The whole: youtube has to be children friendly is the dumbest thing ever. If you let your children unsupervised browse YouTube you ar ea bad parent, if you let YouTube raise your children you are also a bad parent. Just because youtubers say frick, it's not child friendly it's annoying
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2024
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Hard agree. Buy your kids DVD sets or pirate if you know how and limit their screen time.
Dropping kids in front of youtube is shitty patenting.
Jellyfin +yt-dlp
Kids ask for a YouTube show, I get to evaluate and then they get safe watching
Just like I got DVDs as a child, my kid would get a hard drive with approved material.
Again, or still?
me, thinking of elsagate
First time?
Yes.
Damn, when I was a kid we had to hunt around in the woods for our obscene material.
Looking under benches in parks worked as well.
Meanwhile I can't even upload commercials for archival purposes without getting copyright strikes on my account. How is YouTube so bad at this.
Copyright protection is easy. Detection of novel forms of obscenity is hard.
I'd argue it's extremely hard, even.
also, they don't want care.
More importantly it's expensive.
meanwhile actual content creators are getting demonitized for happy wheel level gore (small red particles that come out when a stick man's limbs come off)
so dumb.
And if they say a bad word too early. Good thing no one knows what they mean when they call it suislide
That's the funniest part of it, it's only security theater. I know content creators who go by the ideology of swearing is allowed it just can't be in the first 30 seconds of the video which is hilarious to me. So you're telling me that the first 30 seconds is the only part of the video that matters? Makes me laugh
And "Heavy Is Dead" gets age-restricted because Spy comically hangs himself :/
Ok I definitely get why you don't want that content to be seen by children. I watched some of that shit.
But I also must say most of the scenes won't be understood by children. However the overall content is bad and makes people dumb.
I am sure that you have children whose parents say, that's a comic, nothing bad can happen there, watching that.
6 million views on that shit........
In other news: healthy grass is green and the sky in a clear, sunny day, is blue.
So Elsagate never stopped?
This has to be a state actor thing, nobody else has the resources to deploy such a long lasting and changing content farm. Some psyops to fuck future generations of adults up?
Never doubt the impact bad incentives can have on a large group of individual actors.
Again?
You heard of elsagate?
And PeppaPigGate.
It's okay. It only some, so a big majority is good and they catch some of the bad.
According to the article, the videos feature nudity and possibly sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is unfortunately a fact of life, and it's probably better that children recognise it, and see it condemned in the media they watch, than not know what it is at all. And you would have to be a puritan to think that children seeing naked people is somehow so terrible.
Imagine arguing that it's actually good for kids to watch women being harassed. Peak incel.
edit: Dude is literally a "race realist". lol smh.
What is a 'race realist'?
Maybe they realize race is not a biological term but rather a racist term. It's a way to distinguish us from them because we are darker or are shorter or taller than the standard sized/colored/shaped group.
Race does not equal species. We are all one single species, the homosapiens.
We need a term to distinguish people with different skin tones as they are treated differently. You can call it race or skin color, it doesn't really matter, it's just a semantic argument.
But their channels for children... not just random channels. There is a difference.
If you bothered reading the very short article, it would be very clear that people are deliberately getting children subscribers than replacing the flow of new content with attempts to brainwash them or expose them to obscenity.
It’s not even that, it’s to shock them so they keep engaging with the channel, telling their friends, etc. which increases ad impressions until they are caught.
Then they create a new channel and start again.
This is Elsagate 2 but with more nefarious tactics.