Heard a guy at the coffee shop say his kid watches folding phone reviews for fun

My nephew is 7 and he knows more about screen hinges than I do about my own car. It made me think about what we consider 'normal' now versus 10 years ago. Has anyone else noticed kids treating tech specs like we treated baseball cards?

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spencer_park266d ago

Wait, aren't folding phone reviews mostly watched by adults who buy them?

laura_schmidt826d ago

Wait, are they watching to see if my bank account can handle a $2,000 phone?

murray.jana1d ago

Actually think about it though. Those hinge test videos and durability torture tests are exactly the kind of content that algorithms push to anyone showing even a tiny interest in tech. Kids see one video of a guy snapping a phone in half and they're hooked for a month. Plus the folding mechanism is genuinely fascinating to watch if you're like 12 and have never seen anything that complex before. It's not about buying the phone, it's about watching something that costs more than their parents car payment get folded and unfolded 200,000 times without breaking.

spencer_coleman6d ago

Ask yourself if this is even a trend or just one weird kid at a coffee shop. My coworker's daughter went through a phase where she watched unboxing videos of massage chairs for like two weeks. Kids latch onto random stuff and then drop it. I doubt these kids are really studying hinge tolerances or whatever. They probably just like watching expensive things get opened and folded. Let's not turn a funny little story into a whole generation's biggest hobby.