This is the only clip I can find of their Apocalypse Now parody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN-FrziBbWU
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 April 2018 09:34 (six years ago) link
That Apocalypse Now bit felt like a present just for me
― calumerio, Monday, 9 April 2018 09:36 (six years ago) link
Aaaahk! My daughter has for some reason become obsessed with watching these interminable unboxing/reviewe videos where over-excited middle-aged American women with irritating voices and vocabularies consisting of only 14 words other than "soooo cuuuute!" open up endless blind-bagged collectible toys. I am going insane.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 06:53 (six years ago) link
My daughter is deep into a Pokemon obsession right now and while I guess the show isn't the worst, she always wants to have imaginary pokemon battles with me and I can never remember any of their names our their powers. She spent three straight hours last night skipping around the house and babbling about various Pokemon and their attacks and evolutions. I'm proud of her for memorizing all these facts and I want to participate in her obsession in some way but my brain just shuts down at anything beyond Bulbasaur, pretty much.
― how's life, Thursday, 10 May 2018 11:00 (six years ago) link
I would welcome Pokรฉmon at this time. RN my son got into watching Beyblade (a show which makes exactly zero sense) and that led him to Yo-Kai Watch.
Occasionally, though he comes up for air and rediscovers some shows I kinda liked when my daughter was little (10 years back). The music in Wonder Pets, Backyardigans, and Bubble Guppies is pretty decent.
― let's not talk about the gincident (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:01 (six years ago) link
Man, I miss Nick Jr. All I see now is "Hey guys, what is up. Today we're going to learn how to glitch out of the police station in Murder Mystery 2...."
― pplains, Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:19 (six years ago) link
Beyblade doesn't look like something I'll have to worry about but this Yo-Kai Watch thing seems to have a ton of cute animals, which is right up her alley. I am very afraid.
I miss Wonder Pets and Backyardigans.
― how's life, Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:22 (six years ago) link
Wonder Pets featured some of the most negligent parents in the world though. </judging>
― pplains, Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:25 (six years ago) link
Yeah, what the fuck, mama kangaroo? YOU EVEN HAVE A HANDY POUCH TO KEEP YOUR YOUNG IN.
But the "...Save the Beetles" ep was choice.
I like the Boinga song from Backyardigans' "Mission to Mars." Bubble Guppies brought some clever lyric writing (like the internal rhymes in "all of the bones that everyone owns / underneath the skin they're in").
― moresoupial (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:31 (six years ago) link
Is this 'baby shark' song an actual thing or just something my son has picked up from somewhere?
― kinder, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR2o6k8aPlI
― sleeve, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
this is the one I know and am doomed to have in my head forever: http://youtu.be/XqZsoesa55wI'm not actually sure which version he was trying to tell me about ...
― kinder, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
1.3 BILLION views
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 23:18 (five years ago) link
jesus christ
they teach it in day care. its got its own coordinated hand movements and everything
I saw the vid sleeve posted, thought "ahh that's where it comes from". later came to realize that every cheapo kiddie animation factory does this song. so who knows.
― frogbs, Thursday, 14 June 2018 03:37 (five years ago) link
we spent some time in Mexico and found out that they do this stuff way better than us
there are a lot of really catchy ones. and not in the same way as "Baby Shark, doo doo doo doo". plus the videos are actually kind of funny. these two crack me up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_c-HVfe4VM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGFOXpgsw1M
― frogbs, Thursday, 14 June 2018 03:41 (five years ago) link
My 8yo son mentioned last night about some terrible catchy song kids in his class were singing and asked me to look it up so I found it, or a version of it, on YouTube. It is indeed a terrible catchy song with ok animation but then 55 seconds in a cartoon boy pops up with a handgun, wearing a tshirt that says "Jerk":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-xWhG4UU_Y
wtf is that all about? Have I stumbled across one of those sinister kids youtube channels that people were talking about a few months ago?
― nate woolls, Thursday, 14 June 2018 08:04 (five years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/knHwe2dIPt— webding (@WINDuckyQuaCKer) June 2, 2020
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link
My kids are now big into Peppa Pig and....I have to say itโs actually pretty funny. Itโs made me laugh out loud several times. Kinda reminds me of The Fuccons.
― frogbs, Sunday, 14 March 2021 23:31 (three years ago) link
Bluey is good for similar reasons
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Sunday, 14 March 2021 23:39 (three years ago) link
i will swear to Bluey being one of the best shows on television on every thread if i can
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 14 March 2021 23:43 (three years ago) link
Peppa Pig is fine, when we lived in China I had a couple of DVDs of UK kids TV for my son to watch, mostly downloaded from UKNova, including a single episode of Peppa Pig where the family go to a theme park called Potato City based around a character called Mr Potato, and there is a section with dinosaurs for no reason. We must have watched this episode 20 times and imagined this was a surreal flight of fancy, however last year I found out that this is a real place, with a slightly different name.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tayto_Park
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 15 March 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
Peppa Pig is decent but Ben & Holly is even better. Not watched either for a long time now. (They grow up so fast etc...)
― groovypanda, Monday, 15 March 2021 07:58 (three years ago) link
Massive Archibald phase in our family right now. It is quite funny. Also saw We Bare Bears for the first time last week and us grown-ups had actual lols.
― Madchen, Monday, 15 March 2021 08:37 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtmnO9-GD3M
some of these crack me up
― boxedjoy, Monday, 15 March 2021 09:49 (three years ago) link
we had a big peppa pig phase like a year and half ago to the point that my kid started saying some words with a british accent and was saying 'petrol' and 'ready steady go' instead of the american equivalents
My daughter has been a Wild Kratts super fan for like 2 years and will drop words like 'subnivean zone' into casual conversation
lol my son used this phrase like a week ago while watching a video of a fox hunting for mice under the snow. he loves wild kratts now and will store up what we call KRATT FACTS that get dumped on you frequently, often right after hearing it on the show (which I can also hear cause I'm in the other room).
― joygoat, Monday, 15 March 2021 17:04 (three years ago) link
my kids have recently gotten into a new show called Wolfoo. it is basically an evil version of Peppa Pig. I don't really know how else to describe it. the look is so similar, but it sucks. it's incredibly loud, stuffed stupid with sound effects, and the voice actors sound like they've never spoken a word of English in their lives. characters will randomly repeat the same phrase over and over again. it also steals a bunch of IP in ways that are kind of jarring to see in another show. like there will just be Spongebobs laying around. it also plays part of the Spongebob theme song at random intervals?? it's so weird. it also seems really bad for them...characters are constantly crying and getting hurt and a bunch of episodes seem to be about one character getting fat. it's really creepy!
on the plus side, they did recently discover a show called Bluey, which is really charming and good. it is maybe the first kid's show I've ever seen that accurately depicts how kids actually play with each other. plus the soundtrack sounds like Penguin Cafe Orchestra!! show damn near made me cry at one point. its really cute.
― frogbs, Friday, 7 January 2022 14:32 (two years ago) link
oh, I see Bluey was mentioned upthread
― frogbs, Friday, 7 January 2022 14:34 (two years ago) link
also here: Bluey - Spectacular Australian kids cartoon (in the US on Disney +)
― two sleeps till brooklyn (ledge), Friday, 7 January 2022 14:34 (two years ago) link
Grebt childrenโs programming: Schoolhouse Rock, which had a birthday/anniversary yesterday, I think.
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 January 2022 14:35 (two years ago) link
First air date: Jan 6, 1973.
― The Door into Summerisle (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 7 January 2022 14:38 (two years ago) link
A whole thread with no mention of the fever-dream horror of BOOHBAH?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myhMnljOC10
In my former jobless life I used to see bit of this sometimes and it almost felt like some kind psychedelic mind-control programming. Truly unsettling
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Friday, 7 January 2022 14:53 (two years ago) link
that at least looks like it might be fun while extremely high
― frogbs, Friday, 7 January 2022 15:14 (two years ago) link
Back in the 90s yr artsy types liked to get high and binge-watch Teletubbies
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 7 January 2022 15:20 (two years ago) link
Wolof seems to be just a YouTube thing? Definitely a candidate for the Kideodrome thread from a couple years back.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 7 January 2022 16:32 (two years ago) link
Wolfoo lol
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 7 January 2022 16:33 (two years ago) link
there's a lot of copyright infringement going on
― frogbs, Friday, 7 January 2022 16:36 (two years ago) link
at first I dismissed it as a cheap attempt at piggybacking off of Peppa but the plotlines are like...actively harmful. characters are constantly getting hurt or sick, stealing things, getting locked up in jail or otherwise trapped in a small space, everyone is always either angry or crying, and there's never a good lesson anywhere. I get overwhelmingly bad vibes from it and wouldn't be surprised to find there's some sinister element of child psychology they're exploiting to get kids to click on it.
― frogbs, Friday, 7 January 2022 16:46 (two years ago) link
i haven't seen this show you're describing and really don't want to but your description is making me think of this article which made me lose sleep
https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 7 January 2022 16:53 (two years ago) link
Yeah, reading about all that Peppa Pig Gets An Abortion and Spiderman Gets Tortured stuff is basically why our kid isnโt allowed to watch YouTube on his own. Even on Kids YouTube he once came across an instructional video for How To Build An Electric Chair in Minecraft.
― Madchen, Friday, 7 January 2022 17:20 (two years ago) link
This is from 2017 but itโs clearly still going on.https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-39381889.amp
― Madchen, Friday, 7 January 2022 17:23 (two years ago) link
ugh just the screencaps in that bbc article are churning my stomach all over again.
i so don't want to be a helicopter parent but it's really hard to let kids explore the world independently when so much of the world they want to explore is online and it's so easy to stumble into this shit
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 7 January 2022 17:35 (two years ago) link
i have this idea for what seems like it would be a very profitable youtube channel:
the fred rogers crayon video https://www.pbs.org/video/mister-rogers-neighborhood-how-people-make-crayons-1/ but about new/more stuff.
that's the idea. if this channel exists please tell me.
kind of like this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=captainrani but a bit more accessible to younger kids and done with library footage (but crucially with the with the same "i just took 6 benedryl" narration style as that guy and fred rogers).
library footage like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twentytruck.
feel like you could put these together pretty cheaply, and parents would be OK with them because they would be chill, and kids would like them (or at least not hate them relative to pj masks or some shit). i know my kids would go for them.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Friday, 7 January 2022 17:50 (two years ago) link
ah links to youtube channels don't work.
first link
second link
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Friday, 7 January 2022 17:51 (two years ago) link
Here's the Kideodrome thread, I think it was prompted by that Medium article Lavator posted: KIDEODROME: scary "Kid's Youtube" algorithms, fringe programming, insert conspiracy theory here
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 7 January 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link
thanks but i posted here on the basis that my idea is execrable!
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Friday, 7 January 2022 18:35 (two years ago) link
things are definitely much better than they were 2017 - I remember taking a nap w/ my 3 year old as YouTube was playing Cocomelon (called ABC Kids TV back then) and when I woke up it was some really bizarre live action thing with adults dressed as Elsa and Spiderman eating a gigantic gummy worm. it was so fucking weird, too gross to be sexual but the camera swung around like a porno, idk it really gave me the creeps. Most of it is gone but it does occur to me now that Wolfoo is maybe an attempt to do those sorts of videos without immediately getting copystruck. The whole thing is like creepypasta for kids.
also found the whole Bounce Patrol thing unsettling, I know it's just knockoff Wiggles but clearly the videos they are making are attempting to take advantage of The Algorithm. so despite being kind of wholesome on the surface there's some real creepiness behind it.
― frogbs, Friday, 7 January 2022 19:05 (two years ago) link
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 7 January 2022 19:09 (two years ago) link
ah right! there's also the kids should see this which is just where i dump youtubes my kids get into.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Friday, 7 January 2022 19:17 (two years ago) link
everyone is always either angry or crying, and there's never a good lesson anywhere. I get overwhelmingly bad vibes from it
the makers of Wolfoo seem to feel obliged to at least pretend it's good for kids (article is sponsored by SCONNECT, a "Vietnam-based entertainment company" which produces Wolfoo:
At Wolfoo, each episode is more than just entertainment. All the videos impart positive social life lessons and focus on the development of 12 personality traits and skills for children: courage, gratitude, compassion, empathy, humility, integrity, persistence, creativity, curiosity, self-control, teamwork and communication.
https://www.list.co.uk/article/124851-wolfoo-is-dominating-youtube-for-kids/
― soref, Friday, 7 January 2022 19:40 (two years ago) link