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je1 healthcare
Sep 29, 2015
It's not exactly a mystery, kid content tends to do really well on streaming services. Kids are too impatient for television and when raised on an iPad get confused as to why you can't skip or rewind TV shows. And when parents don't have cable then toddlers will watch streaming stuff all day, even if a lot of the kid videos on youtube are pumped out from India or Brazil for easy monitization.

This isn't even weirdest youtube phenomenon. There are channels that feature nothing but adults opening up packaged toys and kinder surprise eggs, and they get millions of views. It's the only thing my niece watches on youtube aside from music videos.

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Popular Human
Jul 17, 2005

and if it's a lie, terrorists made me say it
Those kinder eggs are the bane of my existence.

My kid is autistic and will gleefully watch that (and the freaky-rear end ChuChu TV poo poo) over and over again unless we stop him.

I'm guessing it's one part that, one part millions of people in developing countries who want their kids to learn English and don't have cable but have wi-fi or whatever on their phones in the big cities.

Popular Human
Jul 17, 2005

and if it's a lie, terrorists made me say it
I gotta hand it to this guy (or gal), who probably traumatized millions of kids by making a fake "Johnny Johnny" video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXRCAI7q8QY

Putty
Mar 21, 2013

HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS

Popular Human posted:

I gotta hand it to this guy (or gal), who probably traumatized millions of kids by making a fake "Johnny Johnny" video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXRCAI7q8QY

incredible

Moltke
May 13, 2009

Popular Human posted:

I gotta hand it to this guy (or gal), who probably traumatized millions of kids by making a fake "Johnny Johnny" video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXRCAI7q8QY

i'm the jar of beans

HoboTech
Feb 13, 2005

Reading this with the voice in your skull.
My theory is that it's a bunch of bots watching/subscribing to these videos to rake in that sweet, sweet YouTube money for some genius in Asia.

Then again I don't know how this poo poo actually works so duuurrrrr

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
I may have made a noble discovery. According to this one, there is much more to the song.

quote:

daddy finger daddy finger
what are you called?
I am known as the thumb, that's what I'm called.
Thumb finger Thumb finger how do you do?
I am the daddy finger, nice to meet you too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azFIiro4kds

So which ones are blasphemy?

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

I liked these weird bootleg videos when they were about bad CG Captain Americas prancing around. Now it's all Finger Family.

Justin Credible
Aug 27, 2003

happy cat


Live with a toddler, he lovvves that song so much. And yes those loving kinder eggs and those videos are evil because the hands are positioned right where a child's are when they are watching the video on a tablet. The worse stuff is poo poo like Hobby Kids TV and those weird rear end videos of adults in spider man, bat man etc costumes revolving around weird bathroom and pregnancy and farting stuff it's very odd and not very cool imo.

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!
Aren't these videos the origins to how the Tripods conquered the Earth?

JazzFlight
Apr 29, 2006

Oooooooooooh!

I'm reminded of the brilliance of Ratboy Genius and other weird, unsettling CG videos on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kugSYYQcd8g

Wasn't there another video a few years ago with some odd bald people and dragons?

Dr. Yinz Ljubljana
Nov 25, 2013

probably some kind of botnet / clickfarming money laundering scheme? maddeningly complex, though.

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

https://cdn-hw.streamable.com/video/mp4/7092.mp4

Putty
Mar 21, 2013

HOOKED ON THE BROTHERS
the live action spiderman stuff is life changing

Howard Beale
Feb 22, 2001

It's like this, Peanut
kids these days and their crazy youtube, if it's not the "guac, guacamole" lady it's the goddamned finger family, I tells ya, what's next? baby animals falling over in slow-motion?

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get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

darth_pizza posted:

probably some kind of botnet / clickfarming money laundering scheme? maddeningly complex, though.
it's not complex at all. they're made by people in india using cheap computer animation programs and they use clickfarming to increase the views. from there, it's a simple matter of roping in stupid kids across the world to watch the poo poo, and a simple search puts these videos with 500,000 views on top. then the people in india who made the videos get that sweet sweet payola from youtube with their millions of combined views

there, solved the mystery. pretty simple

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