YouTube is poison for children, no matter how they try to present it. There’s plenty of good content, but no way is my son watching anything on there without me sitting right there with him
Yeah, there’s tonnes of good content on there, but as you allude to, there’s even more shitty or zero effort content… And the algorithm has a way of serving up absolute trash. And the parental controls are pretty much non existent…
Youtube happily serves up videos to an 8 year old (on a supervised children’s account) that contain topics like abuse, sex, racism, horror, radical religious indoctrination, Chinese propaganda, and human centipede… This isn’t as rampant in the YouTube Kids app… But at least half the stuff on YouTube Kids is ASMR content or unboxing “surprise” toys…
YouTube allows you to block channels, but will happily continue serving the 9000 other accounts that simply reupload the same exact videos.
My sisters gives her son (4yo almost 5) free reign on YouTube and thr child is an absolute monster. It’s probably not entirely youtubes fault as my sister isn’t a good parent but I’m sure it’s partially at fault.
This. I’m glad they are getting rid of the sham of a kids client. It’s a joke that anyone should think the content is kid safe. No more lulling parents into a false sense of security.
I was supervising my son watch this one day and had to step away for a few minutes to answer the door. When I was gone a new video came on with Peppa Pig murdering her family and all the characters from the show. Actually bleeding and all.
I reported the video, didn’t get taken off the kids platform. So I contacted support - they said it was kid safe.
Kid safe?! Dafuq? I had his account set to under 6 and this is what they consider kid safe?
That was my thought several years back when YouTube kids was introduced. There was no way to keep trash videos (like unboxing videos) from playing next so we uninstalled.
YouTube is poison for children, no matter how they try to present it. There’s plenty of good content, but no way is my son watching anything on there without me sitting right there with him
Yeah, there’s tonnes of good content on there, but as you allude to, there’s even more shitty or zero effort content… And the algorithm has a way of serving up absolute trash. And the parental controls are pretty much non existent…
Youtube happily serves up videos to an 8 year old (on a supervised children’s account) that contain topics like abuse, sex, racism, horror, radical religious indoctrination, Chinese propaganda, and human centipede… This isn’t as rampant in the YouTube Kids app… But at least half the stuff on YouTube Kids is ASMR content or unboxing “surprise” toys…
YouTube allows you to block channels, but will happily continue serving the 9000 other accounts that simply reupload the same exact videos.
My sisters gives her son (4yo almost 5) free reign on YouTube and thr child is an absolute monster. It’s probably not entirely youtubes fault as my sister isn’t a good parent but I’m sure it’s partially at fault.
Anyone giving their 4 year old unrestricted and unsupervised access to YouTube is probably also lacking structure in lots of other realms of parenting
She is absolutely.
This. I’m glad they are getting rid of the sham of a kids client. It’s a joke that anyone should think the content is kid safe. No more lulling parents into a false sense of security.
I was supervising my son watch this one day and had to step away for a few minutes to answer the door. When I was gone a new video came on with Peppa Pig murdering her family and all the characters from the show. Actually bleeding and all.
I reported the video, didn’t get taken off the kids platform. So I contacted support - they said it was kid safe.
Kid safe?! Dafuq? I had his account set to under 6 and this is what they consider kid safe?
That was my thought several years back when YouTube kids was introduced. There was no way to keep trash videos (like unboxing videos) from playing next so we uninstalled.