Why We Need To Talk About The Insane YouTube Kids Problem… #Elsagate

YEAH I KNOW PAW PATROL, SO WHAT?! 😂😂😂

A channel should have to apply to be featured as a kids channel. Once approved they are shown. If they fuck up they get removed from kids and are never allowed back.

I think it's absolutely ridiculous that stuff like that can slip through the cracks without being demonetized, when totally wholesome content is being subjected to the " not eligible for monetization" BS.

When I worked as a Wal-mart cashier, I saw these videos daily because parents would just plop an iPad in front of their kids to shut them up for an hour or so while they shopped. I already knew about the actual content in the videos and I would sometimes notify the parent. They were either very shocked as to what their child was watching, or angry with me for "telling them how to raise their kids" That's basically what my parents did, they just sat me down in front of the tv and go off to do whatever, but at least Clifford wasn't burying Emily Elizabeth alive and then shitting on her.

The whole YouTube kids “genre” is creepy. The songs, the animation, everything about is just disturbing

This has been a problem for over 2 years, yet YouTube still hasn't fixed it and this shit ends up on YouTube kids all the time.

That moment when normal YouTube is more family friendly than YouTube kids

here's an idea.... STOP. HANDING.YOUR. TODDLER. AN. IPAD. AND. THEN. WALKING. AWAY.

It sucks that actual family friendly youtubers are getting demonetized, while these seemingly innocent children’s videos are earning millions of views/money and slipping through the cracks.

When I heard that YouTube was making an app for kids I assumed it would only contain pre-screened content. Who in their right minds would think that with our current level of technology it'd be ok for a computer to decide what children can watch?

But this isn't always on the parent. We don't let our kids use YouTube Kids, because frankly we're experienced with YouTube's algorithm enough to know not to trust it. However, many schools use the app, and allow the kids to watch it without any supervision. So your kids could be watching inappropriate content at school without you even knowing.

1950: in the future we have flying cars! 2017: ELSA NEEDLE SHITTING POOP SPIDERMAN PISS EATER DANCE TOY!!!!!

Parents! Don't use Youtube as a baby-sitter. If you can't be in the room with them, give them a book!! Simple!

The elsa gate subreddit (while sometimes being over the top) is very informative on how bad this stuff is getting, pretty creepy when you realize most of these are grooming videos.

Phil, we were scheduled to ignore this problem for another 4 years at least.

This is why I keep telling my parents to put a password on YouTube. My little brother keeps watching this stuff.

Why does half of those videos always have Elsa and Spiderman😂😂

So somehow this slips past Youtube's radar and gets put in front of kids, yet people that make meaningful content that are the reason behind Youtube's growth and development get demonetized and punished for swearing

When I was little, my dad told me to "never get online without permission because there are things on the internet that will stay in your brain, things like people's heads being cut off and stuff that will give you nightmares for many, many years!" This happened before YouTube was a thing, so it is up to the parents to tell kids that they can't do that alone. Watch the videos with your kids and never leave them alone in front of a computer screen.

As a parent of young kids, this pisses me off so much.