If you've at all used YouTube in the past few years, you might've seen or at least heard of channels classified as 'content farms'. For those who are still blissfully ignorant, please click off this post to maintain your faith in humanity. Otherwise, feel free to discuss. In recent years, I've noticed an increase in YT channels dedicated to producing low-effort content aimed at kids to a shockingly rapid rate. The videos these channels create utilize fictional characters from properties well-known among younger audiences (usually mascot horror) and contain nonsensical stories as well as animation quality on-par with 'Angela Anaconda'. However, behind all the brainrot is one of the most fascinating rabbit holes of the contemporary Internet, and it's for all the wrong reasons.
To put it bluntly, the actual material these content farms produce should never be viewed by kids. I'm not just saying this in a "think of the children" way. I mean that despite the characters being used, these videos are not for younger viewers. They contain visuals that range from suggestive to borderline pornographic, stuff that's clearly meant to serve one's fetish. Now, I don't judge, and people can be into whatever pleases them (unless it involves minors). However, when taking into consideration who exactly the videos in question are targeted to, and their comment sections being filled with people clearly not adults, there definitely should be some eyebrows being raised by now. For my and your sake, I don't want to go into further detail. There are already a dozen YT videos going over this topic and its potentially... concerning impact on young audiences.
It's so odd to me how this specific sub-genre of YT content has become so widespread recently. I'm probably making a bigger deal out of this than it really is, but it's still bizarre as hell.
