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You legitimately think no kid/toddler ever has thrown a tantrum over being told to stop watching tv/stop playing videogames?

Like... are you doing a bit?

Edited by Ghilz on Mar 30th 2024 at 5:41:48 AM

Television addiction was indeed the "social media addiction" of my era. Ever heard the term "couch potato"?

Edited by Fighteer on Mar 30th 2024 at 6:03:29 AM

Heck, I'm sure I've thrown tantrums when I was a kid at being told to stop watching TV by my parents.

And in the 90s it was Videogames who was the big addiction concern.

there was a time when reading books was seen as dangerous,I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfXlgE23FMk&t=891s

NEW SPOOKY MONTH! Now I have a question: Why does the Newgrounds version get the actual lore stuff but the Youtube one just gets the jumpscare lady. Is there a reason for this given anywhere?

Books used to be banned left and right back then. Heck, they even banned Dr. Seuss' The Lorax for the supposed accusations about the book trying to paint the logging industry in a bad light, when that is clearly not the actual intention of the book.

I mean, that was her experience. Just because you can come up with a different one doesn't invalidate that one.

I don't know why you're being so difficult. Are you playing a bit?

Maybe everyone should step away from this convo?

So, does anyone know why You Tube is no longer doing their yearly rewind videos?

Because they've been extremely unpopular.

They stopped in 2020 due to the pandemic and in 2021 You Tube announced they'd not bring them back. In guessing the fact they tended to have abysmal reception, along with big YouTubers ability to end up involved in scandals potentially making those videos akward as hell made the decision to just not bother appealing.

Plus ya know it's just cheaper not to

Even when they made them they explained it was hard to make something that felt representative (see their reception) so that probably weighted in on the "Why bother" scale

Edited by Ghilz on Mar 30th 2024 at 1:33:40 PM

It didn't help that 2019 played it too safe and it was basically a glorified Watch Mojo video.

So fun discovery of the day, you can actually set You Tube Kids to only let the kid view videos, channels or groups that you’ve approved from the parent account, but it’s such a pain to do so that it feels like You Tube have made it deliberatly difficult so you’ll give up and default to their own age based categorisations.

Yeah, and that also requires that the parents do a lot of searching of Youtube for good channels, which they may lack the time or experience for.

I think the underlying problem is that there is no curation system for Youtube. It's not like television, where every program is checked for appropriateness by the channel beforehand. On Youtube, the user has to do that themselves, and that's kind of an impossible task.

Channels do control the appropriateness of what they upload, what we’re seeing is that parents have been subscribing to channels which will upload whatever makes them the most money without any concern for child wellbeing.

If you set a You Tube kid’s account to only subscribe to Disney and CBBC then you’ve got Disney and the BBC curating the content for you.

Edited by Silasw on Mar 31st 2024 at 12:57:38 PM

Good point, Silas, thanks. I may have a chat with my sister, maybe she can set that up. Thanks for being helpful.

Back when my mom ran a childcare, she mostly only had the kids watching PBS, I think they're good.

Man, watching older youtube videos with animated squares at the end really shows their Unintentional Period Piece. Why did youtube remove them (I believe tied to annotations?) again?

Edited by Ookamikun on Mar 31st 2024 at 11:52:16 PM

X3 Happy to help. I actually discovered all this because my sister was visiting and saying how she was letting her son use You Tube Kids less because it kept recommending trash, so I got her to let me poke around in the settings menu to see if I could find a way to tighten things up.

So this is mostly peripherally related to YouTube since most of the hooplah is happening over on Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram, but I'd say it still counts given that it's Smosh, but it's amazing how much they've completely incited their fanbase into a rabid frenzy over trying to figure out if Shayne and Courtney actually did get married or if it's one massively elaborate April Fool's prank, given that if it's a prank, it's one that spans back months. Even their weekly podcast today was just one massive troll that their fans genuinely can't decide if it's real or not.

Has Youtube been running like shit on Chrome for anyone else? Videos only play for a few seconds before buffering, and loading the comments and other videos makes the page lag like crazy.

I use Chrome, and it runs fine for me, other then a video stuttering a bit at the start some times, but I chalk that up to the ad blocker that I use.

Not loading properly for me in Chrome. The site will load but it's just blank grey shapes and no sidebar

So, I'm wondering, how come You Tube doesn't put in security measures for their site, whenever a content creator's account gets hacked? Lately, there's been a lot of You Tube accounts being hacked (mostly through emails that a content creator gets from a fake sponsor) and yet, You Tube doesn't seem to do much to make sure that accounts don't get hacked.

Edited by Rabbitearsblog on Apr 7th 2024 at 8:27:42 AM

Because there's literally no defense against someone giving the "hacker" their password.