Showing posts with label YouTube Kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YouTube Kids. Show all posts

Monday, 13 August 2018

I've have noticed something with the YouTube Kids channels

YouTube Kids is supposed to be YouTube only toned down for kids but that doesn't stop disturbing cartoons from being shown on the app and these go against the YouTube Community Guidelines but yet they get away with it.
The reason I am blogging this is that I noticed that if you try to reach out to these channels, they don't comment on what they are doing as if they don't want to give their identities away or something like that. BBC News and Saberspark tried to no avail. I don't think it due to shyness because well, I don't know them but then it hit me. These channels repeat the same content as these "spokesperson twitter accounts" 
This is just one of the many examples of these "spokesperson Twitter account"
It came to me when I remembered watching this YouTuber's video about a YouTube channel called "Toys in Japan" and he said that a bot is controlling these channels and he covered this BEFORE THE ESLAGATE SCANDAL CAUGHT THE MEDIA'S ATTENTION!
Mind...
BLOWNG MATERIAL!
In fact, I only started to notice that when I saw that the videos are repeated like the spokesperson Twitter accounts!
I may be wrong but it looks like it.

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!