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YouTube Is Addressing Its Massive Child Exploitation Problem
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It's been pointed out but this video is talking about weird, animated videos with no actual children...
BUT I'd like to also point out that in this video he notes many of the animated videos are recreations of live-action videos, and also he shows one animated video with baby Mickey and Minnie involving syringes and stuff (the one Restsupurae covered)---so, I imagine that this video may have been based off a live-action video with actual babies making it disturbing.
So they get these videos taken off YouTube... then download them and post the most salacious clips in their own ad-sponsored story. Buzzfeed can blow me.
Expect these scumbags to continue making sockpuppets as long as the morbidly curious give them money from views. Is there an easy way to tell if someone on YouTube is an alt of a banned account? If not, then YouTube may ultimately have to give in and let these roaches do their thing. I hope it doesn't end that way.
While that is bad this thread is about channels that are simulating abuse on actual children
There's overlap between the two things, I believe. Like, these guys are all grinding out videos with common repetitive elements so they can game the algorithm system, even the live action acted ones like the dude who got shut down. It just all ends up feeling like the same endless nonsense random word salad given sentience.
You know how some people would say they arrived on the weird side of YouTube? All that is peanuts compared to what I'm reading here. What in the actual fuck man, Jesus.
The fact that these channels actually had so many subscribers..... how? I honestly don't even know what to say anymore.
The fact that these channels actually had so many subscribers..... how? I honestly don't even know what to say anymore.
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It's actually very possible, but it would mean cutting down on those gangbuster profits. but we are so brainwashed to the point where we think that 'gee, they're too big, all they can do is throw their hands up in the air :/'
source: I used to work for a contractor for google/youtube and did some of their policing. they have real people doing things. they just need more. they DO have the money.
do NOT give companies like this credit by saying it's impossible. it's very possible, it just costs millions or billions of dollars (gee, youtube couldn't possible afford that, could they)
While the parenting is an aspect, it's not feasible to watch your child literally every second of every day. These videos appear as related videos even with parenting settings enabled.
I had a Prince song on my channel for a hot minute. instantly taken down. But this shit flies? Seems like they've taken the Steam school of marketing and promotion.
Yup. We really need to get on this.
I was chatting to a friend today about the bad shit that's all over Youtube. He had no idea and was sure his son - who only watches Youtube in the family room - hadn't viewed anything 'questionable'. Texted me an hour ago saying that he'd gone through his son's view history and seen a few disturbing ones.
We have standards for film, television, books, music - but virtually zippo for things like Youtube. It's a really bad situation.
'Do no evil' indeed, you fucks.
Yeah I get that. Just was hoping it got got at the same time. All this shit is nastyWhile that is bad this thread is about channels that are simulating abuse on actual children
A YouTube algorithm can Shazam your prince song and know it's copyrighted. Youtubers that shoot their own video have no content for YouTube to compare to. The only way to catch this stuff thus far has been to sit an actual human being down to watch these videos and people with these jobs tend to either quit within months or require counseling and therapy.
That's fucking disgusting, and Youtube is as fucking slow as ever to react to this shit. They only care about things when advertisers start pulling out.
This guy deserves to rot, what a horrible excuse for a human being.
The other problem is that people are shit. I hope the cops get involved.
My daughter tried watching Toy Freaks a lot. Disturbing and annoying as fuck. I never did see anything that would make me freak out, but the kids always acted in a manner that made me lose faith in people's abilities to properly parent. Rude yelling, throwing food, and hitting each other. I always made her change it.
And at the end of the vids, the dad would always come on with his creepy voice saying things like "wanna know what happens to this little girl? Subscribe now.."
YouTube was a mistake
And at the end of the vids, the dad would always come on with his creepy voice saying things like "wanna know what happens to this little girl? Subscribe now.."
YouTube was a mistake
Ya know, of all the weird things on youtube I never knew this was going on. Never saw one of the videos, never saw one trending or in my recommended lists, never saw a thread about it on a forum, nothing. The closest that would count is that Daddy o' Five or whatever guy.
With all these advertisers pulling out, what would it take for Google to just shut Youtube down as just not worth it?
What's fucked up is YouTube allowed the "DaddyOFive" YouTube channel to exist despite videos of children being abused and what both got was just probation NO jail time at all!!!!: http://www.baltimoresun.com/feature...dyofive-couple-sentencing-20170911-story.html
This shows how much Google doesn't give a shit about what happens on Youtube so long as it doesn't affect profits.
I hope Google dies within the next decade or two, so fucking tired of this hypocrite piece of shit of a company. Amazing how this was the same company I used to root for, and believed in their "do no evil" mantra. Shit, I even dreamed of working for them. Now they're just this faceless advertizing megacorp that only exists to sell our data to the highest bidder.
I hope Google dies within the next decade or two, so fucking tired of this hypocrite piece of shit of a company. Amazing how this was the same company I used to root for, and believed in their "do no evil" mantra. Shit, I even dreamed of working for them. Now they're just this faceless advertizing megacorp that only exists to sell our data to the highest bidder.
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This feels like a completely separate issue from the "Joker cracks upon Hatchimals with Pregnant Elsa From Frozen" type videos that we've discussed around here. This seems like it's meant to appeal to pedophiles while the former stuff is actually targeted at toddlers and bots.
This is much more insidious and the police should be looking close at the people making these videos.
This is much more insidious and the police should be looking close at the people making these videos.
The Toy Freak videos sound pretty bad and sound like abuse but I never saw anything in their Freak Family videos that I thought was particularly bad. The videos annoy/disgust me because of the open-mouthed chewing of their food and smacking of their lips and all that, it's like nails on a chalkboard hearing it. I don't think there was anything of value in the videos. Still, my daughter enjoyed watching the Freak Family videos though (I did explain to her that their bad manners and the way they eat is staged and meant for 'entertainment,' and that they are incredibly wasteful for buying as much food as they do only to essentially use it as a prop to make a mess with).
I'm assuming the Freak Family videos are gone because of the creator's association with Toy Freaks probably? That it was easier to just take down all of the father's videos than to screen each one?
EDIT: Just read more about the Toy Freak videos and they sound incredibly fucked up. I don't believe anything of value has been lost by their removal.
I'm assuming the Freak Family videos are gone because of the creator's association with Toy Freaks probably? That it was easier to just take down all of the father's videos than to screen each one?
EDIT: Just read more about the Toy Freak videos and they sound incredibly fucked up. I don't believe anything of value has been lost by their removal.
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I mean, if this stuff has gotten so many views, then it's probably been recommended to people through their algorithm. It's certainly never been recommended to me, so there's something in the algorithm that says that this is not fit for Uhyve.
There's something in their system saying that this is abhorrent content only to be viewed by certain people. They have such an advanced bot recommending stuff, I feel like someone at Youtube must've known this, especially with the reporting feature. There's really no excuse for Youtube allowing something like this on their network.
Edit: Good lord, guess there's alot of "kids friendly" stuff we don't get exposed to looking at this:
Urgh, I hate Youtube right now. Why don't they ban that MCN?
Edit2: There seriously needs to be a Youtube for kids twitter campaign right now, this is all so awful.
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Christ, on one hand I'm absolutely relieved that I had no idea shit like this was going on, but on the other hand I'm really disappointed that millions of other people did and did nothing about it. We've already entered the "new world" in regards to virtually zero barrier of entry to the internet, its time that more actions are taken to clean up the horrible child exploitation going on. This situation is way, waaaay worse than the internet in the 90's when parents were trying to figure out how to stop their kids from accessing pornography. Now you have sexual predators actually talking to kids on their cell phones and tablets without parents even knowing.
Well they didn't use any copyrighted material, so not a priority for YT.
Yeah it may sound mind-blowing, but I am sure a multi million dollar company could hire a few more people to speed up the process.
Yeah it may sound mind-blowing, but I am sure a multi million dollar company could hire a few more people to speed up the process.
WHAT!? I'm pretty knowledgeable about Youtube stuff, but this completely passed me by. How the fuck was something with tens of millions of views allowed to go on for so long?
Edit: Seems I may have misunderstood the severity of these. If they're just animations and weird acting, that's certainly a lot more acceptable even if it's kind of fucked up. Thought this was another Daddy o Five situation, but much worse.
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There is a YouTube kids app that is filled with this shit. I thought we were safe using that app but my daughter also stumbled upon this crap. I thought she was watching pepa pig clips but my wife noticed they were violent. Luckily she noticed right away really.
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These are not animated videos, its real kids and people. It's very similar to Daddy o Five.
This shit has been floating around Youtube for a long time, unfuckingbelievable that it's taken this long to grab their attention. I don't think that's even the worst of it... Giving kids unsupervised, unrestricted access to the internet including Youtube is dangerous for a lot of reasons including the creeps and pervs, and (or also) the racist, homophobic right wing assholes indoctrinating kids with propaganda under the guise of entertainment. I would've thought parents of my generation would've figured this out, especially ones who grew up with internet access. It's exponentially worse now with social media. When I was 15 or 16 and new to having my own internet access I use to chat with someone who I later found out was a guy in his mid or late 40s posing as a 15 year old girl using pictures of his daughter... That was... Disturbing. I'm pretty sure he ended up getting arrested. I only found out because his wife did and sent a mass message to everyone his ICQ list. Didn't take me long to develop internet trust issues which was probably a good thing I really can't imagine just how much worse it is now.
Okay that went off topic...
Way too many people seem to think this is all underground or "hidden away" on the dark web when in reality it's not, type the wrong thing (even if something totally innocent) into Google image search and things can pop up and probably lead to you being put on a watch list. There's a lot of similarly questionable shit on Youtube, never mind what can be stumbled upon on popular porn streaming sites. I've mentioned it before on the other site about how someone I knew had and still has leaked/stolen images they took when they were under 18 that were and probably still are used in ads.
There's only so much Google's curation can do and I guess that can go to the Youtube side as well but fuck, people have to be reporting stuff on Youtube regularly so it shouldn't be.
Okay that went off topic...
You mean those "modeling" sites? Yeaaaah that shit was big in the late 90s/early 2000s that walked a fine line between legal and porn existing in a gray area until IIRC laws were updated, there was a crackdown in I think the mid, maybe late 2000s where several people involved with those sites (mostly the "photographers" who usually ran those sites) got arrested and went to prison. Unfortunately laws passed here didn't do anything for garbage produced outside the US, like in South America or especially Eastern Europe which was way worse, I know several European countries cracked down as well but not enough. Then there's those Chan sites, including the original...
Way too many people seem to think this is all underground or "hidden away" on the dark web when in reality it's not, type the wrong thing (even if something totally innocent) into Google image search and things can pop up and probably lead to you being put on a watch list. There's a lot of similarly questionable shit on Youtube, never mind what can be stumbled upon on popular porn streaming sites. I've mentioned it before on the other site about how someone I knew had and still has leaked/stolen images they took when they were under 18 that were and probably still are used in ads.
There's only so much Google's curation can do and I guess that can go to the Youtube side as well but fuck, people have to be reporting stuff on Youtube regularly so it shouldn't be.
My friend had his kids channel demonetized as a result of this. No explanation of the offending videos.
For situations like this I recommend the video blocker extension for Chrome. Can outright block content from ever appearing on YT, even in the sidebar, based on entered keywords and channel names.
What kind of people watch that kind of thing? just the concept of children suffering make me sick as I guess to most of the people but that shit get tons of views.
I agree for older children, once your child enters school is far more difficult to monitor, but many of these videos are aimed at toddlers, some of these barely have spoken words.
It's important to know many of this videos *and* views are robots porgramed to exploit YouTube's algorithms. It's very troubling regardless, but keep in mind those views are never 100% human beings actually watching.