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> If I were to see my 13 (or older) children watching a 7 year old unwrapping toys, I think I would go to the psychiatrist just to check them out. Oh, 13 years

> If I were to see my 13 (or older) children watching a 7 year old unwrapping toys, I think I would go to the psychiatrist just to check them out. Oh, 13 years is nothing... watching is nothing.... if I ever meet an adult who makes videos aimed at kids, where they're either saying nothing, or infantilizing themselves as extremely as possible, I have so many questions to ask them, and already one answer I reject beforehand, and that's "money through advertisements shown to small children". Speaking of that, we'll never know how many million dollars YouTube made (or god forbid is still making) on ads on ElsaGate-type videos. It's not like that would be hard to find out for them in one week, and it's not like it couldn't be argued to be a sound investment in PR to donate some or all of that ill-gotten money to charities that help with child abuse or trauma. But I guess it's even better PR-wise to just change the subject and never bring it up again, as they kinda did last year.

grecy 8y ago
> If I ever meet an adult who makes videos aimed at kids ... or infantilizing themselves as extremely as possible, I have so many questions to ask them I take it you're not from Australia? Have you heard of The Wiggles? [1] Wikipedia says they earned $AUD 49 million in 2009 alone Or Hi-5? [2] Wikipedia says $AUD 18 million in 2009 alone. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiggles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiggles [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-5_(Australian_band) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-5_(Australian_band)
- PavlovsCat 8y ago
  I see a difference between infantilizing oneself and being "kid-friendly". Just like I wouldn't think of Sesame Street as adults infantilizing themselves. Take people like jackseptic and others with their "floundering around while being hyper" stuff. That's what I mean with infantilizing oneself in a way that harms development and is not kid-friendly at all. "But kids like it". That's where the concept of being mature comes in. Adults cannot excuse what they are doing by what kids supposedly like. By that logic, it'd be better to give kids sweets than actual food. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=learn+colors+transformation https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=learn+colors+tr... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unbox+learn+colors https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unbox+learn+col... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=minecraft+monster+school https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=minecraft+monst... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pop+ballon+baby https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pop+ballon+baby I don't even have to try, ElsaGate is going strong as ever. Couldn't find you any live action extreme stuff with adults in diapers and all that, but I wouldn't be surpised if even some of that is still around. Thanks to Youtube and Disney calling it "over" before it could gain the mainstream traction it absolutely still warrants. These unmarked mass graves, they will have to be talked about, make no mistake. Decades of normalization that lead up to this will have to be thrown out, too.

grecy 8y ago

> If I ever meet an adult who makes videos aimed at kids ... or infantilizing themselves as extremely as possible, I have so many questions to ask them I take it you're not from Australia? Have you heard of The Wiggles? [1] Wikipedia says they earned $AUD 49 million in 2009 alone Or Hi-5? [2] Wikipedia says $AUD 18 million in 2009 alone. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiggles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiggles [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-5_(Australian_band) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-5_(Australian_band)

PavlovsCat 8y ago
I see a difference between infantilizing oneself and being "kid-friendly". Just like I wouldn't think of Sesame Street as adults infantilizing themselves. Take people like jackseptic and others with their "floundering around while being hyper" stuff. That's what I mean with infantilizing oneself in a way that harms development and is not kid-friendly at all. "But kids like it". That's where the concept of being mature comes in. Adults cannot excuse what they are doing by what kids supposedly like. By that logic, it'd be better to give kids sweets than actual food. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=learn+colors+transformation https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=learn+colors+tr... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unbox+learn+colors https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unbox+learn+col... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=minecraft+monster+school https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=minecraft+monst... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pop+ballon+baby https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pop+ballon+baby I don't even have to try, ElsaGate is going strong as ever. Couldn't find you any live action extreme stuff with adults in diapers and all that, but I wouldn't be surpised if even some of that is still around. Thanks to Youtube and Disney calling it "over" before it could gain the mainstream traction it absolutely still warrants. These unmarked mass graves, they will have to be talked about, make no mistake. Decades of normalization that lead up to this will have to be thrown out, too.