These Videos Traumatized Children: The Dark Legacy of Elsagate
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Back in 2017 a controversy enraptured the internet. Inappropriate videos, targeting the youth were running rampant on TH-cam. It was a moral panic unlike anything seen in the history of the website. Elsagate. This is the story of one of the most disturbing child safety catastrophes the internet has ever seen.
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Everytime I watch TH-cam shorts I keep getting recommended videos of children who look like they just picked the phone up and posted a video without knowing what they're doing, none of those videos have disabled comments either so TH-cam should probably step up before this happens again
Im seeing a trend towards scary vids with some Fuzzy Wuzzy and siren head. I think. My kids watch em and I do monitor what I can. Seems a lil cringe but not the elsa stuff.
Good video, the algorithm isn't a reliable filter for youtube kids videos.
This pain cant advertise the safety
When you realize regular TH-cam is way safer than TH-cam kids
it's stupidly scary
@@Msrainydae1 facts
True
STRAIGHT facts
Ikr
Crazy how TH-cam would demonetize a channel for the slightest swear and then allow stuff like this to go on in full view
It's like twitch allowing sexual Chaturbate-like content but banning people for anything slightly edgy
It’s also awful that they remove “Kill” but allow bullies.
Even monetizing those videos.
It's because the monetizing is ran by bots.
By the thousands, for years.
solution: don't give your children unrestricted internet access
True, but I think this falls on both. The parents are irresponsible, believing that the internet is some holy circle where no bad, graphic, or inappropriate content has or will ever appear there. It's also Google's fault, as this had been a large-scale issue for a few months before they recognized it. It took until legal threats were made for something to change.
this isn't unrestricted internet access, it's one app.
people are too stupid and lazy to parent thanks to corporate socialism
Time constraints: Lol no
@@ttdanimations1231 I believe in this case "unrestricted internet access"is defined as letting your kids on the internet without having any clue what they're doing.
As a 20 year old who grew up with mlp gore, Elsagate was nothing new, childhood trauma videos were around before most of us were born.
Why do I get the feeling I know exactly what said gore was?
@@silverflight01 SMILE
@@AstralXen I KNEW IT
MLP gore is referring to My Little Pony right? Cause if so I want to share this story.
So one time I was on this stream and I forgot why, but they started talking about MLP and mentioned the MLP gore. And the streamer talked about a fanfic (she didn't give the name of it) which she said had a cute title that made it seem it was about cooking. And then she said: "It was not about cooking, it was about cannibalism" and everyone in the stream (including me) started freaking out about it.
@@ilovemydog240 I think I know exactly what that fanfic was, Cupcakes
This is why a site which is moderated by bots where anyone can make videos shouldn't be relied on as non-stop content for children.
Idk 🤷🏾♂️
It's also quite dangerous. Many kids grow up with a complete reliance on this content and its really depressing. I know our generation has issues with addictiveness but these new kids this is all they've ever known and it's quite sad how they can't go to a restaurant without watching some low quality youtube video.
@@DeSlagen8 I feel bad for this generation
I have been saying this for years. Warnings are placed on TV movies and music but nothing on TH-cam. It shouldn’t be allowed.
@@DeSlagen8 Exactly, many kids have been addicted. Especially with fast-pased and overestimating content from channels like Cocomelon.
As messed up as the whole situation was, parents are ultimately responsible for what their kids are watching. Don’t let your iPad babysit your kid.
The fact that people will object to this really shows our generation is screwed.
Completely agree! Parents these days just don't get it.
Dunno if you have any kids but schools issue iPads as mandatory starting in kindergarten, with TH-cam kids pre installed. I remember this, kids learned about it in school
Every single parents who let their child use Ipad/Phone or maybe pc have to get them right of the internet till a legal age
Or if you do, just make sure you know what's on it.
I have 4 toddler cousins, it can be really really hard to watch them with 0% ipad time, but their mom uses ones with downloaded content and they get 0 TH-cam time. That or they just use the TV. UNSUPERVISED ipad kids are monsters
It’s crazy how TH-cam isn’t even meant for little kids
Irresponsible parents and Susan "Karen" Whack-a-mole are to blame for TH-cam Kids.
I used to watch PewDiePie I used to watch happy wheels TH-camrs stampy cat it was positive ok PewDiePie used to cuss like a sailor but he was a better influence on my young mind then Spider-Man getting pregnant
I hate how the entire website is becoming PG
@@promemerboy1765 you can still find some pretty edgy content
Even including some characters that are “kid friendly” can get your video age restricted
Here's the thing....Elsagate never really went away, but replaced through different channels with different characters, using different scenarios repeatedly with no other effort. It only doesn't get brought up nowadays. Nothing has changed.
People would rather not think/ care about it because its a burden on the mind and soul. Better to just avoid it and keep kids away from it as much as possible
Truly. This vid deserves a part 2 talking about Elsagate 2.0
The Amazing Digital Circus, a recent show that looks like a kids' cartoon but is actually made for an older audience, is getting made into Elsagate shit too. The speed at which this happens on content farms disgusts me.
@@theotherther1same thing happening with Friday Night Funkin
Pretty sure some creators talked about its return, but other than that... everyone seems to be ignoring it now. Kinda sucks honestly, how after all this the videos still keep going, just with new faces, while no one does anything.
The, "Don't Hug me I'm Scared" TH-cam videos practically warned everyone about this. About how there's sometimes a dark side to children's shows and how parents should watch out for what their kids watch.
As a dhmis fan, I agree with this. I saw it when I was 7, and after watching it I stayed away from TH-cam. In a way, it protected me from this Elsa stuff. :(
Exactly. I thought people learned from that 💀
Oh my god i miss that so bad now im nostalgic for those videos i remember singing it to freak out my friends
@@ghoulishtoad It's still up on TH-cam! The creators actually are having their own TV show! They've grown quite alot! :)
dhmis is art
I remember when Narmak made a spongebob anime, marked it NOT for kid because it was a fighting shounen parody, but the bot marked it for kids because it had "spongebob" and "animation" in the title, and then got striked because it was not kid friendly.
And the fact that Narmak had to reach youtube through twitter because their support service on the site is managed by bots.
And he’s a fairly large creator at that. Had he not been that well known, youtube could’ve cared even less about the issue
@@rossbob4215 Ikr TH-cam is a flawed website and they actively refuse to make it any better for content creators and content viewers alike. They make billions of dollars per week yet they refuse to hire real people to moderate their website? Stupid just stupid.
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@@Bengams what?
@@Peanut323 ur better off not knowing
I remember falling in the trap of elsagate, I remember it was 2014-2015 maybe and i was like 7-8 years old. As given unrestricted internet access, this was bound to happen. My mom caught this and switched me to the restricted section, even with only “kids content”, i looked up doggy training videos because i was the weird kid and liked dogs. I found a dog mating video. Still traumatized.
The sad reality is that although no longer content of spider man or elsa its more adult characters like squid game that kids found out about. Squid game is violent since people get killed, but elsa gate turned it into something much worse. Same thing with this game called Friday night funkin. Its a rhythm game and it is inappropriate for anyone under 13. Some channels basically turned it into corn.
< Same thing with this game called Friday night funkin. Its a rhythm game and it is inappropriate for anyone under 13. Some channels basically turned it into corn.
Still has the best modding community I've come across since Undertale.
*I mean, anything that can make creepypasta relevant again's a win in my book (Legit, the Suicidemouse.AVI mods renewed my interest in Mickey Mouse.).*
I was 5 YEARS OLD when I first watched elsagate 💀💀💀💀 (2016-2017)
@@Baconlivesmatter. oh hell nah, you be scrolling on ur ipad and “mickey mouse gets miney pregnant and commits terrorism” shows up 💀💀💀💀
@@SoapyPasta IKR 💀💀💀
@@cfruge444 I love fnf, but I do not take part in the community at all. I only play a Roblox fnf clone to find the newest mod songs. The community is just full of way too young kids that think it’s a kids game and not a teen + adults game
People told me that grew up with these videos that they now suffer from porn addictions or extreme fetishes like Scat, urine, impregnation, and inflation. These are genuinely damaging to children and I'm glad when I was younger I was fixated with fnaf and youtubers like DanTDM instead.
It's depressing. I hope these people are better or get better. My prayers to them.
So scary! I would be interested for someone to study/interview people who grew up with this kind of content and the effects that they had. I agree, I’m so glad that I grew up with the more wholesome aspects of TH-cam
Thank god you Grew with valid TH-camr
+rep man
Ikr we have people that grew up in Lola Bunny era and therefore we have Furries.
@@igotjinxed2994 Your comment made me laugh out loud, but not for the reason you're probably hoping it did.
@@ShadowRun221 hmm, perhaps you know im right from first hand experience ?
I was working as a babysitter during Elsagate and the girl I took care of was a huuuge Frozen fan. I had to research Frozen stuff to engage with her play-pretend ideas better and got sooo much Elsagate shit recommended. Didn't know it was a whole thing with a nickname back then, I was really confused for a while. Thank god her parents were totally oldschool and only had one supervised family PC.
Your Name is Vicky? And you Were A Babysitter? Makes Sense Now!!
@@okjeffy6581 Did she babysit a kid with a pink hat?
you must have been a great babysitter, for engaging with the kids
Finally, a good babysitter named Vicky
@Dante Toshiro64 I haven't watched Odd Parents, am I missing out on a meme?
As a father myself, I'm going to say that part of the blame falls on the parents. leaving your kids to be babysat by the internet is as irresponsible as when parents used to let the TV do it.
Cable guy said it best, there are millions of cable guys and gals out there
You could argue that it's both. I mean Elesagate was part of a much larger problem youtube had the more you think about it. And this problem has expanded to more than just TH-cam Kids.
by far more irresponsible than parents that leave their kids in front of TV. The internet is always 2 clicks away from tubgirl, goatse, lemon party. Even the ads are inapropriate that's why there's no website that allows kids below 13 to have an account, you really can't contain the off topic content to slip through the many cracks
No person has ever thought of this! How insightful!
@@memo2933 while there have been a number of solutions like companies that dynamically manage webfilters for educational facilities and parents, there is hardly a working solution to the problem without supervision. Meanwhile there is so much incentive to grant kids access to the internet and IT as early as possible. Unfortunately the web itself is an ever changing landscape too. When I got onto the internet ca. 1996 one had to deliberately dig for pornographic or morbid content on the net, that is no longer the truth - and parents who are no IT enthusiasts are not aware of the fact how quickly you can be exposed to harmful content.
Through the ever repeating loop of social media, showing the same content again and again, one looks up the wrong topic and gets constantly served material on how to commit suicide and self-harm, that's no joke!
I stumbled upon a channel called "Special Books by Special Kids" - a nice fellow who interviews people with disabilities and chats with them like normal people. It's quite wholesome. Unfortunately, his channel was targeted by these bots and it took him upwards of a year+ to get comments enabled on his videos again. It caused him and his community so much turmoil.
TH-cam is like a building that's always in a state of repair but never gets fixed.
The comment mechanics are absolutely horrid - I don't get why they don't make them nested like Reddit.
Many of those kids and their families ended up becoming targets of Kiwifarms. It was utterly vile. I have a feeling that they were the ones behind the bots.
@@theotherther1 kiwifarms is a disgusting cesspool of human rejects
@@theotherther1what is the kiwifarms drama I think I watched one of his videos once
i was lucky enough to have strict parents. i wasnt allowed online until i was around 10 or 11, and while i was pissed at them at the time, im so grateful for that now. my little brother though... hes 11 now, and ive caught him watching huggygate (modern elsagate) multiple times. ive tried to tell my stepmom (his mom), but she doesnt do anything to stop him. im out of the house now, and im still worried for him
When did you realize that and become grateful?
Happy 5 year anniversary to:
- Demonitization
- The Adpocolypse
- The whole platform being TV-PG
- TH-cam Kids videos
- Demonitization
- UNFAIR Copyright DMCAs
and many, many more.
I'm suprised it's been 5 years of Spiderman & Elsa nonsense. But I'm also suprised that Disney & Marvel Studios didn't sue TH-cam for channels using this content for kids.
The power of TH-cam and those dollar signs.
Full disclaimer: everything I am about to say is speculation at best, and conjecture at worst because I have scant evidence to back it up.
Do you think the reason they haven't been issued a Cease and Desist is because these companies may have something to do with it?
The Jake Paul disaster in Japan.
I find it hard to believe there's this much money to be made in peddling filth and excrement to children. My only conclusion is that marketing people are truly sick individuals.
All because PewDiePie walked across a bridge.
@@judgesaturn507 Yeah, he did say it.
*As long as they're turning a profit, TH-cam simply doesn't care.*
They didn't remove these channels out of some noble desire to protect kids, it's because the advertisers they've sold out to couldn't handle the heat. At least the problem was (mostly) solved in the process!
But when pewdiepie says the gamer word half the site is punished. Lol
@@ChaosFilmsSports Because that made advertisers angry, and YT then shat itself, lmao
Yea and they where going to get sued in many countries.
I was just thinking about this. Like, sure TH-cam got hit with a multi-million dollar fine, but... If hundreds of channels were making videos with hundreds of millions of views, and TH-cam was raking in a good amount of the ad revenue from those views, then wouldn't that mean TH-cam turned a massive profit from the whole situation? Imagine if bank robbers only got a citation in court and got to keep the cash they stole.
@Neillan You would think so but you would be WRONG! Elsagate is an example of "Content Farms" and TH-cam LOVES content Farms as they generate high profits...
5 Minute Crafts is a great example... Life Hacks for Children... Would you allow a 5 Year old to use a HOT GLUE GUN to stick sequins ion a mobile phone? Or melt Skittles in a Waffle Iron to make Fruity Lollipops (which is also a FAKE VIDEO as debunked by How to Cook That host Ann Reardon)
The problem has NEVER been solved, it just changed format... and up until the Fractal Wood Burning videos, TH-cam has been able to ignore it!
What boils my blood in particular was that TH-cam didn't care until advertisers started pulling out, and with videos involving dancing Ankha and characters from Poppy's Playtime with similar themes, it appears that these changes made to the site to prevent this kind of content ultimately didn't do that much in the long run.
The fact that children nowadays are even aware of ankha zone from TH-cam is fucking mind-blowing.
On account of the fact that the original video was borderline x-rated, I really don't think little kids should watch videos about it
@@EdnaK728borderline? I can see you haven't watched the actual video 😂
The worst part is that their bots targeted adjective children content on TH-cam that was enjoyable for all ages, gets labeled as children content, and could potentially lose monetization and the loss of community feedback.
They couldn't fix the TH-cam for kids, so they just sanitized TH-cam for adults. 😂
Crappy content creators when they see a new horror game:😏
Underrated comment
YES
accurate as hekk-
Yep, except it's whenever they can capitalize on a new *trendy* horror game. For example, FNAF, Bendy & the Ink Machine, & Poppy's Playtime are all *trendy* horror games over the last decade or so. I think they probably do this because kids like scary things. They'll watch scary movies or play scary games to prove to others that 'they aren't scared, their kewl.' Therefore, these games get popular, & I bet the one's I mentioned are popular because they have easily recognizable & cute characters to kids. That's why children love freddy, the bear, or bendy, the cat, or poppy, the stuffy. Because of this, these shitty channels use these characters from these trendy horror games to market them to kids. Kids recognize their favourite scary, yet cutesy character & just click.
Cough Backrooms Siren head Poppy Playtime
I’ve tried to explain “Elsa-gate” to “out of the loop” family members and why I think it’s a downright wild that certain child-having family member just let their kids watch this TH-cam garbage, by themselves for literal hours on end with zero supervision. While some of them kind of get that there’s material on TH-cam that’s not suitable for kids, I don’t think any of them fully grasp the ridiculousness of what Elsa-gate really is. They see the first minute or two of what appears to be an “innocent” cartoon and think because it’s a cartoon on “youtube kids” it must be safe for kids, but they don’t understand the algorithms and how those algorithms are manipulated to get this shit in front of little kids. My 5yo nephew stayed with my parents one night and started going on a tangent about being scared to be outside after dark because “poppy was going to kill us” and, in excruciating detail, described how it was going to kill us. I had no idea wtf Poppy was, but after a bit of searching figured out it’s a character from a game that’s also being used in these “elsa-gate” type videos that he was being allowed to consume. Thankfully, my brother nuked the TH-cam app from their devices after that…
Poppy is actually a game about evil toys. The game is meant for adults but because it has toys parents think it’s for kids. The same thing happened with Five Nights at Freddy’s which has actually child murder but they have backpacks and kids pajamas with the characters on it.
tell your brother he's a hero
@@holidayin7962 While FNAF was originally for adults, I think Poppy Playtime is catered to children more than their "Target Playerbase".
@@aki-rw9vu Yeah im pretty sure that too most 8 year old possibly younger know what that is. But I have a theory the person with the idea to make poppy playtime the demo was to test if this game had what it takes to cash grab with merch and don't forget NFTS, but heys that's just a theory
@@FortNite-up5bs my 4 year old nephew knows what poppy playtime is
I used to perform as Elsa for birthday parties. Covid kind of killed my business which was fine. I didn’t like it as much as I used to. However I remember how kids would ask me about Spider-Man and other shit that those videos had put in their minds. Suffice to say, I was very disturbed. I immediately posted on my business Facebook page warning parents of these videos.
Tysm! Parents should be warned of this shit, damn…
Damn, that must have been unsettling.
That must have been a scary way to find out about all that
What and awful way to find out.
your amazing for warning parents!
A lot of doll repaint channels had to essentially scramble to find ways to keep from being demonitized. With the feature of dolls in the thumbnail, the bots deemed many of those channels as "for kids" and resulted in the creators having to put content warnings in the video about it not being for children.
One content creator, Vivziepop, makes cartoon shows about demon characters living in hell, and deals with the problem of "for kids" by putting a content warning in each episode of the shows themselves. It's not entirely succesful-I found a TH-cam bot that described a musical number about sex and lust as "Children's music."
as someone who watched elsagate religously at 8-9, I never realized how much watching all those videos fucked my relationship with sexual content up until I started going to therapy years later
The worst I've done is read naughty fanfictions and occasionally listen to steamy ASMR character audios... so there's that
@@vercigoprea I don't listen to the audios anymore, mainly because I can't find anything Simpsons-related
@@EdnaK728are you on the autism spectrum
it's a sick world out there, don't ever let a terrible person in your head
I can't believe I binge watched these 💀 they did the same thing on kids toys channels btw
Guys, it's still happening.
The fact that A LOT of children know about Squid Game, Poppy Playtime and Five Nights at Freddy's is proof that this shit will never stop.
None of this would've happened if parents didn't rely on the internet and TV to raise their children...
I'm unfortunately now one of those kids raised on TV (kinda, we didn't have satellite TV or cable, mainly dvds) would I be considered in that area 🤔
I’ve seen the poppy and fnaf videos extremely disturbing nightmare inducing for kids
@@waitwhat8753 Im also one of the kids that been raised with TV (am in my 20s now), and frankly I find these videos more disturbing.
FNAF and whatever the hell Poppy’s Playtime are don’t bother me as much as children knowing about Squid Game, a MA adult rated show on Netflix. If your kid is watching Squid Game shit or finding out about the show on TH-cam you’ve failed as a parent.
If I had kids, I would instead put on classic kids TV shows instead of putting shitty stuff like Elsagates videos.
Fun fact: The people behind those spiderman and else live action bullshit were actually confronted by a French-Canadian news outlet, finding out they were based in southern Quebec, Canada. Not only they refused to be interviewed, but one anonymous individual who worked for them stated that they are contractually obligated to *keep their mouths shut*, showing how insanely shady this is.
Pretty interesting, do u have a link to the news article?
@@mrvespuccia.k.ameganite1747 I mean, I got it off Wikipedia as the article (That was in french) got deleted long ago
I mean that was just one example of it being made in Quebec, this shit is probably being made all over the world unfortunately
Nobody asked lol
@@abartel6 I didn’t ask for your opinion either
I remember this, and it is very much still a big problem. I'm a father of three, and I remember when all of this started to erupt. My wife and I noticed what our kids were watching and subsequently banned youtube, only allowing them on "kids youtube." We pretty much immediately saw that the same exact types of videos were rampant on kids youtube as well, and proceeded to ban that as well. We only just now have allowed them back onto youtube now that they're older, and understand just why those videos are very much not okay. The thing is though, stuff like that is still floating around, and not just a little bit of it either. Suffice it to say, Peppa Pig will forever be not allowed in our house and has - quite literally - haunted the nightmares of my youngest. This is also a HUGE problem on Roblox, which we also banned. Despite "unlocking" youtube, we have much heavier parental controls on their devices that give us daily updates on what they're watching, and yeah: it's still a problem, but luckily our kids are sensible enough now to tell us when they see something like this.
You and your partner sound like you guys are doing as best you can, and i just wanna say that you two are super admirable for putting in all that effort on top of just raising the kids and living normal busy lives. I agree with keeping them away with Roblox. that is not a good place.
Anyone remember Happy Tree Friends tho? I remember my parents giving me a dvd of it when I was like 7-9 or so and I also know a friend whose younger sister watched and laughed maniacally at that show when like 5, (she's a teen now and pretty psychopathic btw). Also, about the video - so this was allowed but when a youtuber says "suicide", "self harm" or "p*dophile" and etc they got demonetized or flagged (imo even back then)?
I use to be fan of htf but not anymore cuz the fanbase are too weird also too obsessed with these characters especially flanky flippin and the blue fly squirrel idk what his name but pretty sure they are simp cuz i seeing so many flippin x flanky and flanky anime flanky god what am i see💀
Oh, I absolutely remember watching HTF in elementary school on TH-cam. I found out about it as a mean-spirited prank from some classmates telling me to go watch it (I was 7) and it uh. It was an experience for baby me.
Elsa-gate is to Gen-Alpha what shock sites and liveleak videos were to Gen-Z. Thankfully it doesn't seem like it's as severe as seeing a beheading video on iFunny, but it just goes to show the growing pains of the internet as we begin to outgrow the moderation and systems that are currently in place. It's crazy how influential events like these are on the future of the internet
Eh not quite. Shock sites were organic, it was something you showed your friends to screw with them, usually as teenagers. There was a communal aspect to it. Elsagate is shadowy anonymous figures spending a ton of money to covertly expose small children to fetishes.
I was born late Gen-Z so I got out mostly unscathed from internet childhood ruining stuff
I was born too late for LiveLeak and too early for elsagate, so instead I got traumatized by some dogshit creepypasta when I was 8. It isn't even scary, but that shit triggers my fight or flight. Also, it's only one that does it to me (I hate even typing it out or saying what it is).
I was an avid iFunny user from 2016-2018, lucky I never saw a beheading video. There was a lot of porn though.
Everyone: i was born late for gen z trauma/ me, (mid gen y, dealing with scat and tub girl videos...meat spin, lemon party.) Nah yall werent late, yall just didnt dive deep enough. You eithrr gotta be curious enough, or have friends curious enough. Kinda jealous though. However, seems the internet weird stuff is getting tamer (still bad...but its not pain olympics)
When I first started using the internet back in the late 90s and early 2000s, EVERYTHING was at least 13+. There shouldn't even be a kids youtube. The fact it's such a profitable demograph is disturbing and frankly none of that should be legal to begin with. - some boomer
Yea i waited until i was 12 before using the internet to be fair before i was 12 we had dialup and youtube was not a thing yet the big thing they used to advertise the internet was email and that is not interesting to kids.
I remember when my parents wouldn't let me make a Facebook account until I was 13. And I couldn't make a Google account either, for the same reason, meaning I couldn't watch any age restricted videos.
Bring that standard back.
most of the money the advertising industry spends is for indoctrinating kids
Internet also isn't what it used to be. I started using the internet alone at 8 years old in 2001, and there was no youtube or anything like it. Just AOL games or websites advertised on toy commercials that I knew of. Weird websites were discovered by word of mouth. The fear back then was stranger danger in chatrooms lol
TH-cam kids can exisit but it needs to have only approved creators and not just anyone uploading to it.
As an adult that likes bizarre entertainment, I liked a lot of the Elsagate videos I saw because they were "bizarre entertainment that occasionally had some mature content I could handle." Many reminded me of New Grounds flash and Robot Chicken parodies. The problem was they were getting pushed on kids.
Like, most people don't have a problem with something like Happy Tree Friends or Drawn Together existing even though they rely on edgy shock humor, and Elsagate videos could live along side them as "edgy shock parodies for adults," but would have a problem if HTF or DT started airing on Disney Channel in the middle of the day between Micky Mouse Clubhouse and Jessie.
Sadly as when i was younger i was watching this stuff i can confirm this truly twisted my young mind but back then my parents were young and stressed so they thought it was okay.
i hate all of the stupid rules on this website that exist to “protect” children against “harmful content” when they made a whole other app specifically for KIDS
They seriously need to focus on making that app safer for kids because it still isn’t 100% safe AND also stop forcing these rules on the normal youtube app and to people who upload videos not made for kids
@@josie9583 "It's not me they're after, it's you. I'm just in the way." DJT
@@josie9583 yeah I was 16 and babysitting my sister during elsagate and it was super hard to manage on my own because if I just took her iPad I'd get in trouble, so I had to manually go through and block every channel she'd come across. my mom didnt believe me when I told her there was a lot of inappropriate stuff on there.
@@josie9583 yeah. it didn't help that my mom just didn't believe me lol but I did everything I could to shield her from it. there were just SO MANY channels. I blocked hundreds of them 😔
The real problem is that they aren't enforcing the parents to use TH-cam Kids, so children end up using the normal TH-cam
@@KassieR329 Yeesh. Sorry your mom is such a lazy, complacent parent....
There has never been a time where "Think of the children!" has failed to make things worse.
The lesson everyone should take away from this debacle: _do your job as a parent and watch you damn kids._
I made this same reply on another post but I think you'll agree so here it is again:
With billions of videos uploaded per day, who is going to monitor the site? Maybe its better to not allow your 3-8 year old children on TH-cam without your supervision. There are ways to put parental controls on devices. Where does personal responsibility for parenting come in? As horrible as this situation was and I do not think this content should ever have been on TH-cam, the blaming TH-cam reactions ruined the site as advertisers do not want to associate with it. This was furthered with blaming TH-cam for not censoring "offensive content." In 2016, people could get monetized as long as content did not violate terms of service. Now your content has to be "advertiser friendly" which leads to unauthentic and censored content because people ultimately do this for income. I especially consider this to be wrong since news channels get demonetized for talking about news stories. For example, any video that talks about COVID gets instantaneously demonetized. The ironic part is TH-cam still plays ads on all videos. The money just goes to them rather than the content-creator if the content is not "advertiser friendly"
When it comes to the COPPA situation, my opinion is as follows. I do not see targeted ads as problematic considering you are not getting any other kind of personally identifiable information about the person. For all Google and TH-cam knows, the person could be an adult watching kid-centered videos. The main concern comes in when the child has a TH-cam channel of their own. However, it is both illegal per federal law and against almost EVERY social media's terms of service for someone under the age of 13 to have their personal social media. It is also been ruled in court before that the parents hold sole responsibility when their children under age 13 create their own social media profiles or they create one for their child. Additionally, those of ages 13-17 must still obtain parental consent but can have their own account.
While I do not agree with the decisions made by TH-cam to appease people, the companies pulling ads, or people filing lawsuits, I still do agree that the content was beyond deplorable. The content being described in this video should definitely be removed to the best of TH-cam's ability. I just believe it is also problematic to blame the hosting site rather than the parents.
More like watch your damn kids, don't make content like this and if you're going to make a child friendly app make sure it's *actually* child friendly
I agree. But that being said, people who make sexual content and then market it to kids need to be held accountable as well
But no it's much easier for daddy government to do it, right?
In most cases I would agree but in this specific scenario I don't. TH-cam kids was advertised as a fun distracter for your kid that would show them educational content, which parents would see and allow their kid to use. But when an algorithm is literally shoving this shit into kids faces how could the parents know? It wasn't fair.
The parents were in the drivers seat, sure. But the car was self driving
i also fell victim to this too. Back when I was 7 or 8 i used to watch disturbing MLP videos on youtube. These videos include pinkie pie deactivating rainbow dash for cupcakes and the main 6 getting killed by a demonic creature. I thought they were normal back then but then after i stopped watching MLP due to me growing too old, i looked back from my past and found that they wern't normal. And when I heard about elsa gate and about it, i was shocked
hmm, a lot of brony content back then was made to be disturbing and gorey and not meant for consumption by little kids. however, it doesn't mean that kids can't come across it.
this video is mainly talking about content masked as kids content.
Same, when I was little I used to watch MLP videos on TH-cam, I bunch was very gorey and made me have many nightmares. 2015/2016 was a scary time
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It’s so subtle. You gotta love it.
I was about 10 roughly when this was happening and me and my older brother would watch these religiously. Luckily, my grandma got wind of how weird those videos were and said she would ground us if we watched it again. So, thanks grandma.
your grandma is a chad
Looks like grandma had to become the MAma
@@sirtieman actually she's a gigachad
Your grandma is a gigachad
@@TMHLBPFan 🏳️🌈✔️
Trust me, TH-cam for kids has always been problematic. I remember watching dogs give birth on that app, and I also saw videos of dogs dying whilst covered in mange and open sores and infected cuts. That messed me up for a long time. But yea, youtube has some weird rules and even stranger videos they allow on that app…
What's wrong with dogs giving birth?
@@zad_rasera it’s not child friendly
@@simontthomas i watched my dog and cat give birth as a kid. it was super dark so i barely saw anything.
@@erickgabriel6529 cool bro
Ye, I saw a video on there of these people rescuing some food deprived dog. The thumbnail was of the dog that was so skinny that it’s ribs were showing. Pretty bad I must say.
It is crazy when Elsagate and some bad kid contents are more creepy than the actual horror and gore-leveled horror
I used to grow up with the horror-loving and childhood memories if not only the childhood trauma from internet like Sonic. EXE, Pinkie Pie's Cupcake and other trauma deaths, etc...
And I can confirm that we are grow up without those bad kid contents.
i remember being around 9 in a store and hearing a 3-5 year old kid blasting a video on their ipad. it was an elsagate style video with maui and moana drinking and engaging in very questionable acts. i was scarred for life after that
I seriously wonder who some of those "actors" were in those Spiderman and Elsa videos and if they should be held accountable for anything. Clearly they knew what they were doing.
I believe a couple of them were the same losers from "Prank" channels.
No matter what you think of them the videos Ethan (H3) made on the subject was good and he was able to pinpoint some of them as dumb asses he had covered before when they were prank channels. That was just one channel though.
Heard somewhere they traced some locations to eastern europe somewhere
Ngl probably pron actors in their spare time
i’m ethan bradberry
@@MrNateDD Why am I not surprised?
What’s hilarious is this is still happening all across the platform, but I bet this video is the one that’s demonetized
Jokes on you, it was sponsored!
I saw one the other day on here of PAW Patrol characters with Skye and Marshall crying. Skye's head was on Ryder the human's body but wearing pink overalls with a tube of (presumably) antiseptic cream and there was Minecraft in the background. Something called Littleworld TV. It was concerning.
@@BBC600 that is the most early 2010s thing I have ever heard
TRUE! It is still happening. But most of it is with like Sonic characters or something now.
So sad that these things still happen in today's internet, It may be a different way of showing it or delivering it but it still has the same context.
It is sad that many games that are genuinely good and terrifying are ruined just because adults will do whatever it takes to get the views even if it traumatizes their viewers. Believe me, I also fell to that era of TH-cam when I was young. I hated it so much..
Courage the cowardly dog was as weird as it got for me as a kid, & as weird as it’s getting for my future kids lol
Courage the Cowardly Dog might as well be Seseme street compared to the shit on TH-cam Kids
What about The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy?
For it was The Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy and Gravity Falls but those are pretty much the Muppets compared to some of the shit on TH-cam "Kids"
Let’s be real here: TH-cam didn’t remotely care this was going on. They only got involved when ad money started drying up. That’s the only thing they ever have cared about and could give a shit about any user on here or their kids.
This should've been obvious from the start. TH-cam and Google don't care about anything except for money.
they used to be so caring though…
@@hahayuck2169 Key word:used to
TH-cam is a company. Money is the only thing that matters to them & every other huge company.
I didn’t think about it this way until reading this comment, but that makes sense. Disheartening, honestly.
I remember desperately trying to keep these videos away from my baby sister's eyes. my mom literally didn't believe me when I told her some of the stuff wasn't really appropriate because "it's on youtube kids so it's ok." like I'm sorry, she's 3, I know pregnancy is natural but she doesn't need to watch a video about pregnant Elsa giving birth. Luckily, since I was babysitting her that summer I had the pin to the youtube kids account so I could stop it, but I had to deal with so many tantrums because I blocked all of these channels. but there were so many channels and I couldn't keep them all away so after keeping it away for a week she found a new channel and I had to start the removal process again.
Your a good kid or man,the world needs more people like you who care about there younger siblings,ggs man
Who cares? If you’re repulsed by giving birth, you’re a puritan anyway. Stop trying to force your values onto others. Censorship raises weak kids.
You're an upstanding person and we need more older siblings and parents like you.
oof, can relate. my sister watched so much creepy shit on my dad's iPad when she was three and I still can't forget that goddamn finger song
Same, I used to make my sister watch Netflix or DVD’s instead. The content is usually better anyway.
This is why my brother and sister in-law deleted my nephews TH-cam account. Some of the content he was watching was disturbing,and the videos were targeted towards kids. This is a big issue, and scary!
I don’t want to sound like a boomer, I’m a teenager. But when I was younger I loved playing outside and with my toys for hours. And would watch TH-cam for an hour. But I mostly watched Markiplier and Fnaf videos. I don’t think social media is evil but I think everyone needs a break especially kids.
I was a kid when this was happening, i vividly remember seeing these thumbnails and being super disturbed. It was literally the reason I never watched videos from channels I wasn’t already subscribed to for years.
I fell victim to this stuff when I was younger with my sister. My dad got enraged finding some of the names of the videos. I blame both TH-cam for poor protection, but also my parents for just being oblivious and should have taken better standards
Besides your parents should have looked somewhat better after you, this whole internet culture is quite new and didn't exist when they were young, so I don't 100% blame them for being oblivious about it.
Same but i only remember a couple of scenes which where not inappropriate but i am pretty there where some i saw that where very weird but have no memory
Same kinda but i eventually stopped watching th3m at least. I didnt really understand what was happening bc i was like 5 but some did disturb me so i stopped watching them
My biggest question is, Why TF is he wearin' Easter-Egg coloring kit glasses?
Same. There was a time in my childhood where I'd exclusively watch peppa pig horror vids 😭 idek how I found that, but still.
“Making the app family friendly is of the utmost importance to us 🤥”
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Whenever someone make things “child-friendly”, they go downhill
@@im_not_jacob exactly TH-cam was made for a general audience this is ridiculous I can't wait for another website to take over TH-cams job
@@im_not_jacobit’s literally youtube “kids”
I am really digging this channel thus far. I've been binging all day, and I'll probably binge way more tomorrow!!
The worst part is that this is still ongoing.
Yea with diff other characters..
Elsagate is a good reason why parents need to really pay attention to what their kids consume.
And why they should not let kids use the internet
@@crayoneatergaming3192 If they are not being monitored then I agree, but I think there is also alot of good things to learn about in youtube/ the internet with documentaries and other educational stuff.
Just have to actually be a parent and pay attention to your kid.
very true. They say more kids end up depressed nowdays.Maybe this is why..... this ''content'' is twisted and creepy.
bruh these videos traumatized me and I was like 21 when this happened
good content
You ain't lying. There were needles and shit.
Hi Cue! ❤
12 Days before this video was uploaded : A kind of popular Polish TH-camr by the name of miedzinsky made a video from his series called These Cartoons (Te Kreskówki) reacted to the content that appeared on TH-cam Kids meant to be "child friendly". He mentioned this video's topic, disturbing fetishes, stealing content from mainstream media (Disney, Marvel etc.), and traumas for life.
I'm honestly glad I grew up in a time before TH-cam existed. Most of my free time as a kid was spent watching Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, and Nickelodeon... or playing N64/GameCube.
I may not have been around that time but idk if yt kids was around when I was a kid. Nor did I have a proper device till I was 10, and still after that I didn't know what youtube was or yt kids was, I just watched Minecraft Machinima videos on my TV because it was on prime video for a bit
Man, I remember back then I was like 8-9 yo I was at a party, and I saw kids on a tablet watching these type of videos laughing their faces off. When I saw them I was like "wth is this sh*t" and moved on. I'm grateful for my parents raising me not to use the internet without permission lol.
You're lucky. I had a similar experience, except the kid (a toddler, btw) grabbed my arm and made me watch with him. I wanted to leave but I didn't want the toddler to throw a fit and get yelled at by his mother, and so I watched the shitty playdoh stop motion for about 10 minutes until I left to "go to the bathroom." After the party I decided to investigate further and I was horrified.
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@@upperclassnoobs No you have to be 13 bro. And Golden Nut is older now, that party took place a long time ago
my friend was watching that kind of video and I just get along with it even though i dont like it
I'm from 96, I got a computer when I was around 8 years old and internet access for the first time when I had 9 or 10 years. up to around my 15 years was the first time when I could watch streaming, I mean, watching videos on youtube for example without having to literally open up the video, pause it to wait for it to load and THEN watch. up to that point, I only watched downloaded stuff, like movies, and played old games that I could download. also, I played a lot of multiplayer games, like fps or moba. this kinda saved me of the cesspool that internet can be through a child/teenager's unlimited access. today it just blows my mind how kids can access the most depraved things by the touch of a finger. I'm kinda grateful today for the limitations I had back then... instead of growing up watching these bizarre cartoons, I ended up growing playing a lot of rts and rpg games. it helped me with a lot of things, and I even learned english as a second language out of it
As a father, and now grandfather - Elsagate was a major story for me when it happened... My kids were all grown up by the time it hit so I did not have to worry too much - but being older I had already seen the issues that could arise from the Internet as a whole, including one of my step children and a friend having a sleepover one night, hopping onto to MSN Messenger and being groomed by a "Pedo" in Canada - Thankfully, he was arrested and is now serving some serious jail time!
I look back now to my youth when teh Internet was first becoming mainstream, back in about 1990'ish here in the UK...Back when Dial Up was everyone's favourite way of connecting and my thoughts even back then were "Pedo's Paradise" - Little did I know that when I finally did succumb and join teh online world in 2001 that I would be SO RIGHT!
While I di dare to say that some of the Elsagate channels were indeed run by "Perverts" - I feel the Majority just saw a way to make a quick buck... Once TH-cam cracked down, the money wasn't there anymore and they had to find new methods... And have!
The Crafty, 5 Minute Crafts, and such... WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING BEING ALLOWED TO KEEP RUNNING ON TH-cam? Oh wait... They rack in millions of views and make a lot of Money!!! Elsagate is still with us - it only has a new form!
"Content Farms" as they are known are DEEPLY DISTURBING AND DANGEROUS! All the channels in Elsagate were simple Mom and Pop Content Farms... And when Kids Characters were taken out of contention and unusable - They adapted and now make "Life Hack Videos" that in many cases are DEPLY DANGEROUS and POTENTIALLY LEATHAL...
... And can still be viewed on the TH-cam Kids! app!
Side note: Elsagate has also caused great harm where TH-cam Kids is concerned, Many of my friends who are also parents REFUSE to allow their children to use TH-cam Kids and would rather them use PROPER TH-cam!!! I wish that was a joke... But its not! They feel more able to control what their chidlren are viewing via TH-cam proper than on TH-cam Kids when they normally find out TOO LATE if some dodgy content has got on there!
And NO! I AM NOT CALLING FOR ANOTHER ADPOCYLPSE!!! I am calling for TH-cam to DO ITS DAMN JOB! Anyone with half a brain can tell that Promoting Children using HOT GLUE GUNS is DANGEROUS... But TH-cam relies TOO MUCH on Algorithms and does NOT review this content enough!!! TH-cam should be keeping a closer eye on "Content Farms".
And as if to drive the point home - A TH-camr I am not familiar with - TechnoBlade - Passed away this last week, and sure enough the Content Farms started MILKING HIS DEATH FOR VIEWS!!!
And that is where again we are going to see TH-cam do a "Knee Jerk" once more and go Scorched Earth and screw it all up... As they did with Elsagate...
A Bit of Advice for TH-cam... Yes it is hard with so much content being uploaded - I get it! But when channels are aimed at kids, HAVE GENUINE HUMAN CONTENT REVIEWERS!!! Yes it will hit your profits, yes it will mean hiring thousands more people and cost you loads in wages... but if you want to avoid another FTC Fine and a bad reputation - That's what you must do!
Much longer comment than I intended - TL;DR: Elsagate is NOT GONE, Its simply found a new form! Another Adpocyplse will come very soon! We should all be afraid!
I never liked Elsa Gate because the animation style on most of their videos looked terrible
I agree with this guy
speaking facts my guy
@@pinkgirl294 just the animation? What about the disturbing content being shown? 🤦♂️
The problem with this: You expect TouTube to actually do their jobs and not just keep printing money
Hello, I’m glad you talked to this as it is one of the biggest TH-cam events.
I actually used to watch these and I remember some of the videos and now I realized how messed up those videos were.I hope the next generation doesn’t have to go through another one of these era’s that was terrifying.
I’m 13, so I was 6-7 when this was going on. I remember it. I would watch these videos. At around 8:00, you said that people believe that these were run by pedophiles trying to groom children into liking this stuff. I agree. I agree because I was one of those children. At the time, I didn’t know it, but these videos made me develop some fucked up sexual interests (luckily not scat though, thank god). It’s a side of me that I don’t ever want to show, and will never show. I have never spoken about it, but I think now is a good time to. These videos didn’t exactly traumatise me, but I blame them for my odd interests. I know that I’m definitely not alone on this. I feel sorry for anyone else who had this happen to them too.
Edit: Thanks for the support, everybody. I really appreciate it. It’s good to know I’m not alone.
I grew up before the internet was mainstream and that type of stuff was in disney movies and kids shows if you really paid attention
You’re not alone. I’m right there with you. I’m 16 and this fucked up kids content has been on the internet for a while now. Gaming websites, fandoms. It’s everywhere.
Say it what ur weird kink is
Remember this is the internet and we are almost anonymous
@@joeyno137 Pregnancy fetish mainly.
@@RC.- Yeah, I agree. But the difference is, it wasn’t as obvious.
I've been a content moderator for over 7 and a half years. I have to deal with terrible, terrible content, a lot of the time centered around children. It infuriates me how hands-off youtube is with serious issues like this when the simple fact is you just need to hire more people. I would happily sit here working with youtube instead of my current employer to moderate, but they're too cheap to want to hire real people.
Does it pay well how to become a moderator. Got no cash
@@CanularRadio many moderators came forwards in channels like vice highlighting how terrible the pay is for the things they have to witness, the content they have to moderate is so bad they are left mentally scarred for life, unless they start therapy that is. Though you could maybe ask the contractor how much is I suppose?
@@dylano0126 oh fuck it doesn't pay well I thought it payed insanely well due to the shock well nope
hm. Low pay, high risk for emotional trauma, doing a civic good... I'd try it.
🗹 Certainty of death.
🗹 Small chance of success.
What are we waiting for? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My personal experience with Elsa gate: so I was about 6 or 7 years old around the time elsa gate was popular, and at that time I only really watched lol surprise stop motions and unboxing videos along with other toys like barbie and shopkinns (which were entirely child appropriate) but I do remember coming across an elsa gate video where the equestria girl version of twilight sparkle and the yellow villain from rainbow rocks (for whatever reason I can’t remember the name of her or her little group) getting into multiple situations. I was a fan of my little pony and equestria girls, so I was an easy target. I watched it and somehow 7 year old me actually enjoyed it. It wasn’t inappropriate, just weird. After that night I never came across one of the my little pony videos again and i sort of forgot about it entirely. Another video I ended up watching was one of the notorious, you guessed it, live action Spider-Man and Elsa videos. Basically the video was of Elsa and spider man torturin- I mean … pranking each other *nervous laughter*……… anyway so basically another thing I was a fan of at the time was frozen. And all though I was an Anna Stan who thought Elsa was over rated, I pretty much wanted the best all the 5 main characters, including Elsa, so seeing spider man torture her massively pissed me off, so I guess I just clicked off, only to get them recommended to me constantly, only to ignore them. So other than those 2 incidents, and despite being on the ‘child friendly’ side of TH-cam practically all the time, I think I can safely say I had a nice, Elsa gate free childhood. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
Edit: while I was writing this comment I forgot about those god awful inappropriate overly-fetishised flash games of elsa and tinkerbell being pregnant me and my older cousin used to play all the time. Oops.
THANK YOU ALL FOR 1 MILLION SUBS
You deserve it man! Keep it up! I learn new stuff from you so much and it’s also nice to see what happened to some of my old favorite memes and creators!
Your welcome
There was just something so incredibly ominous about elsegate, it's hard to describe to people who didn't witness it.
It's pedo brainwashing 100%
@@seacrystal6189 agreed
I think it's kids content on TH-cam in general, remember Finger Family videos?
I watched some of the elsa and spiderman content with a critical eye, and came to the conclusion that it had a lot to do with controlled reinforcement of disassociation
There are still videos like this on youtube, sometimes in the form of claymation playing as looped live streams
@@grain9640 Very interesting. What would be the goal of something like this?
I was totally unware of Elsagate. Had no idea anything like that had happened.
I will never forget this era because of my sister constantly watching it
I just feel bad for the kids whose "parenting" experience was just being left in their room with an iPad 12 hours a day
Before this their parenting were the TV, and before it were nothing at all
@@atanaZion before it was radio
The worst part of Elsagate is that I'm positive nearly all of those animators were stationed outside of America, so they probably barely faced any consequences past their channels being deleted.
And that didnt mean shit since those were most likely run with bots making new channel and bot farm to increase following, so it was on hiatus for week tops.
@@Hellsong89 Yeah.
I still remember hearing this back in like 2017 ish.
Elsagate was such a wild situation, i remember watching h3h3's videos on the whole thing.
All i remember thinking was damn, when i was a kid on youtube all i watched was ytps, warriors cats/pokemon animatons, and those old zoo tycoon "movies" made in windows movie maker LOL. How times changed, and for the worse too.
Kinda ironic that old, less moderated youtube was safer than modern.
YTPs were where it was at.
The stuff I grew up with was BFDI(A), Annoying Orange, and all of the g0ry MLP stuff.
@@irinasylva I grew up venting out my frustration that I couldn't and still can't afford official Nintendo products. I resorted to bootleg flash games...
Reminds me of the “Toys in Japan” channel and all of their crazy computer animation: Hitler kung-fu fighting a cat, “finger family songs” with fingers of syringes, Hitler busts, or attack helicopters, and Shrek bouncing on the bed were just a sampling of the insanity. I used to send my friends those videos to freak them out! Mission Accomplished! 😂
I forgot about the Hitler kung-fu
Don't forget 5 little GTA CJs, with a rap remix.
_Why's there so much Hitler stuff?_
@@GumSkyloard because he is a legend
Reminds me of that one cartoon where an Indian guy turns into a fucking tank with unravel playing in the background
11:17 He has a point, but he's not completely right, TH-cam still needs to put an effort into making TH-cam Kids... FOR KIDS, but parents also need to learn that plopping your child in front of an IPad for hours on end is not a good idea because they might come across traumatizing content, case in point, and it's just not good to do in general, but if you insist on letting your young child use the internet, then parents need to at least monitor what their child is doing instead of letting the internet babysit their child.
@El Mitcho That's great to hear and I 100% agree! I will be doing the same someday and hopefully enough people will as well to make some amount of difference. The internet was a fantastic tool when it came around (and still is in some aspects), but it's become another vice in my opinion and that's why it's so important for new or future parents to really think about this because it will easily ruin new generations I mean hell, the term "terminally online" has been coined, it's absurd. Moderation is always key and this goes out to any new and future parents as well, heed these warnings.
Keeping kids away from technilogy is only getting harder and harder. Most schools, both primary and secondary, require a device, usually an ipad now. And trying to stop a child from doing something seems to be the best way to get them to do that very thing. It can be very frustrating.
I agree but TH-cam had an active role in miss leading people into believing the TH-cam kids app is for kids. I understand how parents could be fooled by this mistake and they are rightfully mad at TH-cam for deceiving them. Also at the same time even I they were being moderated it only takes one. Video to emotionally distress a child.
It’s unrealistic to believe that you can watch over your Child’s shoulder 100% of the time whilst they are on a device.
@@champnotchicken4318 If you can't trust your kid online (within reason) then they're too young to be online alone. It's one thing to let your kid use your iPad for games or pre-approved videos on a roadtrip. It's another to let a 5 or 6 year old have complete internet access whenever they want. The internet isn't a toy and shouldn't be treated like one.
I'd argue YT kids isn't a good idea in general
Damn this video being sent to me is a god send from the algorithm. I myself am making an editorial on this subject. More specifically, how this "elsagate" content is now affecting the stop motion community. Like you said, it's not as rampant, but this type of content is sadly still around and thriving.
Someday Susan will get her shit together, or elsagate is just gonna grow like a cancer again.
I used to find this stuff hilarious and would actively search for this content and laugh about it, it was... bizarre, but now, It is kind of scary, It's unsettling..... I can say proudly this was some eerie stuff
I mean jeez just look at that icon at 4:41
I had to deal with this back in 16. I thought “oh just some people dressed up like Elsa making videos for kids” but then, those videos started getting weirder and weirder. I finally had enough and did something about it. God damn, I just about put all that out of mind lol
Lmfao what did you do about it 😂 cry to mommy ?
@@Daily-Internet-Diary He ran up to Ethan Bradberry, took a bite out of his donut and yelled "That's-a spicy meat-a-ball!"
Back in ‘16??!! Omg so long ago!
LMFAO You guys are fuckin jerks!!! And I love you for it! And yeah! 2016 was 6 years ago. That’s 1 1/2 presidential terms. I’ve seen what can happen in less. Enjoy the moment
@@Daily-Internet-Diary nah bro he took real action. He hacked youtube servers and snglehandedly dismantled elsa
Can you imagine trying to explain Elsagate to a child who'd been traumatized by it? I'm a middle-aged nerd, and I don't think I can fully explain it to myself.
Serious criminal charges should have been pursued against the Elsagate content creators. These channels were conducting deliberate campaigns of mass child abuse.
Kind of difficult to explain to a traumatised toddler why Elsa is giving pregnant Spider-Man an ultrasound with a vibrator.
I'm curious if groups of people will look back at this stuff messing up their childhood when they are old enough to have proper conversations on social media. Some people who were kids in the early 2010s have recently spoken out about how they found Brony content as kids which scared them. That said, at least that stuff was legit aimed at teens and adults even if kids still ran across it.
@@mattwolf7698 It was some seriously fucked up shit. Like I said, I don't think the public came down hard enough on the assholes who did this. It was so unbelievably not cool.
What they're doing is absolutely disgusting, but technically it isn't illegal, they should still never be allowed to do anything on the internet again, but I don't think tey'll get any legal charges.
@@RGC_animation The only difference between what's legal and what's not is the existence of a law, and we (society) are the ones who decide what laws exist.
this is the reason me and my sisters weren’t allowed to watch youtube for much of my childhood. i grew up mostly in the midst of this, and all of these neon fake, uncanny looking thumbnails feel like some sort of liminal fever dream to me. they were everywhere. i’d see little cousins getting lost within hours of this content. weird, oddly taboo looking videos with broken english and annoying sounds and music. this was my childhood on youtube. it was just so…odd.
I remember seeing this when I was Younger and being so disgusted by it even I knew it was inappropriate and I was like 6 and I was surprised youtubers were not talking about it and today I'm still shocked how long it took them to see this
If I have children, knowing what I do about the internet, I will 100% NEVER give them devices with access to the internet and NOT keep track of where they are looking and watching. Until they are teenagers, you need to make sure your kids are protected from the internet…
I absolutely agree. As someone who saw some very messed up stuff as a kid, I am trying to make internet advocacy my job. I want to make people aware of these things in a way kids can still enjoy things and not feel talked down to, because, if you talk down to a kid, they're just more likely to do something. My mom didn't give me a phone until 12 and we had one family PC. but that did NOT stop me from finding some terrifying messed up stuff. As a kid who was already traumatized from physical and mental abuse, and possibly CSA, this stuff retraumatized me. It's absolute despicable that people upload this stuff. it destroys people. I don't plan on having kids because of health issues but if I do, I am really going to try and protect them. So worried.
Please don't ever have children
My parents gave me access to the internet when I was TWO back in 2012, I may have saw some messed up stuff, the earliest I can remember is seeing mild gore at 7, I’m 12 now
@@SomeRandomTH-cam been on the internet since i was 2 (but in 2009) as well, growing up on it was fucking insane
Disney turned us into furries with their content. The children of today will grow up and start conventions where people dress up like pregnant shrek and spiderman
Many furries attribute their interest in the culture due to a childhood watching cartoons and Disney movies that are pretty mundane. I don't want to imagine a generation of kids that grew up watching Elsagate videos which are explicitly sexualized.
Edit for clarity: this is not meant to be a knock on furries. Just giving an example of a established subculture stemming from childhood media.
This Is probably the most disturbing
Part of the situation
Same tho
There's probably gonna be to be an explosion of Elsa R34 in around 10 years, as well as a sudden demand of sexy injections and male pregnancy.
I heard that icarly apparently had a bunch of foot fetishism in the show. It’s like you can’t trust kids media
I'm literally undeniably lucky that i grew up in this time range and NEVER knew about it that much nor ever watched it.
I used to watch the live action videos with my brother often. My parents used to get so mad at us. I am so thankful that they stopped me before it became an addiction. I also never remembered the channel name or video scripts. I used to watch them because of Elsa.
That sounds nightmarish. My little sister watched these, and she couldn't even hear the outside world. In a hypnotic trance.
Is it crazy for me to think that theres almost a coordinated effort to to introduce children to werid fetishes early in life to desensitize them?
Grown actors in costumes that appeal to children were engaging in vaguely (but not explicitly) sexual situations for hundreds videos on end
Whatever they were trying to do was very purposeful. No one is just that stupid, to the point where they don't realize that's not a normal way to entertain kids.
It legit feels like a form of grooming. They used beloved children’s characters for a reason.
Like a bunch of goddamn child groomers
@@A-TALKING-TOASTER oh I remember watching those videos years ago and being confused by them, im going to 9th grade soon now and thinking about it makes me really uncomfortable
You ever seen totally spice?
Fun fact: Once these police came to our school and told us to stick to yt kids because on normal youtube you can see a lot of stuff that could make you uncomfortable.
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...Truly the largest bruh moment your school ever had.
@@KlazGuy the biggest
What an amazing police force we have 👌 (def not sarcasm)
hmmmm.
It’s easier to find the inappropriate sus videos on yt kids
I just wanted to say you background looks really cool.
Cant believe i got so addicted to these 'cartoon' vids. Looking back I now question my past self and just everything in general.
I consumed this "content" at 8 and even I knew there was something deeply wrong about this kind of thing.
Thankfully this kind of content is much harder to find these days
@Naochi You good bud?
One too many mlp videos and I'm scarred for life lmao... but seriously, it's amazing that there's better security and other kids won't have to go through this as often
while it might be stupid tiktoks that only small children can laugh at now in 2022 it’s way better than the brain rotting “kid friendly” videos from 2016
Same
I hope people never forget this time of TH-cam, some seriously messed up stuff was going on back then. the anti-Elsagate community even uncovered (or maybe connected?) the animations and skits to some ACTUAL nonce activity taking place, with some arguably borderline NSFW things being posted, and one of the methods they used to sniff out this sort of stuff was to google dates (the month part in russian, usually) and go to the "videos" tab, in which they would find kids exposing themselves on YT, and then the good fellas fighting this would flag the video. srsly, we need to learn from this whole thing
That was not linked to elsagate.
@@ccaagg except it was. something about posters of the NSFW videos dog-whistling on some traditional Elsagate videos and the NSFW ones, people caught up there was some intersection of comments in both types of videos
I remember people talking about the weird codes left in the comments of those videos, it was genuinely terrifying
@@charlie.justcharlie.8373 exactly. while I think this here video was very informative, the rabbit hole was a bit deeper than simply "the Spider-man and Elsa videos got weirder and weirder to the point the ToS changed"
yes! i heard that people in comments were writing in code about selling children???
I actually 5 to 6 to 7 years old when Elsagate came a swinging. But thankfully, I was smart enough not to consume such a sludgepipe, even though it was "supposedly" my type of video.
To any fellow kid, teen or young adult who had to suffer though such hellish years, I hope you're still doing okay and still going strong. Peace be with ya, boys and girls.
mY DAUGHTER IS 9 today, and I saw and lived Elsagate. As an good father, when it happened, I restricted her youtube usage.
Imagine being a kid these days, not only you get zero affection by your parents that find out you can babysit children with am iPad plus you get psychological trauma from the shit TH-cam algorithm shove in your mouth :(
@@cowarf good for you kiddo, you're becoming an endangered species unfortunately
@@cowarf i think hes talking about late gen alpha
@@freddyspaghetti1912 ya prob
@@freddyspaghetti1912 yeah like kids around 3 to 10 like literal kids
@@freddyspaghetti1912 yea
was just talking about elsagate/youtube kids content with the 6 year old i babysit's dad. he talked about catching her on videos about sonic.exe/killing everyone, and getting every female character pregnant and what not. the problem isn't fixed at all and its so upsetting because she's so much like me at that age, but unlike me, who got things like compilations of Sonic game cutscenes being called movies, she's getting these creepy flash animations.
As a fellow sonic fan born in 2005 I kept finding gore compilation videos of sonic characters,mostly Tails since he was my favorite.Also porn of course
@@reko_hinata interesting.. the worst I can recall from sonic were those animated fan volumes or whatever. A couple years later during my creepypasta and MLP phase was when I'd wind up coming across that sort of stuff (pasta especially), which factoring our age gap, might check out.
I sometimes wish the internet could just remain that way. ( back before Elsagate wasn't a thing )
Gotta go fast
For me you have to be 9+
I was a bit older when this stuff was popular, but I remember babysitting for a little girl and she wanted to watch this stuff, and I knew it was “for kids” but it all deeply disturbed me
I remember watching soo many of these i loved watching these❤
i literally caught my baby sister watching family guy one time. i had to remind her that it is for GROWN UPS and just because it looks like a kids show, doesn't mean it is. i want to tell my mom she should be monitoring what my sister watches because the internet is SO unregulated, but i know shes gonna get mad at me and say im calling her a "bad parent". when no, i dont want her to be watching content she shouldnt like the MANY times i caught her. shes already starting to reenact what she sees on youtube and its sad. one time, i was playing with her and she was acting out an abusive relationship. that was the final straw for me.
if it were up to me, she would only be using kid friendly games until shes 13. i dont understand why parents dont want to be parents anymore. at the very least, monitor what your kids are watching
The Simpsons is better than family guy anyway, so yeah
Godzilla The Series bettah
So, I grew up in the era of Newgrounds and early TH-cam (think around the time when TH-cam Poops were huge). There was a lot of stuff that I shouldn't have seen when I was younger. But the main thing is that pretty much all of those videos were parody of some kind. whether it be an animation like Egoraptor's stuff, a TH-cam Poop, or a video like Smosh's stuff. All of those videos were created as the express purpose of being a joke and poking fun at the media and topics in question (or it was just porn). Sure not all of the content has aged well and there was always malicious stuff, but for the most part it was all for fun
Elsagate... is not that. It's a bunch of videos that purposely exploit children or their own personal gain. I feel bad for any kid who accidentally stumbled across one of these videos. Yes, it's important for parents to monitor what their kids watch, of course! But the fact that shit was (and sometimes is) so numerous that it's nearly damn impossible to NOT run into one of these videos by accident.
I used to watch cocomelon when it was actually educational
newgrounds is still a platform tho
Yeah first I was like, this is kinda like old school Newgrounds content, but as you said this has a whole darker and deeper layer into it.
I watched very mature YTPs when I was like 11, but then again, that's not as bad as those gross channels that are clearly underground paedo rings.
@@maiskorrel At least Newgrounds isn't run by bots and Karens.
Unfortunately anyone with little siblings that are "tablet kids" TH-cam still gives zero fucks about what is allowed for kids 1-6. I've seen my smaller siblings watching shit on TH-cam that made me uncomfortable and just fucking take the entire table, switch whatever. Weird shit about pregnancy and and just weird shit is still prevalent. Makes me sick.
I remember watching Elsa-gate cartoons when i was about 8-10 (when i really started watching them, but i had watched a few videos in my kindergarten-pre-k years) I remember the channel i watched the most with this content was called SuperherokidsTv it had characters from Doc Mcstuffins, paw patrol, Frozen, My little pony and more. Me and my friends would even talk about it sometimes. It was a thing a lot of kids knew about and fell victim to this when i was younger and it kind of surprises me how long it took for the main stream to figure out about this stuff??? People keep talking about it coming to surface around 2016-2017 but i literally remember this stuff from like 2013 and on. Crazy how things can start and no one takes notice of it until it's too late. I'm very grateful to the people on the internet that's trying to stop this type of stuff from resurfacing again and it's very important to check what your kids/siblings are watching.