YouTube now vs then - eviltoast
  • Tall_Chilchuck@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    What irks me most is the kids content. That should have been a separate site altogether and it’s ridiculous that ‘non-kids’ content gets more strictly regulated for fear they might hear a swear word. Especially considering how much weird shit gets pushed at kids intentionally that youtube doesn’t appear to care about (looking at you elsa-gate).

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          22 days ago

          You can go too deep on this one and find people who probably think it’s a conspiracy or something lol, but the gist is that YouTube used to recommend very very odd videos to kids. People picked up on this and made odd videos. It became like a feedback loop I guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate I just found the Wikipedia article and I think it does a good job of giving facts about it.

          Edit: What I mean by think it is a conspiracy is that you might find people who think it was some sort of orchestrated act to influence children. This was around the time of the pizza gate stuff for contex. I phrased that poorly. I meant people probably have conspiracy theories about the why part of it happening, but it was actually a thing that happened.

          • humble peat digger@lemm.ee
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            22 days ago

            Used to recommend?

            They are still super weird recommendations for kods. We had to take tablet away from my daughter because allowed shows like sheriff labradore are about constant kidnappings, other shows like about children dying from hunger in the woods and other ones I’ve seen about giving birth. All observed just this year.
            I also didnt like English language muslim religious show that automatically popped up. Like wth bruh

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              21 days ago

              I meant the Spider-Man and Elsa ones specifically. Do those still get recommended often? I don’t have any friends with Children around the age they’d be watching YouTube Kids so I may be out of the loop.

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          22 days ago

          some weird algorithmic videos people posted because kids would lap that shit up, like pregnant spiderman shit.

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      22 days ago

      The regulation is never meant to “protect” kids. It’s the advertisers, it’s always and only the advertisers.

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      22 days ago

      Also videos that weren’t intended for kids but superficially looked like they were got involuntarily flagged as such and had their comments removed.

      A separate site would have been a much better solution.

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        22 days ago

        fucking hate that shit, i came to this episode of a tv show i used to watch so i could TALK ABOUT IT IN THE COMMENTS