Why Are YouTube Kids Channels on Hulu Now?

videos two videos in a month has anyone done that before? Um, I don't think so. Mention a YouTuber right now who has uploaded twice in a month and I'll give you $1,000. Today's video will be a little different from what you are used to on the channel. I've gotten away from exposing things and just do what I want to do. Usually, you know, stranger danger videos. My video. By the way, this is actually merchandising and it will be useful today because The things you are going to see will make you want to say enough a lot of times, well, how are my arms shaking?

Anyway, you know, stranger danger videos, dare videos, sex education, bad movies, all the things I've been very interested in talking about. but today is very different, the more I looked into this topic the more sure I was that I needed to make a video about it just because it baffles me to my core. I still don't know what I'm going to title this video. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with YouTube Kids and Hulu, but there's so much more to this story than that, so buckle up and get ready to hear about the horrible world of online children's entertainment before I talk about what drove me. to want To make this video, I need to emphasize two things: one, everyone knows how bad YouTube

kids

are.

That's not what this video is about. You've seen me rant about it before you've seen other YouTubers rant about it before and, I just need to do it. stress before we talk about what this generation of

kids

are going to watch, I have to acknowledge that the last few generations have had advertising really targeted at us, oh what's that mom? Turtles, pizza and guns, can we give that company a million dollars? In my eyes, yeah, the car turns into a robot and also, um, Stevens' kid is in it, so it's crazy, right? I think it really started in the '70s with things like Star Wars that were toys and the marketing was aimed at pretty kids. aggressively on television, but the Internet has turned it into a monster that I don't think anyone would have expected and that's what today's video on how to profit from children is all about.

It's not that funny? Isn't that a fun topic to talk about? you just feel good thinking about it now that we've got that out of the way let's talk about Hulu so a few nights ago I finished re-watching season 2 of Atlanta so I started scrolling through Hulu kids to see what they had over there. Things you know like a regular show, Adventure Time, which you know, are a little bit past my time as a kid. I still watched it, but it was like becoming a teenager and those are great shows. People who are a few years younger than me got excellent ones. television, but today's kids, like toddlers, have the worst entertainment of any generation and that became more apparent to me when I saw Ryan's Toy review kids YouTube channel that unboxing Toys had a Hulu show and not just It was called Ryan's World Specials. presented by a pocket watch so already my anti advertising kids brain thinks the name of the show is sponsored even if you don't want to watch SpongeBob SquarePants presented by autozone zoboomafoo presented by Dick's Sporting Goods and especially because the toy reviews of Ryan focus on very, very young kids, we're talking about little kids, like eight years old now, if you don't know Ryan's Toy Reviews channel, I'll go and give you a little voiceover backstory, real quick.

Welcome back to Eddie's backstory corner, which Ryan ToysReview is also known for. As Ryan's World is a YouTube channel that started on March 16, 2015, it stars an eight-year-old boy and has over twenty 2.2 million subscribers with over thirty-three billion views on YouTube without exception. Ryan's channel uploads a video practically every day. and you're probably thinking what would compel a group of parents to make their children work basically a full-time job on the Internet. The answer is money when Ryan was 6 years old, between 2016 and 2017, he was the eighth highest paid YouTuber. eleven million dollars last year he was listed as the highest-paid

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r earning more than twenty-two million dollars that's more than the Paul brothers that's more than PewDiePie that's more than practically I don't know all the money in the world, I guess, but it does About two months Ryan faced some controversy and when I say Ryan faced I mean his parents.

He is an eight year old boy. He is not responsible for any of this. In late August, the FTC filed a complaint against YouTube over Ryan's channel. The FTC said the channel deceptively promotes a multitude of products to millions of preschool children in violation of FTC law. Some of the complaints are basically saying that over 90% of the content on Ryan's channel is sponsored, but it's not clear. enough for a four-year-old to discern if it's an ad, if you put sponsored by McDonald's in the corner of a video screen, a four-year-old won't say, oh, I understand Ryan gets paid to give these points of view and that his actual views may differ from this because you know I understand the endorsement and he is endorsing this product so it may not be like the normal views know, instead they are going to eat playdough and their pants because they're a four year old, so for now that's all the backstory you need on Ryan's channel, so now that you're an expert on a multi-million dollar YouTube channel for eight year olds, let's see your Hulu show, okay, lots of freebies.

I didn't see them there, most of you know how much I love Ryan's videos, so we're immediately greeted by this extremely poorly animated panda and I know if you don't like the animation at all, it looks okay, but it's cool. lazy, I mean, look at this background and don't you think it's a little disturbing that a cartoon tells you that they love videos of eight year olds, especially when a grown man's voice is like Hey guys, you know? I love this kid, don't cut that combo, for God's sake, super awesome, awesome, crazy, cool, Red Titan comic collection in this show, they have an animated version of Ryan where he's a superhero called Red Titan.

Now I know you're thinking it's cool for an eight-year-old to see himself as a superhero, but when you really think about it, it's a little weird that they're creating this image of Ryan who is completely out of his control when he was. child. true, it's a little strange that not only is she a multi-million dollar YouTube channel where she unboxes toys, but now they're taking her image and just some random adults are animating her, there's nothing I blatantly like as illegal or wrong, but just it feels. weird right now, don't worry, his show isn't the worst part of this whole video, it's going to get worse, but I still want to show you a little more how low effort this show is.

When you watch the episode, you realize that waiting is Isn't it exactly like those shitty animations in kids' YouTube videos that everyone had problems with? There's nothing blatantly gross or weird about this, but there's a solo effort, there's not even a narrative and there's not even voiceover for most of it, it's just like, oh, here's this character and here's this character and They're playing whack-a-mole, watch them play whack-a-mole for a second, what is this? For generations and generations, children's television has been about at least entertaining them, but for most of their education, Sesame Street takes the opportunity to entertain children with these adorable characters and also teaches them the alphabet, teaches them to do math, it teaches them grammar and spelling, which is also a kind of alphabet, but this is just flashy garbage to distract your child. on an iPad when you're on a road trip and you don't want to hear them talk anymore.

I'm not a father. I don't know what it's like to have an annoying kid screaming in your backseat but there has to be a better way than this, there's so much Ryan content this kid has a full time job like I said that was going to be the main part of this video until I started digging into my pocket to see the company that hosts Ryan's show and it was shown at the beginning of the episode, so immediately when I went to Wikipedia and I know some people say, well, Wikipedia isn't really a source, like I know your teacher said that, but you can see the sources right here, it's not my main source for the video, it was just the first thing I searched for, but it says pocket watch Inc stylized as Pocket dot watch is a digital media studio that specializes in bringing popular kids and family YouTube stars and characters to global franchises.

That's super gross, why? Would you say they aren't actively bragging about turning kids into global franchises? That would be crazy so I went to the pocket watch website and it says on the website right away that Pocket Watch is the new studio creating global franchises of YouTube stars and characters loved by Generation Alpha those are their words , they boast of turning an eight-year-old into a global franchise. Am I going crazy like we already live in a society ecstatic about the way we live in a society we already recognized that creating child stars by making them big and famous but this is a completely different animal because when you're filming YouTube videos they don't exist current child labor laws that apply to YouTube

channels

and I was surprised to find that Ryan's show on Hulu is mostly just repackaged YouTube Videos that they also animated, meaning it's a TV show that was made with a child eight years old, the star, with no active sinking or child labor laws, which sounds illegal.

Also, the first thing you see is to look at the pocket watch website. he's a mobile Mario Kart clone of Ryan, he's a real kid, he's not even like a movie character, they're making their mark, this kid who has no idea what's going on, bores the parents, who are they? , so on the pocket watch website you can scroll down to a button to press and they say see what they say, see what the press is saying about our company and the first article they listed, the headline is just a sentence that gives you want to scream The headline is Ryan's toy review.

It's this generation's Mickey Mouse ah no please no oh my god Mickey Mouse is a globally recognized brand worth billions of dollars and the funny thing is he's a fictional cartoon character you can't treat a child eight years old like Mickey Mouse, so I looked. in two more pocket watches and the surprises that kept coming. The first thing I want to mention about the pocket watch is that the CEO used to work at Maker Studios now, if you don't remember Maker Studios, it was an MCN that was originally started by YouTubers. and then it was bought by Disney for, I think, about half a billion dollars and actually some personal history back in 2014, before my channel took off, I was locked into a Maker Studios contract and it wasn't good for me, but then as a business creator.

I had just started canceling creator contracts and then going out of business when I looked into who was funding Pocket Watch, there was some kind of big name that I wasn't expecting to find in a kids' YouTube media company, so I read up. Off the list is this guy who's an Academy Award-winning producer of Avatar and Titanic and you're like, hey, it's pretty legit entertainment, you know, but the main one that really caught my attention is Downy Ventures, which It's Robert Downey Jr. 'He's an investment company, Ironman, he's funding YouTube kids. Tony Stark himself is funding Ryan's toy reviews.

He thinks about that for a moment. He made him the main Avenger. The Avenger is paying for a similar exploitation of this eight-year-old child, turning it into a business I don't know about. Remember from Ironman, so reading a varied article about how they got funding, there was one quote: There is no other team or funding company better positioned to transform the kids' digital entertainment space than Pocketwatch, said Allen, a media investor. digital and also co-founder of machinima. Someone on his advisory board worked at Defy Media, so we have three previous employers from the company Machinima, a company that made a lot of money from creators and closed Maker Studios.

A company that made a lot of money from the creators and closed and Challenge Media. I bet you can guess that the creators made a ton of money and then went out of business, so we should totally trust this company with the kids and their professional franchises. This sounds fun. I had a video last June of Gus Johnson and me. My dear boy, he is not in his room but I am sending love into the room so that I can communicate with him when he returns. We did a video about Butch Hartman, the creator of Danny Phantom and Fairly OddParents and some other shows that people didn't watch compared to those two and him.

He had this weird Kickstarter complaining about how family TV is broken these days and we need more Christian values ​​and you know we shouldgive him a bunch of money so he can create a streaming service called Laxus so you think you know Butch. really cares about what kids see. He wouldn't just work with a shitty, immoral children's company just to make a quick buck. Would you make a pocket watch? He has one more show on Hulu called hobbykidstv and we'll talk about that in a moment, but the main thing. I wanted to show you that Butch Hartman actually makes an animated show for hobbykidstv, the family toy YouTube channel, so I clicked on it and we'll watch it together.

This is a paid advertisement for Carl's Jr. Kids, how many times do I have to tell you not to turn everything we have into hamburgers? I'll be kids, okay, so I want to emphasize right away that the mom said it was a paid ad for Carl's Jr. and there was a little subtitle there for about 12 seconds, but the FTC lawsuit I showed before is proof that younger kids can't really figure out what a full ad is, so yeah, the mom said it was a paid ad and it says it there for a second but then we get into a fully animated show and they don't emphasize that it's sponsored later and that becomes a problem. your stomach is full of hops, endure what breakfast was years ago, an early lunch isn't such a bad idea, hobbies, kids, are you really thinking what I'm thinking?

We are bringing content for kids and making your kids' favorite animated characters simply go with Carl's Jr. This is such blatant, disgusting advertising for kids if you're creating little animated characters for a 30-second ad on a kids' show and those animated characters say, "Let's go to Carl's Jr." At least it's a Carl's Jr. app, but not all episodes of this show are advertisements for Carl's Jr. There are other animated episodes that follow the line of Carl's Jr. It's long today I'm going to order fries with cheese and the delicious milk. Nobody makes grilled burgers as good as Carl's Jr. and everyone knows carl's jr. makes the best burgers in the universe it's so disgusting it's disgusting advertising and it's your fault Butch Hartman Danny Phantom was a great friend what happened to you and I think you know it before you move on this is what really bothers me kids stuff from YouTube It already seemed super gross, but it was always parents manipulating their kids to make a ton of money, which wasn't cool and we all made videos about it, but at least it was limited to what the pocket watch suggests is than traditional media. now it's taking this really child abusive way of modeling things, these kids work full time as artists and have nothing to say about it, it's already bad with child actors but at least we have an established industry to make sure make it good for them I don't know if there's anyone watching these kids I don't know if it's just this pocket watch company going to the parents, we're going to make them millions of dollars and the parents said okay Take my son all day however long you need or we'll actually film in our house and just send you the footage because this isn't just like Hulu making a show, it's a company funded by the biggest actor in the world. world in the biggest franchise Hulu is a giant streaming service with multi-billion dollar networks behind them and Butch Hartman is a producer of classic TV shows.

He created two beloved shows that aired on regular television. Pocketwatch signed a deal with Paramount Pictures to do an unboxing. kids movie this is a real industry problem now, I just don't know, I'm worried that people won't get as angry as I am about this, so I'd really like to imagine how much you enjoyed playing with toys. When I was a kid, I liked it for too long, as many people have told you. I kept a bunch of toys under the blanket in my bed and at night I would just play with my toys, tell different stories and use my imagination. for years I eat too much, I did until I was 10 or 11 because I loved these four so much and there are more kids on YouTube who have this and are completely being robbed of a normal childhood.

They don't ask to be famous. I know. I read an article where Ryan Toysreview 'his mom said she loved YouTube videos and asked me why I don't have a YouTube channel and that's all well and good when you make videos with your son but when he becomes the top earner . on

youtube

you need to rethink if you can use the excuse oh it's ryan's passion because ryan has a nick jr tv show and now he has a

hulu

show and he has a line, a target and a toy line at walmart in a video game . Coming out, do you think he figured like oh, I want to make $22 million next year?

She probably just wanted to make some videos with his parents. I'm almost certain that Robert Downey Jr. He cares about the children, but I don't think he knows the extent of this investment. I don't know if Butch Hartman thinks he's as manipulative as he is, he could just see it as a side job, but all these traditional media people put in all their efforts and the kids are the ones who get hurt, so thanks for watching the video. and here are a few words from our sponsor Hey guys sorry I wanted to see how high my tripod would go and it got stuck so I had to make the announcement from here Thank you audible for sponsoring today's video everyone say thank you audible let me ask you something Did you know that Audible has the largest selection of audiobooks ever, including Audible originals and I know what your dumb baby brain is thinking?

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