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Children's television didn't include a nearly endless flood of horrifying and sometimes trauma-inducing autogenerated content that (illegally) leverages pop cul

by sli 7y ago

Children's television didn't include a nearly endless flood of horrifying and sometimes trauma-inducing autogenerated content that (illegally) leverages pop culture and otherwise kid-friendly characters, all just to push as many ads as possible into kids' faces. There's always been problematic or otherwise weird children's content, and content that was mostly just an ad (80s cartoons were bad about that), but some of the stuff you can find on YouTube is in a whole new class of questionable. At least some of those 80s toy commercial cartoons were still entertaining in some way.

solotronics 7y ago
Exactly, it's unconstrained algo generated content that just seeks out the weirdest stuff that will capture a childs attention. It has been discussed on here before and it is super creepy. In 10 years people will be looking back at this in shock that it happened and there will be downstream affects on the kids exposed to it. It's literally programming weird stuff into the psyche of these young children.
- naravara 7y ago
  >In 10 years people will be looking back at this in shock that it happened and there will be downstream affects on the kids exposed to it. It's literally programming weird stuff into the psyche of these young children. ~20 years ago people were deeply concerned about the impact and influence that sophisticated television and radio advertising campaigns were having on people, culture, and the economy. It's gotten so bad now that we seem to have forgotten about how creeped out people were about the comparatively tame advertising through broadcast media. It's not safe to assume the world will march forward to be better or more moral as time goes on. We're just as likely to regress as progress, and the myth that progress is a passive endeavor makes it more likely that we won't.
  - PeterStuer 7y ago
    Clearly their worries were completely unfounded given how sophisticated, nuanced, literate, economically sound and overall well mannered the current electorate behaves.
- dahfizz 7y ago
  People have said the same exact thing about every kind of media ever invented. Books, magazines, television, music, and now YouTube. Do you have anything to actually substantiatiate your claims?

by sli 7y ago

solotronics 7y ago

Exactly, it's unconstrained algo generated content that just seeks out the weirdest stuff that will capture a childs attention. It has been discussed on here before and it is super creepy. In 10 years people will be looking back at this in shock that it happened and there will be downstream affects on the kids exposed to it. It's literally programming weird stuff into the psyche of these young children.

naravara 7y ago
>In 10 years people will be looking back at this in shock that it happened and there will be downstream affects on the kids exposed to it. It's literally programming weird stuff into the psyche of these young children. ~20 years ago people were deeply concerned about the impact and influence that sophisticated television and radio advertising campaigns were having on people, culture, and the economy. It's gotten so bad now that we seem to have forgotten about how creeped out people were about the comparatively tame advertising through broadcast media. It's not safe to assume the world will march forward to be better or more moral as time goes on. We're just as likely to regress as progress, and the myth that progress is a passive endeavor makes it more likely that we won't.
- PeterStuer 7y ago
  Clearly their worries were completely unfounded given how sophisticated, nuanced, literate, economically sound and overall well mannered the current electorate behaves.
dahfizz 7y ago
People have said the same exact thing about every kind of media ever invented. Books, magazines, television, music, and now YouTube. Do you have anything to actually substantiatiate your claims?