Teen Study: YouTube Rules, AI Doom Increases With Age and Moviegoing Beats Sports on Weekends – The Hollywood Reporter

Teen Study: YouTube Rules, AI Doom Increases With Age and Moviegoing Beats Sports on Weekends  The Hollywood Reporter

A new Teens and Screens report from UCLA's Center for Scholars & Storytellers dropped this week featuring data pulled from 1,500 adolescents ages 10-24 on takes for all things media. New Teens and Screens report from UCLA's Center for Scholars & Storytellers dropped this week featuring data pulled from 1,500 adolescents ages 10-24. Going to the movies remains the top choice for weekend outings (over live sports); they want more neurodivergent characters; they prefer fresh faces and known actors over influencers; slang is the most flagged aspect of a TV show or movie that makes it feel outdated, and as they get older, the way they view artificial intelligence trends downward from excitement to doom.

Those are some of the findings published in the newest Teens and Screens report from the Center for Scholars & Storytellers (CSS) at UCLA. Released this week, the study polled more than 1,500 adolescents ages 10-24 for their takes on all things media from films and TV shows to AI, social media and representation. For a third straight year, seeing a new movie in theaters topped the charts as the most preferred weekend outing, ranking above playing a new video game, going to a live music show, streaming a film on their own device, bingeing a new show and going to a live sporting event.