YouTube cracks down on bizarre videos targeting children

[Ceist]

article tries to make it sound like horrible people are trying to mess with kids.

when the real story is, youtube tried to make a large filter on their website to target kids themselves, and they forgeted up with the sorting. this article is an attempt to pass blame.

Yes an no. I've actually watched some of these "children" videos. Some get pretty graphic with no explanation why. The use of feces, violence, and gore can be seen in a few of them.

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[Trogtor]

my theory is that these children channels are all literally bots generating videos. and I'm talking about the 3d animated ones with the nursery rhymes and heads of different characters plastered on the models. they rack up so many views from other bot channels that comment in really broken english.

[Dark Blockland Guard alt.]

they rack up so many views from other bot channels that comment in really broken english.

Well, I always thought that they used some sort of thing where it modifies the viewer and subscriber counts to something enormous.

[Nix the Glaceon]

my theory is that these children channels are all literally bots generating videos. and I'm talking about the 3d animated ones with the nursery rhymes and heads of different characters plastered on the models. they rack up so many views from other bot channels that comment in really broken english.

technically they are
these toy channels constantly leave comments on each other's videos and it's all copy-paste nonsense

[torin²]

when i have kids I'm gonna have some sort of filter that only shows videos posted pre 2009. no age filter or anything. if they're gonna watch YouTube vids its gonna be that good classic stuff. no kid of mine is gonna watch some soiled ass kid in a gamer chair play Minecraft for thirty minutes. they gonna watch funny pivot videos and charlie bit my finger

trogtor for president 2020

[Red Spy]

is this the light at the end of the tunnel

[Shift Kitty]

article tries to make it sound like horrible people are trying to mess with kids.

when the real story is, youtube tried to make a large filter on their website to target kids themselves, and they forgeted up with the sorting. this article is an attempt to pass blame.

*forgeted up videos have always existed, its youtube.
*youtube creates problem by targeting children and adding forgeted up videos
*no one notices
*youtube fixed their error
*PR firm outs an issue that didnt exist, and the internet pats youtube on the back for saving the children

Not at all.
The videos were not even made by people. They were dynamically generated using some keywords by a bot, with intention of directing these videos to kids. It's not to mess with them though. It's literally just for profit and they don't check to see if the video is good, or even appropriate. Youtube is just doing it's job in making sure videos reach their target audience. If a kid looks up Peppa pig, they're going to get Peppa pig videos. These channels have Peppa pig videos. The kids are going to get the videos from this channel. They are now looking at this channel, they're going to start getting everything else from this channel. Or Elsa or whoever else.

Youtube's humans are now doing their job after discovering this by cleaning it up.

[Tayasaurus]

so basically i don't have to see cringily named channels like

peppa pig hulk tractor farm song for children cartoon

[Nix the Glaceon]

its the end of the road for minions banana baby

[Fire Vine]

jesus finnaly

[Tactical Nuke]

I too am glad that some stuffty-but-not-dangerous content that was made with the help of YouTube's stuffty algorithm is getting regulated off of YouTube because two lefties decided to complain about it in the news. This instead of, idk, fixing the algorithm, removing the algorithm altogether, y'know, permanent fixes.

Really makes you think why bigger issues haven't been dealt with yet.

[Rockinboy2000]

well there goes my research, thanks youtube

[Shift Kitty]

I too am glad that some stuffty-but-not-dangerous content that was made with the help of YouTube's stuffty algorithm is getting regulated off of YouTube because two lefties decided to complain about it in the news. This instead of, idk, fixing the algorithm, removing the algorithm altogether, y'know, permanent fixes.

Really makes you think why bigger issues haven't been dealt with yet.

Why would you want it removed? The problem isn't the system itself. It's the reason you find content relevant to what you're watching in the first place. The problem was someone intentionally manipulating it.

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[ButlerBlockhead125]

I'm fairly certain YouTube hand watches all of Mumkey Jones's videos, who made a video on this exact subject like 5 days ago, got suspended and then I suspended from YouTube like 4 times, and was the same guy that made the diary of a wimpy kid sociopath conspiracy video.