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YouTube vids with "Spiderman, Frozen Elsa, and Joker" routinely get millions of views
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poppabk
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I think there are two types of videos - ones aimed at kids that use licensed toys and/or costumes - and ones that are cartoons for, well I'm not sure but not for kids, that use licensed characters.
The first type are harmless and some can be kind of fun, there is one where a guy has a toy youtubamatic universe where spiderman and thomas the tank engine and the minions all interact and have adventures. Some like epictoychannel are obviously getting sponsorship/gifts from toy manufacturers. People likely don't seek them out at first, they just end up auto-playing after watching an episode of a legitimate (although generally pirated, half zoomed in and sped up) show.
The second are the reason you can't leave your kids watching peppa pig episodes on youtube in case they start auto-playing.
My kid absolutely cannot watch youtube unsupervised, because of this. One minute he's watching Mario game videos, next he's watching some dude talk about how sexy Peach is, and how Bowser is probably cucking Mario.
Kirye
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Right, but I meant specifically for the Spiderman/Elsa show. I don't just let my kid go wild on YouTube, I actively stop her from watching anything that might be inappropriate.
There was a show about this kid who yelled and cried about everything and ultimately got what she wanted and it gave her a nasty attitude where she would start yelling at us when we said no. I don't know what parent thought that was a good idea.
MrCunningham
Member
Seven million subscribers, four billion total views...
I'm surprised Disney hasn't picked up on this yet and tried to find a way to capitalize on it. These videos are practically made up of Disney owned characters, aside from the odd appearance from the Joker, and perplexity get tens to hundreds of millions of views.
I'm surprised Disney hasn't picked up on this yet and tried to find a way to capitalize on it. These videos are practically made up of Disney owned characters, aside from the odd appearance from the Joker, and perplexity get tens to hundreds of millions of views.
Kids YouTube habits are fascinating. It's a new generation of entertainment.
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Deleted member 17706
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Haha, this is exactly the same progression I've seen my son go through on YouTube. He's 3 and a half now and mostly just watches Japanese let's play videos of Nintendo games, though.
The Albatross
Member
Weird, but I suspect it has to do with kids watching these videos. There was an interview with a guy who did a no-commentary Let's Play of some Disney's "Cars" game for Xbox or PS3, and it was like a 20-minute play through which included CG scenes... And for a while, his video was one of the most watched videos on YouTube, and what this article found was that it was mostly people watching that videogame as if it was a 20-minute episode of a "Cars" TV show. Basically the perfect digestible "Cars" content for kids, and the kids didn't know/care that the CG movie scenes would be broken up by the guy playing the game, they just thought it was part of the show.
Unfortunately for the guy he didn't monetize the video for weeks, and so while he's made some thousands of dollars on it, he very well could have earned tens of thousands at the writing of the article.. which was like 12+ months ago.
Friend of mine said the same thing about his daughter. It's really interesting, and also fascinating that this wasn't capitalized on via some commercial TV channel or show, like 20 or 30 years ago... Just "Kids playing with dolls" TV.
Although come to think of it, it's not that dissimilar from 'Let's Play,' where we -- reasoned adults who like playing videogames -- watch videos of other adults play videogames that we could be playing ourselves.
Unfortunately for the guy he didn't monetize the video for weeks, and so while he's made some thousands of dollars on it, he very well could have earned tens of thousands at the writing of the article.. which was like 12+ months ago.
Friend of mine said the same thing about his daughter. It's really interesting, and also fascinating that this wasn't capitalized on via some commercial TV channel or show, like 20 or 30 years ago... Just "Kids playing with dolls" TV.
Although come to think of it, it's not that dissimilar from 'Let's Play,' where we -- reasoned adults who like playing videogames -- watch videos of other adults play videogames that we could be playing ourselves.
The whole thing of stopping fetish stuff with characters that children know while also being aimed at children would maybe have more of an impact if the creators of said jank didn't get verified for it beforehand. Youtube don't care for your children, they only care about making as much money as possible off your children with endless toy ads because the FCC stopped that gravy train in the 90's
I'm sorry the 1% have spent the last 100 years consolidating all wealth leaving the rest to fend for scraps and unable to afford a babysitter
I wonder if it is an evolution of parallel play kids do at early ages.
Here's another great H3h3 video covering this phenomenon and the people who make these videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBWf6Zvn0jQ
Hilarius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBWf6Zvn0jQ
Hilarius.
#1 defender
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Same here, but with a 2 year old niece. I have been constantly amazed at the numbers of views these videos have.
Can we burn youtube fucking pls
zeioIIDX
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Yeah, I noticed this shit too a while back. The thing that pisses me off is that my daughter loves to watch prank videos with me and anytime we search, damn near every fucking thumbnail has a fucking red arrow pointing to some chick's naked ass sticking out or some dude with a big boner in his pants. Like, come the fuck on...can we just get some prank videos without all the sexual shit?
Another thing is that she loves to watch shit from FailArmy, just videos of kids doing stupid shit and animals being silly. But almost every video ends up tossing in a random clip of someone snapping their arm while arm wrestling or 20 clips of people smashing their heads into the pavement and I'm just like....Jesus Christ >_> I don't need my 8 year old seeing that stuff so I literally have to sit and monitor her while she asks me to search for certain video categories on YouTube. Or I'll make a playlist of stuff for her to watch later that I know she likes which means I have to spend time watching each video on my own (away from her) to make sure there's no dildos and broken bones and porno sounds tucked away in them.
It isn't like I allow her to browse YouTube on her own anyway (the one time I did, I looked at my history and saw searches for Harry Potter Sex, Harry Potter Sexy, and Five Nights at Freddy's Sex.....lol). I just wanna be able to browse YouTube without seeing thumbnails of asses and tits. I would try out some sort of safe search / kids function (like how Netflix has) but I'm afraid the only thing popping up for her would be this weird Joker, Elsa, Spiderman shit and HeyKids! brainwashing bullshit lol.
Another thing is that she loves to watch shit from FailArmy, just videos of kids doing stupid shit and animals being silly. But almost every video ends up tossing in a random clip of someone snapping their arm while arm wrestling or 20 clips of people smashing their heads into the pavement and I'm just like....Jesus Christ >_> I don't need my 8 year old seeing that stuff so I literally have to sit and monitor her while she asks me to search for certain video categories on YouTube. Or I'll make a playlist of stuff for her to watch later that I know she likes which means I have to spend time watching each video on my own (away from her) to make sure there's no dildos and broken bones and porno sounds tucked away in them.
It isn't like I allow her to browse YouTube on her own anyway (the one time I did, I looked at my history and saw searches for Harry Potter Sex, Harry Potter Sexy, and Five Nights at Freddy's Sex.....lol). I just wanna be able to browse YouTube without seeing thumbnails of asses and tits. I would try out some sort of safe search / kids function (like how Netflix has) but I'm afraid the only thing popping up for her would be this weird Joker, Elsa, Spiderman shit and HeyKids! brainwashing bullshit lol.
After ten seconds of research I've found some appallingly sexual Mickey Mouse videos and Peppa Pig videos that are basically just torture porn.
YouTube has a LOT of work to do. People are surrogating TV with YouTube, and we have an entire generation of kids being raised on this shit.
YouTube has a LOT of work to do. People are surrogating TV with YouTube, and we have an entire generation of kids being raised on this shit.
My toddler daughter stumbled across those.
I've tried to block them a thousand times and they always seem to pop up. So now, she's only allowed to watch PBS kids, Disney Junior, and sometimes YouTube Kids.
There's also the "bad baby" and "toy freak" videos where older kids act like bad babies and destroy their house in trantrum fits. I noticed my daughter imitating their behavior and immediately blocked it. She's limited to 1 hour a day and I screen all her videos.
I've talked to other parents and their kids were drawn to it as well. Some of the videos, such as bad baby/toy freaks are nothing more than grunting, rambling, tantrums and other bad behavior. We don't want our daughter consuming that when there's better content out there--and books.
I've tried to block them a thousand times and they always seem to pop up. So now, she's only allowed to watch PBS kids, Disney Junior, and sometimes YouTube Kids.
There's also the "bad baby" and "toy freak" videos where older kids act like bad babies and destroy their house in trantrum fits. I noticed my daughter imitating their behavior and immediately blocked it. She's limited to 1 hour a day and I screen all her videos.
I've talked to other parents and their kids were drawn to it as well. Some of the videos, such as bad baby/toy freaks are nothing more than grunting, rambling, tantrums and other bad behavior. We don't want our daughter consuming that when there's better content out there--and books.
the internet was a mistake
paragonpro
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Yeah im pretty sure its a fetish and the majority of those views are weird adults
Moose Biscuits
It would be extreamly painful...
This. This is the thing. When we were growing up the older generation hated us, thought we were crazy. Now we're adults but we think, "I was young and I still remember what it was like, I'm not going to be like gramps there and fear the youth when I'm old, they won't be weird strangers to me."
But we didn't understand. We thought we could keep track, we thought that we could understand what kids would be into. But we didn't understand what was coming and it was THIS. And it's only the beginning.
We'll be old people, and the young people who grew up on a million videos of Elsa from Frozen turning into a giant fidget spinner and crushing spiderman and dora the explorer into a bloody mess, will be so alien as to provoke feelings of confusion and fear. They'll be raised on bizarre YouTube videos of random characters made by people with barely any understanding of what makes good fiction, and they'll do the same thing and it'll refract recursively until children are watching videos made up of billions of random flickering images of cartoon characters a second and all of them are screaming
I fear the future.
But we didn't understand. We thought we could keep track, we thought that we could understand what kids would be into. But we didn't understand what was coming and it was THIS. And it's only the beginning.
We'll be old people, and the young people who grew up on a million videos of Elsa from Frozen turning into a giant fidget spinner and crushing spiderman and dora the explorer into a bloody mess, will be so alien as to provoke feelings of confusion and fear. They'll be raised on bizarre YouTube videos of random characters made by people with barely any understanding of what makes good fiction, and they'll do the same thing and it'll refract recursively until children are watching videos made up of billions of random flickering images of cartoon characters a second and all of them are screaming
I fear the future.
Immaculate
Banned
Theres a bunch of weird hidden sections on Youtube
type in #newlunar on the search bar and its literally all cropped porn lmao
type in #newlunar on the search bar and its literally all cropped porn lmao
I remember many, many years ago (way before youtube monetization was possible enabling all these weird phenomenom) I was linked to a youtube video of 2 guys in Spider-Man and Venom bodysuits, with one of them getting massaged by an electric toothbrush while moaning loudly, and you could clearly see the bulge of his erect penis through the suit.
CrazedProfessional
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Children trap videos. Was watching a kid watching these and she just waits for youtube to autoplay the next video. It eventually led to a video of Spiderman heiling Hitler so be careful with your kids on YouTube. Godwin's law
Widdle Puppy
Banned
Wtf
That's some dark web shit
Fantastical
Death Prophet
Mario + Rabbids + Frozen Elsa + Spiderman: Joker Kingdom Battle
I've seen a weirder people in suit video before on YT, and I'm sparing you from hearing any of the details of it
Same, all kids playlists end in these two places.
Theonik
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That or Sonic the Hedgehog fanfiction.
Moose Biscuits
It would be extreamly painful...
Just as terrifying.
Serious, though: I worry about how kids will turn out exposed to that kind of stuff. Although maybe this is my old man-ness starting to happen, maybe a kid who spent all their free time watching videos of minions delivering Elsa's​ baby then extracting all of Batman's teeth will turn out even better than I did.
blame space
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youtube sucks
Snarfington
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Just wait til you see the crappy CG animation ones. There's a YouTube VR video with a giant minion fighting a giant cookie monster and destroying a city. It'd be dope if the animation wasn't pure shit.
Ben Morales
Member
This is fucking terrifying.
Ugh I bet it was the Ninja Turtles one... *shivers*
I thought 'cropped' meant there was gonna be sneaky editing to obscure things but, damn, it's just straight up uncensored porn.
Holy shit, you're right. How the heck do they get away with that?
Cosmonaut X
Member
Looks like they're using the same trick a lot of uploaders use to get stuff like WWE pay-per-views or TV series up - making the content smaller inside a still or animated "frame" to trick the YouTube automated monitoring. It's not going to fool a human but there's no way YouTube staff can monitor every single upload so it just has to do enough to trick whatever software monitoring they use.
Wow, those cartoons are creepy.
Cosmonaut X
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...which would be ideal, except for a lot of people - certainly in my case - the kids get access to YouTube through a smart TV app or through a streaming box app where the controls aren't as good. The only foolproof way to control what they're seeing is to set up an account for them to use so you can track their history and be in the room when they're watching to deal with iffy content etc.
They have YouTube Kids on their tablets which I'm a bit more comfortable with - just frustrating that YouTube Kids isn't available on older smart TVs, as while I'd never leave them being "babysat" by it, I'd be a little more relaxed putting the TV on and not having to keep half an eye on it all the time.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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I watched another one of the retsuprae videos covering this last night, and one of those fake Disney cartoons starts off with Baby Mickey & Minnie being lured away and captured by a child predator who then chains them up to a wall and attempts to inject a syringe full of some strange fluid that will apparently cause them to die immediately from the mumps.
I am legitmately terrified of what is going to happen to children who grow up on this stuff. On top of the content being fucking terrifying, with all the talk going around lately about the internet being used as a platform for social engineering, I'm afraid that someone who realizes the opportunity to fill kids heads with sinister bullshit while raking in dosh will get into this, if they haven't already.
I am legitmately terrified of what is going to happen to children who grow up on this stuff. On top of the content being fucking terrifying, with all the talk going around lately about the internet being used as a platform for social engineering, I'm afraid that someone who realizes the opportunity to fill kids heads with sinister bullshit while raking in dosh will get into this, if they haven't already.
ProfessorLobo
Banned
Holy crap they're really working that SEO
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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I realize the irony here but when some of the videos feature content bordering on snuff films like I mentioned in my last post, that's when I can't help but to question what kind of shit little kids are being exposed to.
I wouldn't care if these bootlegers at least gave an iota of a shit about what they put in their animations.