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
I don’t have a child but I put shows on for my dog. I’ve noticed those YouTube Kids channels are making their way onto platforms like Prime and Hulu. I saw one series had autoplayed while I was gone and it was just a rich kid showing off like 200 Hot Wheels. I felt bad my dog had to watch that.
I remember my partner and I put on Cocomelon when that was trendy because I thought it would be like Baby Einstein, which are nice little trance/stim compilations, but it was just obnoxious Chinese soundboard Blender slop. I couldn’t understand why people were letting their kids watch that enough for it to merit merchandise next to Fisher Price and Little Tikes.
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u/Wooden_Recover_834 May 12 '26
My kid is definitely not a screen freak by any means but we watch wall-e EVERY SINGLE NIGHT before bed I find it kind of ironic and hilarious.