Writer and artist James Bridle uncovers a dark, strange corner of the internet, where unknown people or groups on YouTube hack the brains of young children in return for advertising revenue. From “surprise egg” reveals and the “Finger Family Song” to algorithmically created mashups of familiar cartoon characters in violent situations, these videos exploit and terrify young minds — and they tell us something about where our increasingly data-driven world is headed. “We need to stop thinking about technology as a solution to all of our problems, but think of it as a guide to what those problems actually are, so we can start thinking about them properly and start to address them,” Bridle says.
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Is the mic going through his lobe extender?
NOT COOKIE SWIRL C !!
It literally gives kids a gambling addiction, which is pretty wrong.
the rebellion has begun
I couldn't agree more!
I once babysat an artistic kid who spent his afternoons plugged into kids YouTube…I started paying attention one day and suddenly noticed that a one video had some really sexual stuff hidden in it. I blocked the channel but since then I don’t think I’d allow a kid on YouTube.
"Fake news for kids"
Yep, sums it up perfectly
I feel like there has to be an age for kids shows to reach meme status like teletubbies, and then it and many others got revived and stopped the morality of the situation
Good I’m not here
No
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Thou shall not pass
WHEN WILL TED COME TO THE TALK
Brilliant!!!!
I’m really worried about the next generation ?
I've watched some other Youtube contents creators comment towards this, the word nightmare is the most similar presentation from every adult or matured response or maybe even those goofy guys you might saw young people watch today like Idubbz or H3H3, they are disgusted by this particular thing too.
I guess that's where it has come to a serious level.
What is happening to those poor little children ?
I really happy when I growing up,I used to watch normal pro minecraft player with mode showcase. And not seeing hitler in full produced body.
Damn man I can’t do the finger family crap euughhhhh
8:06 YOU PICKED THE WRONG HOUSE PO
Just mentioning the finger family has got that tune stuck in my head from watching a video about the weird kids content on youtube months ago.
I am happy to be born in a time without youtube
Wow… dang.
My three year old cousin came to visit us a few months ago and the first thing she did on the TV is watch these “unboxing” videos. And yes- SHE DID SCREAM WHEN WE TRIED TO WATCH SOMETHING ELSE. I never knew, this crap is addicting for little kids. God.
whenever I'm in the bus I'll usually see a toddler with a tablet shoved into their hands while their mum is on their phone talking to someone or whatever and then I'll look at what the kids watching and I'm like "am I gosh darn high"
My little brother sent this to me
I raised him well
Omg I saw some of the songs my baby brother watches ?
Me just getting done watching mystery box openings
"It isn't adults watching these"
Oh…ahem..
It's a good thing I only watched life hacks for kids when I was 3-7
My 6 year old cousin watches those messed up cartoons, I literally need to disable his internet to stop WATCHIN… Elsa and spiderman, ya know..
Completely offtopic, but he kind of looks like a tanner Nathan Sharp, to me.
I lovvvve all the parents’ comments defending their child’s YouTube use as if they didn’t even hear this guy
Uh, aren't surprise eggs illegal in the US?
WE HAVE KINDER JOY, THE HECKIN KNOCKOFF FROM CHINA.
Every single young parent has to watch this!!!
I'm a 13 year old girl, and I've seen some of these videos. A lot of people in the comments section are sugarcoating everything. But I'm going to get rid of the sugar and give you the bare facts.
• People make these videos to earn money.
• Most of these videos are all the same theme.
• A lot of parents don't know what their kids are watching online.
These videos make me sick to my stomach. It feels like children are being exposed to far too much at such a young age.
Overdramaticizing just innocent childrens rhymes and songs that are completely idiotic.
The violent things sure, those are bad, but the entire first half of the video is dumb.
Can your average person really not recall anything about their childhood? These were probably around since before the alphabet and equally annoying, but whoa now it's on the internet where everything spawns a billion people copying it, so it's sCAaaAAaAry!!!
"[…]systems optimized for the absolute worst aspect of human behavior[…]"
Ah yes, must be why youtube recommends me videos about the importance of genocide all the time!
There is a point of 'too much hyperbole' and this guy just passed it.
Beware of YouTube
As seen on YouTube
It's simply stupid that people want frekkin paper, in return to destroy other people. That's just INSANE it's frustrating
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