Well it is normal in 2024. As road rage, violence, and car crashes are at an all time high and increasing, governments are no longer asking the public to install security cameras, but installing them anyways regardless of approval. Uber and Amazon track your driving habits. Truckers have it hard too since everything they do is monitored.
Oh, c'mon. Kids have been told that Santa and God have been watching them all the time for generations. Some are even told that all their dead relatives are watching them all the time. This isn't anything new.
I think there are a lot of people out there taking elf on a shelf waaay to seriously It's a bit of fun, most of the fun being the parents posing the elves in funny ways Besides Santa sees you when you're sleeping etc, are parents who sing that song to their kids failing?
@@Man_Raised_By_Puffinsmost definitely, when my sister was younger we used elf on the shelf in a fun way which is how most people use the elf on the shelf just to be funny but not to instill fear into my sister and anyone who uses it to do that to their kids probably should’ve never had kids from the start as their behavior is typically a direct reflection of how they’re raised, I’ve witnessed that with a guy down my street who has kids that are really disrespectful to him, his mom which is their grandmother and in general no respect for no one, they’re wild asf trouble makers, the son will drive a beat up pos loud truck/suv damn near all day and sometimes during the night and it’s annoying because his grandmother lives on the same street as us 2 houses down so when he goes to his grandmothers he passes right in front of my house and my elderly neighbors house and it’s annoying yet every time we try to get the cops involved about the noise and his speeding once he realizes what’s going on he’ll jump into the vehicle go back to his dads and parks it like nothing ever happened though I think the cops did catch him one time but nothing happened with that so now we just have to put up with it!
When the Japanese use the word 'gomi', this is what they are referring to. It doesn't mean 'trash' per se in current vernacular, it means, "perfectly good stuff that nobody wants, therefore, trash". Pretty compact language I guess.
@@josephrumpsa180 plot twist: he put ESP32-CAM modules in them to make them real, then bought another one to show the kids so they'd think they were all fake. I've seriously considered doing that with the Dollar Tree fake cameras, leaving in the flashing LED, specifically so anyone spotting the camera would assume it's fake and not bother hiding whatever they're doing from it.
@@kd5nrh top mind game right there. i do this in the woods all the time. i install a DIY fake camera in a very obvious way watching my hunting spot. then i have a couple of real cameras all around watching.
The Elf on the Shelf has always struck me as a sort of simplified religion for children: a supernatural being is watching you and if you don't behave yourself according to the required standards you'll be punished in the future. But to make your children believe they are being watched by a SECURITY CAMERA is beyond creepy.
One wonders whether making them believe that a fat guy in a red suit comes down the chimney (gas central heating? oh dear!) and leaves them presents is another lie which I was very urealise find out when I was young - it ruined the whole 'Christmas' thing for the rest of my life...
Growing up I once asked a Santa Clause how he was going to get into our house. We had just moved in, in late October and it was all electric, no chimneys anywhere. My mom who was a police dispatcher was not impressed when 'santa' said he would pick the back door lock.
Yeah, I couldn't agree more. It was an entirely new concept when my friends started to do this with their wee lad Didn't seem to do any hard. I was unaware of any particular views the elf had about what sort of food products people could eat, what sort of fabrics they could were, what they were or weren't allowed to do with various body parts or how and when they're allowed to stone their children to death. Sounds a lot more wholesome than the whole bible thing.
@@blower1 It isn't. Not so little of the stuff I recently began working with comes from Shenzhen. It would surely be even more if we didn't specialize in top-of-the line-equipment. And some of that stuff from companies in Shenzhen that I found during research is almost there, I dare say.
@@orbert84 Or as the old dragon Matron at the local hospital said to a particularly troublesome patient ... "If I had been present at your birth Mr. ... I'd have flushed you down the toilet!" She was a local legend! 😁
I wonder how many kids catch on to the fact that they can shout, cry, and pout as much as they want, and they get the Christmas presents anyway. The whole Supernatural Big Brother is Watching You vibe is indeed weird, but the lesson may be ultimately liberating for kids who notice the trick.
Realizing that Santa was just a lie that parents told to their kids to make them behave was the most important event in my psychological development. It saved me from being indoctrinated into Christianity. I mean, it's obvious when you look at it from the outside. The parallels are all there, it's clear as day that organized religion is essentially the same trick being played on entire populations. The problem is that way too many people were fed religious ideology when they were too little to think critically
The christmas naughty list gives kids with a conscience low self-esteem and guilt about getting presents, while the sociopaths realize they still get gifts regardless of how naughty they are.
I was working for a bus company (in I.T.) when CCTV was first beginning to be installed in the vehicles. The drivers did not like this 'spy' and one of them was called in to a disciplinary hearing for damaging one of the cameras. He vigorously denied this . . . until he was presented with footage of himself advancing on the device with a large screwdriver and an evil grin on his face.
"The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. "
He sees you in the shower He knows when you're awake You'd better stay up all night Or your arse will fuckin ache You better watch out You better not cry You better not run He's going in dry
My Grandson stays overnight occasionally. Last time he said that the smoke detector had him scared. He says it was a camera and some one was looking at him! I took it down and promised him no one would ever in this house! Now im bothered by how he got this idea....
Yes, I assume that was a mains-wired smoke alarm; they all have a green LED to indicate the mains is on/connected, and a new fire-regulation that they can be installed in a bedroom, and have a vent grill for the piezo sounder,
My father thinks the smoke detector that got installed in his apartment recently is a camera there to spy on him and he didn't want to listen to my explanation that no, that's not how those things work. Though I guess that's what growing up with the Stasi will do to someone.
@@alexhajnal107 For x-mas and b/days from the age of about 6, I would ask for broken electronic stuff to play with, instead of 'toys'. I fixed up some cool stuff and got quite a few shocks. LOL.
@@frankowalker4662 Reminds me of how I discovered that TV modulators put out a surprisingly-high voltage on the RCA jack! (In retrospect it might actually have been inductance that did it.)
This is super creepy. And basically all they did was stick christmas delated stickers on an existing fake security camera and give it a custom box... Cleaver, haha
I can’t comprehend what that would do to a child’s psyche, having a red blinking light reminding them we’re being “watched”. Yikes. Edit: I guess it would prepare them for living in London.
That’s what I was wondering why would it have a click button like those novelty buttons that make noises and have a speaker grill for a “security camera” wonder if there was a version that did that…
It's like someone in a plastic housing factory forced the Easy Button and TapLight into an undesired act of copulation, and this is the offspring with missing chromosomes that resulted from that act.
It’s got the same shell as an Easy Button. If it’s possible to make that top fully clear I’d make it into a button again and have it play a ditty over a small still-life of a little snowy village. Musical snow globe!
He Sees You When You are Sleeping, He Knows When You're Awake 😂 He saw that green stuff in your drawer, so he knows when you are Baked 🤣 Oh, you better watch out, you better not cry. Because it excites that pervy old Spy. (last verse does not meet RUclips's terms of service 😳) MERRY CHRISTMAS ONE AND ALL 🧑🎄
2:11 That has to be a first: An electronic device that becomes more useful when you remove the batteries. Then again, that applies to myriads of annoying electronic knickknacks as well ...
Also applies to almost all of the Chinese toys. They are very annoying, constantly repeating an annoying song at 8Kbps bitrate on a cheap speaker, at the loudest volume possible, with no way of turning the volume down. I once threw one of my cousin's toys out of the window because of how annoying it was.
If you don't change a Nanny Cam password then there are Chinese sites that hack in and sell the live feed. That is true and rather frightening. One hotel owner said he earned more from selling the live feed from his guest bedrooms and showers than from the hotel itself.
Sick, sick, sick! Train your kids to accept surveillance everywhere even in the privacy of their own bedroom! I hate to think what my kids and grandkids are going to be subject to in their lifetime!!
Intimidating kids has gone on forever and is not weird at all. I remember being in hospital (Royal Berks, Reading) and all the kids (I was one) were told by the nurses that if we did not behave we would be carted off to another hospital down the road where it was cold, spooky, they served only bread, water and cabbage every day and we would all hate it there. It worked a treat, we all pulled the sheets up to just below our eyes and were both terrified but more importantly quiet. A bit of intimidation and terror goes a long way.
But did they let you think you were being filmed - even as you changed into your PJ's? It is very weird/creepy/depressing to normalise invasion of privacy. If one adult did this to another they could easily get in a spot of bother for intimidation/stalking/cohersion. Why start messing your children up with such nonsense? Even at best it'll just be more landfill that shaves precious time off their lives.
@nottmee9997 This was a long time ago when the ward was packed with children having (probably unnecessary) tonsillectomies. So you are looking at early 1960s. Monsters under the bed who will grab your ankles and eat you if you get up in the middle of the night is another very widespread story. Children will not even think of 'invasion of privacy' . It is only creepy for adults who over complicate things and have forgotten how children think. I would not have used one myself as the monster under the bed is just as good.
The children subjected to 'Elf Cam' will ask what it is.Their parents will rrtrot out the 'it's a camera so the elves can watch you' lines - so the children will be very much aware of a camera being monitored in their rooms. I've been a child. I remember having a brain at that age too.
The Elf on the Shelf crap is so creepy to me; wasn't telling kids that Santa is watching them enough? Now we have to have a physical little spy doll and a tie-in security camera?
just traditionally intimidate children by telling them Santa doesn't exist, and their chances of getting any presents this year depend greatly on their behavior
Not sure where it suggested that it be mounted over a kids "bed" of all places... ? I would think it would be better used if it were perhaps placed in the area of the house where you don't want children to wander. Like a basement or attic perhaps which are usually areas filled with safety hazards for kids. Who would even THINK that placing a camera over a kids bed is even a thing... well, aside from Clive that is...
Nothing like instilling the fear of cameras into children to make them even more aware of cameras in general as a way to learn better techniques to not get caught doing stuff... :P
Given that many children already seem to be suffering with increasing psychological issues, I wonder what effect occurs when the LED eventually extinguishes, due to battery exhaustion.
That is really what is beyond disturbing. The more intelligent fraction of humanity limit their offspring to replacements only. The rest keep pumping them out like rabbits. Doesn't bode well for the future.
There’s a theory that the elf on a shelf and the “cartoonification” of wireless cameras to keep in kids’ rooms is supposed to normalize them to constantly being under surveillance. I’d buy it. When we were kids, it was “god/santa is always watching” but now kids actually have a physical representation of that “thing” watching that they can see and feel to know it’s there.
The elves' watch playlist is currently has a backlog of 366 days and is continuously growing. They have threatened to strike unless more staff are taken on.
Santa Claus know too much. I tried looking into his sources and methods a few years ago, and all I got for Christmas was a three week suspended sentence for loitering in public places. Best not to ask too many questions. Thanks for fighting the good fight, Big Clive. You're awesome.
Holly Jeebus. Telling your kids they live in a surveillance state in their bedroom. Ouch - that's messed up. I saw a kids alarm clock yesterday that showed a green/red light bar for "OK to wake". I support that concept a lot more than a fake camera.
Blindboy Boatclub did a podcast a couple of years back on the whole phenomenon of Elf on the Shelf as a tool of surveillance capitalism via Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon - well worth a listen.
Perfect item to change a bit if you want to watch grandma..... just put it on top, everybody things it is fake and put little spycamera in. Real scare for grandma later.... Don't spy on your kids!
When I asked my mother if I could join her in her room as I was frightened of the dark, she replied that it was not possible as she didn't want the monsters from my room invading her safe space.
I used to be scared of the monsters under the bed and in the closet. Then my mother questioned why they were hiding. I came to the conclusion they were afraid of me. From then on, I learned to empathize with everyone and grew up defending the weaker kids from the bullies.
I applied for a store detective job in Poundland years ago and the head security officer told me the surveillance cctv cameras are fake. So it's a shoplifters haven 😂
Many years ago, to keep the Job Centre happy, I applied for a "Mystery Shopper" job (i.e. visiting a company's stores posing as a customer and reporting back on what you find: I didn't actually know which chain it was). "I am a cunning, sneaky individual with a well-developed sense of malice" I wrote on the application form. For some reason, I never got an interview. 😅
This is a brilliant test for your kids. If they are scared of it, they are weak and should be skipped over for inheritance. If they are strong, they will realize that the presence of a camera means that Santa follows rational rules. He needs eyes and ears, and so is subject to denial and deception. It's never too early to teach your kids about counterintelligence, I say.
I’m sorry but if a parent needs this to “get their kid to behave” during Christmas then they’ve already failed as a parent and this little tactic can go one of two ways, the child ends up not being trusting of others even when they’re an adult or they’ll think it’s ok to hide cameras in people’s bedrooms because their parents normalized it, I’ll never understand how stuff like this is even legal to be sold in stores and online idk if I’m overthinking it but it seems a bit creepy to develop a product that is aimed at parents to basically control their kids through invasion of privacy then lie saying the elves are watching their every move and their behavior to make sure they’re being good this year for Christmas…like what? Sorry had to edit my comment because I didn’t realize this camera was a dummy camera but my original point stands if you have to scare your children into behaving because an elf is watching them then you’ve already failed as a parent!
I saw a youtuber buy one of these just for the dome, to make a underwater camera where you can transition between above and below water or have it in the middle with waves across the output shot, without it camera is either in or out, no in between!
I have one of these fake security cameras minus the christmas theme. Same red LED and runs on 2 AA batteries. Got it at the dollar store. The red LED runs the entire show. No additional circuitry.
Normalizing the Surveillance State for kiddos. Such holiday cheer
Well it is normal in 2024. As road rage, violence, and car crashes are at an all time high and increasing, governments are no longer asking the public to install security cameras, but installing them anyways regardless of approval. Uber and Amazon track your driving habits. Truckers have it hard too since everything they do is monitored.
Mommy, an elf is DMing asking me to do weird things!
Oh, c'mon. Kids have been told that Santa and God have been watching them all the time for generations. Some are even told that all their dead relatives are watching them all the time. This isn't anything new.
@@Alacritous everything is just part of the conspiracy to this mob of oafs
They're a generation of men who think they're always right
It has it's place, but not like this.
If you need this to keep your kids behaving, you've failed at parenting
I think there are a lot of people out there taking elf on a shelf waaay to seriously
It's a bit of fun, most of the fun being the parents posing the elves in funny ways
Besides Santa sees you when you're sleeping etc, are parents who sing that song to their kids failing?
Anyone who thinks that's a good idea doesn't deserve to be a parent. :-(
Well said! @@Bartok_J
Let me rephrase that for you: if you think this will _make_ your kids behave, then you have no experience parenting. 😁
@@Man_Raised_By_Puffinsmost definitely, when my sister was younger we used elf on the shelf in a fun way which is how most people use the elf on the shelf just to be funny but not to instill fear into my sister and anyone who uses it to do that to their kids probably should’ve never had kids from the start as their behavior is typically a direct reflection of how they’re raised, I’ve witnessed that with a guy down my street who has kids that are really disrespectful to him, his mom which is their grandmother and in general no respect for no one, they’re wild asf trouble makers, the son will drive a beat up pos loud truck/suv damn near all day and sometimes during the night and it’s annoying because his grandmother lives on the same street as us 2 houses down so when he goes to his grandmothers he passes right in front of my house and my elderly neighbors house and it’s annoying yet every time we try to get the cops involved about the noise and his speeding once he realizes what’s going on he’ll jump into the vehicle go back to his dads and parks it like nothing ever happened though I think the cops did catch him one time but nothing happened with that so now we just have to put up with it!
Awesome, more instant landfill. Thanks, consumerism!
Thanks communism for making this happen in the first place.
Hand in hand with Capitalism
@@laustinspeissnah, it is called a "special economic zone", not capitalism, comrade.
When the Japanese use the word 'gomi', this is what they are referring to. It doesn't mean 'trash' per se in current vernacular, it means, "perfectly good stuff that nobody wants, therefore, trash". Pretty compact language I guess.
@@railgap Clive himself gave a Chinese word awhile ago. It translates to "idiot tax".
The only thing missing is a randomly timed soft voice saying 'Santa is watching you' to really freak the kids out. XD
Or just heavy breathing noises.
A shame Christopher Lee is no longer with us - he had the perfect voice to scare them into the Christmas spirit.
@@mikerichards6065 He would have done it too.
Or a random click and some giggles before it clicks off.
My daughter brought one a few years ago, I told all the grandchildren they were fake and brought one to show them.
Out here fighting the good fight!
Party pooper, Santa Claus surely left you an environment-destroying lump of coal in your stocking for that.
@@josephrumpsa180 plot twist: he put ESP32-CAM modules in them to make them real, then bought another one to show the kids so they'd think they were all fake.
I've seriously considered doing that with the Dollar Tree fake cameras, leaving in the flashing LED, specifically so anyone spotting the camera would assume it's fake and not bother hiding whatever they're doing from it.
Brought?
@@kd5nrh top mind game right there.
i do this in the woods all the time. i install a DIY fake camera in a very obvious way watching my hunting spot. then i have a couple of real cameras all around watching.
The Elf on the Shelf has always struck me as a sort of simplified religion for children: a supernatural being is watching you and if you don't behave yourself according to the required standards you'll be punished in the future. But to make your children believe they are being watched by a SECURITY CAMERA is beyond creepy.
There's a new market for the catholic church. God-cam to encourage children to comply from a young age.
One wonders whether making them believe that a fat guy in a red suit comes down the chimney (gas central heating? oh dear!) and leaves them presents is another lie which I was very urealise find out when I was young - it ruined the whole 'Christmas' thing for the rest of my life...
Growing up I once asked a Santa Clause how he was going to get into our house. We had just moved in, in late October and it was all electric, no chimneys anywhere. My mom who was a police dispatcher was not impressed when 'santa' said he would pick the back door lock.
Yeah, I couldn't agree more. It was an entirely new concept when my friends started to do this with their wee lad Didn't seem to do any hard. I was unaware of any particular views the elf had about what sort of food products people could eat, what sort of fabrics they could were, what they were or weren't allowed to do with various body parts or how and when they're allowed to stone their children to death. Sounds a lot more wholesome than the whole bible thing.
It's to prepare the children for their future of being constantly watched by security cameras. In the streets, the stores, in the car, ...everywhere.
About the only way they could be creepier is if they repackaged it for Valentine's Day.
Now we're talking!
Voyeur-cam.
OK, ok. You win.
Add a basic IR sensor to increase LED flash rate in response to detected heat. Adds a little "extra" to the paranoia 🙂
With every breath you take, with every move you make...I'll be watching you..
if that had appeared above my bed when i was a kid it would have lasted about 10 minutes before i had it apart to see how it worked.
Snitches get stitches, yer little elf barzids.
What a shameful waste of earths resources
That's the definition of Shenzhen,China isn't it?
@@blower1 It isn't. Not so little of the stuff I recently began working with comes from Shenzhen. It would surely be even more if we didn't specialize in top-of-the line-equipment. And some of that stuff from companies in Shenzhen that I found during research is almost there, I dare say.
That’s what the gynaecologist said to my mom after my conception…
@@orbert84 Or as the old dragon Matron at the local hospital said to a particularly troublesome patient ... "If I had been present at your birth Mr. ... I'd have flushed you down the toilet!" She was a local legend! 😁
I wonder how many kids catch on to the fact that they can shout, cry, and pout as much as they want, and they get the Christmas presents anyway. The whole Supernatural Big Brother is Watching You vibe is indeed weird, but the lesson may be ultimately liberating for kids who notice the trick.
«People are too smart to buy into this» is a sour lie.
> The whole Supernatural Big Brother is Watching You vibe is indeed weird
Religion: ...
@@u2bear377 "The whole supernatural big brother thing is weird"
Government: The only supernatural thing about us is where your taxes go!
Realizing that Santa was just a lie that parents told to their kids to make them behave was the most important event in my psychological development. It saved me from being indoctrinated into Christianity. I mean, it's obvious when you look at it from the outside. The parallels are all there, it's clear as day that organized religion is essentially the same trick being played on entire populations.
The problem is that way too many people were fed religious ideology when they were too little to think critically
"Not a toy - well it's perfect for your kids then."
I nearly choked
As did the kids.
would be even more crazy if the fake camera actually had a real camera inside
well, there is enough space in there to put an ESP-Cam in there, I guess 😮
Imagine seeing a laptop webcam with the led light desoldered in this
A real camera would be absolutely wrong!.
@@mbak7801 Not a retiree from the Chinese or East German Public Service then.
Yes, and a transmitter sending images to a real elf in China!
The christmas naughty list gives kids with a conscience low self-esteem and guilt about getting presents, while the sociopaths realize they still get gifts regardless of how naughty they are.
Then they become politicians. Rewards a plenty with zero contribution to society.
A valuable lesson for adult life, where it works just the same. [/s]
I was working for a bus company (in I.T.) when CCTV was first beginning to be installed in the vehicles. The drivers did not like this 'spy' and one of them was called in to a disciplinary hearing for damaging one of the cameras. He vigorously denied this . . . until he was presented with footage of himself advancing on the device with a large screwdriver and an evil grin on his face.
I mean, some blu tack or a sticker would have done the trick.
😆
@AndyGadget Shock! Camera works _as camera!_
"The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. "
only thing he missed was the near-constant adverts.
this is the kind of product that shoukld have never left the paper stage
He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake. He knows what you've been watching and when you something something bate.
This had me cackling!! 😂😂😂
He sees you in the shower
He knows when you're awake
You'd better stay up all night
Or your arse will fuckin ache
You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not run
He's going in dry
He sees you in the shower
He knows when you're awake
You'd better stay up tonight
Or your arse will feckin ache
You better watch out
You better go hide
He's inside your house
And is going in dry
Aww it seems YT's censorship squad hates the even better (maybe) version of this.
I hate this place.
Edit. It seems at least one verse survived.
My Grandson stays overnight occasionally.
Last time he said that the smoke detector had him scared.
He says it was a camera and some one was looking at him!
I took it down and promised him no one would ever in this house!
Now im bothered by how he got this idea....
Yes, I assume that was a mains-wired smoke alarm; they all have a green LED to indicate the mains is on/connected, and a new fire-regulation that they can be installed in a bedroom, and have a vent grill for the piezo sounder,
Even scarier is that you can but smoke detectors with a camera , or maybe just cameras that look like smoke detectors. 😮
Now he just has to fear a house fire.
@@RiceCakeWtf they'll pass quietly in their sleep now due to smoke inhalation
My father thinks the smoke detector that got installed in his apartment recently is a camera there to spy on him and he didn't want to listen to my explanation that no, that's not how those things work.
Though I guess that's what growing up with the Stasi will do to someone.
You tampered with the Elf Cam. It looks like someone's not getting a visit from Santa this year.
I prefer not to rely on Santa for my technical gifts.
Due to cutbacks, lump of coal has been replaced with vigourously rubbing your hands together.
If I saw that in my bedroom as a kid, I would take it apart to see how it worked.
(Along with many of you here, I did that with all my toys. LOL)
Ditto for household appliances. My parents used to get me clocks, radios, etc. to take apart so that I wouldn't disassemble the ones they were using!
@@alexhajnal107 For x-mas and b/days from the age of about 6, I would ask for broken electronic stuff to play with, instead of 'toys'. I fixed up some cool stuff and got quite a few shocks. LOL.
@@frankowalker4662 Reminds me of how I discovered that TV modulators put out a surprisingly-high voltage on the RCA jack!
(In retrospect it might actually have been inductance that did it.)
@@alexhajnal107 LOL
You don't own a thing till you have held each and every part of it in your hand!
This is super creepy.
And basically all they did was stick christmas delated stickers on an existing fake security camera and give it a custom box... Cleaver, haha
The essence of the "get rich quick" Christmas scam marketing.
I can’t comprehend what that would do to a child’s psyche, having a red blinking light reminding them we’re being “watched”. Yikes. Edit: I guess it would prepare them for living in London.
This item has that mean aspect about it that makes you wonder about the parents.
I expected it to at least play "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" when you pressed the dome. Looks like an easy button housing.
That’s what I was wondering why would it have a click button like those novelty buttons that make noises and have a speaker grill for a “security camera” wonder if there was a version that did that…
It's like someone in a plastic housing factory forced the Easy Button and TapLight into an undesired act of copulation, and this is the offspring with missing chromosomes that resulted from that act.
Elf on the Shelf is a cop. Pass it on.
AEAB. 😏
Could be much worse than a cop.
"Snitches get stitches"
Oh, just noticed the 1 million mark has been reached. Congratulations 😊
This is a very disturbing product.
At least it's fake...
The younger generations are so conditioned to living in fear and having their privacy violated that they do it to their own kids. It's so wrong.
Are you disappointed to learn elves are real?
@@DaveF. That's what the elves *want* you to think.
@@_droiddo you still believe in privacy in 2025? The world works by data and not having privacy make everything works better then why not
Where's the schematic?!
One moment please 😂
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Brilliant comment! That made my day...
I still think it's wild that all the required logic to make the led flash is built into the led body itself. Truly future tech is here!
It’s got the same shell as an Easy Button. If it’s possible to make that top fully clear I’d make it into a button again and have it play a ditty over a small still-life of a little snowy village. Musical snow globe!
He Sees You When You are Sleeping, He Knows When You're Awake 😂
He saw that green stuff in your drawer, so he knows when you are Baked 🤣
Oh, you better watch out, you better not cry.
Because it excites that pervy old Spy. (last verse does not meet RUclips's terms of service 😳)
MERRY CHRISTMAS ONE AND ALL 🧑🎄
2:11 That has to be a first: An electronic device that becomes more useful when you remove the batteries. Then again, that applies to myriads of annoying electronic knickknacks as well ...
Also applies to almost all of the Chinese toys. They are very annoying, constantly repeating an annoying song at 8Kbps bitrate on a cheap speaker, at the loudest volume possible, with no way of turning the volume down. I once threw one of my cousin's toys out of the window because of how annoying it was.
How nice: springs that won't fly across the room.
Nice case for a push-to-start music box or something like that.
Room to include a random timer and a voice module to activate sounds like... Oooooh, or, NAUGHTY BASTARD?
Asking for a friend 😂
Or playing a creepy off-tone version of "he sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awayke..."
Just a very quiet "hmm, interesting" and sounds of pen scribbling on paper.
Elf on shelf is equally terrifying for kids
I had a dummy outdoor security camera that was identical to this, apart from being all black. Yes, I did remove the batteries 🤣
That LED is going to be ridiculously bright at night. What a horrible product
Imagin a kid going to school and them telling their treacher. "My parents have a camera watching me in my bedroom."
most teachers aren't gonna give a toss, they ignore A LOT more than that every day
Um. So about 1/5 of the kids already?
Gotta be sure when they’re asleep. I do suppose…
If you don't change a Nanny Cam password then there are Chinese sites that hack in and sell the live feed. That is true and rather frightening. One hotel owner said he earned more from selling the live feed from his guest bedrooms and showers than from the hotel itself.
perfect for re-creating the dystopian spirit of Christmas
Elf on the shelf is at least kind of cute, I suppose. This is just weird.
Take psychological warfare against your kids to a whole new level.
Wow this is terrible.
When I was a teenager I bought one of those for my friends as a gift, but modified it by fitting a cheap eBay webcam into it.
That's called the double bluff technique 😅
Sick, sick, sick!
Train your kids to accept surveillance everywhere even in the privacy of their own bedroom!
I hate to think what my kids and grandkids are going to be subject to in their lifetime!!
Finally, a schematic that I can confidently draw myself.
Intimidating kids has gone on forever and is not weird at all. I remember being in hospital (Royal Berks, Reading) and all the kids (I was one) were told by the nurses that if we did not behave we would be carted off to another hospital down the road where it was cold, spooky, they served only bread, water and cabbage every day and we would all hate it there. It worked a treat, we all pulled the sheets up to just below our eyes and were both terrified but more importantly quiet. A bit of intimidation and terror goes a long way.
Then they started with the enemas and the rest is history...
But did they let you think you were being filmed - even as you changed into your PJ's? It is very weird/creepy/depressing to normalise invasion of privacy.
If one adult did this to another they could easily get in a spot of bother for intimidation/stalking/cohersion. Why start messing your children up with such nonsense?
Even at best it'll just be more landfill that shaves precious time off their lives.
I spent time in Royal Berks and Battle Hospitals, I don't remember anything like this sort of treatment, maybe you had an Elf for a Nurse ?
@nottmee9997 This was a long time ago when the ward was packed with children having (probably unnecessary) tonsillectomies. So you are looking at early 1960s. Monsters under the bed who will grab your ankles and eat you if you get up in the middle of the night is another very widespread story.
Children will not even think of 'invasion of privacy' . It is only creepy for adults who over complicate things and have forgotten how children think. I would not have used one myself as the monster under the bed is just as good.
The children subjected to 'Elf Cam' will ask what it is.Their parents will rrtrot out the 'it's a camera so the elves can watch you' lines - so the children will be very much aware of a camera being monitored in their rooms. I've been a child. I remember having a brain at that age too.
Creepy piece of cheap plastic made to immediately go into a landfill.
What a time to be alive.
This should ship with a coupon for counseling, they'll need it.
The Elf on the Shelf crap is so creepy to me; wasn't telling kids that Santa is watching them enough? Now we have to have a physical little spy doll and a tie-in security camera?
Nice sticker…what HAL 9000 would look like if he worked for Santa.
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
But is says so on the box!
just traditionally intimidate children by telling them Santa doesn't exist, and their chances of getting any presents this year depend greatly on their behavior
On the other hand, it could be the basis for some kind of massive button gadget.
This is absolutely disgusting.
Not sure where it suggested that it be mounted over a kids "bed" of all places... ? I would think it would be better used if it were perhaps placed in the area of the house where you don't want children to wander. Like a basement or attic perhaps which are usually areas filled with safety hazards for kids. Who would even THINK that placing a camera over a kids bed is even a thing... well, aside from Clive that is...
"No Hun, Santa doesn't need the wifi password, he watches you with christmas magic."
Santa has a special agreement with Vodafone or Verizon ... for mobile data plans 😂
Nothing like instilling the fear of cameras into children to make them even more aware of cameras in general as a way to learn better techniques to not get caught doing stuff... :P
I thought it was a cam so the kids could watch for elves!
1:00 The _real_ question is: Will it blend? That is the question! 😅
I'm more curious about if it will carbonate
Hydraulic press channel!
"We must deal with it!"
@@davidg4288 I'm afraid it wouldn't last long 🥹
Given that many children already seem to be suffering with increasing psychological issues, I wonder what effect occurs when the LED eventually extinguishes, due to battery exhaustion.
This whole efl on a shelf thing is beyond disturbing. Shame they'll let almost anyone have kids 😕
That is really what is beyond disturbing. The more intelligent fraction of humanity limit their offspring to replacements only. The rest keep pumping them out like rabbits. Doesn't bode well for the future.
There’s a theory that the elf on a shelf and the “cartoonification” of wireless cameras to keep in kids’ rooms is supposed to normalize them to constantly being under surveillance. I’d buy it. When we were kids, it was “god/santa is always watching” but now kids actually have a physical representation of that “thing” watching that they can see and feel to know it’s there.
Fscked up, isn't it?
Nah, it's creepy and why would you want your kids to become paranoid like that.
Surely this sort of thing will be mounted on the ceiling and thus the text around the rim will be upside down?
What a horrible thing to subject kids to.
Replace the flashing led with an IR led.... then it gently glows in the dark, like cctv cameras do...😉
Just a red LED run at very low current works for that effect. But the batteries last a long time.
The elves' watch playlist is currently has a backlog of 366 days and is continuously growing.
They have threatened to strike unless more staff are taken on.
The jokes on you! Elves can see you all the time without any camera required. They have magic.
This is conceptually one of the most awful things I've seen in a long time.
Sadly, some kids already have cams watching them to be sure they are asleep. This is the cartoony version I suppose.
It's lucky kids these days aren't so easily fooled.
Poor kids that have parents who would put this shizzle up. What horrors they would have for the rest of their lives!!!!
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Santa Claus know too much. I tried looking into his sources and methods a few years ago, and all I got for Christmas was a three week suspended sentence for loitering in public places. Best not to ask too many questions.
Thanks for fighting the good fight, Big Clive. You're awesome.
Ordering one of these should come with a free visit from child protective services.
Holly Jeebus. Telling your kids they live in a surveillance state in their bedroom. Ouch - that's messed up. I saw a kids alarm clock yesterday that showed a green/red light bar for "OK to wake". I support that concept a lot more than a fake camera.
How to make your kids hate you and christmas all in one go
My 4 year old tried to hack it with his fake I-phone
Keeps him busy for 2 weeks now.
Great invention.
I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that.
"Put it over the parent's bed". LOL!
As fake as the tiny cameras with the flashing lights on the shelves at walmart
There are fake security cameras for sale at Dollar Tree sometimes, $1.25 now instead of $1.
“1984” wasn’t supposed to be an instruction manual.
Blindboy Boatclub did a podcast a couple of years back on the whole phenomenon of Elf on the Shelf as a tool of surveillance capitalism via Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon - well worth a listen.
I need new glasses; I misread that as child-immolation unit and got very very confused.
I'll buy the whole stock
In the room where they dress?
WTF is this, a Very Diddy Christmas?
i agree, weird. even if you don't mind the trauma and distrust concerns, can't santa see you all the time? why the need for high tech elf assistance?
Physically straight to garbage. Ideologically? Whisky Tango Foxtrot 😱
Perfect item to change a bit if you want to watch grandma..... just put it on top, everybody things it is fake and put little spycamera in. Real scare for grandma later....
Don't spy on your kids!
I must express my admiration for the creativity that went into this 🙂
When I asked my mother if I could join her in her room as I was frightened of the dark, she replied that it was not possible as she didn't want the monsters from my room invading her safe space.
I used to be scared of the monsters under the bed and in the closet. Then my mother questioned why they were hiding. I came to the conclusion they were afraid of me. From then on, I learned to empathize with everyone and grew up defending the weaker kids from the bullies.
That’s a bit sick 😢
I'm impressed by the idea of taking an existing dummy security camera and retheming it to sell at Christmas.
I applied for a store detective job in Poundland years ago and the head security officer told me the surveillance cctv cameras are fake. So it's a shoplifters haven 😂
Except he was lying 🤣
Many years ago, to keep the Job Centre happy, I applied for a "Mystery Shopper" job (i.e. visiting a company's stores posing as a customer and reporting back on what you find: I didn't actually know which chain it was).
"I am a cunning, sneaky individual with a well-developed sense of malice" I wrote on the application form. For some reason, I never got an interview. 😅
As an admin of the FB Group “Elves are the heralds of a fascist apocalypse” I heartily endorse this video.
No real cameras have a flashing LED? Mine do. But they are blue to be hip. You can turn it off if you want though.
This is a brilliant test for your kids. If they are scared of it, they are weak and should be skipped over for inheritance. If they are strong, they will realize that the presence of a camera means that Santa follows rational rules. He needs eyes and ears, and so is subject to denial and deception. It's never too early to teach your kids about counterintelligence, I say.
I’m sorry but if a parent needs this to “get their kid to behave” during Christmas then they’ve already failed as a parent and this little tactic can go one of two ways, the child ends up not being trusting of others even when they’re an adult or they’ll think it’s ok to hide cameras in people’s bedrooms because their parents normalized it, I’ll never understand how stuff like this is even legal to be sold in stores and online idk if I’m overthinking it but it seems a bit creepy to develop a product that is aimed at parents to basically control their kids through invasion of privacy then lie saying the elves are watching their every move and their behavior to make sure they’re being good this year for Christmas…like what? Sorry had to edit my comment because I didn’t realize this camera was a dummy camera but my original point stands if you have to scare your children into behaving because an elf is watching them then you’ve already failed as a parent!
The sad reality is that parents can now spy on their kids for real, for less than £20.
I saw a youtuber buy one of these just for the dome, to make a underwater camera where you can transition between above and below water or have it in the middle with waves across the output shot, without it camera is either in or out, no in between!
It's important to prepare children for their Orwellian adult future.
The pushy/springy globe and the speaker hole at the bottom leads me to wonder if they are repurposed parts from a game buzzer or something similar.
what?! - No schematic today Clive lmao...
I have one of these fake security cameras minus the christmas theme. Same red LED and runs on 2 AA batteries. Got it at the dollar store. The red LED runs the entire show. No additional circuitry.