It comes down to the Marshmallow test;
You want your kids to be the type to "wait for the 2nd marshmallow" of a rewarding life, but younger people are convinced that if they choose to wait, not only will the 2nd marshmallow never come, but the first one will be taken away too.
the fact that the humans unknowingly created something FAR, FAR WORSE than a mere "monster who absorbed a human soul" PRECISELY BECAUSE they trapped everyone in this anomalous time and space bubble that used SOUL MAGIC to be made is just soooo good if true bro
"i think i feared rejection so deeply that i convinced myself being unknowable was safer than being seen, because if nobody could fully reach me, then nobody could fully abandon me either."
To the Zoomer, the top two seem as quaint as "werewolf" and "vampire" seem to the millennial.
Horror seems silly if you don't know the real fear it's representing. The problems Zoomers face are simulacrum and alienation.
Fun fact: Mantle game FRIENDs are full sized FRIENDs too, theyre just cut down to fit the 16x16 pixel character size of the mantle game. Everyone knew this. Im sorry. Im sorry. Im sorry. Im sorry for being stupid. Im sorry