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They're not wrong. I've never seen my wife watch anything (movie, show, anime, whatever) without being on Twitter or Discord. I've given her shit about it, like "what is so important it can't wait" but from her perspective, the movie isn't as important as social media.
Me, I like to watch a movie in the dark, with the sound up, and I sit through the credits (most of the time). We're only three years apart but feel like we come from different generations. (Been married almost 20 years, we're not young, and we're not newlywed.)
Why even ~~watch~~ sit in front of a movie at all?!
Divided attention is my guess. I can't do it though. I've tried — like I'll pull my phone and look up IMDb or ANN/BtVA (like IMDb but for anime; IMDb only shows the foreign cast most of the time and I want to know who voices the characters I'm listening to, not in another language) but I feel like I miss stuff.