I've just seen a video a youtuber posted a couple of hours ago about some awful things he's found on youtube, where people are sharing inappropriate videos of kids and sexualised comments about them - things like putting timestamps of points in the videos where it focuses on their crotches.
What's particularly disturbing is that the videos can be found after only clicking a handful of suggested videos on things like yoga tutorials, and that they are are monitised (so companies adverts are being displayed on them)
Its horrible. I know that there's been things about this before in the news, but this is stuff I hadn't heard about before and I'm pretty well informed on internet news - its completely different to that Elsagate stuff that was reported on a while back.
I've messaged my friends about it, as I'm not on facebook - but I think that lots of people need to be aware of this. I've emailed the BBC and will be contacting the other news channels as well. I thought this would be a good place to make sure parents know about it.
The video is by a guy called Matt Watson and is titled "Youtube is Facilitating the Sexual Exploitation of Children, and it's Being Monetized" which pretty directly gets to the point.
The link is here:
Its was difficult to watch, but I think its important people hear about it. Apparently people are sharing it with a hashtag on twitter #wakeupyoutube, but I don't use it so I'm not sure what that means tbh.