YouTube is a nightmare (rant)
Why is it so hard to just keep kids on actual educational content?? My 8yo watched one video about Minecraft and now the algorithm is feeding him skibidi toilet content and these creepy deep-fried meme compilations. I've turned on restricted mode, blocked channels, everything. He still somehow finds garbage. YouTube Kids is useless. Thinking about just deleting the app and we watch Netflix documentaries instead because at least I can vet those beforehand.
lol the skibidi toilet phase hit my 7yo hard too. I feel your pain
The Netflix strategy is definitely easier but heads up - you'll need to refresh his content options pretty regularly or he'll start asking about the same shows. Rotation is key. We do Netflix + Tinkercad videos (curated playlists) + Duolingo for language stuff and that seems to hit the balance between educational and actually interesting to an 8yo