THIS EXISTS KIDS YOUTUBE ENDLESS HELLSCAPE LEARN COLORS SATAN WRONG HEADS PIT OF HORROR CARTOON 

i grew up watching rugrats but todays youth will talk about these videos

Don't like to be that guy, but I've deleted the RU-vid kids app from our tablet and I don't let my daughter use it anymore. There are so many strange videos out there that I think are doing psychological damage.

My sister leaves her 2 and 4 year olds to watch those videos unattended for hours and it creeps me out I'm concerned for them

how many of mickey's children have died in a gas explosion, seriously

Dog says: Woof! Cow says: Moo! Minion says: *YOUARENOWENTERINGTHEWORLDFROMWHICHYOUWILLNEVERRETURN*

"Self Sucking Satanist" - Sam Sutherland (This Exists), 2017

I honestly cannot make out anything from the slowed down Minion voice line.

great video. I once stumbled upon one of the weirdest net of channels of this kind of video, where bots had distorted these videos so much it was basically just a mess of graphics and recycled broken videos... I don't want to go back there. Please, do not give phones to yours kids below 12 yo.

fuck got jumpscared by the zombie minion

You'll never see me sitting a kid down with a tablet or phone. I didn't have even supervised access to the internet at home until I was about 10. My mom always watched content actively with my sisters and I. This is a good example why just letting your kid watch whatever they get their hands on can be a bad idea. Really young kids need a variety of stimuli in order to get the most neuropathways developed as they can. Video isn't that great for that. I really do fear for the ramifications of this new style of parenting. Every second of the day can be spent in front of a screen now. You don't ever have to take a kid away from one if you don't want to, and you know some parents out there won't separate their children from a screen as long as it shuts them up. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but this development honestly spooks me a little bit.

You know, this is the kind of thing I'd call the SCP Foundation for

I'm so glad you made a video about this haha. It's such a rabbit hole once you start to look closer into it. Completely disturbing, but as a RU-vidr who's day job depends on the algorithm, truly fascinating.

When I was a kid in the mid 90s, I caught stuff on TV that spooked my little soul silly and it took me years to track those videos down but eventually I did. It's going to be really weird for these kids who have grown up on youtube. There is so much traumatizing shit that they will probably never be able to track down again, so they'll just have these foggy memories of Spider-Man and Mickey Mouse burying a minion alive.

I live for this.

3:49 Well, no sleep for me tonight.

DANGIT YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO ADD THE CREEPIEST IMAGE OF A MINION WITH THAT AUDIO

This was the reason why my mom stopped allowing my brother to have access to our phones without supervision and have a tablet with RU-vid kids because this was the kind of stuff he watched along with other stuff. It just troubled us how this kind of content could get on RU-vid. I mean the stuff my brother learned from these types of videos cannot be unlearned and we're literally having the time of our life teaching him what he learned is not okay. RU-vid seriously needs to investigate these kinds of channels and their management because this is not okay in the slightest.

Basically, if they marketed themselves as meme channels no one would have a problem.

I watch very young kids unattended by parents flipping through content on RU-vid like it was a treasured story book, and it makes me sad. I was blissfully unaware about this disturbing variant on that. Thanks (?!?!) for educating me further. Always lovely to hear from you. I do like the way your mind works. Thank you for the thought provoking content, as apposed to the mostly mindless drivel we are spoon fed daily.

nurseryrhymewave

"legitimate company"... What is the Indian definition of legitimate company anyway? I mean, the Indian authorities seem to be doing effectively nothing about those call centers phishing people by telling them things like "I am calling from Microsoft Windows, we have detected there is a virus on your computer, I can help you remove it".

Wtf is that title?

please make an episode on no-fi music (no fidelity)

6:37 This was made in GTA V 😂

NIGGA WTF WAS THAT MINION JUMPSCARE I WAS PLANNING ON SLEEPING TONIGHT JESUS H CHRIST

*I have so many questions.*

You guys net neutrality matters and it's at risk, please set aside some time to read about what's happening

Last time I was this early you had a schedule

These "creators" behind this madness need to be brought up on criminal charges. At the very least they need to be investigated.

I used to be a grocery store checkout clerk and I saw parents putting an iPad in front of their toddlers with these videos or similar at least twice a week. The best/worst thing I ever saw was a 4 year old watching at full volume The Family Simp by Joe Gran.

Maybe it's a form of neural networking, they're trying to hash out what makes a synthetic brain a real one.

every time you say 'babies getting shots' I hear 'babies getting shot'. thanks.

I think the reason there's so many views on them is because they're bots watching them. There's lots of nonsense comments on these videos, and they have an impossible amount of views. The music is royalty-free, so these videos can be generated and posted by bots and then monetized to hell and back.

Those have been existing for a while. Why is it only until now that it seems like more and more people are drawing attention to it?

I took a class once calle 'digital media and digital art' or something. the textbook of that class posited that internet art acts as a sort of psueo vaccine, as in exposing people to mostly inert versions of issues that will/might become actual critical debates in the future. I have a lot of issues with that model (mostly, like, intent?) but I feel like it applies pretty well here. I feel like we're moving into a world where more and more video-entertainment is made by computers and optimized for maximum sharing/vitality(/bacteriality because vaccine analogy). like we have the weird kids stuff, but Im pretty sure that a lot of the top-ten channels have automated AT LEAST the vocal performance, and the buzzfeed video people talk about using their data to shape exactly which videos get made. and now we have a ting that pushes it as far as we currently technically can to prepare us for the future where SEO is creative dictum.

I can't understand what that minion is supposed to be says.

I’ve said this on Folding Idea’s video on this, but in 10-12 years, these kids are gonna come of age and the internet will be all over this topic again, like the Sinbad/Shazam thing, but real.

My theory is that someone thought "if I had to grow up with Courage the Cowardly Dog, Ren and Stimpy and all these crazy insane cartoons that were traumatizing then the next Generation has to as well" LOL

I cannot understand a single thing in the minion part at 3:50. Can someone transcribe it for me?

Bro this channels upload schedule is fucked up

My baby cousins watch that stuff nd it freaking weird

6:45 MIKE WAZOWSKI!

I miss this channel more than any other MIA RU-vid. You started a comeback at the beginning of the year and I was super stoked, but now those videos are all gone and I’m just watching the same old videos over and over like my favorite canceled television shows.

As much as I liked the old way you presented during your videos, I really like this more casual format. Glad to have you back making content ;)

i want to enter some of these channels in rap battles because they got fuckin rhymes for days

I Forget this channel exists.

Thanks for continuing to make content for this channel. I always get pumped when I get an alert that you've updated.

Thanks for the minion jumpscare dude.

I get it. the title is a parody of the weird nursery videos, right?

Can we just talk about the finger family fetish these channels have? Like seriously.

I've missed this channel a lot, this is arguably the most insightful and entertain channel I've ever come across, please continue doing this PLEASE.

They're cheap, unlicensed 3d character models dropped into generic bright colored settings, all programmed to do a dance animation. So basically they're automatically generated memes. They look innocent at a glance from a parent. With a horrifyingly dark underbelly, based on child abuse and wanking to babies getting stuck with needles. 😧 I can't even believe that RU-vid even opened RU-vid Kids to anything but hand-picked, reliable, major companies. What did they think was gonna happen?? Also, I am genuinely concerned about the number of these videos with the phrase "finger family" in the title. 😧😳😬

Hey Sam, did you forget to put some of Mango Kids' more legit looking stuff around the 9:36 mark? Because you mentioned it a couple times but just cut to Godzillas on the Bus.

this is an eldrich horror for early years

In Neuromancer William Gibson describes "Dub" a type of music listened to by space Rastas as, "a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalized pop." In effect Dub, in the context of the novel, is a semi-automatically generated remix of all previous music in a never ending recursive loop. While these videos are about animations on RU-vid, I feel like we can apply Gibson's term to these works. But what can we make of it? For the space Rasta's of Gibson there is a method to the madness, effectively an emergent order. Kind of a thousand monkeys on a thousand type writers given a thousand years can produce Shakespeare, with a bit of zeitgeist thrown in there for good measure. I'm not totally sold on the value of that particular reading though. What does interest me is the way these emerge from what Focault calls, "The death of the author." In many ways these videos are authorless, one cannot point to a single site of authorial power. They also totally break down concepts of IP and discrete textuality. This is similar to how folklore and mythology are created, spread, and used by people. Take, for example, the legend of Bloody Mary. No one can point to the author of the Bloody Mary legend, though their are several theories about possible inspirations. Most people know the character used. There are countless versions of the legend, all of them reconfigured around certain basic elements, mirrors, saying her name three times, and so on. In these videos no one knows the author really. Most people know the characters used. There are countless versions of the videos, all of them reconfigured around certain basic elements, animations, scenes, ect. Their is a major difference though, and thats the automation. Who knows? Really interesting stuff though.

Thank you thank you Sam for continuing the awesomeness that is This Exists!

I can't say that this suprise me or that it's even new to me, but thanks for the reminder that Hell isn't always Fore and darkness, sometimes it's children videos on RU-vid.

It's time to make #selfsuckingsatanist a legitimate hashtag and trend

>screams in the voice of the incomprehensible abyss that watches from beyond the stars

What's scary is the fact that a lot of the Pregnant, Foot, Needle, mostly any of the Fettish based ones have or are made from even sicker Flash Games

I KNEW IT, I KNEW IT, I KNEW THAT YOU WOULD DO A EPISODE ON ELSAGATE.

Glad I grew up with 2009 early internet windows movie maker edits, Newgrounds reuploads, youtube notepad tutorials and wii phone instead of this.

Was not prepared for the deathminion.png and I probably pissed myself but unintended jumpscares aside, thanks for more top quality, intriguing-ass content.

Okay, dinosaurs dancing is officially my new favorite thing.

Anyone remember those shitty spongebob animations from 2006-2008 that had themes like saw and shoot-outs?

I think that was an octopus not a squid. Unsubscribed

Sam, bring back this series! Easily the most consistently awesome channel on RU-vid.

I remember one day (when all this wasn't a huge thing) i was on some weird tumblr and found a post talking about a channel called "hey kids". The channel consisted of animated cartoon finger family videos but a lot of the videos had the persons voice with a weird cartoon face and he talked about nonsense and that was the first time i heard about any of this weird stuff and i forgot about it until h3h3 made his video. This is all very weird.

F in the chat for the kids who are growing up from this

I'm thankful this exists #thanksgiving

Can I just say that when I was 6 or 5 I unintentionally watched the Elsagate "PAW Patrol Babies Pretend to Die by Suicide".

Dude legit this is one of the best RU-vid channels on the fucking platform don't stop what you're doing, love you man!

If you were going to upload some odd fetish-content videos for that small community to see, what better place to hide it from demonetization and possible strike than in a bottomless pit of pre-fab kids' content? It mixes in through the algos' meatgrinder, and gets carried along in the stream until someone not intended for saw it; and now it blows up. I don't think any of this disturbing content was unintentional, except it getting out of control and bleeding into the standard kid-vid fare. Sheer weight of numbers would do that. Up until that point, it was a diabolically clever strategy.

That title is pure gold.

8:09 is a golden moment in this video. I chuckled. Love you.

the bart/ doll on the shelf with the rock hard head was my brothers weapon of choice when shit got real growing up

It's cheap to produce and generates a ton of revenue, and the fact that it's overseen by a "network" means the videos always stay up on one channel or another. RU-vid Kids is built to promote these videos, and with autoplay enabled by default, it's easy for kids to track up hundreds of minutes of viewing in an unsupervised afternoon.

Only one Criticism for this video, I would like to see more examples of the clips you’re talking about. It feels like everything is leading up to a clip and than not showing it feels like there’s no release. Other than that I love this channel.

So glad to see more being uploaded. Perfect desk background listening.

it feels closer to the eventuality of widely accepted 'entertainment' seen in Idiocracy, such as: 'ouch my balls'.

For another great video on this whole thing from another great and underappreciated channel, look up the Finger Family video by Fredrick Knudsen/Down The Rabbit Hole. Anyone who loves This Exists should also enjoy that channel. The format is different, but the idea is similar... he just talks about whatever subject he finds interesting, which leads to a lot of really great content.

Uh dude that link goes to a live web camming porn service now

i actually like this format more it seems more organic and it’s more engaging

I will never leave a small child alone with youtube. I still have dozens of VHS of 90s kids show. Winnie the pooh and Ponyo for them, no way theyre getting close to that shit.

That name is a BITCOIN address

if i had to guess why these existed its probably some weird thing that intends to exploit algorithms to make money? or maybe its just sort of "casting a wide net" by creating as much garbage content as possible hoping that the cumulative effect of a billion shitty videos all being made at once will lead to some sort of profit

I am so disturbed by these nursery-rhymes-cg-animated-superheroes stuff. A few months ago my 3 year-old nephew stumbled upon one of these after watching a totally fine episode of a real show on youtube, and he was fascinated. He stared at the screen for hours, hit the replay button to watch it over and over, and when we tried to stop him, we were in for the biggest anger fit we'd ever had to deal with. He cried and cried for hours, standing in a corner, that he wanted to "watch Spiderman". It felt like a drug addict being cut off. This deeply worried me, I am personnally a fan of all things weird the internet has to offer (partly why I love this channel) and have no problem feeling disturbed when watching something... Doesn't mean I want kids to watch too. As an adult, I can deal with all that's off in these videos (I'm not speaking about most of the Elsagate stuff, like live actions ones and... babies getting shots ? I'm lucky never to have dug these out of the RU-vid pit of despair), I know it mainly has to do with the uncanny valley, the mix of realistic-ish animation and super heroes and more cartoony ones, the out-of-character moves and action, the bare set design, the fascination with cars (?), and most of all the crazy gap between "whoever created that was probably on drugs" and "why nursery rhymes". This creates the fun, this creates the uneasy felling too. But kids can't really process it, yet they still feel the fascination they entail, hence the "watching crazy stuff for hours" that ensues and could possibly be quite harmful.

"This is a load of Dinky Dog" yep, I'm definitely gonna be using that line now.

i was secretly hoping you would do a video on this

I'm just going to posit this theory about how some of the trends in subject matter in these videos get added to whatever data cloud the Weird RU-vid Kids stuff pulls from: I know a lot of adults act really weirded out that pregnancy is such a common recurring trend in these vids, but I remember it being one of those things that fascinated me as a kid. Especially since it's one of those semi-taboo topics (because sex is involved) so it gains this "forbidden fruit" aura. So, you know, kids old enough to work a search engine look up "pregnancy", whoever makes these things gets word that this is something kids will watch, and adds it to the topics in their videos. Also, while Godzilla going on a tour bus doesn't make sense to adults, to a kid who doesn't really care about the logic of an atomic monster driving a bus, it just kinda... clicks. I dunno, I just remember my thought process working that way when I was young.

LOL it was hard searching for Ariel Pink content when these were first taking off!

you should investigate the "X has Conga Buster" phenomenon. essentially what people do is take kid show intros, change the color pallet, apply the mirror effect and bitcrush the audio. here's the link to a playlist of the most known ones of them: X has a Conga Busher: ru-vid.com/group/PLEQVBR2XZauSBtTMZeZbu_rYxLjjqriPl

Camera focused on the shelf behind you is so goddamn distracting. My eyes start to physically hurt.

The length of this video is 13:37. This is known to us all, please refrain from pointing it out in your coment.

I died @ " Had to find people smarter than me so I turned to twitter"

Hey thanks for sending me down this particular RU-vid hole, I didn’t want to sleep ever again any way...

What the fuck is dinky dog?

I couldn't decipher what the minion audio said due to the music. Could anyone transcribe it?

So happy you are back.

I did not expect to be so unsettled by this, but then again stuff like Hey Kids exists.