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Tokyo Ghoul followed with it the whole monochrome "aesthetic" thing that many of those 13 to 16 year olds loved. Obviously it wasn't going to be a Elfen Lied experience where there was blood and tits but instead a fixation on some male character and no other sincere interest or the individuality to explore anime as a whole since they felt too above that. That's the earliest I first witnessed zoomers liking anime but it was all to fit their totally not edgy in all lowercase attitude and latent hard ons for topless men.
There's really not much else to explain about them. But during that time period, that's what I witnessed and none of them had the capacity or attention span to thoroughly enjoy something like Nichijou which was widely liked by people not in their diapers still, people that have actually watched anime through the decades with 2010s having some worth-while mentions here and there.