nope. still a virgin, successfully averting my gaze from his dead eyes and creepy youtube minstrel face

@futurebird

@blogdiva

Is his stuff for kids or something? The view numbers are massive but I didn't know who he was until last year and now I only know a little about him because people complain about him.

@futurebird @SRLevine Yes, if by choice you mean doing it to appease my son so he'd shut up about it.

@ECityMom @SRLevine

So it's kid's stuff. Like Nickelodeon with the slime and such?

@futurebird @blogdiva For a while, he was doing interesting things like giving away tons of money to charity or large prizes (cars, etc.) to people in need, as part of his stunts, but then there were some controversies and scandals, and he’s spiraled downhill since then.

My son used to watch his channel years back, but when all the controversy began, he stopped, and now, he’s anti-Mr. Beast.

@futurebird I have never watched his videos (because they look like clickbait garbage), but my nephews (right now 9 and 11 I think, not sure how old they were when they were into him) used to be into his content.

@iampytest1

To me this says there is huge demand for content for kids and not enough out there to fill it.

Mr. Beast, Roblox, Toy Unboxing videos, AI creepy copyright violation shorts... it's a wasteland for children's content. And to some extent this has always been true. How do we make it viable for compassionate, artistic, creative and exciting creators to make a living focusing on content for kids?

@iampytest1

It's a much smaller scale, but as a teacher I think a lot about what keeps young people engaged, how to present my lessons so they are fun and memorable. How to make the classroom an environment they can't wait to get back to.

Children aren't tiny adults and they do need content that's made *for* them. Instead many times things that are for kids just cut corners in the areas where kids don't notice as much.

*I know he's not a "prank youTuber" he is more precisely described as youTube gameshow host who literally** thinks Squid Game is an instruction manual. I was being disrespectful by getting it wrong.

This was intentional and I'm not sorry. However I don't want to confuse anyone about facts.

Gameshows have always been low effort high viewership content used to serve advertising.

**I mean "literally" absolutely literally here: he did a squid game, he made people do what was in the show.

@futurebird @iampytest1 idk, there are creators in this field out there but they don't get as much press. Many of them survive through sponsorships or selling merchandise though, so you won't hear about them here.