Youtube Kids Controversy
This investigation is the latest to expose inappropriate content on the.
Youtube kids controversy. Back in 2017 videos featuring the frozen character elsa and other superheroes appeared which seemed to perform lewd acts. The video sharing platform was criticized for exposing children to inappropriate content. The videos feature either people dressed up as popular characters or copycat animations of these characters specifically elsa from disney s frozen spiderman dora peppa pig and barney in violent.
Criticism over the videos led youtube to announce that it would take more. Content included animation live action of characters showing violence misinformation hate speech and weird fetish. Disturbing videos reportedly showed up on youtube kids.
A youtube spokesperson has admitted the company needs to do more to tackle inappropriate videos on their kids platform. Adi robertson jacob kastrenakes and julia alexander. All the latest updates numerous companies have pulled their ads from the platform contributors.
The app has also been associated with a controversy surrounding disturbing and or violent videos depicting characters from children s media franchises. Youtube s child predator comment controversy. You may have heard of elsagate the controversy surrounding youtube videos that are targeted at kids but which no kids should ever ever watch.
In 2017 searching the word gun on the app surfaced a video on how to build a coil gun. Elsagate is a neologism referring to the controversy surrounding videos on youtube and youtube kids that are categorized as child friendly but which contain themes that are inappropriate for children most videos under this classification are notable for presenting content such as violence sexual situations fetishes drugs alcohol injections toilet humor and dangerous or upsetting. The momo challenge is just the latest youtube controversy that was deemed to involve the corruption of children.
Recently youtube kids came to attention after facing a widespread backlash. The controversy comes as tech giants face increased scrutiny over algorithms and their vulnerability to abuse. Youtube has no official comment regarding the latest controversy.
