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Well ten years ago kids were mindlessly watching cartoons on TV, which probably had just as much advetisement. The main difference with YouTube, I figure, is th

by briga 8y ago

Well ten years ago kids were mindlessly watching cartoons on TV, which probably had just as much advetisement. The main difference with YouTube, I figure, is that the money is mainly going to content creators rather than TV executives. On the other hand, the recommended video feed is something akin to heroin for the brain, so giving kids unbridled access to YouTube is probably not the best parenting strategy

preommr 8y ago
Kids will always mindlessly watch stuff but it's about what they're watching. I am on the fence about ad heavy shows, but that's not what I am talking about when I say that a lot of these shows are disturbing. I am assuming you've never watched an elsagate video because it's like a fever dream. I know old cartoons like ren and stimpy were strange, but these videos are just... creepy. They'll show things like drinking, taking drugs through needles, all kinds of weird sexual stuff in a way that's really disturbing. You just have to watch it see what I mean. And there's a lot of this disturbing content that seems to mainly target kids on youtube.
godot 8y ago
The main difference is not just the money going to content creators. Like preommr said, the real main difference is all the creepy stuff that's on Youtube that you don't normally see as an adult on your YT account recommended videos/related videos, but that kids see because things are targeted at them. There's some real creepy scary stuff out there. TV back in the days, even if kids watch them obsessively, at least don't have "dangerous" stuff like that. They were curated by reasonable people working at the networks, not algorithms. I will never give my kid unbridled access to YT. When she's old enough to watch videos, I would consider downloading specific content from YT filtered by myself, for offline viewing.

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Well ten years ago kids were mindlessly watching cartoons on TV, which probably had just as much advetisement. The main difference with YouTube, I figure, is th

by briga 8y ago

preommr 8y ago
Kids will always mindlessly watch stuff but it's about what they're watching. I am on the fence about ad heavy shows, but that's not what I am talking about when I say that a lot of these shows are disturbing. I am assuming you've never watched an elsagate video because it's like a fever dream. I know old cartoons like ren and stimpy were strange, but these videos are just... creepy. They'll show things like drinking, taking drugs through needles, all kinds of weird sexual stuff in a way that's really disturbing. You just have to watch it see what I mean. And there's a lot of this disturbing content that seems to mainly target kids on youtube.
godot 8y ago
The main difference is not just the money going to content creators. Like preommr said, the real main difference is all the creepy stuff that's on Youtube that you don't normally see as an adult on your YT account recommended videos/related videos, but that kids see because things are targeted at them. There's some real creepy scary stuff out there. TV back in the days, even if kids watch them obsessively, at least don't have "dangerous" stuff like that. They were curated by reasonable people working at the networks, not algorithms. I will never give my kid unbridled access to YT. When she's old enough to watch videos, I would consider downloading specific content from YT filtered by myself, for offline viewing.