Posted on 11/25/2017 7:18:15 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Across YouTube, an unsettling trend has emerged: Accounts are publishing disturbing and exploitative videos aimed at and starring children in compromising, predatory, or creepy situations — and racking up millions of views.
BuzzFeed News has found a number of videos, many of which appear to originate from eastern Europe, that feature young children, often in revealing clothing, placed in vulnerable scenarios. In many instances, they're restrained with ropes or tape and sometimes crying or in visible distress. In other videos, the children are kidnapped, or made to 'play doctor' with an adult. The videos frequently include gross-out themes like injections, eating feces, or needles. Many come from YouTube 'verified' channels and have tens of millions of views. After BuzzFeed News brought these videos to the attention of YouTube, they were removed.
In recent weeks, YouTube has faced criticism after reports about unsettling animated videos and bizarre content, which were aimed at children using family-friendly characters, and some of which was not caught by YouTube Kids’ filters. All of the videos reviewed by BuzzFeed News were live-action, ostensibly set up by adults and featuring children. Taken together, they make up a vast, disturbing, and wildly popular universe of videos that — until recently — existed unmoderated by the platform.
That appears to be changing. On Tuesday afternoon, BuzzFeed News contacted YouTube regarding a number of verified accounts — each with millions of subscribers — with hundreds of disturbing videos showing children in distress. As of Wednesday morning, all the videos provided by BuzzFeed News, as well as the accounts, were suspended for violating YouTube's rules. YouTube told BuzzFeed News that the deletions were part of a scheduled effort to combat this type of content and that some of the accounts and videos provided by BuzzFeed News were already scheduled to be purged.
"In the last week we terminated over 50 channels and have removed thousands of videos under these guidelines," YouTube said in a statement. All of the videos featured below were still up as of Tuesday evening.
According to YouTube, the deletions are part of a bigger effort to weed out exploitative content on the platform. Last week the company terminated ToyFreaks, a massively popular account run by Greg Chism for videos that bordered on child abuse. The account featured videos of Chism's daughters screaming in fear, bathing, pretending to be babies, spitting up food, being force-fed, and 'peeing.' The account had 8 million followers around the time YouTube shut it down.
In a company blog post Wednesday afternoon, YouTube pledged to address the issue comprehensively by fixing gaps in its enforcement policy. Starting today, the company is purging accounts that — like ToyFreaks — appear to show child endangerment. It is also age-restricting cartoons and animated videos that feature kid-friendly characters engaged in bizarre or adult situations.
The company is also cracking down on advertising on videos that feature family entertainment characters engaged in violence. According to YouTube, the company has removed ads on 3 million of these videos since June. The site also plans a new initiative to disable all comments on any videos featuring children in exploitative situations. According to YouTube, if a video featuring children begins to populate with inappropriate comments, the site will disable the comment thread for that video. The company will also be providing guidance for creators who make family-friendly content in the form of some written instructions. Lastly, the company said it would work with child safety experts to continue to identify troubling trends like this one, which the company allowed to thrive on its platform for years. Many of the offending channels were even verified by YouTube — a process that the company says was done automatically as recently as 2016. The company says it has re-evaluated the verification process to add more human oversight.
Before YouTube removed them, these live-action child exploitation videos were rampant and easy to find. What's more, they were allegedly on YouTube's radar: Matan Uziel — a producer and activist who leads Real Women, Real Stories (a platform for women to recount personal stories of trauma, including rape, sexual assault, and sex trafficking) and who provided BuzzFeed News with more than 20 examples of such videos — told BuzzFeed News that he tried multiple times to bring the videos to YouTube's attention and that no substantive action was taken.
On September 22, Uziel sent an email to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and three other Google employees (as well as FBI agents) expressing his concern about "tens of thousands of videos available on YouTube that we know are crafted to serve as eye candy for perverted, creepy adults, online predators to indulge in their child fantasies." According to the email, which was reviewed by BuzzFeed News, Uziel included multiple screenshots of disturbing videos. Uziel also told BuzzFeed News he addressed the concerns about the videos early this fall in a Google Hangout with two Google communications staffers from the United Kingdom, and that Google expressed desire to address the situation. A YouTube spokesperson said that the company has no record of the September 22nd email but told BuzzFeed News that Uziel did email on September 13th with screenshots of offending videos. The company says it removed every video escalated by Uziel.
YouTube should stay away from politics.
The disturbing YouTube videos that are tricking children -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acTcMUJ6qBI
Everything is political. We are political animals (Aristotle)
We need to stay away from vice and quit trying to destroy virtue formation in our future citizens so they end up warped and sick like a Charles Mansion.
All behavior is learned and habituated......and it will be normalized.
How different is this creepy evil stuff from telling a little five year old that sodomizing others is a Natural “right” and trying to normalize mutilation and irrational behaviors which deny science and reality like boys can be girls? Very sick ideas and lies to put into the head of little children which will warp them for life and they are doing this now to five year olds.
How is this politics?
These are the creepy Elsa and creepy Spiderman videos, right? I do not ever let my children watch YouTube on their own, just because of language and stuff, but I’d heard from some other people that there were some disgusting videos out there that looked like they were basically trying to trick kids into watching them, and then they’d show stuff that was really inappropriate for kids.
I ended up coming across one of the videos, eventually, and that opened up all the other ones constantly popping up into my “suggested videos” section. I had to go in and delete all my browsing history to get rid of them.
The place where this really comes into play is where parents are letting their kids watch YouTube Kids, and these videos are coming on and the parents don’t even know it.
Gadzooks!
And I thought prohibiting my kid from watching the bonehead parents that play nasty tricks on their kids was sufficient oversight!
Thanks for the heads up!
Sounds like video pirated from Disney and Nickelodeon.
Its just dumb hysteria from media looking to stir things up. Some idiot commenting about a video with a girl in pajamas isn’t some child exploitation conspiracy. If the video is inappropriate in and of itself, take it down. If not...don’t. These advertisers need the internet more than the internet needs them but Youtube is part of the pearl clutchers so they play along.
The Satanification of Children on YouTube — Shocking Overthrow of YouTube Has Already Happened
https://archive.is/mH1iq#selection-2605.0-2609.95
Bubblegum Satanism: The Satanification of Children on YouTube Part II: https://archive.is/AgCrr
The Satanification of Children on YouTube — Shocking Overthrow of YouTube Has Already Happened
https://archive.is/mH1iq#selection-2605.0-2609.95
Bubblegum Satanism: The Satanification of Children on YouTube Part II: https://archive.is/AgCrr
Good for BuzzFeed News.
That's completely untrue. People have been trying to get the media to cover the pedophilia that Youtube allows while at the same time they censor and delete accounts of conservatives.
This is not even the tip of the iceberg:
Peppa eats a burger made of feces: https://youtu.be/9mTDbW_LXUcYouTube
Buried alive, defecated upon: https://youtu.be/TgG2eYfoKGAYouTube
Cannibalism: https://youtu.be/Yunbr6UyKrwYouTube
Eats a spider: https://youtu.be/74BOm7zMOpAYouTube
Cuts off an ear with scissors: https://youtu.be/zufkDlpr3XYYouTube
Dismembered fingers go into the toilet: https://youtu.be/J_V527RM5oIYouTube
Severed legs: https://youtu.be/P-dbUILcQ-sYouTube
Hulk forced into transvestism: https://youtu.be/RM9oPNqfipAYouTube
Uses scissors to dismember hand: https://youtu.be/PiZqSoPjRSMYouTube
Men wearing women’s thong underwear: https://youtu.be/Ts27Az1uTsIYouTube
Groping breasts: https://youtu.be/eTqmTuyaP94YouTube
Kinder Egg Surprise with bloody tampon: https://youtu.be/aOxLIT1_DQ4YouTube
Infantalization: https://youtu.be/QHf8cBDX3ukYouTube — this is a perverse copy of this: https://youtu.be/KUsbIoJf-EYYouTube
Dehumanization (furries, littles, puppy slaves): https://youtu.be/8d6LkLFJ-RIYouTube
Mind control: https://youtu.be/-YkVd1_Z3W8YouTube
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The article is talking about two different things. Weird videos popping up on Youtube kids and ‘pedo’ videos which are just retards commenting on kids in videos. If you label a video as pedo simply because it has a girl in pjS that says a lot more about you than the video.
Yep. Lucifereans have been controlling culture for decades to corrupt and destroy the virtue formation in children so they will be groomed and trained for their sodomy orgies on their altars of Ba’al worship.
It is why they created “abortion”—their baby-killing sacrifices to normalize the Malthusian behaviors in our children and why sodomy (homosexual marriage, an oxymoron) was made legal so pederasty will be normalized again, like it is in muslim boy harems. Same with chopping off hands and heads with blood pouring out. They got to normalize the vulgar and crude and evil so it is normalized like it was for Charlie Manson with his prostitute “mother” who brought men into her home who could also rape her son.
Natural rights aren’t too much, Susie. They are too little.
At the same time I take some cheer that even Google (owner of You Tube) is now taking action, having been alerted of the problems. I’d rather the good Samaritan than the bad Pharisee.
We believe it. We don’t have to go prove it (if those videos are even there any more).
Abortion was there in the devil’s mind as soon as he knew there was going to be a humanity.
And the fight isn’t against some nebulous “virtue.” It was squarely against God, as humans are His creation, and He does not cease to have rights upon them merely because they fall.
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