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YouTube vids with "Spiderman, Frozen Elsa, and Joker" routinely get millions of views

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UpDownLeftRight

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lazygecko said:
It boggles me how they are even making money off of this in the first place. Companies make sure it's exceedingly hard to monetize gaming videos, yet this stuff appears to very easily slip through the cracks?
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Well I suppose it's Spiderman (Marvel/Sony?) and Elsa (Disney) Would this not just land them in same spot as sterling? no monetisation but not pulled either. This seems to still be monetised however so maybe neither company wants to acknowledge that this is a thing.
 
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Nivash

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UpDownLeftRight said:
Well I suppose it's Spiderman (Marvel/Sony?) and Elsa (Disney) Would this not just land them in same spot as sterling? no monetisation but not pulled either. This seems to still be monetised however so maybe neither company wants to acknowledge that this is a thing.
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"Spiderman" isn't trademarked; "Spider-Man" is. "Elsa" is literally a name.
 
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Nivash said:
"Spiderman" isn't trademarked; "Spider-Man" is. "Elsa" is literally a name.
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Suppose that does get them around the trademark. Surely clearly depicting it as Elsa from Frozen and relying on the characters almost solely would be an issue though? Either way it sounds like they're on the cusp of being shut down.
 
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Nivash

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UpDownLeftRight said:
Suppose that does get them around the trademark. Surely clearly depicting it as Elsa from Frozen and relying on the characters almost solely would be an issue though? Either way it sounds like they're on the cusp of being shut down.
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Sure, if you want to take it to the courts. It's not as easy as writing an algorithm for automatically striking down videos with copyrighted songs or gaming footage though, in those cases they can easily prove that the video contains their copyrighted content that they haven't agreed to license to the video uploaders. These are original productions, that's very different.

I'm sure Youtube will get around to striking these videos down eventually like you say though, but not for copyright reasons. They're probably going to create a new policy stating that intentionally making videos that only exist to maximise ad revenue - with content that will not appeal to anyone the advertisers would ever want to target - is exploitative and will lead to demonetization.
 
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Lil Marco said:
Many (unfit, usually low-income) parents use Youtube as a daycare/pacifier for their kids. They give them a tablet and just let them watch for hours on end as it keeps them quiet and the parents can focus on their errands, work, etc. There are certain keywords that parents look for when finding these videos and they happen to be the ones mentioned in OP.
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Wow, as a (fairly well paid, very caring) parent my daughter finds these things completely on her own. But congratulations on the assumption, hope if you have children they turn out better than you.
 
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Saucycarpdog

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Most of these will become demonitized thanks to the new YT policies. They are meant for violent and sexual videos that use family friendly characters but come on, you know corporations will just use them to forbid any use of their properties.
 
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Nivash said:
Sure, if you want to take it to the courts. It's not as easy as writing an algorithm for automatically striking down videos with copyrighted songs or gaming footage though, in those cases they can easily prove that the video contains their copyrighted content that they haven't agreed to license to the video uploaders. These are original productions, that's very different.

I'm sure Youtube will get around to striking these videos down eventually like you say though, but not for copyright reasons. They're probably going to create a new policy stating that intentionally making videos that only exist to maximise ad revenue - with content that will not appeal to anyone the advertisers would ever want to target - is exploitative and will lead to demonetization.
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Very good point, I'd not thought about that. I suppose that's the reason they fly under the radar in a sense and they're probably already well known to the companies. I suppose by extension, it's less hassle for the companies to let Youtube sort it out than to take it to court and likely bring more awareness to it.
 
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Lil Marco said:
Many (unfit, usually low-income) parents use Youtube as a daycare/pacifier for their kids. They give them a tablet and just let them watch for hours on end as it keeps them quiet and the parents can focus on their errands, work, etc. There are certain keywords that parents look for when finding these videos and they happen to be the ones mentioned in OP.
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What a random assumption
 
TheContact

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I have to comment on this thread because my 3 year old daughter loves these videos and she knows I don't approve of her watching them. A lot of times they fight each other and teach incredibly mad manners. The videos themselves all use the same music and are shot in similar ways yet come from many many different YouTube accounts and as the OP notes they get millions of views. If you look at the comments it's all gibberish as if the majority of viewers are kids who can't write yet. I've contacted YouTube about it and flag every video I see but they don't do anything. It really doesn't belong in the kids section and they always use key words like "toy" to get search results for kids to stumble upon
 
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My 3 year old niece sometimes gets to use the tablet to watch some videos on YouTube, and whatever she watches, you'll always get videos like these in the recommendations. Its crazy.
 
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NewFresh

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This is the same as nursery rimes or toy videos on youtube with hundreds of millions of views.

Parents just drop their kids on youtube and let autoplay take care of the rest. I know I've been temped to. It's a really easy way to make some time to get things done.

Another guy from work gave me the idea to curate a list of educational shows that we might watch for a few min on the weekends and it's been great.
 
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Kuro

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EmmanuelMunoz said:
This is the same as nursery rimes or toy videos on youtube with hundreds of millions of views.

Parents just drop their kids on youtube and let autoplay take care of the rest. I know I've been temped to. It's a really easy way to make some time to get things done.

Another guy from work gave me the idea to curate a list of educational shows that we might watch for a few min on the weekends and it's been great.
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I do this with my cats and videos of birds.
 
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red731

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It does Loki. Right in the guts.

Inappropriate use of family entertainment characters
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NimbusD

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Children are easy to game. Pretty much that simple. When they don't have to pay and can watch anything and you get paid, you can literally just make whatever slightly appeals to kids and it'll get money.
 
Theonik

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My 5 year old cousins watch hours upon hours of that stuff every day. It's free entertainment and they like it. Parents might understand.
I was staying over for a time. It was... Traumatic.
 
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Yup, my daughter watches this on repeat. And some channel called Ryan's Toy Review.

I think some of it is weird. At times I get flashes of Running Scared in my head.
 
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My thing is, why are they doing dirty/sexual jokes etc. like why don't they have Elsa and spiderman going to a cafe and doing other goofy stuff. I don't think the kids are there for the weirdness as much as the characters
 
MisterHero

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blakep267 said:
My thing is, why are they doing dirty/sexual jokes etc. like why don't they have Elsa and spiderman going to a cafe and doing other goofy stuff. I don't think the kids are there for the weirdness as much as the characters
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I wish real Spider-Man had magic boob powers
 
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Kirye said:
My 4 year old daughter watches these. I have no worldly idea why, it baffles me.
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You should probably do something about that. The people who make these videos are basically abusing children to make money. The videos are full of sexual and violent content.
 
JeTmAn81

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Damage Inc said:
Yup, my daughter watches this on repeat. And some channel called Ryan's Toy Review.

I think some of it is weird. At times I get flashes of Running Scared in my head.
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Oh Ryan is the worst. I know hes a little kid but I kind of hate him. Why does he have fifteen Power Wheels?
 
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JeTmAn81 said:
Oh Ryan is the worst. I know hes a little kid but I kind of hate him. Why does he have fifteen Power Wheels?
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I find it so creepy when parents use their kids playing with toys to make money. A lot of them are making bank too. I remember looking up this Disney Toy Review thing, where some Indian woman just opens a toy and plays with it for a few minutes, and they were making a few hundred grand a month.

We don't let my kids see this shit, but their cousin is addicted to this crap so they sometimes will watch with him when we are at my sisters house. I remember seeing Ryan and some family of boys that also plays with toys and shit like that.

I will never understand kids who want to watch other kids play with toys or play minecraft or some other videogame or the parents who allow them to waste their time with that garbage.
 
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I'm glad my younger siblings watched gold like Gumball or Steven Universe rather than watch cheap Minions is pregnant with Elsa baby cheating with Spiderman forcing Injections after farting sh*toon #45566. Seriously though, these stuff are lower than the bottom of the barrel.
 
SoulUnison

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SexyFish said:
This is a fetish.
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I think the consensus last time this was a GAF thread was that the audiences for these is 50% children who will watch anything that even tangentially features their favorite characters, and 50% people who are watching these because they "stealthily" throw in random fetishes and pass them off as "just being silly."

Stuff like "Elsa walks barefoot through jello" and "Spiderman is covered in chocolate pudding!"

It's like... That latter 50% of people know there's porn on the internet, right?
 
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SuperStiltzkin

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Can confirm my little cousin watches this stuff and it is just completely weird to me. Like I get it, but the porn parody production values for kid friendly entertainment is fucking weird.
 
The Faceless Master

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Lil Marco said:
Many (unfit, usually low-income) parents use Youtube as a daycare/pacifier for their kids. They give them a tablet and just let them watch for hours on end as it keeps them quiet and the parents can focus on their errands, work, etc. There are certain keywords that parents look for when finding these videos and they happen to be the ones mentioned in OP.
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yep. this right here.

the high income parents just pay for real daycare instead.
 
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Metrotab

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A lot of these videos are really weird and contain some creepy content. I don't understand their purpose at all. Weirds me out to an uncomfortable degree.
 
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