violent or sexual situations. Examples include Nickelodeon characters dying in a fiery car crash and pole-dancing in a strip club, and popular British kids’ character Peppa Pig drinking bleach or enduring ahorrific visit to the dentist
The first line of defense for YouTube Kids are algorithmic filters. After that, there is a team of humans that review videos which have been flagged. If a video with recognizable children’s characters gets flagged in YouTube’s main app, which is much larger than the Kids app, it will ...
The takedown efforts have inspired a backlash from some kids’ video creators, but the broader reaction to these videos — which feature things like superheroes being buried alive, beloved cartoons drinking bleach, and children being force-fed and then throwing up — has been to forcefully con...