I’m a grown adult and I think those thumbnails are gonna give me nightmares holy shit
What in tarnation?
And parents in my generation clutched their pearls at Looney Toons cartoons. What the actual fuck?
This reminds me of garbage pail kids cards.
gross, we are so doomed
I hope my child inherits my lack of reaction to this stuff. I find short form video content immensely boring. I cannot relate at all to people’s ability to spend more than a couple of minutes with it.
Caught my 7yo niece consuming disney princess cosplay ahegao content on youtube shorts yesterday. =\ she’s not allowed on YouTube anymore, the platform is too unsafe for children.
But Google forbid if someone says rape, murder, suicide or any number of no-no words. Then that video is demonetized.
the platform was never safe, parents are just ignorant
I have a 12 year old. I considered YouTube unsafe for her unsupervised, when she was growing up (and largely still do, we have a healthy teamwork approach to it). The place is just magnitudes worse now. And yep, parents are super ignorant (and have been), they have no idea what the kids are even watching, many don’t really restrict the time they spend at all.
Evolution was a mistake.
I have a young child who will be using the web eventually and it terrifies me. I’m going to have to do something to lock it down to keep out the brain rot
It’s the number of view they’re getting that worries me the most.
I’m thinking how bullshit it is about how much money that video has made by getting AI art to rip off the rock with what I assume is a shitty song
I’m thinking about that too and why I haven’t thought of it
I think…I…I…yep… I do… I do smell what the rock is cooking.
it’s crack.
r u ok dwayne
my eyes are bleeding
I was working in a house this week that had a ~4 year kid in another room. They were on the mums phone watching YouTube shorts and I think I had an aneurysm listening to it. It was godawful and the attention span was so low they constantly flicked through so most didn’t even play for more than a second or two of incomprehensible gibberish before they’d flicked onto the next one.
I feel really sorry for anyone who has to grow up surrounded by this bombardment of shite.
A 4yo has no business having unrestricted access to media, let alone YouTube. Current recommendations are 20 to 45 minutes a day at that age, depending on country / organization.
YouTube has so much questionable content, kids shouldn’t be in a position to be able to click next and consume that crap.
YouTube kids exists since 2015, but Elsagate happened around 2017/18, so I don’t exactly trust their content moderation.
Right, this is simple stuff - for a 4 year old, content of any kind must be curated, and I’d argue that stays true in different ways for quite a while.
Yeesh. Before ever turning over entire decision-making power on a very uncontrolled platform to a kid, ya gotta help walk them through stuff and spend time curating / selecting content together. And also wait for them to grow up some and demonstrate readiness.
And certainly never trust YouTube’s curation, ever, agreed.
4 yo rawdogging modern AI slop YouTube shorts, solo, is wild.
Giving internet connected devices to a kid is like giving them blank plane tickets and sending them alone to the airport !
Seriously dangerous! I like your analogy, it’s even a little worse though, it’s like doing that but also the planes have an engineered preference to steer towards the worst places.
I made a new youtube account recently. I use youtube shorts a decent amount. Fortunately, I never see shitty ai videos like these. I just get Invincible and GTA/Rdr2 edits. For some reason.
