It's more so that sensibilities change over time, so certain attributes that may have been frightening back then aren't anymore and vice versa. Simple logical thinking really
@@Samantha_Lee I don't know what is learned and innate. Such detail I leave to experts. I do know my mother, aged about six, was escorted with her mother to the crying kids section of a movie theater c. 1933. She apparently reacted badly to the unmasking of Lionel Atwill in the classic "Mystery of the Wax Museum."