6 a.m., a Bowl of Cereal, and the Whole Country Watching the Same Cartoons: The Saturday Morning Ritual That Streaming Quietly Killed
For roughly three decades, Saturday morning in America meant one thing: waking up before your parents, planting yourself in front of the TV, and losing yourself in a block of cartoons that every kid in the country was watching at exactly the same time. Streaming gave children infinite choice. What it couldn't replace was that feeling of watching something together — all of you, simultaneously, without even knowing each other.