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Crazy how KZfaq would demonetize a channel for the slightest swear and then allow stuff like this to go on in full view

When you realize regular KZfaq is way safer than KZfaq kids

Here's the thing....Elsagate never really went away, but replaced through different channels with different characters, using different scenarios repeatedly with no other effort. It only doesn't get brought up nowadays. Nothing has changed.

solution: don't give your children unrestricted internet access

This is why a site which is moderated by bots where anyone can make videos shouldn't be relied on as non-stop content for children.

I remember when Narmak made a spongebob anime, marked it NOT for kid because it was a fighting shounen parody, but the bot marked it for kids because it had "spongebob" and "animation" in the title, and then got striked because it was not kid friendly. And the fact that Narmak had to reach youtube through twitter because their support service on the site is managed by bots.

Crappy content creators when they see a new horror game:😏

I remember falling in the trap of elsagate, I remember it was 2014-2015 maybe and i was like 7-8 years old. As given unrestricted internet access, this was bound to happen. My mom caught this and switched me to the restricted section, even with only “kids content”, i looked up doggy training videos because i was the weird kid and liked dogs. I found a dog mating video. Still traumatized. The sad reality is that although no longer content of spider man or elsa its more adult characters like squid game that kids found out about. Squid game is violent since people get killed, but elsa gate turned it into something much worse. Same thing with this game called Friday night funkin. Its a rhythm game and it is inappropriate for anyone under 13. Some channels basically turned it into corn.

I was working as a babysitter during Elsagate and the girl I took care of was a huuuge Frozen fan. I had to research Frozen stuff to engage with her play-pretend ideas better and got sooo much Elsagate shit recommended. Didn't know it was a whole thing with a nickname back then, I was really confused for a while. Thank god her parents were totally oldschool and only had one supervised family PC.

I used to perform as Elsa for birthday parties. Covid kind of killed my business which was fine. I didn’t like it as much as I used to. However I remember how kids would ask me about Spider-Man and other shit that those videos had put in their minds. Suffice to say, I was very disturbed. I immediately posted on my business Facebook page warning parents of these videos.

People told me that grew up with these videos that they now suffer from porn addictions or extreme fetishes like Scat, urine, impregnation, and inflation. These are genuinely damaging to children and I'm glad when I was younger I was fixated with fnaf and youtubers like DanTDM instead. It's depressing. I hope these people are better or get better. My prayers to them.

I stumbled upon a channel called "Special Books by Special Kids" - a nice fellow who interviews people with disabilities and chats with them like normal people. It's quite wholesome. Unfortunately, his channel was targeted by these bots and it took him upwards of a year+ to get comments enabled on his videos again. It caused him and his community so much turmoil. KZfaq is like a building that's always in a state of repair but never gets fixed. The comment mechanics are absolutely horrid - I don't get why they don't make them nested like Reddit.

The, "Don't Hug me I'm Scared" KZfaq videos practically warned everyone about this. About how there's sometimes a dark side to children's shows and how parents should watch out for what their kids watch.

*As long as they're turning a profit, KZfaq simply doesn't care.* They didn't remove these channels out of some noble desire to protect kids, it's because the advertisers they've sold out to couldn't handle the heat. At least the problem was (mostly) solved in the process!

What boils my blood in particular was that KZfaq didn't care until advertisers started pulling out, and with videos involving dancing Ankha and characters from Poppy's Playtime with similar themes, it appears that these changes made to the site to prevent this kind of content ultimately didn't do that much in the long run.

i was lucky enough to have strict parents. i wasnt allowed online until i was around 10 or 11, and while i was pissed at them at the time, im so grateful for that now. my little brother though... hes 11 now, and ive caught him watching huggygate (modern elsagate) multiple times. ive tried to tell my stepmom (his mom), but she doesnt do anything to stop him. im out of the house now, and im still worried for him

As messed up as the whole situation was, parents are ultimately responsible for what their kids are watching. Don’t let your iPad babysit your kid.

Happy 5 year anniversary to: - Demonitization - The Adpocolypse - The whole platform being TV-PG - KZfaq Kids videos - Demonitization - UNFAIR Copyright DMCAs and many, many more. I'm suprised it's been 5 years of Spiderman & Elsa nonsense. But I'm also suprised that Disney & Marvel Studios didn't sue KZfaq for channels using this content for kids. The power of KZfaq and those dollar signs.

A lot of doll repaint channels had to essentially scramble to find ways to keep from being demonitized. With the feature of dolls in the thumbnail, the bots deemed many of those channels as "for kids" and resulted in the creators having to put content warnings in the video about it not being for children.

I remember this, and it is very much still a big problem. I'm a father of three, and I remember when all of this started to erupt. My wife and I noticed what our kids were watching and subsequently banned youtube, only allowing them on "kids youtube." We pretty much immediately saw that the same exact types of videos were rampant on kids youtube as well, and proceeded to ban that as well. We only just now have allowed them back onto youtube now that they're older, and understand just why those videos are very much not okay. The thing is though, stuff like that is still floating around, and not just a little bit of it either. Suffice it to say, Peppa Pig will forever be not allowed in our house and has - quite literally - haunted the nightmares of my youngest. This is also a HUGE problem on Roblox, which we also banned. Despite "unlocking" youtube, we have much heavier parental controls on their devices that give us daily updates on what they're watching, and yeah: it's still a problem, but luckily our kids are sensible enough now to tell us when they see something like this.

As a father myself, I'm going to say that part of the blame falls on the parents. leaving your kids to be babysat by the internet is as irresponsible as when parents used to let the TV do it.

Fun fact: The people behind those spiderman and else live action bullshit were actually confronted by a French-Canadian news outlet, finding out they were based in southern Quebec, Canada. Not only they refused to be interviewed, but one anonymous individual who worked for them stated that they are contractually obligated to *keep their mouths shut*, showing how insanely shady this is.

The worst part is that this is still ongoing.

as someone who watched elsagate religously at 8-9, I never realized how much watching all those videos fucked my relationship with sexual content up until I started going to therapy years later

I’ve tried to explain “Elsa-gate” to “out of the loop” family members and why I think it’s a downright wild that certain child-having family member just let their kids watch this KZfaq garbage, by themselves for literal hours on end with zero supervision. While some of them kind of get that there’s material on KZfaq that’s not suitable for kids, I don’t think any of them fully grasp the ridiculousness of what Elsa-gate really is. They see the first minute or two of what appears to be an “innocent” cartoon and think because it’s a cartoon on “youtube kids” it must be safe for kids, but they don’t understand the algorithms and how those algorithms are manipulated to get this shit in front of little kids. My 5yo nephew stayed with my parents one night and started going on a tangent about being scared to be outside after dark because “poppy was going to kill us” and, in excruciating detail, described how it was going to kill us. I had no idea wtf Poppy was, but after a bit of searching figured out it’s a character from a game that’s also being used in these “elsa-gate” type videos that he was being allowed to consume. Thankfully, my brother nuked the KZfaq app from their devices after that…

Elsa-gate is to Gen-Alpha what shock sites and liveleak videos were to Gen-Z. Thankfully it doesn't seem like it's as severe as seeing a beheading video on iFunny, but it just goes to show the growing pains of the internet as we begin to outgrow the moderation and systems that are currently in place. It's crazy how influential events like these are on the future of the internet

As an adult that likes bizarre entertainment, I liked a lot of the Elsagate videos I saw because they were "bizarre entertainment that occasionally had some mature content I could handle." Many reminded me of New Grounds flash and Robot Chicken parodies. The problem was they were getting pushed on kids. Like, most people don't have a problem with something like Happy Tree Friends or Drawn Together existing even though they rely on edgy shock humor, and Elsagate videos could live along side them as "edgy shock parodies for adults," but would have a problem if HTF or DT started airing on Disney Channel in the middle of the day between Micky Mouse Clubhouse and Jessie.

Anyone remember Happy Tree Friends tho? I remember my parents giving me a dvd of it when I was like 7-9 or so and I also know a friend whose younger sister watched and laughed maniacally at that show when like 5, (she's a teen now and pretty psychopathic btw). Also, about the video - so this was allowed but when a youtuber says "suicide", "self harm" or "p*dophile" and etc they got demonetized or flagged (imo even back then)?

What’s hilarious is this is still happening all across the platform, but I bet this video is the one that’s demonetized

I remember desperately trying to keep these videos away from my baby sister's eyes. my mom literally didn't believe me when I told her some of the stuff wasn't really appropriate because "it's on youtube kids so it's ok." like I'm sorry, she's 3, I know pregnancy is natural but she doesn't need to watch a video about pregnant Elsa giving birth. Luckily, since I was babysitting her that summer I had the pin to the youtube kids account so I could stop it, but I had to deal with so many tantrums because I blocked all of these channels. but there were so many channels and I couldn't keep them all away so after keeping it away for a week she found a new channel and I had to start the removal process again.

This is why my brother and sister in-law deleted my nephews KZfaq account. Some of the content he was watching was disturbing,and the videos were targeted towards kids. This is a big issue, and scary!

i also fell victim to this too. Back when I was 7 or 8 i used to watch disturbing MLP videos on youtube. These videos include pinkie pie deactivating rainbow dash for cupcakes and the main 6 getting killed by a demonic creature. I thought they were normal back then but then after i stopped watching MLP due to me growing too old, i looked back from my past and found that they wern't normal. And when I heard about elsa gate and about it, i was shocked

When I first started using the internet back in the late 90s and early 2000s, EVERYTHING was at least 13+. There shouldn't even be a kids youtube. The fact it's such a profitable demograph is disturbing and frankly none of that should be legal to begin with. - some boomer

Trust me, KZfaq for kids has always been problematic. I remember watching dogs give birth on that app, and I also saw videos of dogs dying whilst covered in mange and open sores and infected cuts. That messed me up for a long time. But yea, youtube has some weird rules and even stranger videos they allow on that app…

Sadly as when i was younger i was watching this stuff i can confirm this truly twisted my young mind but back then my parents were young and stressed so they thought it was okay.

I am really digging this channel thus far. I've been binging all day, and I'll probably binge way more tomorrow!!

I seriously wonder who some of those "actors" were in those Spiderman and Elsa videos and if they should be held accountable for anything. Clearly they knew what they were doing.

I was about 10 roughly when this was happening and me and my older brother would watch these religiously. Luckily, my grandma got wind of how weird those videos were and said she would ground us if we watched it again. So, thanks grandma.

I was a kid when this was happening, i vividly remember seeing these thumbnails and being super disturbed. It was literally the reason I never watched videos from channels I wasn’t already subscribed to for years.

So sad that these things still happen in today's internet, It may be a different way of showing it or delivering it but it still has the same context. It is sad that many games that are genuinely good and terrifying are ruined just because adults will do whatever it takes to get the views even if it traumatizes their viewers. Believe me, I also fell to that era of KZfaq when I was young. I hated it so much..

i hate all of the stupid rules on this website that exist to “protect” children against “harmful content” when they made a whole other app specifically for KIDS They seriously need to focus on making that app safer for kids because it still isn’t 100% safe AND also stop forcing these rules on the normal youtube app and to people who upload videos not made for kids

bruh these videos traumatized me and I was like 21 when this happened

It is crazy when Elsagate and some bad kid contents are more creepy than the actual horror and gore-leveled horror I used to grow up with the horror-loving and childhood memories if not only the childhood trauma from internet like Sonic. EXE, Pinkie Pie's Cupcake and other trauma deaths, etc... And I can confirm that we are grow up without those bad kid contents.

i remember being around 9 in a store and hearing a 3-5 year old kid blasting a video on their ipad. it was an elsagate style video with maui and moana drinking and engaging in very questionable acts. i was scarred for life after that

“Making the app family friendly is of the utmost importance to us 🤥”

There has never been a time where "Think of the children!" has failed to make things worse. The lesson everyone should take away from this debacle: _do your job as a parent and watch you damn kids._

10:05 It’s so subtle. You gotta love it.

I was a victim of elsagate. When I was around 5, I was watching youtube, with my mom's supervision, but then she went to use the bathroom and handed me the remote. I clicked on the first video I saw with elsa as the thumbnail, and it was just the regular Let It Go music video, but then at the very end the door of her castle slammed on her face and made her face look like a demon...

I fell victim to this stuff when I was younger with my sister. My dad got enraged finding some of the names of the videos. I blame both KZfaq for poor protection, but also my parents for just being oblivious and should have taken better standards

THANK YOU ALL FOR 1 MILLION SUBS

Hello, I’m glad you talked to this as it is one of the biggest KZfaq events.

I'm honestly glad I grew up in a time before KZfaq existed. Most of my free time as a kid was spent watching Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, and Nickelodeon... or playing N64/GameCube.

It’s crazy how KZfaq isn’t even meant for little kids

Guys, it's still happening. The fact that A LOT of children know about Squid Game, Poppy Playtime and Five Nights at Freddy's is proof that this shit will never stop. None of this would've happened if parents didn't rely on the internet and TV to raise their children...

I actually used to watch these and I remember some of the videos and now I realized how messed up those videos were.I hope the next generation doesn’t have to go through another one of these era’s that was terrifying.

I will never forget this era because of my sister constantly watching it

As a 20 year old who grew up with mlp gore, Elsagate was nothing new, childhood trauma videos were around before most of us were born.

Elsagate is a good reason why parents need to really pay attention to what their kids consume.

I just wanted to say you background looks really cool.

I’m 13, so I was 6-7 when this was going on. I remember it. I would watch these videos. At around 8:00, you said that people believe that these were run by pedophiles trying to groom children into liking this stuff. I agree. I agree because I was one of those children. At the time, I didn’t know it, but these videos made me develop some fucked up sexual interests (luckily not scat though, thank god). It’s a side of me that I don’t ever want to show, and will never show. I have never spoken about it, but I think now is a good time to. These videos didn’t exactly traumatise me, but I blame them for my odd interests. I know that I’m definitely not alone on this. I feel sorry for anyone else who had this happen to them too. Edit: Thanks for the support, everybody. I really appreciate it. It’s good to know I’m not alone.

There was just something so incredibly ominous about elsegate, it's hard to describe to people who didn't witness it.

As someone who used to watch this kind of stuff as a kid it really made me realize more grown up stuff before I really should have. My grandparents had not let me watch it anymore but for the short time I did it really did affect my thinking and questions I’d ask.

My personal experience with Elsa gate: so I was about 6 or 7 years old around the time elsa gate was popular, and at that time I only really watched lol surprise stop motions and unboxing videos along with other toys like barbie and shopkinns (which were entirely child appropriate) but I do remember coming across an elsa gate video where the equestria girl version of twilight sparkle and the yellow villain from rainbow rocks (for whatever reason I can’t remember the name of her or her little group) getting into multiple situations. I was a fan of my little pony and equestria girls, so I was an easy target. I watched it and somehow 7 year old me actually enjoyed it. It wasn’t inappropriate, just weird. After that night I never came across one of the my little pony videos again and i sort of forgot about it entirely. Another video I ended up watching was one of the notorious, you guessed it, live action Spider-Man and Elsa videos. Basically the video was of Elsa and spider man torturin- I mean … pranking each other *nervous laughter*……… anyway so basically another thing I was a fan of at the time was frozen. And all though I was an Anna Stan who thought Elsa was over rated, I pretty much wanted the best all the 5 main characters, including Elsa, so seeing spider man torture her massively pissed me off, so I guess I just clicked off, only to get them recommended to me constantly, only to ignore them. So other than those 2 incidents, and despite being on the ‘child friendly’ side of KZfaq practically all the time, I think I can safely say I had a nice, Elsa gate free childhood. Thank you for coming to my ted talk Edit: while I was writing this comment I forgot about those god awful inappropriate overly-fetishised flash games of elsa and tinkerbell being pregnant me and my older cousin used to play all the time. Oops.

Let’s be real here: KZfaq didn’t remotely care this was going on. They only got involved when ad money started drying up. That’s the only thing they ever have cared about and could give a shit about any user on here or their kids.

Reminds me of the “Toys in Japan” channel and all of their crazy computer animation: Hitler kung-fu fighting a cat, “finger family songs” with fingers of syringes, Hitler busts, or attack helicopters, and Shrek bouncing on the bed were just a sampling of the insanity. I used to send my friends those videos to freak them out! Mission Accomplished! 😂

Elsagate was such a wild situation, i remember watching h3h3's videos on the whole thing. All i remember thinking was damn, when i was a kid on youtube all i watched was ytps, warriors cats/pokemon animatons, and those old zoo tycoon "movies" made in windows movie maker LOL. How times changed, and for the worse too. Kinda ironic that old, less moderated youtube was safer than modern.

I remember seeing this when I was Younger and being so disgusted by it even I knew it was inappropriate and I was like 6 and I was surprised youtubers were not talking about it and today I'm still shocked how long it took them to see this

Man, I remember back then I was like 8-9 yo I was at a party, and I saw kids on a tablet watching these type of videos laughing their faces off. When I saw them I was like "wth is this sh*t" and moved on. I'm grateful for my parents raising me not to use the internet without permission lol.

I've been a content moderator for over 7 and a half years. I have to deal with terrible, terrible content, a lot of the time centered around children. It infuriates me how hands-off youtube is with serious issues like this when the simple fact is you just need to hire more people. I would happily sit here working with youtube instead of my current employer to moderate, but they're too cheap to want to hire real people.

Damn this video being sent to me is a god send from the algorithm. I myself am making an editorial on this subject. More specifically, how this "elsagate" content is now affecting the stop motion community. Like you said, it's not as rampant, but this type of content is sadly still around and thriving. Someday Susan will get her shit together, or elsagate is just gonna grow like a cancer again.

honestly as a kid who grew up on youtube and with my hyperfixation being frozen, i saw way to many elsagate videos, and they TRAUMATIZED me, like they made me genuinely scared and learn abt things i shouldnt have been learning as a 4-5 year old (violence, sex, and even weight loss)

Many furries attribute their interest in the culture due to a childhood watching cartoons and Disney movies that are pretty mundane. I don't want to imagine a generation of kids that grew up watching Elsagate videos which are explicitly sexualized. Edit for clarity: this is not meant to be a knock on furries. Just giving an example of a established subculture stemming from childhood media.

The worst part of Elsagate is that I'm positive nearly all of those animators were stationed outside of America, so they probably barely faced any consequences past their channels being deleted.

I remember watching Elsa-gate cartoons when i was about 8-10 (when i really started watching them, but i had watched a few videos in my kindergarten-pre-k years) I remember the channel i watched the most with this content was called SuperherokidsTv it had characters from Doc Mcstuffins, paw patrol, Frozen, My little pony and more. Me and my friends would even talk about it sometimes. It was a thing a lot of kids knew about and fell victim to this when i was younger and it kind of surprises me how long it took for the main stream to figure out about this stuff??? People keep talking about it coming to surface around 2016-2017 but i literally remember this stuff from like 2013 and on. Crazy how things can start and no one takes notice of it until it's too late. I'm very grateful to the people on the internet that's trying to stop this type of stuff from resurfacing again and it's very important to check what your kids/siblings are watching.

I'm literally undeniably lucky that i grew up in this time range and NEVER knew about it that much nor ever watched it.

I just feel bad for the kids whose "parenting" experience was just being left in their room with an iPad 12 hours a day

I consumed this "content" at 8 and even I knew there was something deeply wrong about this kind of thing. Thankfully this kind of content is much harder to find these days

I was totally unware of Elsagate. Had no idea anything like that had happened.

this is the reason me and my sisters weren’t allowed to watch youtube for much of my childhood. i grew up mostly in the midst of this, and all of these neon fake, uncanny looking thumbnails feel like some sort of liminal fever dream to me. they were everywhere. i’d see little cousins getting lost within hours of this content. weird, oddly taboo looking videos with broken english and annoying sounds and music. this was my childhood on youtube. it was just so…odd.

As a father, and now grandfather - Elsagate was a major story for me when it happened... My kids were all grown up by the time it hit so I did not have to worry too much - but being older I had already seen the issues that could arise from the Internet as a whole, including one of my step children and a friend having a sleepover one night, hopping onto to MSN Messenger and being groomed by a "Pedo" in Canada - Thankfully, he was arrested and is now serving some serious jail time! I look back now to my youth when teh Internet was first becoming mainstream, back in about 1990'ish here in the UK...Back when Dial Up was everyone's favourite way of connecting and my thoughts even back then were "Pedo's Paradise" - Little did I know that when I finally did succumb and join teh online world in 2001 that I would be SO RIGHT! While I di dare to say that some of the Elsagate channels were indeed run by "Perverts" - I feel the Majority just saw a way to make a quick buck... Once KZfaq cracked down, the money wasn't there anymore and they had to find new methods... And have! The Crafty, 5 Minute Crafts, and such... WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING BEING ALLOWED TO KEEP RUNNING ON KZfaq? Oh wait... They rack in millions of views and make a lot of Money!!! Elsagate is still with us - it only has a new form! "Content Farms" as they are known are DEEPLY DISTURBING AND DANGEROUS! All the channels in Elsagate were simple Mom and Pop Content Farms... And when Kids Characters were taken out of contention and unusable - They adapted and now make "Life Hack Videos" that in many cases are DEPLY DANGEROUS and POTENTIALLY LEATHAL... ... And can still be viewed on the KZfaq Kids! app! Side note: Elsagate has also caused great harm where KZfaq Kids is concerned, Many of my friends who are also parents REFUSE to allow their children to use KZfaq Kids and would rather them use PROPER KZfaq!!! I wish that was a joke... But its not! They feel more able to control what their chidlren are viewing via KZfaq proper than on KZfaq Kids when they normally find out TOO LATE if some dodgy content has got on there! And NO! I AM NOT CALLING FOR ANOTHER ADPOCYLPSE!!! I am calling for KZfaq to DO ITS DAMN JOB! Anyone with half a brain can tell that Promoting Children using HOT GLUE GUNS is DANGEROUS... But KZfaq relies TOO MUCH on Algorithms and does NOT review this content enough!!! KZfaq should be keeping a closer eye on "Content Farms". And as if to drive the point home - A KZfaqr I am not familiar with - TechnoBlade - Passed away this last week, and sure enough the Content Farms started MILKING HIS DEATH FOR VIEWS!!! And that is where again we are going to see KZfaq do a "Knee Jerk" once more and go Scorched Earth and screw it all up... As they did with Elsagate... A Bit of Advice for KZfaq... Yes it is hard with so much content being uploaded - I get it! But when channels are aimed at kids, HAVE GENUINE HUMAN CONTENT REVIEWERS!!! Yes it will hit your profits, yes it will mean hiring thousands more people and cost you loads in wages... but if you want to avoid another FTC Fine and a bad reputation - That's what you must do! Much longer comment than I intended - TL;DR: Elsagate is NOT GONE, Its simply found a new form! Another Adpocyplse will come very soon! We should all be afraid!

11:17 He has a point, but he's not completely right, KZfaq still needs to put an effort into making KZfaq Kids... FOR KIDS, but parents also need to learn that plopping your child in front of an IPad for hours on end is not a good idea because they might come across traumatizing content, case in point, and it's just not good to do in general, but if you insist on letting your young child use the internet, then parents need to at least monitor what their child is doing instead of letting the internet babysit their child.

those frames look really good on Wavy's face.

I used to find this stuff hilarious and would actively search for this content and laugh about it, it was... bizarre, but now, It is kind of scary, It's unsettling..... I can say proudly this was some eerie stuff I mean jeez just look at that icon at 4:41

I had to deal with this back in 16. I thought “oh just some people dressed up like Elsa making videos for kids” but then, those videos started getting weirder and weirder. I finally had enough and did something about it. God damn, I just about put all that out of mind lol

So, I grew up in the era of Newgrounds and early KZfaq (think around the time when KZfaq Poops were huge). There was a lot of stuff that I shouldn't have seen when I was younger. But the main thing is that pretty much all of those videos were parody of some kind. whether it be an animation like Egoraptor's stuff, a KZfaq Poop, or a video like Smosh's stuff. All of those videos were created as the express purpose of being a joke and poking fun at the media and topics in question (or it was just porn). Sure not all of the content has aged well and there was always malicious stuff, but for the most part it was all for fun Elsagate... is not that. It's a bunch of videos that purposely exploit children or their own personal gain. I feel bad for any kid who accidentally stumbled across one of these videos. Yes, it's important for parents to monitor what their kids watch, of course! But the fact that shit was (and sometimes is) so numerous that it's nearly damn impossible to NOT run into one of these videos by accident.

I used to watch the live action videos with my brother often. My parents used to get so mad at us. I am so thankful that they stopped me before it became an addiction. I also never remembered the channel name or video scripts. I used to watch them because of Elsa.

I remember watching soo many of these i loved watching these❤

I hope people never forget this time of KZfaq, some seriously messed up stuff was going on back then. the anti-Elsagate community even uncovered (or maybe connected?) the animations and skits to some ACTUAL nonce activity taking place, with some arguably borderline NSFW things being posted, and one of the methods they used to sniff out this sort of stuff was to google dates (the month part in russian, usually) and go to the "videos" tab, in which they would find kids exposing themselves on YT, and then the good fellas fighting this would flag the video. srsly, we need to learn from this whole thing

Is it crazy for me to think that theres almost a coordinated effort to to introduce children to werid fetishes early in life to desensitize them?

I was a bit older when this stuff was popular, but I remember babysitting for a little girl and she wanted to watch this stuff, and I knew it was “for kids” but it all deeply disturbed me

Amazing video

Dude.. I remember when I asked my cousin what she was watching back in 2016 and seeing it was ElsaGate content. I told my Tia to actually watch my little baby cousin's online activity on KZfaq instead of just giving her the tablet as a babysitter. Luckily, she started taking away internet privileges from the 2 year old and she didn't fall down too deep into the rabbit hole. Crazy to see this being talked about now, it's a disturbing blast from the past.

My younger brother and sister grew up during the Elsagate era. My brother didn’t interact too much but my sister watched many videos like that. She’s in her gachalife era right now, i hope she hasn’t been exposed to gacha heat.

Elsagate is still on KZfaq, just in a different format and popular as ever

as someone who grew up with this content i can say that I am traumatised

If I have children, knowing what I do about the internet, I will 100% NEVER give them devices with access to the internet and NOT keep track of where they are looking and watching. Until they are teenagers, you need to make sure your kids are protected from the internet…

Can you imagine trying to explain Elsagate to a child who'd been traumatized by it? I'm a middle-aged nerd, and I don't think I can fully explain it to myself. Serious criminal charges should have been pursued against the Elsagate content creators. These channels were conducting deliberate campaigns of mass child abuse.

And unfortunately, Elsagate has returned to haunt us, how do I know this, I kept seeing channels with extremely disgusting content and all of them were posted recently, one of them showed a female among us character taking a literal shit, and that was just the tamest one I could find

I remember being young and not seeing the issue, but now as an older person I see it is a very big issue.