Saturday 10 February 2018

YouTube Kids and Elsagate - an introduction

Picture this.
You're a child and you see a video, you click on it only to find out you have to wait until you're 18 to watch it and you would have to watch something similar but G rated until then. That is when you come across this:



You go "That looks ok for an under 18" so you click on it and boy are you are wrong.
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Some years ago, the YouTube Kids app was launched and I remember my dad said that yit would have kid stuff on it like "Peppa Pig" and "The Magic Roundabout" on it but we brushed it off as there wasn't any real kids that were in the age demographic in the family at the time that would watch YouTube Kids. Now with my godfather and his wife having thier first daughter last year, I realised that she will be first in line in the family to watch the Youtube Kids app sometime soon and that would mean she would be exposed to the nature of them.


These YouTube Kids videos are basically clickbait videos with characters doing stuff and sometimes that involves nudity, violence and anything that is against the YouTube Community Guidelines but these seem to get away with it somehow. However, they are being tracked by YouTube themselves recently but that would probably only make them stronger.  I will try and catch some to review even though they barely have any stories but I will try and decipher them.
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For the Parents
You can learn more about them in text form or by watching the videos below. You can also make a playlist for your kids to watch that has the "kids" content that you approve of and do adult to adult screenings on these.

 For the Kids
Be careful out there and don't talk to the friendly stranger even if he has puppies!

Thursday 8 February 2018

Dora OS by R.I.P NORBIKA9VIDEO (2014-2016)

Video: Dora OS
Uploader: R.I.P NORBIKA9VIDEO (2014-2016)

Made using: Goanimate and recorded with Screencast

Source: YouTube 
Upload date: 16 Feb 2016
Lenght: 6:20 (6 minutes and 20 seconds)
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Review
The video starts off with a bloodied smiley face saying that he upgraded his Windows 7 computer to Windows 10 and is going to download The X Files but the download turns out to be a trick and he is forced to download a (fake) operating system called Dora OS that was made by the Nick Jr character Dora the Explorer. When his computer boots up, he tries to change his desktop wallpaper but is restricted and is allowed after threatening Dora that he would trash the OS. He goes online where Dora translate Spanish on her site but the user goes onto The X Files website which causes him to get a BND Screen of Doom (Blue Screen of Death parody). 

After the computer restarts, the user is given inaccurate weather for Mexico (Seriously 100,000,000,000,000 with a rainy thunderstorm), tries to access sport but ignites it somehow, gets tortured by the Dora the Explorer theme song and gets trolled when he tries to play the never going to happen Half-Life 3.  This angers the user so much that he clicks on the UFO on The X Files wallpaper that has a kill option. The kill option kills Dora and Dora OS and the video ends with the user getting Windows 10 back.
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 Problem(s)
The Threatening Dora part can be unintelligible. 
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Video (Tell me in the comments if it has been removed, age-restricted or geo-blocked)