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Re:Our first building block in tech for tykes: YouTube Kids by vyrotek on Monday February 23, 2015 @10:45AM (#9094874)
These things are seriously blowing up! I've talked to so many parents who mention that their kids are hooked on these things. These kids just watch some random toy be unwrapped then hit the next suggested video for hours. I also hear stories about how then they beg their parents for the toy. They're just really long commercials.

My kids don't seem as interested but it might be they're a bit old for them now. I have noticed that they watch less and less Netflix and more and more weird cartoons on YouTube instead. I have to watch them closely.

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Re:Our first building block in tech for tykes: YouTube Kids by impostervt on Monday February 23, 2015 @10:48AM (#9094892)
Ya, I don't mind the unboxing videos, but the other day my 5 year old had somehow gotten from Frozen sing alongs to a weird manga-version of Let it Go. I figured from that point she was probably only a few clicks a way from really weird videos and made her go back to the eggs...
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Re:Our first building block in tech for tykes: YouTube Kids by petercooper on Monday February 23, 2015 @01:44PM (#9096060)
My daughter isn't much into YouTube now but went through a phase of watching about an hour a day and, boy, she watched some bizarre stuff! I think she watched more obscure Russian and Slavic cartoons from the 70s than anything in English. None offensive, but certainly weird. I'm kinda hoping it rubs off in terms of being generally progressive and a weird arty person though.. we shall see ;-)

(And before anyone asks, being exposed to hours of non-English language content appears to have had zero effect in either a negative or positive way, alas.)

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Re:Our first building block in tech for tykes: YouTube Kids by jgamman on Monday February 23, 2015 @08:25PM (#9098194)
same here - we love masha and bear and some weird south korean cars-as-people thing
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Re:Our first building block in tech for tykes: YouTube Kids by lmm on Monday February 23, 2015 @11:27AM (#9095121)
Medium and artstyle are no particular indication of content; you get "really weird" videos in every form and style.
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