in Paris , an impassioned romance; and Tell Me Lies , a steamy soap..