• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    My 5yo loves video game videos on YouTube.

    Particularly Mario Odyssey hacks. But also getting into the real difficult Mario Maker courses

    Kid has completely destroyed up my YouTube algorithm. It’s part of the reason I signed up for nebula.

    He loves playing games too, though.

    Still I wish I could get him off YouTube. There’s so much crap on there and he doesn’t know what’s what. He knows now he’s not allowed to watch YouTube without an adult in the room, but even when I’m in there, I don’t know what the hell is going to be in the video that he clicks. There’s no TV-Y7 or TV-G ratings on YouTube. And there’s so many lies and fake stuff. Kid was heartbroken when he found out that a Mario Movie 2 trailer was a hoax.

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      Kid has completely destroyed up my YouTube algorithm. It’s part of the reason I signed up for nebula.

      Just FYI you can either use YouTube kids, or just make another account to easily keep separate profiles.

      There’s no TV-Y7 or TV-G ratings on YouTube.

      YouTube kids is.

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        4 months ago

        You can also just create a new channel in your account and it will create a separate YouTube sub account with its own feed.

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      Youtube is crack for children. My nephew loves watching Minecraft videos. He doesn’t know what Minecraft is. He mainly watches some animal shows. Every now and then when i check what he’s watching, he watches some content farm shit. One time he watched this video where they just filmed a small child in a mall and made stupid sound effects and fart sounds. The video had millions of views and it was just absolute brain rot garbage.

      It goes so far that he doesn’t even want to watch a movie when he comes over. Watching a great animated movie in a home theater? Uhm, can i watch some youtube instead. It’s a bit freaky. And it’s not like he’s allowed to even watch a lot. He gets maybe 15 to 30 minutes if he behaves

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        I’m glad my kid hasn’t stumbled into that side of YouTube. It’s part of the reason I don’t want to install YouTube kids. I know the same content is on the main app, but it’s just there on YTKids

        I personally love YouTube and I’d sympathize with your nephew, except I binge on 15-minute-explainers. That shits my lifeblood.

        At least the channels he watches are usually well narrated.

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      Kid has completely destroyed up my YouTube algorithm.

      I ended up having to give my kid my Steam account and I created another one. So my kid’s steam account is almost as old as he is.