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Is there any evidence that this is different, better or worse, than traditional television?
by beart 7y ago
Is there any evidence that this is different, better or worse, than traditional television?
- xmprt 7y agoContent farms thrive by children's content on YouTube. Something similar could never exist on other curated platforms like TV just as a matter of scale. A content farm can put out 100 ten minute videos of the same type just by swapping out some assets and keywords. At least one of those will get somewhat popular. This is even more devious with MCNs where multiple channels group up but revenue goes to a single entity. If YouTube flags a single channel, it doesn't hurt the entire MCN so you can get around the spam filters that YouTube almost certainly has in place.
- igammarays 7y agoAre you going to wait for evidence that feeding garbage to your kids is bad for them before stopping it?
- m463 7y agoI wonder the same thing. For instance, I suspect a lot of kids do not have proper fear of wild animals, because from television they know animals are friendly, and some can even talk. Additionally, bad guys wear black and have scars, while good guys are clean shaven and wear attractive clothing.
- baroffoos 7y agoKids shows on traditional tv shows have story lines (conflict, resolution), educational content (numbers, letters, basic math), some level of basic logic/moral dilemmas. And at the very least they didn't have disturbing violent and sexual content that you get from kids youtube.