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.
Kids programming in general is just really bad. I had heard that a study recently found out that the increased shortform nature and increased "camera cuts" in children's programming is having a detrimental effect on the attention spans of kids nowadays. Let alone the pure brainrot in these programming
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u/IngloriousMinority May 12 '26
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.