• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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    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?

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      24 hours ago

      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.

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        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.

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          21 hours ago

          I watch videos about Sierra games, nobody below the age of 30 played those

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          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.

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      22 hours ago

      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.

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        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

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        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.

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            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.

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          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:

          1. That kids shows are chock full of moral lessons that everyone can benefit from.
          2. MLP may have more compelling drama plots per episode compared to ‘adult’ soap operas.
          3. The desire for a fantastical escape from a world that’s becoming increasingly negative.
          4. 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)
          1. The fantastical idea that conflicts can be solved with love, not war.
          2. 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.

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      21 hours ago

      Watch videos about planning your retirement, listen to some classical music and the Beatles. Finish the session off by searching for arthritis

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      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.

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        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.