There's also a lack of cartoons to even attempt to watch outside of the Cartoon Network. Parents were worried about their kids watching too much cartoons, but seem to mostly turn a blind eye to overusing tablets, phones and PCs.

Kids definitely still watch cartoons. A lot. Source: currently watching Regular Show with my 4 younger siblings.

While I agree with your conclusion, one household of data isn't particularly relevant to what most children do.

Well, it's just patently false. It may be the case in the mind of some in the echo chamber ... but as I seem to almost regularly need to remind on HN ... there is a whole world outside the party line view of what the world is like ... namely, what the world is really like. :)

How about the legion of animation programming that's commissioned every year?

Like I said, I agree with his conclusion that lots of kids still watch cartoons, just pointing out that his knowing a few kids who do isn't proof of this.

To put it into HN cliché phrasing: the plural of anecdote is not data, even if the anecdote matches the data.

How is what yeukhon stated anything other than an anecdote?

I totally think you guys are right about me not having proof either. I think we both can say some people do and some don't, but a lot more younger children are spending time doing things that we once didn't do for those who grew up in the late 80s and 90s - people who grew like from this period of time should had a reasonable access to a machine - be it PC, gameboy or PS1.