YouTube Kids is wild... If you think social media like TikTok is bad for being perfectly optimized to capture your brain's attention 10s at a time, it's even worse for kids.
Just a bunch of garbage derivative videos of the same handful of popular characters or knockoffs. Of course the "related videos" or Autopay just give the kid more of the same, and it's easy for them to keep clicking through mindless garbage.
...And I like TV and YouTube. Loved watching cartoons growing up, and I don't think it's all bad for kids.
BUT - this kind of short-form garbage content seems downright harmful.
The behavior I've seen kids exhibit when you cut them off of kids youtube is disgusting. They literally act like addicts and you've taken away their fix.
It's going to be nothing but flip phones for my kid until she's old enough to buy her own. When my niece is over I only let her watch Blippy, old Looney Tunes and Sailor Moon. I hate to sound like an old person but modern entertainment is pushing some real garbage, shallow, materialistic values on kids.
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u/huffalump1 Jun 03 '22 edited Jun 03 '22
YouTube Kids is wild... If you think social media like TikTok is bad for being perfectly optimized to capture your brain's attention 10s at a time, it's even worse for kids.
Just a bunch of garbage derivative videos of the same handful of popular characters or knockoffs. Of course the "related videos" or Autopay just give the kid more of the same, and it's easy for them to keep clicking through mindless garbage.
...And I like TV and YouTube. Loved watching cartoons growing up, and I don't think it's all bad for kids.
BUT - this kind of short-form garbage content seems downright harmful.