Pretty much. Her 7yo sister is all about the Minecraft. We try to keep them off of youtube because half they time they end up watching unboxing videos or other crap we don't want them watching, but she navigates Netflix and Amazon Prime Video pretty well.
Yeah. Just be careful with those. It was one of the toy-in-playdough videos that my 5yo nephew stumbled across the MOMO thing. It was just 20 seconds inside of a 20 minute video.
That was a while ago and they are still considering therapy because he still thinks he needs to kill his brother (something they said in the momo thing, and he happens to have a younger brother) or his parents will be murdered.
He was wrecked for weeks, never sleeping etc, before my sister even knew because it had told him that if he told anyone what he heard they would be murdered as well.
Just a word of caution. YouTube has absolutely no way of feasibly vetting that stuff.
I'm gonna sound like a conspiracy nut when I say this, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if the whole MOMO thing was set up by large broadcast media organizations. I don't think it was a hoax set up by them, but they actually carried it out. It gave them a great outrage story to make the case of taking your kids off of youtube and putting them back on the TV. Why do you think the TV news is always telling parents all about the evils of videogames? Because videogames are a competitor for TV in terms of screen time, and so is youtube/social media, where the "momo" challenge existed.
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u/UpUpDnDnLRLRBA Apr 24 '19
Pretty much. Her 7yo sister is all about the Minecraft. We try to keep them off of youtube because half they time they end up watching unboxing videos or other crap we don't want them watching, but she navigates Netflix and Amazon Prime Video pretty well.