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27 Comments
Unless they’re forced to, or it somehow becomes more profitable to do so, then I’m going to guess that the answer is….no.
But TBH, if you leave you children to just view random YouTube content on their own then they’re going to end up seeing all kinds of shite. If you want to control what they watch, then take some responsibility as parents.
half the reason YouTubes not been sued into oblivion for copyright infringement because they’re a platform not a publisher. If they go along with this thats more ammunition for the next company that takes them to court.
I’ve sat with our boys and watched YouTube kids.
It’s utter, utter shit. It’s nonsense crap to just make ad revenue. The YouTube app is now PIN locked – I watch a lot of specific YouTube channels and have Premium, but the kids stuff is awful.
If anything, we’ll watch Cbeebies. Proper Rethian stuff.
> Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy warned young people are less likely to see programmes which are educational or provide “emotional and mental wellbeing” development as they increasingly watch via online platforms rather than traditional television.
Parents shouldn’t let their young children watch YouTube unless they have already watched the video through first. This is a parental issue.
I really think that news needs to do a proper exposé into Elsagate, SEO, clickbait, and brainrot. 99% of parents have no idea what kind of content is on YouTube and I think that if they were aware of what can happen on that platform, they would be much more hesitant to leave their kids in iPads.
Like it or not, that is not what YouTube is for. It is what CBBC and CBeebies is for (PBS in the USA). We need to do more to talk about the harms of YouTube and raising kids on screens with unfettered internet access. Part of that means pushing people back to old school ways of consuming content.
Simple find a play list of peppa pig or make one for the little ones to watch. Doesn’t have to be peppa pig.
You could put the original G1 cartoon of transformers on. I’m not being biased but robots are cool.
But sure let’s rally against BBC at the same time.
It’s easily the best children’s content available and all ad free.
My child will have limited screen time till they are 5 and past then it will be highly curated.
I am the parent and it is really my choice/ responsibility.
We cant keep outsourcing everything because people are lazy.
Genevieves playhouse taught my son how to say bitch…
Anyone who lets their kids have unsupervised access to the Internet is not doing a good job parenting. If i had kids i wouldn’t allow them to go on YouTube unsupervised. Oh also i wouldn’t give rhem a smart device at all until they were in secondary school.
Why should they? Why is the government wasting time and resources into this.
YouTube is not designed to be a highly educational tool and it’s a parental decision on what, how or if they use YouTube.
Some things on YouTube are alright. Like blippi. But some is just shocking
How about DON’T let your child watch YouTube Kids and shove a tablet in their face? They’ve done psychological studies to make sure Cocomelon is the most addictive it can possibly be for kids. Just don’t give them access to the fking internet.
What happened to high-quality children’s TV on just normal terrestrial services? Why does the onus have to be passed to YT? Strange how YT was abhorred due to misinformation and the rise of “far right” content creators, but YT is somehow trusted to handle this.
Sometimes when the little cousins are round I see what it is they are watching on their iPads and some of it is really concerning stuff. Videos masked as kids friendly but often its a bunch of adults or teens who will for example, make a Roblox video (to appeal to younger audiences for views) but their commentary is NOT PG.
One vid I saw was a bunch of young adults playing Roblox and simulating a family where someone played a dad, another the mum and a third as a literal Roblox baby, and their “humour” involved moments with the dad shouting and abusing the mum and them letting the baby loose around the house doing dangerous things, or letting it roam about outside and get into danger etc., all while they are all screaming at the top of their lungs and swearing during moments they were trying to portray as funny! No, shouting, swearing and hitting your virtual partner because the baby fell off the balcony is not shit that kids should be exposed to as humour.
Most of Arthur is on YouTube since the BBC don’t want to put the rest of the series on iPlayer.
Children tv on tv or catch up services is almost all on dedicated children’s tv channels. I think that some children’s tv programmes should be broadcast on mainstream tv channels. Such as one children’s tv programme early evening on BBC1. We could cope without Pointless and watch say a children’s drama or Blue Peter at around 5-530pm each day.
Have we really all gone daft??
The clue is in the name. YOU tube. It was designed for anyone to upload their content, regardless of quality.
It’s not an alternative tool for parents to raise their children on, it’s literally a Freeform entertainment platform.
How about the government instead put the standard onto parents not onto platforms. Give them the actual responsibility they should have in raising their children.
I turned off my adblock out of curiosity, instantly was pushed crypto scam videos
Turned it back on straight away
Well, the problem with this is that YouTube would have to have some high-quality children’s content to promote.
Here is the thing, there is a LOT of great quality content on the Web, but like with all things online, it requires curration and research in order to find it (amongst the wealth of steaming shit floating about).
I realise parents are time-constrained, but surely If you have a really young kid, wouldn’t it make sense to have a device not connected to the WiFi and just transfer box-sets of the shows you pre-approve to that device? That way your really young kids can re-watch whatever they want, safe in the knowledge they won’t be exposed to the junk and shit floating about on the general Web?
It’s not exactly a difficult process, YouTube downloader apps can be found everywhere and you can just point it at a playlist, so the files will land on your desktop, ready to be transferred to the tablet or whatever.
People need to be pro-active and stop being lazy if they want to control what is being viewed.
If anything, YouTube should just ditch the entire ‘kids’ segment and go back to being 13+ like when it launched.
Children shouldn’t be let loose on YouTube, Anyone who has used YT for more than a couple hours knows this, and having the kids section is clearly misleading uninformed parents to think otherwise
Though I know this will never happen because money.
No. Youtube shouldn’t have to do that when there’s already channels on TV that can easily do so.
Why not leave the kid watching iplayer actualy good shit on there for them
You mean Cocomelon and Spiderman and Elsa are not as wholesome as Bagpuss! I’m shocked!
I’ve been regularly watching Youtube for almost 9 years. I’ve had a YouTube account since I was old enough to have one at 13. I can say that Youtube will never promote ‘high quality’ content for children on there, because that doesn’t make them money.
I was there for Elsagate in 2016, and nothing was done about that at the time, and nothing is still being done about Elsagate style videos now in almost 2025. Youtube Kids is crap from what I’ve heard, it doesn’t filter out inappropriate videos. Parents aren’t supervising their kids online, or just giving them Cocomelon brainrot. Yes, there is good content that is family friendly and high quality on Youtube, but it’s having to sort through the low quality slop to find the good content, which parents aren’t doing.