I feel like any channel where parents are getting kids to do things, and the videos are getting high enough view counts that the owner is probably making a serious profit from them, should be under extreme scrutiny.<p>There is simply too much room for emotional manipulation as the parent pushes the boundaries on what they're making the kids do -- or even, at its most benign, simply pushing the kids to keep being in front of the camera, long after the kid wishes the channel would stop.<p>Parents should not be earning money off their kids. The balance of power simply isn't right for that to work in many cases.<p>I'm sure there are exceptions, but time and again we get examples from YouTube showing why this can be terrible for the kids.
Google should be ashamed of how they handled their YouTube for kids app.<p>I highly encourage all parents to delete this app from their devices. I spent a whole lot of time trying to go through "blocking" the episodes and the channels their algorithm was throwing at my child. I ended up deleting the app altogether because there was literally no end of these fake, mysterious and exploitative videos. Even the ones which seem harmless, are there only to make money, and there's no point to them.
A normal company would have implemented YouTube Kids as a white-listed video area, but YouTube / Google went with an algorithm. It was irresponsible and worse, predictable that child predators would use this to get to the children. Pay a damn human to watch the video and either white-list it or maybe ban it. Computers are not that good and volume is not an excuse.
I hope there's some real-life followup with this dad and his daughter. This content is just simply too creepy. And he's obviously been profiting from it.
Some thread(s) on reddit/conspiracy about comment section used for cp-stuff but too lazy to find it. Based on reason that dark-web is controlled.<p>They DID/DO have weird comments.