4 ms·

My 10 year old daughter and 8 year old son are both deep in love with Minecraft, so I most certainly agree with that part. I also have the same disdain for Disn

My 10 year old daughter and 8 year old son are both deep in love with Minecraft, so I most certainly agree with that part. I also have the same disdain for Disney XD, with the same complaints as the linked -- they have truly terrible writing, and are just horrible social models. I have to add a caveat about the Minecraft videos, however, in that many of them are just as bad or worse than tween shows. While some are just walkthroughs, a growing number are obnoxious cliche fests (e.g. screaming and yelling expletives when a creeper appears, etc). There is a large set of people trying to capitalize on kids watching minecraft videos.

VLM 13y ago
I've seen a similar bifurcation where most minecraft videos are either really cool how to demos that focus on the game, or are extroverts trying to showcase their swearing and drinking abilities where the game is kind of a screensaver in the background as they act pretty much act like fools. I've learned a lot from some minecraft youtube videos such as how to build an automatic chicken growing factory with water conveyor belts. Frankly I'd rather have spent 15 seconds looking at a blueprint than 15 minutes tediously watching a build, but still..
nextw33k 13y ago
I think the awesome benefit of youtube is that you can leave direct feedback. Give it a thumbs down plus explain why. Teach your kids to do that and eventually things will improve. Just don't expect that of Disney.
- DanBC 13y ago
  Yogscast (quite sweary British minecraft youtubes) have 4,806,098 subscribers and 1,931,000,000 video views. This video [1] has 1,076,520 views, 49,507 up-thumbs and 808 down-thumbs, with over 7,000 comments. It's been up for about 24 hours at this point. I fully support down-voting and commenting, but I'm not sure it's going to have any effect. Luckily, there are plenty of other videos where decent attitudes are on show. [1] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_idfJmWRj3s&list=UUH-_hzb2ILSCo9ftVSnrCIQ&index=3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_idfJmWRj3s&list=UUH-_hzb...)

VLM 13y ago

I've seen a similar bifurcation where most minecraft videos are either really cool how to demos that focus on the game, or are extroverts trying to showcase their swearing and drinking abilities where the game is kind of a screensaver in the background as they act pretty much act like fools. I've learned a lot from some minecraft youtube videos such as how to build an automatic chicken growing factory with water conveyor belts. Frankly I'd rather have spent 15 seconds looking at a blueprint than 15 minutes tediously watching a build, but still..

nextw33k 13y ago

I think the awesome benefit of youtube is that you can leave direct feedback. Give it a thumbs down plus explain why. Teach your kids to do that and eventually things will improve. Just don't expect that of Disney.

DanBC 13y ago
Yogscast (quite sweary British minecraft youtubes) have 4,806,098 subscribers and 1,931,000,000 video views. This video [1] has 1,076,520 views, 49,507 up-thumbs and 808 down-thumbs, with over 7,000 comments. It's been up for about 24 hours at this point. I fully support down-voting and commenting, but I'm not sure it's going to have any effect. Luckily, there are plenty of other videos where decent attitudes are on show. [1] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_idfJmWRj3s&list=UUH-_hzb2ILSCo9ftVSnrCIQ&index=3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_idfJmWRj3s&list=UUH-_hzb...)