When did kids' YouTube become impossible to moderate?
I set up YouTube Kids for my 5yo because I thought it was "safe." But I keep finding weird stuff in the recommended section - like videos of people opening toy boxes for 20 minutes straight, or these creepy animations that are technically not "inappropriate" but feel wrong? And don't even get me started on the algorithm learning her preferences. She watched ONE video about slime and now that's literally all she sees. Are we supposed to just give up and let them watch regular YouTube with parental controls instead?
The weird recommendation spiral is real. We just locked ours to a specific list of creators we approved after week one of random stuff showing up. Takes more setup but stops the creepy rabbit holes