VidCon’s Gen Z attendees speak out on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, ads & AI

Today’s teens and twentysomethings are far from passive audiences. In fact, they’re pretty opinionated about the video landscape.

At this year’s VidCon — the annual Comic-Con for the digital creator crowd — more than a dozen Gen Z attendees weighed in on the video apps they most and least like to watch, the ads they’re served and creators’ use of generative AI tools.

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