These nursery rhyme/"educational" youtube channels will always remain one of the biggest enigmas to me. I mean when you have stuff like this and "Pregnant Elsa watches Scary Movie with Spider-man" being watched by millions of toddlers who have unlimited access at the power of their finger tips. The principle of it all kind of pisses me off too, all these videos just come off as people exploiting a broken Youtube system to try and grab the attention of very young easy to mold minds. I mean yeah they're just nursery rhymes and it's probably not a big deal for the kids but some of it is just seriously weird as hell and these kids could really be thinking anything.
I still find this to be the most bizarrely fascinating thing. Tbh he barely touched on the whole "weird as fuck children's videos on YouTube" phenomena.
[QUOTE=Paincake;52688719]These nursery rhyme/"educational" youtube channels will always remain one of the biggest enigmas to me. I mean when you have stuff like this and "Pregnant Elsa watches Scary Movie with Spider-man" being watched by millions of toddlers who have unlimited access at the power of their finger tips. The principle of it all kind of pisses me off too, all these videos just come off as people exploiting a broken Youtube system to try and grab the attention of very young easy to mold minds. I mean yeah they're just nursery rhymes and it's probably not a big deal for the kids but some of it is just seriously weird as hell and these kids could really be thinking anything.[/QUOTE]
For me I think that most of the views and comments gained from these kinds of channels are mostly viewbots/commentbots.
I can't remember where exactly I found it, but I have a pastebin bookmarked on the topic of flash games very similar to these that may or may not have confirmed the usage of a rudimentary AI in the creation of these, which would explain why they seem to fit "templates" with minor deviations such as characters.
[url=https://pastebin.com/HpuFM5pH]Here is the pastebin in question.[/url] I can't verify if any of this is true or not, but if it is it's quite interesting to read.
I mean, it's the parent's fault for not controling what their small children are able to access through the internet.
If I ever have children, I'm not going to give them a fucking tablet when they're 3 years old.
[QUOTE=JerryAnderson;52688835]I can't remember where exactly I found it, but I have a pastebin bookmarked on the topic of flash games very similar to these that may or may not have confirmed the usage of a rudimentary AI in the creation of these, which would explain why they seem to fit "templates" with minor deviations such as characters.
[url=https://pastebin.com/HpuFM5pH]Here is the pastebin in question.[/url] I can't verify if any of this is true or not, but if it is it's quite interesting to read.[/QUOTE]
I think there may just be some really cheap "make your own kids' youtube channel" packages floating around the internet, with a pirated copy of some animation software, some animation templates, some music files and stock sound effects, and whatever character models the creator happens to have, regardless of what it might be.
[QUOTE=EmilyVasquez;52688732]For me I think that most of the views and comments gained from these kinds of channels are mostly viewbots/commentbots.[/QUOTE]
Imagine you're the kind of parent to search "nursery rhymes for the babies" and just put up whatever youtube offers. Imagine 2 minutes of the whole night is this bullshit. They can still make a ton of money even if nobody actually watches their videos, hence the low engagement rate.
I think auto-play is to blame here. I think people don't realize how big it is that you can walk away from youtube and it just plays the next video. I think these people know (or know of the effects) that if they tick off enough boxes and make their content look a certain a way, youtube will feed people their content for them.
This always weirded me out. Those videos would have millions of views but no actual comments and a lot of the videos were just rehashes of the same damn thing. The worst part was that they were always so damn "popular" they'd be appearing in my recommended videos and it pissed me off.
Found this in the suggested video page, which is IMO even better than this one. It goes into the very beginning of the SCP wikidot site and goes into some rather important drama that happened which shaped the site. A bit old but still a good one.
[video=youtube;XKeI1xbJNtw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKeI1xbJNtw[/video]
These videos are great, I only wish he'd read the script a little more naturally. It does fit the factual, objective style of the video, but it does get a little too stilted for my taste.
[QUOTE=Darth_Toast;52688960]These videos are great, I only wish he'd read the script a little more naturally. It does fit the factual, objective style of the video, but it does get a little too stilted for my taste.[/QUOTE]
Same I also wish he would record himself crying so we can know what that sounds like
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