Say goodbye to machine-gun Elsa. Credit: screenshot/youtube YouTube is finally taking bigger steps to combat inappropriate videos targeted toward children. In October,Mashable first reportedthat weird, creepy, and downright inappropriate videos were slipping through filters on YouTube Kids, an app ...
YouTube Kidsis flooded with inappropriate content. The videos, purportedly pushed out by content farms who value profit over kid’s wellbeings, feature innocent characters such as Peppa Pig, Elsa fromFrozen, and Spiderman taking part in not so innocent acts. The videos are unsanctioned, disturbin...
In their attempt to get children clicking, content creators seem to be upping the ante and straying into adult content. Although few of the Spiderman and Elsavideos currently trending are explicitly violent, they all demonstrate a fondness for the extreme, whether that involvesartificial burningoracc...
If you're looking to move your children away from the Kinder Egg–opening videos they're usually drawn to, here are six cooking-focused YouTube channels that are great for kids. When Can My Kid Learn to Use a Knife? 1. Miniature Space ...
Many of her most popular videos include tips on how to use clothes and makeup to transform oneself into characters from the Disney universe, including Ariel from The Little Mermaid and Elsa from Frozen. She previously made a living by impersonating pop star Miley Cyrus. 28 MangoS...
But TheLocalGamer proceeded to lay out the problem, hiding in plain sight on some of YouTube’s most popular children’s channels: creators were drawing children in with familiar characters — most notably Elsa from Frozen, but also Spider-Man and the Joker — then arranging them in bizarre...
“Ikaw,” featuring fiance Victor Asuncion.Google has a separate poll for non-music videos but in its no surprise that music also dominated the list in country widely known for its musical talents.The sing-along version of “Let It Go” from Disney’s Frozen leads the non-music video poll...
on the platform’s supposedly age-appropriate youtube kids app. these videos, which depicted child abuse, murder, and other r-rated content, often featured popular children’s tv characters like peppa pig or frozen ’s elsa, or hid under innocuous titles, which apparently helped them fly ...
(opens in a new tab)hosts the video along with dozens of others like it. The Elsa shootout has over 5 million views, and was uploaded last month. Considering it was accessed on the Kids app, it was available for viewing by millions of children. The app has been downloaded 50 million ...
The YouTube Kids app is a sort of an atonement for its previous lack of moderation. In April,BuzzFeed reported thatYouTube planned to keep creepy videos away from children with a team of actual humans who would hand-curate appropriate videos. It appears that some still slip through the crack...