I been always argue random people in Facebook All of them are 10 year old They always share about cringy thing, being no gf or bf and sad Boi feel heart broken.
I still run into 30-40 year olds who struggle to send an email, tech literacy is non-existent. You can tell them all the dangers but if they don't know how to use the damn thing, they won't be able stop their kids from watching anything.
I work for an internet service provider, I go into homes and set up new users. Overwhelming majority of people I encountered don't even really try to understand the bare minimum of their network safety. Most just register and forget all their passwords. They heard tik tok is bad for their kids but really they are not going to do anything about it.
Internet Etiquette in the 2000s and 2010s: "Never use your full name, don't divulge personally identifiable info to random people, don't trust random people" Parents, who will wonder why their kids are talking to 40 year olds in the future: "Nah, I'mma do my own thing."
I think what doesn't help with all this is the lack of kid friendly sites available. I remember most of my online time as a child was on flash games in the pbs, playhouse disney, and nickelodeon websites. I'd play cool math games at school. I used to play Pixie Hollow Online. When I was VERY little I played on Purble Place. I think the death of flash and the sleek modernization or even deletion of these former havens of online play are absolutely part of the issue. Parents are mainly to blame, yes, but what sites are children even able to go to safely anymore?
As far as I remember those sites often ran the risk of viruses due to a kid clicking on an add or they had unsavory games in them. The safety if anything was an illusion.
@@cosmicskydragon333 Well that's where the responsibility of parents comes in. I was taught to not click on any ads and how to spot untrustworthy links, as well as to ask if I found anything strange that I wasn't sure was a virus or not. And thus, I never got a virus on my parents' computer.
The difference was that back in the day we all didnt have handheld 24/7 access to the Internet. We had the family computer sitting in a public, main room, usually easily monitored.
Omg I remember those days it was the best now since we got handheld shit with almost unlimited access to the internet the worlds gone to shit and the brain rot is real because now because of apps like twitter and shittok more people are becoming more sensitive and claim everything is racist all the time when they have no clue what those words mean just to sound special and shit when we need to limit peoples access to the internet and hopefully we can restore the world into a functional society again
I was born in ‘87 & had my own PC from 94 til now. Difference being my mom checked weekly through history & said I had 1 chance to have complete freedom. If I had been exposed or looked at anything like this, I would’ve lost it.
@@Coffee17990 Are you familiar with punctuation? The lack of it here adds quite the irony to your comments about "brain rot"; Perhaps instead you offer yourself as evidence?
Keep in mind, TikTok apparently has a different algorithm for their own country. In China, kids are promoted educational TikToks while everyone else gets... This.
Yep, China doesn't view TikTok as safe or healthy for their own citizens. Instead their version promotes education, crafts, and well being. So they've know that it could hurt other people in the world(especially by previous mistakes from other platforms). They just really don't care.
Copy and pasted On the face of it, the answer would appear to be “no.” It was first incorporated in California in April 2015, according to US court documents. TikTok has never existed in mainland China, though the app was available in Hong Kong until July 2020, when it pulled out shortly after Beijing imposed a controversial national security law in the city.
When you said GTA was worse, then VRChat for kids, I laughed out loud. My guy, the atrocities that occur in VRChat should be illegal. I'm speaking with some experience on this one. I dated a girl in Canada 4 years back, and she was deep into vr chat. I never played before, so one night, I decided to head home and try it out in vr since I didn't have any games for the dang thing. What I found was younger players being straight up exploited by older players in vr (ERP) sex simulations in open lobbies of all things. One of her friends took part in it and when I brought it to her attention , (me having assumed this wasn't the norm) she said it happens all the time and its fine cause it's only VR. Needless to say, I dumped that woman so fast and did all I could to report the situation.
omg thats disgusting. I tried reporting a 14 yr old girl on tik tok live today for her own safety (she somehow has over 1k followers without making any videos) likely from creating lives and pedos follow her my god
I grew up with my parents not knowing what the internet is, and now that I have kids I put every parental lock i can on every app or device i have. My parents didn't know about the horrors of shock, gore and IRC websites that I found just by clicking random links which at the time I wasn't informed not to click.
I’m still a teenager right now but do you think that will cause conflict with your kids and how do you think you’d balance that between gaining freedoms and having parental controls?
@@Cronrath64a teenager should be a little smarter than a 8 year old. A teenager should be having a conversation with their parents about internet safety. They should know that no website is truly safe and that evil people lurk everywhere on the web. An 8 yr old doesn't understand what that means. Its much harder to control a teenager and they'll most likely find a way around parental controls but if they're raised with any respect, they'll most likely not want to search for certain things but you can't stop everything ever. But a teen should be better at saying no to strangers online than someone younger. But that's not to say that a teen should be to blame for evil people online
@@Sebastian-Draegon I feel like a teen with good parents will know to talk to their parents if there’s weird stuff going on or they got into something bad by accident. I agree with you but wanted to add that
The internet has NEVER been child-safe. Even pre-internet (BBS) days was not safe for children. As a child, I accessed much content intended for adults only. I did so over dialup, but graduated as technology advanced. Gen-X here, YOU WANT NO ADULT SUPERVISION? Puhleeze. The only thing that has changed is the speed, increased resolution, and the addition of content INTENDED for children.
Yeah, I mean, the internet is just 'the world', and 'the world' is not kid-safe, nor should it have to be. It's up to parents to ensure their children are accessing suitable content for their age, it's not up to anyone else.
Nothing has truly changed in the almost thirty years now sine the internet became available to the general public in 1995, in regards to the content available. You're right though about the speed and resolution changing and added content aimed at children. My daughter (thirty two now) was monitored when she was online, and where she went.
It is surprising how rarely people mention BBSs or the "information services" pre-Internet. There was plenty of adult content on every BBS I ever used as a teenager. They ran stories in the mainstream media back in the 1980s and 1990s about children being abducted and molested by strangers they met on BBSs. This is nothing new. Parents today are just lazy, they know the dangers but want electronic devices to babysit their children so they don't have to.
@@Dontstopbelievingman I'd argue "it takes a village to raise a child": Whilst I'm loathe to suggest government oversight, when you get down to brass tacks there are some common sense laws that could be put in place to protect our next generations. Perhaps failing to prevent your child from accessing harmful material should be a crime...
Even as a paranoid kid who followed what my parents told me, I still ran into bad stuff here and there without even seeking it. I couldn’t imagine how much crap some kids see without any self control. Especially with some of these modern apps.
Yeah, I remember searching up sth like 'Angry red dragon'. And idk if safe search was turned off or sth, but the 2nd row image was a blowjob. I was like 15 and I was terrified and that I'd get in trouble
As someone who WAS one of the kids w/o self control yeah no we're cooked. As a 13-yo i'm terrified for the even younger lads and lasses out there. This kinda exposure fucks you up, big-time, 100%. And even tho i think negligent parents are a big part of this, even doing everything right, things can still slip thru the cracks. Best solution is just don't let your kids have a device lol
Bro EXACTLY. Unfortunately I didn’t realize that I saw some stuff I really shouldn’t have seen at that age until I was much older (see: weird fetish art of characters I liked. Luckily I didn’t develop anything from it because it always freaked me out and gave me a weird feeling.)
@@cerubiaid The best solution is to just prevent this type of stuff from happening by dealing with those who do it. Torturing someone because they were too young to know what they were looking for is not something anyone should condone.
Ill be honest dude, ive been enveloped in vrchat for almost 5 years, since i was 16. I've seen the strip clubs, the sexwork, the drama, so listen; the amount of kids on the platform since the quest came out is Insane. The club and kink community in vrchat has had to evolve to keep them OUT. I've seen some public sfw clubs simply ask for a DOB, but a lot of them ID verify in a Discord server before you can even Join an event. Even then, public worlds have been dead or a cesspool- and the amount of predators on the platform has multiplied in the extremes- I see people get banned in so many communities every day for it or allegations. These kids are talking to REAL PEOPLE. THEY ARE CAPABLE OF SO MUCH. Putting your kid in a vr headset where you can't see anything going on, and they can talk to anyone, is just asking for them to get groomed. talking from experience. PARENT YOUR DAMN KIDS.
Also part of vrchat, i stay in worlds that require dob and kick/ban people who lie about their age and happily block any i think slip through. The social media site branded as a game has thousands of unsupervised children being funneled into situations that make grooming and exploitation likely. Despite the presence of law enforcement and a substantial portion of the community looking for predators.
I feel like even if I did show my id in a discord server or DM I feel like they fucking wouldn't believe me because I am legally 21 but the way I sound and the way I mentally act I sound like I'm 14 or 15 and I get kicked almost constantly because the way I sound like I never hit puberty before 😭. But besides that yeah people who are actually kids need to be careful and the parents need to monitor said children! 😨
Yup ive been playing vrc since i was 17 and its brutal. Once the quest 2 came out it slowly got terrible. Its hard for me to even enjoy the game when any lobby you join, even group hosted are filled with racist, slur screaming children and there is no way to truly remove them from the platform. I have literally met a 5 year old on vrchat, the headset was far too heavy for his head so you could tell he was having trouble balancing it on his head, luckily he joined a world with adults that weren’t being inappropriate but he was litterally still learning subtraction and addition math and sang the abcs multiple times when people asked like its just crazy. But of course i wont be surprised when vrchat is hit with a coppa law all because PARENTS slapped a brick of light onto their children’s undeveloped heads and walked away.
Dude, the reason why there are so many kids here is actually black ops 2. Everyone who had a developed brain in those times, will tell you, that the bo2 commentary days, were pretty much the beginning of the end, when it comes to EASY AF and Braindead content. Everyone became a youtuber in those days... then insta came....vine came... streaming became big.... musically... which evolved into tiktok. the stone began to fall right there, in 2012.
But muta, that would imply having to take the iPad away from 6 year old Jhamiez, and having to put up with his tiny little childish withdraws from cocomelon
It will always confuse me how so many from the generation that was raised on “stranger danger”and “ask for your parents permission before going online” being plastered literally everywhere end up giving their children unrestricted internet access & expecting everything to be fine Like…did we not see the same commercials & posters growing up??? Or did yall somehow forget or ignore all that?????
while I'd normally say that parents can't really hover over their kids constantly. This is an exception, either that, or the parents saw it, deleted it and then it got reuploaded by someone else
@@varietychan Well I have an app that has all the parental controls for my son's phone. But he is only 9, so idk if it would work on an older more tech savvy kid.
@viktordeadboi its basically a word now whereas “cooked” “is crazy” and all the other word trends are temporary thing everyone and their mom repeats. It’s like a chunk of humanity are part of a hive mind😂
Wow! What a serious problem! If only it had a simple solution like, oh, I don’t know, monitoring your kids internet activity/ not letting them have tiktok or social media in general
Parents are one thing, but that doesnt matter, parents or not, its still illegal, immoral, and a problem not unique to tiktok. Thats like telling parents "its a simple solution to just carefully cross pedestrian lines", and yet we still we have accidents with kids on pedestrian lanes.
Lots of top comments blaming parents.. you guys are ignorant of what has been going on - the founder of TikTok started boosting trends by directly contacting kids (8yr olds!!!) to help groom them for influencers. Watch the multi-part _Foundering_ podcast , they did a deep dive on TikTok's founding a while back, shocking and enlightening
@@winzyl9546crossing the street and showing your underage body on tiktok live for money is not comparable, this is not an issue for parents who are actual parents
exactly. though I will say that the internet has gotten super easy to access degenerate stuff even as a kid like VR chat: another similar solution though, don’t get kids VR headsets since you can’t monitor that. it’s actually surprising how many kids have VR headsets, like I’ve wanted one since the oculus rift came out (26 now) and I STILL don’t have one because I’ve had a hard adult life so far. so seeing all these kids on VR stuff is crazy
1. Fries your attention span 2. Sells your info to countless chinese data brokers 3. Has almost no regulation on age 4. Is cringe All you have to know why this app is horrible
Most importantly, it collects a lot of data, and it's a tool of influence. Things can be tested in the influence department, and evaluated via the data collection to check how effective it was or not. Then it can be adapted and perfected. Because the CCP has so much control, it tests a lot of things and correct course if necessary if it doesn't go as planned. I don't see anyone but me mentioning this experiment part of Tik Tok associated risks, but I think it makes it more dangerous even. It's really dystopian.
"Is the internet safe for kids? Not these days" bro.. since day 1 the internet's had documents on explosives and narcotics manufacturing, the internet was never safe for kids.
That's the part of the internet I remember seeing very well besides flash games. Though I suppose it was more of a case of the times like Y2K "happening" and 9/11 once the fear went away the internet as a whole went sensually deprived I still know kids locked up for making pipebombs (guess they adults now )
What is wild is how the cap is a specific amount, rather than a percentage of gross revenue. But if you actually want to force them to comply, force them to prove compliance with no longer having or handling any data in violation of COPPA, with the company being required to prove a negative. I.e. they no longer reasonably can violate COPPA thanks to changes. If said burden isn't met, they automatically get fined a higher amount.
@@chingling9359 Well, anyone who wants to live stream & make money. Should need to be verified by ID. TikTok also makes money from streams, so they can hire people to do it. Twitch & other platforms do it.
I work as a content moderator for Tiktok and we are instructed to flag their accounts as underage if they either look like they're below 13 or admit to being below 13. Now, since we're not directly responsible for banning them (That's the job of another department), I dunno how fast or how often they get banned after people like me have reviewed a video/case.
As a woman who grew up with unrestricted access to the internet, I wholeheartedly agree with restricting what your kids use and access. I've been told by my friends and classmates that I'm being "abusive and cruel" and that my "kids will always find a way to look at what they want". I know this and that's scary. But not even telling these people "There are so many pedos on the internet that can and will jump on you the minute you say you're 8-17" will bat their eyes. They blame ME for letting them on websites that has pedos but they're so stuck up their asses that telling them EVERY WEBSITE has pedos of some kind on it, they won't believe it because they live on facebook and never seen it AS AN ADULT. I GREW UP ONLINE. I remember being so so so fucking stupid for always telling people my real age and the swarms of creeps in my inbox was a frequent thing. Now I'm an adult? Empty af. It's NOT SAFE. Fuck my blood is boiling.
Also a female who grew up with unrestricted access. I remember thinking to myself when I was maybe 21ish "Man there's so few pedos on the internet now vs when I was a kid." And then a minute later it clicked for me.
Also my husband and I are both pretty terminally online and have agreed that our kids (when we have them) will have very little access to electronic entertainment in general let alone the internet itself until they're adults.
@@Eusongbuy them and get them hard into video games they will forget surfing the web and video games can teach them something, get them a slow old phone and block the porn sites, also get them hard into workout running the most they will be to tired to surf the web or if they do they will probably fall asleep in the middle of it
only reason those other parents calling you abusive and cruel because giving their kids unfettered access to the internet is exactly that, their just projecting onto you. If they say anything like your kids are going to fall behind in technology or something along those lines, again they actually have a lot more to gain not being on the internet. They aren't gaining anything by being on the internet they aren't learning anything, they are being farmed by big tech just like all the rest of us, not to mention the privacy part of it. If your child does something stupid on the internet its there forever. Imagine all the mistakes you make as a kid, then all of that on the internet forever.
I've known a few parents who would just get wasted on liquor or weed and hand their children a tablet to play on the internet all day. Parents are almost always the problem.
If the punishment is a paid fine. It should double in cost for every time it happens. And never be less than the amount made from breaking the law in the first place.
I'll be honest, kids were never safe on the internet. But it is so much worse these days. I'm all for keeping kids off of social media until they are of legal age.
Trouble with that is that it could end up harming queer kids, since they don't know why they feel like that - and, should they need to contact a group such as the Rainbow Railroad, it's less likely not just that it's okay to feel how they feel, but also that there are groups like that to help protect them if there is a risk of harm or worse if the queer person is in an unsafe area - be the danger from their household, or even the government.
The internet never was safe from children. That's why teachers had an entire lab dedicated to computer education even in the first grade we had computers in the classroom but never allowed to use them unsupervised by the teacher or another adult. Even with secure servers and no connection to most websites students and other children could learn by word of mouth how to get past the rudimentary school or public library firewall to access whatever site they wanted. Horrifying to catch see a young boy watch pr0n on a public library computer whilst his mother left him unsupervised. When I told his mother she was just so dumbfounded and entirely shocked. This was back in 2004... it's never been safe. In modern day 2024 I have seen on twitch and reported child endangerment from the virtual tubing community. With my own eyes I caught a young boy with a voice changer str3aming to a creepy audi3nc3 or highly s3xual individuals whilst the young boy with a voice changer was using a 3d model with a large bust. It's disgusting man.
i have that as well back when i was at school in 2007, at my school we have computer room which isnt really computers but small laptops that is used for study and learn. We did kinda have some freedom but at the end its monitored with the main computer at the front of the class. I was actually one of the kids who opened up pr0n one time, but at that time i still dont know what it was, but thankfully i grew up well mainly due to my surroundings and environment. Its really wild to see that in 2024 not only parents nowadays think their kids can grow by themselves without any help, they also given basically doomsday devices without restrictions or even supervision from their parents. This issue not just happens in the western countries but everywhere, prob by parents who never wanted a child but decided to have unprotected creation without regards of what could happen, or there are other reasons as well but at the end of the day parents are the number one reasons why some kids turn out bad, since from the early years kids learn from their parents first before anyone else. If in the future these kids grew up we dont know what they will become, if the parents isnt stopping them first or help them and guide them to the right path
They are just a legal team? I doubt they know a lot about 69 or care about a number it just happened to have end up on page 69 they didn't put it there on purpose because of a meme. You don't meme around with legal stuff anyways.
Tiktok also allows comments to go on wildly racist and bigoted rants calling cultures inferior and subhuman, and as soon as you respond saying youre disgusting to say those things, YOU get a strike and their comment stays up, because calling someone disgusting is worse in tiktoks eyes than someone calling an entire culture subhuman and disgusting.
This was an insightful breakdown of the issues with TikTok and other platforms like Roblox and VR Chat. It’s disturbing how easily children can be exploited, and the parallels to unsafe environments in these virtual spaces are eye-opening. The lack of proper safeguards, especially with live streaming, is alarming, and the way social media manipulates young minds with reward systems needs more attention. The point about foreign influence on social media is spot on too. We need stricter regulations before this spirals even more. Thanks for diving deep into this!
Mhmm, unless you know where to genuinely look for “safe spaces” even then if you do. Guaranteed there will always be degenerates on every platform to ruin it for everyone. 😂 Internet in a nutshell for the most part.
@@fifilurks It really depends on the person, I've been exposed to the internet with complete unrestricted access and still came out perfectly fine. My parents raised me well so there wasn't really much to worry about me on the internet. I know right from wrong, I know not to click random links, and I've honestly never entered my actual personal information anywhere on the internet. I've only ever used fake names and emails to the point I don't even have a personal email anymore
This was happening back when Tiktok was called Musically several years ago. In fact, it was a big part of the initial marketing. It's why you can't find most of its early marketing material anymore, because they've done a lot of work to hide their past of getting people onto the site by advertising with videos of little girls. Remember, the Musically app was initially just full of kids.
i was exposed to the worst of the internet as a kid entering his teenage years, back when you had to access it on a dial up modem. The internet was malicious back then for sure, but in some ways it felt un-targeted. Horrible shit was just uploaded, and kids could stumble across it and get caught in the crossfire. Not to say that there wasnt heinous things that were aimed specifically at kids, but that wasnt the norm imo. Its shocking to me that these days, as im nearing 30, that kids might not see the level of gore i was exposed to, but they can very specifically be exploited en mass by both digsusting internet perverts, and also by corporations that just download rot onto their brains. its LESS safe for kids now than it was at the dawn of the internet, purely because companies and monsters alike are able to purposefully target kids.
Just hit 30, and most of the bad stuff I encountered was things I specifically sought out because I'd heard other kids talking about it. I remember when everyone at my school started getting Facebook, and it only took a couple of months before someone created a group for "everyone that hates X"-- it got over 900 members. She was 13, and that was more than double the people at our school. You can actually see a leap in mental illness diagnosis after certain social media sites/apps became popular. I don't think it's the only cause, but it's not looking good for the next generations.
The gruesome and grotesque has been largely pushed out, but perversions are on display everywhere in videos, ads, and even news articles... And it's being hailed as if it's virtuous. The internet needs more Jesus.
That's actually a very good and accurate point, i also remember finding a link to bestgore on an otherwhise friendly forum and the like but it wasn't a case of people luring children in for the most part, it was just like walking in the woods and finding a dead animal. Should i be exposed to that? Probably not, did it happen? Yeah.
gore is still around for certain but tends to be more isolated to dedicated sites. still possible to find it on mainstream platforms but it’s deleted much quicker these days thankfully, i hope the next generation of eight year olds don’t have to see the things i saw.
@@Smulenify I mean to be fair, we also got better at diagnosing mental illnesses, so that is more likely than social media apps causing mental illnesses, Mental illnesses are usually genetic anyways, outside of cases like PTSD or C-PTSD, or also BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder, which can be caused by terrible parenting funnily enough.) I was diagnosed with ASD, ADHD, and OCD before I ever knew what the internet was. I got discord in 2017, and hadn't even heard of the nintendo switch until, like, 2 years after it was launched XD.
@@thedecider4755 It is bad. And so is every social media app. It's objectively been proven. And that passive aggressive reply of yours towards criticism not even aimed at you is a great showcase on how it rots emotional intelligence. You're addicted. Get off it.
Yeah. Most websites have me at January 1, 1950 cause it's easier than selecting the actual month and day. Just pick a year that makes you over 18 and call it a day. I'm 43 so what do I care. The only time I've put my REAL birthdate is for official stuff, like applying for a credit card or something.
I've listed myself as over a hundred on Steam a couple times IIRC simply to have fun with it needlessly asking for me age when I've already given it one in the past(eg, going to Skyrim's store page)
The sick thing is that the internet will blame the children for not quitting the game. Still get sick to my stomach when I think about that one girl in vr chat and how everyone was saying it was her fault for not leaving the game. Hindsight is always 20/20, and kids will be kids. It's hard to think about what to do when stressed, especially as a child.
Naw VRchat is worse than the GTA strip club. You go to VRchat specifically to talk to strangers, and you wouldn’t want your kid talking to real people at a strip club setting.
what about people (like me) who only play vrchat with friends? I dun want it gone, it helps a lot with dysphoria ngl But maybe management of public worlds could be better or something
@@DakumunDahBat I have to admit..that site is really cool, but they really do need to figure out a way to keep the under age crowd out. OR figure a way to keep kids from accessing the worlds they do NOT belong in, considering the numbers of actual weirdos that get on there and go after the kids.
on god, it is just the worst app to ever exist. Tiktok has damaged society to such an extreme degree, it should have been banned way sooner. Too many pathetic and disgusting people on there throwing logic and reason out the window to do the worst challenges ever, while tiktok doesnt care about safety at all. They just want the money. It also sucks that they can get away with taking away people's data, if fines are just gonna be the only punishment, thats only a slap on the wrist.
I think its a double edge sword, it can be very good and informative, depending on which user and stuff. While the bad yeah there are many many more than the good. Even my grandma uses tiktok and she was able to use it well since she kinda knows the internet, albeit not very well but she has been using android for years better than my grandfather at times. So i think tiktok can be a very great app as long as you know what videos to look for, but for me im not a fan of tiktok mostly since i used twitter from 2015 til 2020 and i already feel out of it from social media apps
I was on the internet when you had to put the phone receiver into the modem. It has never been safe, and in hind sight a mistake. I'm also amazed you tell people they receive unfettered uncensored information, just because they live in the west. Thanks for the video
14:54 ive been looking at your dark empty eyes this whole time muta. I think its apart of me looking into the eyes of people im talking to. I also dont like subway surfers ☠️ maybe if it was that fake game youtube shills ads for all the time
its important to note that the publishers of this article have bought short stocks on Roblox alleging that they are heavily overvalued at 26 Billion... so they have an incentive for doing this research. Thats not to say it is wrong, just something to be aware of. With that said, a lot of this is true obviously. Thats unfortunately what happens on any platform targeted at kids and companies need to do a lot more to stop it.
I have a niece and she recently got a phone of her own. It was a gift for her grandma (not my mom) and i live in constant fear of her watching tiktok and the algorythm doing his shit and giving her softporn or so. THIS is a HUGE deal, Internet IS NOT SAFE for kids. Even for adults, you have people getting scammed everyday. I hope someday TikTok gets hacked and blown off the face of the earth, and the owners thrown in jail for life.
I really don’t understand why kids can’t just use their parents phones. Oh, maybe because their parents are on them 24/7 because they are addicts, so they cope and pretend it’s not a big deal? “Pour the boy one, let him learn, it will make a man out of him” all over again.
Your kids wanting to video call family and their friends for hours at a time while filling it with misc games, reading every single email/text/other message, going through your photos, and generally messing with your settings gets quite tiring. You also end up with family/kids friends calling you incessantly. Then when you do need it it is dead. A phone with parental controls & a way to view installed apps/set times on apps/block apps, with installation requests? Much better.
And you can’t even report those accounts because TikTok will just say something like no sensitive material detected, and you get a strike for “falsely reporting”
Oh Muta, subway surfing has sadly been a thing for decades... We even read a book about kids doing it and getting hurt when I was in school, probably to deter us from doing the same thing.
It’s just beautiful that this app isn’t outlawed, it’s amazing how much the Canadian and US Government cares about the children (they don’t, in fact they may like exploiting them)
Im sure that if you dug deep enough on any app it would be the same thing. TH-cam, Twitter, and Instagram all have cornagraphic content. Its not special to tick tock. You think the government really cares about children? Tik Tok is the only major app that is not owned by America. I'm guessing they just want control over the app.
@@Draconic_Incenerator yeah but I’m 100% they are bluffing since the CCP and the amount of citizens in Mainland China makes these people a ton of money, and companies care more about money than basic humanity.
I feel like its fine in moderation or for some fun but not to just "get them off your back" or "shut them up" something like that... Real parenting is pretty rare now and it scares me for the future..
Kids shouldn't be allowed on the app, but don't forget kids aren't born with a smartphone on their hands. So this is an issue that involves both TikTok AND the parents.
Legitimately. Parents. New parents. Stop being neglectful and raise your frickin kids. Watch what they watch and parental controls are good. It's not the government's job to protect your kids' access to stuff. That's just ASKING for bs regulation.
It's the entire reason why so many kids break down if they have devices taken away. It's not parents raising them, it's the internet... which is dangerous. Honestly, the sheer amount of neglectful parenting I see even in public spaces is concerning on so many levels. We might as well start building schools dedicated to parenting...
This isnt even a tiktok problem, this is a internet/parent problem. Tiktok is just another social media platform that suffers from the same problem that all others do.
Think we can solve this by saying no one under 18 on social media. Kids will make fake accounts and still use it. But any company can simply say we didn't know and boot that account.
Tiktok was designed to be predatory/bad for children's development. That's in part why the Chinese government funded its creation while outlawing it in China. The other part is about mass data collection, which our national security experts are warning about possible weaponization of, whatever that means.
@@zid9611 either that or all social media companies should be mandadated to make kid versions. Versions with no comments, and no dms. If they want to share they can do it through text or irl.
Imo It's both really. Tiktok has poor moderation via human or what is automated. I've seen some bizarre shit and hidden nudity and I don't even look for it. It's one of those clickbait things. Not to mention their algorithm is constant and will show you things you've never had any interest in. Only because it's trending. I've seen nudity in a sexual context unprovoked and it has a shit-ton of likes and comments. (Even the comments were like "TikTok moderation team sleeping"
@@zid9611 not sure why my comment was removed but this could be solved by forcing social media companies (like TH-cam has) to make a version for minors.
yeah I've tried reporting it but the reports always get stuck in the review process (mods most likely can't see the photos especially if their on the web version of tiktok) so we will just have to wait until the trend dies down
I left high school in 1989 and for the last 2 years of my high school I was a member of my high school's computer science class. In 1991 I gophered my first file from a Uni in belgium, to the 1.44 mb floppy at my friends computer lab in Australia and I realised that the internet would change the world. In 1998 I went back to Uni and started using Netscape Navigator Gold and I realised anyone could choose the breed of dog they wanted to pretend to be on the internet. At that point I started to catastrophise in my head what would happen next. I am genuinely sorry for thinking that everything that would happen next would work out for the best. It didn't and younglings like yourself are paying the blood debt for everything that happened after I and my ilk walked away and washed our hands.
I hate that the Subway Surfers on the side still works on me, despite my conscious awareness of it being the virtual equivalent of jingling keys in front of a baby.
When I was still in high school (or earlier? Idr.) (I’m 28 now) I noticed that if a TV was showing things, it would draw my attention even if I specifically disliked the show it was showing, and came to kind of resent(? (Unsure of word choice)) TV for this… Maybe we should try to use e-ink displays instead? Idk.
@@ZombieBigfoot For me it was always Portal 2 or Mirror's Edge footage, especially in commentary videos. I'd listen to what the guy in the video was saying but the real reason it kept my attention was because of the game footage in the background.
Things like this are why I think parents need to keep up to date with websites and social media so they know which ones to look out for and which ones they should probably put parental controls on. Tik Tok is mostly advertised towards teens, but the app is in a state where it really isn't safe for them at all. Especially considering some of the challenges and trends that pop up. I do hope that maybe Tik Tok implements some kind of restriction for underage accounts hosting LIVEs, though that might not do a lot since people can lie, so the parenting and moderation aspects are still the most important things. And unfortunately, not many parents seem to do that anymore.
Social media really was the beginning of the end. The lawyer that flubbed the redactions when handing over TikTok’s documents and internal communication really did us all a service.
Honestly some of the shit I see on tiktok and in trending searches tells you all you need to know about the state the app is in. Genuinely makes me sick.
@@miciso666 yupp... And its not good for anyone. I don't wanna play with children, and they should certainly not be on vrchat. They did not think this through.
Perhaps parents should, I don't know, NOT give their kids unlimited access to a social media platform before they're even in middle school? Just a thought. Dump TikTok. It won't be missed.
The thing about TikTok is that while I hate the effect it's had on society, like any social media platform, it has been important for helping people find others like them, not feeling so alone, mobilising against governments, creating social movements and allowing people in war-torn countries to communicate with others their age to show that these conflicts involve human beings. It's always a mixed bag. I don't have an answer. I personally refuse to ever use it again, it's just too addicting.
I remember Upper Echelon did an expose on this about a year ago? But genuinely speaking kids can't be left unattended on the internet. All manner of filth on there.
Honestly, those people uploading your content on Chinese websites with translated subtitles is honestly really cool and sweet. Your content has reached all around the world!
I have adhd and have a delicate balance of stimulation/overstimulation and tiktok videos that have the like, games or asmr playing next to the actual content, make me physically feel sick. Idk how people can watch those, they drive me crazy and I have to like, look away so i can just focus on the voice. I dont use tiktok, and never have, but my husband does and he mostly watches food videos but even then he gets recommended some WILD shit that I would never see on youtube shorts. so idk, I think they need content restrictions of some kind
I feel that same way! I can’t do any type of short-form content because of how overwhelming it is. My friends don’t believe me when I say I’ve never used TikTok or ig reels.
I’m so glad I have managed to reduce or cut out all forms of short form content from life. The way these algorithms just spoonfed me crap eventually just made me feel like enough is enough. Life always was and still is better off without it.
I've watched my university educated parents and siblings become increasingly stupid and conspiratorial over the last 10 years, all of them have facebook accounts and they've gone from being unique and intelligent people with diverse interests and individual pet peeves to a bunch of parrots with the same grievances, same catchphrases and same wilful ignorance relating to the same handful of topics they talk about. I had a dinner with my mother about 7 years ago. She asked me "If the ice in this glass melts, it's not going to make the glass overflow, is it? So why do you think 'climate change' is going to make sea levels rise?" So I took MY ice out of MY glass and put it on a saucer and held it angled so as the ice melted it ran into her glass. "OK so imagine the plate is Antarctica, and the ice cubes on it are the ice caps on the CONTINENT of Antarctica, which are on average nearly 2km thick and covers over three hundred million square kilometres of landmass that isn't in the ocean. What happens as the earth gets warmer, and that melts and run into your glass? Does the water level change?" Her reply? "Well we can't cause climate change anyway, only the sun can do that." SHE IS A SCHOOL TEACHER. 🤦♂
No, parent's need to watch their kids, and the feds running facebook need to stop allowing the exploitation, so they can blast people with propaganda, to try and get them to demand internet regulations.
All of which have lots of things to be held to account for. The decline in our young’s mental health, ease of access to different kinds of crime, spreading misinformation, etc. The problems with these platforms are widespread and many in numbers.
I gotta say that VrC clubs are far worse for kids than GTA. The increased intimacy of a vr headset, that other users are in fact real and not ai, and the general disturbingly high frequency of groomers online makes it so much worse. I engage with VrC, and I would personally never let my child on it until they're an adult.
Yes. That's how it should be. It may seem harsh to an outsider that you are forcing something onto your child that he/she doesn't want to, but in the end it is beneficial for everyone. Edit: Typo
@@crabnix when i was a kid, people used to say the internet is full of pervs and never to put your real info online. people seem to have forgotten that.
@@lotus_flower2001 they have personal internet access but also a parent who can work a computer and has blocked all social media ips. kind of a weird thing to doubt, i have my computer next to my kid, we play games together on steam, has family sharing with the new steam parental controls which is good. they don't go on anything online without asking first or they lose access to their computer which hasnt happened yet. i know what kids are like because i was one once with parents who didnt understand the internet, but i know how it can be bad so i make the effort as parents should.
@@crabnixseeing kids with mental issues because they've years of their life scrolling unfiltered internet and never having to think, the only job they want is to be a youtuber. that's going to be harsh when the real world hits. parents need to stop being lazy and sticking a phone in front of their kid to keep them quiet.
This has been going on for a while now. I remember listening to a podcast years ago where one of the guy said something like " so i was watching tiktok and suddenly i see a very young girl doing a suggestive dance. How is this legal?" . That was a couple years ago, so now i imagine it's even worse.
The weirdest shit about meeting people from the internet is that im still friends with a lot of these people 20years later. We still address and call each other by our in game handles/usernames from days we played online together. Its just how we bonded, we all know each others real names but its easier just to refer and address one another via our ign. Its not always safe but if you have to go meet. Make sure its always in a public place till youre 100% sure they aint out to get you. But I digress. Kids these days arent the sharpest tool in the box and dont have any spatial awareness worth a damn. Being able to meet some of the people I used to PvP and do dungeons with for hours and hours a week was some of the coolest shit ever.
Your video reminds me of when Square-Enix put out a notice that they were cracking down on on-line brothels within Final Fantasy 14... I don't play 14... I wonder how well that worked out...
funny that, Australia just enacted a law banning children from social media and apparently we're red china plus nazi germany combined with venezuela with a touch of 1984 meets idiocracy, if you ask the experts on my racist uncle's facebook feed, because free speech and the constitution (I'm Australian, so is he.)
It's almost like we we're telling everyone all along that website was a no no. And, what did they did? They pointed at us and called us names instead. God, it feels so good to be right.
Wow, it is almost like kids should have never been allowed on it.
Yup. PARENTS need to keep their kids off things like this. Don't blame TikTok. Pay more attention to your children
NOBODY ASKED MY CONTENT IS WAY BETTER... 🔥🔥
YFGA IS WAY BETTER THAN UR FAV TH-camR.
How can you tell if someone on the internet is a kid?
@@sergiodominguez9558That would require actual effort though. 😂😂
You think?
“Ask you parents permission before going online” was in every commercial…. Then those kids grow up to leave their kids alone with an IPad
That is spot on.
[Points at IPad]: Is this a parent?
At 6 years old
Their parents did the work, but they forgot to do it as well
If I Have kids, I Won't let them use technology until growing up, because that's how My parents Thought me
No child should be allowed to use this app in its current state.
How can you tell if the user is a child or not
@@doodoo66”erm… im 11… HOLY WATER TIME 🤓🤓🤓”
Tell that to the parents so unfair to ban it for everyone when these slow brain parents can't control them.
I been always argue random people in Facebook
All of them are 10 year old
They always share about cringy thing, being no gf or bf and sad Boi feel heart broken.
@@shawnakaleshawndiaznah let them kids get on tiktok 😏
I still run into 30-40 year olds who struggle to send an email, tech literacy is non-existent. You can tell them all the dangers but if they don't know how to use the damn thing, they won't be able stop their kids from watching anything.
Real the issue is if you don’t grow up around it and pay attention to it as it changes it’s hard to get people to understand unfortunately
I work for an internet service provider, I go into homes and set up new users. Overwhelming majority of people I encountered don't even really try to understand the bare minimum of their network safety. Most just register and forget all their passwords. They heard tik tok is bad for their kids but really they are not going to do anything about it.
Sounds like a them problem. You gotta learn a lot of new things as a parent to effectively care for your children 🤷🏻♀️
you dont need to be a tech expert to not give your kid a phone
A 30 year old was born in 1995, do you really think they don't know what this stuff is???
Internet Etiquette in the 2000s and 2010s: "Never use your full name, don't divulge personally identifiable info to random people, don't trust random people"
Parents, who will wonder why their kids are talking to 40 year olds in the future: "Nah, I'mma do my own thing."
I think what doesn't help with all this is the lack of kid friendly sites available. I remember most of my online time as a child was on flash games in the pbs, playhouse disney, and nickelodeon websites. I'd play cool math games at school. I used to play Pixie Hollow Online. When I was VERY little I played on Purble Place.
I think the death of flash and the sleek modernization or even deletion of these former havens of online play are absolutely part of the issue. Parents are mainly to blame, yes, but what sites are children even able to go to safely anymore?
Great point. My kids are old enough to play stuff like that now and I'm bummed that it's not around, at least not in that capacity.
As far as I remember those sites often ran the risk of viruses due to a kid clicking on an add or they had unsavory games in them. The safety if anything was an illusion.
Yeah I pretty much used my home computer exclusively for homework, Pixie Hollow Online or Scratch
Some game sites (i’m looking at you Poki) show very suggestive/fetish stuff sometimes. It’s insane.
@@cosmicskydragon333 Well that's where the responsibility of parents comes in. I was taught to not click on any ads and how to spot untrustworthy links, as well as to ask if I found anything strange that I wasn't sure was a virus or not. And thus, I never got a virus on my parents' computer.
The difference was that back in the day we all didnt have handheld 24/7 access to the Internet. We had the family computer sitting in a public, main room, usually easily monitored.
Omg I remember those days it was the best now since we got handheld shit with almost unlimited access to the internet the worlds gone to shit and the brain rot is real because now because of apps like twitter and shittok more people are becoming more sensitive and claim everything is racist all the time when they have no clue what those words mean just to sound special and shit when we need to limit peoples access to the internet and hopefully we can restore the world into a functional society again
@@Coffee17990, don't forget about Farcebook and Mark Suckerberg.
I was born in ‘87 & had my own PC from 94 til now. Difference being my mom checked weekly through history & said I had 1 chance to have complete freedom. If I had been exposed or looked at anything like this, I would’ve lost it.
@@Coffee17990 Are you familiar with punctuation? The lack of it here adds quite the irony to your comments about "brain rot"; Perhaps instead you offer yourself as evidence?
Ngl, I miss those fat weird beige color 4:3 PC screens lol
Sucks to carry around but it had character lol
Keep in mind, TikTok apparently has a different algorithm for their own country. In China, kids are promoted educational TikToks while everyone else gets... This.
Yep, China doesn't view TikTok as safe or healthy for their own citizens. Instead their version promotes education, crafts, and well being. So they've know that it could hurt other people in the world(especially by previous mistakes from other platforms). They just really don't care.
It isn't a conspiracy... until it actually is.
@@dragonhero14knowing them it's deliberate.
Copy and pasted On the face of it, the answer would appear to be “no.” It was first incorporated in California in April 2015, according to US court documents. TikTok has never existed in mainland China, though the app was available in Hong Kong until July 2020, when it pulled out shortly after Beijing imposed a controversial national security law in the city.
TIkTok is banned in China and Douyin is just a counterpart made by ByteDance specifically for Chinese netizens.
When you said GTA was worse, then VRChat for kids, I laughed out loud.
My guy, the atrocities that occur in VRChat should be illegal. I'm speaking with some experience on this one. I dated a girl in Canada 4 years back, and she was deep into vr chat. I never played before, so one night, I decided to head home and try it out in vr since I didn't have any games for the dang thing.
What I found was younger players being straight up exploited by older players in vr (ERP) sex simulations in open lobbies of all things. One of her friends took part in it and when I brought it to her attention , (me having assumed this wasn't the norm) she said it happens all the time and its fine cause it's only VR.
Needless to say, I dumped that woman so fast and did all I could to report the situation.
omg thats disgusting. I tried reporting a 14 yr old girl on tik tok live today for her own safety (she somehow has over 1k followers without making any videos) likely from creating lives and pedos follow her
my god
I actively play VRChat, but I've never seen stuff like this, perhaps the devs had done some measures to prevent it
Dude, that lady needs some investigation
"It happens all the time and it's fine cause it's only VR."
Holy shit she needs to hear herself.
I grew up with my parents not knowing what the internet is, and now that I have kids I put every parental lock i can on every app or device i have. My parents didn't know about the horrors of shock, gore and IRC websites that I found just by clicking random links which at the time I wasn't informed not to click.
I’m still a teenager right now but do you think that will cause conflict with your kids and how do you think you’d balance that between gaining freedoms and having parental controls?
Just get them hard into video games and exercise they will forget about internet
@@Cronrath64a teenager should be a little smarter than a 8 year old. A teenager should be having a conversation with their parents about internet safety. They should know that no website is truly safe and that evil people lurk everywhere on the web. An 8 yr old doesn't understand what that means. Its much harder to control a teenager and they'll most likely find a way around parental controls but if they're raised with any respect, they'll most likely not want to search for certain things but you can't stop everything ever. But a teen should be better at saying no to strangers online than someone younger. But that's not to say that a teen should be to blame for evil people online
@@Sebastian-Draegon I feel like a teen with good parents will know to talk to their parents if there’s weird stuff going on or they got into something bad by accident. I agree with you but wanted to add that
The internet has NEVER been child-safe. Even pre-internet (BBS) days was not safe for children. As a child, I accessed much content intended for adults only. I did so over dialup, but graduated as technology advanced. Gen-X here, YOU WANT NO ADULT SUPERVISION? Puhleeze.
The only thing that has changed is the speed, increased resolution, and the addition of content INTENDED for children.
Yeah, I mean, the internet is just 'the world', and 'the world' is not kid-safe, nor should it have to be. It's up to parents to ensure their children are accessing suitable content for their age, it's not up to anyone else.
Nothing has truly changed in the almost thirty years now sine the internet became available to the general public in 1995, in regards to the content available. You're right though about the speed and resolution changing and added content aimed at children. My daughter (thirty two now) was monitored when she was online, and where she went.
@@vernonhardenIt was actually 1991 when it became public. I had internet myself in 1993.
It is surprising how rarely people mention BBSs or the "information services" pre-Internet. There was plenty of adult content on every BBS I ever used as a teenager. They ran stories in the mainstream media back in the 1980s and 1990s about children being abducted and molested by strangers they met on BBSs. This is nothing new. Parents today are just lazy, they know the dangers but want electronic devices to babysit their children so they don't have to.
@@Dontstopbelievingman I'd argue "it takes a village to raise a child": Whilst I'm loathe to suggest government oversight, when you get down to brass tacks there are some common sense laws that could be put in place to protect our next generations.
Perhaps failing to prevent your child from accessing harmful material should be a crime...
Even as a paranoid kid who followed what my parents told me, I still ran into bad stuff here and there without even seeking it. I couldn’t imagine how much crap some kids see without any self control. Especially with some of these modern apps.
Yeah, I remember searching up sth like 'Angry red dragon'. And idk if safe search was turned off or sth, but the 2nd row image was a blowjob. I was like 15 and I was terrified and that I'd get in trouble
As someone who WAS one of the kids w/o self control yeah no we're cooked. As a 13-yo i'm terrified for the even younger lads and lasses out there.
This kinda exposure fucks you up, big-time, 100%. And even tho i think negligent parents are a big part of this, even doing everything right, things can still slip thru the cracks. Best solution is just don't let your kids have a device lol
Bro EXACTLY. Unfortunately I didn’t realize that I saw some stuff I really shouldn’t have seen at that age until I was much older (see: weird fetish art of characters I liked. Luckily I didn’t develop anything from it because it always freaked me out and gave me a weird feeling.)
@@cerubiaid The best solution is to just prevent this type of stuff from happening by dealing with those who do it. Torturing someone because they were too young to know what they were looking for is not something anyone should condone.
@@kidkro ??? 15 is a kid dude
Ill be honest dude, ive been enveloped in vrchat for almost 5 years, since i was 16. I've seen the strip clubs, the sexwork, the drama, so listen; the amount of kids on the platform since the quest came out is Insane. The club and kink community in vrchat has had to evolve to keep them OUT. I've seen some public sfw clubs simply ask for a DOB, but a lot of them ID verify in a Discord server before you can even Join an event. Even then, public worlds have been dead or a cesspool- and the amount of predators on the platform has multiplied in the extremes- I see people get banned in so many communities every day for it or allegations. These kids are talking to REAL PEOPLE. THEY ARE CAPABLE OF SO MUCH. Putting your kid in a vr headset where you can't see anything going on, and they can talk to anyone, is just asking for them to get groomed. talking from experience. PARENT YOUR DAMN KIDS.
Also part of vrchat, i stay in worlds that require dob and kick/ban people who lie about their age and happily block any i think slip through. The social media site branded as a game has thousands of unsupervised children being funneled into situations that make grooming and exploitation likely. Despite the presence of law enforcement and a substantial portion of the community looking for predators.
I feel like even if I did show my id in a discord server or DM I feel like they fucking wouldn't believe me because I am legally 21 but the way I sound and the way I mentally act I sound like I'm 14 or 15 and I get kicked almost constantly because the way I sound like I never hit puberty before 😭. But besides that yeah people who are actually kids need to be careful and the parents need to monitor said children! 😨
Why tf are you using vrchat
Yup ive been playing vrc since i was 17 and its brutal. Once the quest 2 came out it slowly got terrible. Its hard for me to even enjoy the game when any lobby you join, even group hosted are filled with racist, slur screaming children and there is no way to truly remove them from the platform. I have literally met a 5 year old on vrchat, the headset was far too heavy for his head so you could tell he was having trouble balancing it on his head, luckily he joined a world with adults that weren’t being inappropriate but he was litterally still learning subtraction and addition math and sang the abcs multiple times when people asked like its just crazy. But of course i wont be surprised when vrchat is hit with a coppa law all because PARENTS slapped a brick of light onto their children’s undeveloped heads and walked away.
Dude, the reason why there are so many kids here is actually black ops 2. Everyone who had a developed brain in those times, will tell you, that the bo2 commentary days, were pretty much the beginning of the end, when it comes to EASY AF and Braindead content. Everyone became a youtuber in those days... then insta came....vine came... streaming became big.... musically... which evolved into tiktok. the stone began to fall right there, in 2012.
Parents should do something know as parenting 0:54
But muta, that would imply having to take the iPad away from 6 year old Jhamiez, and having to put up with his tiny little childish withdraws from cocomelon
It will always confuse me how so many from the generation that was raised on “stranger danger”and “ask for your parents permission before going online” being plastered literally everywhere end up giving their children unrestricted internet access & expecting everything to be fine
Like…did we not see the same commercials & posters growing up??? Or did yall somehow forget or ignore all that?????
Parents need to take part of the blame
while I'd normally say that parents can't really hover over their kids constantly. This is an exception, either that, or the parents saw it, deleted it and then it got reuploaded by someone else
Parents over 30.. they got no idea . I send videos like this to my buddy’s. Cuz if they not watching this stuff they got no hope.
@@varietychanParental controls helps a bit no?
YES.
@@varietychan Well I have an app that has all the parental controls for my son's phone. But he is only 9, so idk if it would work on an older more tech savvy kid.
This is outrageous! Only TH-cam Kids is allowed to be spawncamping.
Ouch!
Spawncamping is crazy
@@LinktotheFuture-zs9km everything “is crazy” we gotta stop this word trend shit it’s just cringe
@@ebfromtha410 Deal with it lmfao
@viktordeadboi its basically a word now whereas “cooked” “is crazy” and all the other word trends are temporary thing everyone and their mom repeats. It’s like a chunk of humanity are part of a hive mind😂
Wow! What a serious problem! If only it had a simple solution like, oh, I don’t know, monitoring your kids internet activity/ not letting them have tiktok or social media in general
Easier to slap a lawsuit on the company that allows it, than trying to enforce that to what, tens of millions or more?
Parents are one thing, but that doesnt matter, parents or not, its still illegal, immoral, and a problem not unique to tiktok.
Thats like telling parents "its a simple solution to just carefully cross pedestrian lines", and yet we still we have accidents with kids on pedestrian lanes.
Lots of top comments blaming parents.. you guys are ignorant of what has been going on - the founder of TikTok started boosting trends by directly contacting kids (8yr olds!!!) to help groom them for influencers.
Watch the multi-part _Foundering_ podcast , they did a deep dive on TikTok's founding a while back, shocking and enlightening
@@winzyl9546crossing the street and showing your underage body on tiktok live for money is not comparable, this is not an issue for parents who are actual parents
exactly. though I will say that the internet has gotten super easy to access degenerate stuff even as a kid like VR chat: another similar solution though, don’t get kids VR headsets since you can’t monitor that. it’s actually surprising how many kids have VR headsets, like I’ve wanted one since the oculus rift came out (26 now) and I STILL don’t have one because I’ve had a hard adult life so far. so seeing all these kids on VR stuff is crazy
1. Fries your attention span
2. Sells your info to countless chinese data brokers
3. Has almost no regulation on age
4. Is cringe
All you have to know why this app is horrible
抖音一响，父母白养 (The moment a Douyin/Tiktok video starts, all the effort put into raising the kid is lost)
Even the Chinese know Tiktok is shit.
“is cringe”=“i never actually used tiktok before but i believe the loud minority makes up the majority of users!!”
@@ephxiaathe "loud minority" isnt a minority then
Facebook and TH-cam shorts do the same thing.
Most importantly, it collects a lot of data, and it's a tool of influence. Things can be tested in the influence department, and evaluated via the data collection to check how effective it was or not. Then it can be adapted and perfected.
Because the CCP has so much control, it tests a lot of things and correct course if necessary if it doesn't go as planned.
I don't see anyone but me mentioning this experiment part of Tik Tok associated risks, but I think it makes it more dangerous even.
It's really dystopian.
"Is the internet safe for kids? Not these days" bro.. since day 1 the internet's had documents on explosives and narcotics manufacturing, the internet was never safe for kids.
That's the part of the internet I remember seeing very well besides flash games.
Though I suppose it was more of a case of the times like Y2K "happening" and 9/11 once the fear went away the internet as a whole went sensually deprived
I still know kids locked up for making pipebombs (guess they adults now )
21:44 “When the punishment is a fine it is legal for a price.”
Ikr!? Why wouldn’t you implement a fine with at least some kind of 3 strikes penalty system in the first place?
@@beemillo4741 I say that the fine should be percentage based of the company’s previous yearly earnings per instance.
Because the government doesn't truly want to stop it. They just want their cut. @@beemillo4741
Hey thanks, Final Fantasy Tactics!
What is wild is how the cap is a specific amount, rather than a percentage of gross revenue. But if you actually want to force them to comply, force them to prove compliance with no longer having or handling any data in violation of COPPA, with the company being required to prove a negative. I.e. they no longer reasonably can violate COPPA thanks to changes. If said burden isn't met, they automatically get fined a higher amount.
Kids shouldn't be allowed to live stream or upload any content of themselves. Problem solved.
they’re not allowed tiktok auto bans you if you mention being under aged happened to a couple of my friends back when we were under age
You do know anyone can lie their age on any website, right?
@@chingling9359 Well, anyone who wants to live stream & make money. Should need to be verified by ID. TikTok also makes money from streams, so they can hire people to do it. Twitch & other platforms do it.
I work as a content moderator for Tiktok and we are instructed to flag their accounts as underage if they either look like they're below 13 or admit to being below 13.
Now, since we're not directly responsible for banning them (That's the job of another department), I dunno how fast or how often they get banned after people like me have reviewed a video/case.
@@atheistyoda8915 How's the work environment there?
Tiktok has always been a bad place for kids to be on
There is literal softcore porn on youtube kids and actual porn on youtube. but yeah ban kids from tiktok.
@@fwrocky I'm not saying that youtube is a good place for kids I'm just saying tiktok was always not safe
@@fwrockytwo wrongs don’t make a right. Why you d riding a company that dosent know you exist?
@@fwrockytrying to defend tik tok is wild.
Or better yet: Ban kids from ALL social media. Period. It's all bad, twitter, Facebook, even TH-cam.
As a woman who grew up with unrestricted access to the internet, I wholeheartedly agree with restricting what your kids use and access. I've been told by my friends and classmates that I'm being "abusive and cruel" and that my "kids will always find a way to look at what they want". I know this and that's scary. But not even telling these people "There are so many pedos on the internet that can and will jump on you the minute you say you're 8-17" will bat their eyes. They blame ME for letting them on websites that has pedos but they're so stuck up their asses that telling them EVERY WEBSITE has pedos of some kind on it, they won't believe it because they live on facebook and never seen it AS AN ADULT.
I GREW UP ONLINE. I remember being so so so fucking stupid for always telling people my real age and the swarms of creeps in my inbox was a frequent thing. Now I'm an adult? Empty af. It's NOT SAFE. Fuck my blood is boiling.
Also a female who grew up with unrestricted access. I remember thinking to myself when I was maybe 21ish "Man there's so few pedos on the internet now vs when I was a kid." And then a minute later it clicked for me.
Also my husband and I are both pretty terminally online and have agreed that our kids (when we have them) will have very little access to electronic entertainment in general let alone the internet itself until they're adults.
@@Eusongbuy them and get them hard into video games they will forget surfing the web and video games can teach them something, get them a slow old phone and block the porn sites, also get them hard into workout running the most they will be to tired to surf the web or if they do they will probably fall asleep in the middle of it
dude i'm CURRENTLY growing up on the internet and it's absolutely insane
only reason those other parents calling you abusive and cruel because giving their kids unfettered access to the internet is exactly that, their just projecting onto you. If they say anything like your kids are going to fall behind in technology or something along those lines, again they actually have a lot more to gain not being on the internet. They aren't gaining anything by being on the internet they aren't learning anything, they are being farmed by big tech just like all the rest of us, not to mention the privacy part of it. If your child does something stupid on the internet its there forever. Imagine all the mistakes you make as a kid, then all of that on the internet forever.
Almost all issues related to children having internet access can be boiled to one thing: Bad parenting.
0:39 bro it's not safe for anyone tbh
Kids especially
@@OsceolaNola7 and grandmas
Remember when "Please ask your parents permission before going online" was a thing?
I do, I was like 5 when I first saw that
Yup and I distinctly remember ignoring it completely and going about my business lmao
Yep
that was just for liability reasons. i played my woozworld wthout asking.
You were about to tie up the family phoneline for an hour, it would be rude not to ask permission first.
“No child was ever that stupid!” Some of us were honest Muta, I felt bad if I lied to it so I usually clicked that I was under 18 lmao
omg same bro. I used to put my real age on facebook when I was like 12. Big mistake got banned hahaha
lmaooooo
bros getting into heaven pre-death fr 💀
Yuppp. I was the kind of kid who was afraid the cops might break down my door over pirating
That's unreal lol
I've known a few parents who would just get wasted on liquor or weed and hand their children a tablet to play on the internet all day. Parents are almost always the problem.
If the punishment is a paid fine. It should double in cost for every time it happens. And never be less than the amount made from breaking the law in the first place.
I'll be honest, kids were never safe on the internet. But it is so much worse these days. I'm all for keeping kids off of social media until they are of legal age.
Trouble with that is that it could end up harming queer kids, since they don't know why they feel like that - and, should they need to contact a group such as the Rainbow Railroad, it's less likely not just that it's okay to feel how they feel, but also that there are groups like that to help protect them if there is a risk of harm or worse if the queer person is in an unsafe area - be the danger from their household, or even the government.
@@bobolobocus333”queer” kids are 100% influenced by their parents, if not, then the internet..
@I_Am_Milk. How old are you defining "kid?" Anything below teenager, or anything below 18?
@@I_am_Milk. uh, no? Literally no.
The internet never was safe from children. That's why teachers had an entire lab dedicated to computer education even in the first grade we had computers in the classroom but never allowed to use them unsupervised by the teacher or another adult. Even with secure servers and no connection to most websites students and other children could learn by word of mouth how to get past the rudimentary school or public library firewall to access whatever site they wanted. Horrifying to catch see a young boy watch pr0n on a public library computer whilst his mother left him unsupervised. When I told his mother she was just so dumbfounded and entirely shocked. This was back in 2004... it's never been safe.
In modern day 2024 I have seen on twitch and reported child endangerment from the virtual tubing community. With my own eyes I caught a young boy with a voice changer str3aming to a creepy audi3nc3 or highly s3xual individuals whilst the young boy with a voice changer was using a 3d model with a large bust. It's disgusting man.
How do you know it's a boy
@@Cristopherdreamer it was an obvious voice changer. I listen to alot of ASMR so I can tell.
i have that as well back when i was at school in 2007, at my school we have computer room which isnt really computers but small laptops that is used for study and learn. We did kinda have some freedom but at the end its monitored with the main computer at the front of the class. I was actually one of the kids who opened up pr0n one time, but at that time i still dont know what it was, but thankfully i grew up well mainly due to my surroundings and environment. Its really wild to see that in 2024 not only parents nowadays think their kids can grow by themselves without any help, they also given basically doomsday devices without restrictions or even supervision from their parents. This issue not just happens in the western countries but everywhere, prob by parents who never wanted a child but decided to have unprotected creation without regards of what could happen, or there are other reasons as well but at the end of the day parents are the number one reasons why some kids turn out bad, since from the early years kids learn from their parents first before anyone else. If in the future these kids grew up we dont know what they will become, if the parents isnt stopping them first or help them and guide them to the right path
Why did you have to censor 'audience'?
why did bro snitch
Who TF allowed their legal team to put the section directly referencing CSAM on page 69
I had a similar thought! I know something has to go on page 69, buuut...yikes.
They are just a legal team? I doubt they know a lot about 69 or care about a number it just happened to have end up on page 69 they didn't put it there on purpose because of a meme. You don't meme around with legal stuff anyways.
Tiktok also allows comments to go on wildly racist and bigoted rants calling cultures inferior and subhuman, and as soon as you respond saying youre disgusting to say those things, YOU get a strike and their comment stays up, because calling someone disgusting is worse in tiktoks eyes than someone calling an entire culture subhuman and disgusting.
I’m sure if you say the chinese culture is inferior, you would instantly be banned.
or straight up nudity when searching for something. You get no results for the actuall things but actual p0rn 9/10 times
This was an insightful breakdown of the issues with TikTok and other platforms like Roblox and VR Chat. It’s disturbing how easily children can be exploited, and the parallels to unsafe environments in these virtual spaces are eye-opening. The lack of proper safeguards, especially with live streaming, is alarming, and the way social media manipulates young minds with reward systems needs more attention. The point about foreign influence on social media is spot on too. We need stricter regulations before this spirals even more. Thanks for diving deep into this!
Putting the sexual exploitation charge on page 69 is a power move
Outrageous 😭
i remember as a kid i opened gta 3 then my mom saw it and beat the SHIT out of me 😂
@@afnfplayer3520 lmao my mom bts out me for some crazy shi I played/watched online as a kid 😂😭
This is literally perfect.
OC currently at 420 likes. Have to comment to show my approval. Lol.
I was given unlimited access to the internet at 7 years old and it did not do my mental health good...
Mhmm, unless you know where to genuinely look for “safe spaces” even then if you do. Guaranteed there will always be degenerates on every platform to ruin it for everyone. 😂 Internet in a nutshell for the most part.
I mean I was given unfiltered at 5 and I turned out great so idk
@@Olivieranseausame it didnt do me any harm at all
I was given access in late 2015 to early 2016 when I was 7-8.
@@fifilurks It really depends on the person, I've been exposed to the internet with complete unrestricted access and still came out perfectly fine. My parents raised me well so there wasn't really much to worry about me on the internet. I know right from wrong, I know not to click random links, and I've honestly never entered my actual personal information anywhere on the internet. I've only ever used fake names and emails to the point I don't even have a personal email anymore
This was happening back when Tiktok was called Musically several years ago. In fact, it was a big part of the initial marketing. It's why you can't find most of its early marketing material anymore, because they've done a lot of work to hide their past of getting people onto the site by advertising with videos of little girls. Remember, the Musically app was initially just full of kids.
In retrospect maybe I shouldn't have been browsing 4chan at 10 years old
Parents honestly need to watch their kids and put parent controls on everything
i was exposed to the worst of the internet as a kid entering his teenage years, back when you had to access it on a dial up modem. The internet was malicious back then for sure, but in some ways it felt un-targeted. Horrible shit was just uploaded, and kids could stumble across it and get caught in the crossfire. Not to say that there wasnt heinous things that were aimed specifically at kids, but that wasnt the norm imo.
Its shocking to me that these days, as im nearing 30, that kids might not see the level of gore i was exposed to, but they can very specifically be exploited en mass by both digsusting internet perverts, and also by corporations that just download rot onto their brains. its LESS safe for kids now than it was at the dawn of the internet, purely because companies and monsters alike are able to purposefully target kids.
Just hit 30, and most of the bad stuff I encountered was things I specifically sought out because I'd heard other kids talking about it.
I remember when everyone at my school started getting Facebook, and it only took a couple of months before someone created a group for "everyone that hates X"-- it got over 900 members. She was 13, and that was more than double the people at our school.
You can actually see a leap in mental illness diagnosis after certain social media sites/apps became popular. I don't think it's the only cause, but it's not looking good for the next generations.
The gruesome and grotesque has been largely pushed out, but perversions are on display everywhere in videos, ads, and even news articles... And it's being hailed as if it's virtuous. The internet needs more Jesus.
That's actually a very good and accurate point, i also remember finding a link to bestgore on an otherwhise friendly forum and the like but it wasn't a case of people luring children in for the most part, it was just like walking in the woods and finding a dead animal. Should i be exposed to that? Probably not, did it happen? Yeah.
gore is still around for certain but tends to be more isolated to dedicated sites. still possible to find it on mainstream platforms but it’s deleted much quicker these days thankfully, i hope the next generation of eight year olds don’t have to see the things i saw.
@@Smulenify I mean to be fair, we also got better at diagnosing mental illnesses, so that is more likely than social media apps causing mental illnesses, Mental illnesses are usually genetic anyways, outside of cases like PTSD or C-PTSD, or also BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder, which can be caused by terrible parenting funnily enough.) I was diagnosed with ASD, ADHD, and OCD before I ever knew what the internet was. I got discord in 2017, and hadn't even heard of the nintendo switch until, like, 2 years after it was launched XD.
Man, I'm so grateful for my parents warning me about tiktok. My parents are strict but they sure raised me well
tiktok is fine,its not 4chan just use common sense and dont like weird shit
Imagine thinking tik tok is bad lol, you must think every social media app is horrible😂
@@thedecider4755 i mean... they are.
@@thedecider4755 Imagine having ignorance as your whole personality
@@thedecider4755 It is bad. And so is every social media app. It's objectively been proven. And that passive aggressive reply of yours towards criticism not even aimed at you is a great showcase on how it rots emotional intelligence. You're addicted. Get off it.
Even today I always list myself as like 80 years old whenever I get asked my age by a website.
Yeah. Most websites have me at January 1, 1950 cause it's easier than selecting the actual month and day. Just pick a year that makes you over 18 and call it a day. I'm 43 so what do I care. The only time I've put my REAL birthdate is for official stuff, like applying for a credit card or something.
I've listed myself as over a hundred on Steam a couple times IIRC simply to have fun with it needlessly asking for me age when I've already given it one in the past(eg, going to Skyrim's store page)
I had a habit of just scrolling the year back to like 1980s something still a few years after I turned 18 lmao
i make myself as old as the website allows
You must have found out as well that some websites won't let you put 1900. Lol
The sick thing is that the internet will blame the children for not quitting the game.
Still get sick to my stomach when I think about that one girl in vr chat and how everyone was saying it was her fault for not leaving the game.
Hindsight is always 20/20, and kids will be kids. It's hard to think about what to do when stressed, especially as a child.
"Probably not these days" while most of us have seen at least one decapitation video. It built character
See, you get it.
Naw VRchat is worse than the GTA strip club. You go to VRchat specifically to talk to strangers, and you wouldn’t want your kid talking to real people at a strip club setting.
VRChat will be dragged through the mud w/ TikTok for sure,lol.
@@WWIIREBELbro vrchat IS the mud
@@vladdydaddy1738 Highly agreed.
what about people (like me) who only play vrchat with friends? I dun want it gone, it helps a lot with dysphoria ngl But maybe management of public worlds could be better or something
@@DakumunDahBat I have to admit..that site is really cool, but they really do need to figure out a way to keep the under age crowd out. OR figure a way to keep kids from accessing the worlds they do NOT belong in, considering the numbers of actual weirdos that get on there and go after the kids.
This is why so many people hate Tiktok
on god, it is just the worst app to ever exist. Tiktok has damaged society to such an extreme degree, it should have been banned way sooner. Too many pathetic and disgusting people on there throwing logic and reason out the window to do the worst challenges ever, while tiktok doesnt care about safety at all. They just want the money. It also sucks that they can get away with taking away people's data, if fines are just gonna be the only punishment, thats only a slap on the wrist.
Since 2017 People became Anti Tik Tokers like me
Looks like those people still living in 2019 lmao tiktok is good atleast it's better than yt shorts lol
There's a bunch of more reasons why people hate it
I think its a double edge sword, it can be very good and informative, depending on which user and stuff. While the bad yeah there are many many more than the good. Even my grandma uses tiktok and she was able to use it well since she kinda knows the internet, albeit not very well but she has been using android for years better than my grandfather at times. So i think tiktok can be a very great app as long as you know what videos to look for, but for me im not a fan of tiktok mostly since i used twitter from 2015 til 2020 and i already feel out of it from social media apps
I can't believe giving your children unrestricted access to the internet didn't turn out well.
Who could have guessed!?
I was on the internet when you had to put the phone receiver into the modem. It has never been safe, and in hind sight a mistake. I'm also amazed you tell people they receive unfettered uncensored information, just because they live in the west. Thanks for the video
14:54 ive been looking at your dark empty eyes this whole time muta. I think its apart of me looking into the eyes of people im talking to. I also dont like subway surfers ☠️ maybe if it was that fake game youtube shills ads for all the time
its important to note that the publishers of this article have bought short stocks on Roblox alleging that they are heavily overvalued at 26 Billion... so they have an incentive for doing this research. Thats not to say it is wrong, just something to be aware of. With that said, a lot of this is true obviously. Thats unfortunately what happens on any platform targeted at kids and companies need to do a lot more to stop it.
I have a niece and she recently got a phone of her own. It was a gift for her grandma (not my mom) and i live in constant fear of her watching tiktok and the algorythm doing his shit and giving her softporn or so. THIS is a HUGE deal, Internet IS NOT SAFE for kids. Even for adults, you have people getting scammed everyday. I hope someday TikTok gets hacked and blown off the face of the earth, and the owners thrown in jail for life.
I really don’t understand why kids can’t just use their parents phones.
Oh, maybe because their parents are on them 24/7 because they are addicts, so they cope and pretend it’s not a big deal?
“Pour the boy one, let him learn, it will make a man out of him” all over again.
tell your brother/sister they should put parental restrictions on that shit
Your kids wanting to video call family and their friends for hours at a time while filling it with misc games, reading every single email/text/other message, going through your photos, and generally messing with your settings gets quite tiring. You also end up with family/kids friends calling you incessantly. Then when you do need it it is dead.
A phone with parental controls & a way to view installed apps/set times on apps/block apps, with installation requests? Much better.
Yo, please talk to her about internet safety, let her know she can talk to you if she sees something weird
In TikTok comments there have been people posting ‘club penguin’ using pictures
He needs to talk about this fr
not everyone has this
And you can’t even report those accounts because TikTok will just say something like no sensitive material detected, and you get a strike for “falsely reporting”
this is a really serious issue i haven’t seen anyone talking about yet..
@@renjaay yea it’s mainly Russian accounts that have access to post pictures but u can still veiw it
Oh Muta, subway surfing has sadly been a thing for decades... We even read a book about kids doing it and getting hurt when I was in school, probably to deter us from doing the same thing.
The internet is like the streets for children.
They never should be out there alone and unsupervised.
Just another day on TikTok
It's amazing that the app isn't illegal
It’s just beautiful that this app isn’t outlawed, it’s amazing how much the Canadian and US Government cares about the children (they don’t, in fact they may like exploiting them)
Wasnt it said a few months back or so that they had to sell the company or it would be considered illegal?
@@Draconic_InceneratorYup. They had a hearing a month ago about it and the deadline for the ban is coming up pretty soon
Im sure that if you dug deep enough on any app it would be the same thing. TH-cam, Twitter, and Instagram all have cornagraphic content. Its not special to tick tock. You think the government really cares about children? Tik Tok is the only major app that is not owned by America. I'm guessing they just want control over the app.
@@Draconic_Incenerator yeah but I’m 100% they are bluffing since the CCP and the amount of citizens in Mainland China makes these people a ton of money, and companies care more about money than basic humanity.
This is why I really dislike people who raise their kids with phones and tablets. :[
Exactly kids of any age shouldn't be given iPads or whatever until at least 16+ to limit the risk of child endangerment and other shit too
And then those types of parents can't understand why the child is having a meltdown without their device... A tablet is raising them, not the parents
I feel like its fine in moderation or for some fun but not to just "get them off your back" or "shut them up" something like that... Real parenting is pretty rare now and it scares me for the future..
And always allow their kids to leave the house to hangout with low life clout chasers that would do anything for fame
Parents that raise their kids on IPads should be jailed.
Kids shouldn't be allowed on the app, but don't forget kids aren't born with a smartphone on their hands.
So this is an issue that involves both TikTok AND the parents.
Agreed, there needs to be a multi pronged approach to fix this.
the cackle at child labor tycoon got me
I did a paper over this exact subject about a year ago at college. Crazy it is only now becoming mainstream.
The internet is barely even safe for adults
Legitimately. Parents. New parents. Stop being neglectful and raise your frickin kids. Watch what they watch and parental controls are good. It's not the government's job to protect your kids' access to stuff. That's just ASKING for bs regulation.
It's the entire reason why so many kids break down if they have devices taken away. It's not parents raising them, it's the internet... which is dangerous. Honestly, the sheer amount of neglectful parenting I see even in public spaces is concerning on so many levels. We might as well start building schools dedicated to parenting...
That works until about age 10-12. Then ...good luck monitoring everything..
This isnt even a tiktok problem, this is a internet/parent problem. Tiktok is just another social media platform that suffers from the same problem that all others do.
Think we can solve this by saying no one under 18 on social media. Kids will make fake accounts and still use it. But any company can simply say we didn't know and boot that account.
Tiktok was designed to be predatory/bad for children's development. That's in part why the Chinese government funded its creation while outlawing it in China.
The other part is about mass data collection, which our national security experts are warning about possible weaponization of, whatever that means.
@@zid9611 either that or all social media companies should be mandadated to make kid versions. Versions with no comments, and no dms. If they want to share they can do it through text or irl.
Imo It's both really. Tiktok has poor moderation via human or what is automated. I've seen some bizarre shit and hidden nudity and I don't even look for it. It's one of those clickbait things. Not to mention their algorithm is constant and will show you things you've never had any interest in. Only because it's trending. I've seen nudity in a sexual context unprovoked and it has a shit-ton of likes and comments. (Even the comments were like "TikTok moderation team sleeping"
@@zid9611 not sure why my comment was removed but this could be solved by forcing social media companies (like TH-cam has) to make a version for minors.
Wow, something that I called them out on years ago which got my account temporarily banned is now coming back to bite them in the arse :)
If you jump on a subway, you're going to squish your lunch.
So many of our issues in the world can be traced down to kids being on the internet way to early (and by extension, bad parenting)
as a child living through web 1.0 i don't think the internet was ever good for kids
Tiktok allowed C&P to be uploaded through their comment image feature. It's disgusting.
yeah I've tried reporting it but the reports always get stuck in the review process (mods most likely can't see the photos especially if their on the web version of tiktok) so we will just have to wait until the trend dies down
guess that's a mobile feature. I never seen any images in the comments in desktop app and I am going to take that as a blessing.
So does every other media platform, so it's not being banned for that reason.
This been going on for years! TIKTOK DOESNT CARE MATE !!
Thank you for putting this on front street! Please don't stop covering this! 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪
2:10 i was that child 😭 😭 😭
I left high school in 1989 and for the last 2 years of my high school I was a member of my high school's computer science class. In 1991 I gophered my first file from a Uni in belgium, to the 1.44 mb floppy at my friends computer lab in Australia and I realised that the internet would change the world. In 1998 I went back to Uni and started using Netscape Navigator Gold and I realised anyone could choose the breed of dog they wanted to pretend to be on the internet. At that point I started to catastrophise in my head what would happen next. I am genuinely sorry for thinking that everything that would happen next would work out for the best. It didn't and younglings like yourself are paying the blood debt for everything that happened after I and my ilk walked away and washed our hands.
I hate that the Subway Surfers on the side still works on me, despite my conscious awareness of it being the virtual equivalent of jingling keys in front of a baby.
It’s really ADHD fuel 🤣🤣🤣 I was listening to him but still watching it.
When I was still in high school (or earlier? Idr.) (I’m 28 now) I noticed that if a TV was showing things, it would draw my attention even if I specifically disliked the show it was showing, and came to kind of resent(? (Unsure of word choice)) TV for this…
Maybe we should try to use e-ink displays instead? Idk.
The flashes of very bright colors are extremely overstimulating and sometimes make me feel faint.
@@ZombieBigfoot For me it was always Portal 2 or Mirror's Edge footage, especially in commentary videos. I'd listen to what the guy in the video was saying but the real reason it kept my attention was because of the game footage in the background.
@@xlovelydearx Nah man, I'm diagnosed with ADHD and that shit is cancerous to look at. It's just stupid, obnoxious and utterly pointless.
Things like this are why I think parents need to keep up to date with websites and social media so they know which ones to look out for and which ones they should probably put parental controls on. Tik Tok is mostly advertised towards teens, but the app is in a state where it really isn't safe for them at all. Especially considering some of the challenges and trends that pop up.
I do hope that maybe Tik Tok implements some kind of restriction for underage accounts hosting LIVEs, though that might not do a lot since people can lie, so the parenting and moderation aspects are still the most important things. And unfortunately, not many parents seem to do that anymore.
They actually do have an age restriction in place for livestreaming. You have to be 16, which isn’t great either but it’s better than nothing.
Social media really was the beginning of the end. The lawyer that flubbed the redactions when handing over TikTok’s documents and internal communication really did us all a service.
Honestly some of the shit I see on tiktok and in trending searches tells you all you need to know about the state the app is in. Genuinely makes me sick.
1:24 vrchat should never have been set to 13+...
Huh 😂 so wait all ages??
Sus
@@miciso666 yupp...
And its not good for anyone. I don't wanna play with children, and they should certainly not be on vrchat.
They did not think this through.
Perhaps parents should, I don't know, NOT give their kids unlimited access to a social media platform before they're even in middle school? Just a thought.
Dump TikTok. It won't be missed.
The thing about TikTok is that while I hate the effect it's had on society, like any social media platform, it has been important for helping people find others like them, not feeling so alone, mobilising against governments, creating social movements and allowing people in war-torn countries to communicate with others their age to show that these conflicts involve human beings. It's always a mixed bag. I don't have an answer. I personally refuse to ever use it again, it's just too addicting.
I Agree
Agreed
if you dont give it to them, they will find it somewhere else. Tiktok is designed to be addicting.
parents acting like they don’t have power to restrict internet access to their kids and just not give them any electronic device 😮
Ummmmm ... Yeah, But they don't!!??!!.... They might not have devices themselves.. But they sure will go hang with friends who do!!
Nah must be those fps shooter games. My kid is innocent 😂
I remember Upper Echelon did an expose on this about a year ago? But genuinely speaking kids can't be left unattended on the internet. All manner of filth on there.
Honestly, those people uploading your content on Chinese websites with translated subtitles is honestly really cool and sweet. Your content has reached all around the world!
I have adhd and have a delicate balance of stimulation/overstimulation and tiktok videos that have the like, games or asmr playing next to the actual content, make me physically feel sick. Idk how people can watch those, they drive me crazy and I have to like, look away so i can just focus on the voice. I dont use tiktok, and never have, but my husband does and he mostly watches food videos but even then he gets recommended some WILD shit that I would never see on youtube shorts. so idk, I think they need content restrictions of some kind
I feel that same way! I can’t do any type of short-form content because of how overwhelming it is. My friends don’t believe me when I say I’ve never used TikTok or ig reels.
I’m so glad I have managed to reduce or cut out all forms of short form content from life. The way these algorithms just spoonfed me crap eventually just made me feel like enough is enough. Life always was and still is better off without it.
They need to shut down tik tok and Facebook + instagram + Snapchat.
I've watched my university educated parents and siblings become increasingly stupid and conspiratorial over the last 10 years, all of them have facebook accounts and they've gone from being unique and intelligent people with diverse interests and individual pet peeves to a bunch of parrots with the same grievances, same catchphrases and same wilful ignorance relating to the same handful of topics they talk about. I had a dinner with my mother about 7 years ago. She asked me "If the ice in this glass melts, it's not going to make the glass overflow, is it? So why do you think 'climate change' is going to make sea levels rise?" So I took MY ice out of MY glass and put it on a saucer and held it angled so as the ice melted it ran into her glass. "OK so imagine the plate is Antarctica, and the ice cubes on it are the ice caps on the CONTINENT of Antarctica, which are on average nearly 2km thick and covers over three hundred million square kilometres of landmass that isn't in the ocean. What happens as the earth gets warmer, and that melts and run into your glass? Does the water level change?" Her reply? "Well we can't cause climate change anyway, only the sun can do that."
SHE IS A SCHOOL TEACHER. 🤦♂
Might as well shut down schools then. Cuz shootings happen... Ok kid
No, parent's need to watch their kids, and the feds running facebook need to stop allowing the exploitation, so they can blast people with propaganda, to try and get them to demand internet regulations.
All of which have lots of things to be held to account for. The decline in our young’s mental health, ease of access to different kinds of crime, spreading misinformation, etc. The problems with these platforms are widespread and many in numbers.
@@snaggiz Nah. If parents don't like the way their kids turned out, shoulda been better parents.
Just ban and close down The Tok already.
Fax
yes!
Yes please. 😊 we already have shorts on TH-cam all you need.
YES!!!
That would anger the CCP, which is something certain people don't want to do.
I gotta say that VrC clubs are far worse for kids than GTA. The increased intimacy of a vr headset, that other users are in fact real and not ai, and the general disturbingly high frequency of groomers online makes it so much worse. I engage with VrC, and I would personally never let my child on it until they're an adult.
Thanks for calling these out Mutahar. Respect.
The internet isn't even safe for young adults rip or anyone
I'm nearly sixty seven and I can agree to a point with that. Gullibility knows no age limit.
Tiktok should be banned long ago.
Yeah
Yes but also then everyone just moves to new app or whatever. Rinse repeat.Vine was old tik tok.
@@zenwuuVine wasn't a Chinese app made to ideologically subvert children. This is the degradation of a nation.
If we could ban all social media including TH-cam the world would be a better place.
Vine was never known for s3xual content tho
I'm a parent, i just don't allow my kid to use social media. It's that simple.
Yes. That's how it should be. It may seem harsh to an outsider that you are forcing something onto your child that he/she doesn't want to, but in the end it is beneficial for everyone.
Edit: Typo
if he/she has personal internet access, then i doubt it.
@@crabnix when i was a kid, people used to say the internet is full of pervs and never to put your real info online. people seem to have forgotten that.
@@lotus_flower2001 they have personal internet access but also a parent who can work a computer and has blocked all social media ips. kind of a weird thing to doubt, i have my computer next to my kid, we play games together on steam, has family sharing with the new steam parental controls which is good. they don't go on anything online without asking first or they lose access to their computer which hasnt happened yet. i know what kids are like because i was one once with parents who didnt understand the internet, but i know how it can be bad so i make the effort as parents should.
@@crabnixseeing kids with mental issues because they've years of their life scrolling unfiltered internet and never having to think, the only job they want is to be a youtuber. that's going to be harsh when the real world hits. parents need to stop being lazy and sticking a phone in front of their kid to keep them quiet.
This has been going on for a while now. I remember listening to a podcast years ago where one of the guy said something like " so i was watching tiktok and suddenly i see a very young girl doing a suggestive dance. How is this legal?" . That was a couple years ago, so now i imagine it's even worse.
The weirdest shit about meeting people from the internet is that im still friends with a lot of these people 20years later. We still address and call each other by our in game handles/usernames from days we played online together. Its just how we bonded, we all know each others real names but its easier just to refer and address one another via our ign.
Its not always safe but if you have to go meet. Make sure its always in a public place till youre 100% sure they aint out to get you. But I digress. Kids these days arent the sharpest tool in the box and dont have any spatial awareness worth a damn.
Being able to meet some of the people I used to PvP and do dungeons with for hours and hours a week was some of the coolest shit ever.
7:15 page 69? Tiktok must have been cooking up a pretty big island huh?
Chris Hansen would pay the CCP a visit.
The guy that never gets the proof of. P3d0s to the police?
"Why don't you take a seat, Xi?.. What are ya doin' here?" 😂
He loses
@@eegernades he wins
@@IsraelGovermentOfficial in some world
Your video reminds me of when Square-Enix put out a notice that they were cracking down on on-line brothels within Final Fantasy 14... I don't play 14... I wonder how well that worked out...
We thought it was stupid when our parents told us to stay off screens as a kid. Now we’re saying the same thing.
nobody under 16 should be online in these apps
21 honestly the app is garbage
funny that, Australia just enacted a law banning children from social media and apparently we're red china plus nazi germany combined with venezuela with a touch of 1984 meets idiocracy, if you ask the experts on my racist uncle's facebook feed, because free speech and the constitution (I'm Australian, so is he.)
Any app really....
2024 Parenting step by step:
1. Give 3 yo children tablet
2. Give 3 yo children phone
How is it already not gone completely?
Because if Tiktok were to be banned today, idiots will think the ban had something to do with Palestine even tho that's really not true at all
It's almost like we we're telling everyone all along that website was a no no.
And, what did they did?
They pointed at us and called us names instead.
God, it feels so good to be right.
the kia challenge literally helped make my city's car thefts increase 355%...
The app starts with child controversies and loops back to it, always.