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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday February 26 2019, @05:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the serious-mental-health-issues dept.

Tips for committing suicide are appearing in children's cartoons on YouTube and the YouTube Kids app.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/youtube-kids-cartoons-include-tips-for-committing-suicide-docs-warn/

YouTube Kids is theoretically a curated collection of videos that are safe for kids. Apparently, someone forgot to tell YouTube/Google that. Sure, YouTube probably has some butt covering clause in their EULA. That doesn't excuse such an oversight, though. It's very easy to see overworked, stressed parents, giving their kids access to YouTube/YouTube Kids. Kids have enough to deal with, without having to deal with grown-ups twisted thoughts. This seems more like insidious minds at work to me. What do you think?


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  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday February 26 2019, @10:36PM (2 children)

    by Pino P (4721) on Tuesday February 26 2019, @10:36PM (#807303) Journal

    even if it ends up being Elsa from Frozen sticking a needle in Spiderman's ass

    I gathered from a couple other episodes that Elsa Agnarrsdaughter is dating Peter Parker in that series. I haven't seen the one with the injection, so please clue me into what I'm missing: If Peter needs periodic injections of medication that his doctor prescribed to treat a condition, what's wrong with showing that?

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday February 26 2019, @11:37PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday February 26 2019, @11:37PM (#807337) Journal

    I've only seen some of the highlights, I haven't followed the... lore of that channel, so to speak. 😂

    The injection thing is a bit of a theme in these live action videos and weird kid app games. DailyMotion [dailymotion.com] appears to have a better selection than the same search on YouTube.

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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday February 27 2019, @09:01AM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Wednesday February 27 2019, @09:01AM (#807518) Journal

    Turn a kid loose on YouTube, and it's only a matter of time before they stumble onto something perverted.

    Lot of people are using action figure toys or costumes to make cute videos, and most of them are okay. But the 3 year old found a video of some guy in a Spiderman costume taking a leak outdoors. The camera was behind him so you couldn't see any anatomy, or whether the guy was faking it with a garden hose, but the suggestion was obvious. I stopped that one, but the kid found more questionable videos. There were the superheroes wearing skin colored paper over their butt cheeks, made to look like the butt cheeks had been cut out of the costumes. Wasn't sure what that was supposed to be about, so I let it be for a while. Finally stopped those as well. Then there were these videos showing food preparation with those cones that are used to put decorative frosting on cakes. They added faces to the cones, animated the faces with that squirmy, uncomfortable look of a child trying to hold in bodily waste, and dubbed fart noises over the audio while the cones were squeezing out frosting, guacamole, or pureed whatever. The 3 year old thought those were hilarious, which figures.

    Have to keep an eye on YouTube. It's definitely not PBS.