Why does YouTube allow this?
As a parent, this shit is genuinely fucking disgusting and I’m honestly appalled YouTube allows garbage like this anywhere near its platform.
And before somebody says “use YouTube Kids”, no. That’s not the point. First off, YouTube Kids sucks. Second, the issue is that this content exists at all, uses children’s characters, and is clearly designed to exploit curiosity and clicks with weird, disturbing imagery.
This is Peppa Pig. A children’s character.
Why are there thumbnails of kids’ characters in bizarre, unsettling, gross situations that look like they were engineered to grab a child’s attention? Who is this for? Why is this allowed? Why is it searchable?
My kids aren’t watching this, and this didn’t pop up in their feed. But as a father, the fact that they could ever accidentally stumble onto weird-ass content like this while looking for normal cartoons is honestly disturbing to me.
And before people act like parental controls magically solve everything, parents cannot manually inspect every single thumbnail, recommendation, search result, autoplay, or random rabbit hole 24/7. Platforms still have responsibility.
This shit is creepy, gross, and unacceptable.
Parents, am I overreacting or is this genuinely insane?