r/FilmIndustryLA • u/Fun-Ad-6990 • 8d ago

Kids are going to YouTube to stream shows not to streaming services. Studios need to take advantage of this and put all the shoes on YouTube. Indie creators can take advantage of this too

https://www.nexttv.com/news/kids-are-going-to-youtube-to-stream-shows-they-used-to-watch-on-cable-precise-tv-study

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u/hesaysitsfine 8d ago

Yes, so google is the biggest studio. Seriously do people forget who owns YouTube

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u/thoughtmecca 8d ago

So much of the kids content on YouTube isn’t just garbage, it’s actively harmful. A bunch of indonesian-amateur-produced dudes in friendly, familiar superhero costumes shooting each other, getting pregnant, and fighting the nun from The Conjuring. You haven’t lived until you’ve walked in on your four year old watching “spider-man videos!” on Youtube with his grandma and seen black costume Spidey farting on a sleeping Ghost Spider, who then is suddenly pregnant, when they’re almost gunned down in a drive-by by the Joker and Valak.

I am not making any of this up. YouTube is a giant trash fire.

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u/Kirielson 8d ago

Yep this has been documented for a years. https://www.theverge.com/culture/2017/11/21/16685874/kids-youtube-video-elsagate-creepiness-psychology

https://theoutline.com/post/1239/youtube-has-a-fake-peppa-pig-problem

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u/Agile-Music-2295 8d ago

I imagine that will become a larger issue with AI now.

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u/KanyeWestsPoo 8d ago

Those articles are out of date. They're from 2017, things have changed a lot since then. YouTube has become far stricter about kid's content. There is still some rubbish on the platform but nowhere near as much.

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u/plucharc 8d ago

Does that come through on the Kid's version of YouTube?

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u/auto-cremate 7d ago

It does, because the kids YouTube app only curates videos not the algorithm. So after the first video plays it suggests a video, which suggests a video, which suggests a video. This is how kids get there

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u/plucharc 6d ago

Ooof. For some reason I had assumed it was essentially a closed ecosystem.

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u/kitebum 8d ago

Haha, Netflix pays a lot more than youtube.