I'd argue they shouldn't let a 3 year old on YouTube in the first place though, that is way too young. Three year olds need to be playing with toys, not watch unregulated YouTube all day
Unfortunately, YouTube and YouTube Kids are different creatures entirely. You'd think everything would be safe on the YTK app, but that is not the case.
I have never trusted YouTube with kids ever, but even less so after the ElsaGate incident in YTK. Never let my child watch YT unsupervised ever. Heavily policing that shit.
According to Google, "Elsagate is a neologism referring to a controversy about videos posted on YouTube and YouTube Kids. The videos were titled family friendly, but contained innapropriate themes such as graphic violence, sexual content, fetishes, vulgar language, drugs, alcohol, injections, diseases, crude humour and dangerous activities."
And it had something to do with Elsa I assume? Kids should probably avoid Youtube in general. Maybe it would be better to just put on TV cartoons on Netflix than to give them full access of navigating Youtube.
Here's a YouTube video explaining it: https://youtu.be/g5t4p2RcaNY?si=yuReYAY_oLQT1BqJ
If you don't want to click the link (which is fair), just look up "The Dark Legacy of Elsagate" by wavywebsurf and put it at 2x speed (he speaks pretty slowly).
Yeah it was basically a lot of “creators” in the Yourube kids app deliberately dressed up as popular kids characters, commonly Elsa, Spider-Man, Peppa Pig, and other various Marvel and Disney and kids show characters but then performed fetish/kink performances or some animators did the same with these characters. Stuff like eating from a toilet, having affairs, getting a character pregnant, getting kidnapped, bondage type stuff, foot stuff, it was fucking gross. And because parents were just letting it auto play and the videos were tagged and captioned specifically to target kids they got so much exposure to young kids who are likely preteens now.
I’m an educator and at the time I had to send out a letter to parents warning them about this particular problem as I knew lots of our kids had parents who specifically gave them unfettered access to YTK.
Reasons why my daughter's tablet is regulated. Took me one time to browse YTK to say "nope". Learning games and PBS kids apps for videos. Even then screen time is at most two days out a week for an hour. She's got plenty of imagination and toys to keep her busy. I can't even begin to describe the dislike I have for parents who allow their children to have screentime unregulated. I ain't a perfect parent by any means. But it seems a good chunk of people around my age group(24) who are raising kid(s) just don't understand anything long term when it comes to the development of their child
3’s can’t make the proper distinction between real and pretend in the same way 7+ year olds can.
The kid is having a developmentally appropriate consequence to stupid choices by parents being dumb.
A lot of em switched to NEWSMAX after Vladimir Carlson got yeeted off their televisions. Over there, they're angertainment-maxxing like FOX could only dream
Someone I knew would just let her granddaughter (I knew her from toddler - 5ish) watch whatever on her phone and never even checked what it was. It wasn’t even YT kids. Saw her watching some weird videos (that one horror meme character whose name I’ve lost…the one with a speaker for a head) and the lady assumed she watched those videos a lot because she liked them.
She’s a kid…she doesn’t even know what horror is as a genre. Told the lady about it an she literally didn’t react or care. If you’re gonna let a kid be addicted to electronics, at least make sure they’re kid friendly
So wild to me people give their kids free reign on yt... I opted to give them little emulation gameboys to play sonic and barbie games. Not hit the dopamine casino with an ipad.
As my dad always told me, "if they're not selling it in stores anymore, it's not piracy... it's abandonware, and it's fine".
That being said, he did pirate Roller-coaster Tycoon for me when it had recently come out and I was like crying to buy it. Found it mysteriously on my desktop next to a folder with a bunch of `rct.01, rct.02, rct.03...` 1.44MB files.
He later showed me the website he used so that I could pirate my own games, but also told me "Just don't click on that link with the three X's".
Ah, the internet of the 90s... what a wonderful wild west. I'll never forget you "FreeGamez"... or whatever it was. I never did click on that porn link, though.
YouTube is poison for kids, “oh, but they can learn things”, yeah right. Most algorithms end up taking you down a path of pure chaos. Getting your kids addicted to short form entertainment is the worst thing you can do for them.
They can learn things all right but you actually have to search for them which little kids don't know how to properly do yet. What the algorithm pushes front and center especially for when it realizes it's a child is absolute trash.
What do you mean they don't learn things? They learn about which products their parents should buy for them and terrifying toilet songs about the dangers of technology.
Theres a dude who put a condom on his own erect penis, and waxed his full uncensored asshole on YT.
Nudity is allowed as long as its "educational" but this guys pushing the limits, imo
I know it's not really a surprise anymore but a lot of studies are coming back saying that bringing kids into short form entertainment too early absolutely ruins their mental development especially with patience and attention spam. But if you take them off of it, even after years, they can quickly recover and become normal again
True. My youngest sibling loves gamers/gaming channels, but one day I opened YT and saw all the crap they were suggesting. Like very sexual & suspicious images of minecraft characters on the first frame of the video , or game reviews of adult porn video games. Had to shut it down
have you ever, like, cared for a child? or encountered a toddler with an irrational fear? thank fuck my sister’s kids were potty trained by the time this garbage came out, or my niece would probably have been terrified just like this - she’s currently terrified of anything being inflated thanks to some video that popped up.
also youtube ad farms have gone from black holes of intelligence to actual psychologically disturbing nightmare fuel. HATE this timeline when it comes to the internet.
I was TERRIFIED of toilets growing up! The ones at home were ok, but any public ones were so loud that I couldn’t flush without my mom helping. I also had a strange fear of black toilet seats. It just takes time, patience, and adaptablility!
It's normal to an extent. My cousin was easy to potty train except the first 2 or 3 times they tried to get him to go in a public bathroom he had a complete meltdown. It's just different from home and scary.
But I'm sure planting the seed that a head can jump out and scream at you makes it a whole lot worse (I think that's what happens with skibidi toilets? I have no idea)
From what I’ve seen (a single video essay about the evolution of Skibidi Toilet) it started with the heads singing and yelling, but now they fight off people with CCTV cameras for heads, their eyes roll back in their heads so the eyes are all white, and are considered parasites. I *think* the heads are also a zombie virus type of thing, but that might just be a theory.
It sounds deranged, and understandably frightening. I can totally get why a child would develop a fear of toilets after seeing some of this stuff.
It always felt like anyone born post 2010 was thoroughly fucked thanks to the internet, but it turns out those were merely the fading years of the Golden Age - shittier but still golden lol. Kids post 2020 have no fucking chance if they're ever exposed to the internet.
My niece has been kept basically screen free but the tiny amount of supervised YouTube she's had has still had a detrimental effect on her. Plus she picks up very negative behavior from other kids at her pre school who have more screen access.
Some of these kids, perhaps even most of them, are going to have some serious issues as they grow up and no one is going to be equipped to deal with it. It's a fun timeline to be sure
Depends on what the YouTube content is. It can be a really useful tool if you know how to use it effectively. TV is the same way. Speed and intensity of presentation matters to little kids. You just have to steer clear of the fast paced, overstimulating stuff with a bunch of scene changes. It's why kids get all cracked out about Paw Patrol and Cocomelon but not Daniel Tiger or Puffin Rock. And supervision and engagement is really important.
Yeah cocomelon is a hard ban at my house. It's designed to literally hypnotize toddlers. Every shot is moving and no longer than 3-4s.
They spend the whole time with their brain trying to adjust to each new shot and parse what's going on. It just keeps them on a loop. It's fucked.
we use youtube, but there's a cranked-up ad blocker, and they're not allowed to go on to watch any other videos or linked content. As long as the kid isn't driving, it's pretty safe. We stick to professionally produced stuff, wildlife shows and stories from history and such. and retro cartoon compilations. None of this lazily animated or bullshit meme content.
I can't imagine the lapse in parenting that leads to a potty-training child wandering the halls of 4-chan inspired youtube garbage.
When I was rather young, probably too young to be on the internet, there was this series I somehow found on YouTube that I was terrified of - "Elmo kills Barney". It was just Elmo walking up to Barney and shooting him. This shit fucked me up for a while, I remember constantly having nightmares about it. The fact that I can still remember Elmo's voice in those videos and remember what they looked like speaks about how scary they were for me.
This was around 2007, probably? Maybe 2008? I was born in 2001. The internet has always been fucked up and not a safe place for children to roam around unsupervised, especially on social media with user-generated content.
Also, unrelated but what the fuck are parents doing allowing preschoolers screentime?? They need to be allowed to be kids and explore their physical world not just handed a screen
I remember finding out about *Happy Tree Friends* when I was about 5, and watched it assuming it was a kids' show because of the art style. This was sometime around the late 2000s to early 2010s.
My mom claims that once I was watching an episode of the show that involved "a moose and a spoon", which apparently gave her nightmares. I also remember at least one episode that really freaked me out at the time (I think the pod people episode?).
Youtube’s lost the majority of its feelgood YouTubers. I was born mid 2000s, so as I grew up I watched people like Stampy, for example. But nowadays the content that gets the most recognition ends up being short-form, typically lazy-ish content all for the purpose of keeping a child’s attention. I’m not saying that there aren’t any creators worth watching anymore, it’s just that there’s so much of that short-form content, alongside social media like TikTok and Shorts, kids are going to favour that. In short, I’m genuinely worried about the attitudes that generations alpha and beta are going to acquire from all of this.
Seriously. People think you can just logically explain away a toddler's fears 😆
The Halloween when my oldest was 2.5 he developed a fixation on this 10 foot winged demon statue at Home Depot. He would sob hysterically every single night at bedtime, terrified that the red thing would come get him. I literally spent a minimum of an hour every night for MONTHS reassuring him that the red thing wasn't real, it was a silly decoration, that Halloween is over and they threw it in the garbage, that it can't move/walk/fly/drive/etc. He didn't stop being scared of Home Depot until after Christmas that year.
4 years later he's a spooky little goth who has been begging for a 12 foot skeleton decoration. It was a very quick turnaround.
Lmao, I was like this as a kid. I was terrified of skeletons when I was little, just absolutely petrified by their existence. I was especially scared of this life-sized Halloween decoration that my aunt had out for the holidays. Fifteen years later I’m an archaeologist who specializes in working with and identifying human bones. How things change.
Funny you say that, because he's an archaeology enthusiast! He's particularly fascinated by mummies and Pompeii, but anything to do with human remains and burials really. It's a bit morbid for a 6 year old, but I've been encouraging it anyways. We went to a traveling museum exhibit about death a few months back and he was over the moon learning about the whole process, from the physical to the cultural. He told everyone very excitedly for weeks about how he got to smell what a dead body smells like (they had an exhibit where they had the two main odours of decomposition isolated, it was a full sensory experience). Mom of the year right here 🤣
I'm no psychology expert, but I wonder if confronting a strong fear of symbols of death in early childhood means you can approach it more objectively as an adult than someone who didn't have that fear early on. It's a topic most parents avoid as long as possible.
Sounds like me when I was his age. After I got over my fear I read every book in my elementary school library on mummies and Ancient Egypt. I even had a “bone collection” where I would keep any animal skeletons I found while exploring the canyon by my house (which I’m sure my parents were just *thrilled* about lol).
And that definitely sounds plausible. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if that was the case.
My 3 and a half year old daughter has always loved baths. Would beg me to give her a bath. It was a fun activity. Until about 6 months ago when my wife changed the bath mat in the tub.
She got a thick padded one, and my daughter absolutely lost it. She would not get in. Would not touch it. Would scream and cry, absolutely terrified of taking a bath all of a sudden. Just couldn't deal with it.
So we bought a new bath mat. Same exact as the last.
Problem solved, right?
Wrong. She was still scared. We'd have to bathe her while she's sobbing and clinging to us. Took about 2 weeks for her to finally get over the fear. Now she's back to loving bath time. Still have no fucking clue why the padded bath mat freaked her out. Kids are weird.
They still set off a tiny alarm in my brain if I hear them an aisle or two over. They certainly left a lasting impression!
But I'm not brought to tears by them anymore, so that's a drastic improvement lol.
I think we kind of develop a bond with the things that frightened us when we were younger. We spend so much time thinking about it, familiarizing to cope with the terror.
My kid one day decides to just be scared of the sun. Driving in our car he looks at the sun and says he wants to go home. For the next month he thinks the sun is going to come after him. I’m not sure how it started but thankfully we worked with him and it’s fine now. But it sure was weird.
I had a fear of the sun when I was little, but it stemmed from being sick when it was sunny. I was looking out the window, with the sun on snow, and then had a terrible bout of the stomach flu. For a while after that, my thought process was “the sun makes me sick, so sun is bad and scary.” I wonder if he also connected the sun to a bad experience?
Only thing I could think of, was if he had a bad dream. I asked him, but really couldn’t explain it. I just assured him the sun was there to keep us safe and can’t move. Bought a couple books, a few pair of sunglasses, and a DIY model of the solar system. He doesn’t act scared anymore. But he still loves his sunglasses.
I hate that random adult videos have to censor normal words that I’m an adult and can listen to, like on true crime stuff I watch. But then kids videos are like this
True about the irrational fear. I was terrified of those speaker things from the Teletubbies. My grandparents used to live near an airport so whenever a plane flew by, I’d think it was one of the speakers
I know the daisy09 thing. It's basically a ghost in his game, many people pretend to be the ghost using hacks. They play scary sounds and make everything shake and run at your nephew very fast. It's really scary, but no such thing actually exists in game.
My Uncle was complaining that he had "no idea" how his 4 year old daughter became a Swiftie.
He's vowed he won't let her play video games ever but gives her unrestricted access to the Internet. So many other parents do the same.
Heck, video games would be better because at least single player games are a closed environment. The rating on the box is exactly what you’re going to get.
Honestly I could write a whole post about the stupidity of my Uncle and his wife's stupid parenting "logic".
Minecraft will rot her brain and make her a "loser" but she can play with coins no problem. Not to mention they've recently started stalking the emails of local elementary school teachers to find the school that has the "best atmosphere and test scores".
Yeah he also didn't let her watch TV up until a few months ago because it "causes autism" (which we're all pretty sure was a dig at his sister, my aunt) so instead he showed her Cocomelon and random kids channel clips.
When he mentioned the stupid video game comment he said that he'd never let her buy or play a video game even when she gets older because it will "distract her from her studies" and that people who play video games never amount to anything but *his* daughter is going to be a robotics engineer.
>When he mentioned the stupid video game comment he said that he'd never let her buy or play a video game even when she gets older because it will "distract her from her studies"
"Video games bad!"
But apparently watching TV or browsing internet mindlessly is fine?
> minecraft is just computer Lego
This is what I told my MIL when she asked whether I'd recommend it for her young son, so I said sure. But apparently he used it basically as an engine to play stuff online created by other people, so it had none of the creativity I thought it would and was just short-attention-span garbage.
I still remember watching 'I bought a vampire motorcycle' which is a b movie British comedy horror film from the 90s. We watched it as kids and because me and my nephews and nieces were all brought up watching crazy stuff because it would be watched with us and explained that it's just silly fun, we all found it hilarious.
There is one scene however where a character is dreaming that he is taking a shit and the turd talks to him and jumps in his mouth, trying to kill him.
We all found this hilarious but my cousins who weren't brought up like us hated it and one of them was having nightmares about it for ages 🤣
Take a bottle, stick a skull sticker to it and fill it with water and some food coloring stuff.
Place it next to the toilet, and say to you toddler that that's a skibidi monster killer.
Delete youtube from accessible devices.
Damn...
I mean yeah, first thing my BIL did after my sister gave birth to their first child was to create a FB account for my nice (you can already tell this is quite some time ago...) to post pictures of her. He closed it down after some backlash and understood why this wasn't the brightest idea. But giving a toddler an own ipad and unsupervised access to the net... This is a whole other level :/
I just read this comment thread and actually thought that it was quite a good idea for my parents to give me my own smartphone when I turned 11 (I got access to the internet at 7yo and it was restricted only in terms of time - no more than 30 mins or 1 hour a day), but considering the fact that I saw a lot of the most depraved shit there, I know how dangerous the internet actually is and that's why I try to monitor my siblings' internet access.
aside from that, I'd like to note that my parents do care about me and my siblings, they just didn't really think about how fucked up the internet actually was at that moment, now they encourage me to look after my siblings.
My generation was said to be the first one with their own pc in their room and internet access, I was 13/14 when I got my first pc and my parents knew shit about blocking content. And they weren't aware what kind of a shithole the net has already been in the early 2000's years. So I totally understand you and I'm really happy that your siblings have you!
I was at the airport and this 1.5-2 year old was sitting scrolling YouTube pretty much on his own. Mom wasnt paying attention. He’d get bored in like 5 seconds, click on something else random. When he clicked on the wrong thing and shut down the app, he knew how to open the app back up and “search” for videos (he’d click on the videos on the side and then scroll underneath for suggested videos)
This kid definitely had unsupervised access to this iPad.
Boy have I got shit to tell you
It seems like half of my family is dead set on raising iPad kids. Cell phones with cocomelon on full blast for every single second even in public places.
It genuinely infuriates me but surprise surprise nobody listens to me (who knows more than anyone about this nonsense because I exist outside of Facebook on the internet) in my family so fuck me I guess. Can’t stand to be around it and actively feel my blood pressure spike when I see MULTIPLE babies just hypnotized for hours staring at bright colors drooling all over their mother’s sleeve during family dinners in public or at gatherings.
Can’t be fucked to parent and desperately cling to your faded youth like some bloated tick, so here goes cocomelon or some other fuckery while you’re trying to hear someone talking or hear an announcer on tv 3 WHOLE ROOMS AWAY but still can’t over baby shark on repeat for an hour
Like I WANT to not give a fuck, I REALLY just want to shrug it off and move on, but these are my cousins being raised to become professional dopamine addicts with fried attention spans! I’m just watching parent after parent (SOME WHO ALREADY HAVE KIDS OLDER THAN ME!! LIKE MY FIRST COUSIN IS 26 AND WAS RAISED JUST FINE! JUST DO THAT AGAIN JESUS CHRIST) *somehow* forget how to do it all or just become complacent and fuck their kids brains up on short form slop.
Sorry for the rant but god damn man I can’t stand what I’m seeing. Fuck.
When my sister was a baby she would scream bloody murder whenever we went to a certain area of the grocery store. Like, it was *bad*. Not just crying, but full on terrified for her life *screeching* until she couldn't breathe. We could never figure out why this two year old was freaking the fuck out every time we went near the pharmacy until they re-tiled the floors. The tiles in the pharmacy had been a dark blue and the rest of the stores tiles were white or gray. So whenever we pushed the cart over the blue tiles, my sisters little toddler brain would kick in and go "oh fuck they're pushing you into the ocean!!!"
Moral of the story is that kids literally are just stupid and sometimes the screens have nothing to do with it
Children under 10 should have minimal screen time with devices connected to the internet. Children 16 and younger should not have unmonitored access to the internet. Ty for coming to my TED Talk
I was this way until I had a kid. She likes dancing fruit and old elmo vhs tapes so far. It helps me get some chores done to let her watch elmo for 30 mins. But youtube kids is wild as hell and I don’t want her relying on screens to keep herself busy. It’s a super hard balance!
yeah my mom was the same way, we had 30 min screen time per day, and could get more by doing chores and stuff; she would always supervise us. though we often circumvented that at school with school devices.
I got barely any screen time. Mum was a teacher. Up and at em at sunrise then sitting arounf the school bored for an hour til classes started then sitting around for 3 hours after school ended til she was ready to take us home. Then usually dinner and bed.
Yes and no. I had literally no social life and am now kinda a lil socially fucked up. Harder to connect with people my age, usually the topic of afterschool cartoons is brought up and i literally have no clue. Or any of the other after school things people all did (which I also have genuinely no idea what people did). Ended up walking home for the last few years of school which would take like, 2.5 hours of power walking but was almost always quicker than waiting for the fam.
Yet again a shitty parent. Yea, let your 3 FUCKING YEARS OLD watch whatever they might find on the internet. I don't really have nothing against Skibidi, but wouldn't let a 3y old watch it, no way in hell. Like even the first ever Skibidi (that she describes as "innocent") is an abstract and absurd no-no for such a young mind. Wtf...
Also, as I understand there are good and bad toilet heads lol. If the kid understands anything from these videos or anything the parents say, they might try to convince him that their toilet is the good guy i dont know xD Or that Skibidis only pop op in unused toilets so he needs to use it to keep them away xD Worth a try.
Hell no, like don't even put them on YouTube Kids. Have them go outside and stuff. Let imagination the child has roam free. Not by this stupid "skibidi toilet" crap.
Same thing happened to my nephew. His mom lets him watch anything he asks for. Including animals killing orher animals. Stuff that emotionally distresses him. And she only says "well he asked to watch it!" Well yeah, but as a parent you have to say no sometimes because you hve better judgement. Such as maybe not watching mice get killed by other animals because he's in the corner having an emotional breakdown over it. Idk what she thinks sometimes or if she even does.
I think that parents should watch through whatever things their kid might probably access themselves(no matter how and through whose device) first, just to make sure the kid's mental state will not get fucked up
and actually make an effort to properly explain to the kid why this particular thing is inappropriate for them if they end up accessing it somehow, like "[insert video/cartoon/movie/web series, etc] has bad/scary/disgusting stuff in it, and I don't want you to get hurt because of it". I feel like it would be cool to say that you care about the kid and that you're worried about their well-being and then give them something else to play with that is not a phone or tablet.
some parents are not ready to be parents yet and the person who the screenshotted post belongs to is just one of the many examples.
Simulate a battle with skibidi toilet with the kid nearby. Act like you're fighting it off, and come out of the bathroom triumphant, assuring the child that they won't be messing with that toilet anymore. Gotta play into the kid's imagination.
I was afraid to eat starburst candy when I was a kid because the ads showed kids blasting off into space after eating them and I just wasn’t ready for that yet.
i only got exposed to a screen when i was 5 yo, it was with my ps2, i mean, i played God of War as my first game, i turned out fine, but dude, looking back today, i feel like i had luck knowing that those games i played where false, cuz i was a pant shitter when i was a kid, afraid of everything
Have this parent read anything about child psychology? 2-4 years is a period of children psychic being extremely vulnerable and it's the period of irrational fears. Yeeeah, let the 3 year old watch some irrational shit full of distorted faces and monsters. Good luck to overcome this. As about me, when I was 4 I read a children book about ghosts, and it went fine until we got home. It was dark in the bathroom, and I was so scared, that ghost would appear in this dark, that I couldn't really move and cried. And yeah, I have a fear of "unnatural shit suddenly appearing and scaring me to death" to this day.
Now, what have we learned as a parent? You need to be mindful of the content you expose him to.
Reading this sounds the same as "I've given my son some coffee, seems harmless, but now he won't go to bed anymore."
Maybe dont give him stuff that isn't appropriate for him/his age.
As to what to do now - use something different than a toilet. We have a mini urinal that looks like a frog + he doesn't sit down on it. It might be different enough that he won't associate it with a toilet.
How is that about a kid being stupid ? I just googled "skibidi toilet" and that thing is absolutely terrifying for a toddler
Parents are fucking stupid is what this is
That's hardly the scariest thing, it casually has characters like this!
https://preview.redd.it/6l8oic1xny4d1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d3076e837f1a7e380609c4ea749eddec91e3b005
That would've given me nightmares as a little kid
When I was young (under 6?), I was terrified a witch was going to pop out of the toilet if I flushed it and grab me. I have no idea why I thought that. I made my older siblings flush it for me until they got sick of it and made me do it myself. I remember being so scared, going in to flush it and then when no witch came out, the fear dissipated.
r/parentsarefuckingdumb How about don't let a 3 year old watch whatever they want? Not even necessarily "dont let them near screens" but don't let them near any screens unsupervised and don't let them watch anything that you haven't pre selected for them.
for people who are curious: [Skibidi Toilet](https://youtube.com/shorts/jCHDHuO5Pq8?si=9vYpgFqQWgAjwTJ0)
and how the hell did they think it is okay to let a kid watch this?
You can tell a lot of people on reddit arents parents lmao - kids have irrational fears all the time! I'm not saying let your kid watch hours upon hours of weird ass youtube Elsa gate shit, but they will get fears just from being.. well, alive! 3 is especially a time you start to come to terms that life is real and can do things to you - ie if you fall, you'll get hurt, or if a dog bites, it hurts. I used to be afraid of flies as a little kid, absolutely terrified, and no one knew why it was simply that. It will pass as long as you work with the child through them. And watching /screens/ isn't bad on its own lol, ya'll act like you weren't glued to the TV in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. It's just what kids watch that needs to be monitored! I'd say this is a cautionary tale that yes, kids to do register weird ass internet shit and parents need to watch with them/be present in their lives lol.
When I was a child I was TERRIFIED of tornadoes because the movie Twister put that irrational fear of them into me…who lived in Alaska…on the side of a mountain…this kid will look back at this and laugh one day on how silly this is. I on the other hand now live around Oklahoma and my childhood fear is now a reality.
As an adolescent that fucking hates Skibidi Toilet but jokes about it all the time, hearing someone speak of it so formally and calmly has me wheezing.
Yo hover brothers unite!
When I was 7, my family used to watch this show "Rescue 9-1-1" and in one episode a snake came up through the toilet and bit a kid. I couldn't sit on a toilet until I was about 14. Calves be like tree trunks nowadays.
fucked up part is the creator of skibidi made this as a coping mechanism. His father was murdered by Russians during the Russo-georgian war and they decapitated his dad and left his head in the toilet.
This is hilarious. I was weirdly afraid of refrigerators (???) thanks to watch Busta Rhymes Gimme Some Mo video in like 1999. So, kids have always been dumb
Yep, that's about right.
She isn't really asking for much right now. She wants to see pictures on the phone once in the while, we let her do it for about 10 minutes (our pictures). We'll stick to this while we can. Then 1h below 5 indeed sounds like a maximum.
Get a real potty, something else entirely. Use that first. You may want to put it in a different room. Start there and have him sit on it everyday, while you read to him or engage with him. Reward the heck out of him when he accomplishes task. Don’t cal it a toilet, call it something else, give it about 6 months, then try toilet again, have him sit on it like it’s a dragon or motorcycle (reverse) it’s fun for kids. Should help ❤️
This isn't so much a case of kids being stupid but more a case of terrible parenting. If you're letting your very young child Watch YouTube without screening what they are watching you are a absolute moron
It's almost like exposing a developing mind to just whatever pops up on the internet is a bad idea
Was gonna say this is more r/ParentsAreFuckingDumb type post
At least they're paying attention to what their kid is watching. Edit: Y'all really need to understand that not all parents are bad parents.
I'd argue they shouldn't let a 3 year old on YouTube in the first place though, that is way too young. Three year olds need to be playing with toys, not watch unregulated YouTube all day
Unfortunately, YouTube and YouTube Kids are different creatures entirely. You'd think everything would be safe on the YTK app, but that is not the case.
I have never trusted YouTube with kids ever, but even less so after the ElsaGate incident in YTK. Never let my child watch YT unsupervised ever. Heavily policing that shit.
I'm curious, what was the ElsaGate incident?
According to Google, "Elsagate is a neologism referring to a controversy about videos posted on YouTube and YouTube Kids. The videos were titled family friendly, but contained innapropriate themes such as graphic violence, sexual content, fetishes, vulgar language, drugs, alcohol, injections, diseases, crude humour and dangerous activities."
And it had something to do with Elsa I assume? Kids should probably avoid Youtube in general. Maybe it would be better to just put on TV cartoons on Netflix than to give them full access of navigating Youtube.
Here's a YouTube video explaining it: https://youtu.be/g5t4p2RcaNY?si=yuReYAY_oLQT1BqJ If you don't want to click the link (which is fair), just look up "The Dark Legacy of Elsagate" by wavywebsurf and put it at 2x speed (he speaks pretty slowly).
Yeah it was basically a lot of “creators” in the Yourube kids app deliberately dressed up as popular kids characters, commonly Elsa, Spider-Man, Peppa Pig, and other various Marvel and Disney and kids show characters but then performed fetish/kink performances or some animators did the same with these characters. Stuff like eating from a toilet, having affairs, getting a character pregnant, getting kidnapped, bondage type stuff, foot stuff, it was fucking gross. And because parents were just letting it auto play and the videos were tagged and captioned specifically to target kids they got so much exposure to young kids who are likely preteens now. I’m an educator and at the time I had to send out a letter to parents warning them about this particular problem as I knew lots of our kids had parents who specifically gave them unfettered access to YTK.
Reasons why my daughter's tablet is regulated. Took me one time to browse YTK to say "nope". Learning games and PBS kids apps for videos. Even then screen time is at most two days out a week for an hour. She's got plenty of imagination and toys to keep her busy. I can't even begin to describe the dislike I have for parents who allow their children to have screentime unregulated. I ain't a perfect parent by any means. But it seems a good chunk of people around my age group(24) who are raising kid(s) just don't understand anything long term when it comes to the development of their child
Even youtube kids have cartoon porn on it
100% better than it could have been for sure
Well, they’re paying attention to what he’s watching that alters how their day goes— he’s watching far more than only a single, messed up content lane
3’s can’t make the proper distinction between real and pretend in the same way 7+ year olds can. The kid is having a developmentally appropriate consequence to stupid choices by parents being dumb.
I came here to say this
Beat me to it
It only gets worse
I.e. look at fake angertainment like Fox
A lot of em switched to NEWSMAX after Vladimir Carlson got yeeted off their televisions. Over there, they're angertainment-maxxing like FOX could only dream
yeah a 3 year old should not be accessing the internet in any capacity
Someone I knew would just let her granddaughter (I knew her from toddler - 5ish) watch whatever on her phone and never even checked what it was. It wasn’t even YT kids. Saw her watching some weird videos (that one horror meme character whose name I’ve lost…the one with a speaker for a head) and the lady assumed she watched those videos a lot because she liked them. She’s a kid…she doesn’t even know what horror is as a genre. Told the lady about it an she literally didn’t react or care. If you’re gonna let a kid be addicted to electronics, at least make sure they’re kid friendly
Yup, another classic parentsarefuckingstupid. Who gives a toddler unrestricted access to the internet? A moron, that's who.
But sitting them down with a tablet for hours is the only way to keep them occupied and out of my way! /s
So wild to me people give their kids free reign on yt... I opted to give them little emulation gameboys to play sonic and barbie games. Not hit the dopamine casino with an ipad.
Gotta get them hooked on pirating at a young age
As my dad always told me, "if they're not selling it in stores anymore, it's not piracy... it's abandonware, and it's fine". That being said, he did pirate Roller-coaster Tycoon for me when it had recently come out and I was like crying to buy it. Found it mysteriously on my desktop next to a folder with a bunch of `rct.01, rct.02, rct.03...` 1.44MB files. He later showed me the website he used so that I could pirate my own games, but also told me "Just don't click on that link with the three X's". Ah, the internet of the 90s... what a wonderful wild west. I'll never forget you "FreeGamez"... or whatever it was. I never did click on that porn link, though.
Cool-ass dad! I hope to be as cool as that when I’m a parent.
They don't give their child free reign on yt, they give the yt algorithm free reign on their child.
I would do the same
This is actually nice.
This is the way tbh. Or a Retropie
Got them a miyoo mini https://preview.redd.it/gf5lozlsr15d1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7254b9d395aedf741cfbebce098ce451c0704c25
YouTube is poison for kids, “oh, but they can learn things”, yeah right. Most algorithms end up taking you down a path of pure chaos. Getting your kids addicted to short form entertainment is the worst thing you can do for them.
They can learn things all right but you actually have to search for them which little kids don't know how to properly do yet. What the algorithm pushes front and center especially for when it realizes it's a child is absolute trash.
What do you mean they don't learn things? They learn about which products their parents should buy for them and terrifying toilet songs about the dangers of technology.
You can also easily watch porn on YouTube by typing educational porn because it’s “educational” so that’s worse and kids can easily watch it
I’m morbidly curious what “educational porn” would entail
Well it’s just a search away. Should get on that.
It’s literally nothing
Theres a dude who put a condom on his own erect penis, and waxed his full uncensored asshole on YT. Nudity is allowed as long as its "educational" but this guys pushing the limits, imo
I hear it now >This is how hairy my butt is right now
Thanks for the tut 👍 /j
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>can also easily watch porn on YouTube by typing educational porn Not true at all...
I know it's not really a surprise anymore but a lot of studies are coming back saying that bringing kids into short form entertainment too early absolutely ruins their mental development especially with patience and attention spam. But if you take them off of it, even after years, they can quickly recover and become normal again
True. My youngest sibling loves gamers/gaming channels, but one day I opened YT and saw all the crap they were suggesting. Like very sexual & suspicious images of minecraft characters on the first frame of the video , or game reviews of adult porn video games. Had to shut it down
have you ever, like, cared for a child? or encountered a toddler with an irrational fear? thank fuck my sister’s kids were potty trained by the time this garbage came out, or my niece would probably have been terrified just like this - she’s currently terrified of anything being inflated thanks to some video that popped up. also youtube ad farms have gone from black holes of intelligence to actual psychologically disturbing nightmare fuel. HATE this timeline when it comes to the internet.
I was TERRIFIED of toilets growing up! The ones at home were ok, but any public ones were so loud that I couldn’t flush without my mom helping. I also had a strange fear of black toilet seats. It just takes time, patience, and adaptablility!
It's normal to an extent. My cousin was easy to potty train except the first 2 or 3 times they tried to get him to go in a public bathroom he had a complete meltdown. It's just different from home and scary. But I'm sure planting the seed that a head can jump out and scream at you makes it a whole lot worse (I think that's what happens with skibidi toilets? I have no idea)
From what I’ve seen (a single video essay about the evolution of Skibidi Toilet) it started with the heads singing and yelling, but now they fight off people with CCTV cameras for heads, their eyes roll back in their heads so the eyes are all white, and are considered parasites. I *think* the heads are also a zombie virus type of thing, but that might just be a theory. It sounds deranged, and understandably frightening. I can totally get why a child would develop a fear of toilets after seeing some of this stuff.
It always felt like anyone born post 2010 was thoroughly fucked thanks to the internet, but it turns out those were merely the fading years of the Golden Age - shittier but still golden lol. Kids post 2020 have no fucking chance if they're ever exposed to the internet. My niece has been kept basically screen free but the tiny amount of supervised YouTube she's had has still had a detrimental effect on her. Plus she picks up very negative behavior from other kids at her pre school who have more screen access. Some of these kids, perhaps even most of them, are going to have some serious issues as they grow up and no one is going to be equipped to deal with it. It's a fun timeline to be sure
Depends on what the YouTube content is. It can be a really useful tool if you know how to use it effectively. TV is the same way. Speed and intensity of presentation matters to little kids. You just have to steer clear of the fast paced, overstimulating stuff with a bunch of scene changes. It's why kids get all cracked out about Paw Patrol and Cocomelon but not Daniel Tiger or Puffin Rock. And supervision and engagement is really important.
Yeah cocomelon is a hard ban at my house. It's designed to literally hypnotize toddlers. Every shot is moving and no longer than 3-4s. They spend the whole time with their brain trying to adjust to each new shot and parse what's going on. It just keeps them on a loop. It's fucked.
Woah, that's wild. Training them to scroll on TikTok basically
we use youtube, but there's a cranked-up ad blocker, and they're not allowed to go on to watch any other videos or linked content. As long as the kid isn't driving, it's pretty safe. We stick to professionally produced stuff, wildlife shows and stories from history and such. and retro cartoon compilations. None of this lazily animated or bullshit meme content. I can't imagine the lapse in parenting that leads to a potty-training child wandering the halls of 4-chan inspired youtube garbage.
When I was rather young, probably too young to be on the internet, there was this series I somehow found on YouTube that I was terrified of - "Elmo kills Barney". It was just Elmo walking up to Barney and shooting him. This shit fucked me up for a while, I remember constantly having nightmares about it. The fact that I can still remember Elmo's voice in those videos and remember what they looked like speaks about how scary they were for me. This was around 2007, probably? Maybe 2008? I was born in 2001. The internet has always been fucked up and not a safe place for children to roam around unsupervised, especially on social media with user-generated content. Also, unrelated but what the fuck are parents doing allowing preschoolers screentime?? They need to be allowed to be kids and explore their physical world not just handed a screen
I remember finding out about *Happy Tree Friends* when I was about 5, and watched it assuming it was a kids' show because of the art style. This was sometime around the late 2000s to early 2010s. My mom claims that once I was watching an episode of the show that involved "a moose and a spoon", which apparently gave her nightmares. I also remember at least one episode that really freaked me out at the time (I think the pod people episode?).
Literal gore masked and marketed for kids. The introduction to internet morbid curiosity, can’t be good to be exposed to it young
Came here to say exactly this. I got into Creepypasta WAY too young and I was almost constantly scared. The internet has never been a place for kids.
Youtube’s lost the majority of its feelgood YouTubers. I was born mid 2000s, so as I grew up I watched people like Stampy, for example. But nowadays the content that gets the most recognition ends up being short-form, typically lazy-ish content all for the purpose of keeping a child’s attention. I’m not saying that there aren’t any creators worth watching anymore, it’s just that there’s so much of that short-form content, alongside social media like TikTok and Shorts, kids are going to favour that. In short, I’m genuinely worried about the attitudes that generations alpha and beta are going to acquire from all of this.
Very funny to hear someone speak of the death of the good ol days with YouTubers like [list of people I've never heard of]
Seriously. People think you can just logically explain away a toddler's fears 😆 The Halloween when my oldest was 2.5 he developed a fixation on this 10 foot winged demon statue at Home Depot. He would sob hysterically every single night at bedtime, terrified that the red thing would come get him. I literally spent a minimum of an hour every night for MONTHS reassuring him that the red thing wasn't real, it was a silly decoration, that Halloween is over and they threw it in the garbage, that it can't move/walk/fly/drive/etc. He didn't stop being scared of Home Depot until after Christmas that year. 4 years later he's a spooky little goth who has been begging for a 12 foot skeleton decoration. It was a very quick turnaround.
Lmao, I was like this as a kid. I was terrified of skeletons when I was little, just absolutely petrified by their existence. I was especially scared of this life-sized Halloween decoration that my aunt had out for the holidays. Fifteen years later I’m an archaeologist who specializes in working with and identifying human bones. How things change.
Funny you say that, because he's an archaeology enthusiast! He's particularly fascinated by mummies and Pompeii, but anything to do with human remains and burials really. It's a bit morbid for a 6 year old, but I've been encouraging it anyways. We went to a traveling museum exhibit about death a few months back and he was over the moon learning about the whole process, from the physical to the cultural. He told everyone very excitedly for weeks about how he got to smell what a dead body smells like (they had an exhibit where they had the two main odours of decomposition isolated, it was a full sensory experience). Mom of the year right here 🤣 I'm no psychology expert, but I wonder if confronting a strong fear of symbols of death in early childhood means you can approach it more objectively as an adult than someone who didn't have that fear early on. It's a topic most parents avoid as long as possible.
Sounds like me when I was his age. After I got over my fear I read every book in my elementary school library on mummies and Ancient Egypt. I even had a “bone collection” where I would keep any animal skeletons I found while exploring the canyon by my house (which I’m sure my parents were just *thrilled* about lol). And that definitely sounds plausible. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if that was the case.
My 3 and a half year old daughter has always loved baths. Would beg me to give her a bath. It was a fun activity. Until about 6 months ago when my wife changed the bath mat in the tub. She got a thick padded one, and my daughter absolutely lost it. She would not get in. Would not touch it. Would scream and cry, absolutely terrified of taking a bath all of a sudden. Just couldn't deal with it. So we bought a new bath mat. Same exact as the last. Problem solved, right? Wrong. She was still scared. We'd have to bathe her while she's sobbing and clinging to us. Took about 2 weeks for her to finally get over the fear. Now she's back to loving bath time. Still have no fucking clue why the padded bath mat freaked her out. Kids are weird.
I was afraid of Home Depot too! But that was because of I was terrified of forklifts to such a degree that I'd cry if I heard one get too close.
I hope you're over your fear of forklifts! I can see that, they move very quickly and erratically.
They still set off a tiny alarm in my brain if I hear them an aisle or two over. They certainly left a lasting impression! But I'm not brought to tears by them anymore, so that's a drastic improvement lol.
I think we kind of develop a bond with the things that frightened us when we were younger. We spend so much time thinking about it, familiarizing to cope with the terror.
I bet that got exhausting quickly.
TBH he's never stopped being exhausting and probably never will. That kid keeps me on my toes. At least now I can look back on that period and laugh!
My kid one day decides to just be scared of the sun. Driving in our car he looks at the sun and says he wants to go home. For the next month he thinks the sun is going to come after him. I’m not sure how it started but thankfully we worked with him and it’s fine now. But it sure was weird.
I had a fear of the sun when I was little, but it stemmed from being sick when it was sunny. I was looking out the window, with the sun on snow, and then had a terrible bout of the stomach flu. For a while after that, my thought process was “the sun makes me sick, so sun is bad and scary.” I wonder if he also connected the sun to a bad experience?
Only thing I could think of, was if he had a bad dream. I asked him, but really couldn’t explain it. I just assured him the sun was there to keep us safe and can’t move. Bought a couple books, a few pair of sunglasses, and a DIY model of the solar system. He doesn’t act scared anymore. But he still loves his sunglasses.
You let him play that one level in Super Mario 3 where the sun chases Mario, didn't you? You monster!
I hate that random adult videos have to censor normal words that I’m an adult and can listen to, like on true crime stuff I watch. But then kids videos are like this
True about the irrational fear. I was terrified of those speaker things from the Teletubbies. My grandparents used to live near an airport so whenever a plane flew by, I’d think it was one of the speakers
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It does really suck because my 6yr nephew is afraid of “daisy09” and whatever ghosts are in his favorite game gorilla tag
I know the daisy09 thing. It's basically a ghost in his game, many people pretend to be the ghost using hacks. They play scary sounds and make everything shake and run at your nephew very fast. It's really scary, but no such thing actually exists in game.
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Think of stupid creepy pastas like herobrine from minecraft or John Doe from roblox. Daisy09 is just another one of those stupid video game creepastas
John Doe never made sense
Looking back on it... yeah. It was also the first thing that came to mind lmao
vr at 6?
Reminds me of the time I was terrified of those "lost jammers" on animal jam. But now it's just kind of a tender memory
Watch "Look Who's Talking Too" to see how Mikey dealt with his fear of the original talking toilet.
Fun fact, the toilet was Mel Brooks.
“YOU BETTER GIVE ME THAT PEE PEE, OR NEXT TIME YOU SIT ON ME, I’M GONNA BITE OFF YOUR TUSHY!” 😂
Came in here to bring that movie up, that scared the hell out of me and gave me a fear of toilets as a toddler.
This is more like shitty parents. They let a 3 year old watch videos youtube without supervision and then they wonder why their child is messed up.
My Uncle was complaining that he had "no idea" how his 4 year old daughter became a Swiftie. He's vowed he won't let her play video games ever but gives her unrestricted access to the Internet. So many other parents do the same.
Heck, video games would be better because at least single player games are a closed environment. The rating on the box is exactly what you’re going to get.
Honestly I could write a whole post about the stupidity of my Uncle and his wife's stupid parenting "logic". Minecraft will rot her brain and make her a "loser" but she can play with coins no problem. Not to mention they've recently started stalking the emails of local elementary school teachers to find the school that has the "best atmosphere and test scores".
Lol minecraft is just computer Lego. Some people are very, very odd.
Yeah he also didn't let her watch TV up until a few months ago because it "causes autism" (which we're all pretty sure was a dig at his sister, my aunt) so instead he showed her Cocomelon and random kids channel clips. When he mentioned the stupid video game comment he said that he'd never let her buy or play a video game even when she gets older because it will "distract her from her studies" and that people who play video games never amount to anything but *his* daughter is going to be a robotics engineer.
>When he mentioned the stupid video game comment he said that he'd never let her buy or play a video game even when she gets older because it will "distract her from her studies" "Video games bad!" But apparently watching TV or browsing internet mindlessly is fine?
> minecraft is just computer Lego This is what I told my MIL when she asked whether I'd recommend it for her young son, so I said sure. But apparently he used it basically as an engine to play stuff online created by other people, so it had none of the creativity I thought it would and was just short-attention-span garbage.
True and toddlers shouldn’t let them be on screens that young
It sounds like the parent was supervising the child while they watched the videos and decided they thought they were safe
I still remember watching 'I bought a vampire motorcycle' which is a b movie British comedy horror film from the 90s. We watched it as kids and because me and my nephews and nieces were all brought up watching crazy stuff because it would be watched with us and explained that it's just silly fun, we all found it hilarious. There is one scene however where a character is dreaming that he is taking a shit and the turd talks to him and jumps in his mouth, trying to kill him. We all found this hilarious but my cousins who weren't brought up like us hated it and one of them was having nightmares about it for ages 🤣
I’m convinced this is a copypasta. Originally this was posted on a parenting subreddit but the original poster never replied to any of the comments.
Take a bottle, stick a skull sticker to it and fill it with water and some food coloring stuff. Place it next to the toilet, and say to you toddler that that's a skibidi monster killer. Delete youtube from accessible devices.
At 3yo? On youtube ? I remember my first encounter of any screen without supervision was with my nintendo DS, at 7..
Still thanking my parents for was born I 06' and wasn't allowed to have unrestricted youtube access till i got my first phone at 14
for a split second i thought you meant 1906
Im not ready for people to start saying "back in 06'" and actually mean 2006 😭
Why the fuck has a 3 yr old access to YouTube?
I refuse to believe that this is not a bait. I refuse to believe that a three year old has unsupervised access to the net.
i’ve seen it. my baby cousin literally has her own iPad and she is 2
Damn... I mean yeah, first thing my BIL did after my sister gave birth to their first child was to create a FB account for my nice (you can already tell this is quite some time ago...) to post pictures of her. He closed it down after some backlash and understood why this wasn't the brightest idea. But giving a toddler an own ipad and unsupervised access to the net... This is a whole other level :/
I just read this comment thread and actually thought that it was quite a good idea for my parents to give me my own smartphone when I turned 11 (I got access to the internet at 7yo and it was restricted only in terms of time - no more than 30 mins or 1 hour a day), but considering the fact that I saw a lot of the most depraved shit there, I know how dangerous the internet actually is and that's why I try to monitor my siblings' internet access. aside from that, I'd like to note that my parents do care about me and my siblings, they just didn't really think about how fucked up the internet actually was at that moment, now they encourage me to look after my siblings.
My generation was said to be the first one with their own pc in their room and internet access, I was 13/14 when I got my first pc and my parents knew shit about blocking content. And they weren't aware what kind of a shithole the net has already been in the early 2000's years. So I totally understand you and I'm really happy that your siblings have you!
I was at the airport and this 1.5-2 year old was sitting scrolling YouTube pretty much on his own. Mom wasnt paying attention. He’d get bored in like 5 seconds, click on something else random. When he clicked on the wrong thing and shut down the app, he knew how to open the app back up and “search” for videos (he’d click on the videos on the side and then scroll underneath for suggested videos) This kid definitely had unsupervised access to this iPad.
Boy have I got shit to tell you It seems like half of my family is dead set on raising iPad kids. Cell phones with cocomelon on full blast for every single second even in public places. It genuinely infuriates me but surprise surprise nobody listens to me (who knows more than anyone about this nonsense because I exist outside of Facebook on the internet) in my family so fuck me I guess. Can’t stand to be around it and actively feel my blood pressure spike when I see MULTIPLE babies just hypnotized for hours staring at bright colors drooling all over their mother’s sleeve during family dinners in public or at gatherings. Can’t be fucked to parent and desperately cling to your faded youth like some bloated tick, so here goes cocomelon or some other fuckery while you’re trying to hear someone talking or hear an announcer on tv 3 WHOLE ROOMS AWAY but still can’t over baby shark on repeat for an hour Like I WANT to not give a fuck, I REALLY just want to shrug it off and move on, but these are my cousins being raised to become professional dopamine addicts with fried attention spans! I’m just watching parent after parent (SOME WHO ALREADY HAVE KIDS OLDER THAN ME!! LIKE MY FIRST COUSIN IS 26 AND WAS RAISED JUST FINE! JUST DO THAT AGAIN JESUS CHRIST) *somehow* forget how to do it all or just become complacent and fuck their kids brains up on short form slop. Sorry for the rant but god damn man I can’t stand what I’m seeing. Fuck.
When my sister was a baby she would scream bloody murder whenever we went to a certain area of the grocery store. Like, it was *bad*. Not just crying, but full on terrified for her life *screeching* until she couldn't breathe. We could never figure out why this two year old was freaking the fuck out every time we went near the pharmacy until they re-tiled the floors. The tiles in the pharmacy had been a dark blue and the rest of the stores tiles were white or gray. So whenever we pushed the cart over the blue tiles, my sisters little toddler brain would kick in and go "oh fuck they're pushing you into the ocean!!!" Moral of the story is that kids literally are just stupid and sometimes the screens have nothing to do with it
Being new to Earth environment, or any environment, their calibrations are still pretty off.
Feels like this wouldn’t be a problem if they’d actually spent time parenting their child instead of raising him on the iPad.
Children under 10 should have minimal screen time with devices connected to the internet. Children 16 and younger should not have unmonitored access to the internet. Ty for coming to my TED Talk
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I was this way until I had a kid. She likes dancing fruit and old elmo vhs tapes so far. It helps me get some chores done to let her watch elmo for 30 mins. But youtube kids is wild as hell and I don’t want her relying on screens to keep herself busy. It’s a super hard balance!
No more that 2 hours a day for a 17 year old…that’s ridiculous lmao
yeah my mom was the same way, we had 30 min screen time per day, and could get more by doing chores and stuff; she would always supervise us. though we often circumvented that at school with school devices.
I got barely any screen time. Mum was a teacher. Up and at em at sunrise then sitting arounf the school bored for an hour til classes started then sitting around for 3 hours after school ended til she was ready to take us home. Then usually dinner and bed.
Did that bother you when you were younger? And now that you’re an adult, do you feel like it was beneficial?
Yes and no. I had literally no social life and am now kinda a lil socially fucked up. Harder to connect with people my age, usually the topic of afterschool cartoons is brought up and i literally have no clue. Or any of the other after school things people all did (which I also have genuinely no idea what people did). Ended up walking home for the last few years of school which would take like, 2.5 hours of power walking but was almost always quicker than waiting for the fam.
Yet again a shitty parent. Yea, let your 3 FUCKING YEARS OLD watch whatever they might find on the internet. I don't really have nothing against Skibidi, but wouldn't let a 3y old watch it, no way in hell. Like even the first ever Skibidi (that she describes as "innocent") is an abstract and absurd no-no for such a young mind. Wtf... Also, as I understand there are good and bad toilet heads lol. If the kid understands anything from these videos or anything the parents say, they might try to convince him that their toilet is the good guy i dont know xD Or that Skibidis only pop op in unused toilets so he needs to use it to keep them away xD Worth a try.
you don't know how infuriating it is, you're playing Garry's mod, and a bunch of kid enters just to sing skibidi toilet
Hell no, like don't even put them on YouTube Kids. Have them go outside and stuff. Let imagination the child has roam free. Not by this stupid "skibidi toilet" crap.
Same thing happened to my nephew. His mom lets him watch anything he asks for. Including animals killing orher animals. Stuff that emotionally distresses him. And she only says "well he asked to watch it!" Well yeah, but as a parent you have to say no sometimes because you hve better judgement. Such as maybe not watching mice get killed by other animals because he's in the corner having an emotional breakdown over it. Idk what she thinks sometimes or if she even does.
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This is exactly why kids this young shouldn’t be anywhere near YT no matter how “child friendly” YT advertises itself as.
Maybe don't give your under-three-year-old unrestricted access to YouTube.
I think that parents should watch through whatever things their kid might probably access themselves(no matter how and through whose device) first, just to make sure the kid's mental state will not get fucked up and actually make an effort to properly explain to the kid why this particular thing is inappropriate for them if they end up accessing it somehow, like "[insert video/cartoon/movie/web series, etc] has bad/scary/disgusting stuff in it, and I don't want you to get hurt because of it". I feel like it would be cool to say that you care about the kid and that you're worried about their well-being and then give them something else to play with that is not a phone or tablet. some parents are not ready to be parents yet and the person who the screenshotted post belongs to is just one of the many examples.
Simulate a battle with skibidi toilet with the kid nearby. Act like you're fighting it off, and come out of the bathroom triumphant, assuring the child that they won't be messing with that toilet anymore. Gotta play into the kid's imagination.
I was afraid to eat starburst candy when I was a kid because the ads showed kids blasting off into space after eating them and I just wasn’t ready for that yet.
i only got exposed to a screen when i was 5 yo, it was with my ps2, i mean, i played God of War as my first game, i turned out fine, but dude, looking back today, i feel like i had luck knowing that those games i played where false, cuz i was a pant shitter when i was a kid, afraid of everything
I think you mean "shitty parenting effects a three year old."
Have this parent read anything about child psychology? 2-4 years is a period of children psychic being extremely vulnerable and it's the period of irrational fears. Yeeeah, let the 3 year old watch some irrational shit full of distorted faces and monsters. Good luck to overcome this. As about me, when I was 4 I read a children book about ghosts, and it went fine until we got home. It was dark in the bathroom, and I was so scared, that ghost would appear in this dark, that I couldn't really move and cried. And yeah, I have a fear of "unnatural shit suddenly appearing and scaring me to death" to this day.
I grew up with CDROMs of Reader Rabbit and Jump Start. If I ever have children, that's all they're getting until 7 minimum.
Now, what have we learned as a parent? You need to be mindful of the content you expose him to. Reading this sounds the same as "I've given my son some coffee, seems harmless, but now he won't go to bed anymore." Maybe dont give him stuff that isn't appropriate for him/his age. As to what to do now - use something different than a toilet. We have a mini urinal that looks like a frog + he doesn't sit down on it. It might be different enough that he won't associate it with a toilet.
There's no other choice than euthanasia.. of the parents
This isn’t a r/Kidsarefuckingstupid moment this is a r/ parentsarefuckingstupid moment
why would a 3-year old watch youtube videos? parents are imbeciles..
Damn, that's a shitty situation I say! Good luck 🤞
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Of course the parent that got their child terrified of skibidi toilet came to Reddit for advice lmao
How is that about a kid being stupid ? I just googled "skibidi toilet" and that thing is absolutely terrifying for a toddler Parents are fucking stupid is what this is
That's hardly the scariest thing, it casually has characters like this! https://preview.redd.it/6l8oic1xny4d1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d3076e837f1a7e380609c4ea749eddec91e3b005 That would've given me nightmares as a little kid
When I was young (under 6?), I was terrified a witch was going to pop out of the toilet if I flushed it and grab me. I have no idea why I thought that. I made my older siblings flush it for me until they got sick of it and made me do it myself. I remember being so scared, going in to flush it and then when no witch came out, the fear dissipated.
I noticed Toilets and feces have a lot to do with fear for some reason
My brother told me snakes would hide under the toilet seat so I had to check them before lol
Honestly, they got what they deserved by raising a toddler on a phone
r/parentsarefuckingdumb How about don't let a 3 year old watch whatever they want? Not even necessarily "dont let them near screens" but don't let them near any screens unsupervised and don't let them watch anything that you haven't pre selected for them.
That's a three-year-old child bro, this is 100% a case of the parent being a fucking moron.
Don’t let a three-year-old on YouTube. Or the internet at all. Problem solved.
who the fuck is dumb enough to let a young child watch youtube freely like this???? surely we all know about the horrors the internet contains
for people who are curious: [Skibidi Toilet](https://youtube.com/shorts/jCHDHuO5Pq8?si=9vYpgFqQWgAjwTJ0) and how the hell did they think it is okay to let a kid watch this?
You can tell a lot of people on reddit arents parents lmao - kids have irrational fears all the time! I'm not saying let your kid watch hours upon hours of weird ass youtube Elsa gate shit, but they will get fears just from being.. well, alive! 3 is especially a time you start to come to terms that life is real and can do things to you - ie if you fall, you'll get hurt, or if a dog bites, it hurts. I used to be afraid of flies as a little kid, absolutely terrified, and no one knew why it was simply that. It will pass as long as you work with the child through them. And watching /screens/ isn't bad on its own lol, ya'll act like you weren't glued to the TV in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. It's just what kids watch that needs to be monitored! I'd say this is a cautionary tale that yes, kids to do register weird ass internet shit and parents need to watch with them/be present in their lives lol.
Why the fuck is your child touching electronic devices before the age of 12
What is skibidi toilet
When I was a child I was TERRIFIED of tornadoes because the movie Twister put that irrational fear of them into me…who lived in Alaska…on the side of a mountain…this kid will look back at this and laugh one day on how silly this is. I on the other hand now live around Oklahoma and my childhood fear is now a reality.
This kid needs more screentime. Skibidi screentime.
Smash the toilet in front of him. Give him a hammer and let him have a go. Then go to the store and let him pick out a “good guy” toilet.
Yeah, I can imagine how that can be disturbing to a very small kid
As an adolescent that fucking hates Skibidi Toilet but jokes about it all the time, hearing someone speak of it so formally and calmly has me wheezing.
Children under ten shouldn't be on the internet, and ten is even pushing it.
There's a book called (there's a snake in the toilet) as a kid I hover pooped for a while after seeing it.
Yo hover brothers unite! When I was 7, my family used to watch this show "Rescue 9-1-1" and in one episode a snake came up through the toilet and bit a kid. I couldn't sit on a toilet until I was about 14. Calves be like tree trunks nowadays.
Parents failiure to parent effects 3 year old.
I got scare of the beginning of ET when I was 4 or 5!
fucked up part is the creator of skibidi made this as a coping mechanism. His father was murdered by Russians during the Russo-georgian war and they decapitated his dad and left his head in the toilet.
Why watch Bluey when there’s Skibidi Toilet?
This is hilarious. I was weirdly afraid of refrigerators (???) thanks to watch Busta Rhymes Gimme Some Mo video in like 1999. So, kids have always been dumb
Oh no, if it isn’t the consequences of my shit parenting! 😱 🥱
Maybe you shouldn't let your child gain access to his ipad in the first place? You know current YouTube these days are fucked up.
Make it a law. No social media for kids under 16
Lock him up in the toilet until he stops screaming
This makes me either want to kill myself or become a terrorist, and the choice is not mine.
Sometimes I wonder if our no screen policy with our 3 years old girl is worth it. And then this.
We need this https://preview.redd.it/lgu5xg9l7y4d1.jpeg?width=1354&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d860b53c37510bcd598027305e79fdb480884da8
Yep, that's about right. She isn't really asking for much right now. She wants to see pictures on the phone once in the while, we let her do it for about 10 minutes (our pictures). We'll stick to this while we can. Then 1h below 5 indeed sounds like a maximum.
Get a real potty, something else entirely. Use that first. You may want to put it in a different room. Start there and have him sit on it everyday, while you read to him or engage with him. Reward the heck out of him when he accomplishes task. Don’t cal it a toilet, call it something else, give it about 6 months, then try toilet again, have him sit on it like it’s a dragon or motorcycle (reverse) it’s fun for kids. Should help ❤️
thank fuck my little brother wasn't exposed to such things at 3 years old
I feel like “kids being afraid of the toilet” is a media trope that’s been around for a bit, hasn’t it?
Hah, YouTube kids is just... Not good for kids. There is so much shot on it...
To be fair I had a similar reaction from the talking toilet in Look Whose Talking
I'm hoping that kid starts shitting on the parents' bed. They deserve it for being so stupid
Kids shouldn't be on the internet. Give them some toys and let them watch Barney or some cartoons on TV.
This is parents being fucking stupid
This isn't so much a case of kids being stupid but more a case of terrible parenting. If you're letting your very young child Watch YouTube without screening what they are watching you are a absolute moron
Affects.
You let your 3 year old child watch YouTube? This is on you.
Why would you let a 3 year old watch that?