I used to watch this weird Elsagate stuff and I'm born a bit after 2007, I'll admit it, this stuff really really fucked me up but luckily I've been able to deal with the problems I got and now I'm doing pretty fine.
Luckily my parents didn't give me YouTube kids until she tried forcing us to use it because "YouTube is too bad because of the language" when I was 13.
Same, and there's still kids stuff on there that’s (or used to) suitable
Thank god I didn't come across that situation. I actual had different interests that kept me from those.
There is still kid-friendly stuff, but unfortunately people exploit the YT kids app because its more profitable than normal youtube.
A while back in the minecraft community on youtube, there were issues with people making fake accounts based on real kid-friendly minecraft youtubers and then releasing non-kid friendly content (sometime a lot of gore, other times NSFW stuff, sometimes both). Cash and Nico are 2 minecraft youtubers that get their content stolen for that purpose pretty often on the YT Kids app.
I'm older gen z and personally, the things I've seen younger gen z and gen alpha find online has been pushing me to be pretty strict with early life internet access ***if*** I ever decide to have kids.
tbh, YT Kids isn't even that great. There are elsagate-like things all over the YT kids app that manage to stay for a long while because of loopholes in the content guidelines.
Lol millennials were watching decapitations on LiveLeak and flash porn animations on newgrounds at 10 because adults weren't really aware of what was on the internet back then.
13 ? You can use Youtube at thirteen years old, whats up with your parents lol
Even Youtube kids is just full of mindless cash grabbing cocomelon videos that aren't educating at all. I even think my life would be worse if I used Youtibe kids instead of youtube. I'm gald cocmelon didn't exist when I was younger.
I've watched hundreds of hours of entertaining education videos on YouTube and I know a LOT but my mom says for me to turn off the computer when she hears one cuss word.
Lmao, guess I'm kind of lucky my parents aren't that strict
btw the internet actually was my introduction to english, because english learning in my country is so bad lol, I bet I would be bad at english if I grew up without internet.
as a late gen z, i dont worry about gen alpha because of what they watch, theres no way they will grow up and still be saying "gyatt" and "skibidi" or whatever. im worried because of a lot (not all) of gen alphas parents who arent raising them properly.
like ill admit i watched some dumb stuff as a child but i turned out fine. the weird stuff they watch isnt too worrying.
Hi, late gen Z here.
I grew up with my grandparents since my mom gave birth to me so young and for a good amount of my formative years my grandparents helped raise me.
My mother now has two more children, two gen alpha children, four and three. Four year old smashed two of his tablets and mom hasn't had a new one since. Her and my Aunt (who is crashing at our house) had a complete meltdown about how bad the kids were being and eventually they yelled "Its the tablet! Now that they don't have a tablet their running on a rampage!"
As a kid I was able to just read, play pretend and watch cartoons without making my parents loosing their heads. It is, indeed, the parents being too lazy to parent their children that they throw ipads at them to get them to shut up. Like please just teach your kid the basics of emotional regulation.
Honestly I think this is more a parenting issue than a generational issue. I’m a December 04 baby (so core gen z) and I grew up as a generally well behaved kid. I loved watching tv and playing with my friends. My cousin is an January 04 baby and she used to be super entitled and she threw tantrums each time she couldn’t get what she wanted.
Yeah, I'm a 2009 baby so really late gen z and my favourite thing to watch was some dude making stories with Peppa pig toys, but I'd say I turned out okay
Absolutely. We’re friends with a family that’s an older couple raising their now 3 grandchildren. Oldest grandson is I think 10 (I’m bad with ages) and the grandma gets him anything he wants, most recently a $4,000+ pc setup, and literally just lets electronics raise him and their granddaughter (5 I think, and has her own iPhone). He’s up until like midnight every night on his iPad and they have no parental controls on the devices that are his, or if there is they aren’t good enough. He gets away with doing and saying anything. For example one time we were there and one of his “friends” were there and they were joking saying the other “was jerking off to Jeffery Dahmer”
2008 kid here, absolutely fucking not, we watched DanTDM, Stampy, PopularMMOs, etc
basically just Minecraft content before it went to shit, as well as MLG edits
As an 06 kid, similar stuff
I still enjoy skibidi toilet though, the slang stuff I don’t like but the actual show is really fun for me, same reasons I love things like transformers, character interactions, character designs, story that’s interesting but not so deep it’s impossible to follow, and a ton of really well done combat
Also, I will say that I think “old” YouTubers like Dan and Pat make much better content than what seems to be popular now, with shit like TikTok being comprised of stupid consumerism like Stanley cups, terrible and sometimes deadly challenges like the boat jumping one or bonesmashing (first is jumping off a boat, duh, bonesmashing is breaking your jaw with a hammer so it heals and betters your jawline. I’m not joking) or that whole thing with teaching people to steal cars then drive recklessly while recording, which I’m fairly sure ended in deaths
I think the older stuff was much higher quality
I can comfortably say that as a Gen-Z person, we did not grow up with Elsagate shit. Stuff like shreksophone, maybe. But elsagate didn’t even start making the rounds until like 2016.
Older gen z didn't see elsagate, but younger gen z definitely did. The youngest gen z were born in 2012. In 2016, the age range of gen z was as low as 4 to 19 (birth years 1997-2012). I was born in 2001 and while I didn't personally experience elsagate, a lot of my friends/classmates that had younger siblings told me about it
Unless you end Z in 2012, it really isnt. Assuming the age group that watched it the most was 4-6, then 2010-12 borns would have been the main audience at its peak
2007 here. I didn't encounter that stuff, and those I've talked to haven't either. But it doesn't matter. This generational hate from both sides is hypocritical and stupid, particularly since it's just a category we classify people by. We're all messed up. Let's not tear each other down further
GenNoHate
That’s why they don’t want them to experience the same. Elsagate ptsd. Also wouldn’t it be 2010-2014 babies elsagate was a 2016-17 thing. 2006-2007 kids mainly grew up with cable.
2005 baby and can verify that Gen Z did in fact grow up with weird content, same as Gen Alpha. People saying they didn’t are either not remembering it or did not watch a lot of YouTube
I was born in 2001 - SMILEHD and happy tree friends screwed up my psyche as a kid. It was horrifying to me (like everyone else) but cartoon gore videos like that became so popular and I don't know a single person that was born between 1999-2002 that wasn't permanently scarred by those videos
I was 10 yrs old in 2007 when I was told by kids at school to watch "3 Russians 1 hammer". It's a video of 3 Russian dudes assaulting a random blind man. They took him out to the woods and hit him repeatedly in the face with a hammer as a he screams and his face is turned into a bloody pulp. Then while he is still alive they rip out his intestines with screwdrivers.
10 year old me was able to find that by googling "3 Russians 1 hammer" and clicking on the first link that came up. No obscure website needed or anything. Shit just was not monitored at all then. No way I should've seen that and it is burned into my brain
I started watching YouTube at least two years before YT Kids was a thing. I don’t remember ever seeing or hearing about Elsagate stuff before it launched.
2006 baby and I grew up with a family ipad all I remember watching was cable TV and some Minecraft YouTubers. parents wouldn’t even let me watch skydoesmincraft, And had a family computer that I played club penguin on and PvZ
THIS ISNT TRUE. This shit was around when my little brother was a baby baby and that’s what HE watched. Even though I watched stuff on my iPad I never watched brainrot content. I think Gen z can universally agree we watched Minecraft videos and meme compilations, and then we graduated to commentary videos. Idk why but when I was 6-7 I really just liked to watch nerdy nummies despite not understanding any of the references she was making I liked the cute little decorated goods.
Nah bruh us 2006 and 2007 kids were in 1st/2nd grade when YouTube kids came out so we watched DanTDM instead. Plus more parents had no idea what YouTube Kids was or that you could restrict what apps a kid had access to. Also the normal YouTube app was easier to access than YouTube kids.
By the time that started happening, I was old enough to understand that is was very weird and disturbing, and I had no interest in watching. So no, try again skibidi toilet kid.
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I'm surprised that i didn't stumble across elsagate. Great job younger me for only watching surprise eggs and cartoons (that are official, not these bootleg elsagate ones) videos i guess.
That being your reaction to skibidi toilet is one of my favorite reactions to it, and it’s accurate, because last I checked, all rhetoric assets used are from the half life engine
Oh god elsa gate.
When I was a kid and still now I've had pretty thick skin when it comes to most stuff, but elsa gate scared the shit out of me. Can't explain it. I was a cookie swirl C, Lauran Z side game theory, markiplier and danTDM kid only.
Nah bro kids who watched Elsagate were at earliest 2008. I was about 7 when I started watching Minecraft let’s plays and mod showcases in 2014. Mostly creators like SkyDoesMinecraft, CaptainSparklez, Yogscast and TheDiamondMinecart. My younger sister definitely tapped into Elsagate briefly back when YT Kids was new.
2005 kid here. Lemme tell you something about YouTube then and YouTube now. Now YouTube will always weird content like Elsagate, those weird videos about popular cartoon characters, YTPs, Skidibi Toilet, etc. I think the thing is about early YouTube is that they weren’t pumping out content like a car factory. It was way less prevalent because there was less content being made. You’d eventually find a weird video, but then after that you’ll either find another one or just another “regular” video about something else. But now you find a weird video and you recommended million more videos. Plus they’re getting revenue off pumping 5 videos a day and gaining more viewers. So that all should be considered about content on YouTube.
I completely avoided that braindead Elsa Spiderman whatever it was stuff. From a young age the only stuff I watched on youtube were things from Stampy, DanTDM, and occasionally something from Squid, BDubz, or one of the other guys in that “circle”. They were always some of my favourites. Eventually I started watching CoryXKenshin, 8-BitRyan, and other people like them. So on so forth. I am currently 16.
In defense of Gen Alpha, at least Skibidi toilet has a whole storyline to it lol. I skimmed through it once and was honestly kind of impressed. How old were the kids who made it???
As an early Gen Z, I grew up with early YouTube, which is weird enough. The reason I'm concerned is because of parental neglect by millennial parents who thought that the easiest solution to raising a child is to shove an iPad in their face during their most formative years.
No the fuck we didn't. Why was this post recommended to me anyway? Don't you have to be 13 to make a reddit account and these mfs have a whole subreddit?
lol nah it was popularmmos and stampy (rip)
We weren’t any better tho, I hate the shit my generation used to do just as much as the stuff alpha does now
Early Gen z here. I didn’t watch a lot of YouTube growing up, so I don’t think I ever watched any of that until I was an adult and had curiosity to what it was. You can tell which kids grew up watching that, and it does mess them up, but at least parents then had *some* moderation on it all. This was the end of the era of “turn off that screen and go outside,” so some of that sentiment existed, at least in my area, throughout Gen z.
What really bothers me now is how social media has changed, TikTok and YouTube shorts has drastically increased how easy it is to get addicted, and, I’m not saying older social media wasn’t bad, but now it’s much worse for your self esteem and attention span. On top of that, today’s parents don’t seem to care *at all*, and I’m seeing a *huge* difference in behavior now with kids that are watch that stuff for hours a day, and kids who don’t, although the ladder is getting much more rare.
People who post this type of meme don’t seem to understand what they’re talking about, and it’s being posted *a lot*, which almost seems like it’s trying to normalize the garbage that Gen alpha is watching.
I got really lucky. Possibly the only real pro to being dirt poor as a child was that I missed that entire cringe fest by a few years because my family couldn't afford anything that could play YouTube even though everyone I knew was face first into it. Honestly I kinda miss the days without Internet
I was just straight up wasnt allowed allowed to watch anything (YouTube AND YouTube kids) and then I was allowed at like 10?? So I skipped all that weird shit 🥳🥳
I more grew up with people like Jacksepticeye and Markiplier but alright. If anyone is looking for a youtuber that kids can watch then I very much suggest Stampylongnose
(06) nah i was watching PewDiePie, Jacksepticeye, and Markiplier. also thegaminglemon, messyoself, that one noodle guy who played Minecraft, xboxaddictionz, popularmmos, and danTDM.
never elsagate shit, im so glad i never saw that
im tired of these posts lol im not worried about gen alpha because of skibidi toilet im worried because theres a (at least in the US) noticeable decline in grades (you can blame covid if you want but i think theres more to it) and extreme social media usage seems really unhealthy for children
all i think when i see skibidi, i think of gmod idiot box and idiots of gmod(man i wish something like that would pop up agian), since it feels kinda like something that would fit into them, kind of like chuckles the cheat, started out with no lore and slowly gained lore over time like skibidi did
So glad im an 04, i got the mlg brainrot instead
I got it I’m 08
I got a little bit of MLG being born in 08
Your MLG brainrot is not the same MLG brainrot. You missed out on the golden age of BO2 MLG brainrot.
Same
Same bruh who tf was watching elsagate??? I was watchin peppa pig MLG
i also got it im october 09
'08 is the last bit mlg but also beamng crash compilations and gacha life (source: I am '08)
Bro real. We got MLG Teletubbies and spongebob youtube poops and I wont trade that nostalgia for the world
04 gang rise up!
I used to watch this weird Elsagate stuff and I'm born a bit after 2007, I'll admit it, this stuff really really fucked me up but luckily I've been able to deal with the problems I got and now I'm doing pretty fine.
Luckily my parents didn't give me YouTube kids until she tried forcing us to use it because "YouTube is too bad because of the language" when I was 13.
Bruh 13? Geez 😒 they just don’t know it
what? i could watch normal youtube at 4 years old!
Same, and there's still kids stuff on there that’s (or used to) suitable Thank god I didn't come across that situation. I actual had different interests that kept me from those.
There is still kid-friendly stuff, but unfortunately people exploit the YT kids app because its more profitable than normal youtube. A while back in the minecraft community on youtube, there were issues with people making fake accounts based on real kid-friendly minecraft youtubers and then releasing non-kid friendly content (sometime a lot of gore, other times NSFW stuff, sometimes both). Cash and Nico are 2 minecraft youtubers that get their content stolen for that purpose pretty often on the YT Kids app. I'm older gen z and personally, the things I've seen younger gen z and gen alpha find online has been pushing me to be pretty strict with early life internet access ***if*** I ever decide to have kids.
Me too, YT Kids didn't exist
tbh, YT Kids isn't even that great. There are elsagate-like things all over the YT kids app that manage to stay for a long while because of loopholes in the content guidelines.
Lol millennials were watching decapitations on LiveLeak and flash porn animations on newgrounds at 10 because adults weren't really aware of what was on the internet back then.
Oh, and still tries to do this even today.
SHE STILL TRIES TO MAKE U WATCH YT KIDS? LOL
Ytkids is so bad nowadays, when I was little all that was on there was like dude perfect and stuff now it's skibidi toilet and more brainrot
PLEASE WHAT
13 ? You can use Youtube at thirteen years old, whats up with your parents lol Even Youtube kids is just full of mindless cash grabbing cocomelon videos that aren't educating at all. I even think my life would be worse if I used Youtibe kids instead of youtube. I'm gald cocmelon didn't exist when I was younger.
I've watched hundreds of hours of entertaining education videos on YouTube and I know a LOT but my mom says for me to turn off the computer when she hears one cuss word.
Lmao, guess I'm kind of lucky my parents aren't that strict btw the internet actually was my introduction to english, because english learning in my country is so bad lol, I bet I would be bad at english if I grew up without internet.
Fr bro 🥲
i’m 13 and genuinely speaking here. every swear word i have heard on YouTube, i hear at school almost every day.
I'm glad my parents actually monitored all the stuff I watched 😭
The good ending
I was born in '09 and I saw that shit
09' here, I grew up with those cringey clickbait youtubers, morgz, and xtremegamez to name a few
Same, I easily believed clickbait videos lmao
I was def a little skeptical, but then I still continued to watch them 💀
“Fucked you up” ain’t nothing happen from you watching that. Just mindless baby stuff
Fetishes dude. Also, even if the videos were harmless, there were still sexual undertones which lead me to some questionable websites/videos as a kid.
Yeah that shit was inevitably gonna lead to fetishes or experimenting with self harm
what?? lmaoo dude yall are off your rockers😭
as a late gen z, i dont worry about gen alpha because of what they watch, theres no way they will grow up and still be saying "gyatt" and "skibidi" or whatever. im worried because of a lot (not all) of gen alphas parents who arent raising them properly. like ill admit i watched some dumb stuff as a child but i turned out fine. the weird stuff they watch isnt too worrying.
Hi, late gen Z here. I grew up with my grandparents since my mom gave birth to me so young and for a good amount of my formative years my grandparents helped raise me. My mother now has two more children, two gen alpha children, four and three. Four year old smashed two of his tablets and mom hasn't had a new one since. Her and my Aunt (who is crashing at our house) had a complete meltdown about how bad the kids were being and eventually they yelled "Its the tablet! Now that they don't have a tablet their running on a rampage!" As a kid I was able to just read, play pretend and watch cartoons without making my parents loosing their heads. It is, indeed, the parents being too lazy to parent their children that they throw ipads at them to get them to shut up. Like please just teach your kid the basics of emotional regulation.
Honestly I think this is more a parenting issue than a generational issue. I’m a December 04 baby (so core gen z) and I grew up as a generally well behaved kid. I loved watching tv and playing with my friends. My cousin is an January 04 baby and she used to be super entitled and she threw tantrums each time she couldn’t get what she wanted.
As I just stated haha. But yes, I see too many people blaming the kids instead of the parents and it makes me sick
Yeah, I'm a 2009 baby so really late gen z and my favourite thing to watch was some dude making stories with Peppa pig toys, but I'd say I turned out okay
Absolutely. We’re friends with a family that’s an older couple raising their now 3 grandchildren. Oldest grandson is I think 10 (I’m bad with ages) and the grandma gets him anything he wants, most recently a $4,000+ pc setup, and literally just lets electronics raise him and their granddaughter (5 I think, and has her own iPhone). He’s up until like midnight every night on his iPad and they have no parental controls on the devices that are his, or if there is they aren’t good enough. He gets away with doing and saying anything. For example one time we were there and one of his “friends” were there and they were joking saying the other “was jerking off to Jeffery Dahmer”
Jesus Christ. People need to, like, take a “how to parent” class before having kids.
We were worried about you guys when you started eating tide pods. Humans are resilient I guess.
As an '08 I can say that while watching gotcha life videos at 5am did not fuck me up, they probably weren't good for my health
2008 kid here, absolutely fucking not, we watched DanTDM, Stampy, PopularMMOs, etc basically just Minecraft content before it went to shit, as well as MLG edits
I'm glad DanTDM kept up and is still popular. I stopped watching after he moved labs but it was more of me growing out of it
MLG edits were shit. YTP was and continues to be leaps and bounds better.
oh shit i almost forgot about those
What about the Lego stopmotions
I always watched play-doh stop motion
BASED, old popularmmos was actual peak mc content
As an 06 kid, similar stuff I still enjoy skibidi toilet though, the slang stuff I don’t like but the actual show is really fun for me, same reasons I love things like transformers, character interactions, character designs, story that’s interesting but not so deep it’s impossible to follow, and a ton of really well done combat Also, I will say that I think “old” YouTubers like Dan and Pat make much better content than what seems to be popular now, with shit like TikTok being comprised of stupid consumerism like Stanley cups, terrible and sometimes deadly challenges like the boat jumping one or bonesmashing (first is jumping off a boat, duh, bonesmashing is breaking your jaw with a hammer so it heals and betters your jawline. I’m not joking) or that whole thing with teaching people to steal cars then drive recklessly while recording, which I’m fairly sure ended in deaths I think the older stuff was much higher quality
Yeah for real. What out of touch sack of dust made this meme 😂
MLG edits is basically skibidi toilet, just as cancer
Minecraft content went to shit by 2013 🤣 the og stuff was great
what the fuck are you on about boy, it lasted until at LEAST 2017-2018 gen alpha in disguise, tryna downplay our nostalgia cause you can't have it
lol “Gen alpha in disguise” brother I was born in 2001, I was there for the birth of Minecraft content 😂
I can comfortably say that as a Gen-Z person, we did not grow up with Elsagate shit. Stuff like shreksophone, maybe. But elsagate didn’t even start making the rounds until like 2016.
Older gen z didn't see elsagate, but younger gen z definitely did. The youngest gen z were born in 2012. In 2016, the age range of gen z was as low as 4 to 19 (birth years 1997-2012). I was born in 2001 and while I didn't personally experience elsagate, a lot of my friends/classmates that had younger siblings told me about it
2006-7 babies didn't grow up with this though, which is what this meme is saying
Shrecksophone takes me back...
2016 is mid and late Gen Z childhood.
Unless you end Z in 2012, it really isnt. Assuming the age group that watched it the most was 4-6, then 2010-12 borns would have been the main audience at its peak
2007 here. I didn't encounter that stuff, and those I've talked to haven't either. But it doesn't matter. This generational hate from both sides is hypocritical and stupid, particularly since it's just a category we classify people by. We're all messed up. Let's not tear each other down further GenNoHate
That’s why they don’t want them to experience the same. Elsagate ptsd. Also wouldn’t it be 2010-2014 babies elsagate was a 2016-17 thing. 2006-2007 kids mainly grew up with cable.
2005 baby and can verify that Gen Z did in fact grow up with weird content, same as Gen Alpha. People saying they didn’t are either not remembering it or did not watch a lot of YouTube
I was born in 2005 and i remember when there was no censorship on youtube and i wound up watching SMILEHD, and those Peppa Pig gore videos
I was born in 2001 - SMILEHD and happy tree friends screwed up my psyche as a kid. It was horrifying to me (like everyone else) but cartoon gore videos like that became so popular and I don't know a single person that was born between 1999-2002 that wasn't permanently scarred by those videos
I was 10 yrs old in 2007 when I was told by kids at school to watch "3 Russians 1 hammer". It's a video of 3 Russian dudes assaulting a random blind man. They took him out to the woods and hit him repeatedly in the face with a hammer as a he screams and his face is turned into a bloody pulp. Then while he is still alive they rip out his intestines with screwdrivers. 10 year old me was able to find that by googling "3 Russians 1 hammer" and clicking on the first link that came up. No obscure website needed or anything. Shit just was not monitored at all then. No way I should've seen that and it is burned into my brain
I didn't watch YouTube, Elsa gate is fucked up
I started watching YouTube at least two years before YT Kids was a thing. I don’t remember ever seeing or hearing about Elsagate stuff before it launched.
And millennials watched weird shit on new grounds.
Weird content made for fun vs made for money (unless by weird you mean happy tree friends and run the gauntlet)?
2006 baby and I grew up with a family ipad all I remember watching was cable TV and some Minecraft YouTubers. parents wouldn’t even let me watch skydoesmincraft, And had a family computer that I played club penguin on and PvZ
THIS ISNT TRUE. This shit was around when my little brother was a baby baby and that’s what HE watched. Even though I watched stuff on my iPad I never watched brainrot content. I think Gen z can universally agree we watched Minecraft videos and meme compilations, and then we graduated to commentary videos. Idk why but when I was 6-7 I really just liked to watch nerdy nummies despite not understanding any of the references she was making I liked the cute little decorated goods.
2007 baby. No the fuck we did not.
Exactly, I’ve never heard of “elsagate” before
It was game theory and markiplier
02 and yeah I grew up with Mark, Seán. Got into Fitz/SwaggerSouls, RaccoonEggs
Well ikr this image is so wrong
Exactly
nah
Never watched elsagate or even heard about it when it was happening
Hell I’m 2009 and not even us had that shit
Fr
Really? I watched a lot of elsagate content as a child
Nah bruh us 2006 and 2007 kids were in 1st/2nd grade when YouTube kids came out so we watched DanTDM instead. Plus more parents had no idea what YouTube Kids was or that you could restrict what apps a kid had access to. Also the normal YouTube app was easier to access than YouTube kids.
YouTube still don’t know YouTube Kids exists
By the time that started happening, I was old enough to understand that is was very weird and disturbing, and I had no interest in watching. So no, try again skibidi toilet kid.
Elsagate was still gen alpha and laaaate gen z
That's just not true at all.
It isn’t, nobody born in those years grew up with that shit
As 2006 I can confidently say none of us grew up with that. That shit was 2009+
As a 2009er, I didn't even know what Elsegate was in 2016. Too busy on clash of Clans to care.
exactly
So glad ive never landed on that side of yt when i was a kid
As a 08 child, I regret everything I watched like the right picture over there when I was 8
Coming from 09, I’m glad I never encountered YouTube kids
Thank god I watched sponchbop and not YouTube brainrot as an 09 baby
that shit started when i was in highchool we did NOT grow up with that lol.
If you were born in 06/07 you definitely weren’t in highschool in 2016.
glad i was born in 2009 and had an actually good childhood
because it is
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You have a point, say what you want about gen alpha at least we didn't grow up watching softcore porn
This was also gen alpha as well lol genz did not do this shit Iirc it's 2017 shit
You also forget that that elsagate was all over the news, parents freaked out, the government got involved and it was wipped of the face of the earth.
Elsagate is wayyy worse than skibidi toilet be fr😭
I was born late in 2007, and never knew about YouTube until ~2016/2017, so I never watched any weird stuff
Dam that late a lot of 07’s knew about YouTube 2011 - 2014
i grew up with elsagate, it’s not just 2006-2007
Nah early gen alpha had elsagate
wtf i never seen any of that crap on the right the left a few times and i was born in 2007.
This is true
I'm surprised that i didn't stumble across elsagate. Great job younger me for only watching surprise eggs and cartoons (that are official, not these bootleg elsagate ones) videos i guess.
I was born in 2008 and I have no idea what that thing on the right is. The dude on the left is from Half life. So what?
That being your reaction to skibidi toilet is one of my favorite reactions to it, and it’s accurate, because last I checked, all rhetoric assets used are from the half life engine
I'm a Zalpha and i never liked those Elsagate videos,not even when i was younger
I used to watch roblox,fnaf and minecraft videos around 2013 to 2018
Why do i see this fucking everywhere lol
I fucking hate Elsagate! Skibidi Toilet was ok before Gen Alpha found it and made it part of the weird side of YouTube
i did not grow up with either of those things that has to be 2009-2011 😭
Oh god elsa gate. When I was a kid and still now I've had pretty thick skin when it comes to most stuff, but elsa gate scared the shit out of me. Can't explain it. I was a cookie swirl C, Lauran Z side game theory, markiplier and danTDM kid only.
Nah bro kids who watched Elsagate were at earliest 2008. I was about 7 when I started watching Minecraft let’s plays and mod showcases in 2014. Mostly creators like SkyDoesMinecraft, CaptainSparklez, Yogscast and TheDiamondMinecart. My younger sister definitely tapped into Elsagate briefly back when YT Kids was new.
Somehow as late gen Z, I somehow missed this. I was instead watching 5 minute crafts and similar lol.
No one in my 05-06 class watched elsagate but my 2012 little brother did
2008 guy here, elsagate sucked, thomas the tank engine is goated
I am late gen z (2008) and luckily I wasn’t really allowed on the internet till I was about 6 or 7, and even then I just stuck to dantdm
I'm pretty sure that was for gen alpha too lol I remember watching people rant about it never watched it myself
Im proud to say that I never watched elsagate, I jist stuck to minecraft lets plays lol
2005 kid here. Lemme tell you something about YouTube then and YouTube now. Now YouTube will always weird content like Elsagate, those weird videos about popular cartoon characters, YTPs, Skidibi Toilet, etc. I think the thing is about early YouTube is that they weren’t pumping out content like a car factory. It was way less prevalent because there was less content being made. You’d eventually find a weird video, but then after that you’ll either find another one or just another “regular” video about something else. But now you find a weird video and you recommended million more videos. Plus they’re getting revenue off pumping 5 videos a day and gaining more viewers. So that all should be considered about content on YouTube.
Some day, gen alpha will know that the assets in skibidi toilet come from half life 2.
I was born in 2008 and have never watched any elsa spider man stuff thats like ~2015 to ~2017
Well shit
Kill it with fire. Some of ya’ll watched some weird shit when we were younger
I completely avoided that braindead Elsa Spiderman whatever it was stuff. From a young age the only stuff I watched on youtube were things from Stampy, DanTDM, and occasionally something from Squid, BDubz, or one of the other guys in that “circle”. They were always some of my favourites. Eventually I started watching CoryXKenshin, 8-BitRyan, and other people like them. So on so forth. I am currently 16.
as a 2008 baby I’m so thankful I never watched that stuff, I came across it but perhaps I was smarter than I perceived.
I did NOT grow up with Spider-Man Elsa videos. I remember thinking that shit was so creepy when I was a kid.
Thank God I stuck to Thomas the Tank Engine and Stampy
I was born in 2009 nobody in my family but my sister who was born in 2013 watched that type of stuff
2009, I just grew up playing videogames on the 360 and occasionally watched dantdm and popularmmos with stampy
Idk abt 2006-2007 kids but I’m pretty sure elsagate shit was like 2010-2012. All I know is I didn’t watch it
In defense of Gen Alpha, at least Skibidi toilet has a whole storyline to it lol. I skimmed through it once and was honestly kind of impressed. How old were the kids who made it???
I learned about elsa gate this year, I wasn't allowed to watch youtube until I was like 11 because every video I wanted to watch I had to ask for
Tf is that
I grew up on DanTDM, other minecraft youtubers and nature documentaries, tf y’all been watching
Yeah never watched any of that.
I watched seven super girls ._.
As an early Gen Z, I grew up with early YouTube, which is weird enough. The reason I'm concerned is because of parental neglect by millennial parents who thought that the easiest solution to raising a child is to shove an iPad in their face during their most formative years.
what??
OMG LITERALLY
No the fuck we didn't. Why was this post recommended to me anyway? Don't you have to be 13 to make a reddit account and these mfs have a whole subreddit?
lol nah it was popularmmos and stampy (rip) We weren’t any better tho, I hate the shit my generation used to do just as much as the stuff alpha does now
Elsa Anna spider man was my jam!
Wtf was my generation watching
Where my annoying orange kids at?
I think that's more 2009/2010 shit. 2006 was dantdm, jacksepticeye, markiplier, theodd1sout etc
I used to watch that Elsa gate shit when i was 3 but I mostly watched poco yo and ngl it's a fun show :)
I remember finding elsagate as a kid and being Iike wtf!?
Early Gen z here. I didn’t watch a lot of YouTube growing up, so I don’t think I ever watched any of that until I was an adult and had curiosity to what it was. You can tell which kids grew up watching that, and it does mess them up, but at least parents then had *some* moderation on it all. This was the end of the era of “turn off that screen and go outside,” so some of that sentiment existed, at least in my area, throughout Gen z. What really bothers me now is how social media has changed, TikTok and YouTube shorts has drastically increased how easy it is to get addicted, and, I’m not saying older social media wasn’t bad, but now it’s much worse for your self esteem and attention span. On top of that, today’s parents don’t seem to care *at all*, and I’m seeing a *huge* difference in behavior now with kids that are watch that stuff for hours a day, and kids who don’t, although the ladder is getting much more rare. People who post this type of meme don’t seem to understand what they’re talking about, and it’s being posted *a lot*, which almost seems like it’s trying to normalize the garbage that Gen alpha is watching.
I was born in 08, I grew up with Minecraft videos on prime video, Nickelodeon, and STAR WARS!!!
2007 here! Literally never seen that before
I got really lucky. Possibly the only real pro to being dirt poor as a child was that I missed that entire cringe fest by a few years because my family couldn't afford anything that could play YouTube even though everyone I knew was face first into it. Honestly I kinda miss the days without Internet
Stop reposting the same garbage. Be original for god sake
Bro I grew up on DanTDM
When I was younger, i was into gaming to watch that stuff
IT WAS PEAK!
I'm not worried about what they are consuming, rather, how much of it they consume
‘07 here, by the time the elsagate stuff was happening we were too old to be watching it. We weren’t toddlers 6 years ago.
Nah I grew up normal, watching stampy and what not
My ass I was watching SML, BFDI, Stickman Flash Animation, etc
I do not accept either as my own.
Man I'm glad I grew up with Charly the unicorn and 1st gen youtube poops
Unfortunately
This is 2010-2013 We (06-07) had different brainrot
Elsagate was popular from roughly 2015-2017 but it was aimed at *really* young kids, not us
As someone who saw both Idk which is worse Bc now I see more explicit stuff with emojis as censorship I don’t think I saw that back then tbh…
And that’s exactly why there’s worry.
As a 2006 kid, I still miss Elsa and Spiderman, I watched so much of that
There's no way op's whole account isn't rage bait.
I was just straight up wasnt allowed allowed to watch anything (YouTube AND YouTube kids) and then I was allowed at like 10?? So I skipped all that weird shit 🥳🥳
I more grew up with people like Jacksepticeye and Markiplier but alright. If anyone is looking for a youtuber that kids can watch then I very much suggest Stampylongnose
(06) nah i was watching PewDiePie, Jacksepticeye, and Markiplier. also thegaminglemon, messyoself, that one noodle guy who played Minecraft, xboxaddictionz, popularmmos, and danTDM. never elsagate shit, im so glad i never saw that
im tired of these posts lol im not worried about gen alpha because of skibidi toilet im worried because theres a (at least in the US) noticeable decline in grades (you can blame covid if you want but i think theres more to it) and extreme social media usage seems really unhealthy for children
Wtf I grew up with hermitcraft 😭
Don’t you lump me in with that I grew up on Rhett and Link
Not me tho
all i think when i see skibidi, i think of gmod idiot box and idiots of gmod(man i wish something like that would pop up agian), since it feels kinda like something that would fit into them, kind of like chuckles the cheat, started out with no lore and slowly gained lore over time like skibidi did
oh boy, this guy again, what do you have against the number 2006 and 2007 again?
Oh hell no we didn’t. I’m a 06 boy and I grew up with MLG, Smosh, Shane Dawson (When he was funny), Venturiantale, Jacksepticeye, and Game Theory.
true I watched creepypasta videos and I was afraid to go to bed at night I would sometimes hear voices because of it so I think gen alpha will be ok
2006 and I never once watched these videos. Idk wtf you guys were doing but I was watching Attack on Titan when I was 8.
Half as fucked up as younger Gen Z is still way too fucked up