I keep hearing about reading levels going down and ttrpgs are usually spread through text. Even if it's a game you could explain in 10 minutes, chances are most people found it as a "single page game", a lot of people learn about D&D from youtube videos but once you're playing you're gonna need to be able to read a couple long paragraphs.

So the literacy crisis should make the hobby smaller and more niche than it used to be, not only because we can't read but because someone reading around you became weirder and less cool. But it isn't the case. Maybe it's just the internet and communication, and D&D with these tools in the 80's would had taken over the world, but those are the things causing the crisis. So what's the deal? Are ttrpgs saving the world and bringing a new generation to reading? Is the solution to the crisis giving kids a reason to read something longer that a twit? Is the crisis an exaggeration? Are the solutions? How to make the world a better place?