I watch plenty of YouTube. For music, jiu-jitsu, comedy, and more. But I won’t be letting my kid watch it unsupervised.
Here’s a collection of things about the bad parts of YouTube.
Kids / Creepy
- “The Nightmare of Children’s YouTube”: TED Talk, Medium post
- “On YouTube, a network of paedophiles is hiding in plain sight”: Wired UK
- “Kids YouTube Star Blippi “Regrets” The Viral Video In Which He Poops All Over His Friend”: BuzzFeed News
- “Inside Elsagate, the Conspiracy-Fueled War on Creepy YouTube Kids Videos”: The Verge
- “YouTube is Basically a Zoo Where the Lions Eat Puppies”: Fatherly
- “Protect Our Kids”: PediMom
- “Children’s YouTube is Still Churning Out Blood, Suicide, and Cannibalism” Wired UK
- “YouTubers Are Fighting Algorithms to Make Good Content for Kids”: Motherboard
- “YouTube’s Newest Far-Right, Foul-Mouthed, Red-Pilling Star Is A 14-Year-Old Girl”: Buzzfeed
- “The Most Popular Kids’ Video Site in the World Isn’t for Kids”: Bloomberg
- “On YouTube’s Digital Playground, an Open Gate for Pedophiles”: NY Times
Conspiracy
- “The Reason Conspiracy Videos Work So Well on YouTube”: The Atlantic
- “YouTube Lets California Fire Conspiracy Theories Run Wild”: Motherboard