everything was like this. shit was hypersexed back in the 80s, 90s, 00s. you only remember what you do because you were too young to notice a lot of the overt sexuality. it's not wrong, but the amount of d*sney you listed skews your perspective. that was media for kids. but the music was just as sexual. people were into rihanna, flo rida, eminem, etc back then - at the same age - and their songs were extremely overt. people had school dances with circle circle dot dot or lollipop playing for 9 year olds. kids i knew were banging at age 11 because society told them it was what you did if you liked someone.
there is still plenty of marketing to tweens, jojo siwa for example. marshmellow has a huge tween following. trolls covers of songs are also weirdly huge afaik.
kids will always want to engage in adult oriented culture such as songs, movies, parties etc because it's a part of growing up. if you didn't sit on the basement floor with the volume low watching trashy old comedies... you missed out! kids always long to be in on what the big secrets of life are and they all mature more when exposed to more culture (internet was a HUGE part of this.)
compare an 11 year old from the 1920s to now amd you'll notice that their levels of curiosity are the same, but the 11 year old can easily google what they want to know, so they assume they are mature (or so they think - knowledge ≠ maturity) and thus "grow up faster" in the eyes of their parents.
everyone i knew at that age acted like they wanted to be on skins uk (for gen z, picture a british version of euphoria) which was soooo not for tweens. it was extremely controversial. but hey, it was cool.
the culture has been the same! just MORE of it! you're just a young adult so you notice it now!
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