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Definitely. I as a 20 year old even gets disturbed when I see the thumbnails, let alone the videos. Never watched a single one of them though, I'm not interested in something that will most likely annoy me lol. But I always wondering what these videos are and who makes them and what their intentions are. I remember when I was a kid, probably around 2008, watching similar kind of videos with a friend sometimes, but back then it wasn't easy to find content like this, if there was any to find any at all! Nowadays however, that's a different story... TLDR: So yeah, I think it's kinda toxic for children. And with "kinda" I mean VERY.
The scary thing is that one day... there's going to be people that thought this stuff was nostalgic. Y'know, the ones that say these videos were their entire childhood.
I find it laughable that the self-proclaimed “Fastest Thing Alive” wasn’t fast enough to save Amy and avoid getting himself hit by a car at the same time.
I find it funny how even SEGA has to downplay Sonic at times for the sake of ✨plot✨ like in Lost World or SatSR. It’s like the character is so broken they don’t know what to do XD. Their plot is a lot less shitty though (even though some games are complete trash), at least there’s not constant plot points about death. Sure, a serious story with actual stakes would be great when executed RIGHT. I think almost all of us agree that even the meta era is better than this shit (and by shit I mean the low-budget animation “kids” channels).
I think it's strange how horror animations like Smile HD or Rainbow Factory are considered "adult animations", and yet these "kids" videos, which are likely much more terrifying are considered "family-friendly" by RU-vid and geared towards kids. Like, I need some explanation here.
It’s so weird how when I was a kid, I found a lot of questionable and disturbing Sonic stuff, but this content wasn’t targeted to kids, meanwhile, this stuff is just the same, but with the intention of being shown to kids. Weird as hell.
I remember watching a lot hyper violent Sonic flash animations back in the day and playing weird joke games on sites that just took a bunch of stuff from Newgrounds.
A lot of this "kids content" in general is not only bad but also not good to show kids and I think Sonic "kids content" is probably one of the worst offenders. Kids deserve more than this weird bottom of the barrel crap. Just because they aren't as concious about good and bad content doesn't mean people should take advantage of that.
I mean there is actual GOOD Sonic content on here. Like those people acting as the Sonic characters (ex being “ask the Sonic heroes” and those other channels I forget the name of) there’s also stopmotion and plush vids. Hell I’d even say stuff like Sonic Shorts and Nazo Unleashed are good for kids. Sure Sonic Shorts might have a lot of mature humor. But it’s MILES(pun not intended) better then this crap.
I've watched any real Sonic fan animations by different true Sonic fan content creators but I've never encountered these Sonic "kids" content in my life until I discovered this explanation video by random. I feel sick watching these kinds of "kids" content! It creeps me out! Thank you for your explanation and exposing Sonic "kids" content, Chaomix! You have my respect! I hope this video will reach out to new Sonic fans or content creators who didn't seen it.
I know you'll probably never read this, but I think I have an explanation for this phenomenon of "tragedy-core" children's content. See, when I was a child, there weren't any real prevalent kid's channel content farms on youtube, so all I watched was essentially the good shit you'd relate to the mid 2000s youtube experience. One video, however, stuck out to me. MANY people remember it, a video with the title of "Pac Man Movie", a video where a derpy looking orange ghost is sent to die in a war against pacman, and sadness ensues. It's strange looking back at it, it was a video that always fascinated me, ever since I was atleast five years old or so. Nowadays it's tough to think who that video was made for, as our correlation of crappily animated tragic content for children is a pretty new thing, in the era of a more marketable and accessible youtube. So, while I'd like to point fingers at these and say "ew spidelsagate" with the claim of fetishistic content (afterall, Dan Schneider exists), I believe that the people who run these successful content farms simply know that children have an odd fascination with tragedy. It's not even for a very weird reason, it's just a very distant, new feeling that they're fascinated by, just kind of exploited for profit. I say this as a grown up zoomer btw, I'm the closest you have to an explanation for this sort of thing.
That's actually pretty fascinating, I think it's overlooked that children get hooked on things they can tell they wouldn't normally see in their content. they know this is off limits but it's there. It's a very primal thrill thats just pumped into you
wow, you explained the issue with kids content on youtube in a way better than I've seen anyone else do. with all the elsagate stuff a few years back, I never really saw anyone make a video explaining how big this issue actually was including all the nuance like you did in this one. very good job
I found these about a month ago when doing keyword research over Sonic the hedgehog on RU-vid to see what sticks and what doesn't and OMG. It's terrifying because they know these very strong algorithm tactics to get on the board. And because they are low effort, they are able to upload consistently. People like this know how to manipulate the algorithm and children and it's disturbing as hell. And I would bet many of these videos consist of these tragedies to avoid being marked for kids. "Would a kids animation really have such violence or drinking?" while knowing FULLY WELL that's who their target audience is. Just look at the titles. They are SPEAKING TO KIDS.
This is a great point, Emi! I highly agree with this. The Sonic kids content just sickens me to my stomach. I watch anything if it's good. A lot of Sonic RU-vidrs are just getting their mod videos to "Made for kids" wrongfully and automatically! RU-vid really has to fix their algorithm. I enjoy Sonic content, but the kids ones... ... if watched, the kid's life is FUCKED. Again, you have a good and reasonable point, Emi.
This is why I often say that parents really need to be aware of what their kids are doing online. People forget that RU-vid is not a kid-friendly space, nor has it ever been.
I'm looking at a pair of floating black leather gloves behind me pulling a brick to them from the other side of the room with telekinesis. They seem unhappy about something. Probably the stuff in this video.
I could not agree more, the kids content on RU-vid is disturbing. Send help I have seen non kids things on RU-vid, I thought this disturbing content was purged from the platform ._.
You would literally be better off just handing your kid a copy of any Sonic game, even Shadow the Hedgehog, and telling them to play that. Far more engaging, and doesn’t expose your kid to stuff that will fuck up their development later on in life.
@ferret I try to take somewhat of the opposite approach with my four haha. We have a “family” Switch that we all play on (provided you get your school/homework done and such), but 99% of the time they’re playing the NES/SNES/N64 classics (their choice), and I’m hanging around to help when they’re stuck because I love all those games and I can’t help myself. My son now has Mario themed everything hahaha. Totally worth the 50 bucks a year imo. Online homework notwithstanding, fuck them tablets
The reason we should check what our kids watching is because some of the scenes can be seen inappropriate for the kids and check what those channels might contain
As someone who's an artist and knows allot of friends over on the NSFW Side of things... I can tell you that I've never seen or heard about any Fetishes related to Car Crashes. What I'm pretty sure is happening here though is that these Channels just look at what Sonic Videos get the most clicks... And then from that, just try to make out a Story out of the title of the Video rather than planning a Story first. Because Drama and "Sad Stories" engage the most kids as they feel like it's something they've never seen before.
Well, the "death bed" thing *is* a fetish actually, so it wouldn't be surprising if car crashes and such also were. There are so many fetishes that sometimes even NSFW artists themselves get surprised by them.
I feel embarrassed to admit that I have heard about car crash kinks, although from what I've heard it's more like crashing into a wall than running someone over
all these 'for kids' videos of all these characters from all these different franchises and stuff are what i believe to be horrific fever dreams all the characters have because trust me i have horrid dreams just like that
I saw one of these videos. Even after the COPPA violation causing kids content being demonetized, Elsagate-like videos are still a problem on RU-vid. This is why parents need to wise up and keep an eye on what their kids are watching.
@@blossomnosleep You KNOW something is wrong when a crappy Sonic "kids" videos portray Shadow better than Sega has for over a decade..... What a video game company 🤦🏾♂️.
@@Howardpower679 okay hear me out, I know shadow was potrayed horribly in the idw comic. But if you have to blame anyone it would have to be Sega with their restricted mandates
For some reason sonic was one of the kid friendly franchises that had more adult content exposed without actively looking for it. I remember when I was younger and looking up sonic amvs on RU-vid (which was probably around the early 2010s) there was quite a bit of mature fanart being shown. However I think this is worse since it’s adult content that’s actually targeted towards kids, I hate that children are being raised with that kind of sonic content especially since it has nothing to do with the sonic lore
I feel like I haven’t seen/heard about this enough so I’ll say it here: not only should you NOT comment on those videos (giving them more traction) but you SHOULD report them... If they get enough reports RU-vid will have to take down the video... Please keep this kind of content away from kids
@@Josuh Isn't it possible to report an entire channel? Especially if one of the reasons you can give for sure is false advertising; if they're truly "for kids" like they say they are, they should be on RU-vid Kids, but clearly they're not, and they're also clearly not for kids due to the topics they indulge in, so either way it's false advertising (and mentally far worse than just that, but that's the main point you can use against all of them in an algorithm as inhuman as YT's)
Letting an iPad babysit your kid should be called a form of child neglect. I see parents all the time at the grocery store, just letting their kid watch whatever on youtube on their tablets. The laziness is just terrifying.
my little sister occasionally watches this shit and even worse my mom knows i am a sonic fan so i fear that this is what she thinks sonic is her watching this is pretty tame compared to the stuff i was watching at her age/ even younger though. *flashbacks to accidentally spelling 'undertale' as 'undertail'*
Man, I've watched Roger von Deir Weidge Sonic parodies in minutos my whole life, in fact the sole reason I wanted to create a Sonic channel was because of those parodies. Now, you might think "Oh but a parody of a game, is not the same as these low level cartoons/animations" but the general public or the main RU-vid algorithm might not think the same way. It may start classifying every single Sonic animated cartoon or parody as kids content. In fact, in the 90s sonic was not aimed for kids, but for Teenagers.
In Sonic's early life, SEGA made some ads for adult comics in Britain that had a lot more explicit language than the televised adverts. Just shows how Sonic was originally aimed at older people, unlike the Mario series.
This is why I can't just search up "sonic" on RU-vid because all I get are the kind of videos mentioned here. Yes, I think it's disturbing and it has no place here.
true, every time i search sonic to find someone who makes good sonic content,some really cool sonic fanmade animations,reviews of some hacks,romhacks,gameplays,and some fanmade battles,then only these yt kids videos appear, these yt kids sonic videos should be on youtube kids,Oh wait... THEY SHOULDN'T EXIST
Chaomix is the hero we needed. Thank you for covering this. It's been a real problem lately, especially with this stuff constantly popping up in my recommended simply because I happen to watch Sonic content like yours. I'm glad it's being talked about. It needs to change.
People need to sue RU-vid for not just flagging Sonic related stuff. But for debunking subscribers animations that they worked so hard to create. They need to know what everyone thinks about their creations. Not just kids
Snuff fetish - a fetish surrounding things dying or being killed. There are also fetishes for pretty much anything, though I do not know the name for all of them, fetishes, unlike 'philia's, tend to have the common name of the desired content in the name - such as an inflation fetish.
I remember watching those animations where mickey mouse stole mini mouse's bikini and they were in the body size of a 18 year old I hate it It was made by some guy called doggy kids
Ngl, I glued my eyes to your cat in the background this entire time lol But other than that, great video and you managed to grab my attention for the whole video which is largely credited due to your presentation
Thanks for exposing the stupidity RU-vid has over YT Kids and how dark these can be, Chaomix. I find it extremely disappointing that they punish those content creators that do warn their public and even provide information in their description about what the video will be about yet RU-vid decides to punish them.
first off I thank the recommended gods of youtube for this gem (ramble starts below) I can definitely see the effect that it causes on younger kids because I have a 5 year old sibling that is absolutely attracted to this kind of stuff (albeit not as bad as the ones shown but still pretty bad) as it often includes characters that were originally made to be terrifying (siren head, sonic.exe, ect) along with just the plain characters and while I try to steer him away from it and give him a reason he still watches it (much to my dismay). it had given him reoccurring nightmares at one point and he has a warped sense of reality (especially since he watches a lot of fnf or minecraft based youtube videos). "it's that thing from minecraft/fnf!" and he is pointing to something in real life that he has seen in the games. It's really sick that some people do this, and I hope we have another purge of these videos (but knowing trends it will eventually happen again with something else unless youtube does something about it again).
Wonder why “kids” content is always the weird inappropriate stuff. Do they not have checks for this garbage? Anyway, very well explained Chaomix, you have earned a subscriber
The "for kids" setting was put in specifically so that RU-vid don't have to actually put in effort and care about Elsagate videos anymore. As always, when they are forced to act and not given the choice, they make things worse. RU-vid has not made a positive change in 10 years. Demanding they fix a genuine problem like this, it can only end badly. Because they'll come up with ANY option that's not "search through and deleted the bad channel" because that's work.
Sadly, they can't just delete a bad channel, if that channel didn't brake any guidelines. They need to change their guidelines to not allow these types of videos, and that will fix the problem, until these perverts will find a way to get around the algorithm.
Iam 12 now and when I was about 6 or so this kind of "kids content" was really popular back then and I feel everly grateful that I knew back then this kind of stuff didn't make any sense or meant anything to me, and I feel infinitely lucky
I once saw a video of baby sonic and baby shadow fighting as their dads got angry at them, they both start fighting too, then they get kidnapped and baby sonic and shadow save them
These people are probably displaying their childhood traumas, including dark topics that consumed their rotted mind throughout their life. Now they are gifting them to vulnerable kids and the cycle may continue.
That's just disgusting! Kids deserve way better than these atrocious videos. SHAME ON THE ADULTS WHO THOUGHT THESE VIDEOS WERE A GOOD IDEA TO SHOW TO CHILDREN.
@@justice8718 Gee, maybe that's an issue to confront as opposed to something to just ignore? Maybe the old, conventional "wisdom" that scaring the living hell out of your kid was a good way to teach anything useful (as opposed to a way to control them and limit their understanding of the world) is a bygone tactic that's bygone for a reason. There's a reason nobody really cares about the original versions of fairytales besides edgy teens and edgy adults discovering it for the first time. The novelty wears off pretty quick.
@@jessicaprice6565 Yes it would. Take the car crash video for instance. That thing is over the top as hell in its darkness over "look both ways before you cross the road", but it is grounded to a horrific degree from the consequences it brings. You claim that kids aren't into how fucked up the world can be, but don't forget that we are surrounded by hazards and evil. The road shit is mainly from their curiosity of what their superiors say to them. There are no lay offs in most of these circumstances.
I can like imagine a horror movie type of video, yet still accessible to kids AND labeled as “made for kids” by RU-vid (wouldn’t be a surprise tbh): *person gets chased by killer, family gets chopped to pieces, person becomes alcoholic, literally is about to hang themselves, goes over to killer, shoots, eats the dead body, video ends with person hanging on a noose in their bedroom* ***happy children’s music plays as the outro*** ***funny cartoon sound effects and voices throughout***
"Are children just super interested in these morbid topics, which makes these videos super algorithm friendly?" This is the explanation in my opinion. They are interesting and important topics that aren't actually unusual to see in stories for children. I think the real issue in this case is that these stories are lazy and don't make sense. They use good character designs to clickbait and interesting topics to keep everyone's attention.
Wow I literally got a few videos of this kind of content suggested before watching this video. I had no idea of this "kids content" related to Sonic being present on RU-vid. As someone who studies kids and teens a lot I can see the huge impact these videos can lead to kids...what might see innocent for us is not to them...some kids can't even distinguish reality from fiction until 6-7 years old... Glad someone spoke about this!
Tell me; I’m worried about them developing fetishes for death or some of the other bad things in the videos. Could you give any insight on that factor?
Stuff like this is the reason why I'm thankful the internet was still relatively new and not as easily accessible when I was growing up. The only computer we had was in the family room and just about everyone could see what you were doing on there. Sure, I still saw some questionable stuff (thanks Newgrounds), but that stuff was obviously bad and I knew it.
Well I didn't expect to see you here. I swear on my life I'm not following you. Anyways, I whole heartedly agree. My stepmom's kids are constantly glued to her phone or their tablets just to make them shut up, and they watch these type of videos all the time. You'll never know how annoying and scary it is to hear these videos being played full blast all day when I go to stay with them. I'm really glad I grew up in the time I did, instead of being raised by RU-vid.
Wow I was just watching a video about SpongeBob children's content and that video of sonic proposing to Amy has the same story as one of the videos mentioned on the SpongeBob one these are some creatively bankrupt videos
The fact that videos like the ones mentioned exist and kids watch them is disheartening. Such videos are at the top of youtube searches for 'sonic' due to the large amount of tags and words in the title, so kids see it and click it, and they continue to watch them. It's horrible, especially when there is actual sonic content for kids (Full episodes of SATAM, AOSTH, Boom, and Sonic X uploaded officially by wildbrain or TMS) for free, yet kids still end up on whatever you could classify "Sonic gets hit by a car happy ending dead" as.
RU-vid sacrificed so much (and the RU-vidrs took so much of the sacrifice) during Elsagate and it still failed to keep filth like those away from the website. every harsh rule, every cruelty added to the algorithm, every new asinine rule, it was all for nothing.
Content like this is something I did see as a small kid, and it's affected me rather oddly. I'm really glad more people are talking about content like this, because they're really bad for a developing child's brain. My mom didn't really look at what I watched as a kid because she was super busy, and my dad was usually working when I was younger as well, in case you're questioning my life on RU-vid as an early age. But then as I got older, around 10 and 13 my mom made me get RU-vid kids, where I saw content like this there as well
Kids content covering mature themes is fine shows and movies like Avatar, Ben 10, Generator Rex, Lion King, or Luca. But what these channels are doing is not only exploitive of kids the content itself is well like what you it could lead to deep psychological issues in the future.
I specifically looked this up because I've been getting these in my recommend for a while now and it's creeping me the heck out. I wanted to know that others are seeing it too. I wish these channels would go away.
Its kind of a loop, every generation becomes fond of something, thus hating the new because it is not what they grew up with, then repeating itself once again.
Those videos HAS to be addressed because they are threatening to the children. Low quality rigs often attract children, but with sick fetises involved here, will poison them. Those bastards must be stopped at any cost.
I'm glad someone spoke up about these "for kids" Sonic animation video's, these video's are gross and really fucking weird. I hope RU-vid somehow finds a way to get rid of them 💀
I wldve thought that fanfiction sonic videos sld stay at dievant art and just let it sit there and be buried. I never thought they wld allowed this and RU-vid don't give a shit about it. I'm glad you brought this to light since now I can't type " sonic the hedgehog" without seeing disturbing thumbnails of the wrost ways that happen to sonic and his friends. This is just disgusting and it needs to 🛑.
"AMY PLEASE COME BACK! BABY SONIC DEAD MARRIAGE SONAMY | Very Sad Story But Happy Ending | POOR SONIC LIFE" And then their channel name would be like Funny Children Rainbow or some shit. Also, from a guy who wants a SpongeBob and Sonic crossover... Patrick being the doctor in 10:31 is unironically hilarious, especially considering his actual character.
Rule 28 of the Internet: There will always be MUCH more outlandish stuff than what you just saw Rule 36 of the Internet: No matter what it is, its someone's fetish. No exceptions
I’m pretty sure by “children” you mean toddlers. This stuff is for toddlers. Not most children. We really need to specify that. Doesn’t make this any better. I just want people to specify this. Also there is actual GOOD Sonic content on here. Like those people acting as the Sonic characters (ex being “ask the Sonic heroes” and those other channels I forget the name of) there’s also stopmotion and plush vids. Hell I’d even say stuff like Sonic Shorts and Nazo Unleashed are good for kids. Sure Sonic Shorts might have a lot of mature humor. But it’s MILES(pun not intended) better then this crap.
I remember that sonic plushie series I used to watch like where American sonic (modern) meets British sonic (classic) and then when tails goes on a meltdown cause sonic didn't get him ice cream. :^) ye good old times
I grew up on Sonic Shorts but I don't think that was a good thing. Most of the jokes went over my head and I mostly just watched it because I liked sonic and "haha sonic do funny" but in rewatching them I realized there was a lot of racy, insensitive, and very similarly gory material to this video--it's newgrounds content after all. I think that sort of early RU-vid newgrounds content really fucked with me in ways that I'm still learning about as I get older
can't believe this stuff still exists. I thought yt had cracked down on it *nearly 6 years ago!* I think this stuff appeals to kids because it seems mature and 'edgy' due to the adult content but idk
I thought this was gone as well, I hated that this garbage existed and I am infuriated that some slipped through the cracks and RU-vid overlooked them.
