Comment on YouTube’s Deliberate Indifference Exposes Kids to disgusting Content
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 13 hours agoThere can absolutely be educational content for kids on YT, but compared to the egregious amount of mind-numbing/fetishy content, it’s totally not worth it. It’s a shame how there feels like a lack/decline of quality kids/tween TV shows being broadcasted, I was talking to my mom about how kids really don’t have a lot to watch once they hit age 9+.
realitista@lemm.ee 13 hours ago
In the time I allowed my kids to have YT kids, I did not encounter the content you speak of. I know there’s good content on YouTube, I watch it all the time. But I never saw anything good come up in the YouTube kids app. And we had it for a while.
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Well I’m mostly thinking about how my teachers would make us watch a YT vid with a classwork/homework assignment. CrashCourse does like every subject, I watched several of their Civics & Government/History videos. Amoeba Sisters was a frequent channel in my Biology class.
But the whole point is you have to look for those, cause YT knows they can get way more kids to scroll and watch ads for 5 hrs+ if you show them “ElSa pOoPiNg oN SpIDeRmAn!1!1?!?1?” videos compared to “Learn about how carbon affects the pH of seawater!". The algorithm is designed to trap unfortunately, and YT kids is a fucking sham.
realitista@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
Yeah I mean if a parent was always curing the content, it could be useful. But to me that’s the same as not letting them have it, you just put on some YouTube videos every so often for them that you choose on your device (we do this now, I just don’t allow it on their devices).
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Make a new account and see what the suggestions turn into.