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What's wrong with Thomas the tank engine?
by isatty 6y ago
What's wrong with Thomas the tank engine?
- eindiran 6y agoI think it has to do with this sort of issue: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1418668/kids-left-traumatised-after-sick-youtube-clips-showing-peppa-pig-characters-with-knifes-and-guns-appear-on-app-for-children/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1418668/kids-left-traumatised-... For the last few years, there have been complaints that Youtube Kids has issues where the algorithm stumbles onto content using cartoon characters in ways that are disturbing for young kids.
- bluGill 6y agoHours of that instead of the school work they are supposed to do. Plus they run around acting like the naughty diesel 10. Instead of imanginative play.
- closeparen 6y agoDo you think imaginative play is supposed to be from whole cloth? I thought that was half the point of children’s media, to give raw material for children to synthesize into imaginative play.
- bluGill 6y agoMy kids play very different when they are not given media. They can create their own stories. They dig in the mud instead of grabbing some dirt and calling it thomas.
- kfarr 6y agoI loved Thomas as a kid and will let my kids watch it, but if you actually watch the plots they have very odd morals to the stories and are generally male chauvinist. But trains and it's generally harmless IMHO as long as you discuss the shortcomings with your children.