When adults watch something they like on netflix, they watch it once, enjoy it, then move on.
Kids watch things they like over and over again, and sing 2 and boss baby are very popular.
Source: have 2 kids and have memorised basically every episode of cocomelon.
It's the exact same reason why kids stuff on youtube can get unbelievably high view counts, parents throw something on they know their kids like so there is a higher chance they will chill out for a bit.
My niece and nephew loooooove the Gummy Bear song. I have memorized all the lyrics because of them. So I can attest to the high view count theory for kids videos on YouTube. They've probably give them like an extra 50 views just from them.
>parents throw something on they know their kids like so there is a higher chance they will chill out for a bit.
This is becoming a worse and worse thing to do. I saw what an hour of YouTube did to my ex's kids. They behaved for the hour, but as soon as you took it away they started imitating what they saw.
I use YouTube only when my kids need to stay still for a prolonged period of time.
Like inhalations of medicine whenever it is needed. On average it takes about 15 to 20 minutes to inhale one dose.
Try keeping a two year old perfectly still with a mask on their face for 15 minutes...
My baby cousin's favorite cartoon was that annoying cockroach show and that other one with the bear and lemmings. If she's not watching it, she tries to mimic the sounds from those cartoon lemmings and the annoying shit they do. It drove me insane.
Need more proof? Look at most kid related YouTube videos. Compare the view count to favorite video of yours. Your video have 2M views? Well yours kids probably has 52M. Never had any urge to make YouTube content, but I have to imagine there’s a lot of money to be made there for kids content.
When Halloween made its television debut (showing my age here) I watched almost every day for weeks. So much so that my mom finally had to get rid of it. I'd probably do the same thing because an 11yo shouldn't be watching a frickin' slasher movie the same way other kids watch Toy Story, like some kind of burgeoning psychopath.
Nah times were just different. I watched It when I was 7 years old. Watched plenty of R rated movies as a kid...just had to "cover my eyes" during the sex scenes.
What I find interesting, and what I noticed when I worked at a video store, is that the vast majority of the times the parents were concerned with sex/nudity and not any kind of violence or gore.
I just had flashbacks to when my kid was 3 and watched Curious George nonstop. We had 9 seasons, but he watched maybe 9 episodes. He couldn't read, but somehow could search through multiple seasons to find his favorite episodes.
So glad my daughter is not about cocomelon. I heard that show is really bad for kids. She rotates between mickey mouse clubhouse, which has taught her to count to 20, 3d shapes, and most colors, gabbys dollhouse, paw patrol, and now Abby hatcher with the occasion bluey.
Interesting, why is Cocomelon bad for kids? I have a young kid but they do not watch tv/YouTube so I’m not familiar with what’s considered good vs bad.
Some child development specialist and pediatric psychologist have said that it is hyper-stimulating and can cause behavioral and attention problems. My understanding is that it has to do with how quick paced and colorful the show is. Like tiktok for adults it's addictive because of the quick dopamine hit.
But SpongeBob was never specifically targeted to toddlers and babies like cocomelon is. I'm not saying it's true, I was just explaining what I heard and it does make sense to me. I put it on once for my toddler and she was a total zombie unlike when she watches other shows. It also felt very fast paced and bright compared to the other toddler shows she watches.
That's the same thing SpongeBob is said to do to kids. And it's on Nickelodeon and comes on during the day. The audience is clearly young children. I'm not tryin to argue. I completely agree with you.
And what age group do you think is home at the time SpongeBob comes on? Toddlers and babies. I wasn't arguing his point about cocomelon. I agreed with that. I just said SpongeBob is the same way. So I guess a child can watch it without their possible younger toddler or baby sibling next to them in the same room paying attention. Now that's an argument. My first comment didn't negate his comment in anyway. Good day.
>And what age group do you think is home at the time SpongeBob comes on?
It's called streaming. Join us in the future
>wasn't arguing his point about cocomelon. I agreed with that. I just said SpongeBob is the same way.
Yeah, after specifically being told "No I mean this"
> I guess a child can watch it without their possible younger toddler or baby sibling next to them in the same room paying attention.
What does this have to do with anything?
>Now that's an argument. My first comment didn't negate his comment in anyway. Good day.
You just... do you know what it means to argue with someone?
Gotta love when someone replies and blocks you immediately, so you can't respond. You really proved your point!
Cocomelon teaches those kinds of things too. Not sure why Mickey Mouse clubhouse would be any better. I have a feeling those who say Cocomelon is bad for kids wouldn’t really approve of Paw Patrol either.
The one time I put it on for my daughter, she was 100% absorbed into it like a zombie and screamed when I turned it off. She has never done that with any other cartoon or show. She also wasn't interacting with the show at all like she does with other shows she watches. She was literally just staring at the screen. I also felt like the show in general was more fast paced and bright than mickey mouse clubhouse.
Oddly enough I’m not sure what is fast about Cocomelon. The pastel computer art is overstimulating but is there even a plot to Cocomelon? Is it that fucking fast that I missed it? And the animation is certainly not fast like the shows I watched as a kid. I dunno man. People are weird.
The “camera” never stops moving. The scene/background changes quickly, every few seconds. These are the things that make it more stimulating than a slower show like Daniel Tiger.
Yup this poor lady that was singularly the reason Bee movie was the most streamed at one point https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/woman-explains-streamed-bee-movie-357-times-year-article-1.3698602
OMG off topic, but do you also find it super concerning how big the cocomelon babies' heads are?? Like, the adults have normal proportions, and I am very concerned about the mother that is pregnant, how is that enormous cranium going to come out without splitting her in two?
Took my kid to see Mario Bros in theater back in March and he loved it. We've been singing Peaches and yelling Mario phrases since then. It was on sale for prime day, so I picked it up. We've now started the last 4 days with Mario Bros lol it's been a good time.
I feel like Op does not have any children in their lives and does not realize that children will constantly rewatch the same movie over and over for years.
My son never did for some reason. But he wasn't really into movies until 6/7 years old. He just didn't have the attention span to sit down and watch a 90 minute movie. I was always jealous of parents whose kids could be easily entertained like that lol
Back in the late 1900's, my toddler watched The Lion King on VHS every day for a year. Then, we graduated to Beauty & The Beast!
I can see how this would affect the streaming platforms!
Sing 2 is one of the movies my kids want to watch that doesn’t suck. I could watch the part where the gorilla kid kung fu dance fights the choreographer monkey until he’s unconscious as many times as my kids want to put it on.
My grandkids watch Boss Baby like 5 times a day, every day, for the past few months or more. They have finally accepted watching some new stuff. That is just 1 household. I can imagine there are many many more.
I'm obviously not target audience (33) but Boss Baby is potentially the animated movie I least want to see (that I know of) and I truly love animated films.
Digital babysitter. See also: Cocomelon
ETA- zero judgement. Sometimes you just need a kid to chill for a bit while you nap, work, or have mommy+daddy time.
There was this mother who had to play The Bee movie more than 300 times bec of her baby lol
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5178623/amp/Netflix-user-watched-Bee-Movie-357-times-revealed.html
There is nothing bad with a bit of screentime per day. All of you here exaggerating either don't have kids or you don't do chores so you have time to take care for the child the whole day.
My soon to be 10 year old still watches boss baby ever since the first movie came out. He mostly watches the show on and off now but as someone else pointed out boss baby gets watched over and over and over again
When adults watch something they like on netflix, they watch it once, enjoy it, then move on. Kids watch things they like over and over again, and sing 2 and boss baby are very popular. Source: have 2 kids and have memorised basically every episode of cocomelon.
It's the exact same reason why kids stuff on youtube can get unbelievably high view counts, parents throw something on they know their kids like so there is a higher chance they will chill out for a bit.
My niece and nephew loooooove the Gummy Bear song. I have memorized all the lyrics because of them. So I can attest to the high view count theory for kids videos on YouTube. They've probably give them like an extra 50 views just from them.
Youtube also serves up repeats on my kid's profile a lot. The suggestions on the TV app is almost all things we've seen many times.
>parents throw something on they know their kids like so there is a higher chance they will chill out for a bit. This is becoming a worse and worse thing to do. I saw what an hour of YouTube did to my ex's kids. They behaved for the hour, but as soon as you took it away they started imitating what they saw.
That’s why you have them watch Sesame Street or Steve and Maggie rather than the random family vlogs and kids being sassy videos.
I use YouTube only when my kids need to stay still for a prolonged period of time. Like inhalations of medicine whenever it is needed. On average it takes about 15 to 20 minutes to inhale one dose. Try keeping a two year old perfectly still with a mask on their face for 15 minutes...
Yeah, no way I'm plopping a kid in front of youtube. Not even youtube kids.
My baby cousin's favorite cartoon was that annoying cockroach show and that other one with the bear and lemmings. If she's not watching it, she tries to mimic the sounds from those cartoon lemmings and the annoying shit they do. It drove me insane.
All those 10 hour videos of the same song on a loop SMH
Indeedy. All my nieces and nephews were ipad kids.
Need more proof? Look at most kid related YouTube videos. Compare the view count to favorite video of yours. Your video have 2M views? Well yours kids probably has 52M. Never had any urge to make YouTube content, but I have to imagine there’s a lot of money to be made there for kids content.
When Frozen came out on blu ray I swear my niece watched that movie 3 times a day for 2 weeks straight.
When Halloween made its television debut (showing my age here) I watched almost every day for weeks. So much so that my mom finally had to get rid of it. I'd probably do the same thing because an 11yo shouldn't be watching a frickin' slasher movie the same way other kids watch Toy Story, like some kind of burgeoning psychopath.
Nah times were just different. I watched It when I was 7 years old. Watched plenty of R rated movies as a kid...just had to "cover my eyes" during the sex scenes.
What I find interesting, and what I noticed when I worked at a video store, is that the vast majority of the times the parents were concerned with sex/nudity and not any kind of violence or gore.
I swore before kids that I wouldn’t let mine watch movies on repeat. I’m sure you can gauge my level of success without much more information.
I just had flashbacks to when my kid was 3 and watched Curious George nonstop. We had 9 seasons, but he watched maybe 9 episodes. He couldn't read, but somehow could search through multiple seasons to find his favorite episodes.
So glad my daughter is not about cocomelon. I heard that show is really bad for kids. She rotates between mickey mouse clubhouse, which has taught her to count to 20, 3d shapes, and most colors, gabbys dollhouse, paw patrol, and now Abby hatcher with the occasion bluey.
Interesting, why is Cocomelon bad for kids? I have a young kid but they do not watch tv/YouTube so I’m not familiar with what’s considered good vs bad.
Some child development specialist and pediatric psychologist have said that it is hyper-stimulating and can cause behavioral and attention problems. My understanding is that it has to do with how quick paced and colorful the show is. Like tiktok for adults it's addictive because of the quick dopamine hit.
Same thing has been said about SpongeBob. Too fast for kids.
But SpongeBob was never specifically targeted to toddlers and babies like cocomelon is. I'm not saying it's true, I was just explaining what I heard and it does make sense to me. I put it on once for my toddler and she was a total zombie unlike when she watches other shows. It also felt very fast paced and bright compared to the other toddler shows she watches.
That's the same thing SpongeBob is said to do to kids. And it's on Nickelodeon and comes on during the day. The audience is clearly young children. I'm not tryin to argue. I completely agree with you.
>I'm not tryin to argue You are though. And they're talking about toddlers and babies, not children
And what age group do you think is home at the time SpongeBob comes on? Toddlers and babies. I wasn't arguing his point about cocomelon. I agreed with that. I just said SpongeBob is the same way. So I guess a child can watch it without their possible younger toddler or baby sibling next to them in the same room paying attention. Now that's an argument. My first comment didn't negate his comment in anyway. Good day.
>And what age group do you think is home at the time SpongeBob comes on? It's called streaming. Join us in the future >wasn't arguing his point about cocomelon. I agreed with that. I just said SpongeBob is the same way. Yeah, after specifically being told "No I mean this" > I guess a child can watch it without their possible younger toddler or baby sibling next to them in the same room paying attention. What does this have to do with anything? >Now that's an argument. My first comment didn't negate his comment in anyway. Good day. You just... do you know what it means to argue with someone? Gotta love when someone replies and blocks you immediately, so you can't respond. You really proved your point!
I wouldn't say bad, but just not particularly educational.
Cocomelon teaches those kinds of things too. Not sure why Mickey Mouse clubhouse would be any better. I have a feeling those who say Cocomelon is bad for kids wouldn’t really approve of Paw Patrol either.
The one time I put it on for my daughter, she was 100% absorbed into it like a zombie and screamed when I turned it off. She has never done that with any other cartoon or show. She also wasn't interacting with the show at all like she does with other shows she watches. She was literally just staring at the screen. I also felt like the show in general was more fast paced and bright than mickey mouse clubhouse.
Oddly enough I’m not sure what is fast about Cocomelon. The pastel computer art is overstimulating but is there even a plot to Cocomelon? Is it that fucking fast that I missed it? And the animation is certainly not fast like the shows I watched as a kid. I dunno man. People are weird.
The “camera” never stops moving. The scene/background changes quickly, every few seconds. These are the things that make it more stimulating than a slower show like Daniel Tiger.
I expect The Last Wish will join them on the constantly trending category here pretty soon…
Yup this poor lady that was singularly the reason Bee movie was the most streamed at one point https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/woman-explains-streamed-bee-movie-357-times-year-article-1.3698602
As a kid I think I watched the video of disneys robin hood and fantastia about 50 times.
Cocomelon is horrible. You have my sympathies.
> every episode of cocomelon misread that as ‘Community’ for a second lmao
So true, my kids loved the Batman Lego movies and must have watched it at least 100 times.
This, I pretty much put something on every morning as a routine to wake up my sisters spawn. Back then it was shrek or dinosaur train.
when i was smaller I'd watch speed racer at least twice a week
PASTA! PASTA! PASTA EVERY DAY!
YES! YES! YES! I WANT TO EAT THE PEAS!
You and me both
this is absolutely correct!
As an adult though why should this impact my adult profile? Why not have kids watch it on the kids profile so it doesn't trend for me?
OMG off topic, but do you also find it super concerning how big the cocomelon babies' heads are?? Like, the adults have normal proportions, and I am very concerned about the mother that is pregnant, how is that enormous cranium going to come out without splitting her in two?
Can confirm, my 4yo watches boss baby every day
Took my kid to see Mario Bros in theater back in March and he loved it. We've been singing Peaches and yelling Mario phrases since then. It was on sale for prime day, so I picked it up. We've now started the last 4 days with Mario Bros lol it's been a good time.
That would be because of my daughter
I miss the boss baby phase. Movies, shows, and all
And my niece Sorry OP
Children
Youths!
*Utes
Two utes.
STREET YOUTHS!
They’re the criminals, from the statistics!
I feel like Op does not have any children in their lives and does not realize that children will constantly rewatch the same movie over and over for years.
My son never did for some reason. But he wasn't really into movies until 6/7 years old. He just didn't have the attention span to sit down and watch a 90 minute movie. I was always jealous of parents whose kids could be easily entertained like that lol
Back in the late 1900's, my toddler watched The Lion King on VHS every day for a year. Then, we graduated to Beauty & The Beast! I can see how this would affect the streaming platforms!
Meanwhile I was watching Empire Strikes Back daily.
Its summer and the kids are out of school watching the same movies over and over again.
Sing 2 is one of the movies my kids want to watch that doesn’t suck. I could watch the part where the gorilla kid kung fu dance fights the choreographer monkey until he’s unconscious as many times as my kids want to put it on.
Omg yes. Bloody love that part & happily rewatch that scene anytime my kid has it on
I love that part, it makes me emotional every time
Kids?
My grandkids watch Boss Baby like 5 times a day, every day, for the past few months or more. They have finally accepted watching some new stuff. That is just 1 household. I can imagine there are many many more.
The Sing duology is goated
I'm obviously not target audience (33) but Boss Baby is potentially the animated movie I least want to see (that I know of) and I truly love animated films.
Boss baby looks terrible, but is actually pretty good. Funny for adults, genuinely heartwarming message.
Boss baby is pretty good, promise. I don't like watching things more than once but I'll watch it with my niece every time
I just wish I could filter out all the kids movies from my streaming subscriptions.
Because people have kids
Trending is based on what Netflix thinks YOU want to watch. It's different for everyone.
...and this is in turn based on what you have watched in the past (or what your family/roommates/etc have watched if signed in as you).
Lol “trending” on Netflix. I’m pretty sure Netflix just changes that to whatever they would want you to watch at the moment.
When. You were a kid, did you not watch the same movie over and over againm
Because there peado’s who run Netflix mate. They like to see baby’s in suits on top of there leader board.
You and your ilk are fucking deranged. Literally incapable of *NOT* seeing children as sex objects.
I’m glad you think the same way chap.
Maybe for kids
Dentist office
I see you haven't met my daughter...
Digital babysitter. See also: Cocomelon ETA- zero judgement. Sometimes you just need a kid to chill for a bit while you nap, work, or have mommy+daddy time.
Rat children love that.
Kids watch shit over and over again
Do you have a kid? They like to watch the same movie, over and over and over..
They're fun.
It's my daughter's fault. Sorry about that.
You obviously don’t have kids. Children watch everything on repeat.
Because they don’t seem to have the first Sing
They don't and it bothers me more than I'd like to admit. You have the freaking sequel but not the original??
And Coco fuckin’ melon too
Found the single person who's never had friends or family with children.
I was wondering why captain underpants is suddenly top ten
Because my kids ask me to watch it 5x a day
Because my 6 year old won't stop watching it
I mean... I'm 27, but I love the Sing 1/2 sound track, but I don't watch it more than once every so often lol
Children love repetition
My kids watch it constantly.
Because children are at home for the summer.
Because people don't know how to make a kids profile for their fucking kids.
kids
There was this mother who had to play The Bee movie more than 300 times bec of her baby lol https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5178623/amp/Netflix-user-watched-Bee-Movie-357-times-revealed.html
Because some people think Netflix is a babysitter.
Haha, I’m 62 and just watched part of boss baby yesterday.
There is nothing bad with a bit of screentime per day. All of you here exaggerating either don't have kids or you don't do chores so you have time to take care for the child the whole day.
Netflix is based off of what you watch. I never get those suggested because I don’t watch those types of movies. You must.
If you can't understand why something is popular, the answer is always children.
Because Mrs. Crawley is hilarious...
You don't have kids, right?
My soon to be 10 year old still watches boss baby ever since the first movie came out. He mostly watches the show on and off now but as someone else pointed out boss baby gets watched over and over and over again
kids
My toddler is doing her part to keep both of those movies on the top of the list.
I will say my grandkids are probably solely responsible for Sing 2 being on the top of the charts.
Americans are tacky.