#or the many alcohol fueled popcorn hacks that don't mention the very real risks

[tired-fandom-ndn]

I don't think kids really need to be protected from "inappropriate" content so much as they need the tools and safe adults in their lives to handle when they encounter things that they need help with, BUT I will say that there is a growing amount of misinformation and disinformation being spread online that is deliberately targeted towards children and people need to be aware of that and prepare for it.

I'm not exaggerating in the slightest when I say it took about a week of watching Youtube Kids for my baby sister to start parroting Q-Anon level conspiracies about the government hiding the fact that extinct animals like wooly mammoths and saber tooth tigers are still alive. This wasn't innocent shit, she was getting genuinely upset about the government supposedly watching her through the security cameras of a sandwich restaurant.

There are people out there, especially content farms, who knowingly and deliberately spread misinformation to children specifically and who knowingly spread disinformation about basic scientific facts. And that's not even getting into content farms that share "life hacks" that get kids injured or killed.

The internet is becoming more dangerous for kids and it has very little to do with fanfiction, it's almost all because corporations like youtube prioritize their profits over the safety of children.

#highly recommend the hack debunking videos from how to cook that on youtube #because she goes into how so many content farms share actively dangerous 'hacks' #including many that are specifically advertised to children #like making white strawberries by soaking them in bleach #or cutting fruit by putting it in a bin with razor blades #or the many alcohol fueled popcorn hacks that don't mention the very real risks #of pouring more alcohol into the container and the flame traveling up into the bottle #but now there's a wave of kids contact specifically designed to radicalize children into conspiracy theories #based around scientific disinformation and paranoia