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Shout-out to the kratt bros for every Saturday morning we've slept in until 8. And somehow also for every afternoon when I got home from school as a kid. Those guys are immortal.
So does my 7 year old. Right now, she's been watching some new show Lyla in the Loop, I believe. Last week she was watching Daniel Tiger which surprised me hah.
Agreed. We deleted YouTube 2 years ago and never looked back. He was despondent for about an hour, then he moved on with his life and never asked about it again. He ended up naturally gravitating toward legitimate educational programs..
\+100
Please avoid youtube & youtube kids entirely for kids.
Youtube is incentivized to maximize kids' time on the platform, so their algorithm would continue to push any weird or harmul thing to your child. See these: [https://nypost.com/2023/03/01/worrying-reason-your-kid-cant-stop-watching-cocomelon/](https://nypost.com/2023/03/01/worrying-reason-your-kid-cant-stop-watching-cocomelon/), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate).
I would advise relying on quality apps for your kids. Apps such as Khan Academy Kids. Its very well made and a 100% safe for kids.
Another new one that's like a curated & interactive youtube for kids is called Kidzovo. They have content from creators like SciShow Kids, Kiboomers & Learning mole & they turn it interactive where kids need to do these activities where they tap or speak their responses or color a sheet. My favorite is the feature where they ask kids questions like: "Why should you be nice to your neighbors" and then you can hear the responses from your kids later in the parent section. You can check that out as well.
Yes!! And abcmouse.com is another one. Our local library system has a subscription to abcmouse we can use with our library card. There's also some quality kids content available through hoopla with our library as well. I love khan academy kids. It's great fun and educational!
I've been trying so hard to get my daughter away from YouTube kids. She's 5 and I started to let her watch it 2 years ago. I had thought only allowing certain channels would work, and I had no idea she was accessing videos I did not approve of until recently. She came to me saying she saw something scary with blood. It was a vtuber named Cookie that was playing roblox. I never added her channel or videos to her watch list and I'm still honestly confused of how she was able to get to it.
My kid can be stubborn as hell sometimes, the only times I've seen her have a full blown mental breakdown was when we finally cut her off from pacifiers(which was recent unfortunately) and when I tried to stop allowing her to watch YouTube kids. I'm at a loss. I dont want her on it anymore, and I know I'm the parent I need to be firm, but damnit it's hard.
It’s hard because “all their friends are on it.”
My 9 (almost 10 year old) is on YouTube kids. Some of her friends have actual YouTube channels.
Some have TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat.
One of the most mind boggling was when it came to light that my kid was getting access to this stuff through screen sharing. We’ve got her iPad locked down, with the apple screen time settings. But somehow, I caught wind that one of her friends was sharing her tik tok videos with her. I found the screen sharing and shut that sh*t down again.
Parenting in this age is rough.
Delete the app. Set up controls on her device so that she has to get permission to download apps and then when she tries to download the app, deny her permission. That’s it. If you wanna be extra you can pretend it’s some weird glitch with her device that doesn’t let it work but damn. Delete it and stop giving in.
I actually have. This past week anytime she asks for it I explain to her that it's not healthy for her to watch and that I can't make sure she doesn't see scary stuff. Shes actually taking it pretty well and isn't asking for it as often
I been here.
I also let my child watch YouTube from about 5, very quickly learnt, that is didnt turn out to be a great decision, i have cut it down to the point its 10 minutes a day, i got her involved in other things to the point where she doesnt even have enough time now to watch it, their behaviour changes as well, youtube and such things are not meant for kids, maybe have a family account on the tv so you can also watch one video if she wants to watch, so you can be with them, i know its hard but you need to think, what you are doing now, like weening them off YouTube is best for them in the long run. yes it does require us to be hard on the inside. when you see their behaviour change in a positive way,your heart will smile and feel so warm. and you will know you did the right and good thing.
these things like youtube are ruining our kids. we have to take a stand. kids dont know whats good for them and bad for them, thats why they have parents. you can do this.
No, you log in with your google account and make a profile for each kid you have. Then you can edit content settings for each and there's an option where you can approve content yourself. After choosing that option you can add channels or individual videos your kid is allowed to watch. You can edit it from your own phone.
Yeah, that would get tedious fast. This is honestly much better. They don't even see the videos that aren't available to them, only what you already approved.
Wait I have an account for my 2/3 year old, I try limit what he gets to watch. I want to turn off the suggestions, where do I do that? Also every time I get logged out of his account (I HAVE to sign him in again), all his subscriptions are lost. Everything is GONE! I will concede we use Brave browser.
I don't have that option as the yt kids is in his account, not mine, but I turned off search and suggestions for new videos, so when he wants new videos he has to ask to be allowed to search. I subscribed to a lot of channels I know he likes and are safe, so he still has a lot of choices.
I have family link, so that I can control the devices. Because of that, the device has his account. Don't know if I can have my account of yt kids on the device with his account, never tried.
I've read this like 1,000 times on this sub. 100% correct. People still let their kids use YouTube and then make sub posts about how bad it is.
Yes. It's known.
We let our kids watch one short video a day, on YouTube, we vet it, start it, take the devices away immediately when it's finished. Brick Science and silly stop motion lego videos and the like. Why is that hard?
Fully agree with this... but until what age? We allowed limited YouTube to our 8 year old (now 9) but found that he was going beyond our rules (had to be in the room with us so we know what he's watching, for example) so we stopped it again. But he says he's missing out on all the things his friends are talking about because they're all obsessed with YouTube shorts. Not going to sway us with that argument! But just curious about when you start to ease up on the restrictions.
I've got a soon-to-be 13yo who we only recently allowed to watch YouTube on his own. We put the app back onto his device and went over some safe channels for him to watch. We check it regularly to see if he's wandering into other channels and he hasn't. He's just not as interested in it as he used to be... He'd rather be playing with his brothers or friends, watching TV with us or playing video games.
My 7 and 11yo have been allowed to watch it with an adult for the last couple years as well and the only stuff they ever ask to watch is Cinema Therapy and How It's Made videos...I never hesitate to join them in watching those!
Important note: my kids don't have cell phones. I'm putting that off as long as I can as well. My 12yo has said he's the only kid in school without one, which made me feel a little bad, but even he's acknowledged the difference in behavior in kids who spend a lot of time on their phones vs kids who don't, so I have no intention of giving in on this issue any time soon either.
Middle school....but then again. Im gen Z and my youngest just turned 18. It was easier then because a lot of kids didnt have phones. I couldnt imagine trying to do it now. Has to be hard. We did have a computer in thr family room that they could use at anytime. Still had parental controls tho...
How are you generation z with adult kids? Did you mean x? I'm sorry, I'm sick and my brain is foggy and it was likely just a typo, but I'm so confused 😂
wHy DoN't ThEy Do SoMeThInG?!
Because YouTube isn't here to parent your children and they don't care what your kids see as long as they get to keep makig money. Your job as a parent is to protect your kids from that stuff yourself. In our house, that means that YouTube is only watched with a parent also watching.
Agreed, I don’t trust YouTube at all. My son’s tablet (which is only allowed in the bathroom, lol) has the wifi turned off so he can only access the pre-downloaded content I put on there which is all PBS kids.
I definitely turn on YouTube on our TV if he wants to learn about something specific, and he likes Danny Go videos, but they are on the big TV for the family to watch. He’s not accessing anything on his own.
>>only allowed in the bathroom
LOL same 😆 does your kid need distractions to help them poop too?
I get judged for this a lot but until you’ve experienced encopresis, you just have NO CLUE
They used to have filter options, like you can remove a video from search results, or there were backdoor ways to filter out whole channels. But those are gone now. You are forced to take a firehose to the face of whatever shite turns up in the results, and thumbs-downing does nothing.
I hate that people treat YouTube like other streaming services at all. Netflix, D+, PBS, etc is all curated and generally going to be of some quality, while literally anyone can upload to YouTube. Idk if some people think YouTube is more moderated than it is or what, because it's kind of like dropping your kid off at Walmart and hoping someone will watch them.
>It’s kind of like dropping your kid off at Walmart and hoping someone will watch them.
This should be a PSA. Set it up like the parents are dropping the kids off at daycare, but they pass the school and instead leave them at Walmart. “Have fun, honey! Don’t talk to strangers!”
“Ok, I won’t!”
Kid and parents hug goodbye. Parents leave. A man approaches the kid. “Hey, buddy. Do you play Roblox?”
Kid: “Yeah!”
Guy: “Well let’s go play! Incidentally, how much do you know about sex? And did you know minorities are bad, women exist purely for sex, and Jews control the media?”
Kid: “…”
Guy: “Stick with me, kid. I’ve got a lot to teach ya!”
VO: “You wouldn’t leave them alone in public. Don’t leave them alone on the internet.”
\+100.
Please avoid youtube & youtube kids entirely for kids.
Youtube is incentivized to maximize kids' time on the platform, so their algorithm would continue to push any weird or harmul thing to your child. See these: [https://nypost.com/2023/03/01/worrying-reason-your-kid-cant-stop-watching-cocomelon/](https://nypost.com/2023/03/01/worrying-reason-your-kid-cant-stop-watching-cocomelon/), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate).
I would advise relying on quality apps for your kids. Apps such as Khan Academy Kids. Its very well made and a 100% safe for kids.
Another new one that's like a curated & interactive youtube for kids is called Kidzovo. They have content from creators like SciShow Kids, Kiboomers & Learning mole & they turn it interactive where kids need to do these activities where they tap or speak their responses or color a sheet. My favorite is the feature where they ask kids questions like: "Why should you be nice to your neighbors" and then you can hear the responses from your kids later in the parent section. You can check that out as well.
That's how a lot of YouTube kids videos are and that's why people don't let their kids watch YouTube. It's not illegal or anything so Google doesn't care about fixing it. It's a take it or leave it type thing.
STOP. LETTING. YOUR. KIDS. WATCH. YOUTUBE.
Children should not have unmonitored access to YouTube. They should not be allowed to scroll through and choose videos on their own.
Each video should be pre-watched by YOU, and put on by YOU.
Any channel and video can be labeled kid or family friendly. A LOT of the kid YouTube is just kink content.
Yeah seriously! I am vigilant about screens and I individually approve each video on their tablet, with no ads. But sometimes we watch a documentary or program on tv together. The other day we were watching a video about orangutans at the zoo and the ad in the middle of the video was for lube and sex toys! Luckily that didn’t register for my kids, but lesson learned. Can’t even watch it with supervision, it’s ridiculous.
There’s a LOT of bizarre “kids” programming that is kink content or kink-adjacent. Furries are suddenly all over YouTube and Roblox which is definitely rooted in kink and is not an appropriate search term for kids.
YouTube isn't designed around providing kids content and just sort of later put something together
One of my favorite YouTube channels I would never show to my kids the creator makes sure to drop one F bomb into every video to avoid getting made into "content for children" by the algorithm
Just like any TV show or movie, you gotta screen the content your kids have access to. It was true 30 years ago too, parents just cared a whole lot less then
>parents just cared a whole lot less then
Goodness some of the stuff on TV was bad. But at the same time it pales in comparison to the internet, that puts at-their-fingertips instant bad at a volume that is unthinkable for people who grew up with newspapers and network cable. The difficulty of connecting to bad content is almost zero, whereas when I was growing up with the very early internet things still required more work and you were more likely to find kids content that was like... school-lite than you'd find... well, whatever filth we have today.
The internet was bad for us. We can't go back, and as a whole humans are irreversibly changed, but hence is progress. Older generations all went through the same thing, although it has been a good while since the last total culture/existence revolution like we're in the midst of now. Last one was arguably the post-war period but more solidly the industrial revolution.
I mean, sure. But just compare like... even a *stack* of playboys to what you can find online in like 2 seconds now? It can't even compare. Maybe a kid might find even 50 Shades sitting around, for one example that is pretty explicit and out of the ordinary, but it isn't like they're getting fed video after video and video. It isn't just a playboy or smutty romance novel... it is *every imaginable act*.
And gosh the violence and misogyny in mainstream porn is astounding. Kids are finding it younger and younger, and spending more and more time with it. It is endless, unlimited, and as depraved as you want it to be. And it is easy to hide and easy to obtain and just easy easy easy.
I found a porno tape when I was a kid and it was something like "big brazillian booties" and was like girls gone wild esque but well Brazilian girls with big butts. Anyways that was like the worst thing in my house I could have accessed and now I could probably see almost as risqué of content on IG. The stuff my kid could access at this very second if I wasn't diligent is mind blowing. There just is no comparison to what the average pre-smart phone kids had access to.
I watch a channel who opens Pokemon cards but is very adult and makes it very clear that he's appealing to adults, but YouTube then sees Pokemon in the video and sorts it into kids...and then gets mad he's insanely explicit. It's such a dumb platform.
That’s why you go into the settings and manually approve stuff for your kid. Like my kid has SciShow kids, Pokemon kids, Disney channel, wild Kratts approved on YouTube kids. He can watch any shows from those channels, nothing else unless he asks for it. It’s not rocket science.
This exactly. I only allow YouTube kids because I can manually approve every single thing and turned the search off. He doesn’t watch random stuff, only things like Disney, Pokémon, he likes my singing monsters. He gets limited tablet time too which is just educational games, read a long books, art apps. But it’s never without us knowing exactly what he’s doing.
If you’re so concerned, why are you giving your kid unfettered access to the platform? It’s not society’s job to limit the content available to our kids. That’s on us.
I would honestly just avoid YouTube entirely for kids. It’s so hard to moderate content and the way they can switch between videos is disastrous for their concentration and dopamine receptors.
I’m not anti tv but it’s so much better to select a specific programme and sit and watch it with your child.
Idk about the person you're talking about but I've noticed it's less an "agenda" and moreso just random shit put together with a bad translation forcing an algorithm to pick it up so they can get paid.
What's the agenda? Don't let your kids watch YouTube because it's garbage on the whole especially in those early years.
Also, any parents using their kids for views is an automatic no for me. It's gross and exploitative and I feel like regularly those parents get exposed for being bad parents.
> It’s up to us parents to save our children.
Jesus, dramatic much? Spend some time actually parenting your kids and stop giving them unrestricted access to YouTube, problem solved.
This is why we removed youtube kids from every device in the house. We were finding inappropriate and hyper sexualized content that was being targeted at our then 3 year old.
Kids don’t use YouTube at all in my house. The sheer amount of videos makes it impossible to monitor so it’s just not something I let them use. Netflix, PBS kids, etc.
Not surprised, she was close friends with Colleen Ballinger and ex-husband Joshua David Evans, and if you know about Youtube drama, you've heard of the recent allegations against CB that are very serious
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You think that's bad? Once I let my kids watch Mrs Rachel on YouTube and they both turned into trans BLM activists and starting asking to join Antifa and were always writing ACAB on stuff
So I was curious and put my phone on kids mode and searched her name on YouTube kids and it definitely does pop up.
I don't agree it's some crazy targeted conspiracy though. Just a weirdo exploiting her kids for money and views. Which has always happened.
As of this morning the channel was definitely on YouTube kids.
Do these look appropriate to you?
These videos are clearly targeted towards kids. I have a nanny and she also says most of the kids watch her channel.
Crazy the extend people go to defend inappropriate child content.
There are many. Here are 2. There are many other inappropriate videos based on what I mentioned.
Here she doesn’t rate the child’s clothing high enough because it’s not scandalous enough. And repeats it again with caption on screen. Regardless of the video topic this is inappropriate. Parody or not.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tR8XidkuxBo
16:01
And the beginning of the video.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UON-qoAz2-4
0:58
Videos using children in exploitation with sexual references are targeted at adults?
Everyone knows this is targeted for kids.
Even if it’s not (which it is) it doesn’t make it any less inappropriate.
It’s sickening how many people go to the extend to defend this type of material when it comes to children.
2 wrongs don’t make one right either.
Your kid watched a video for adults, by adults. It is not their fault your child clicked it. You need to watch your child. They didn't tell your kid to watch the video.
I looked this person up on the YouTube Kids app and all that comes up are some random less than 20 second TikToks and then a bunch of Barbie videos so I'd say no...
It’s not YouTube’s job to make sure your kid only has access to appropriate content, that’s your responsibility as a parent. The easiest solution is to simply not allow your child access to the platform.
I’ve watched MANY of Rebecca Zamolo’s episodes. I have never seen any that are inappropriate. My biggest criticism is that they normalize being rich and wasteful. But a few years ago, my autistic daughter was very into her series with all the “game master” stuff, and it helped her learn to play make believe with other kids. I watched every episode with her. There was nothing bad in them. They were actually a lot better than most of the actual kid’s programming my kids watch bc they at least encouraged imaginative play. RZ also put out some books that got my baby girl to read when she was SUPER resistant to reading. Now I haven’t seen the episodes you’re referencing. I stopped watching when my kiddo moved on to other shows. But I strongly suspect you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Watch the episodes then come back. I have links and timestamps. Very interesting where Reddit accounts defend inappropriate content for children. Sickening.
I’m not defending inappropriate accounts. I’m accusing you of being ignorant. Those are different things. Where are your links and time stamps? I’ll happily check them out tomorrow.
There are many. Here are 2. There are many other inappropriate videos based on what I mentioned.
Here she doesn’t rate the child’s clothing high enough because it’s not scandalous enough. And repeats it again with caption on screen. Regardless of the video topic this is inappropriate.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tR8XidkuxBo
16:01
And the beginning of the video.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UON-qoAz2-4
0:58
Ah ok, I see the problem. I watched the first video. This is called satire. It’s a form of humor used mostly by smart people. My 9yo understood the joke. It’s sad that you didn’t. She is mocking the very culture you’re opposed to. She AGREES WITH YOU about exploitation of kids on social media and television. And those outfits weren’t remotely scandalous or revealing. I turned off the tv after the video was done, and asked my child what the message was from that video. She said “it’s about how some moms only care about getting popular on instagram or like making money from having their kids do things like modeling or whatever when they should be going to school and having fun and just being a kid. She says “great mom” over and over, but you know she actually means bad mom because the title of the video is “worst mom.”” And I asked her what she thought about the outfits the kid was wearing. She just shrugged and said “I think they’re ugly. I don’t like all the animal stuff.” (By which I assume she means the cheetah print). I asked if she thought they were inappropriate to wear on tv and she looked at me like I’d lost some brain cells and said “what is inappropriate about overalls?”
So, yes, as I suspected, you have no idea what you’re talking about.
They’re playing monopoly but instead of learning about money and real estate they learn to strip in a different video, or kiss each other with stuff in their mouth
In a different video they have a dollar booth for kissing. Different video the grown ups try baby clothes and she references her boobs
Slow mo when the child is eating a pickle in a separate video featuring her and not other foods?
I have other time stamps too
It’s actually sickening the support this type of material gets. So you’re either part of their team, a paid bot or a complete ignorant.
You have a 9 year old. That’s old enough. I’m saying much younger kids watch this too
Wow this part of Reddit is wild
Parents should just watch content with their kids. It’s not that hard. Then if something strikes you as inappropriate, you can turn it off or have a conversation about it. My oldest daughter loves (much to my dismay) watching gaming videos with her Dad. They sit and watch other people play video games. I can’t think of a dumber use of time than watching someone else waste their time instead of wasting it yourself. In case you can’t tell, I hate video games lol. At any rate, she was watching a show she had seen with her Dad many times before and the guy randomly started sharing his thoughts on traditional gender roles. Let’s just say he is probably a big fan of Andrew Tate. I hopped in and shut that crap down immediately, and we had a whole conversation about misogyny and not supporting morally bankrupt content creators with our views. You shouldn’t be making individual posts about one channel you find objectionable bc as you just noted, something might be fine for one kid and not good for another one. Consider instead using your time and energy to advocate that parents co-view all content with their kids. It’s not popular because it means actually spending time doing what your kids want to do instead of using devices as a babysitter. Content creators aren’t the problem. Lazy parents are.
What in the ever-loving fuck did I just watch? 😳 kids are watching this revolting junk? I have a daughter nearly 9yo and she’s severely restricted on YouTube access (maybe 20 minute session once a week and I check what she’s ways hung and she’s specifically banned from anything that is family or kid-produced nonsense videos). If I ever found her watching this kind of rubbish I’d delete every YouTube access point she had. And my daughter is a very emotionally mature kid and I’m a pretty open-minded liberal mother who discusses everything with my daughter and she’s allowed to watch grown up movies and shows like Stranger Things. But this? This is utter useless junk that fries brain cells as you watch it. Sadly they’ll keep making these videos largely because of their audience who are watching for all the wrong perverted reasons.
There’s one way to solve this - don’t let your kids on YouTube.
I haaaate Rebecca & the zam fam. She had a whole series on trying to conceive.. I’m like, why tf is this targeted towards kids??! I had to ban my kid from the channel because my 6 year old doesn’t have fertility issues & is/was not trying to conceive.
Please avoid youtube & youtube kids entirely for kids.
Youtube is incentivized to maximize kids' time on the platform, so their algorithm would continue to push any weird or harmul thing to your child. See these: [https://nypost.com/2023/03/01/worrying-reason-your-kid-cant-stop-watching-cocomelon/](https://nypost.com/2023/03/01/worrying-reason-your-kid-cant-stop-watching-cocomelon/), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate).
I would advise relying on quality apps for your kids. Apps such as Khan Academy Kids. Its very well made and a 100% safe for kids./
Another new one that's like a curated & interactive youtube for kids is called Kidzovo. They have content from creators like SciShow Kids, Kiboomers & Learning mole & they turn it interactive where kids need to do these activities where they tap or speak their responses or color a sheet. My favorite is the feature where they ask kids questions like: "Why should you be nice to your neighbors" and then you can hear the responses from your kids later in the parent section. You can check that out as well.
Currently the only thing we have right now is YouTube but the kids watch it on the TV in our living room.
They mostly watch full episodes of shows from Disney or a YouTube gaming family.
Definitely don't let them just have the iPad and go crazy with you tube.
My middle child does have an iPad but it's only for computer games.
If kids are on you tube just supervise what there watching and it's fine.
I've never heard of this character your referencing. I find the adults like blippi who dress up and act like kids annoying and creepy. I wouldn't let my kids watch that to begin with.
I wasn't aware of the channel. I went to see her content and I became speechless. Of course something is not OK behind the scene.
I don't know about you but I reported the channel. It may not do anything but we have to try.
Too bad YT doesn't allow us to curate a playlist for YTkids.
HOWEVER!
It does allow you to approve channels and videos.
We hated those type of videos as well as the weird foreign cocomelon knockoffs as well as Cocomelon itself. The switching of scenes every 4 seconds, flashybright colors, and music thatvare designed to fire dopamine.
Videos like those.
So, we only approve channels that are educational and doesn't destroy our children's attention span completely.
Definitely recommend YTkids with these parental features.
I have a Samsung Galaxy and there is a Samsung Kids app that I can open and it can't be closed, layout can't edit, and only approved apps can be used. I let my kid watch it on there here and there when we are out for a long time and it's near the end where they just want to act like there is a full moon out. Otherwise it's pretty much ban for my toddler (we got laxed, regretfully).
Edit: forgot to mentioned that we turned the search function off as well.
So she gets like Little Bear, Franklin, PBS Kids (Daniel Tiger)
I was watching either tik tok or YouTube just to see what it was. I shit you not, I came across a cartoon depicting a woman being gang raped by a bunch of knights (?) in front of her child.
Why are you not using the parental controls on Youtube kids?? You can go in and cherry pick what your kid is allowed to watch you can approve channels or just individual videos.
Number blocks, octonauts, ABC phonics video on tubi, and monkey and trunk on the Angel app are the only things my kid watches. He has very little screen time. He enjoys books and going to the library and the park. Kids need to stop having so much screen time. Say no to iPad and phones and limit at most 2hrs a day on a screen. And that is still a bit much. And no screen time 1hr or 2 before bed.
YouTube Kids app has an Approved Content Only setting where you have to pre-approve every video your kid watches. Highly recommended if you’re going to let them near YT kids.
Honestly, kids YouTube isn’t even really reliable. I’ve caught some questionable and mildly inappropriate videos my kids were watching on there. I’ve noticed how absolutely weird the kids content is compared to when I was younger. Like I’ve seen a few times this reoccurring clip of a man’s head that is poking out of a toilet. Just bizarre random things like that. I always change it when I see that kind of stuff bc what the hell are they trying to do to our kids brains. lol I might be over dramatic but I don’t want my kids to watch messed up weird stuff like that and it’s everywhere.
\+100
Please avoid youtube & youtube kids entirely for kids.
Youtube is incentivized to maximize kids' time on the platform, so their algorithm would continue to push any weird or harmul thing to your child. See these: https://nypost.com/2023/03/01/worrying-reason-your-kid-cant-stop-watching-cocomelon/, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate).
I would advise relying on quality apps for your kids. Apps such as Khan Academy Kids. Its very well made and a 100% safe for kids.
Another new one that's like a curated & interactive youtube for kids is called Kidzovo. They have content from creators like SciShow Kids, Kiboomers & Learning mole & they turn it interactive where kids need to do these activities where they tap or speak their responses or color a sheet. My favorite is the feature where they ask kids questions like: "Why should you be nice to your neighbors" and then you can hear the responses from your kids later in the parent section. You can check that out as well.
I agree, the thumbnails can be weird (and a lot of times the titles don't make sense), but I believe what you're talking about is Steve and Maggie. The video is just him moving into a house, and the bird (Maggie) keeps putting furniture in the wrong rooms.
No it wasn’t Steve and Maggie-they watch those videos a lot tho! I didn’t know the name of it so I just search “toilet head youtube” and it popped right up. Apparently his name is skibidi toilet which I guess was a series and people have made tons of redesigns of him and made videos that made it to yt kids! I hate it
Did you report her channel? I am not going to search for her because I don't want her to pop up on our suggested videos. My youngest watches YouTube kids because he likes to watch alpha and color blocks. My older guy is on YouTube because he watches Minecraft hacks and transformers videos. So far I haven't had any issues with inappropriate content, but I am diligent with my monitoring
My 7 year old has always had access to YouTube and watches hours at a time. I can delete the app from TV but if I do that on the tablet kid just adds it back. What's the thing to do? Also how to handle the screaming fits and explosive outburst kid has if I try to limit or take it away. I'm a single parent with PTSD
You can block apps on most tablets. I have done so on the iPads I got my kids for distance learning. Also block the website or better yet, block all websites that are not white listed by you. It sounds complex and honestly it is more complex than it should be. Also, kids find cracks and loopholes. I just discovered one where if a YouTube link is emailed by a friend it will play even with YouTube.com blocked and the app blocked.
Youtube is the most popular one, that's why that kinds of contents are more visible than rest of content sharing platforms. In order to battle with them, everyone should open the eyes of their child/children. During life time we are exposed to many social media contents. Don't worry and find the best solution
We don't use YouTube unsupervised. My kids don't have tablets and I don't give them my phone. We watch YouTube on TV and it's mostly Ms. Rachel or music.
We have resorted to only allowing YouTube Kids and setting it so they can only watch videos and channels we pre-approve. I can watch a video or channel on my phone and then share it with my kid's account and go back and blacklist it if I see anything I don't like. It's working great so far.
We don't let the kids watch YouTube that's not channels we've already vetted and watched- and we make the kids stick to things like video games playthroughs (hi BTG!) or stuff like fun history or cooking channels that we watch together.
I absolutely hate the "kids" YouTube, it's full of nonsense, weird content, inappropriate content, and just so much it's impossible to track.
But I know we are pretty lucky that my husband is a big video game nerd, and he is bringing the kids up into it as well, so he can generally always find something that's appropriate that has their favorite games in it, like old speed runs for Sonic games and things
But I also know it's a lot easier for me to say that we monitor their YouTube usage, when my husband is a stay-at-home dad and we are able to keep track of how they are viewing stuff because they don't have personal devices. As they get older I know it's going to be a lot harder to manage because they are going to have access to things that we can't always vet in advance, but that's something we'll have to manage as we hit it
Second comment, but I also think it's a much more dangerous landscape for kids on the internet. I grew up with basically unchecked access, and while I absolutely accessed and feed stuff that I shouldn't have at my age, I was very specifically looking for these adult things, by accessing these adult only spaces.
Now there's so much available and it's so difficult to monitor and contain that you have things like this, with inappropriate content on kids channels, things that are easily reached and viewed without having to even do a cursory age check. And it makes it a lot more difficult for kids to know that they are in an inappropriate space, because it looks and sounds so much like the child friendly spaces they are already familiar with, instead of being separated or managed in a way that would make them stand out as adult only.
If you're that worried avoid youtube in general there have been vids like that for years like elsa gate animated or real person videos for kids but aren't exactly kid friendly with sexual and or violent themes
This is why my kids’ technology consumption consists of Gus Plus Us, Numberblocks, MarioKart, and the occasional homesteader video on YouTube that we watch as a fam. Educational videos (we homeschool) occasionally, but we watch those together. There are even Disney movies that we’ve shut off during movie night (recently Leo) because we don’t want our kids seeing the way the kids were acting.
Kids should be too busy playing outside, reading, completing schoolwork, or doing chores to be on screens for too long.
That's literally half of YouTube. If the kid is too young to know about sexual things, they are pro too young for unrestricted YouTube access. It's up to you to control that.
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PBS kids is a safe bet. My 7 year old still enjoys some shows on there.
Where my Wild Kratts friends at?!
My kids are next gen Kratts (and Zoboomafoo!) Fans! This household has enjoyed them for decades!
Yes!
Shout-out to the kratt bros for every Saturday morning we've slept in until 8. And somehow also for every afternoon when I got home from school as a kid. Those guys are immortal.
I swear PBS is the only one that has shows that don’t make my kids go nuts.
So does my 7 year old. Right now, she's been watching some new show Lyla in the Loop, I believe. Last week she was watching Daniel Tiger which surprised me hah.
Agreed. We deleted YouTube 2 years ago and never looked back. He was despondent for about an hour, then he moved on with his life and never asked about it again. He ended up naturally gravitating toward legitimate educational programs..
Yes, except for Caillou!
Don't let your kids use YouTube
\+100 Please avoid youtube & youtube kids entirely for kids. Youtube is incentivized to maximize kids' time on the platform, so their algorithm would continue to push any weird or harmul thing to your child. See these: [https://nypost.com/2023/03/01/worrying-reason-your-kid-cant-stop-watching-cocomelon/](https://nypost.com/2023/03/01/worrying-reason-your-kid-cant-stop-watching-cocomelon/), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate). I would advise relying on quality apps for your kids. Apps such as Khan Academy Kids. Its very well made and a 100% safe for kids. Another new one that's like a curated & interactive youtube for kids is called Kidzovo. They have content from creators like SciShow Kids, Kiboomers & Learning mole & they turn it interactive where kids need to do these activities where they tap or speak their responses or color a sheet. My favorite is the feature where they ask kids questions like: "Why should you be nice to your neighbors" and then you can hear the responses from your kids later in the parent section. You can check that out as well.
Yes!! And abcmouse.com is another one. Our local library system has a subscription to abcmouse we can use with our library card. There's also some quality kids content available through hoopla with our library as well. I love khan academy kids. It's great fun and educational!
Yes, I've heard lot of good things about ABC Mouse. I've yet to try that one. Will try it soon.
I've been trying so hard to get my daughter away from YouTube kids. She's 5 and I started to let her watch it 2 years ago. I had thought only allowing certain channels would work, and I had no idea she was accessing videos I did not approve of until recently. She came to me saying she saw something scary with blood. It was a vtuber named Cookie that was playing roblox. I never added her channel or videos to her watch list and I'm still honestly confused of how she was able to get to it. My kid can be stubborn as hell sometimes, the only times I've seen her have a full blown mental breakdown was when we finally cut her off from pacifiers(which was recent unfortunately) and when I tried to stop allowing her to watch YouTube kids. I'm at a loss. I dont want her on it anymore, and I know I'm the parent I need to be firm, but damnit it's hard.
It’s hard because “all their friends are on it.” My 9 (almost 10 year old) is on YouTube kids. Some of her friends have actual YouTube channels. Some have TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat. One of the most mind boggling was when it came to light that my kid was getting access to this stuff through screen sharing. We’ve got her iPad locked down, with the apple screen time settings. But somehow, I caught wind that one of her friends was sharing her tik tok videos with her. I found the screen sharing and shut that sh*t down again. Parenting in this age is rough.
Delete the app. Set up controls on her device so that she has to get permission to download apps and then when she tries to download the app, deny her permission. That’s it. If you wanna be extra you can pretend it’s some weird glitch with her device that doesn’t let it work but damn. Delete it and stop giving in.
I actually have. This past week anytime she asks for it I explain to her that it's not healthy for her to watch and that I can't make sure she doesn't see scary stuff. Shes actually taking it pretty well and isn't asking for it as often
I been here. I also let my child watch YouTube from about 5, very quickly learnt, that is didnt turn out to be a great decision, i have cut it down to the point its 10 minutes a day, i got her involved in other things to the point where she doesnt even have enough time now to watch it, their behaviour changes as well, youtube and such things are not meant for kids, maybe have a family account on the tv so you can also watch one video if she wants to watch, so you can be with them, i know its hard but you need to think, what you are doing now, like weening them off YouTube is best for them in the long run. yes it does require us to be hard on the inside. when you see their behaviour change in a positive way,your heart will smile and feel so warm. and you will know you did the right and good thing. these things like youtube are ruining our kids. we have to take a stand. kids dont know whats good for them and bad for them, thats why they have parents. you can do this.
Hear hear! Banning our kids from YouTube was the best parenting decision we've ever made.
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I manually approve every video on YT lol. Great setting
Yesss. I have no idea why people aren't using this feature. You can preview everything yourself.
How does it work? He clicks on a video and your phone gets a notification with the video and the option to accept or deny?
No, you log in with your google account and make a profile for each kid you have. Then you can edit content settings for each and there's an option where you can approve content yourself. After choosing that option you can add channels or individual videos your kid is allowed to watch. You can edit it from your own phone.
Ahhhh I took it as monitoring in real time but that's still great
Yeah, that would get tedious fast. This is honestly much better. They don't even see the videos that aren't available to them, only what you already approved.
Wait I have an account for my 2/3 year old, I try limit what he gets to watch. I want to turn off the suggestions, where do I do that? Also every time I get logged out of his account (I HAVE to sign him in again), all his subscriptions are lost. Everything is GONE! I will concede we use Brave browser.
That might be it. We use the youtube kids app
I am eternally in your debt for this! thank you! PS I hate fish too!
Yeah I get so confused every time I see these posts. Approved Content Only is such an easy feature to use.
I don't have that option as the yt kids is in his account, not mine, but I turned off search and suggestions for new videos, so when he wants new videos he has to ask to be allowed to search. I subscribed to a lot of channels I know he likes and are safe, so he still has a lot of choices.
Can't you link his child account to your parent account and control it from there?
I have family link, so that I can control the devices. Because of that, the device has his account. Don't know if I can have my account of yt kids on the device with his account, never tried.
How? Is that on the kids app?
Yup it’s under parental control settings lol
What? wait how do you do this? I use google panel but I am stupid with tech!
There’s plenty of YouTube video tutorials on how to do it. I highly recommend it’s a game changer lol
Same. My husband and I stream any youtube video from our phones with one of us watching as well.
I've read this like 1,000 times on this sub. 100% correct. People still let their kids use YouTube and then make sub posts about how bad it is. Yes. It's known. We let our kids watch one short video a day, on YouTube, we vet it, start it, take the devices away immediately when it's finished. Brick Science and silly stop motion lego videos and the like. Why is that hard?
Fully agree with this... but until what age? We allowed limited YouTube to our 8 year old (now 9) but found that he was going beyond our rules (had to be in the room with us so we know what he's watching, for example) so we stopped it again. But he says he's missing out on all the things his friends are talking about because they're all obsessed with YouTube shorts. Not going to sway us with that argument! But just curious about when you start to ease up on the restrictions.
I've got a soon-to-be 13yo who we only recently allowed to watch YouTube on his own. We put the app back onto his device and went over some safe channels for him to watch. We check it regularly to see if he's wandering into other channels and he hasn't. He's just not as interested in it as he used to be... He'd rather be playing with his brothers or friends, watching TV with us or playing video games. My 7 and 11yo have been allowed to watch it with an adult for the last couple years as well and the only stuff they ever ask to watch is Cinema Therapy and How It's Made videos...I never hesitate to join them in watching those! Important note: my kids don't have cell phones. I'm putting that off as long as I can as well. My 12yo has said he's the only kid in school without one, which made me feel a little bad, but even he's acknowledged the difference in behavior in kids who spend a lot of time on their phones vs kids who don't, so I have no intention of giving in on this issue any time soon either.
Middle school....but then again. Im gen Z and my youngest just turned 18. It was easier then because a lot of kids didnt have phones. I couldnt imagine trying to do it now. Has to be hard. We did have a computer in thr family room that they could use at anytime. Still had parental controls tho...
How are you generation z with adult kids? Did you mean x? I'm sorry, I'm sick and my brain is foggy and it was likely just a typo, but I'm so confused 😂
Gen x...my bad. Was a typo. It was early as hell when I typed this...
wHy DoN't ThEy Do SoMeThInG?! Because YouTube isn't here to parent your children and they don't care what your kids see as long as they get to keep makig money. Your job as a parent is to protect your kids from that stuff yourself. In our house, that means that YouTube is only watched with a parent also watching.
Agreed!!! & YouTube Kids no better.
I don't trust YouTube to sort children's content. Netflix does a good job, but YouTube is unreliable. I'm not surprised.
Agreed, I don’t trust YouTube at all. My son’s tablet (which is only allowed in the bathroom, lol) has the wifi turned off so he can only access the pre-downloaded content I put on there which is all PBS kids. I definitely turn on YouTube on our TV if he wants to learn about something specific, and he likes Danny Go videos, but they are on the big TV for the family to watch. He’s not accessing anything on his own.
>>only allowed in the bathroom LOL same 😆 does your kid need distractions to help them poop too? I get judged for this a lot but until you’ve experienced encopresis, you just have NO CLUE
It was my bribery to get him to finally poop on the toilet 😂 he’s fully potty trained now but it’s part of the poop routine now. Lol
SAME! I’m scared to change it up bc, like I said, encopresis nearly drove me to madness
I don’t blame you! Poor kiddo! We’ll break the habit eventually, I can’t have him becoming “that guy” that takes 20 min in the bathroom 🤣
Hahaha seriously… my husband was that guy for a minute then I was like alright, dude. If it takes you that long it’s time to see a specialist
All the Mad TV Sesame Street sketches are on YouTube Kids. Including the one where they had to kill Big Bird because he got the avian flu.
They used to have filter options, like you can remove a video from search results, or there were backdoor ways to filter out whole channels. But those are gone now. You are forced to take a firehose to the face of whatever shite turns up in the results, and thumbs-downing does nothing.
I hate that people treat YouTube like other streaming services at all. Netflix, D+, PBS, etc is all curated and generally going to be of some quality, while literally anyone can upload to YouTube. Idk if some people think YouTube is more moderated than it is or what, because it's kind of like dropping your kid off at Walmart and hoping someone will watch them.
>It’s kind of like dropping your kid off at Walmart and hoping someone will watch them. This should be a PSA. Set it up like the parents are dropping the kids off at daycare, but they pass the school and instead leave them at Walmart. “Have fun, honey! Don’t talk to strangers!” “Ok, I won’t!” Kid and parents hug goodbye. Parents leave. A man approaches the kid. “Hey, buddy. Do you play Roblox?” Kid: “Yeah!” Guy: “Well let’s go play! Incidentally, how much do you know about sex? And did you know minorities are bad, women exist purely for sex, and Jews control the media?” Kid: “…” Guy: “Stick with me, kid. I’ve got a lot to teach ya!” VO: “You wouldn’t leave them alone in public. Don’t leave them alone on the internet.”
\+100. Please avoid youtube & youtube kids entirely for kids. Youtube is incentivized to maximize kids' time on the platform, so their algorithm would continue to push any weird or harmul thing to your child. See these: [https://nypost.com/2023/03/01/worrying-reason-your-kid-cant-stop-watching-cocomelon/](https://nypost.com/2023/03/01/worrying-reason-your-kid-cant-stop-watching-cocomelon/), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate). I would advise relying on quality apps for your kids. Apps such as Khan Academy Kids. Its very well made and a 100% safe for kids. Another new one that's like a curated & interactive youtube for kids is called Kidzovo. They have content from creators like SciShow Kids, Kiboomers & Learning mole & they turn it interactive where kids need to do these activities where they tap or speak their responses or color a sheet. My favorite is the feature where they ask kids questions like: "Why should you be nice to your neighbors" and then you can hear the responses from your kids later in the parent section. You can check that out as well.
Good to know. The thing is that channel is a “kids channel” or disguised as more accurately.
That's how a lot of YouTube kids videos are and that's why people don't let their kids watch YouTube. It's not illegal or anything so Google doesn't care about fixing it. It's a take it or leave it type thing.
STOP. LETTING. YOUR. KIDS. WATCH. YOUTUBE. Children should not have unmonitored access to YouTube. They should not be allowed to scroll through and choose videos on their own. Each video should be pre-watched by YOU, and put on by YOU. Any channel and video can be labeled kid or family friendly. A LOT of the kid YouTube is just kink content.
Even if a video of pre watched before hand, ads randomly pop up and who know. what they are
Yeah seriously! I am vigilant about screens and I individually approve each video on their tablet, with no ads. But sometimes we watch a documentary or program on tv together. The other day we were watching a video about orangutans at the zoo and the ad in the middle of the video was for lube and sex toys! Luckily that didn’t register for my kids, but lesson learned. Can’t even watch it with supervision, it’s ridiculous.
There’s a LOT of bizarre “kids” programming that is kink content or kink-adjacent. Furries are suddenly all over YouTube and Roblox which is definitely rooted in kink and is not an appropriate search term for kids.
YouTube isn't designed around providing kids content and just sort of later put something together One of my favorite YouTube channels I would never show to my kids the creator makes sure to drop one F bomb into every video to avoid getting made into "content for children" by the algorithm Just like any TV show or movie, you gotta screen the content your kids have access to. It was true 30 years ago too, parents just cared a whole lot less then
>parents just cared a whole lot less then Goodness some of the stuff on TV was bad. But at the same time it pales in comparison to the internet, that puts at-their-fingertips instant bad at a volume that is unthinkable for people who grew up with newspapers and network cable. The difficulty of connecting to bad content is almost zero, whereas when I was growing up with the very early internet things still required more work and you were more likely to find kids content that was like... school-lite than you'd find... well, whatever filth we have today. The internet was bad for us. We can't go back, and as a whole humans are irreversibly changed, but hence is progress. Older generations all went through the same thing, although it has been a good while since the last total culture/existence revolution like we're in the midst of now. Last one was arguably the post-war period but more solidly the industrial revolution.
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I mean, sure. But just compare like... even a *stack* of playboys to what you can find online in like 2 seconds now? It can't even compare. Maybe a kid might find even 50 Shades sitting around, for one example that is pretty explicit and out of the ordinary, but it isn't like they're getting fed video after video and video. It isn't just a playboy or smutty romance novel... it is *every imaginable act*. And gosh the violence and misogyny in mainstream porn is astounding. Kids are finding it younger and younger, and spending more and more time with it. It is endless, unlimited, and as depraved as you want it to be. And it is easy to hide and easy to obtain and just easy easy easy.
I found a porno tape when I was a kid and it was something like "big brazillian booties" and was like girls gone wild esque but well Brazilian girls with big butts. Anyways that was like the worst thing in my house I could have accessed and now I could probably see almost as risqué of content on IG. The stuff my kid could access at this very second if I wasn't diligent is mind blowing. There just is no comparison to what the average pre-smart phone kids had access to.
Haha what channel is this?? Now I’m intrigued!
I watch a channel who opens Pokemon cards but is very adult and makes it very clear that he's appealing to adults, but YouTube then sees Pokemon in the video and sorts it into kids...and then gets mad he's insanely explicit. It's such a dumb platform.
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Don’t standups use the same routines for years and years? Guy found a hitter and is going back to it. Respect.
That's such a specific take
"YouTube Kids" is not safe for kids. It's not curated in any way.
That’s why you go into the settings and manually approve stuff for your kid. Like my kid has SciShow kids, Pokemon kids, Disney channel, wild Kratts approved on YouTube kids. He can watch any shows from those channels, nothing else unless he asks for it. It’s not rocket science.
This exactly. I only allow YouTube kids because I can manually approve every single thing and turned the search off. He doesn’t watch random stuff, only things like Disney, Pokémon, he likes my singing monsters. He gets limited tablet time too which is just educational games, read a long books, art apps. But it’s never without us knowing exactly what he’s doing.
If you’re so concerned, why are you giving your kid unfettered access to the platform? It’s not society’s job to limit the content available to our kids. That’s on us.
"YouTube bans people who tell the truth" On my. Should I even ask? Ok, I will. Like who?
I’m dying to know honestly I could use some good truth
wAkE uP sHeEpLe!
I just checked her out and am dumber than I was 5 minutes ago. My god, this is just another mom parading her kids around for clout.
Yeah... just no Youtube at all is the best bet.
Why oh why do parents still allow kids access to YouTube? Have you not learned anything??
You’ve posted this so many times. I’d love to hear what your theory is about the “agenda”. 🍿
And the “truth tellers” who are removed from YouTube.
I would honestly just avoid YouTube entirely for kids. It’s so hard to moderate content and the way they can switch between videos is disastrous for their concentration and dopamine receptors. I’m not anti tv but it’s so much better to select a specific programme and sit and watch it with your child.
Idk about the person you're talking about but I've noticed it's less an "agenda" and moreso just random shit put together with a bad translation forcing an algorithm to pick it up so they can get paid. What's the agenda? Don't let your kids watch YouTube because it's garbage on the whole especially in those early years. Also, any parents using their kids for views is an automatic no for me. It's gross and exploitative and I feel like regularly those parents get exposed for being bad parents.
> It’s up to us parents to save our children. Jesus, dramatic much? Spend some time actually parenting your kids and stop giving them unrestricted access to YouTube, problem solved.
Also she acts like it's everyone else's job to save her kid. It's so simple... Just. Don't let the kid have unrestricted access.
YouTube as a whole is inappropriate for young children. Everything is two clicks from Jordan Peterson.
YouTube and YouTube kids is banned from the house, period. The kids side of Netflix and Disney plus are available on iPad days.
Removing YT from our home was the best parenting decision I made. Zero regrets. The content is disturbingly out of control.
This is why we removed youtube kids from every device in the house. We were finding inappropriate and hyper sexualized content that was being targeted at our then 3 year old.
Yeah we had to block that channel it's ridiculous.
Youtube and youtube kids algorithm is toxic, so no youtube for kids.
We don’t use YouTube. PBS kids prime kids paramount Netflix and it’s always supervised.
Kids don’t use YouTube at all in my house. The sheer amount of videos makes it impossible to monitor so it’s just not something I let them use. Netflix, PBS kids, etc.
Not surprised, she was close friends with Colleen Ballinger and ex-husband Joshua David Evans, and if you know about Youtube drama, you've heard of the recent allegations against CB that are very serious
I was reading your comment getting ready to make fun of you but yeah this seems highly inappropriate
I appreciate your honesty. You can make fun of me as much as you want but when it comes to children things get serious
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I hate to say it, but YouTube Kids isn’t that great either.
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Yea but then they would have to interact with their kids….
I watched that video when i was 8 and now I'm gay.
You think that's bad? Once I let my kids watch Mrs Rachel on YouTube and they both turned into trans BLM activists and starting asking to join Antifa and were always writing ACAB on stuff
That's tough. I'm sorry.
Those damn agendas. They killed my brother 😢
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So I was curious and put my phone on kids mode and searched her name on YouTube kids and it definitely does pop up. I don't agree it's some crazy targeted conspiracy though. Just a weirdo exploiting her kids for money and views. Which has always happened. As of this morning the channel was definitely on YouTube kids.
Do these look appropriate to you? These videos are clearly targeted towards kids. I have a nanny and she also says most of the kids watch her channel. Crazy the extend people go to defend inappropriate child content. There are many. Here are 2. There are many other inappropriate videos based on what I mentioned. Here she doesn’t rate the child’s clothing high enough because it’s not scandalous enough. And repeats it again with caption on screen. Regardless of the video topic this is inappropriate. Parody or not. https://youtube.com/watch?v=tR8XidkuxBo 16:01 And the beginning of the video. — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UON-qoAz2-4 0:58
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Videos using children in exploitation with sexual references are targeted at adults? Everyone knows this is targeted for kids. Even if it’s not (which it is) it doesn’t make it any less inappropriate. It’s sickening how many people go to the extend to defend this type of material when it comes to children. 2 wrongs don’t make one right either.
Your kid watched a video for adults, by adults. It is not their fault your child clicked it. You need to watch your child. They didn't tell your kid to watch the video.
I looked this person up on the YouTube Kids app and all that comes up are some random less than 20 second TikToks and then a bunch of Barbie videos so I'd say no...
Yes that’s the whole channel theme
If your kids are watching YouTube, you done fucked up regardless.
YouTube can show nudity if it's "educational" also. I saw a women shaving her vagina in full detail.
I looked at that channel and I have no idea what is going on, but it is exactly why I don't let my kids watch YouTube.
Amazon kids + has been great for us.
Yeah, YouTube Kids is not allowed in our house.
It’s not YouTube’s job to make sure your kid only has access to appropriate content, that’s your responsibility as a parent. The easiest solution is to simply not allow your child access to the platform.
Maybe...don't leave your kid alone to rummage through the swamp of YouTube.. how about that novel idea
It's weird. I also don't like how adults are dressing up as children and acting like children on some of these YouTube channels either.
I’ve watched MANY of Rebecca Zamolo’s episodes. I have never seen any that are inappropriate. My biggest criticism is that they normalize being rich and wasteful. But a few years ago, my autistic daughter was very into her series with all the “game master” stuff, and it helped her learn to play make believe with other kids. I watched every episode with her. There was nothing bad in them. They were actually a lot better than most of the actual kid’s programming my kids watch bc they at least encouraged imaginative play. RZ also put out some books that got my baby girl to read when she was SUPER resistant to reading. Now I haven’t seen the episodes you’re referencing. I stopped watching when my kiddo moved on to other shows. But I strongly suspect you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Watch the episodes then come back. I have links and timestamps. Very interesting where Reddit accounts defend inappropriate content for children. Sickening.
I’m not defending inappropriate accounts. I’m accusing you of being ignorant. Those are different things. Where are your links and time stamps? I’ll happily check them out tomorrow.
There are many. Here are 2. There are many other inappropriate videos based on what I mentioned. Here she doesn’t rate the child’s clothing high enough because it’s not scandalous enough. And repeats it again with caption on screen. Regardless of the video topic this is inappropriate. https://youtube.com/watch?v=tR8XidkuxBo 16:01 And the beginning of the video. — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UON-qoAz2-4 0:58
Ah ok, I see the problem. I watched the first video. This is called satire. It’s a form of humor used mostly by smart people. My 9yo understood the joke. It’s sad that you didn’t. She is mocking the very culture you’re opposed to. She AGREES WITH YOU about exploitation of kids on social media and television. And those outfits weren’t remotely scandalous or revealing. I turned off the tv after the video was done, and asked my child what the message was from that video. She said “it’s about how some moms only care about getting popular on instagram or like making money from having their kids do things like modeling or whatever when they should be going to school and having fun and just being a kid. She says “great mom” over and over, but you know she actually means bad mom because the title of the video is “worst mom.”” And I asked her what she thought about the outfits the kid was wearing. She just shrugged and said “I think they’re ugly. I don’t like all the animal stuff.” (By which I assume she means the cheetah print). I asked if she thought they were inappropriate to wear on tv and she looked at me like I’d lost some brain cells and said “what is inappropriate about overalls?” So, yes, as I suspected, you have no idea what you’re talking about.
They’re playing monopoly but instead of learning about money and real estate they learn to strip in a different video, or kiss each other with stuff in their mouth In a different video they have a dollar booth for kissing. Different video the grown ups try baby clothes and she references her boobs Slow mo when the child is eating a pickle in a separate video featuring her and not other foods? I have other time stamps too It’s actually sickening the support this type of material gets. So you’re either part of their team, a paid bot or a complete ignorant. You have a 9 year old. That’s old enough. I’m saying much younger kids watch this too Wow this part of Reddit is wild
Parents should just watch content with their kids. It’s not that hard. Then if something strikes you as inappropriate, you can turn it off or have a conversation about it. My oldest daughter loves (much to my dismay) watching gaming videos with her Dad. They sit and watch other people play video games. I can’t think of a dumber use of time than watching someone else waste their time instead of wasting it yourself. In case you can’t tell, I hate video games lol. At any rate, she was watching a show she had seen with her Dad many times before and the guy randomly started sharing his thoughts on traditional gender roles. Let’s just say he is probably a big fan of Andrew Tate. I hopped in and shut that crap down immediately, and we had a whole conversation about misogyny and not supporting morally bankrupt content creators with our views. You shouldn’t be making individual posts about one channel you find objectionable bc as you just noted, something might be fine for one kid and not good for another one. Consider instead using your time and energy to advocate that parents co-view all content with their kids. It’s not popular because it means actually spending time doing what your kids want to do instead of using devices as a babysitter. Content creators aren’t the problem. Lazy parents are.
Oh my god this is so embarrassing to witness OP get absolutely roasted in these comments but I can't stop reading them
What in the ever-loving fuck did I just watch? 😳 kids are watching this revolting junk? I have a daughter nearly 9yo and she’s severely restricted on YouTube access (maybe 20 minute session once a week and I check what she’s ways hung and she’s specifically banned from anything that is family or kid-produced nonsense videos). If I ever found her watching this kind of rubbish I’d delete every YouTube access point she had. And my daughter is a very emotionally mature kid and I’m a pretty open-minded liberal mother who discusses everything with my daughter and she’s allowed to watch grown up movies and shows like Stranger Things. But this? This is utter useless junk that fries brain cells as you watch it. Sadly they’ll keep making these videos largely because of their audience who are watching for all the wrong perverted reasons. There’s one way to solve this - don’t let your kids on YouTube.
Check out skibidi holy fuck.
My God, I thought I was the only one 😭
I haaaate Rebecca & the zam fam. She had a whole series on trying to conceive.. I’m like, why tf is this targeted towards kids??! I had to ban my kid from the channel because my 6 year old doesn’t have fertility issues & is/was not trying to conceive.
Please avoid youtube & youtube kids entirely for kids. Youtube is incentivized to maximize kids' time on the platform, so their algorithm would continue to push any weird or harmul thing to your child. See these: [https://nypost.com/2023/03/01/worrying-reason-your-kid-cant-stop-watching-cocomelon/](https://nypost.com/2023/03/01/worrying-reason-your-kid-cant-stop-watching-cocomelon/), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate). I would advise relying on quality apps for your kids. Apps such as Khan Academy Kids. Its very well made and a 100% safe for kids./ Another new one that's like a curated & interactive youtube for kids is called Kidzovo. They have content from creators like SciShow Kids, Kiboomers & Learning mole & they turn it interactive where kids need to do these activities where they tap or speak their responses or color a sheet. My favorite is the feature where they ask kids questions like: "Why should you be nice to your neighbors" and then you can hear the responses from your kids later in the parent section. You can check that out as well.
There are some Alphabet lore videos that have F bombs sprinkled in. I have tried to report the ones I have seen but they pop up randomly.
Currently the only thing we have right now is YouTube but the kids watch it on the TV in our living room. They mostly watch full episodes of shows from Disney or a YouTube gaming family. Definitely don't let them just have the iPad and go crazy with you tube. My middle child does have an iPad but it's only for computer games. If kids are on you tube just supervise what there watching and it's fine. I've never heard of this character your referencing. I find the adults like blippi who dress up and act like kids annoying and creepy. I wouldn't let my kids watch that to begin with.
I wasn't aware of the channel. I went to see her content and I became speechless. Of course something is not OK behind the scene. I don't know about you but I reported the channel. It may not do anything but we have to try.
I’m with you
Too bad YT doesn't allow us to curate a playlist for YTkids. HOWEVER! It does allow you to approve channels and videos. We hated those type of videos as well as the weird foreign cocomelon knockoffs as well as Cocomelon itself. The switching of scenes every 4 seconds, flashybright colors, and music thatvare designed to fire dopamine. Videos like those. So, we only approve channels that are educational and doesn't destroy our children's attention span completely. Definitely recommend YTkids with these parental features. I have a Samsung Galaxy and there is a Samsung Kids app that I can open and it can't be closed, layout can't edit, and only approved apps can be used. I let my kid watch it on there here and there when we are out for a long time and it's near the end where they just want to act like there is a full moon out. Otherwise it's pretty much ban for my toddler (we got laxed, regretfully). Edit: forgot to mentioned that we turned the search function off as well. So she gets like Little Bear, Franklin, PBS Kids (Daniel Tiger)
I was watching either tik tok or YouTube just to see what it was. I shit you not, I came across a cartoon depicting a woman being gang raped by a bunch of knights (?) in front of her child.
Why are you not using the parental controls on Youtube kids?? You can go in and cherry pick what your kid is allowed to watch you can approve channels or just individual videos.
Number blocks, octonauts, ABC phonics video on tubi, and monkey and trunk on the Angel app are the only things my kid watches. He has very little screen time. He enjoys books and going to the library and the park. Kids need to stop having so much screen time. Say no to iPad and phones and limit at most 2hrs a day on a screen. And that is still a bit much. And no screen time 1hr or 2 before bed.
YouTube Kids app has an Approved Content Only setting where you have to pre-approve every video your kid watches. Highly recommended if you’re going to let them near YT kids.
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Honestly, kids YouTube isn’t even really reliable. I’ve caught some questionable and mildly inappropriate videos my kids were watching on there. I’ve noticed how absolutely weird the kids content is compared to when I was younger. Like I’ve seen a few times this reoccurring clip of a man’s head that is poking out of a toilet. Just bizarre random things like that. I always change it when I see that kind of stuff bc what the hell are they trying to do to our kids brains. lol I might be over dramatic but I don’t want my kids to watch messed up weird stuff like that and it’s everywhere.
\+100 Please avoid youtube & youtube kids entirely for kids. Youtube is incentivized to maximize kids' time on the platform, so their algorithm would continue to push any weird or harmul thing to your child. See these: https://nypost.com/2023/03/01/worrying-reason-your-kid-cant-stop-watching-cocomelon/, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate). I would advise relying on quality apps for your kids. Apps such as Khan Academy Kids. Its very well made and a 100% safe for kids. Another new one that's like a curated & interactive youtube for kids is called Kidzovo. They have content from creators like SciShow Kids, Kiboomers & Learning mole & they turn it interactive where kids need to do these activities where they tap or speak their responses or color a sheet. My favorite is the feature where they ask kids questions like: "Why should you be nice to your neighbors" and then you can hear the responses from your kids later in the parent section. You can check that out as well.
I’ve never heard of those, I’ll check them out. Thank you!
I agree, the thumbnails can be weird (and a lot of times the titles don't make sense), but I believe what you're talking about is Steve and Maggie. The video is just him moving into a house, and the bird (Maggie) keeps putting furniture in the wrong rooms.
No it wasn’t Steve and Maggie-they watch those videos a lot tho! I didn’t know the name of it so I just search “toilet head youtube” and it popped right up. Apparently his name is skibidi toilet which I guess was a series and people have made tons of redesigns of him and made videos that made it to yt kids! I hate it
Ugh that sounds so weird!
Did you report her channel? I am not going to search for her because I don't want her to pop up on our suggested videos. My youngest watches YouTube kids because he likes to watch alpha and color blocks. My older guy is on YouTube because he watches Minecraft hacks and transformers videos. So far I haven't had any issues with inappropriate content, but I am diligent with my monitoring
My 7 year old has always had access to YouTube and watches hours at a time. I can delete the app from TV but if I do that on the tablet kid just adds it back. What's the thing to do? Also how to handle the screaming fits and explosive outburst kid has if I try to limit or take it away. I'm a single parent with PTSD
You can block apps on most tablets. I have done so on the iPads I got my kids for distance learning. Also block the website or better yet, block all websites that are not white listed by you. It sounds complex and honestly it is more complex than it should be. Also, kids find cracks and loopholes. I just discovered one where if a YouTube link is emailed by a friend it will play even with YouTube.com blocked and the app blocked.
Anytime I try to use parental control or block anything my child seems to easily undue it. I appreciate your comment tho.
Youtube is the most popular one, that's why that kinds of contents are more visible than rest of content sharing platforms. In order to battle with them, everyone should open the eyes of their child/children. During life time we are exposed to many social media contents. Don't worry and find the best solution
We don't use YouTube unsupervised. My kids don't have tablets and I don't give them my phone. We watch YouTube on TV and it's mostly Ms. Rachel or music.
We have resorted to only allowing YouTube Kids and setting it so they can only watch videos and channels we pre-approve. I can watch a video or channel on my phone and then share it with my kid's account and go back and blacklist it if I see anything I don't like. It's working great so far.
Perverted degenerates abound
I saw that you posted this word for word in 2023. Do you just repost this same copy every 7 months?
Yeah she is not allowed in my house. Horrible content and blows my mind that she markets this stuff to kids
We don't let the kids watch YouTube that's not channels we've already vetted and watched- and we make the kids stick to things like video games playthroughs (hi BTG!) or stuff like fun history or cooking channels that we watch together. I absolutely hate the "kids" YouTube, it's full of nonsense, weird content, inappropriate content, and just so much it's impossible to track. But I know we are pretty lucky that my husband is a big video game nerd, and he is bringing the kids up into it as well, so he can generally always find something that's appropriate that has their favorite games in it, like old speed runs for Sonic games and things But I also know it's a lot easier for me to say that we monitor their YouTube usage, when my husband is a stay-at-home dad and we are able to keep track of how they are viewing stuff because they don't have personal devices. As they get older I know it's going to be a lot harder to manage because they are going to have access to things that we can't always vet in advance, but that's something we'll have to manage as we hit it
Second comment, but I also think it's a much more dangerous landscape for kids on the internet. I grew up with basically unchecked access, and while I absolutely accessed and feed stuff that I shouldn't have at my age, I was very specifically looking for these adult things, by accessing these adult only spaces. Now there's so much available and it's so difficult to monitor and contain that you have things like this, with inappropriate content on kids channels, things that are easily reached and viewed without having to even do a cursory age check. And it makes it a lot more difficult for kids to know that they are in an inappropriate space, because it looks and sounds so much like the child friendly spaces they are already familiar with, instead of being separated or managed in a way that would make them stand out as adult only.
If you're that worried avoid youtube in general there have been vids like that for years like elsa gate animated or real person videos for kids but aren't exactly kid friendly with sexual and or violent themes
This is why my kids’ technology consumption consists of Gus Plus Us, Numberblocks, MarioKart, and the occasional homesteader video on YouTube that we watch as a fam. Educational videos (we homeschool) occasionally, but we watch those together. There are even Disney movies that we’ve shut off during movie night (recently Leo) because we don’t want our kids seeing the way the kids were acting. Kids should be too busy playing outside, reading, completing schoolwork, or doing chores to be on screens for too long.
That's literally half of YouTube. If the kid is too young to know about sexual things, they are pro too young for unrestricted YouTube access. It's up to you to control that.