A foreign government is trying to influence the youth of their enemies to ensure they are as weak as possible. They have been successful in most of our colleges/high schools as well. Social media has made it so much easier for the best manipulators to get ahold of the people. I think it's working better than even they expected and we're headed for some interesting times. This is all just my general observation though.

Muh Russia

Could be. Could also be China, Iran, Israel, North Korea, India, Canada, Bernie Sanders. I don't think anyone in the general public really knows.

Probably foreign and domestic corporations rather then a nation. But some nations have been reduced to corporations and some state agencies run shell corps. I agree it gets convoluted.

China doesn't get YouTube so where are you getting that from?

Bullshit, it's our own social engineers doing this shit to our kids...

It is your own, but technically it’s not, as it’s been infiltrated, if not infiltrated, bought. That’s why our own is letting it happen and are not protecting us, why do you think google is censored in China, both to control their citizens, but as well make sure no outside influence causes havoc through manipulating them via internet. A lot of the elsagate videos are made oversees, but yes some are made in North America as well.

Maybe made in usa. Not necesarily paid for with u.s. earned dollars.

Sure if you love avant-garde sick & twisted, skippy-level fucked up pedoanimation based on Mickey and his Disney friends .. then yes

Your description sounds way more entertaining than the actual videos. I tried watching them and they were boring as shit, idk how these kids watch them. I'm talking the animated ones though, the live action ones are fucked.

Most of the offending YT videos have finally been pulled, but here is some background Youtube Kids Channel Features Baby Butt Syringe Videos, Scat Skits — WTF?!

Seriously?

This sub was one of the ones to help fuel the backlash. Search "elsagate" on just this subreddit and how many threads there have been.

Now, imagine someone asking you, "Has anyone in this sub even heard of Elsagate"?

What's your answer? Is it a good question?

Yeah I’m surprised OP said "I just came back from /r/elsagate” like it’s a common thing.

It's because it came up in an askreddit thread and this sub was mentioned. Without looking, I'm gonna guess it's OPs first time here.

Well, it must not have existed before he knew about it so no point searching first. /s

It's like he thinks we're NPCs just sitting here and waiting for him to lead us to this amazing thing he just "discovered."

Solipsism at its fucking finest.

At this point a better question would be, who hasnt heard of it? Its been on YT channels for months and even on local news

And all over r/conspiracy long before any of that.

Spread the word about Youtube Kids and report these kind of videos.

Well I fell down that rabbit hole...

You know you can search, right? lol

I went down the rabbit hole and I’ve never felt more sick to my stomach.

Same. This shit is definitely out there and it is pretty scary stuff. I make sure to tell everyone I know with kids about this.

...better late than never I guess...

The Russians created Elsagate.

How old are you cousins? How do you think they have been affected?

I'm still of the opinion that Elsagate backlash is just pushing censorship. The only option they have is to censor more videos because of it. Ya there's weird stuff on youtube, go raise your child and stop gluing them to a tablet all day. We're literally cheering them on to increase censorship. But the children!!

Have you gone down the rabbit hole of what the strange comments in the YouTube videos could mean...? Sick sick sick

Reporting won’t do much but it’s a valiant move

From what I understand it is tolerated and even used by YT employees and google folks

I believe elsagate was to stir up enough shit (people getting outraged to such an extreme extent) that youtube can just up and delete any video they want under any condition they want.

There was were a couple articles about it a few months ago...not not referring to it as elasgate...just the problem of the sick videos and one went into detail as how they were pushed into top by bots so more people would stumble along them.

When a few companies saw that there advertising was on a rally sick one they pulled it and utube said they would step up taking them down. Many of them have been taken off safe search, but not all.

Same. This shit is definitely out there and it is pretty scary stuff. I make sure to tell everyone I know with kids about this.