Real victims of the idiot box

Idiot box, or in Russian "zomboyashik", is a derogatory term to describe television because of its intoxicating effect on the viewer. Children are especially often affected by the device, who can spend hours on end watching cartoons and entertainment programs instead of spending time outdoors, socializing with peers or studying.

Australian-born photographer Donna Stevens, now based in New York, created a series of photographs called Idiot Box, which captured children aged 3 and 4 intoxicated by television.

Photographer Donna Stevens decided to show parents around the world what their children look like while watching TV or cartoons. They really do look like zombies! This is proof that you shouldn't let your children watch TV for more than 30 minutes a day (or at least twice a day for 30 minutes).

According to Nickelodeon, the average American child spends 35 hours watching TV each week. That's the theme of Donna Stevens' photo project, "Idiot Box," a collection of portraits of children with blank expressions on their faces as they watch television in a dimly lit room.

During the photo shoot, Donna noticed that the children seemed to fall into a coma in front of the TV screen. They switch channels with a blank expression on their faces, for them these are just pictures that change without any logic every second. And this phenomenon looks like idiocy. Therefore, you should not give the children the TV remote just so that they leave you alone and do not run around the house. It is better to occupy them with other, more useful things!

Regardless of what answers you give to the above questions, it is obvious that these children were completely lost in another world while their portraits were being taken.