I was pointing out that young adults are stupid and easily swayed to do stupid things by the media they consume,
Being swayed on irrelevant topics like food or fashion or hobby isn't the same as voting preference though. They have very different "weight" in life.
Think about it, how come many young voter's preferred policy irl are still in line with their real social privilege, regardless of what the media from the opposite side said?
Most young people have less wealth than people in their 35-60, due to being new in the society and unable to accumulate massive wealth.....yet.
What are most young people's preference on housing policy? Do they prefer cheaper housing so they can buy a home or do they prefer keeping housing values so their wealth is locked?
From what I've seen most young people prefer cheaper housing policy so they can afford a home because they don't have one yet, while landlords/upper middle class who benefits from housing price prefer keeping housing price high for their wealth.
On taxing issue, do most young people irl prefer corporate tax increase or decrease?
From what I've seen, most young people prefer corporate tax increase because most of them are employee, so they don't lose money from corporate tax. And many of them could benefit from welfare or student loan forgiveness. Therefore they preferred a policy that benefit them. A lot of young people feel letting corporate pay tax is more fair to them.
In other words, when voting, young people's policy preference is generally in line with their social privilege most of the time. (There are exception for different individuals of course, I am talking about demographics as a whole)
Even if they are "sway by the media for stupid things" often, do you think when they deal with money in their pocket they'll pick a suboptimal choice because media or video game told them differently?
I think not. From what I've seen, most people still vote based on privileges. Maybe they'll follow the media for other things like fashion or food or hobby, but money and politic is a whole different matter.
Edit: evidence of young people voting preference:
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/age-generational-cohorts-and-party-identification/
Majority of younger voter still prefer the policy that benefits them, then as they got older they move to the opposite side.
Large amount of media from the opposite side didn't change this trend.