Parents will do anything but blame themselves for not controlling what their kids watch

As a parent, the idea of sticking a tablet in a 2 year old's face and then saying "Why does little Timmy have such an issue concentrating? Why is he so upset all the time?" genuinely concerns me for the kinds of kids my children are gonna have to grow up with.

One of the most amazing yet heartbreaking memories I have is when a really young family friend was having a meltdown during a power outage, and I got him to calm down by just sitting down and singing to him. It's heartbreaking because I think that was the first and only time anyone had ever tried to sing him a lullaby, one of the most basic parent/child interactions.

They say yelling and spanking is abusive to children but hows sticking devices in a childs face and ignoring them practically neglecting them not considered abuse?

Moral of the story: Don't let the internet raise your kid.

When will parents realize that technology is not a substitute for a babysitter? I grew up in the 2000s without a phone. I had my cartoons and my video games, yes, but they didn't consume my life. I went outside, I rode my bike, I played with toys, I made new friends. It breaks my heart that less and less kids are growing up with these crucial things. Edit: It's worth clarifying that I don't believe all technology is bad for children. I think it's ok for kids to be introduced to things like phones and computers gradually as they become old enough to be trusted with them. It's also important to remember that moderation is key. KZfaq and video games are fine, as long as they're age appropriate and the kid isn't glued to their screen 24 hours a day. Social media though? Yeah. Keep them far, far away from that hot mess. Also, my username is a joke. I just thought it was funny.

2010: cartoons for kids 2024: Skibidi toilets for kids 2045: 18+ for kids 2070: ##### for kids #stopbrainrot

How to stop letting your child watch skidibi toilet 1. Tell a younger child to stop watching KZfaq 2. If he refuses, turn off the Wi-Fi 3. If he has a SIM card, use a SIM card opener to take out the SIM card. 4. Take away his iPad and tell him to go outside. 5. If he enjoys outside, congratulations you made him take a break😊

Man, I'm only 21 and I'm already feeling like an old person worrying about the newest generation and how they'll turn out 😭

It's actually scary imagining how they'll even function as an adult years down the line

I'm literaly 13 and am terrified of what the future is going to be like...

Based off of the disgusting anime game ads I’ve been seeing recently on this very platform, gen alpha is about to face WAY worse things than just that skibidi toilet degeneracy

24 year old male here, and as someone who plans on having children 10 years from now I must thank Gen Alpha and their parents for giving people like me guidelines on how to raise children: Just do the opposite of what they're doing!

Moral of the story, as always, PARENTS NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THEIR CHILDREN WATCH.

how do you just say shit like "skibidi toilet syndrome" with such a serious toned voice bro i love you 😭😭😭

I’m 34 and had a flip phone in high school. I can’t fathom giving tiny children an iPad. I can understand incentivizing internet time (bring home a good report card, eat right, do your chores, etc etc) because that’s what my parents did, but man things are getting weird. I don’t want to develop a midlife crisis in my 30's, but all this ontop of covid breaking out mere weeks after my marriage . . . man what weird times.

I remember when my sister and I used to hold court sessions with our stuffed animals. We didn’t have enough to form a full courtroom so we just had to make do with a two person jury. I made a hammer out of this soft foam stuff. Two kids making stuffed animals sentence each other to capital punishment is what childhood is all about.

Remember guys, don't mindlessly hate the Alpha kids. It's not their fault this has happened to them.

This reminds me of when flappy bird was all the talk in the past, but when the game was removed, everyone forgot it. Soon, people will forget about skibidi toilet and move on like how everyone forgot about flappy bird or many other events like the elsagate controversy

I'm a 2013 Gen Alpha kid and none of these really affected me, but it did affect me when I was 4-8 yrs old where I had a tablet. It broke and when I was 9 my parents bought me a phone which I got addicted to, but then time passed and my online friends starting ignoring me so I put down technology and started reading books frequently rather than staring at the screen like the younger me would do. I'm struggling with some mental health issues because of technology, I feel excluded and all. My studies are alright, my English is the beet subject I have currently. I'm working on Math and Science, Chinese too. It really makes me sad to see all these Gen Alpha kids (excluding some people like me) to be brain rot by skibidi toilet and rizzler stuff, I don't know alot of slangs because I never got Tiktok during the lockdown and I'm happy I didn't. I wish all the kids to break out of the technology mind control...

Life lesson: Be a parent, don’t give a newborn an iPad, make sure it’s actually kid friendly, and don’t blame others

I really wanted generation alpha to try something new like the shows we grew up with, the stuff that can be explored by the world. Please let kids stop asking for an iPad

6:46 BLUE'S CLUES! :D The clip is from one of my favorite episodes: "Inventions". Love the 2nd clue on the Thinking Chair.

Im so glad one of my younger cousins didn’t get infected by skibidi toliet, he was born in 2018 and he always walks around with a phone but i haven’t seen him watch skibidi toilet (at least hopefully not)

I find it funny how most of us who were born in Gen Z find these stuff that Gen Alpha watches are considered cringe, when literally most people who were born before us would also find the stuff we used to watch as “cringe” The cycle would most likely continue, I can’t lie

Watching this is so heartbreaking. My little sister is glued to her tablet, she doesn’t touch ANY toys despite having so many. She only talks to her friends at school. She doesn’t have interest in sleepovers or playing at all. I keep trying to tell my parents how harmful this is to her development and childhood but they just won’t listen. It breaks my heart watching my sister grow up GLUED to her tablet. She can’t even watch a single movie anymore without getting bored and needing her tablet. She can’t spend time with family without begging for her tablet. It’s just depressing…

imagine 20 years old boys are playing skibidi toilet and this kind of games..

as the oldest and somehow mature gen alpha myself, i should definitely say that the world rlly changed, i was born before the pandemic and i have the normal childhood and when pandemic came, i had changed so much, even my friends and classmates. i started to be less social and stared at the screen all day and avoid being active. my wellbeing was pretty bad but now that i am better, i rlly want to change more about myself. im trying to have a normal childhood just like back then. i also have 2 sisters the middle child is still having a good chilhood unlike most other kids but im worried about my youngest sister…she watches shorts and yk mostly brainrot. currently im trying to persuade my classmates who literally likes the skibidi toilet whatever brainrot that is to be more ‘mature’ and take things more seriously. im rlly worried about the future and my generation and i hope it changes

Today I saw three kids sitting in a triangle (the oldest was about 9, the youngest about 3) all on their phones watching KZfaq shorts. Watching Millenial parents not realize that giving their children access to the internet while they can barely form a sentence is bad makes me feel very ill.

A while back in a store, I saw a mom dragging her son who looked hypnotized, only staring at her phone holding it in one hand, it's sad how parents give kids limitless internet access and then get mad at their kids not being able to do anything else but rapidly consume the short form videos

POV: you realize your child’s iPad is so crusty and the top things that he’s been searching is I don’t even want to say

"Children have the right to share freely with others what they learn, think and feel, by talking, drawing, writing or in any other way unless it harms other people" -1989 Convention on the rights of the child

As someone who was born in the late 2000s, it’s no wonder that my parents were so strict when it came to the internet when I was 6 years old.

As a Gen Z who wasn't allowed access to the internet until I got old enough and responsible enough, I agree with you, people shouldn't be hating the current gen. It's not Gen Alpha's fault, it's the parents' fault. Gen Alpha are only kids at the moment. It's not Skibidi Toilet (the actual series), The Amazing Digital Circus, Poppy Playtime, etc's fault, it's the content farms. Screw the overstimulating and soulless content. #BoycottBrainrot

KZfaq kids is ironically inappropriate for kids

I was insanely close to being a gen alpha birth-wise, and with very few restrictions on the internet, I feel liked I dodged a bullet - even with as fucked as I am, I feel like I could've been so much worse off mentally. Being able to see all this is something that just... breaks me a little. I'm not wishing I was blissfully unaware or anything, but the feeling of not being able to change anything is brutal. My little sister was also way too close to the dodgier side of the internet, but luckily me and my uncle managed to talk some sense into my mum, who keeps a close eye on her now. Then there's my young cousins. Seeing them, seeing that they just... aren't as well kept as me and my sister, because of the size and state of their families, makes me feel so... small. I can't see them often enough, nor do I feel close enough to them to tell them everything I know. I just wish I could help.

As a gen z kid who watched Tom And Jerry as a kid, this is terrifying to see in gen alpha

I work at a toy shop. A mother literally came in around the Christmas period, feeling lost over what to get her kids for Christmas as they mostly spend time online and never go out with friends, or play with toys. It’s a very real issue, unfortunately

As a part of gen Alpha myself, i feel like we had the worst set up we could possibly have had. While i'm not in the age where i'd watch something like skibiddy toilet or lanky box, i still feel like i've been affected by the internet more than someone my age should, same for my friends. Something that especially affected me and other kids my age that i know irl, was the pandemic. I myself, used to be a giant nerd and i loved going outside and playing all day, but after two years of being inside, i just- don't know how to be social anymore, atleast not as much as i used to. And in school not only me but a lot of my classmates are behind where we should be, most of my class is already failing this first bimester and it worries me about how the rest of the year will play out. And something i don't see a lot of people talking about is how all of this has and is affecting us not only academically, or socially, but mentally. And i don't mean mentally as in our attention spams either, i mean emotionally. A lot of people i know that are around my age are very emotionally unstable, and from personal experience i feel like that's probably because of how much of the real world we discovered so early. I know that kids might always snuggle their way into information they should not know, and that everyone's experiences are different online, but having access to the internet so early just exposed so much of the world that i wish i didn't discover at my age, like hearing about murder cases, predators, gore, p0rnogr4phy, wars, etc etc. I trully hope that gen alpha, when we grow up, manage to create a safer enviroment for the next kids.

As an I Indonesian I am very sad about this new generation my cousins always stares at his tablet watching brainrot and has been very cranky every time I wanna play with him

Parents need to say “No” more to their kids

Let’s stop blaming Gen Alpha. They aren’t the problem, and never were. Being dismissive or hateful towards them only pushes them further down the rabbit hole. They need compassion and patience to help them. No more cringe comps, no more anti internet gotcha takes with no real consequences, just genuine love and support.

Im a gen alpha and every point ray made was accurate, the pandemic and harmful content makes people at my school awful.great video and points

I remember I had a good childhood watching channels like Venturian, DanTDM, CoryXKenshin, etc, and playing a buncha single player Nintendo Gamecube and Wii games. But before that I grew up watchin stuff on PBS Kids like Sesame Street, Arthur, Wild Krats, etc.

Being Gen Z who grew up (mostly unsupervised) on the Internet, it's so weird seeing people of my own generation try to call kids "doomed" and "failed" over things like this. It's not the children's fault they have to grow up with things like this. The only failures here are us, we have failed to pay attention to what our children are watching, and Every "cringe comp" and "kids are ruining society" fails these kids even more. It's like we never learn

My father, a 40yrs experience pediatrician, has been running an awareness campaign about screentime exposure. Just sent him this video because I can relate in so many ways and learned a lot of important stuff. Thanks and cheers from Brazil

First off: Thank you so much for making this video. I am SO glad i found it. Second off: Your opinion on this changed EVERYTHING about my view on gen z or gen alpha or whichever the crisis is about. I get more information every day, and this is just what i needed today. Thank you. Third off: Im 14 when im writing this. I need to watch this video again if i have kids.

my mom once called nickelodeon crappy. She was in her 40s and i was 16

I remember my dad saying that buying me an iPad 2 was “the worst mistake he had ever made” Looking back now, I couldn’t agree more. I won’t make the same mistake

This literally breaks my heart....im a mother to a 3 year old and I will die defending my choice to NEVER buy her an IPad or give her a phone. I cant imagine ignoring your child and pushing this crap on them. The furthest ill venture is Bluey on the Living room tv and that is more than enough for her....

My kids if i ever have any wont be getting access to youtube and other sites like that until theyre at least 10, i had it that way and im grateful for that

Tbh I completely agree with your opinion about gen alpha. Kids just play pretending skibidi toilet is just that play pretend. And gen z also isn’t very different and I find it very nice that you acknowledged that. Even though some brain rot is still an issue I’m glad you didn’t just blame things wrongly, but instead with reason. Tbh I’d be more worried of the eight year olds watching *p0rn hub* , but I guess people prefer getting angry at toilet heads.

Finally a gen alpha criticism video that doesn’t just call everyone stupid and actually makes talk about the actual reasons these things are happening and even provides solutions. Yipee

If you’re a parent and you want a tip about raising kids to prevent possible screen addiction, what my mom did for me to regulate time watching KZfaq was to have one hour per each book/chapter I read of a book and have a full conversation of what I thought about of what I read with. It really helped me not only not stay on screens all the time, but encouraged me to read and also helped me understand what I was reading and how to talk about the themes. I don’t know if this helps, but I think my mom doing this for me really helped me. So if you have time to do this with your kid, I really encourage trying it. Start with shorter books, and get to chapter books.

Kid: *watches Skibidi toilet* Me: WE NEED TO GO THE MENTAL ASYLUM NOW!

Only thing that has ever had me worried about Gen Alpha even after this video, is having kids in this generation and trying to raise them correctly. I'm just worried other kids in gen alpha are gonna make people's kids think that they're missing out by not using the internet 24/7. It's just worrying in all honesty

I work at a daycare with preschool aged children. Previously, I was a high school English teacher. Ive worked with every age group in between and I plan to start a family in the coming months. Needless to say, I have a huge heart for kids and it's wonderful to hear others sharing that sentiment in an increasingly antinatalist world. I have seen it all first hand. The horrific behavior, the blatant disrespect towards authority, the screen addiction, and worst of all, the sexualization of children. It has bled through all ages of gen alpha. I'm genuinely heartbroken for these children who have such desperate and/or braindead parents

Times like these, I reflect on how lucky I was to have two loving parents in a stable home, who sat me down with real physical games, real physical toys, and most importantly, real physical books. I didn't even know what a Nintendo was until I went to school, and only got to play one or watch TV if my behaviour and grades were kept to a high standard. At the time, I thought I had arbitrarily strict, stuffy, boring parents. Nowadays, I can only imagine what a hassle it was to maintain those boundaries and put up with my resentfulness so I didn't turn into some kind of emotionally and mentally stunted goblin.

I'm a early gen alpha that grew up with the internet and toys, the internet just expanded my creativity, I found out about Godzilla, wich is now one of my favs of all time, I was able to find my best friend in 2nd grade (we are still besties) and a lot of more things

I wanna say I got my phone in the pandemic, yet I still learn using it with this smart content, but I've fixed my life so ty for spreading the knowledge

As a member of Gen Z, it's admittedly funny to clown on Gen A and how doomed they seem nowadays with Cocomelon-type garbage, but in some ways we weren't that different as kids like you said. This whole Gen Alpha stuff kinda reminds me of a quote I once heard “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” by George Orwell

I feel like Gen Z has also been affected by this as well. I’m a 20 year old Gen Z college student who still struggles with KZfaq addiction that affects my daily life. The addiction started back when I was in elementary school around the mid to late 2000s and would watch what are now considered internet classics like jumpscare compilations, old gameplays, KZfaq poops, and brony content. By the time elsagate videos started popping up, I was fortunately old enough to recognize how garbage they were and avoided them. I’m on the autism spectrum and suffer from depression/anxiety caused by past trauma of failure, which makes it very hard for me to try new things and maintain interest in hobbies, so watching KZfaq gives me an easy dopamine rush that I can never get out of anything else. I recognize this is a problem and am currently taking meditation/yoga classes and seeing a mental health trainer to better tend to my mental health and overcome my addiction. I don’t speak for all of Gen Z but I truly envy the past generations for not having to deal with these harmful addictions brought on by the internet. I can only hope things get better for both myself and others going through the same thing.

I'd also really like to see you make a ranking video for kid shows. Rank old and new kid shows. It can be a fun way of also informing parents which shows to avoid and which are the best, not just for their kids but that parents will like too, so that they can actually enjoy watching these shows with their kids instead of leaving them alone on a screen. Ye, I know it's probably a different style of video from your channel, but I personally would love to see it

I grew up with a KINDLE as a kid But all I really watched was Kipper the dog and cried internally about how amazing the sweets looked Those were good times

If there’s one thing to learn from them, it’s that just because something is popular does not always mean it’s child-friendly.

The issue with Gen Alpha isn't their goofy songs or silly videos (albeit cringyworthy), it's how Ipads replace parents as the figure to go to. Since a developing kid LOVES the stimulation provided by their device, when it's taken away it makes them have tantrums. This leads to them having short attention spans and a crippling addiction that worsens their chances of making it in a social society that isn't anywhere as close to the stimulation of a brainrotting device. Something else alarming however, is the amount of horrible idols these kids find on the internet. With the absense of parental figures in their life, they look up to streamers like Speed which teach them feel like it's okay to do really stupid things, while also exposing kids to innapropiate topics. No kid should be talking about a "gyatt". Many s*xual innuendos are present in streams that is a real big issue by itself tl;dr Don't let the internet raise your kids. It's not their fault that they've been raised by brainrot, and you can't blame people for making fun of them for that.

I am an 11 year-old child and just watching a younger generation than me going through This really makes me sad, but I’m lucky that my young sister doesn’t have the same thing.

I think what bothers me is that Skibbidy Toilet wasn't made for kids and has a very deep message on big media and the small content creators going up against such as the series progresses. The problem is, parents don't pay attention to what their kids watch, which means that videos like this lose their meaning and become kids' clickbait due to their virality, turning said videos unfairly into the villain. It's actually really sad.

I’m an older sibling, I’m 2005 and my sister is 2013. Just in that time between us, our relationships with the internet are VERY different. Of course I consumed my own flavour of harmful content but I had access to it later in life and already knew how to regulate my decision making. My sister, however, has had a screen in her face since EARLY on. She can’t write, she can barely read, her vocab is below the average for when I was her age. She endlessly watches utter drivel and has zero imagination, beginning and ending with “what if I could fly?”. And all of her school friends and age group are like this, dopamine deficient, unimaginative zombies. WE NEED TO LET KIDS BE BORED!!

As a gen alpha, I've always watched things like cartoon network

this made me cry ;) thank you bro

As someone who *DOES NOT* plan on having kids (unless it is adoption, but that's a whole different beast), but has friends and siblings who do, I'm sharing this with them so they know what to do and what THE FUCK NOT to do.

i’m currently substitute teaching for an elementary school and the children’s attention spans genuinely worry me. that along with the things they choose to talk about. getting through a lesson is nearly impossible due to them being constantly distracted.

The fact that parents give i-pads to their six month year old children as their birthday gift😭😭😭

The KZfaq community is repeating what happened in the Elsagate scandal with extremely harmful content and I'm really fed up with kids bullying people online and saying they're sigma and gigachad

gotta love how parents now straight up give their children unrestricted internet access

Its disgusting that so called parents let this happen.

14:40 as a DSAF fan, i am delighted by this sponser

Sad thing is that people don't wanna go outside because for some reason outside is not much fun anymore. It's hard to explain but when I was a teen I didn't went out because there was nothing to do that wasn't repetetive. I wish playgrounds would have had more variety and other outdoor activities wouldn't be so expensive. I mean staying at home and looking at a phone is free. Sadly

As a Gen Z kid born in 2001, I'm proud to say "I had a good childhood." Your documentary is the most emotionally riveting I ever watched, and you shouldn't be ashamed of yourself for making these types of videos. Please continue to enlighten communities!

I feel so bad for TADC like it’s genuinely a good series but now I just- I feel so bad for the creator I bet they never intended for it to become the way it is now

Bro the music you used for explaining about cocomelon got me of gaurd it made me remember about FNAF or the Walten files or harmony and horror by a theory of matpat I miss him😢💀

This the first video I watched from you ever but it gives a sad vibe

Man this video is an incredible wake up call. As an older brother, I wish I had done more to keep my baby sister away from technology. Her having her first phone BEFORE 5 is beyond insane, and I should have done something sooner. Nothing breaks my heart more than telling her "I love you," only to be met by silence because she was too focused on watching youtube rot. I'll be speaking with my parents about this and I hope it's not too late to help her. This video is amazing. Thank you so much for this.

As a gen z, it's not the kids fault. It's the parents fault for not monitoring what they watch. Gen z has a way better childhood than gen alphas will ever have.

If I have kids I ain't showing the internet until they are 13

I'm Gen Alpha and this video is just relatable, not for me, but for some of my friends. I'm not listing names here but here's how the story goes, after watching skibidi toilet, he identifies as one. And at recess, he would usually dance around singing their theme song, he did it so much that the school has to ban the word skibidi so people don't get effected by this awful series of poorly animated garbage

A few months ago, I stayed with my mom and twin brother at a second women’s shelter after we were nearly evicted from our home, considering my dad’s emotional abuse towards us. While we remained there until moving into an apartment in early November, I was mortified that the kids who ended up down in the living room, kept consuming mindless Elsagate content. There was a time where some kid nearly stole my mom and twin brother’s phone whilst hyperactive. Parents raising their kids on iPads was a mistake. And I can’t stop them from letting the child they raised lose them, only some. You’re such an oracle to this age of technology. More people need to hear your wise words!

As a 12 year old, the internet taught me way too many things I shouldn't know, has completely ruined me, I have serious mental health issues and I'm extremely burnt out all of the time . I hope these issues can be fixed and for parents that actually care DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS KZfaq KIDS IT IS WAY WORSE THAN KZfaq

This was great at explaining the current situation on the internet, but is anyone else experiencing a glitch where on certain KZfaq channel's videos, the video menu flickers every single second?

Me and a 5 y/o kid stay at a salon for around 8-10 hours when we don't have school to attend. Our parents are barbers who simply can't pay any attention to us, and when they can, they are usually trying to rest as much as possible, thus leaving them too tired to pay attention to us or what we're doing. This leaves us to laze around and use what little we have to stay entertained and not bored out of our minds. In my case, I was at a salon since 4 years old, and any technology for two years, then I got an iPad at 6, I then installed KZfaq. Later, I was introduced to undertale, and baldi. I then found minecraft, roblox, fnaf, vines, and funny videos on my own to pass the time and entertain myself. By this point, I could differentiate what was bad or good, and stayed away from the non-appealing content, from my experience, there was no brainrot at all, and mostly a lot of unappealing videos. From there, I grew as a person, and life was looking great, the stuff I watched weren't good for me, but they did not affect my cognitive abilities in any way. In the other kid's case -- we'll call him "andy" -- he's introduced to KZfaq for 4 months now. He appears to have an incredibly low attention span, averaging 20-40 seconds on things he doesn't immediately like, and 1-4 minutres on things he does. Most content depicted in the video are things they enjoy, such as Skibidi toilet (fanmade videos), Garten of banban (fanmade videos), sonic (fanmade), siren head (fanmade), and MANY idiotic fanmade minecraft videos. Everything stated is fanmade, and the KZfaqrs are clearly the culprits behind the clickbait, suggestive thumbnails, appealing titles, and visciously overstimulating content, that many gen alpha kids are currently being subjected to. Other than occasionally mimicking the actions of characters depicted -- which after watching this video, we know it's fine -- he's otherwise pretty normal. Nonetheless, I turned off search & watch history, cleared all history, unsubscribed from every harmful youtuber, dislike the videos of all brainrot youtubers/content from their device, then replaced those subscriptions with music composers, morally good people, and some content I grew up with. With all that work done, it barely affected one crucial aspect of youtube -- KZfaq Shorts: The Baron of Brainrot and Wasting Time. The best way I could hide that mind-numbing content was to dislike all of the garbage shorts, hide video types and hide the youtubers who made that content altogether. So, there is definitely hope to fix the situation these kids are in, and it begins with getting rid of the content they watch, or KZfaq itself, and replacing that with games or outdoor activities.

The fact that 10 years from now many children will find this content very nostalgic is quite distressing and depressing.

I have really bad ADHD and I'm honestly glad I grew up before this era of KZfaq content. I think I would genuinely be doomed if I was exposed to this stuff early on in my life.

I have two little cousins, I love introducing them to the games I loved as a kid and still love now. They love hearing about it and seeing my collections. My uncle and auntie didn’t shove the iPad in their faces and they still play with toys, I love them so much and I love it when my cousins show me their Pokémon cards and toys.

"And we have all the magic of the digital age to do that with" An Exerpt from Solid Snakes Speech, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty 2001 Technology can help us progress and learn, but it can also hurt us

As a Gen Z born in 2005, I can say that I'm glad I grew up with my Nintendo Wii, Wii U, DS/3DS, going to the park everytime after school, visiting a few fairgrounds throughout the year, playing with legos, my old computer to watch a little YT and some movies on DVD, and watching the classic cartoons on Disney Channel, Disney Jr, Disney XD, Nicktoons, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr, Cartoon Network, and Boomerang to.

I used to be a full time nanny and hated how often the parents would suggest to me that I simply give the children their iPads to make my job easier...I have always found the "content" targeted towards children extremely disturbing the past decade or so. It's becoming more and more normalized as well. I recently went to a festival, and there was a children's section of the fair that had toys, kid rides, etc. You know what kind of plushies they had hanging everywhere? Huggy Wuggy...from the horror game Poppy Playtime! There were several kids running around with Huggy Wuggy toys as well. My partner and I kept saying "Why is this being sold to children? Why would they be watching/playing that?"

Parents be like 1. Have child 2. Give ipad 3. Ignore child 4. Blame skibidi toilet

Hey brother I admire your optimism

I believe the most important thing is using phones less yourself, especially around kids. Kids see you using a phone and are instantly obsessed even without ever seeing the screen.