The snowflake generation seems unable or unwilling to enjoy entertainment for entertainment’s sake.
Many/most of us can read Jane Austen without being or becoming English debutantes. We can read Tom Sawyer without being boys in 1840 Missouri.
The ‘see myself on the screen’ demands are as bizarre as they are silly. It’s one thing to be constantly fed propaganda - quite another to demand it.
Indeed. You don’t have to be Russian to appreciate Crime and Punishment. You don’t have to be a woman to enjoy Little Women. Etc. But many in the millennial crowd don’t see it that way. They have to be catered to in all ways.