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Yikes. Offloading your kids onto endless mindless youtube videos is not taking care of them.
Edit: From some of the comments in this thread I'm learning that my view of baby shark is heavily colored by my experiences and does not accurately reflect the truth of baby shark's history or ubiquity. Because of that I conflated the baby shark obsession with the "letting TV raise your kids" issue, and that seems to have been in error. Sorry for the trouble.
It's clear that you either do not have children, or that it has never occurred you to take an interest in their interests.
Your sister sucks, therefore YouTube is bad?
Both can be true, but not necessarily related.
Sounds more like to me like they shitty aunt and sister for just watching her sit her kid in front of a TV while she goes off and smokes meth. They just allow that to happen?
YouTube is awful for children.
phones in general are awful for children
I've seen dozens of stories about how the schools the 0.01% send their kids to have zero tolerance for phones.
They can afford nannies to make sure that the next generation of leaders knows how to think
There are plenty of scientific studies on how bad they are, but since society and economic pressure demand parents to kill themselves for their jobs, it's no wonder they have little to no energy to actually parent and resort to the easiest solution.
Continuous glucose monitors update to smartphone apps. Zero tolerance phone policies are disability discrimination lawsuits waiting to happen and the schools the 0.01% have lawyers good enough to figure that out.
Or, someone could develop a 'dumb' machine that only monitors the medical information and nothing else.
what could be does not change what is
So, you're trying to say that there's a literal reason it can't be done?
That it would be illegal, or physically impossible, to do it?
Because that's just silly.
While I agree that YouTube should be monitored, you’re making the same comment as someone in the 80s talking about cartoons on TV.
Meaningless argument.
Some one can say "I don't like Nazis" and then say "I don't like tomato soup" a week later. It doesn't mean you can compare the two.
We're responding to the words you put into OP's mouth, with your holier-than-thou attitude.
I consider this to be a positive outcome.
i agree with you 100%, but baby shark was so viral, it reached every child, regardless if their parents used the screen as a babysitter
Granted. That still doesn't make it make sense to tell people that if they don't know about baby shark they're bad parents.
You, seemingly deliberately, misunderstood my message.
Baby Shark was astoundingly pervasive and the only way to have missed out on it was to be belligerently unobservant.
I'll take the benefit of doubt and assume you're not a contrarian asshole and just took a wierd interpretation.
The interpretation I got (and most people based on the comments) is that the audience did not get it because they do not take care of their children so they aren't aware of viral songs anymore with children have heard.
I edited my initial comment. I did indeed have a weird interpretation born from unfortunate experience and ignorance.
Parents using a screen as a babysitter is child abuse. I never done that with my kids, we did watch TV together, and I shared stuff I liked, but not once leave them unnatended.
Absolutely hated when my ex did that, especially because how toxic the YouTube "watch next" algorithm is for kids. even with YT kids.
Baby shark predates the internet, no? I learned it on a fieldtrip in the late dialup era, well before casual internet browsing was mainstream (at least for kids my age)
It hurts to read "The original song dates back to the 20th century" in the Wikipedia article.
You got me curious so I looked it up, and you're right. Apparently it was a campfire song that's been around since like the 70s? I never heard of it until pinkfong put it on blast. Thanks for the education!
Yeah, we were singing it a long time before the internet was a thing accessible to children. It was passed down by those who went to camps along with such songs as "da moose da moose"
Kids tend to like happy music. AND THEY WILL ASK FOR IT ON REPEAT. Mine wants APT. CONSTANTLY.
Nothing to do with videos, it is about the music.
its talking about taking part in your kids interests, not letting yt babysit them.
After some reflection and research I have edited my above comment.