Why YouTube is one of the worst companies in the history of mankind

It is hard for me to write this as someone who has used YouTube for a decade of entertainment, but lately, after looking at some of the more recent trends...

I do not trust the true morals of this company anymore.

And this is because of Gen Alpha.

The new generation of children, growing up to watching brainrot, has caused possibly irriverable damage on an entire generation of people; our future. YouTube is definitely the most wussy company I have the displesure of using for a decade. After many years of positive, passive entertainment, I begain to see the shift to short content, to compete with TikTok, which in itself is even worse, for many reasons.

However, as part of 'community guidelines' for children's safety, YouTube NEEDS to bare in mind its OWN rules. their child safety rules expect this rule to follow, and yet there's content farms of exactly each one of this. CalebIsSalty covers this in minecraft extremely well. REGUARDLESS of even if a major popular series such as Cocomelon or Skibidi Toilet meets the criteria of child safety, it doesn't factor in the possible impacts of the video structure, or the length in which could cause damage to the child's brain. Marius Drugas covers some of the developmental issues as a univerity major.

If there was cracks, that's calling it MINIMAL at best.

YouTube Kids is having extreme issues; and YouTube is not changing it as of 10/12/24. My reasoning? Ads. Youtube always gets some extra cash in a financially monitised video, as part of a deal with youtubers who make videos as a career.

And having those extremely popular but damaging videos disapear would cause extreme losses in youtube's main financials.

As of now, they don't share the financial sheets publicly, but a good persentage of many brainrot content farms has tens of millions of views; which I'm willing to say is a MASSIVE persentage of Youtube profit. Taking the loss would cause HUGE finantual loss on YouTube's part, and MANY possible changes in rules and regulations. But the point stands that this company has possibly caused a generation of kids to see this, and they SHOULD be responsible.

Many can make a video about it, but that;s on the platform itself. so people will not see those.

So this is my stand to say that this company needs to cut their losses, get experts in phycology for children's development and have a LONG discussion on the termination of brainrot channels before their own future is screwed by their own actions later down in the line.

If I were able to make or construct a new set of guidelines in children's entertainment, then I'd also investigate youtube teens., and ahheare to content that will entertain and/or educate younger audiences growing up, that follows strict guidelines that are ACTUALLY followed,.

As a member of Gen Z, I'm understanding in the fact that algerithms are not always the best sourse of entertainment, but as a multi-billion dollar industry, YouTube needs to understand that a new generation of people are developing. And they ARE people that WILL grow up.

So as a person that's grown up watching youtube content from the healthy side when it didn't have these new problems- I enjoyed it, and I had a nice time watching videos. But health comes first, and Youtube needs to know this or they will not only harm Gen Alpha, but also itself.

Thank you for reading.