YouTube Has A Brainrot Problem... 

Be your most comfortable self this fall with MeUndies Get 20% off your first order, plus free shipping, at meundies.com/saberspark What do you all think? Is RU-vid brainrot getting worse? And what can be done about it?

It's concerning because more kids are watching this and become more addicted and less attentive, it's like a digital opioid

As an animator who has spent countless of hours learning the craft of animation, this brain rot stuff makes me not want to post on youtube. Why bother making anything of value? Brain rot is the only thing that matters apparently. Im not bending over backwards and spending hours infront of my workstation only to have comments like "WOW! your still alive?! I thought you were dead!!!" ....gee whiz... thanks.... you know what? going outside and enjoying life seems like a better option these days.

People complained about TV rotting kids brains. But at the very least tv channels were legally obligated to follow strict rules. And there was always some level of quality control. And there were publicly funded stuff like PBS kids for more educational content. But with YT there's no such quality control. There's a basic set of rules but they're poorly enforced and nothing like what cable tv channels have to adhere to.

"Back in my day, we had PINGAS, GAY LUIGI, SPADINNER, SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY, MLG HORN etc. YTPs and MLG's were my brainrot.''

Great Informative Video Bro. Its so weird as Milennials back in the day it was like they gave us an adequate amount of technology But Not too much where the brainrot became severe. Everyone nowadays basically has a mini super computer in their pocket as their phone. The thing I find really sad about the Brainrot content too is the fact that like you said Attention Spans have dwindled so much its even happening with Short form content now. I saw someone get into an argument on a short that it didnt get to the topic fast enough & the part there were referencing was literally 11 seconds into the 57 second short & then they got mad when the creator corrected them. Like Vine was fun and was its own thing back in the day, but I never felt like it affected people from paying attention to longer form content. Though on the positive side I have been seeing an emergence of people starting to fall in love with minimally edited content again for the fact it feels more organic & calming. Over the Hyper Edited Jingly Keys entertainment to Get the dopamine up. So Heres hoping more of that starts to come back into the fray and that this starts to get regulated.

I lost more braincells in the first five seconds of the video than at any other point of my life(why)

I’m a parent and it’s the parents responsibility to monitor and guide kids. RU-vid isn’t gonna bother changing unless it hurts their bottom line to ignore it. I showed my kid the difference between something quality like gravity falls and low effort trash like lanky box . If you help your kid develop good taste in entertainment, they’ll actively begin avoiding brainrot. Kids are smart enough to recognize trash, but they need to be taught what it is and why it’s bad. That’s been my experience anyway.

Honestly, the worst part isn’t the brainrot itself, it’s the kids who are being impacted by it because their parents are too lazy and negligent to monitor their kids.

Don't forget rocky rakoon. Grabbing characters from vivzie, putting some dumb a$$ song in the background and putting them to dance. You saw Luna in the first seconds of this video mate...that crap is his...

I think really the biggest issue people are missing here is kind of a given and an easy answer is still basically the root problem: It’s Late Stage Capitalism. Like yes there is absolutely a personal accountability on the parents who do nothing to at least prevent or to mitigate the screen time/ media their kids consume. BUUUUT 4 major points 1. Why can’t parents pay more attention to their kids? Almost 40% of Americans have 2 jobs just to make ends meet. And many of these are full time with limited to no PTO and limited benefits. From the Labor Bureau in 2023. Along with minimum Federal Wages being stagnant at 7.25/hr. 2. Why do kids even have access to these devices. Technology has boomed like Saber said but also in creating these slops of garbage people can just pump them out quickly and without and care or quality control. It’s not like these devices are inherently evil they can absolutely benefit children in many way but legislation hasn’t caught up to this level almost predatory market of content farming brainrot. 3. Why do some kids even with parents who limit their screen time still not pay attention? Mental health/ Nutrition yes shockingly if you can’t afford or meet your daily calories needed your mental attentiveness with suffer. And when even the stuff you’re eating isn’t healthy or of good quality Oxford academic has done multiple studies. 4. Is it too late? While the last 3 points will absolutely take time to change legislation. No we need to invest in better technology limitations for kids, create healthy safe spaces for children online with good moderation behind it. EDUCATING CHILDREN ON INTERNET SAFETY OH PLEASE OH PLEASE.

RU-vid has become a place where brain rot trash, ai, and content farms are rewarded while actual effort and creativity is punished.

The fact that they allow this shit but censors a RU-vidr just for saying "fuck" once is beyond me

That side of RU-vid is nightmare fuel, and to think kids today are growing with that with NO ADULT SUPERVISION (because that is the issue, adults today in general are not even half responsible parents as those that existed before, and those were not even many in the first place)

Atleast maxdesignpro is self aware and more kid freindly, he cares more about his audience then other brainrot channels. he even shows fanarts in his animations.

I feel like this can be very discouraging to artists with big dreams. Remember what happened with Gooseworx? She implied that she's not even proud of TADC because of what content farms have done. You might have thought that think only happens with larger teams of animators such as Glitch Productions, but NO!! It also happened to an independent animator. You may have heard of her or not, but her name is Kaaatie. Earlier this year, Kaaatie made an animation called Basics in Behavior or commonly known as Fundamental Paper Education. She didn't even expect or mean for it for happen, but it skyrocketed in popularity. So much so, that it received its own fandom. At first, Kaaatie was excited about this, at first... As popularity shows up, rule 34 will always follow. A main character in the animation, Miss Circle, and others, were massive sexualized. It got so popular that, *unfortunately* , content farms such as Lankybox and Hornstromp found out about it and begin *making videos* of it. That, along with other occurrences, got do bad to the point in where Kaaatie gad to entirely discontinue FPE by saying that she didn't want to draw the characters anymore because they don't even feel the same. Basics in Behavior was originally a Baldi's Basics song which became Kaaatie's favorite song, and she wanted to do was make a fun AMV of it. AND NOW SHE LITERALLY SAID THAT SHE CAN'T EVEN LISTEN TO THE SONG ANYMORE BECAUSE OF EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED!!! I thought it would be necessary to share and inform others of her situation. There's more to the story, but that's all I have for now. Stay safe on the Internet everyone! ♥️

It ENRAGES me that RU-vid is rewarding and promoting these talentless hacks for their laziness, while RU-vidrs who are putting tons of effort into their content barely get noticed

A streamer i watch. Jabroni_mike got flagged for reacting to the content slop in a few videos. RU-vid deemed his videos harmful to children. Not the slop vids themselves. Him reacting to them. The slop vids can exist no issue. Fucked up really

Tablets and phones are ok for a break. They should not be a babysitter.

The fact that max design pro is the only one who is good is crazy btw

to be honest, max design pro is probably the least worst brainrot on youtube. Atleast the episodes somewhat have stories and lessons, and he does reference content made by his fans.

Can speak for this 1st hand, i used to be friends with a lass and has 3 small children under 10, she would let them use their tablets on youtube with 0 monitoring for HOURS as she watched TV. I called out that i caught her 7 year old watching digital circus brainrot and Poppy Playtime “kissing animations(?!) advised she should put youtube kids on there. I got yelled at, “you don’t know what’s best for my kids you’re not a Mother” never saw her again. Gen Alpha are doomed 🙁

And all the parent who said Spongebob was mindless brain rot Spongebob looks like Shakespeare next to this... “content”

1990's: "Too many cartoons will rot your brain!" 2024: "Hold my brain."

I feel like maxdesignpro gained popularity not only because of the trends, but also because his stuff is genuinely pretty high quality. Not in story, he still has a long way to go, but with the visuals and community interactivity. Unlike most of these channels, he has shown to storyboard and at least try to make a plot, unlike most. He also interacts with his community, and is genuinely a nice guy, hence why I think a lot of kids look up to him. I’m glad that he’s starting to at least try to teach valuable lessons to kids via his content, rather than make the same repeating videos, and I hope that his content can grow with his audience.

9:52 thanks f****** God he said this there are so many people on this website who just blame kids for being stupid and they just act that they're so superior over them

You know how our parents tell us that if we watch too many cartoons, our brains would rot? With all this recent brainrot content, I now understand what they're talking about.

"This video is brought to you by me undies!" Pirate watching this video: "....yer WHAT?"

This is all youtube's fault they dont give a shit nowadays.

Parents were wrong about 90s/2000s cartoons being the stuff that'll rot our brains. I've seen countless number of families in public have their young children use their parent's phones and tablets to watch these videos that play the same library of sound sfx on repeat

2:03 this just looks like the kind of stupid animation we had in 2012-14, back then this would have been peak youtube

“Back in my day, MLG was my brainrot 👴🏻”

I'm speaking from experience as a gen alpha, most of my childhood was spent on RU-vid and I got weird fetishes that I'm still overcoming from Elsagate. It always frustrates me when I see people talk about Elsagate fondly or joke about kids these days because yeah it's funny but these kids are sitting here with depleting attention spans and you're just sitting here, laughing at them??? I feel like people have grown more cruel and I feel kind of phased because I never went through that awkward stage because of this push to move forward! Wear this! Do that! Mainly because of TikTok and that whole mess. Honestly, I wish that people brought more attention to what all of this is doing to children and teens and how it kind of feels like you can't be a kid anymore.

Way worse than TV age. Parents do have the power to turn off the Internet. Limit the amount of hours they are allowed. Have them try other stuff. But we The adults are killing ourselves to pay for rent and food so we work all Day & Night. In the end I blame Corporate Greed for keeping all mankind as slaves.

Don't diss my bro maxpro, he has a inspiring love story with nugget kun

10:53 how could you show this character and NOT mention Twiddlefinger 😭

I dont have kids, but if/when i do, I already have a list of quality stuff i want them to watch from toddler to start of teens, Im not sure if that's creepy/weird,. but id rather be weird than let them watch anything the algo feeds them online.

Honestly, I never thought of Rocky Raccoon as a brainrot channel. Just a regular guy who makes some weird animation memes and that’s it. But now when people point it out, that actually makes sense and I can see it. But the fact many of his animations aren’t very appropriate for the younger audience, like damn…

still sad that the whole digital circus fandom got ruined by brainrot

OMG YOU BROUGHTMEUNDIES BACCCKKK😭🙌🏽 2:39

this Implies MaxDesignPro is a slop channel...

21:40 Ironically, the studio behind Bluey sent a cease and desist against Flashgitz. They responded by uploading an "Australian safe" version of switching their color palettes and calling the main character Reddy.

I'd like to see someone interview some psychologists on how this can affect children in the long run.

I wish RU-vid Kids was completely separate from RU-vid, so channels would have to specifically upload content made for kids in a forum made for kids. All the channels should have verification before they can upload and have their videos verified before they go up. And no content farms using characters from adult oriented entertainment. Then on regular RU-vid, we can have comment sections on videos with animated content that otherwise get marked as "for kids", because I sometimes miss being able to reminisce with others about movies or shows from my childhood. And I've heard that RU-vid Kids sometimes suggests videos with clips from the likes of Rick & Morty and Helluva Boss.

Max design pro teaches us important life lessons, hop off our goat

Dont diss maximum designer professional

I remember when my brain rot was [YTP]

I’m glad to my knowledge there is no Chikn Nugget content farms where I can see. Which is good Cofi and Chee must be protected.

The first five seconds of the video feels like it came from a deranged tumblr user

MAX HAS LORE (and now it’s not brainrot? YAY)

nooo not max design pro the mans goated

Max has definitely improved because of Twiddlefinger personally. The others? Not at all.

The other scary thing is the lack of social interaction they have today. This is going to be disasterious in the future.

I think that as a lot of things, Brainrot will die down. To think of it many people considered Fredd, old Smosh, and Annoying Orange to be Brainrot, but today it is seen by most (including me) as Classic RU-vid. Same thing happened during the 2010’s to 2020 because of all the kids channels at that time (Most Notably Minecraft Brainrot). But of course that died down, and then from 2020 to now we have the Brainrot we know today. I for one think there will be demand for better content from both parents & older teens. And the creators/editors themselves can’t keep this up forever. In conclusion, I do think it will die down and there will be something else for everyone focus on next, but we just have to keep waiting for however long, and keep fighting for what’s right.

Never diss my goat Max Design Pro

I think a friend of mine said Maxdesignpro does his content for fun

Saying RU-vid has a brain-rot problem, is an understatement. That’s like saying Joseph Stalin just had “Anger Issues” .

RU-vid shorts made this worse. I've seen several kids just watching nonsensical cringe videos and scroll through them like there's no end. They just stare at the screens like it's the most precious things in existence. We're turning our kids into doomscrollers. And worse when they play these in front of you and you slowly lose your mind listening to them .

Fortunately I don't even watch those weird things that are brain rot

hey at least Maxdesignpro is nice to his fanbase and uses fanart in his videos, and is also not a creepo like a certain raccoon.............

Small animator here, I agree that a lot of content farms get undeserved fame but Max Design Pro is not really that bad in comparison.

If I had a kid they would get a dumbphone when they are 7, but no smartphone until they are 13 (a.k.a their teens.), and even then I would limit what they could watch on youtube (There are controls where you can approve what can be seen.) until they hit 17....at that point they are borderline an adult. They can choose what they want to watch.

No, this isn’t the Wild West of RU-vid, it IS highly moderated, just not how it should be. I can’t tell you how many times my comments don’t show up for instance.

My son has been OBSESSED with Lankybox channel no matter what I do. He started naming his toy box “my lankybox merch box!” And I’m like this is too far and no more RU-vid for awhile 🙅🏽‍♀️ Edit: before I get this comment too much, yes I monitor his RU-vid usage and have even blocked the channel from his RU-vid kids account. The issue with that is even RU-vid says there are other channels that can review and upload this content as well. I can and do block them as they pop up and even have banned him from RU-vid on and off. I can’t control what he watches when he’s at a friend’s houses or visiting relatives. There’s only so much I can control even if I take away his device usage at home. I don’t plan on keeping him isolated from the rest of the world so I do what I can to prevent him from watching that type of content but it’s like fighting a Hydra monster. A new channel pops up after I thought I got rid of the last one. I understand my responsibilities as a parent when it comes to monitoring my child on the internet. Especially as someone who was taken advantage of as a child through the internet. There’s only so much in my control when RU-vid makes this content so easily accessible.

max design pro is peak

I quite honestly and unironically can't wait for the current generation of kids to grow-up, so that I can see what they'll end-up creating

This problem has gotten so bad, that by now Brainrot has a RU-vid problem.

As a Zoomer every time I hear Skibidi Toilet, I feel my brain slowly wanting to crawl out.

MDP isnt even that bad

How dare you talk bad about Max Pro Design 😔😔😔

NO WAY MAXDESIGNPRO IN SABERSPARK VIDEO?

To be honest, max design pro is an odd case. Hes the least harmful when it comes to brainrot, or at least of recent months. Yea, he was milking the hell outta the nugget meme, but honestly its not as bad as average brainrot content farms (regarding the use of clickbait, constantly using popular trendy "kids" character, and weird subtle sexual or fetish-esqe themes). I will say, if you know mdp, you know his channel blew up thanks to a specific fnf song (twiddle fingers) and now having an actual fanbase behind his channel. He even interacts with them, acknowledges the art and the same fnf mod that accidentally gifted him with so many genuine fans and subscribers. His content is now a bit better now compared to the pre-twiddle finger era. I can actually tolerate watching it, appreciate the characters and see how hes not as soulless as other channels ; who genuinely see kids as another dollar in their pocket, exploiting them with scummy practices. I do appreciate that he keeps it family/kid friendly, no sexual/weird themes, and a bit of a message behind the shorts. Its the least he can do and i have way more respect towards him compared to other brainrot channels. (Btw, screw rocky rakoon, and im sad that he wasnt shit on in this video LOL. Not only cus of his content but stuff going on outside of his channel.)

Blame the parents for just being LAZY and INCOMPETENT for just throwing a digital device to their kids with no supervision.

dont you DARE diss my pookie maxdesignpro he is NOT brainrot he is the BEST THING EVER TO HAPPEN TO RU-vid

Max design pro is not brainrot okay

The fact they delete videos calling this stuff out, but let the original video stay unchanged.

You know it got so bad because I went to the trending page and it’s all brain rot

7:19 transformers teaches you about being safe around vehicles (totally not in case of it being a space robot)

now you get maxdesignpro outta here

I rather take Max design pro rather than cocomelon cocomelon screws your head literally

Lasediea2gambe made a challenge were he watched for half an hour brainrot content after and before doing an IQ test... After the half hour his score was with twenty points less from the first time he did the test. This brainrot content is real danger.

I’ll be honest. MDP seems like the least terrible one here. Maybe part of it is because of the mod but at least he’s seemingly a nice guy behind the content and his brain rot is surface level with him mostly using the nugget and the monkey characters.

The issue isn't the content or the parents not monitoring well enough. The problem is that which facilitates this to happen in the first place. Yes the content is terrible and yes parents do need to try a bit harder, but pointing fingers isn't the answer, plus the real problem is the very system that facilitates these issues to begin with

Max ain’t brainrot anymore

DUDE WHY DID YOU POST THIS NOW THE MDP FANDOM IS GONNA GET ATTACKED

At the least TV had standards of educational content it had to reach. These have zero standards.

There was this little behind-the-scenes/outtakes video of Brandon Rogers and Richard Horvitz recording their lines for Helluva Boss together, full of swears and all kinds of profanities (honestly fun and hilarious to watch if you need a little pick-me-up), and it was listed as a RU-vid KIDS video. Jesus. YT Kids is like a used bandaid floating in the public pool.

13:50 That dog sacrificed itself to save the baby, and what does the parent to? Mourn the dog while the baby is still in traffic. I know it's not the takeaway Saberspark wanted me to have after the video, but here we are...

Rocky raccoon has been coming up a lot more especially in turns of brainrot, but I don’t understand why they always show his older videos and not the newer ones. I feel like it should be obvious but still. He doesn’t even DO helluva boss content on RU-vid anymore, as far as I see.

DONT DISS MAX DESGIN PRO

Gen Ed= the general school children. Please think about how bad it is for children in "Special Education", I know some people hate that term, but I've had relatives and neighbors that taught for multiple decades. So my references are kinda fossilized. I've meet children in Special Education, under under the age of 9. Multiple children, a few classrooms worth. Some are almost completely non-verbal, but can say "Subscribe!" When they see RU-vid. Even the children that are very intelligent, but are in Special Education, because of behavior or other diagnosises, are glued to the iPads. It's HEART BREAKING. And no one seems to talk about it. "Back in my day" Gen Ed kids were supposed to be the role models...

Kids nowadays: "duh, funny colors and not "not-weird" stuff on screen is cool, man!" My inner kid, after watching many Khrjanowsky and Norstein: "Wow, never did I thought that some Soviet cartoons were both creepy and mesmerizing to watch!"

I feel like the stuff we had growing up was stuff of substance. The new era of "content" is all about putting as many videos out as possible. I feel as if it's not a hot take, but spamming out videos will drop the quality of your product.

Get max out of This

I have a 6/yo cousin & he watches brain rot & ai voiced slop of Sonic The Hedgehog. Not saying I grew up watching anything better, (I grew up on the sss show & sonic zombies) but at least that stuff tried to be entertaining & somewhat engaging.

Not my boy, Max Design Pro...

I can't help but think of bootleg toys I see in extremely local stores when I was a kid in the 2000s. Difference here, is that I didn't quite get the same kind of shame and self-loathing as I do from seeing these videos.

My sister is unfortunately one of these kids. I’ve tried to get my mom to do something about it but she doesn’t seem to think it’s a problem. IT BECAME A PROBLEM WHEN SHE STARTED FLOSSING TO ANNOY ME! That stopped being a thing when I was in middle school!

it’s a shame that kids doesn’t watch normal stuff… parents should put on something normal for their children. If the child puts on a brainrot video, the parents should immediately change the video into something normal.

Considering the fact that LankyBox is a channel "for kids", the fact that they showed Sonic.EYX at 14:57, this one exe is regarded as the scariest one in the bunch. Why would they decide to show that to kids???