My account is old enough to buy beer. The fuck do you think, YouTube?
It’s obvious they are going to use it to stop allowing access without a login or disabling history tracking
YouTube thinks I’ll buy a Rolex LMFAO
YouTube has started showing me ads for planning my own funeral 😞
I get ads to become a nuclear engineer and work on a military submarine 😂
It’s always a good time. Wirh these things you never know.
Well that’s gonna be interesting since the TV runs on my account but 99.9% of the time it’s my kids watching…
They’ll actually outright ban you if you’ve ever watched any DannyGo!
My YouTube account is old enough to be an adult.
Mine is literally older than YouTube.
Why does YouTube need to know how old I am, explicit content isn’t allowed on the platform so the age of the viewer isn’t something they need to know.
Because they need to know who to target ads for gutter cleaning systems and fat man t-shirts.
Oh right yt has ads. I keep forgetting.
Will start?
I’m pretty certain that they’re already guessing as much about you as possible for targeted ads.
I watched a video today on my work computer for the first time, where I don’t have the ability to block the ads. Dear god. The litany of overhyped, lie-based AI dreck was traumatizing.
I watched a single motorcycle video on computer logged out of YouTube. All the related videos were rage bait right wing content. None related to motorcycles.
All part of the right-wing propaganda machine.
So, if you’re a child, watch some videos about budgeting, maybe a few cooking videos?
I dunno, what are some categories of video no youth would ever watch?
Vanlife videos, cooking shows, and politics should make YouTube believe you’re an adult. But hell I subscribe to gaming channels, with watching gamers play games. Will that get me labeled a child.
It’s interesting that you mention the gaming thing, I’ve realised recently that I’m still watching the same folks I was 10 years ago, so it’s really content by millennials for millennials - not a child thing like I’m used to assuming. It does come in part because if I mention YouTube to a younger person I get a blank look when I say who I watch.
I watch videos about Sierra games, nobody below the age of 30 played those
Define Sierra games? They’ve certainly published bangers this century too (NOLF) and even developed some (SWAT 3)
Last game developed by Sierra was in 2004
Care to share the channels? Sounds interesting.
Thanks!
Yeah I mean look how long Markplier been on YouTube it’s crazy. I been on YouTube since early part of 2006. And it what only 20 years old? That mean we have kids who used YouTube who are now grown ups. So this is crap. I remember following Lisa Nova, and watching crazy vine videos. 5secondfilms. Along with gaming videos. I even have posted videos myself. Plan on doing it again soon too.
How to season your cast iron pan.
I think you got it backwards. What are some categories an adult would never watch? Fucking Dora the Explorer and Blues Clues and the like. Although it’s very likely they just play it from their account for their kids.
I regularly watch kids shows in Korean. Not because I’m a Korean baby, but because it’s a lower level vocabulary to learn the language
Hmm seems suspicious.
Can you prove you’re not a Korean baby?
How do you do fellow adult westerners
UK age filter be like:
Access granted.
You do realize that there are a ton of adult fans for kids shows and games right? How quickly the bronies are forgotten with everything happening in the world.
they dont watch dora the explorer or blue clues though. they watch something like pokemon,yugioh which are suppose to be targeted at kids.
Adults arent watching cocomelon or aphmau
Maybe not, but I’m gonna bet most aren’t taking the time or effort just to make a separate account for their child. Or even if they did, that the child is checking to make sure they use that account and not their parents. There’s going to be a lot of overlap.
There are many reasons why mentally mature people also find an interest in content designed for immature minds. The first of which that I can list, in regards to bronies and pegasisters being fans of My Little Pony, especially Generation 4, is:
- That kids shows are chock full of moral lessons that everyone can benefit from.
- MLP may have more compelling drama plots per episode compared to ‘adult’ soap operas.
- The desire for a fantastical escape from a world that’s becoming increasingly negative.
- Psychologically I suspect the characters or settings were very relatable, perhaps in terms of innate desire to:
- Fit in (Twilight)
- Be happier and less depressed (Pinkie)
- Be useful to society/have a loving family (Applejack)
- Be peaceful/coexist with animals (Fluttershy)
- Be popular/cool/more confident (Rainbow)
- Have self-pride/be helpful to friends (Rarity)
- The fantastical idea that conflicts can be solved with love, not war.
- Many animations are often designed with references or jokes that only adults would know, and keep them entertained. For example, how many children would recognise Dashie’s morning wing-boner as anything of note, or that one episode was a parody of Murder on the Orient Express?
Either way, something relatively unique and wonderful happened with MLP:FiM.
Your last sentence scuttled the point of your first two sentences.
That’s fair.
IT certification training videos.
Watch videos about planning your retirement, listen to some classical music and the Beatles. Finish the session off by searching for arthritis
Finish the session off by searching for arthritis
Found it!
Recorded really early 20th century movies or acts.
Disney before Frozen came out.
Listen to some classical music
They’re looking for people under 13 I assume.
In other words, I think that’s the diving line. So I don’t think 12 year olds are budgeting.
Makes sense, as all services I’ve encountered that mention age in regards to data collecting imply that it’s illegal to harvest those under 13. Mobile games and other services would not harvest data if you state your age as well below 13, but the increasingly vast majority just say “we will be harvesting you; by clicking this button or making an account you confirm that you are over 13 years of age…” Because, you know, real child protection laws are in effect.
I dunno, what are some categories of video no youth would ever watch?
news?
some scifi shows in the early 2000s.
Maybe some finance, home repair, defense economics.
so just turn off your youtube view and search history
Hopefully Google doesn’t bypass that and record your history to guess your age regardless.
In fact, Google probably still records your view and search history even if you turn those off, and turning off view and search history probably just blocks it from getting added to the recommendation algorithm.
Basically, the best course of action, while it still is a course of action, is to just watch YT either on one of the few Invidious instances left standing, or on Grayjay, but still, purge your search and view history and disable it moving forward for added peace of mind if anything.
Better yet would be to straight-up log out of YT on your browser and only watch YT in Invidious or logged in on Grayjay moving forward.
My viewing history can legally drink in US in a year. What do you mean „guess”?
Are you sure you are not three kids in a trench coat?
I just got off work at the business factory. I did three businesses today!
Vincent? Vincent Adultman? I haven’t seen you since business college when we took company 101 together with Professor Realguy!
How have you been?
Finally, I can just watch 50 hours of N64 emulation nerd shit to gain access to the softcore porn I also wanted to watch, after this next N64 video
Kaze is a god
As far as YouTube is concerned, I haven’t watched a video there in over a year.
lol, many adults will get flagged as kids:
you keep clicking on YT Shots
watching Joe Rogan again? susWas gonna say… my kids keep accidentally using my profile to watch their videos. YouTube is going to think I’m a teen/child with peak gen alpha brain rot.
Ben Shapiro fans in shambles
either him or charlie kirk.
Me watching Pokémon episodes in YT
So I just have to gain a brain rot addiction to regain my youth? When asked how this twelve year old managed to create a YouTube account 20 years ago, YouTube replied, “he’s very clever.”
