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YouTube Is Packed With Junk Car Content For Kids

YouTube Is Packed With Junk Car Content For Kids

There are legions of adults on your iPad, just waiting to mess with your little gearhead's brain

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If you’ve got kids, they’ve likely been exposed to YouTube via grandma’s iPad more than once. If they like cars, the algorithm is very likely serving them some weird, bootleg car content that gives me the absolute creeps to watch.

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Keeping an eye on kids and providing them with enriching, meaningful experiences is a lot of work, especially if you’re working a job or two. It’s not really for me to blame people for how they make it work. My parents sat me in front of a TV/Nintendo for a large portion of my childhood and I’d say I’m roughly fine. Still, this stuff, which is just everywhere on YouTube is shocking. Even the worst, most half-assed Netflix kid slop has someone looking at it and deciding whether or not it can go in the big Netflix kids trough. It’s a low bar, but one YouTube can’t clear.

This sort of stuff isn’t limited to cars, but there is an astonishing number of videos where it’s just man hands playing with diecast cars and seemingly just as many shitty bootleg Cars cartoons. Worse than that, there are what I assume are parents pointing cameras at their children and making them act out weird little scenarios—in the best case, turning their play time into a way for the parents to potentially make money. The kids are performing and in other areas of entertainment there would be rules around that.

If you click through this, you’ll find that not only are these videos racking up millions of views, the channels that make them have millions of subscribers. So it’s not just the algorithm, someone is making an affirmative choice here. I wouldn’t typically offer parenting advice, but in general I don’t let my kids watch YouTube except under close supervision.

Anyway, look at these weird videos I found:

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Bibo Play with Toys Disney Pixar Lightning McQueen Cars 3 Toys

Bibo Play with Toys Disney Pixar Lightning McQueen Cars 3 Toys

Bibo Play with Toys Disney Pixar Lightning McQueen Cars 3 Toys

Bibo looks to be one of the low effort channels where a grown up just plays with the toys in ways that would admittedly probably be pretty fun for a kid. The Bibo Toys channel has 10.8 million subscribers, and this video has been viewed 220 million times.

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Clean up muddy minicars & disney pixar car convoys! Play in the garden

Clean up muddy minicars & disney pixar car convoys! Play in the garden

Clean up muddy minicars & disney pixar car convoys! Play in the garden

Here’s this. Hands of a grown man, playing with more Cars diecast toys. It comes from the verified channel of Suri Huynh Toys and it has 11 million views. Cool, cool, cool.

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Police car helps tractor find stolen wheel

Police car helps tractor find stolen wheel

Police car helps tractor find stolen wheel

Back to Bibo here, but with higher production values. It’s a weird one in which a cop helps a person recover stolen property. Interestingly, Bibo doesn’t seem to have been rewarded for putting in additional effort here and it has a measly 1.6 million views.

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🚓 Çocuklar gerçek polis arabası ve ambulans ile oynar 🚑 Çocuklar taklit oyunu ! ⛑ Kidibli

🚓 Çocuklar gerçek polis arabası ve ambulans ile oynar 🚑 Çocuklar taklit oyunu ! ⛑ Kidibli






🚓 Çocuklar gerçek polis arabası ve ambulans ile oynar 🚑 Çocuklar taklit oyunu ! ⛑ Kidibli

OK, this one’s actually pretty good. 7.7 million views for KIDIBLI Türkçe olarak, a channel with 9.9 million subs. I think it’s the Turkish version of a German channel, not gonna look into it.

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Mack truck vs Dinoco vs Impossible Log Wave Bridge Truck Car Rescue -Cars vs Deep Water-BeamNG.drive

Mack truck vs Dinoco vs Impossible Log Wave Bridge Truck Car Rescue -Cars vs Deep Water-BeamNG.drive

Mack truck vs Dinoco vs Impossible Log Wave Bridge Truck Car Rescue -Cars vs Deep Water-BeamNG.drive

Does it seem like Disney, the famously litigious guardian of its IP would have something to say about these awful videos where all the characters are Disney-owned, but they’re everywhere on YouTube. The channel that posted this bizarre little film is called Candy and it has 632,000 subscribers. The video has been viewed 57 million times.

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Mater Misbehaves ! Disney Pixar CARS TOYS MOVIES BURGER MEAL | Day: 1 & 2

Mater Misbehaves ! Disney Pixar CARS TOYS MOVIES BURGER MEAL | Day: 1 & 2

Mater Misbehaves ! Disney Pixar CARS TOYS MOVIES BURGER MEAL | Day: 1 & 2

Here’s another Cars ripoff. It’s actually worth watching. It was uploaded 8 years ago and features a very serviceable Larry The Cable Guy impersonator haranguing a living Happy Meal Box. (Canonically, Mater would not do this.) The channel CarsToysMovies has 2.2 million subscribers and this video has 19 million views.

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Monkey Baby Bon Bon Transports Giant Surprise Eggs And With Puppies In The Swimming Pool

Monkey Baby Bon Bon Transports Giant Surprise Eggs And With Puppies In The Swimming Pool

Monkey Baby Bon Bon Transports Giant Surprise Eggs And With Puppies In The Swimming Pool

While these certainly aren’t the most disturbing monkey videos on the internet, these Monkey Baby Bon Bon videos are very hard for me to watch. The channel that publishes them, Animal HT has 15.5 million subscribers and this video has been viewed 34 million times.

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