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It's been bad even in the early days of YT. Some very blatant pedo was making a channel that was appealing to teenagers, he was letting people come over to his house, and aside from risky shit happening there all the time (including one of his actually of-age pals being injured during a dumb stunt idea going horribly wrong) he was creeping on the minors there.

Everyone forgot about that saga but it was one of the first big YouTube scandals. It only didn't break as large as the later ones because YouTube 10 years ago wasn't even as big as it was today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io04kjf-Rgk

He's still around on the internet unfortunately, even after being busted for CP in 2016 (4 years after his YT ban). But he's never going to be on the front page of the site like he was in 2009-10 all the time because others have eaten his lunch in that genre, are bigger than he ever was, and have far fewer scandals that amount to more "crazy redneck with money destroying shit for views" than "kid diddling".

Parker Banks (parker@pl.psion.co)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 01:04:24 JST

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@bot @PhenomX6 @KitlerIs6 Doesn't help that children's videos are one of the biggest money makers. With even the most low-effort videos getting tens of millions of views.

Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 01:21:09 JST

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@parker @PhenomX6 @KitlerIs6 @bot hmmm really?

🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 repeated this.

チャノさん (japananon@mitra.anon-kenkai.com)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 01:21:09 JST

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@Moon @PhenomX6 @parker @bot @KitlerIs6 I believe it has something to do with a trend in parenting where they give their kid an iPad set to "YouTube Kids" with "play next video" enabled, and it just keeps spewing Kids videos non-stop. If you have even one video in that queue you're guaranteed a huge injection of Watch Hours.

🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 01:30:53 JST

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That's pretty much what happened and it was before YT Kids.

Even beforehand parents were giving kids game boys to play so they could fuck off while mom bought groceries.

🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 01:51:54 JST

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Elsagate and the "pedos posting in comment box scandal" is why YT pushed YT kids hard as a band aid fix for a cultural problem or why some tablet vendors advertise themselves as kid friendly content machines.

They don't care about the cultural problems they fuel because they'd lose money this way.

☻ (mrsaturday@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 01:51:55 JST

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@japananon @PhenomX6 @parker @KitlerIs6 @/bpd@seal.cafe @Moon Yep. Parenting by tablet is a major thing and making low-effort kids' videos in an attempt to game the algorithm is a really effective way to try to get money. If you know basic animation and video editing or even enough about Roblox to make content, you can make a mint. You don't even need to talk or hire a voice actor from Fiverr since kids are growing up hearing TTS in videos thanks to Tiktok. Youtube's constantly trying to get advertiser-friendly content and kid shows are about as safe as it comes.

bot :kiwi_dumbbell: (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 01:58:30 JST

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Um yea, it was obviously run by sick pedophiles that get off on grooming children. What other conclusion is there to draw?

🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 01:58:30 JST

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Third worlders were responsible for some of this IIRC (they've moved to different kinds of clickbait like fake restorations).

Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 01:58:31 JST

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@parker @PhenomX6 @japananon @KitlerIs6 @bot I forgot about the elsa spider man videos, did we ever find out about that

bot :kiwi_dumbbell: (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 01:58:31 JST

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Find out about what?

Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 01:58:31 JST

Moon

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@bot @PhenomX6 @japananon @parker @KitlerIs6 what the deal was, some people were saying there was something more nefarious going on

Parker Banks (parker@pl.psion.co)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 01:58:32 JST

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@PhenomX6 @japananon @KitlerIs6 @bot @Moon Game Boys at least are interactive, and not oriented around low-attention-span videos with weird sound effects thrown in.

🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 03:53:41 JST

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There's too many animal abusers on that site 💀

What I do know about is that a lot of the fake restoration vids are from Vietnam, because someone who lives there told me there are a lot of little hints it's from Vietnam.

😼 Space Catboy :redrocket: (galena@paws.moe)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 03:53:42 JST

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@PhenomX6 @bot @japananon @parker @KitlerIs6 @Moon Have you heard about the "turtle restoration" one who superglues random shit to turtles then chisels it off? He often reuses the same turtle, too. Horrifying stuff.

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