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YouTube will start using your view history to guess if you're an adult
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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.
https://youtube.com/@OneShortEye
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:
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
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.
news?
some scifi shows in the early 2000s.
Maybe some finance, home repair, defense economics.