YouTube Terminates Exploitive Kids Channel ToyFreaks

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Following consumer outrage over YouTube’s handling of disturbing videos aimed at children on its network, the company has now banned one of the more controversial kid channels it hosted, Toy Freaks. The channel, the 68th largest on YouTube with over 8.5 million subscribers, was often criticized for its vile and seemingly exploitive videos featuring a dad and his daughters, which many said bordered on abuse. If all of what YouTube is saying is true then I say good riddance to crap like ToyFreaks. It's just unbelievable what people will do for 'fame'. This follows up an earlier story we posted talking about the change in policy.

Past videos on the channel included the dad filming the girls in obvious distress, screaming or crying, for example. In one video, the dad follows his daughter into the bathroom, as she cries with a mouthful of blood from a tooth falling out. In another, he sneaks into the bathroom and dumps a bucket of frogs in the tub while the girls are bathing in order to scare them.
 
"In another, he sneaks into the bathroom and dumps a bucket of frogs in the tub while the girls are bathing in order to scare them." - Now that's pretty damn funny. Shame I never heard of these guys.
 
CacaSapo said:
"In another, he sneaks into the bathroom and dumps a bucket of frogs in the tub while the girls are bathing in order to scare them." - Now that's pretty damn funny. Shame I never heard of these guys.
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Yeah i hear ya. I think its not as abusive as some people claim. apparently most of the stunts are thought up by the girls involved. Found a reddit where some sjw was screaming about shutting this down... looks like the only way you can watch this now is by downloading some app on playstore maybe.
 
motqalden said:
Yeah i hear ya. I think its not as abusive as some people claim. apparently most of the stunts are thought up by the girls involved. Found a reddit where some sjw was screaming about shutting this down... looks like the only way you can watch this now is by downloading some app on playstore maybe.
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When you have a little girl crying and obviously frightened, it's not 'staged' or 'acting'. The girls are too young to know they are being exploited and traumatized, and there is a lot of other disturbing content that is out there that is being targeted as a 'kids' show, and it shows all sorts of fucked up stuff. I have a 5 year old son and he only watches youtube together with me and my wife for a little bit at a time. It's the clueless parents that put a phone in their kids hand at 2 years old to act as a babysitter and wonder why their kids are the way they are with no idea of what they are doing online.

Why would you want to watch this crap anyway, when there are other wholesome shows on youtube and other real shows from real providers as well for kids, is beyond me.
 
When is it a prank, and when is it exploitative?

Is it not entertainment? 8.5 million subscribers says it is.

Oh well. You have no rights on Youtube anyway. It's private property, and they can do whatever the fuck they want to please advertisers who control youtube.

Doesn't seem that fucked up to me at first glance.
Certainly not as fucked up as Honey Boo Boo.

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Anything that brings children unwarranted distress deserves to be banned.
 
The kids were probably quite aware of the money it was making on youtube and went along with it. It's modern society that thinks you are clueless until you're 25. Most likely the only distress to the kids is no money from the channel now.
 
yeah man holy shit. I just looked at channel screenshot again

those videos got 672 million views, 341m, 262m, 176m, .....

holy shit !!!. How much youtube money is that ????? hot damn.

If you get 1 dollar for every 1000 views, that's a million bucks right there at least.

For that money, my kids better put up with the "distress"
 
drdoug99 said:
When you have a little girl crying and obviously frightened, it's not 'staged' or 'acting'. The girls are too young to know they are being exploited and traumatized, and there is a lot of other disturbing content that is out there that is being targeted as a 'kids' show, and it shows all sorts of fucked up stuff. I have a 5 year old son and he only watches youtube together with me and my wife for a little bit at a time. It's the clueless parents that put a phone in their kids hand at 2 years old to act as a babysitter and wonder why their kids are the way they are with no idea of what they are doing online.

Why would you want to watch this crap anyway, when there are other wholesome shows on youtube and other real shows from real providers as well for kids, is beyond me.
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most people are not looking for wholesome shows. They crave the opposite.

They want trash entertainment, like the Kardashians.
Trash sells.
 
Wasn't there another popular youtube child abuse channel similar to this that got shut down like six months ago? Pretty gross all around. People finding a way to monetize mocking and abusing children, and the sick bastards that enjoy watching it.

Edit: yeah I knew I remembered something else like this. Looks like the parents in that case were sentenced to probation for child neglect:

http://people.com/crime/daddyofive-youtubers-sentenced-child-neglect-prank-videos/
 
I'm more concerned with the dozen or so channels that depict Elsa and Spider-Man doing all kinds of stupid shit. My daughter watched one where Elsa was railed doggy style, got pregnant, and then popped out a big plush toy Spider-Man as the "baby".
 
Kdawg said:
yeah man holy shit. I just looked at channel screenshot again

those videos got 672 million views, 341m, 262m, 176m, .....

holy shit !!!. How much youtube money is that ????? hot damn.

If you get 1 dollar for every 1000 views, that's a million bucks right there at least.

For that money, my kids better put up with the "distress"
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$1 mil - 16 mil per year according to the source i read.
 
Man, I miss when the youtube stars were mostly people who just filmed themselves consuming whatever products they found under their kitchen sink.
 
Kdawg said:
yeah man holy shit. I just looked at channel screenshot again

those videos got 672 million views, 341m, 262m, 176m, .....

holy shit !!!. How much youtube money is that ????? hot damn.

If you get 1 dollar for every 1000 views, that's a million bucks right there at least.

For that money, my kids better put up with the "distress"
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I bet you every single video was demonitized. Guy wasnt making as much as he used to thats for sure. Im sure it used to be 1 mil.. From a popular youtuber i know personally. The demonetization are really as bad as big content makers making it sound. My budy went from 300k a year down to about 45k.
 
Azphira said:
The kids were probably quite aware of the money it was making on youtube and went along with it. It's modern society that thinks you are clueless until you're 25. Most likely the only distress to the kids is no money from the channel now.
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But it's not just kids, it's also minorities. They threat them just as clueless. Like they have no agency on their own. With kids it makes more sense, there has to be a line drawn somewhere where it starts to be exploitation and abuse.
But the way society is progressing soon kids will be forced to walk 10meters behind their parents in a damn burka in public to be sure they aren't exploited.
 
Azphira said:
The kids were probably quite aware of the money it was making on youtube and went along with it. It's modern society that thinks you are clueless until you're 25. Most likely the only distress to the kids is no money from the channel now.
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While yes people under the age of 25 know specifically what they are doing, they rarely have experience or knowledge of how their decisions effect themselves or others outside of the right then and there. They either dismiss such knowledge as "it won't happen to me" or it just doesn't occur to them because they just haven't been exposed to all areas of responsibility yet (like retirement, home maintenance etc).

A young adult might be able to make a judgement that a sex tape would be fun and might cause some embarrassment if their friends find out and it goes public, they generally do not think about future employment being possibly affected etc.

I know I personally hit a point in my mid 20s when I realized how foolish my thoughts on living in the real world was and what real responsibility was. It wasn't like I was a slacker or anything, I worked full time pretty much since 16, moved out at 18. Paid rent bought all my own stuff etc Yet I didn't appreciate time (and how quickly it passes) or anything other than what were my immediate needs. My parents were "squares" working a stupid 9-5 for the "man" and yet at ~25 realized how appealing that could be (vacation time, decent salary etc).
 
Kdawg said:
yeah man holy shit. I just looked at channel screenshot again

those videos got 672 million views, 341m, 262m, 176m, .....

holy shit !!!. How much youtube money is that ????? hot damn.

If you get 1 dollar for every 1000 views, that's a million bucks right there at least.

For that money, my kids better put up with the "distress"
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It differs, it's based on 1,000 ad impressions (CPM), so views are irrelevant if A) YT isn't showing ads or B) users are using ad blockers. That 1mil views may only be 10k in ad impressions.

Now the kicker is, the cost per CPM could be between $0.10 and $10.

Good write up: https://www.quora.com/How-much-do-Y...ir-videos-get-50k-100k-500k-1m-and-1-5m-views
 
Have we forgotten Falcon Heene already???

They do it for the show.

(one of the best moments in modern TV history)



The 2nd best moment in TV history being the 2nd interview the family did and Balloon Boy vomits on live TV

 
Azphira said:
The kids were probably quite aware of the money it was making on youtube and went along with it. It's modern society that thinks you are clueless until you're 25. Most likely the only distress to the kids is no money from the channel now.
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There used to be rules involving child labor in the entertainment industry in the US. Hell it's the whole reason we have the Olsen twins, and not just one of them who did all the work. This would definitely be considered "entertainment industry", I wonder if said laws are still in place.
 
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