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YouTube vids with "Spiderman, Frozen Elsa, and Joker" routinely get millions of views
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Permanently A
Junior Member
Its to farm money off kids
It's all because kids (or their parents) just search for movies/characters they like and end up with these. Justin McElroy's talked about it on podcasts before; he was trying to find clips on YouTube since a movie his daughter liked wasn't out of theaters yet and ended up finding this kind of thing.
a Master Ninja
Member
I assume one person started doing this and making bank, and then a million copycats tried to get in on the action.
I wonder if Disney or whatever could try to have this stuff taken down.
MisterHero
Super Member
they can't do anything about parodies
that depends on these videos being funny though
Well that's that then
These don't seem to apply. It's the violence and sex ones that are being singled out. The OP's examples tend to be ones that are basically more tame than most cartoons.
PixelatedBookake
Junior Member
This is very manipulative in a fucked up way. Similar to those Spongebob and South Park 24/7 live streams. But this really freaks me out for some reason.
But they're not violent, sexual, or inappropriate. The videos generally feature the characters being used in children's songs or really dumb (but inoffensive) garbage.
I wish there was an easy way to filter this junk out, though. Of course, even searching for a video game or movie trailer on YouTube returns results full of garbage reposts and "reactions" with the original, official, and desired result buried.
Commanche Raisin Toast
Member
I can see a 'kids mode' becoming a thing so that only curated and vetted videos are accessible so this type of shit won't accidentally come up.
That would still require the effort of the parents to turn it on though, and we're all aware of how often parental controls in electronics are ignored.
That would still require the effort of the parents to turn it on though, and we're all aware of how often parental controls in electronics are ignored.
There is a kid's mode. It's full of this crap.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
I have an idea for Brazzers.
Really? I looked it up for five minutes and found women's breasts being groped and men laying half naked on a bed with their ass in the air.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
It's a bunch of YT Pranksters who failed at being pranksters and decide to make this weird fucking softcore porn 4 kids. Its creepy and I sure asf don't understand it.
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
why the fuck are spiderman and elsa even paired
they even have pregnancy videos.
they even have pregnancy videos.
Dude Abides
Banned
I like how one of them has recuse in the title. They need to add "Sessions Trump Comey Impeach" as well.
MisterHero
Super Member
My niece is obsessed with egg videos. Kids love watching people unbox shit.
PlayALLtheGames
Banned
Why the fuck are kids watching half-naked Spiderman in a pool with Elsa?
I've never seen these. What a bunch of worthless trash.
I've never seen these. What a bunch of worthless trash.
To be fair if you go back and look at some of the stuff you watched as a kid there's some really inappropriate stuff (Tom and Jerry for violence, Pepi-la-pue for sexual inappropriateness, etc). But I guess you could say how we turned out is why not to show this.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
I think they're freaking weird. My step daughter wants to watch them whenever they come up in her feed. Her mother and I think they're too strange to actually benefit her. It could give her nightmares. She already wants to see the Joker and having him kidnap babies doesn't help with her vocabulary. So, we tell her to watch something else. She also loves Frozen.
There's quite a few strange videos out there for kids. The candy review videos don't benefit her and the videos where they have adults acting like babies are incredibly annoying.
It's so strange with all the user created content. I have no idea where the "daddy finger, mommy finger" song came from, but I despise it completely.
I'd rather my step daughter watch super heroes fighting over someone acting like a baby and making faces for 10 minutes.
There's quite a few strange videos out there for kids. The candy review videos don't benefit her and the videos where they have adults acting like babies are incredibly annoying.
It's so strange with all the user created content. I have no idea where the "daddy finger, mommy finger" song came from, but I despise it completely.
I'd rather my step daughter watch super heroes fighting over someone acting like a baby and making faces for 10 minutes.
Like the hat?
Banned
My son (asd and SPD) loves these videos.
King Tubby
Member
This is one of the most horrifying things I've read in a while.
My two year old keeps finding this and the egg shit and it bugs the hell out of me and my spouse. I try to keep her on peppa pig.
Cheaper than videogames too
There's also a huge (huge!) amount of videos of people acting out bad crossover stories with action figures (especially the Imaginex/Playskool types) of Marvel/DC characters. My nephews watch this stuff all the time, and they're terrible, but they're legion, and you can see how they must rake in ad revenue.
Impeccable
Member
It's kids.
They bop around Youtube Kids without direction watch these videos for 30 seconds, bop onto the next. My daughter has done this.
They bop around Youtube Kids without direction watch these videos for 30 seconds, bop onto the next. My daughter has done this.
I was going to post exactly this.
admiraltaftbar
Member
Nah old cartoon are a product of their time and can have some racy stuff but (for most and really I mean those targeted at children) even their worst aspects are still better than the weird disturbing nature of many of these videos.
My experience with this is kids are drawn to those characters for some reason. We let our daughter use a fire tablet sometimes to watch videos on youtube and as she started to learn how to use the app she gravitated towards spiderman stuff. She has no idea who spiderman is but watches anything with spiderman looking things in it.
I'd start her off some with Sesame Street or something and after one segment she's punching away till she finds recommended videos and lands on a bunch of CG spidermen dancing to nursery rhymes.
I can only imagine when she gets old enough to actually know who these characters are it would only intensify her interest.
I'd start her off some with Sesame Street or something and after one segment she's punching away till she finds recommended videos and lands on a bunch of CG spidermen dancing to nursery rhymes.
I can only imagine when she gets old enough to actually know who these characters are it would only intensify her interest.
Can't be any worse than watching Ren and Stimpy or any other insane cartoon like we did as kids.
That's literally an impact-generating string of keywords. The only purpose it has is to maximise the chance that it will cause the video to autoplay after the toddler finished watching the last video. It's not supposed to make sense to anyone who can read, just to the algorithm trying to figure out what video someone who just watched an "Elsa" or "Baby" video might want to watch next.
It took companies quite a few years before they decided that Let's Play type videos might actually impact the sales of their games. This is still new. It's also much more difficult to control for. It's all technically original content, so it can't trigger any automated algorithms, and you can't just go around auto-flagging anything that has stuff like "Spiderman" (which isn't even technically the correct name for the copyrighted "Spider-Man") or "Elsa" in the title.
I don't expect ad companies to be happy, though. It's a waste of money for them to stream ads to viewers who can barely speak, let alone buy anything.
psychotron
Member
My kids love these videos. They drive me fucking crazy.
Skellig Gra
Member
Time to make some Youtube videos
faceless007
Member
I couldn't help but wonder why, if these guys are so rich off this crap that they can afford $150K+ Audis, they were still apparently living in and doing all their production out of a ho-hum apartment. Then I got to the part where apparently buying the cars wiped out their entire savings. So they're idiots in more ways than one.
SigmasonicX
Member
Here's a post about these I made a month ago in the Western Animation thread.
