Weird Kids' Videos and Gaming the Algorithm

Im like 99% sure you made this video just to read the absurd titles in a calm informative voice

This is why I'm thankful I wasn't born any later than I was, I'm JUST old enough to have missed this shit. Dodged that bullet.

This is genuine cyberpunk-horror

Welcome to 2017, where posting a video raising money for a mass shooting tragedy will demonetize you, but churning disturbing sexual garbage to toddlers is ok

i kind of shudder to think what your 'youtubes recommendations' section must look like right now after researching for this video.

And if you're a preschool ESL teacher, these videos are the bane of your existence, because kids learn basic vocabulary from them and then try to repeat it in class...

For some reason this all seems so disturbing to me, that I'm feeling physically sick like from a long session inside VR.

So much for Google's "Don't be evil".

I just don't understand how the famously litigious Disney corporation has allowed all this stuff to stay up. Having all these Disney and Marvel characters in these gross videos isn't just cashing in on their IP, it's also clearly hurting the brand too.

Honestly, I would love to see if, in 15 years or so, there becomes a genre of entertainment that could be directly related to adults who grew up watching this and it's resided in their subconscious memory for an extended period of time.

my question is: why isn't youtube removing all kid videos that contain keywords such as "buried alive", "attack", etc.? it seems youtube for adults is more regulated than youtube for kids

As a South Asian i can tell you that none of these would be AT ALL ACCEPTABLE as children’s entertainment over there. This has nothing to do with South Asian standards for anything - this is all spam.

When he says those titles, I swear I can feel my brain collapsing in on itself. It's like I'm having a stroke.

How on earth did you manage to pronounce all those titles so fluently/with a straight face?

No one's pointed this out yet, but it's worth mentioning that "3hUOx5ATuSrN6hwhoKzJSQ" is most likely the ID number (base 64) that identifies the MCN in youtube's database. It's a naming pattern consistent with how YouTube tracks other elements of it's database.

It is a trip and a half to hear Dan recite the titles of these videos with a completely straight face and delivery.

I have no idea if I'm growing more paranoid with age but these videos strike me as equally damaging in their content as the implication that they are gaming the system with no repercussions. Part of what's creepy about these videos is that lack of any real narrative, and the context-less violence that's portrayed just something for a kid to look at. And the weird, fetishy undertones with pregnant Elsa, or Elsa getting tied up for some reason...I really don't know what to make of it. Am I projecting an adult's thought process onto something that ultimately has no real meaning? I just get worried that so much of neural development takes place during toddlerhood...should this be what they're absorbing?

The doctor character who's injecting a needle into Elsa's bottom at 1:44 is from the Alice: Madness Returns video game. So either EA is selling them assets to use, or they're ripping models from games without permission (and horror ones, no less).

10-12 years from now, the internet is going to recall all of this as the children come of age. they’ll share stories, maybe some memes. it’ll be a bigger thing than the Sinbad/Shazaam thing.

Honestly, best way to combat this on a personal level? Currate a playlist. Dump in a wide mix of vids from franchies/entities you recognize (and are preferable televised in the US), set it to loop and shuffle, and lock the controls. Examples include: Peppa Pig, Bluey, Sesseme Street. Disney Junior, Nick Jr., PBS Kids. Sort their channel's libraries by most views and add the top fifty to one hundred. You'll be set for DAYS.