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#306942 5-Sep-2023 22:20
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My child uses the family YouTube channel same one we all use. That was all good. The latest thing is Mario game videos. That's been all good.

All that was going well. Suggestion feed or whatever it's called has been good. Random cartoons come up, they get watched. Until today. I walked past and saw some pretty weird cartoon Mario stuff playing. What the?

- Who's pregnant with Mario's baby?
- Who is really baby Mario's father?
- The part I walked in on was something about perving in toilets

I'm sure it gets worse than that. @crewstories is the offending channel.

What can I do about this?





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  #3124023 6-Sep-2023 07:09
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There have been a lot of articles on this. There is a lot of weird content which at best is rubbish churned out to satisfy the word salad of search terms which kids may use, at worst it is malicious. 

 

 

 

YouTube Has Thousands of Disturbing Videos Targeted at Kids: Report (businessinsider.com)

 

YouTube for Kids is still is still churning out blood, suicide and cannibalism | WIRED UK

 

 

 

We have disabled auto-play and an adult has to approve and start the playing of any video - so it is on us to check it's not weird. Miss 4 currently enjoys "Dr Binocs" and I'm happy enough for her to watch one of those occasionally because I'm also learning new facts! 


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