As far as YouTube is concerned, I haven’t watched a video there in over a year.
Why does YouTube need to know how old I am, explicit content isn’t allowed on the platform so the age of the viewer isn’t something they need to know.
Because they need to know who to target ads for gutter cleaning systems and fat man t-shirts.
so just turn off your youtube view and search history
There’s a small part of me that has kind of wished that this kind of pseudo age verification was a thing for a while (even though there’s a much bigger part that doesn’t want any corporation to know a damn thing about me.)
I remember swinging through Walmart once to pick up a couple things.
My cart had, IIRC, some deodorant (old spice classic,) masking tape, a can of spray paint, some plumbing parts, a few fishing lures, socks, and a couple of snacks.
I had one of those “I’ve become my dad” moments looking at my cart. I feel like that shopping list is practically a distillation of every suburban dad who’s ever existed.
But of course, I rang up the spray paint, and an employee had to come over to confirm that I was in fact some boring suburban white dude and not a teenager who was going to use it for mischief or huff it to get high.
Maybe I’m giving the juvenile delinquents of today too little credit, or maybe my fellow grown-ups too much, but I feel like the venn diagram of people buying fishing lures, a new toilet flapper, and socks, has basically no overlap with vandals and paint-sniffers.
So I kind of felt like maybe the almighty algorithm could have picked up on that and let me skip having the underpaid giving me a quick looking-at before punching his code into the self-checkout.
I like how people are proud of having 20 yo viewing history on YT. Send your browsing history to Google as well, see how impressed they are.
My YouTube account is old enough to be an adult.
Mine is literally older than YouTube.
I watch a lot of Bluey…
Will start?
I’m pretty certain that they’re already guessing as much about you as possible for targeted ads.
I watched a video today on my work computer for the first time, where I don’t have the ability to block the ads. Dear god. The litany of overhyped, lie-based AI dreck was traumatizing.
I watched a single motorcycle video on computer logged out of YouTube. All the related videos were rage bait right wing content. None related to motorcycles.
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Finally, I can just watch 50 hours of N64 emulation nerd shit to gain access to the softcore porn I also wanted to watch, after this next N64 video
Kaze is a god
So I just have to gain a brain rot addiction to regain my youth? When asked how this twelve year old managed to create a YouTube account 20 years ago, YouTube replied, “he’s very clever.”
My viewing history can legally drink in US in a year. What do you mean „guess”?
Are you sure you are not three kids in a trench coat?
I just got off work at the business factory. I did three businesses today!
Vincent? Vincent Adultman? I haven’t seen you since business college when we took company 101 together with Professor Realguy!
How have you been?
“will start”
Ya know, I’m starting to think Google uses our data for doing more than providing the service that we sign up for… 🤔
I still find it hard to believe just how few people even ask themselves the obvious : Provides services ‘for free’, but is one of the world’s biggest companies. Where is the money coming from ?
YouTube Red Max Pro, of course
No… That cannot be true, considering how rich the company is, so no, your statement must be incorrect according to my analytics. /s
So, if you’re a child, watch some videos about budgeting, maybe a few cooking videos?
I dunno, what are some categories of video no youth would ever watch?
How to season your cast iron pan.
Vanlife videos, cooking shows, and politics should make YouTube believe you’re an adult. But hell I subscribe to gaming channels, with watching gamers play games. Will that get me labeled a child.
It’s interesting that you mention the gaming thing, I’ve realised recently that I’m still watching the same folks I was 10 years ago, so it’s really content by millennials for millennials - not a child thing like I’m used to assuming. It does come in part because if I mention YouTube to a younger person I get a blank look when I say who I watch.
I watch videos about Sierra games, nobody below the age of 30 played those
Care to share the channels? Sounds interesting.
Yeah I mean look how long Markplier been on YouTube it’s crazy. I been on YouTube since early part of 2006. And it what only 20 years old? That mean we have kids who used YouTube who are now grown ups. So this is crap. I remember following Lisa Nova, and watching crazy vine videos. 5secondfilms. Along with gaming videos. I even have posted videos myself. Plan on doing it again soon too.
I think you got it backwards. What are some categories an adult would never watch? Fucking Dora the Explorer and Blues Clues and the like. Although it’s very likely they just play it from their account for their kids.
I regularly watch kids shows in Korean. Not because I’m a Korean baby, but because it’s a lower level vocabulary to learn the language
Hmm seems suspicious.
Can you prove you’re not a Korean baby?
How do you do fellow adult westerners
You do realize that there are a ton of adult fans for kids shows and games right? How quickly the bronies are forgotten with everything happening in the world.
Adults arent watching cocomelon or aphmau
Maybe not, but I’m gonna bet most aren’t taking the time or effort just to make a separate account for their child. Or even if they did, that the child is checking to make sure they use that account and not their parents. There’s going to be a lot of overlap.
There are many reasons why mentally mature people also find an interest in content designed for immature minds. The first of which that I can list, in regards to bronies and pegasisters being fans of My Little Pony, especially Generation 4, is:
- That kids shows are chock full of moral lessons that everyone can benefit from.
- MLP may have more compelling drama plots per episode compared to ‘adult’ soap operas.
- The desire for a fantastical escape from a world that’s becoming increasingly negative.
- Psychologically I suspect the characters or settings were very relatable, perhaps in terms of innate desire to:
- Fit in (Twilight)
- Be happier and less depressed (Pinkie)
- Be useful to society/have a loving family (Applejack)
- Be peaceful/coexist with animals (Fluttershy)
- Be popular/cool/more confident (Rainbow)
- Have self-pride/be helpful to friends (Rarity)
- The fantastical idea that conflicts can be solved with love, not war.
- Many animations are often designed with references or jokes that only adults would know, and keep them entertained. For example, how many children would recognise Dashie’s morning wing-boner as anything of note, or that one episode was a parody of Murder on the Orient Express?
Either way, something relatively unique and wonderful happened with MLP:FiM.
Your last sentence scuttled the point of your first two sentences.
That’s fair.
IT certification training videos.
Maybe some finance, home repair, defense economics.
Watch videos about planning your retirement, listen to some classical music and the Beatles. Finish the session off by searching for arthritis
Finish the session off by searching for arthritis
Found it!
They’re looking for people under 13 I assume.
In other words, I think that’s the diving line. So I don’t think 12 year olds are budgeting.
Makes sense, as all services I’ve encountered that mention age in regards to data collecting imply that it’s illegal to harvest those under 13. Mobile games and other services would not harvest data if you state your age as well below 13, but the increasingly vast majority just say “we will be harvesting you; by clicking this button or making an account you confirm that you are over 13 years of age…” Because, you know, real child protection laws are in effect.
Recorded really early 20th century movies or acts.
Disney before Frozen came out.
Listen to some classical music
I dunno, what are some categories of video no youth would ever watch?
news?
lol, many adults will get flagged as kids:
you keep clicking on YT Shots
watching Joe Rogan again? susMe watching Pokémon episodes in YT
Was gonna say… my kids keep accidentally using my profile to watch their videos. YouTube is going to think I’m a teen/child with peak gen alpha brain rot.
Ben Shapiro fans in shambles
Viewing mostly adult videos? Flagged as a kid exploring sexuality.
Viewing mostly videos with kids? Flagged as an adult with paedo tendencies.
This will probably not work.
