The nightmare videos of childrens' YouTube - and what's wrong with the internet today | James Bridle
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- Опубликовано: 22 апр 2024
- Writer and artist James Bridle uncovers a dark, strange corner of the internet, where unknown people or groups on RUclips hack the brains of young children in return for advertising revenue. From "surprise egg" reveals and the "Finger Family Song" to algorithmically created mashups of familiar cartoon characters in violent situations, these videos exploit and terrify young minds -- and they tell us something about where our increasingly data-driven world is headed. "We need to stop thinking about technology as a solution to all of our problems, but think of it as a guide to what those problems actually are, so we can start thinking about them properly and start to address them," Bridle says.
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"These videos are like crack for kids"
*Seems about right*
68 likes epik
*Snorts sound*
Who's not to say it's already crack
Crack is the crack for kids
@@danielthewalrus420 amen
1980: *expects flying cars*
2019: *hitler dancing in a red bikini in the Sahara desert*
WTF-
Shuichi Saihara Desert
Using flying cars in late 2019
*Humanity is a mistake*
Pretty sure it was tattoine
Sadly I was a victim of this
I remember I was watching Dora. Everything was fine at first but then it turned into gore and bloody scenes. I remember Dora was killing boots and her family and eating them. I screamed and cried. Then my dad scolded me for watching that video. I was literally a toddler I didn't know anything. I never saw that video again. Then my dad got RUclips kids. It wasn't better. Those videos were still there and I got more and more terrified. I am a teen now and I still have those traumatic videos stuck in my head. Please parents don't give your child a ipad at such a young age like my parents did to me. You can't control what your child watched because it comes out of nowhere. Whoever did these videos are monsters and terrible people for playing around with childrens feelings like that. I recommend giving your child their iPad at a older age so they know what they are doing. If your child wants to see cartoons. You can always get the nick Jr app or put it on tv, but please don't give devices to your child at a young age.
Thank you, dear......I'm so sorry that you experienced such horror......I don't let my toddler son watch You Tube kids, I've made an account but never executed it, and my ex brought him an iPad but I stopped giving it to him, and I keep it uncharged. I've noticed that my ex let his son watch some weird things on his iPad, (we don't share no kids together) and he had my son's viewing attached to his son's (same accounts)........NOPE. I definitely NOW know what's going on with YT kids, and my baby will NOT be apart of it. It'd bad enough that things pop up on MY feed that I'm totally not interested in and I'm a grown woman. Thank you for sharing your experience and God Bless you honey.
@@dayedracoles5256 I started getting my niece dvds of older classical animated movies when she was 2 / 3 & she absolutely loves them. My son also picks them up for her at car boot sales now. At least we know the content & there's no ads ect... You're a great Mother!
RUclips isn't just on iPads. It's on your smartphones and tablets and computer. The best advice I could give is make sure the videos your children are watching are safe. Ideally stay away from the React channel, Bright side, happy tree friends, Jacksepticeye, Markiplier, PewDiePie, Robot Chicken, YTP, ect. Also watch your children when they're using their devices. Show your kids PBS kids. Keep violent video games out of the house until they're are 17 years or older.
@@erikastone9183 Truth!!! I had found a station on my cable network called "Baby First", and my son LOVES IT ❤️ He learned so much from it, and it broadcast all day and night. They even have activities and toys based on the characters, so me and his God Mother brought him a few, and he's learning songs and sayings (he learned "night night! Sleep tight! From one, and he says it to me and his granny when we're going to bed ❤️ so sweet) and they are VERY educational and safe! I also introduced him to PBS Kids, I personally grew up on PBS as a child and so did my nieces when they came along, and he loves that, too......that's all he'll watch/I allow him to view, and ONLY on television, not on my phone or my tablet.
Yes and there's demonic portal videos masquerading as "horror version" videos.
In my household we have a “No RUclips..period” rule. At first we thought it was harmless - after all we were very strict to make sure our child was watching kid appropriate content. Before long our 4yr old became interested in watching “open toys” and “family play”videos. An almost immediate change in behavior took place. He stopped wanting to actually have real family play time & anytime the Screen Time limit was up, he would throw the most uncharacteristic, emotional bloody-murder-tantrum I have ever witnessed. It would last well into the rest of the day. Needless to say, it was eye opening enough that we dramatically changed our Screen Time rules. RUclips is OUT! In fact no more 3min instant gratification vids anywhere (prime has them too). We lean toward learning vids like Leap Frog Reading, a limited time period of his favorite cartoon, shows that teach character (like Owlegories or Veggietales) or we’ll splurge on a full length, parent-pre-screened family movie.
Bottom line, every parent should watch this Ted talk and take it seriously. I think there’s something to the dopamine release kids get w/these sorts of vids. I’m not so sure screen time is so good for us either - we’re even considering getting rid of the TV altogether. Save yourself a lot of headaches, turn off the TV, pick up a book and start your kids on a path to a love for reading.
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Fantastic work there! Although I don't know most of the show names that you have mentioned there because I am from India where we are doing our cultural bit to save our kids from this stupid and idiotic nonsense called RUclips kids' videos. I am sure the shows mentioned by you are culturally pertinent and well meaning from where you come.
The one thing extremely good about old school parenting is that no matter how many tantrums that kids would throw back then, the parents would have none of it and wouldn't yield to such nasty juvenile behaviour. The kids would cry themselves dry and then abide by what was being laid down as a rule. Those kids are some really successful and prosperous individuals of the society today.
it’s similar to drug addiction
Wow. Very wise of you to do what you did. I'll take a lesson from your experience. My 20 mth old daughter is also fond of RUclips. I am afraid it is having bad influence on her. I will now start taking measures to get her off RUclips.
@@jobanbrar92 Yes, do it while she's young, I have a younger cousin who is addicted to it, he stares at the TV screen and if you call his name he won't even respond because he's literally glued to it, due to him watching stuff like Ryan's toy review he's because extremely spoiled, the funny thing is that he's so hooked to technology that he doesn't even play with toys anymore
Never thought I would be looking at Hitler dancing around in a bikini in a TEDTalk
Zachary Frausto best roast ever
Wait... Is Ted from TedTalks secretly Hitler in a bikini? 🤔
THE guy who made that was a troll. It wasn’t actually made for kids.
Zachary Frausto aw u spoiled it
@RyanOsmW3 1 Thanks boiiiii
"Minnie Mouse gets raped and injects Toxin into blood vein because of depression"
RUclips: "This is fine... Kids am i right?"
"How to farm in Minecraft! Top 10 tips and tricks in Minecraft"
RUclips: *"T E R M I N A T E D"*
Yep RUclips is high on drugs
Or maybe this, mickey mouse poops, then peppa pig ate that. RUclips: *dont do anything*
Markiplier try not to laugh
RUclips: TRIGGERED
The algorithm does what the algorithm wants
They just verify that on seeing the type of video a content creator uploads, even though they upload a weird video once or twice
@@clearsightnt_animations776 Well, That's Actually Good, Because TikTok Sucks.
As a new teacher, I see how YT Kids has absolutely demolished children. There is a depressing amount of kids who cannot be reasoned with because their upbringing has been from people trying to get quick views by producing total trash. Kids are, by no exaggeration, walking-talking memes. And the big ick did not help at all.
This week was a nightmare and I’m still trying to recover.
@Thawne maybe our purpose is also to mate?
What do you mean by big ick?
@@mr_brown5974 probably covid lockdown
@@mr_brown5974covid
Are you sure thats the internets fault?
I got mad at my parents when I was a little kid for keeping me off of the internet. But now, I can’t thank them more.
Seems to me like they just didn't bother looking for internet programs that have actual good intentions and not this crap.
I never cared about RUclips. In fact, I personally didn’t go on the site without a parent watching it with me because they told me that there’s bad stuff on the site, but I don’t think they know about any of this stuff. When I did watch, I was very careful and inspected every thumbnail and channel carefully when I got older. I feel bad for any kid in a public place that’s just left on an iPad as a babysitting tool. Who knows what kind of scarring inappropriate crap they’re seeing.
Part of the problem is parents leaving their children alone watching this.
And then being like: it’s Not my fault it’s the platforms fault obviously for letting my kids watch that, imma sue em
Fr i went out to eat breakfast with my family at a diner a few months ago and I saw a couple with one toddler and a little girl each had their own tablet playing cartoons while they ate
yes.. i had to supervise my sister when she was younger .. and oh my .. there were very very traumatizing and inapp "kids" videos .. i am glad i didnt let her watch those .. it would have casted extremely negative effects in her mind ..
My_ Dog that’s not inherently bad. my brothers (3 and 5) each have their own tablet on which they play nice games and watch netflix and disney plus, actual good content. they also watch youtube but because the older one grew out of weird content he just watches these kiddy gaming videos and the younger one ended up watching the same thing then. they’re allowed to watch as they eat as long as they do eat
@@abd_mat8869 same, but I'm still doing it...oh my GACHA LIFE
My fear in Horror Movies: 45%
My fear in Bloody RUclips skits: 56%
My fear in Horror games: 78%
My fear in Creepypastas: 84%
My fear in RUclips Kids: 101%
its funny that this comment got so many likes but no reply
@@uzayr6825 well.....
RUclips kids is scarier than Pennywise 🤣
@@louiejonesponation true
@@louiejonesponation true
People don't let their children play in the street anymore because they are afraid they could get hurt. Stranger danger we've been told. It drives me nuts because the same parents are happy as long as their kids are inside on a computer. Give your kid access to the Internet and you are literally giving every pervert and freak show access to your child. Not to mention what constant access and not playing outside does to them physically, emotionally and intellectually.
Totally agree with you!
It's not black and white. You can take time to learn about programs on the internet that are meant to be productive and not harmful. Then limit that to like an hour a day.
@rachelbrian8602, you are absolutely right!!!!!! We are all doomed. It's exactly like the 2006 move "Idiocracy" starring Luke Wilson about a dystopian anti-intellectual society.
One of the best TED talks ever, and he wasn't kidding when he talked about Facebook and RUclips workers who have to vet these videos being severely traumatized by the work. That's a reality unless you are of a certain very twisted sort of mentality. It will break you.
I couldn't understand why the audience laughed at that sentence. Maybe it wasn't as well known? But like you said, it's a huge issue and anyone who doesn't know about it should learn.
That's why they started using the automated algorithm.
@LinZhasInfiniteSwag literally huh? Probably made it so it gets rid of the worst of the worst. and the obvious stuff,.. I can't even watch videos of animals getting hurt or stuck. I never watch the 'miraculous rescue videos',.. but imagine seeing something that makes you ache for the world and Nature, as part of one's work... awful...
Rule #1 of RUclips: turn off Autoplay.
The only rule you really need.
*_OOF_*
I HATE AUTOPLAY
It's good when your listening to music sometimes though.
At school my teachers never turn autoplay off and sometimes it's so bad it's funny
Me: eating food peacefully
Kid at the corner of the restaurant: watching these vids at max volume
Oh god thats true
I don't feel peace when there's obnoxious background noise because children can't grasp the concept of headphones and parents can't grasp the concept of engaging their child in conversation.
Kendra Pender I don’t think we should let ANYONE become a parent until they at LEAST attend a class for parenting or at least have some form of license for parenting, similar to driving. Parenting is like driving, just it affects the world. Not just you.
@@brittanynguyen3794 parenting should be first a responsibility and then consequently a honor and blessing
But first responsibility
But unfortunately legislations and society treat having a kid like ah whatever you can have one just like candy almost
Like idm if I'm sitting next to 2 kids watching a video quietly, but if I'm on the other side of the restaurant, with earphones in, then I get pissed
You can tell this guy knows what he is talking about, and that he did not just searched this up for five seconds. I respect this guy.
it's absolutely terrifying how people who don't have kids care more about children's safety and development than actual parents
I’m a parent of a 12-year old and I care deeply. My daughter had never access to such crap and spends more time with people, animals and books. But yeah, that’s just two parents (plus my ex’s boyfriend)… and a bunch more that I know, so there’s that.
@@brunosco i'm glad people like you are still out there
@@alrtix Me too. 😛😊 You too can be a positive force of change (it starts in your mind) and that’s what matters. 😉
Tbh me being very well aware that there's so many things that can damage your kid's mental health without your control or even your knowledge is one of the reasons why I don't think I'm ready to have children. Kids are always gonna be a couple of generations away from you and that means that as society evolves it's harder every time to even know what's happening to them. My parents had me older than usual so there's a big age gap between us and I'm aware now as a young adult of how little knowledge they had on not only the technology I used and have been using since I had access to a computer, but also on the societal norms and pressures that were present in my social circles. I was bullied for several years without them knowing, for motives they couldn't even understand completely. It's not that they didn't care, in fact my parents lean on the overprotective side, it's just that they simply didn't know better.
So it's not as simple as that we have careless parents and children-less people who care, it's most like there some of us who, the more aware we become of the world we live in, the less willing to bring children into it we are, and then many parents are simply not fully educated on the world their own children live in. That's why the presenter made so much emphasis in this technology being understandable and in we as a society being very well educated not only on how this technology works, but on the societal issues that it shows us
@@eykyra You’ll never be ready to have children. Neither do I. And yet, a kid “happened” to me 12 years ago because this is how nature and destiny wanted it and I decided not to be a jerk and screw everything up. And I must say even though it is scary, my child is one of the most happy and balanced ones around, and light years away more so in 2022 than me at her age in 1988. Yes, the world is crazier, but those of us who’re inclined to it can also be way more informed than back then, so we can be way smarter and wiser. When given unconditional love, attention, proper communication and so on, children can be actually very resilient and prepared for whatever’s coming (and there have always been high risks involved anyway, including in the Middle Ages and in the Stone Age 😛). But from your tough childhood (which looks similar to mine) and apparent understand of things, it seems you’d make a very good dad! 😉
Remember when RUclips was for funny pixelated home videos and cat compilations?
And songs.
Ah yes, the internet at its best days
genuine and personal
And gamers
Those were good times until the LITTLE KIDS CAME ALONG!
Video Title: "Spider-Man cheats on Elsa and gets her pregnant"
COPPA: Yea that seems family friendly
Man, i hate those video 😔😔😔
Honestly, this side of RUclips creeps me out and I am 21 years old. Like no horror film or game will be able to top that.
These videos is the true chaotic evil
If Old Joseph (Richard Epcar) sees more and more invading RUclips Kids Shovelware videos, then he'll say: I'LL NEVER FORGIVE ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE SHOVELWARE CONTENT FOR KIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@great music coppa is useless and more of a burden most of the time
I'm so grateful that I was grown up with supervised Internet access, before the creation of RUclips Kids, and only watched official episodes of children cartoons.
This is exactly why I refuse to raise my future children to be "tablet kids". It's so easy to just put a phone or tablet in front of a kid and have it loop videos for hours instead of actually parenting your child.
Also, unpopular opinion that's kinda off subject. But I hate the fact the FNAF (Five Nights At Freddy's) is being marketed towards children even though it's a horror game. There's literally FNAF books in the children's book section at the store I work at. I don't mean to sound like a boomer, but I don't believe children should be consuming any type of horror.
If I was in charge 99% of children entertainment would be banned tomorrow
This, I agree. all my three brothers traumatized me by putting jumpscare and stuff on me and now I'm scared of the dark and loud noises suddenly coming like thunder. Basically, those jumpscare contain loud screaming noises.
You don't sound like a boomer at all
Horror traumatizes children and their psyche is not strong enough
I also used to be a child J couldn't stand horror at all
Fnaf books features some really dark topic. It is a little different from the game. But still fnaf games story starts with a owner of a pizzeria with Chuck e cheese like animatronics killing 5 children and stuffing them inside the animatronics. The game especially the story is 16+
Guess R.L Stein is some kind of maniac in your eyes! I think horror is a natural interest kids have at ages where they’re exploring their place in the world, because many things are new and scary and horror is a way to safely and healthily explore those fears- it’s the same reason adults watch horror tbh. It definitely depends on the kid but age appropriate horror is fine! Goosebumps was and is massively popular for a reason, so is FNAF. There’s nothing overtly gross in FNAF and most of its supernatural in nature to tbh its far more tame than it’s made out to be. Obviously you can govern your children however but I don’t see any reason to cull an interest in exploring horror and fear just because they’re a kid.
I sincerely hope that he wasn’t logged in when he did the research for this, or else his homepage is screwed.
Randy Weeb THE FINGER FAMILY IS GOING TO COME FOR HIM
NOOOOOOOOOOO
@10:13 u can see that he was logged into his acc
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Something I'm noticing is that none of the people commenting are parents, we're the older siblings worried about our younger siblings. Just because we're not the parents, doesn't mean we can't help.
My younger sister once saw a creepy peppa pig and she was TERRIFIED
There was literally a vid with like peppa pig twerking or smthn and my baby bro was gonna click on it. Also he dint even know how to read then...
Older siblings are underestimated
right?!? we're the ones actually on yt seeing this content.
I'm an uncle on here
It’s part of the grooming process. Subjecting children to horror and disturbing images and concepts opens them up to larger boundary breaches and essentially preps them psychologically for abuse. It is sick, twisted, and calculated. But by whom? Who is fueling these channels? That’s the question.
My thoughts exactly this is completly horrifying and so are comments where parents and adults attempt to save children from this crap and then another adult blocks them and says its fine. WTLH!
it's the RUclips algorithm, unwillingly...
@@enforcer0regidragoregicean902 these traffickers hire experts for a handsome salary.
I’ll give you a hint: they’re not black or Latinos.
@@fellowdanbarber3323 bruh 💀💀💀💀
When I was 6 years old I used to watch compulsively very specific horror videos, which made me have really bad dreams, along with a lot of anxiety when going to sleep and when I see what's coming for the next generations it just hurts my heart. This must stop, parents need to take better care of their children
Not kidding here, there's actually a video on RUclips called "Mickey Mouse Baby DEAD in Gas Explosion"
*W H A T*
Unnamed Call the cops. *Right now.*
heard that from a memulous video lol
ky1e same!
I rather watch call of duty lul
There's also 'pregnant Minnie Mouse commit suicide on a tall building'
The colour palletes used on these animations are giving me a migraine.
Especially those ones from The Infographics Show and Kurszegazt (forgive me if I got the names wrong)
Though this is just my opinion...
Or cancer
*cough* _you're an army_ *cough*
Youll be send to iran because youre a army
@@kgb976 I'm a child, so I can't get drafted...
It's good that I grew up in the early 00s, when none of this happened, and I was raised by my parents, the streets, I played Lego with friends, and thanks to such TV channels as Nickelodeon and Jetix with MTV for my childhood
16:32 "Even if you are a human, you have to end up behaving like a machine, just to survive" So relatable.
I was born in the first decade of the 2000s and I grew up with Geronimo Stilton, Pokemon and Doc McStuffins
Not very intellectual, but far better than Surprise Eggs.
Doc McStuffins is actually pretty accurate medically.
The Pokémon games are actually super intellectual; they taught me basic logic and how to read way before I learned that stuff in school.
Jeremiah Teoh wE'eR gOiNg oN a tRiP iN oUr fAvOrItE rOcKeT sHiP
I don't know how surprise eggs are entertaining °-°
Geranimo Stilton oml nostalgia
When you realize Baby Shark is one of the only normal "cartoons" in RUclips Kids
(EDIT: I'm not saying you shouldn't hate the song; I'm just saying that it's ok for small children to watch it)
Put the quotations between cartoons not normal
4
Six.
But it has a lot of creepy versions
It’s also a brain washing song😂
That is eye opening and frightening because what children see and hear before the age of 8 molds their unconscious belief systems, attitudes, and feelings about their environments and themselves. It takes a lifetime , sometimes, to unlearn and undo the damage. Parents have waaaaay tooooooo much power and control in this world. Parents are creating the children's and society's future.
The Denver world airport has murals depicting what is happening, I think if was built in the 80s............good luck
As a career nanny, I am SO intentional about any TV time the parents allow. There are 3, maybe 4 TV shows that I’ve seen many times and approve of and with small children who can’t even pay attention to a full 20 min episode, I use RUclips kids to watch clips from those shows and maybe a few choice Blippi videos. That’s it, and the kids don’t touch the phone. If they are allowed to hold the phone and watch, I can screen grab 2 or 3 videos, make a photo album on my phone with just those videos in it and lock it on that app so they can’t do anything else. This this scares me so much and new parents, especially, have no idea what seemingly harmless scrolling can lead to
As a college education major I highly recommend the show Bluey. It's a really well made kids show that teaches important lessons and is engaging for kids, and it's enjoyable for adults as well, my friends and I even put in on from time to time.
People: Hitler is one of the worst human beings to ever exist
Also people: let's put him in a children's family song and let him fight a skeleton while wearing a bikini.
And this is why I hate humanity.
(Not to steal the spotlight or anything, Suga’s InFIREnation. I definitely agree with the Hitler vid)
Hitler vs Pewdiepie
@@blockacheese8474 I could see that in a "kids" video nowadays tbh
That video was made to make fun of the other finger family songs. It’s not a serious video
anime weeb
It’s a real video btw there’s probably multiple of them
RUclips is basically a darkweb, you can get extremely good content for self-developing and knowledge OR you can end up in a nightmare that keep auto playing in an endless loop.
Wtf have you done
Btw I wrote this comment before clicking cuz am finishing my video then clicking it
Edit: well it isn’t that bad I was actually expecting worse cool...
@Wth happened to my name that video is in the dark web because it is unlisted
@@ABC-in2le im not clicking on that
@@ABC-in2le deep web
@@youtubowysmieszek3348 my bad, its the deep web
To quote Caddicarus:
"It's RUclips, not Corporation-safe-for-your-kids-Tube."
Hahahah
My daughter was watching a cartoon song show on RUclips kids and all of a sudden she burst into tears and was so scared. I asked her what happened and she said the wolf ripped little red riding hood in half and blood and everything went everywhere. Keep in mind I have it set to limit videos for under 3.
My children will never watch RUclips kids again and I completely vet anything they watch. They only get 30 min of screen time in the morning and 30 min in the evening.
why do you let your children have screen time period? I don't understand, you're setting them up for failure
Being an adult can suck, but in this case
I'm glad I grew up with Jimmy Neutron and Spongebob SquarePants
Brain blast🐋
Holy, I've watched Jimmy Neutron when I was younger but I watched SpongeBob well into my 20s
I grew up with PBS kids-
Oh and Disney and Netflix shows like MLP, I want my sister to watch MLP or LPS or some other show, instead of videos like this..-
Same..
My fucking god Jimmy Neutron
You’re a man of culture. Lucky parents
I can hear the endless disappointment in this mans eyes
The same disappointment i have knowing that these channels exist
You can hear disappointment in eyes? Cool new thinv :P
@@aurumaker7266 The Disappointment is so big that you can hear it.
It makes no sense but i just need an excuse for making a mistake
@@pregnantscout2139 you should have said I can hear it in his voice and see it in his eyes. That would have been more understandable.
Same
420th like, and I definitely am also disappointed at how much humanity has motherfuckingly devolved in utter degeneracy in making those so-called "children videos" when they are actually not for children. Most represent repitition, controversial topics and worse of all, death.
I was scared of the internet for a while when I was little. I was more into books and luckily I didn’t have technology of my own for a while. I would watch cable and Netflix shows. I am so insanely thankful for that fear because it kept me safe from these things. To this day I’ve never turned autoplay on once in my life.
I’m 17 and grew up in a place where my family was among the first people in the middle east to have an ipad, and I was about 5 when that happened. I am beyond grateful I grew up at a time when animation was not as easy to make so we had to consume media made by real qualified animators and cartoon makers. Now that I’m a little older, I’ve noticed my younger sister and younger cousins (who all had ipads since the day they exited the womb) all have this addiction to their phones and talk about adult subjects which even I still hesitate to talk about to this day. It’s truly a scary world out there and I’m glad we have people like James and other people in this comments section who are noticing this odd behavior in children that are a result of videos like these. I’ve already decided that my future kids will not have an ipad until they are old enough to think logically before making decisions and I hope everyone else does this too. Thank you for this talk James.
"to automatically generate a kid's worst nightmares"
that hit home
kiirga nara when he said that I read this comment and that’s creepy-
anilla_md wait wtf same
Dang ikr
Isn't that just Courage the Cowardly Dog? Specifically the Slab episode
@@samt3412
The slab episode was definitely a nightmare fuel imo.
So, aren't we gonna talk about the Absolute *TORTURE* this dude and the guys who helped him to prepare this speech went through to find videos for this TED talk?
@@DrSilk-mo8cw we should appreciate it
@Internet surfer right
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I feel so incredibly bad for a lot of kids these days. I remember watching just slightly weird TV shows as a kid that traumatized me. I can only imagine how I would turn out and how young kids these day are going to turn out. This is seriously scary.
Huggy Wuggy and Kissy Missy is all little kids talk about these days. I work in childcare so I heard the names a lot and I looked it up. It’s insane, I don’t know if the parents are aware of what their kids are looking at or not but honestly it’s more likely they just don’t care…
Thing is, if you take away all the horror elements in Poppy Playtime, it would be very kid friendly. Unfortunately, this is the equivalent of showing kids a deactivated landmine, and leaving them to find a lot one. They're gonna be traumatized once they start leaving RUclips kids
@@cornelliusmurphy1677 it’s not so much the game itself as the videos and other content. I searched huggy wuggy on google and immediately came across sexual fanart :/
I feel really bad for the dude. It seems like the audience doesn`t really get the point of his, while he really understands how big the actual problem is. Damn, i wish him luck
Eitan Shirman I mean, youtube has done so much to limit this: no autoplay on kids content, no comments, you can’t minimize a kids video and just let it play forever, etc.
Octo Valley thats actually not a lot to curb this lol
@@angelofdeath275 What else are they supposed to do besides just deleting the video? Oh well I mean...
I guess youtube forget that they make youtube kids.. smh
@@octovalley They did this because the FTC fined them. If they didnt, RUclips would have continued this system.
“Even if you are human, you have to act like a machine just to survive”
Great quote.
Capitalism ruins people's souls
@@lain-ih6jj every ideology is bad in many ways
@@kornaes only communism is the way
@@solidslfy2879 yeah no
Yes and it highlights the real problem - that we let machine algorithms define how our societies work, instead of taking charge of them ourselves. We are willingly handing over our position of power to the hands of some invisible force that can not be argued or debated with, someone out of political and diplomatic reach. A force driven purely from basic mathematical profit and exposure mentality.
Kids see the apparent flaws, but it extends to everyone. We are all impacted by this for better or worse.
First rule of raising a child: NEVER INTRODUCE THEM TO RUclips!!!
If you plop your child down in front of a screen and just leave them alone, you are a terrible parent that shouldn't have had children in the first place.
When I was a kid, there was no RUclips Kids. I remember once sneaking onto the family pc and finding gore. Even if RUclips is more moderated now, these things still slip by.
He sounds like he's going to cry, somebody give the man a hug.
he seen the weird side of youtube kids app. I seen some of the weird stuff myself.
Supermira247
theory: he probably has trauma from accidentally watching one of these videos because of autoplay
If I were watching his TED Talk, I'd be proud enough to walk up to the stage and give James a hug.
The only kids channels I can trust are the My Little Pony, Adventure Time, Steven Universe, WB Kids, and Hiho Kids channels. Those are actual good channels.
He's sad because this is where humanity has come to.
And parents blame video games for messing up their children.....
*we life in a society*
ItS tHE vIdeO GAmeS
They just don't want to admit that they're LETTING video games mess up their children lol
Here’s a cold hard fact about life: People suck. You never know what’s going to happen when you randomly go out to buy groceries, or watching a movie, etc.
PangoPixel videos game didn't mess up my childhood lol. Just don't play 24/7 and know when some games just aren't good for your child to play yet. Make them understand what they're playing and play with them. Bring friends to play etc. And if they want to play a horror game (me and my siblings watched horror movies with our family when we were very young) make sure they're truly okay with it and know what they're getting into and tell them what's realistic and not etc. You don't have to hide games and movies from them but make sure you let them use while you observe a lot. Also don't let it take over all the time in the day.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that the internet had gone crazy. It's only gotten worse with tiktok, everyone's appeasing algorithms over anything else
I'm horrified and fascinated by the videos of adults in children's media costumes doing horrific things. Like I've only seen a few samples of them and they seem to be all made by the same group? Or perhaps that is just what I have seen. They have such a dark web vibe to them. The automated animations is one thing, but those are entirely different!
I’m extremely happy that I didn’t have the chance to watch this as a child.
highkey only watched Minecraft videos
As a child the thing that grabbed my intention more than it should were vlogs and similar things. I thought my younger brother watching idiots playing video games all day was bad enough. Of course things are getting worse and worse and more and more garbage is becoming popular. I'm not even surprised.
same
Same.
When I was little all I ever searched on RUclips was “dinosaurs” and it only showed documentaries.
RUclips kids channels are scarier than most horror movies
It gives pennywise nightmares.
The only thing that Doom guy fears
para goomba It makes Slenderman want to spit out his lunch, but he doesn’t have a mouth.
@@shanthegamer21 He has no mouth, but he must scream.
AH-64Apache3 I know right.
James is my new hero. This was a brilliant speech about a topic I have been addressing for years among other parents. When the screen becomes the babysitter, the parent, the educator, the guide to life and behaviour, wouldn't you want that to be monitored by you instead of leaving it into the hands of strangers? Most parents ar thrilled to leave their kids in front of a screen all day, as it keeps them "calm". I am instead terrified, knowing what it does to small developing brains and within ten years I predict we will see all the negative aspects of this coming with full force from a generation that was abandoned in a sea of strangers and with no understanding that they needed to fight to get out, or given the tools to do so.
Starting out as a new parent I used RUclips for my oldest (now 3 years). To get a brake and having it in the background. At first he looked at it sporadically, but after a while that was all he wanted to, and I felt it was hampering his development and he got sucked into the TV or pad.
So I quit RUclips. I still have a TV or music on the background, but at most it's science shows or kids news program and such produced by Swedish TV.
But mostly now a days I play music and instead of putting on the TV, I go out after kindergarten and play with them for 2-3 hours make a foodbox and eat with them outside until it's time to go to sleep.
The older one has really started to develop nicely, and is more social and plays better with kids. The smaller one (2 years) didn't get addicted to begin with.
It's awesome, we get to have adventures every day, and nobody misses the TV anymore and I have more energy (from 0 to 10%) by breathing fresh air and not being stuck inside with two toddlers where they obviously shouldn't be.
Remember when RUclips was just homemade videos capturing funny moments and people creating AMVs/tutorials on Movie Maker
Good old days
Don't forget the old skits acted by only 1 guy.. those times..
Olden Days indeed
And Minecraft
i still remember watching super mario bros wii videos when I was 6 and I loved games from then
I feel so lucky that I had been a toddler before the rise of the internet.
Me too.
How old are you tho?
Patricio González Martínez billy is 1000
Same
@@user-ix2qq3lq1q I'm 24.
What is truly scary is that this is beyond children’s videos. I’ve seen “reject modernity, embrace masculinity” and other variations of that title, with the exact same content in the video, the exact same emotional response being elicited; war propaganda videos for disenfranchised men. They are truly demonic videos, I am relieved to see other genres of these strange, certainly demonic videos.
When I was a kid I didn’t have access to devices or the Internet until I was 12 or 13 (and that wrecked me as a teenager I wish I hadn’t had a smartphone in high school in retrospect). My friends with small children don’t let their kids use devices and most of them don’t even own a TV. That’s how I want to raise my kids.
Someone actually did the world a favour and talked about the “kid friendly content” on RUclips
Folding ideas also has a great video about it
ruclips.net/video/AyGcuaqVUKk/видео.html
Aditya Saini thats the exact video I was thinking of when typing that comment
@@adityasaini495 Ah yes, Memeulous.
AND it hasn't been blocked yet... WOW
hopefully RUclips sees this
Two years later, RUclips is still just as full of creepy "Elsa pregnant with Spiderman's birthday cake" videos as ever. The only thing changed is that now normal people can't comment on nostalgic content from our own childhoods.
I'm a marvel superhero fan, seeing these kind of videos really made me angry
Whenever I see my little brother watching those stuff. I always keep telling him to stop watching it
@@bakedsushi8097 me too your not alone
@@Pewie. I just wish RUclips can permanently ban them
These content creators shouldn't have made their own fictional characters, mixing others from other different movies without the title ''parody''
@@bakedsushi8097 I think PBS kids has an app, maybe you can get your little brother watching that instead of this stuff.
ikr? i cringe A LOT by only looking at the titles. also the majority of the audience that are on these things are kids, it scares me that youtube has these kinds of contents "for them"
This is a very important topic and I’m glad this speaker is starting this discussion. To all those sharing your stories, whether from the perspective of the parent or the child, I’d like to mention something. There has been a huge gap in understanding and connection between generations ever since technology really began developing. Even if parents are only trying to protect their kids, this may only lead to a continued lack of communication and honesty between a parent and a child. The child may begin to feel misunderstood, frustrated, and unheard by the parent when they begin to impose rules; I would know, as I experienced this myself. It’s only now that I’m older I can appreciate the censorship my parents put on my internet access. Please, if you are restricting your child’s internet access, don’t explain your reasoning with “because I said so” or “technology rots your brain”. All that will do is further frustrate your child and make it hard for them to see your good intentions. The last thing you want to do is become their enemy, because then all theyre going to do is try to find a way to outsmart or work around you. They will get good at lying and hiding, and will lose trust with you. Please, be honest with your kids, if they’ll listen. You’d be surprised what they’re willing to hear.
my husband and i always talk about how we’ll go about this when our son is older (now 1.5, no tablet, no youtube, probably won’t let him even use them until teen years, at the earliest), and i’m just curious what you think would be good to share? “there is some really disgusting stuff out there” or something of the like? that’s all we can think to say but wonder if that will just spark curiosity
This was such a fascinating and well researched, well rounded presentation. Thank you so much, James!
People in the 90s: We'll have flying cars in the future!
The future: Elsa and Spiderman SLEEP TOGETHER and ANNA CHEATS ON SHREK Kids Videos Johnny Johnny Yes Papa Episode 7239 Full Episodes
Lmao 💀
lmfao
This is so underrated
XD
I’ve read the titles to these videos before and let’s just say I’m genuinely surprised that I didn’t have a stroke reading them.
"Minnie and Mickey mouse lethal injection" "Baby Frozen Elsa get stuck in escalator" "Suicidal pregnant mother crying" Apparently all kids content.
Elizabeth Brown The RUclips algorithm can’t be stopped now.... the medium is the message
As disturbing as it can be, (some) kids are interested by this stuff... before they see it
hitler vs skeleton finger family gas explosion lethal injection pregnant elsa cheats on spider man with pink spider girl pregnant suicide tattoos lost baby fake
yeabutnah They aren’t interested. It’s just what thumbnails are. It’s bright fun colors with their favorite characters all in one video. They don’t know how messed up it’s gonna be, they’re just kids. Unless the kids a psychopath or just happens to know what lethal injections, suicide, and abortion (because there’s videos like that too) the kid didn’t know what was coming.
"Suicidal pregnant mother crying" sounds fucked. Just the image that was put in my mind put a bad, horrible taste in my mouth.
I work with kids. we used to let them watch a video or have RUclips kids open for up to 5 minutes as a reward up to 4 times a day. (The kids are there for 6hrs, aged 3 and older) We had to stop because certain kids would freak out when the timer was up, or they would hurry and change videos before the first one fully finished, trying to “trick us” into letting them watch more. No matter how many time warnings and all that they got, it often ended in a child being upset. We no longer use RUclips as a reward. They can choose a song to listen to, but no looking at the screen besides (maybe) to pick the song.
I'm from Eastern Europe and i'm really glad that there was no internet yet, while growing up 🤗🤗🤗
Thank God im a teenager right now.. and i can clearly see the effects on my siblings they literally cry when you take their gadgets
Toys are ok but devices are literally eye bleach machines
Consoles too
@@videogamechannels360 Toys at least encourage kids to imagine and create
Hey guys everytime I see my young cousins
Watching these kid videos I hack their phone into playing a video of mananggals
Once I took my brother's tablet as a joke and he chased me with a knife. He was 8.
This man refusing to play us the finger family song is a wonderful thing. He is a true hero.
Yup. He is.
I wanna listen to it cuz I have not but imma listen to him.
I don't know what the finger family song sounds like but I can already guess it's horribly obnoxious
I should call you "The Simpsons".
You made a prediction.
@@tuwacroi I had to listen to it because of my sister and trust me
It make you really want to rip your ears out
This video is accurate, as someone who has had a device since I was about 6, I’ve seen what should have been learned at around 14. The bright side is that RUclips can be used for good, I’m subscribed to about 10 educational videos which have tremendously helped with school and without those videos, I wouldn’t even be able to type this. The truth is, parents shouldn’t give unsupervised internet access until their child is a teenager, but they should give supervised access to children because of how useful the internet is when controlled.
Underrated comment, most of the comment section is black and white, this is a good comment.
This is why my kids, if I have any, are going to be raised on Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Popeye The Sailor, Classic Disney, etc.
I'm already making a stance that my children, that don't even exist yet, are not going to have RUclips for many years after the fact, and are actually going to be raised on the good stuff.
The cartoons that aren't meant for kids, like those I just listed above, are usually the better ones, and I'm so grateful that those cartoons are the ones I was raised on.
but how is looney tunes and disney not for kids?
@@synkronized They never were intended for young children. They basically made the cartoons for adults at the time.
@@synkronized Here are words directly from Robert McKimson's son about it.
"The Warner cartoons were aimed strictly for adults--they were never meant for children," McKimson said.
"Warner cartoons and other animated short subjects (Disney characters, Popeye, Tom and Jerry and so on) were screened for audiences of all ages at movie houses before the feature presentation."
@@synkronized Kids can watch them, but that doesn't mean they were FOR kids. Not everything animated is kids stuff.
@@synkronized Yeah. just because something is watched by kids, doesn't mean it's for kids.
there are suicide jokes in looney tunes if you watch them again, there's also smoking and drinking in it as well.
RUclips should be called “tube” because it’s not about the viewer anymore
The people who coined the name RUclips aren't the people who are running it now. Remember Google bought RUclips, they didn't create it.
@@nielsssg The people who made it weren't exactly saints either. They were at least partially motivated by how hard it was to find videos of Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" at the Super Bowl. Seriously, you can look up interviews with the founders.
RUclips can make a very big deal out of copyright and removing supposedly "sexual" or suggestive content, yet they can't be able to get rid of these disturbing videos towards kids.
It never was
Beatriz Martin OOOOOOOF
He's right about underpaid adults getting traumatized by moderating Facebook content. It's not funny at all, these people get to see videos of violence and torture out of nowhere with 0 support, they usually last only a few months in the job.
That’s horrible!
plenty more where they came from. india is a big country.
@@MarsofAritia ?
@@applepi3703 where do you think they get people to do underpaid grunt work?
@@MarsofAritia Depends on the company, many companies have places in america where the workers are, and big chance they are american. Yes tons of Indians are underpaid and do stuff like that, but don't say all are Indians, because that's false.
(im not american but i used america as an example because thats where many of them are.)
I showed this to my mom and she walked over to my sister (5 year old) and said that RUclips "didn't work anymore" and that it had been "shut down" she hasn't watched it sence
That’s a lie and it’s going to cause issues
It’s not good to lie to our children
That lie is going to backfire on your mom. What if the five year old was at daycare and the workers played RUclips for the other kids or the five year old is playing with relatives and the parents give them a tablet with you guessed it:RUclips.
I read a LOT of comments on this video and I'm surprised no one quoted this:
"I don't know what's worse, that we built a system that seems to be entirely optimized for the absolute worst aspects of human behavior, or that we seem to have done it by accident without even realizing we were doing it."
This is what the internet has become. The centralization of all human thought which is inherently evil. What else points more blatantly to the fallen nature of sinful man?
I wish it were that complicated. It's actually much simpler and more sinister.
@@Icemario87 time for elaboration? If not don't waste it I don't have much for internet convos either
@@chelseabarker2250 Where I agree with you that the heart of men is evil and that's why we reject Life, Truth, and Love (which are equivocations for God).
Where I add nuance is in that these algorithms are heartless or mindless. In reality they represent the heart of their designers. And I think that this is part of your main point.
But also consider that Disney MUST actively go after copyright infringements or else they lose proper title and claim to their copyright. People have often complained that Disney is sue happy, but that's a legal decision not a moral one. They HAVE TO sue or else they cannot sue anyone anymore because their copyright becomes null and void.
Also consider that RUclips, which is owned by Google, happily stamps down thousands of content creators. They have censored for covid, among other topics.
Neither Disney nor RUclips has shown any effort against Elsa and Mickey cutting each other open inside the RUclips kids section.
This shows malice, not mistake.
@@Icemario87 thanks for expounding and I agree. Blessings on your journey ✨️
Glad I grew up with Gumball, Johnny Test, Spongebob and others...
Videos nowadays: Elsa is pregnant by a surprise egg given by Spiderman finger family granny peppa pig among us impostor hand spinner bottle flip
the old spongebob is better
Ye I just have that such memories tho xd
Omg I grew up with Gumball too, it was my favorite show
TAWOG was a great show
Elsa has been pregnant by a surprise egg
5:23
Is no one gonna talk about the “Hitler vs Skeleton Finger Family for Kids”
*and he has a bikini on*
Drax Brady it was implied
*for kids*
Yeah no. No one's gonna talk about that
what person would made a kids video about hitler lol
4:16 > _"which i'm not gonna play to u"_
thanks a lotttttt for this
RUclips won't allow: a youtuber with an audience of teens or adults swearing once
RUclips will allow:
It's not youtube allowed this it was either irresponsible parents or company
I can’t believe there’s a ted talk about this side of RUclips
Ted talk on RUclips about how much RUclips sucks!
I can
Hang on... didn't idubbz make a content cop on toy channels?
Peppa Pig Ted Talk Spiderman Prank with Baby Shark
What I can't believe is that this video isnt blocked yet...
I'm so so happy that I grew up in the early 2000s and didn't have to experience the horror that is these creepy RUclips videos.
These videos are so patronising and unchallenging
I remember them San Andreas Bigfoot vids with the 009 dreamscape
Fatit sky is Weegee tho
Ayy me too
@Laura no, it's the mid 2000s
@Laura nah, we are still safe tho
I am 15 years old and already I'm messed up. We didn't even have close to excessive screens yet give an inch, and kids, myself included, take a mile. I realize that I'm add icted, just like all of Gen Z are destined to become. Yet my schooling is online(I did online schooling before it was cool lol) so I can't escape it. And don't get me started on these "accountability apps". There are so many loopholes. Even little kids, much less teenagers who can really get into some serious stuff, trust me, I know, can find a way past them. I'm heartbroken that so many innocent little kids are subjected to these horrors.
He says algorithms can't fix it, and human moderation can't fix it. I was waiting for him to say how we fix it, and the closest he came was "politics," with no actual policy proposals. That's not an answer. If you're saying the US Congress needs to fix something, then you're saying we're screwed.
“These videos are like crack for kids” got me dying
You meant cocaine
@@kiloSilverBviewssecondago Both are same.
@ryan miller Alright.
The creators of these content are probably swimming in money like scrouge mc duck
@@bosniangigachad4706 Deutscher amogus. Seltsam..
I showed this to my mom because she let my sibbling watch yt kids and I already had concerned about it for a long time, but she thought I was just being stupid amd overreacting. She first said it was nonsense and that I was exaggerating again, but my little sibbling (age 4) was watching as well. And when my sibbling recognized the clips shown, my mother started to listen to it. And when my little sibbling started to recognize the goofed up clips at the end, my mom decided to delete youtube kids and only let my sibbling watch real child shows like the ones on TV and Netflix.
This video saved my little sibbling's sanity and innocence. Let's thank this guy.
If this saved at least one person, I think it was worth it. Amen!
that was a relief, dude saved children's sanity
Quite true, put on Avatar: The Last Airbender
The fact that your mother refused to believe you is sad… like at the very least check if your child is right or not, before accusing them of lying?
@@ragnarcadogan4196 ooh my childhood
I grew up in the 70's and 80's. My parents were old-fashioned. We didn't get a TV till I was 6 and my older siblings were 10, 12 and 14. I spent much of my childhood drawing, painting and inventing my own stories. My mom always put on the nature documentaries or science programs, like "Cosmos". I'm glad I didn't get brainwashed by violence. Kids nowadays are ending up with pudding for brains.
Same here. I grew up in a communist country, where fortunately all this nonsense was not supported.
It’s not the kids’ fault though. It’s the adults who are allowing and producing this type of content.
Thank you for expressing these problems so clearly.
"Hitler vs. Skeletons: FOR KIDS!!!"
why
Beau B best anime
the thing is there's more worst thing like that in the youtube.. the problem they bypass it nicely... it's dangerous
Nah this one is from a troll and a memer
Is it bad that a part of me wanted to watch Hitler fight a blue skeleton?
Beau B teaching ww2 history to young kids
(Notices this guy has autoplay turned off)
Ah, i see you're a man of culture as well
Steven Maiorana honestly who leaves it on
I use it but only when I'm playing music 😅
a rainbow Fishy Fricking teachers that's who.
Yup
a rainbow Fishy helps when you're watching a series or a podcast
1:07 *When the teacher uses your work as an example for the class*
"Like a desperate improvisation artist, responding to the combined screams of a million toddlers at once" sums up this video correctly! Well said, Sir, well said! ✅ Even if you're human, you'll end up behaving like a machine in the end.
The next generation is gonna be weird...
And I'm saying this as a zoomer
Me too
Fr...
Same...but as siblings we have to stop them from watching these weird videos...
😬
If you have noticed every single thing is getting violent as it goes, it will end up at a time where violence isn’t anything that sets people off,violence in music,games,cartoons,movies, increasing with the increase of tech
This is horrifying... what are the children raised on these videos going to end up like? Why are parents so insanely irresponsible?
My thoughts exactly, lmao
I think they're misinformed, they think it's like TV with tight regulations, but it's not and they don't realize that
As much as I agree that parents should always monitor what their young children watch, they're not all to blame for this.
To brats
To add on, why is RUclips irresponsible to delete these videos. By their logic, its OK to imply that a baby is killed in a gas explosion, but you better not put violence in your video, otherwise you'll be demonetized .
My son get's 15 minutes of screen time a day. He chooses a topic and I am choosing the video. Most times I watch it with him or I do simple tasks near him. When aunts and grandparents allowed him some extra time to watch animated kids songs he was really craving and was easily upset all day. Since he knows he only gets his 15 minutes he says bye bye at the end of the video and that's it.
I would never do it any other way.
I would like to meet the person who first started off these types of videos mentioned.
*may god have no mercy on their pitiful soul, should that day come*
I'm glad for my parents and myself for growing up watching Tom and Jerry......
Instead of SpiderMan making Elsa pregnant.......
Man, Tom and Jerry, as well as Looney Tunes, were the B E S T
@@BrainyAshes ikr
@@BrainyAshes I know right ？
ruclips.net/video/eV0v8317SJ0/видео.html
Yea same I'm glad I just watched spongebob with my parents
hopefully PARENTS were in the crowd and realizing what they're feeding their kids on youtube.
i hope too
Only Karens do that, and they certainly lack the ability to change.
And others who could pass down the info to people they know who are parents as well
let them watch pewdiepie its probally better then all the brain dead kids videos
@@humankerbal3623 pewdiepie is worse than these animations(except the hitler one lmfao)
MY FELLOW RUclipsRS,
THERE ARE CHILDREN COMMENTING ON THIS VIDEO WHO HAVE HAVE BEEN THE VICTIMS OF THIS AND SOME HAVE COME HERE BECAUSE THEY ARE WORRIED ABOUT THEIR SIBLINGS THEIR COUSINS AND THEIR FRIENDS.
TAKE TIME TO ENCOURAGE THESE LITTLE HEROES WHO ARE STANDING UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT. SCROLL DOWN AND YOU WILL SEE. TAKE TIME TO HELP THESE KIDS WITH YOUR ENCOURAGEMENT AND INSTRUCTION.
This is the most honest and helpful tedtalks I've ever watched. I used to have my kids watch RUclips until my oldest got into these scary and weird videos and I locked it down. It's insane what videos slip through the cracks and it's all our fault because we.put them in front of screens and leave them alone . We have to be more active in our children's lives.
Some parents and teachers I know collected a list of quality RUclips channels. I built an app that only has those educational(but still fun) channels. Sound like something you may be interested in? We are looking for testers for the beta release.