Guess we read the same medium piece at the same time, didn't see this when I submitted mine. Skynet tag?

An important piece of the puzzle is that these videos get hits from the little fingers of very small children who are being babysat by devices on which these videos appear after the ends of videos as recommendations. Hence, the gain 'popularity'and become more likely to appear. It's a 'garbage in garbage out' that brings to mind the existing concept of an AI instructed to make paperclips ultimately turning the entire universe into them simply by following the only command it's been given. (This, by the way, is now a game: http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ )

Nah, I've actually noticed these popping up in incognito browsers as well.

Serious question: Do you ever get dizzy? It must be hard to be a human pendulum swinging from valid points to utter asininity.

5 for evil.

I see this as an evoutionary step, like the keyword spam to fool google searches and AltaVista back in the day. Eventually it will reach a tipping point where people will migrate to another platform or stop using it completely.

Uninstalled and blocked YT on all my kids devices until this gets sorted.

Remeber when poetv started and videos.google still was a thing, man youtube was cooler back then

That was great! Kids are dumb.

The future is fucking stupid.

Every single one of these bizarre fucked up kid youtube videos has Spider-man and Elsa in it. Why?

Vaguely dreadful, although poetv is better suited to Indian videos of babies singing the n-word.

There was an AI made of dust
Whose videos gained it kids' trust
If 'is' follows 'ought'
It'll do what they thought
In the end

we all do

what

we

must