How are these channels monetized? I heard a while back that YouTube kids had no ads or heavily restricted them. Did something change there?
YouTube has become the world's nanny
21–30 of 403 posts
Re: YouTube has become the world's nanny
#22I guess a lot of people must be using YouTube in a different way to how we do. We do allow our 8-year-old to sometimes watch YouTube, after the homework is finished or if sick. What does he watch? Things like.... * 40-50 year old Russian language cartoons, to help with his language learning. * Quite a few British shows like Edwardian Farm[1], Victorian Farm[2] and Wartime Farm. Pretty educational stuff. * Documentari…
It is a tremendous resource. Also later on, the educational content (e.g. Khan Academy and similar) are better than a teacher in most cases.
Re: YouTube has become the world's nanny
#23If I have to sum up everything about kid related entertainment I have read on here, it would be:
- Games of the kind we have played or we like to play now are good.
- The new markets kind of games are totally worst thing ever and steal money.
- Arcades and collectible card games we used to spend all our money into were totally different thing.
- The kiddy shows we grew up with were best thing ever. Nothing beats them and they have no fault.
- New shows targeted at kids are all totally boring. All the kids being into them are wrong and don't have fun.
- If current world contains something inappropriate or dangerous that did not existed before, it is outrage and needs to be stopped.
- However, the loss old inappropriate or downright dangerous things we grew up with will harm humanity forever. It is outrage that kids today have everything sanitized. Except stuff from the previous point that should not exist.
Re: YouTube has become the world's nanny
#24Nope, nope nope. My kid is 10 and still doesn't know a single Youtuber by name and doesn't really watch Youtube. We did try Youtube Kids at one point, but it was just 99% toy ads masquerading as authentic content. Netflix has a pretty good age limiter and well produced TV-shows. Disney+ has Bluey and a ton of other content. AppleTV+ has a few good ones too, but not as much as the two big ones. Paying the few coins fo…
No YouTube for my kids either. What's really freaky is that some kids in their grade (elementary school) have YouTube accounts and make videos supposedly!
Also, Bluey is an incredible show. I'd probably watch it independently, the parents are hilarious.
Re: YouTube has become the world's nanny
#25YouTube is terrifying. Ever since I read about people faking up Peppa Pig episodes with inappropriate content, I keep my two kids (3yr and 7yr) away from it. Edit: „Elsagate“ seems to be the appropriate term. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-39381889.amp
There is a lot of gacha content too. Inappropriate cartoons that look like furry animation, that was some weird rabbit hole I went into. And many of those had the "cannot minimize it because it is kids content."
I think it's best to download content to usb stick and plug it in the tv. You know your kids would probably be safer that way.
Re: YouTube has become the world's nanny
#26I don't let my kids watch YouTube, but I sometimes watch with them. There is a whole world of incredibly wholesome farmer YouTubers, showing off their day-to-day life. I also use Invidious.
Re: YouTube has become the world's nanny
#27Nope, nope nope. My kid is 10 and still doesn't know a single Youtuber by name and doesn't really watch Youtube. We did try Youtube Kids at one point, but it was just 99% toy ads masquerading as authentic content. Netflix has a pretty good age limiter and well produced TV-shows. Disney+ has Bluey and a ton of other content. AppleTV+ has a few good ones too, but not as much as the two big ones. Paying the few coins fo…
>>My kid is 10 and still doesn't know a single Youtuber by name Authentic curiosity - does your child not go to a normal school? In my experience you can literally detach your home from the internet and live without electricity, but the second your kids go to school they instantly know all the latest fads and videos and what not. To make it to 10 without being at least somewhat familiar with youtube through that expo…
[flagged]
Re: YouTube has become the world's nanny
#28As a new(ish) parent, I'm astonished at how readily most parents hand off their kids over to YouTube/tablet/phone. I even saw a stroller the other day with a permanent mount for the phone. I haven't banned YouTube (yet), but I have limited it almost completely due to concerns about the long-term effects of extended use from such an early age. Those concerns will only deepen as my son gets older - there's a lot of goo…
I tried YouTube Kids a few years ago, the experience was not great - content isn't pre-screened, so weird stuff can slip through the cracks. It's also obviously not being maintained with a sincere attempt to solve the problems that parents actually have - for example, as your kid gets older and they get a google account, they can't sign in to YouTube Kids, you have to sign in with an Adult account, but then that account is on their iPad and available to any other Google apps they have installed.
Parental restrictions on Google accounts also don't let you easily limit a child's account to an allowlist of approved channels. I would love to let my kids use their daily screen time to learn/enjoy a mix of channels my wife and I have vetted, but it's excruciatingly difficult to actually do this, to the point that I've given up trying.
Our approach has ended up being that when the kids ask to watch a youtube video about something, we send them a link to a video via iMessage - watching the video in the Messages app shows just the video, no comments, no "suggested" videos, and it's sufficiently high friction to get us to do it that they don't ask very often.
My next experiment will be using https://github.com/Tzahi12345/YoutubeDL-Material to download videos from our allowlisted channels, but I super resent that I'm having to engineer solutions to Google's disinterest.
Re: YouTube has become the world's nanny
#29Nope, nope nope. My kid is 10 and still doesn't know a single Youtuber by name and doesn't really watch Youtube. We did try Youtube Kids at one point, but it was just 99% toy ads masquerading as authentic content. Netflix has a pretty good age limiter and well produced TV-shows. Disney+ has Bluey and a ton of other content. AppleTV+ has a few good ones too, but not as much as the two big ones. Paying the few coins fo…
but is there any better alternative?
Re: YouTube has become the world's nanny
#30Why not just take ur kids on a hike on the weekend or read some books? Both are free (parks and libraries) and better than burning your kid’s eyeballs. Update: nobody wants to put in effort. No surprise there, poor kids :(
Because I can't fit a 3 hour hike in the car ride to school.
You can fit a book, though