They were asking "is your content directed toward kids?" The FTC page confirms that and gives some examples.
To pull an example from memory, I used to watch Blue's Clues with my kids when they were little. Even though I also enjoyed the humor and creativity of the show, and the experience of watching it with them, it was clearly directed toward children.
OTOH, my dogs and cats have a YouTube channel where they show off their playtime adventures. It's completely child-friendly, but it's not specifically directed toward kids, it's just dogs and cats playing around. So I didn't mark the channel or any of the videos as being directed toward children.
I'm not familiar with all the videos you mentioned, but the ones I recognize would seem to be in the same category as my dog and cat videos: not directed toward children.
But if I'm, like, a Mario speedrunner, when I read that the FTC's indica of child-targeted content include "the use of animated characters" and "enabled settings that made their content appear when users searched for the names of popular toys", I think it's reasonable to be concerned. The FTC should (but I'm hopeful they will!) clarify that "directed towards children" only applies when you're specifically trying to get kids to watch it.
Blues Clues is clearly "directed at kids". My point isn't that there aren't things that are black and things that are white, but that there are also things that are gray.
I tried to choose ones that are in the gray area, but if you consider the ones I listed "not directed toward children", surely there are ones whose median audience is slightly younger, that would be considered to be in that gray area.
Since you mentioned it, care to share your dog and cat videos link? :) Here's my not-directed-at-kids playlist that stars a kid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6KuQYE3hDU&list=PLSz9W2tWBY...
Youtube is ignoring this and forcing a choice because it's easier to implement. They're also ignoring creators that are asking for age-gating with logged-in users only to prevent their video classification from being contested in the future.
Then you can allow your children to access Streama and they can watch without worry.
Even if they do hire actual real human, they hire them as cheap labors, not as legitimate jobs (see Facebook)
No i mean user-curated playlists
It's useless because once you log into YT you can't make playlists or I think subscribe without making a channel, by default that's first name/last name. even if I could I can't stop them uploading content. So the tiny org proofing tools that are there I can't use anyway.
I swear YT don't even use their own product.
That's the goal - if this is checked by the creator (for the specific video or for the entire channel), it will have personalized ads disabled for the video plus disable whatever tracking systems Google has for regular watching.
This YouTube video has a segment of an interview that discusses this further:
I watch a lot of stuff with my 5 year old daughter -- whether on YouTube or elsewhere -- than we both seem to equally enjoy. Recent ones include Star Wars Resistance, The Mandalorian, Spirited Away, From Up on Poppy Hill, The Incredibles 2.
On YouTube we watch "how it's made" videos, as well as a lot of music videos, such as Taylor Swift and Billish Eilish. A lot of stuff probably has a median age of viewers that is right around the cutoff age, 13. But lots of over-18 adults like them too and would watch them completely in the absence of kids.
Are these things "for kids"? I don't see how you would make that determination.