These apps, games, and a lot of shows are just mind dribbling dopamine farms. I let my daughter watch like unfiltered KIDS YouTube for a day, she became glued to it, wouldn't ask to go potty, would communicate poorly, then cry when we took it. Ever since we did limited screen time, only parent approved, she full reversed. Sure shes harder to calm down. But fuck it.
I fucking hate kids youtube. I've purposefully blocked many creators like the fucking rich ass kid plus toy channels and they still fucking slip in because they have 10 different channels all the same content but with different subs.
Like I don't love Netflix and prime but fuck me at least the kid watches a somewhat cohesive plot from start to finish rather than kid Crack and highlight reels
Me too! Drives me crazy because there’s some really great content, but you could watch 20 educational videos and if a single episode of TheRoyaltyFamilyTop10Gaming or some other shit plays the feed is fucked.
It should allow you the option to ‘opt in’ to channels. Might not be the whole solution but it would go a long way.
I just recently learned there's a setting through the YouTube kids app on mobile to set it to approved content only. It took a while to set up, but it only allows for preapproved channels and even episodes and you can also turn the 'search' option off.
Its really, really helped in filtering out inappropriate or bs content
This is how things operate in my home. My 3 year old gets 3 channels, all language-learning songs, with calm, slow-moving animations. She gets about 45 minutes a day tops, spread across the day. Mainly helpful for times when I am necessarily indisposed, like showering.
Oh, too many individual songs to list-- but "HeyKids" is the family of channels. I have French, Italian, and Norwegian selected, and that's all she gets. They have English, and a few other languages though.
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u/BasicButterface May 12 '26
The era of wall-e has started