more like sloptube slops
I’m a grown adult and I think those thumbnails are gonna give me nightmares holy shit
What in tarnation?
And parents in my generation clutched their pearls at Looney Toons cartoons. What the actual fuck?
This reminds me of garbage pail kids cards.
gross, we are so doomed
I hope my child inherits my lack of reaction to this stuff. I find short form video content immensely boring. I cannot relate at all to people’s ability to spend more than a couple of minutes with it.
Caught my 7yo niece consuming disney princess cosplay ahegao content on youtube shorts yesterday. =\ she’s not allowed on YouTube anymore, the platform is too unsafe for children.
But Google forbid if someone says rape, murder, suicide or any number of no-no words. Then that video is demonetized.
the platform was never safe, parents are just ignorant
I have a 12 year old. I considered YouTube unsafe for her unsupervised, when she was growing up (and largely still do, we have a healthy teamwork approach to it). The place is just magnitudes worse now. And yep, parents are super ignorant (and have been), they have no idea what the kids are even watching, many don’t really restrict the time they spend at all.
Evolution was a mistake.
I have a young child who will be using the web eventually and it terrifies me. I’m going to have to do something to lock it down to keep out the brain rot
It’s the number of view they’re getting that worries me the most.
I’m thinking how bullshit it is about how much money that video has made by getting AI art to rip off the rock with what I assume is a shitty song
I’m thinking about that too and why I haven’t thought of it
I think…I…I…yep… I do… I do smell what the rock is cooking.
it’s crack.
Is that YouTube trying to compete with Tiktok for the no-attention-span brain rot market? I never saw the appeal.
Tbh YouTube is even worse.
I want my kid to watch YouTube in moderation, there are good content creators in there.
BUT there is no way for me to block their access to the brain rot shithole that is YouTube Shorts. None, zero, nada. No parental controls work.
With TikTok I can just block it completely with parental controls, no problems.
There is a browser plugin “YouTube enhancer” that lets you disable shorts, comments, recommended videos and other crap.
Disabling watch history and deleting all previous history stops the shorts from being recommended. You can still search for individual shorts but you can’t scroll infinitely. I’m not sure if you can lock that setting with parental controls or not, but may be helpful.
Use a software like newpipe with a subscription feed only. There are no ads, no recommended videos, and no shorts.
Nebula has mostly quality content and no “shorts”, where as YT even without shorts has mountains of garbage.
3rd party YouTube clients such as NewPipe, LibreTube and Freetube offer such options, if available on your device.
I want them to offer it on my kids devices, without giving them the ability to re-enable shorts.
I’m pretty sure they can’t do that, especially not on iOS and even less on desktop computers where they can just browse to the website
even less on desktop computers
Blocktube and Enhancer for Youtube are Firefox extensions that can hide all of that shit completely. Mine has all shorts disabled, and I’ve removed the recommended videos panels from the right hand side & ends of videos, plus disabled any non-playlist autoplay. There’s still crap on the Home tab, but I don’t use that so I’ve never needed to look into ways to improve it, I just use the subbed tab and playlists. My YT shows me exactly what I ask for and nothing else. The Blocktube extension settings can be password-locked.
Yattee is an app on iOS that might work, though I haven’t tried it. Also on iOS, one of the Invidious website instances (3rd party YouTube front end) in Safari or installed as a PWA. On pc, using an Invidious site with the YouTube domain filtered out through your router or Pi-hole, could also work.
This looks godawful
Most of YouTube does
I was on YouTube all the time until recently when I switched to peer tube, still to watch YouTube
I’ve never seen this shit before
This is terrifying looking, just activates every part of my hind brain.
Yup that’s why it’s so effective on children, they don’t have the foresight to think about the video being bad, and multiple parts of their brain light up and then they feed the addiction
