Because Meta/Tiktok/others don’t effectively block them from their services, despite the illegality and knowing who is young and who isn’t, due to the insane amount of data they collect.
A Facebook exec a while ago literally said that kids are the best demographic to get hooked on your platform.
Chozo@kbin.social 8 months ago
Instagram is still decently big among GenZ for still-photo content.
ultra@feddit.ro 8 months ago
We mostly use it for stories, memes (including reels) and DMs
Source: I’m 13
jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
And already part of the fediverse? Great!
ultra@feddit.ro 8 months ago
Yup.
I post a bit too much on my plasmatra account lol (@graphite@plasmatrap.com)
Dra@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Gen z are mostly not children anymore. It’s Gen Alpha
CrayonMaster@midwest.social 8 months ago
No, Gen z covers people as young as 11 or 12, which is a good guess for “kids on Instagram”