it's middle school social studies. that's when they start doing the confederate apologia and lying about American history and introducing that Liberal "nuance" we all love (the 'swerve')

https://redsails.org/the-swerve/

In fact, making children media have positive values that they then later subvert is probably on purpose. Every kid wants to grow up and seem mature, and they make sure to tie loving and positive messages about sharing and being pro-social to "baby" media so they can put that away as they mature. The swerve only works if there's a good baseline to subvert and swerve away from

It’s like this one extension I saw from the everyone is twelve meme. I feel like I have to become a kid again reflexively. Like, what do you mean that my “controversial take” is “it is good to be nice and bad to be mean” and “please clean up after yourself!” And “use your manners”?

Or in better words by Tzvi Freeman: “The child naively believes that everything should be fair and everyone should be honest, that only good should prevail, that everybody should have what they want and there should be no pain or sadness. The child believes the world should be perfect and is outraged to discover it is not. And the child is right.”