History Main / WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids

*** [[https://youtu.be/F8rcflM9tqE The story of Susanna]]. The video says it's for kids, but a courtroom drama about lust, rape, and defamation that ends in execution is far from a children's story.

*** The books of Maccabees -- [[https://youtu.be/4ZWFHl-4FVQ it has an Animated Hero Classic]] although the beginning of the story where Mattathias murders a fellow Jew ''on an altar'' is not exactly kid-friendly. No wonder Martin Luther decided to remove them. Also the bit where an entire Jewish family is gruesomely tortured to death by Antiochus (and it's described in ''detail'').

* Despite being a kid friendly series, many ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' fanfics are not meant for kids. They often go to places that the show would never dare go too and read like epic thrillers. ''FanFic/RhymeAndReason'' and ''Webcomic/OfMiceAndMayhem'' are easily the two best examples.

* Several Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Kids' Choice Awards nominees are definitely ''not'' kid-friendly and some will wonder why they were nominated in the first place. Examples include countless PG-13 movies nominated for and won Favorite Movie and related movie awards over the years, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' (both have been nominated several times before), and LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}, nominated in 2018 and 2019.

* At [=VidCon=] 2016, a game of Funemployed[[note]]A game where you are given cards with statements on them, and must then use those statements as reasons to be hired for a job.[[/note]] was played between LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}, LetsPlay/JackSepticEye, WebVideo/EmmaBlackery, and Comicstorian. Before the game, Markiplier announced that they were not allowed to curse or scream during the game, to the annoyance of the other players. However, the group quickly found out that several cards were less child-friendly than any curses they could have been saying, as the cards mentioned things like "Uncontrollable Libidos" and "Wet Dreams".

* In some episodes of ''[[WebVideo/{{REACT}} Kids React]]'', the children will occasionally be shown age-inappropriate videos that are either censored (like the episode about ''Film/TheRoom'') or they have a choice to opt out of if they don't feel like watching it. (like the ''Film/ItChapterTwo'' trailer, which was a "How Long Can You Watch?" challenge) Aside from this, sometimes the kids on the show either reference age-inappropriate franchises or come in with merchandise related to it. For instance, in both the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTeddyRuxpin Teddy Ruxpin]]'' and ''Toys/{{Furby}}'' episodes, kids compared the toys to ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'', and in the aforementioned ''The Room'' episode, a kid wore a T-shirt depicting ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''.

* ''Webcomic/TheMurderOfMe'' is a ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fancomic whose creator, Gigi Dutreix, [[PromotedFan works]] on the [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW official IDW comics]], but it's ''not'' for children. It's a CosmicHorrorStory, there's plenty of blood, and the violence can get graphic. What did you expect from a comic with "murder" in the title?

** [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids/IceboxEntertainment Icebox Entertainment]]

* Despite the lack of evidences, many scholars and historians theorize that most Nursery Rhymes were originally written as political satire.

** [=LPSlover’s=] videos are often not appropriate for children either, despite many of the characters’ goofy nature. One example, ''Grave Matters'', includes the topics of horror, violence, and even abuse. Her newer videos have become increasingly obscene, with even the use of hard swears in ALL CAPS of the videos' descriptions to make sure COPPA doesn't try to get their hands on them.

* From ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' franchise there's the fanfic ''Fanfic/ZeldasHonor''. The story is anything but kid friendly and gives off a vibe akin to ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', complete with plenty of gore, violence, rape and other adult themes. Young readers thinking it would be okay to read because it deals with a kid-friendly franchise would be sorely mistaken.

* Just because it features cute anime girls, none of the members of the streaming collective WebVideo/VShojo should be watched by kids. All the girls usually indulge in swearing, frequently talk about sex and related topics and are generally very lewd. Even Froot and Silvervale, the least lewd members of the group are nowhere near kid friendly.

* At [=VidCon=] 2016, a game of Funemployed[[note]]A game where you are given cards with statements on them, and must then use those statements as reasons to be hired for a job.[[/note]] was played between LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}, LetsPlay/JackSepticEye, WebVideo/EmmaBlackery, and Comicstorian. Before the game, Markiplier announced that were not allowed to curse or scream during the game, to the annoyance of the other players. However, the group quickly found out that several cards were less child-friendly than any curses they could have been saying, as the cards mentioned things like "Uncontrollable Libidos" and "Wet Dreams".

* Burger King's "Kids' Club" meals included toys based on the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' film ''Eclipse''... which was rated PG-13 and not aimed at younger kids at ''all.''

* Several Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Kids' Choice Awards nominees are definitely ''not'' kid-friendly and some will wonder why they were nominated in the first place. Examples include countless PG-13 movies nominated for and won Favorite Movie and related movie awards over the years, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' (both have been nominated several times before), and LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}, nominated in 2018 and 2019.

In [[TurnOfTheMillennium the late 2000s]], Wrestling/{{WWE}} tried to steer itself back toward more family-friendly entertainment, due to Wrestling/JohnCena's kid-friendly appeal, the [[Wrestling/ChrisBenoit Chris Benoit tragedy]], and Linda [=McMahon=]'s repeated failed political campaigns, but even that seems to be over now, although WWE programming is still rated TV-PG in spite of a growth in slightly edgier content.

* Even though ''Webcomic/GhostsOfTheFuture'' is a fan comic of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'', a kid-friendly video game series, and created by Evan Stanley, who is now an official Sonic comic artist and writer, it is ''not'' for children. The comic [[DownerBeginning starts off]] with Sonic and his best friends being bloodily [[PlotTriggeringDeath massacred]] by a mind-controlled Shadow, which results in Sonic and Shadow enduring trauma and [[ItsAllMyFault guilt]]. There's brutal violence and bloodshed, profanity, sexual innuendo[[note]]such as the VisualInnuendo of the Sorceress holding the long neck of a jug between her breasts[[/note]], and a brief, non-sexual, and partial nudity in the form of [[NippleAndDimed a female's exposed breasts]]. Nevertheless, little kids still read the comic and their parents even read it to littler ones, [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/755905710/4621971269 so]] Stanley added {{Content Warnings}} to the [[BloodyHorror issue 17 incident]].
* ''Webcomic/TheMurderOfMe'' is a ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' fancomic whose creator, Gigi Dutreix, [[PromotedFan works]] on the [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW official IDW comics]], but it's ''not'' for children. It's a CosmicHorrorStory, there's plenty of blood, and the violence can get graphic. What did you expect from a comic with "murder" in the title?

* [[https://www.youtube.com/user/SmashBits/ SmashBits Animation]] may produce parody animations of kids' favorite video games, such as ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'', ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'', and ''VideoGame/{{Roblox}}'', but they really aren't kids' material, with swearing and vulgar humor. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ0rOpWGBbo This audience reaction is allegedly why their channel was terminated for a while.]]

* You'd think that since Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses reviewers often review children and family films and entertainment that it'd be appropriate for children. You'd be wrong. Even [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] (the "tamest" of them all) shows comics featuring gore, sexual innuendo, drug use, and fanservice (though to be fair, he is criticizing these scenes).

** [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGnvt3CPfQ0NtzbrdZ_yp9g/channels These set of channels]] portraying ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' characters doing Let's Play and Reaction videos. Because those characters are from a kid-friendy video game series, one may expect the channels to be kid-friendly also. The portrayals are way more mature than their canon ones, with swearing more severe than ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' would allow, some vulgar commentary, and coverage of kid-unfriendly works, including adults-only ones, especially Shadow the Hedgehog and Infinite the Jackal. The most popular one, Shadow the Hedgehog, establishes that the channel "is not intended to be the original character in anyway.. is completely a parody channel", most likely to sway away those who were expecting Sega's version of Shadow.

* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'' is well-known for being an infamous example of this. Many children are fans because of the fact that most of the characters are plushies of ''Franchise/SuperMario'' characters who are placed in the roles of elementary school-aged kids and their parents. However, the show contains a ton of cursing and adult themes and jokes they wouldn't understand. This didn't stop several videos from accidentally being put on the [=YouTube=] Kids app simply because they had "Mario" in the title, leading to a child finding them and [[https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5119897/youtube-puppet-jeffy-taught-child-put-noose-around-neck/ attempting to copy a suicide scene]] in one of the episodes. This lead to the channel's videos being demonetized and age-restricted, causing [=YouTube=] Kids to remove them from their app and Logan telling his fans that the videos were not meant for children in the first place. Months after this, a good amount of kids were still watching [=SuperMarioLogan=], leading to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21HNePHFuPM national news show Good Morning America doing a segment warning parents of the videos]] and [[https://www.brainerddispatch.com/news/4407991-garfield-elementary-children-disciplined-mimicking-obscene-youtube-puppet at least one elementary school sending a letter to parents]] on the subject.

** The infamous SurpriseCreepy song "[=MopeMope=]" by [=LeaF=] and Optie, which starts off with a cheerful jingle and animations of cute smiling flowers and bouncing ball creatures before degrading into a mess of otherworldly horrors and a hellish arrangement of itself, got flagged as a kids' video, in spite of Optie putting a content warning in the video description. After Optie appealed to [=YouTube=], its kids' designation was removed.

* ''Webcomic/BladeUnderMask'' is set in a Japanese inspired world inhabited by anthropomorphic bugs and is about Nae, a female mantis becoming a {{geisha}}, who begins to suffer NightmareFuel-induced hallucinations. The art style could be mistaken for being aimed at children, but it really isn't due to scenes like Nae's adopted mother striking her with a bamboo stick, her adopted brother having a threesome with two female moths and her [[ADateWithRosiePalms touching herself]] after that.

** [[http://hecknopoohsadventures.tumblr.com/post/143686938857/actual-paragraphs-from-the-plot-of-poohs Some scenes]] for the upcoming ''Pooh's Adventures of Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School'' includes scenes like Meg flashing her breasts, and [[ADateWithRosiePalms implied wanking]] despite sanitizing other more adult elements.

* [[Wrestling/WorldChampionshipWrestling WCW Thunder]] is a unique case. While its U.S. broadcaster Creator/{{TBS}} aired the show on Thursdays at 8:00 PM, it was aired in Indonesia on Indosiar on Sundays at noon 00:30 PM local time, where children usually spent their time watching television with their parents. Keep in mind that during the Monday Night Wars era, the content of pro wrestling was getting progessively edgier (mainly thanks to the influence of Wrestling/{{ECW}}), meaning the families tuning in to watch were greeted with wrestlers hitting each other with chairs, baseball bats and so on while peppering promos with swearing and with female valets wearing skimpy clothes acting suggestively around them -- all of which the Indonesian censors didn't even try to go after.

In [[TurnOfTheMillennium the late 2000s]], Wrestling/{{WWE}} tried to steer itself back toward more family-friendly entertainment, due to Wrestling/JohnCena's kid-friendly appeal, the [[Wrestling/ChrisBenoit Chris Benoit tragedy]], and Linda [=McMahon=]'s repeated failed political campaigns, but even that seems to be over now, although WWE programming is still rated TV-PG.
* [[Wrestling/WorldChampionshipWrestling WCW'S Thunder]] is a unique case. While the U.S. television station (TBS) aired the show on Thursday at 08:00 PM, it was aired in Indonesia tv station (Indosiar) on Sunday at noon 00:30 PM where children usually spent their time watching television with their parents, implying that Indonesian government was okay with letting children watching a show where people hitting each other with chairs, baseball bat, and so on while talking slurs and women valets wearing skimpy clothes doing suggestive moves.

* There's a Toys/{{LEGO}} set of 123 Sesame Street, including minifigures of characters such as Elmo, Big Bird, and Cookie Monster. However, it is ''not'' meant to be built by the age group that watches ''Series/SesameStreet'': it's a large, challenging build composed of over a thousand pieces, created for (and by, as it's a [[OfficialFanSubmittedContent LEGO Ideas set]]) adults who grew up watching the show, with nostalgia being one of its main selling points. The box labels it as an 18+ set, in case you thought it was a good birthday present for your Creator/PBSKids-addicted toddler.

** [=LPSlover’s=] videos are often not appropriate for children either, despite many of the characters’ goofy nature. ''Grave Matters'' includes the topics of horror, violence, and even abuse, and even in one recent video of hers, there is also a usage of the F-bomb.

* [[Wrestling/WorldChampionshipWrestling WCW'S Thunder]] is a unique case. While the U.S. television station (TBS) aired the show on Thursday at 08:00 PM, it was aired in Indonesia tv station (Indosiar) on Sunday at noon 00:30 PM where children usually spent their time watching television with their parents, implying that Indonesian government was okay with letting children watching a show where that people hitting each other with chairs, baseball bat, and so on while talking slurs and women valets wearing skimpy clothes doing suggestive moves.

* [[Wrestling/WorldChampionshipWrestling WCW'S Thunder]] is a unique case. While the U.S. television station (TBS) aired the show on Thursday at 08:00 PM, it was aired in Indonesia tv station (Indosiar) on Sunday at 12:30 PM where children usually spent their time watching television with their parents, implying that Indonesian government was okay with letting children watching a show where that people hitting each other with chairs, baseball bat, and so on while talking slurs and women valets wearing skimpy clothes doing suggestive moves.

* [[Wrestling/WorldChampionshipWrestling WCW'S Thunder]] is a unique case. While the U.S. television station (TBS) aired the show on Thursday at 08:00 PM, it was aired in Indonesia tv station (Indosiar) on Sunday at 01:00 PM where children usually spent their time watching television with their parents, implying that Indonesian government was okay with letting children watching a show where that people hitting each other with chairs, baseball bat, and so on while talking slurs and women valets wearing skimpy clothes doing suggestive moves.

* [[Wrestling/WorldChampionshipWrestling WCW'S Thunder]] is a unique case. While the U.S. television station (TBS) aired the show on Thursday at 08:00 PM, it was aired in Indonesia tv station (Indosia) on Sunday at 01:00 PM where children usually spent their time watching television with their parents, implying that Indonesian government was okay with letting children watching a show where that people hitting each other with chairs, baseball bat, and so on while talking slurs and women valets wearing skimpy clothes doing suggestive moves.

* [[Wrestling/WorldChampionshipWrestling WCW'S Thunder]] is a unique case. While the U.S. television station (TBS) aired the show on Thursday at 08:00 PM, it was aired in Indonesia (Indosiar tv station) on Sunday at 01:00 PM where children usually spent their time watching television with their parents, implying that Indonesian government was okay with letting children watching a show where that people hitting each other with chairs, baseball bat, and so on while talking slurs and women valets wearing skimpy clothes doing suggestive moves.

* While there are plenty of fan games out there based on the kid-friendly ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series, a number of them aren't all that suitable for kids for various reasons. For just two examples, there's ''VideoGame/PokemonUranium'' (with a plot that centers around ''nuclear meltdowns and fallout'' and the consequences thereof) and ''VideoGame/PokemonInsurgence'' (which not only features a lot of violence and BodyHorror, but also has a difficulty curve more suited for competitive ''Pokémon'' players than casual fans or kids).

* Comic strips as a whole arguably suffer from this even more than even animation due to newspaper censorship. There are many adult newspaper comics such as ComicStrip/TheBoondocks, ComicStrip/Doonesbury, and ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine who, despite their design, are intended strictly for adults and not suited for people of all ages.. They often frequently get censored when covering more touchy subjects.

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* Comic Strips as a whole arguably suffer from this even more than even animation due to Newspaper censorship. There are many Adult newspaper comics such as The Boondocks, Doonesbury, and Pearls Before Swine. They often frequently get censored when covering more touchy subjects.
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