The Crazy Monopoly Behind Child Youtubers

[@glagy]

Big A should turn himself into an animated avatar so he can be seven years old forever too

[@Nimigoha.]

*70

[@LaEmporoar]

@@Nimigoha. the coffee keeps his skin young

[@quickdrawmadness]

Big a chan

[@sheeps4485]

Big A is like melisandra from game of thrones, but instead of a red ruby that keeps him young he feeds off of us

[@arielhaslam4249]

700*

[@ChintanCG]

In 15 years Ryan and Diana will be on a real podcast explaining how they were exploited as kids

[@ArchIVEDCinema]

"Former Nickelodeon executives" Ok off to a great ethical start already....

[@ShoreFell]

This was my first thought when he said that too 😂 after everything we’ve seen from Nickelodeon’s past these parents must be crazy

[@dinkleberg93]

@@ShoreFell They want money and see their kids as paychecks.....

[@dinkleberg93]

You have to already be some kind of selfish lowbrow parent to push to exploit your kid in child entertainment. It's the same thing for beauty pageants. Maybe 10% of these children getting in front of a camera happens naturally. The parents are the ones pushing for it.

[@0106johnny]

Leaving Nickelodeon to do something even more unethical is insane work

[@nicholasabraham259]

Wasn’t Dan Schneider the one who did all the crazy stuff with Nickelodeon? He was a show creator, not an exec to my understanding

[@BipolarAbusiveX]

7yr olds can be touched by execs, but can't work in a ford factory? What is the world coming too. I need my mustang built by gnome hands

[@fujinshu]

Red states are trying to make that last part come true. They see their children not as human beings, but as property. They want to abuse them all they want while also being able to throw them into the meat grinder for money.

[@cocodoggo]

They already are

[@perpetualgrimace2709]

How is Ford supposed to get the wax in the tiny crevasse’s without them 😢

[@sergeantduckels2495]

Can’t wait for the Atrioc Jr. KZbin channel!

[@alexanderespinoza]

lil a?

[@jdw9]

This feels incredibly dystopian. This goes way beyond exploiting your children for content online, this is essentially completely upending a kid's entire childhood and completely controlling who that person is and who they become.

[@darkithnamgedrf9495]

I can almost guarantee that all these manufactured child creators will have a *rough* transition to adulthood. It’s genuinely just depressing that there are parents out there that would do this to their own children for money.

[@crimsoneclipse0618]

​@@darkithnamgedrf9495 they're the latest breed of child actors, but worse cause at least child actors get to go home, these kids their content is at home.

[@amazin7006]

It's the same thing as school. You upend their life so that they can can work and be productive in society some day. In fact it's even better, since they are now rich for life

[@crimsoneclipse0618]

@@amazin7006 no, they're not rich for life, the parents and the businesses profiting from them will be the ones getting rich. Once they're no longer children and marketable, what the fuck do they have left? You really think the parents that profited from them would be the type of people who would continue supporting them once the money stops flowing?

[@alpha_9997]

⁠@@crimsoneclipse0618they still own their own likeness? Even if the parents are complete irredeemable pieces of shit, the way the brand is structured means the kids still have power even after they no longer work for it

[@Keeby.]

Unregulated child entertainment is disgusting And children's content on the internet, unlike TV children's content, is almost entirely unregulated Also i get people need to make money, but there's literally no excuse to selling out your kids childhood

[@mattymerr701]

Not like on TV is much safer, so many Nickelodeon kids have ended up being very messed up as adults, with the blame on all of the people in charge of them. Like it doesn't help when the creator of a bunch of shows loves children's feet etc

[@THE_BASED_GOD]

@@mattymerr701 I mean TV is still objectively safer. Did you completely forget all the elsagate shit? The stuff on TV is not as bad as that.

[@T____W____7777]

Unfortunately there’s a never ending pit to hell filled with people selling out their kids to pdfs. Over the last couple of years I’ve heard stories about kids who were being given one on one “teaching” sessions with a dance instructor with ties to some big names. Everyone knew that the special “dance room” had a bed in it and there wasn’t enough room to do anything appropriate in there. However, parents were more than willing to look the other way because some of the guy’s students actually did make headway in the industry. Unfortunately the dance instructor died two years ago, which is why the stories started coming to light, and he never saw justice.

[@sycobeansillywytgirl]

@@THE_BASED_GODIt might be safer for the kids watching.

[@THE_BASED_GOD]

@@sycobeansillywytgirl Yep, that is literally what im saying lol.

[@T____W____7777]

It’s crazy how Nickelodeon started out as the company that didn’t want to commercialize things for kids, wanted to treat them as growing people, and wanted to focus on quality shows. And then it turned it a money making institution of Viacom. I’d be really interested in how they and MTV turned out the way they did. And if there was a clear event that caused the change like with shows like Animal Planet.

[@JohmBud]

Probably changed when ownership/leadership changed. I have no proof of this but that always seems to be the common thread when companies do these 180 degree turns.

[@Jartran72]

When that changed? You said it, they got bought by a different network who saw the potential for exploitation.

[@fordakacar]

“I wonder why this company changed when it was bought by a different company”

[@implosive4065]

Learned: kids are stupid and adults are greedy Laughed: at baby crip walk “more like crib walk am I right!”

[@theshosher]

This isn't illegal, but it feels illegal

[@Zoulstorm]

It should fucking be

[@pl4sma59]

It's definitely immoral

[@WanderTheNomad]

I feel like people mix up legality and morality often. So if you say something bad is not illegal, they think you're saying that it's not bad. Bad things can be legal and good things can be illegal.

[@Deminese2]

people moved on from youtube kids after the spiderman elsa shit but its still garbage. just filled with a bunch of ADHD developing trash.

[@Alexis-gm8kc]

Highly recommend “Snowglobe” by Soyoung Park. Dystopian book set in a frozen wasteland where there’s essentially 2 classes of people: 1) working class people that run on human hamster wheels that power the climate controlled snow globe (the only place on earth that’s warm). 2) the rich people living in the snow globe. In exchange for that privilege, their lives are broadcasted to the working class in the form of reality tv, which runs 24/7 & is the only solace the working class have from their miserable lives. The protagonist is a girl who dreams of making it to the snow globe as a producer & creating her own show. Producers are a very small class of people who get to live in the snow globe & not have their lives broadcasted. They develop new shows, but if it flops, they get kicked out. She gets her chance when the producer for the most popular tv show offers her a deal: fill in for the dead main star (whom she looks identical to) so the show can continue. In return, she’ll help the protagonist get into producer school & take her under her wing. She takes the deal but obviously learns about the secrets & dark side of the snowglobe

[@Alexis-gm8kc]

Should add that the dead girl had been on reality tv from the very beginning (her mom being driven to the hospital & giving birth is an episode)

[@pl4sma59]

I read rich people reality tv and then looked back up at the author's name, yep it's korean

[@brodiemorris2081]

i will be reading this now thanks

[@terachrome3817]

What do you mean "the dark side of the snowglobe" what's the light side????

[@kristsostad7571]

Dang. If only you were 60 years younger

[@Bagel920]

The Children’s Podcast to Andrew Tate Stan pipeline will be real if they compete this plan, imagine a child grows up listening to like, bluey podcast and then they accidentally scroll and it opens the Tate brothers podcast

[@Jartran72]

They would be bored out of their mind.

[@amazin7006]

More like Adin Ross. How do you accidentally find Tates podcast lmao

[@snkybrki]

​@@amazin7006If Tate made a reaction slop channel, that would be fucking hilarious. Mf reacting to bluey

[@chanceroberson7517]

In 15 years, all of these kids are going to come out and write a book and appear on podcasts talking about their parents exploiting them for money

[@LuciusAugustusRex]

"Former Nickelodeon executives" Ohh so PDFiles

[@Jacob-ce7nh]

Just say pedophile bro, you sound so corny

[@heroclix0rz]

Man, late 80s, early 90s Nickelodeon was actually incredible. It was like kid-friendly arthouse, no optimizing views or profits, just letting artists create what they like. Pete and Pete holds up, I swear.

[@BobbyCorwen42]

Soon enough we're going to witness a real Truman show, and I guess I'll call it now: There won't be nearly as much outrage as there should be for it.

[@Avendesora]

Denpa Shonen but with children is exactly what America needs in these trying times

[@Mr.Mystery]

Big A started out as Little A?!?

[@guanteblanco8995]

Those glizzies were always big though am I right?

[@randomfox12245]

I feel like he was trying to be really really nice by not calling turning children into content farms "blatantly evil" like he clearly wanted to.

[@DrRocket8775]

A lot of this company’s plan seems to be intentionally avoiding making the kids work and to move away from using their literal likeness, which seems a lot better than much current kid content. As long as the kids get a lot of the money, seems clearly better. Do you just think kids being in content is itself evil?

[@toxicpanda36]

​@DrRocket8775 it's about the fact that children en masse are forming opinions and beliefs off of the content they consume. The owners of this company clearly don't give a shit, and they have monopolized the content available for kids. the influence they have over the children of today should terrify you about the implications for society 10, 20 years from now

[@diamom_]

Laughed: ❌ Learned: ✅

[@ChibiQilin]

10:39 they talk about creators the exact same way they talk about businessmen/rich people. And that's because creators are running a business, it's basically just a sole proprietorship. People talk the same way about rich people whining about their problems cause they're viewed as having more wealth than deserved (based on perceived effort put in), and only being successful due to luck, or connections, et cetera.

[@sortacasual]

Monopoly money

[@LunaTheChuuni]

Monopoly children

[@SuperERC]

Whenever you have a kid Big A just know you have 2 years to determine whether they go the Ryan’s World route or the based rizzler route.

[@BloomToEarth]

Animate the glizzlord! He shall be immortalised

[@Johnsmitheny]

To play devils advocate, kids videos could be pumped out with less than 30-45 mins of the kids time every couple of days. It doesn’t in itself guarantee a challenging childhood / adult transition for the kids, especially for the financial security. There just needs to be appropriate guard rails and ‘management’ by the parents.

[@kaajjaak]

I'm pretty sure videos take longer to record than 30 minutes also imagine going to school and there are videos on the internet ranging back to ur early childhood, that's gonna be so embarrassing, ur definitely gonna get bullied

[@chasingmemories1266]

when he brought up the girl whose parents made videos of her at age 1, a chatter said "spawncamped" LOL

[@largeman5788]

I swear that Ryan kid with like a billion subs is like 40 now

[@pilazpilaz]

In the not so distant future, Ryan keeps cloning his younger self to keep the gravy train going while Pocket Watch tries to engineer a way to go back in time to kill Ryan before he clones himself

[@rulerj6256]

I really hope child acting laws protect the kids they're buying the likeness of

[@MaxTheMiner1]

5:32 this video has roughly ~100m more views than Atriocs total combined views, the next generation of kids really are growing up on KZbin 😅

[@rush8-w3i]

not if u include his main channel??

[@MateusChristopher]

I love this. We're in full dystopia

[@ItisJG]

10:02 looks like hes general zod and he's out trying to kill superman

[@chasingmemories1266]

this is like my dumb ass growing up not realizing that jackie chan didn't actually voice jackie chan adventures

[@olec7125]

I've never realized that the outro scene is from Cyberpunk 2077

[@AlexJ1]

Thanks for sharing...?

[@crediblesalamander8056]

it is kinda strange considering how little he's actually played it.

[@BiggestEnergy]

Imagine if Joe Rogan was secretly being mass animated to keep Joe the same age

[@DaBestTiger]

big a finds random shit to explain so he is able to show off his new whiteboard

[@laloreta798]

1:42 The Yard

[@largeman5788]

Nah the yard is for a very very mature audience I swear it totally is

[@justins2024]

As a 20 year old yard listener. I agree. It’s for kids. Almost a child’s beauty pageant type of podcast.

[@Omega-hd7gf]

i've been watching this channel religiously for years now and i JUST REALIZED the ending screen is the cyberpunk room

[@cartilagehead]

0:57 this is what the owners of the Mr. Bean IP did. They figured out like a decade and a half ago that clips of the old Rowan Atkinson shows were massively popular on social and KZbin, etc, (especially internationally) so they leaned into their popularity by creating an animated Mr Bean that they pump out cheap cartoon shorts with interspersed with classic footage and gacha mobile games, etc with. Every geographic region/nationality has their own specific mirror channel too, so they generate hundreds of billions of combined views.

[@bunnybro5977]

Love how we've come full circle to children's radio

[@HighDins]

When ryan toys turns 18 hes going to be an absolute menace with millions of dollars and i cannot wait for him to call paps mosquitos and crash porsches

[@david3de]

0:00 "I wanted to talk tuah"

[@luckyc4t110]

Atrioc you gotta lighten up, it's five days into 2025 and you've made me want to die twice already.

[@Sam-rs2hm]

Kids getting spawn camped liked bronze in grandmaster lobby

[@MAJ0ROCEL0T]

So here's my thing. I think this is could be a net gain. 1.) You now have intentional but consolidated shaping of the landscape. This reduces the need opportunity for Elsa gate style weirdos watching children for the actual child, if they are instead cartoons. 2.) This could theoretically reduce the amount of time the child is on camera having their life dramatized for views. If they can just outsource it once they are big enough, it would free the child up to be a normal kid. (Though in practice this likely turns into using the time to make more content on more channels) 3.) This could eventually pull children off of KZbin if they make big enough catalogs on free apps like Roku and Pluto. Parents can quickly put on Roku and the kid won't lose it since they are watching their favorite KZbin channel and won't really notice. Thus removing them entirely from the KZbin ecosphere that seems so easily manipulated to harm children

[@toxicpanda36]

well articulated points. However the ownership of this company needs to be scrutinized to make sure they are following an ethical approach to the content they greenlight

[@Kewpie-7321]

"Ryan will be 7 forever" The Portrait of Dorian Gray anyone?!?

[@heavenwaits]

terrifying because i know im gonna end up reading the stories of these kids and all the abuse and trafficking probably under the surface here. hope they can find help and peace

[@joooja]

I am both impressed by the business sense and horrified at the same time

[@BarginsGalore]

the thing where they turn the channel into a brand with animated characters or a fake podcast or just other child actors seems way better then when it’s all on one 6 year old to be the atlas of a multi million dollar channel. unregulated children’s animation has plenty of problems but it’s not fundamentally different from regular children’s entertainment

[@occamschainsaw3450]

Yes it is worse. Imagine you one of this kids and you grow up. Sure, this effed up thing happened to you, but it’s in the past, whatever, who cares. Now imagine you go on youtube when you 35 and see your desecrated corpse being puppeteered for all to see.

[@BarginsGalore]

@@occamschainsaw3450 first of all i’m imagining that and it’s fine. who cares if there’s an animated character based on you, unless you got completely screwed you’re still seeing royalties from that. second of all how many kids shows last decades? i can think of a handful and they’re all great, gen gamma isn’t gonna care about ryan toy reviews

[@occamschainsaw3450]

@@BarginsGalore I don't care if someone else cares - that's not the point. I care. Let me put it this way - would you be as chill if someone, let's say, puts your nudes on the internet without your consent? No one might ever see it - you're not that interesting, but does it change the fact itself? And personally I would be much more chill in this case - my body is not particularly unique, and I don't have some great allegiance to it, but my childhood - that's another matter altogether.

[@testacals]

@@occamschainsaw3450 I wouldn't really care as long as I get royalty money

[@occamschainsaw3450]

@@testacals Look, obviously different people would have different perspectives, but the bottomline is - this kids can't give consent, so you don't know if they're like you and wouldn't really care - or they're like me who'll go on a rampage when he grows up. My reasoning is fairly simple - I can get money by other means, that's not really an argument for me even, but this genie will not get back in the bottle no matter what you do. Also I'd be outraged just on principle, even if personally I wouldn't care that much.

[@kamilwezka]

When I was studying, I was pretty naive and dedicated to physics. Some of my friends told me to search a site with the word "lemon" in it. Today, I don't mess up with anything that contains lemon in its name.

[@RaaynML]

"Nickelodeon Executives" What a surprise

[@_Adie]

I'd imagine these kids can't later go and do something stupid/illegal that would damage the "brand." Well, they can, but you know what I mean.

[@toxicpanda36]

when all this inevitably turns political I'm going to imagine a distinct drop in physical actors being used unless they play ball and are forced to accept worsening working conditions

[@Idontgiveafinnuck]

Dracula don't bite He scrape and lick

[@greyfox78569]

KZbin is just public access television on the internet, so it's cool and hip with the young people who think it is a totally new invention. The only thing different is that instead of your show being only available to a local audience, it is literally a worldwide audience out the gate.

[@mrmcawesome9746]

Well no, for a myriad of reasons, the main of which being that anyone can upload pretty much anything on youtube and it gets picked up vs. TV which had specific programming. If you're a parent you could leave cartoon network or Disney Channel on for your kid all day, but if you let youtube autoplay there's always a chance your kid ends up on a random NSFW video that didn't get age restricted and then oops, your six-year-old is watching Elsa have sex.

[@double_w6512]

There’s no way podcasts for kids could work. Most people listen to podcasts when they’re commuting to/from work and when they’re doing chores around the house. I can’t see a scenario where a kid would choose an audio only medium over a video.

[@toxicpanda36]

remember that parents are the ones to decide what their kids watch. The podcasts can absolutely work as an "alternative" to the brainrot of normal short form content, so that parents would be encouraged to play these podcasts maybe while they're cooking or on the road. Also keep in mind podcasts in general are a critical step in establishing brand trust in this day and age, and these podcasts could be seen as a jumping off point for any political actors to subtly dictate the beliefs and values to a generation that doesn't even know what a value is

[@Deminese2]

Kids used to sit around radios and listen to very descriptive stories about monsters, cops against robbers, etc.

[@ugotisa]

Big A should turn himself into a coffee cow with glizzy fingers irl

[@griffinheeg2998]

Quick, someone make a glizzy hands joke

[@degrassi420]

the reason that guy sucks isnt because he uses social media to market his interior design business but the fact he acts like tiktok specifically is integral to his success

[@toxicpanda36]

it speaks to how he prioritizes bandwagoning off of successful trends to market himself over ensuring the strength of his own product

[@sirsanderson8861]

Big A is that an IWC Portuguese on your wrist? 🤔

[@eFiggidy]

I never heard of Kids Diana show and the channel has 109,784,050,059 views. Had to double check multiple times, that's over 109 BILLION views. Big A is only 109,649,927,751 views away...time for all the subs to pull overnight shifts to catch upppppppp

[@SWRDFSH3850]

They really Timmy Turnered Ryan’s Toy Review😂

[@Seriouspup]

The timing on that L bozo comment was immaculate

[@SzymonPmc]

4:32 almost as if that was the original idea behind YT -KZbin - Broadcast Yourself-

[@trepp2342ed]

Big A looking like a snack today sheesh

[@pepegapig1489]

Really hope they get their hands on Outdoor Boys where its just an animated Luke shooting game and fishing.

[@rockyino99]

my favorite, legal child labor

[@Chris-yw5is]

the crash out when they hit 18 is gonna be legendary

[@vincentli1064]

Drake would love to invest in Pocket Watch

[@trayvordemonslayer]

I'm upset about how smart this is

[@toxicpanda36]

it always is unfortunate when we are reminded of the pure apathy that corporate america views the most vulnerable members of society with

[@KeystoneAnglers]

This video needs more information on how to sign up my toddler for this, im tryna to retire early

[@circle_line]

Atrioc going to make an animated Syk1k so he can forever have an annoying squeaker that he can cyber bully

[@SuperPlayz]

pocketing watching 😭🙏

[@kirkshanghai]

I am not convinced the TikTok ban will actually go through at this point.

[@Hibarif123]

Pocket Watch immediately reminded me of Pocket Cat from Fear & Hunger 😭

[@maphay6992]

the amount of suicides and lawsuits that are gonna come out of these channels in like 10 years is gonna be insane

[@themothman3726]

Coming from the decade of Creepy Nickelodeon weirdos and pedo islands straight into this something is wrong. Something is very wrong with this.

[@toxicpanda36]

yes yes yes yes this should be terrifying and should spur action why are these men being allowed to run a monopoly on platforms designed to cause addiction. and they're marketing it for children like this is literally brain rot

[@drunkrussian4734]

Nice, can add exploitative child labor to the dystopia bingo card.

[@brinka7918]

it’s scary that nickelodeon executives can go and once again try break as many rules as possible

[@jwbworld4589]

Big A was around with Cartoon network I thought when he was a kid colored TV wasn't out yet.

[@WileyBoxx]

Disregarding the vile nature of it, that's fucking awesome

[@ZeromuS_]

I dont let my kids watch that youtube diana slot. The algo randomly plays it, rhe thumbnails make my toddler want to tap it in the recommended video section, and even with parent controls, the blocked channels stuff resets itself i swear. Its terrible. We try to stick to PBS type shows which try to be educational.

[@toxicpanda36]

love it we love parents that actually care about promoting curiosity and refusing to let their child be brainwashed

[@Tom-kk2jc]

I don't think the addition of the whiteboard is working for these videos. I think a big part of this channels identity is Atrioc's big ass head as a visual on the screen. With this setup you can't see any of the emotion on his face and it's a lot less engaging. I find myself not paying attention more times than before. Ms paint works for people like piratesoftware cause it adds value where as this whiteboard messes up the visual and on top of that the rhythm since a lot of time is spent moving around the room, opening up pens, adjusting the mic etc. Even after some of the growing pains get sorted out I don't see this being good addition in the long run.

[@toxicpanda36]

yea the actual information did not need to be on a whiteboard; a single PowerPoint slide that atrioc refers to would have sufficed

[@Mirtual]

Lemon8 exists in Australia and it's just called "TikTok notes". I've seen a lot of videos from Americans who think that if TikTok gets banned that's gonna be TikTok 2, except it doesn't have videos, only photos and text.

[@3_character_minimum]

It is really crazy... legacy media has so many rules and regs to follow for kids programming. Then new media runs throught it. There is some great stuff in KZbin But QC/QA is terrible that as a parent I dont know how I cpuld let my kid use it.

[@toxicpanda36]

tfw the country is addicted to learning why regulations are written in blood

[@emo4123]

Having your company named pocket watch is too funny

[@zmanszoo5454]

I watched and episode or two of the hobby kids show awhile ago and one of the episodes is sponsored by Carls Jr

[@e.d.5766]

My kids are only going to be allowed to watch Marketing Mondays and NorthernLion compilations.

[@fujinshu]

CaptainSparklez (y’know, a grown man) also has his channel being owned by these ex-Nickelodeon execs.

[@toxicpanda36]

:(

[@soffwhere]

Wouldn’t it be more secure long term to have child stars establish connection with kids and then follow their crowd as they age?

[@HCG]

Manipulating and monetizing children is disgusting, plain and simple. Trying to get them hooked on your product to milk them for profit will never not be ethically wrong. Stop being scared to say it. “It’s… odd” no, it’s gross.

[@toxicpanda36]

People don't like calling a spade a spade. children should never exist to make profit. adults shouldn't either but this is way more insidious and terrifying for the implications it has on our political future

[@sillyguyharlen]

Small question that someone might know. Is the lemon app a fork of TikTok notes? It looks kinda similar

[@alexx12545]

1:27 bruh chill 😭

[@RamenEnjoyer404]

It's shit like this that really show the double edged sword of the internet

[@Omapk]

KZbin kids preloaded onto fire tablets- They got in early I'm sure. Every single kid has one of these cheap blue-plastic tablets and youtube kids just feeds an endless stream of specially categorized content to children who watch it endlessly. Early creators got in quick, but now like everything I'm sure it's going to be consolidated.

[@toxicpanda36]

addiction, perfected for the most malleable brains of society. and we've allowed it to become a monopoly, subject to the rules of a rogue billionaire and his greedy allies

[@InternetKilledTV21]

They've still got a redbox logo up lmfao this is either eons old content or they truly have so much money they don't have to care.

[@stopit1792]

Between crypto, ai, child exploitation, health care bankrupty….our future looks so bright.

[@ADominacja]

get this man a lav mic 🙏

[@LIONGOD]

i come for the content, and stay for V's apartment

[@Dudeguy217]

Man imagine being an adult and you've been depicted in an AI-generated children's cartoon for the past 20 years

[@estboy_04]

If I was a child actor I would be glad to finally be off the show once the animated avatar replaces me. I would not be able to go to school if anybody found out.

[@kaleigh53]

I need Big A to dissect Troom Troom