I wonder if there will be a quality filter too. When my kids (now 6 and 4) were allowed YT Kids, even the "appropriate" videos were mostly terrible toy reviews and things like that. I've no idea why kids like them so much. I uninstalled it. Now the only video app they're allowed is BBC iPlayer Kids, which is great (but I'm assuming UK-only).
YouTube Kids Is Going to Release a Whitelisted, Non-Algorithmic Version of App
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> red, pink, blue, yellow, green colour scheme Is there an actual explanation for this? Those are everyday colors... or have I been living on planet earth as an unwitting MKUltra subject?
Please show me where in every day those five colours show up together.
Sky, sun, flowers, fruits, trees, vegetables, animals, grass, dirt, etc.
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> red, pink, blue, yellow, green colour scheme Is there an actual explanation for this? Those are everyday colors... or have I been living on planet earth as an unwitting MKUltra subject?
Please show me where in every day those five colours show up together.
Every toddler toy ever manufactured?
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
> red, pink, blue, yellow, green colour scheme Is there an actual explanation for this? Those are everyday colors... or have I been living on planet earth as an unwitting MKUltra subject?
Please show me where in every day those five colours show up together.
That's literally the three additive primary colours, plus one subtractive. It's hard to get more common colours.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
> red, pink, blue, yellow, green colour scheme Is there an actual explanation for this? Those are everyday colors... or have I been living on planet earth as an unwitting MKUltra subject?
Please show me where in every day those five colours show up together.
Unlike the other posters, I'm not going to pretend I don't know what you're talking about. That being said, what's the point of those "MKUltra patterns"? Are they supposed to trigger some special reaction on children?
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#56TIL there is a YouTube kids service/app. Which I can’t use because of my IP-address. Again.
I guess for us outside the US we’ll just have to wait another 5 years for google to flip the switch to make this worldwide. Again.
At stuff like, Google really systematically sucks.
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#57Whitelisted by YouTube. Still no app to let the user whitelist channels or videos themselves. Only blacklist, which is useless with the amount of channels on YouTube.
With white list for average users... how could Youtube recommend videos to people? They can't possibly give up the right to show you stuff they want, there is so much money to be made from this.
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#58A non-algorithmic version of the app could be a waste.
Re: YouTube Kids Is Going to Release a Whitelisted, Non-Algorithmic Version of App
#59TIL there is a YouTube kids service/app. Which I can’t use because of my IP-address. Again. I guess for us outside the US we’ll just have to wait another 5 years for google to flip the switch to make this worldwide. Again. At stuff like, Google really systematically sucks.
I would really like the option of paying for YT Red. But nope. So yeah. Frustrating.
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/r/ElsaGate monitors this quite actively. The current prevailing non-tin-foil-hat theory is that some animators realised that they could game YouTube's suggestion algorithm, and that kids videos are an easy target. Kids also are very inquisitive when it comes to subjects you tell them are inappropriate. Over time the videos with darker themes got more clicks and it has spiralled out of control since. Throw in some bo…
I think that's over thinking it a bit, youtube algos are easy to manipulate and a single thread on 4chan can create a fair bit of weird media, for the explicit intent of creating weird media.
Excuse me, but AFAIK it was 4chan who started calling out these videos in the first place.