[ChewFarceSkunk]

People not seeing anything sinister in these infinite loops of "content" are baffling me. These loops, the very loopy quality of those things get burned into infant subconscious, and that's no small deal.

I once watched my nephew, 3 yo, having what I can best describe as a psychotic breakdown, hysterically crying out the same word, 'cartoon', interleaved with convulsive grasping for air, every few seconds for an hour straight, like a machine, when he was deprived of 'cartoons' as a penalty for his 'bad behavior', and nobody, including his mom, my sister, who spinelessly managed to outsource his upbringing to YT, could pull him out of that loop. That was really scary to see.

Imagine YT going instantly offline worldwide, what would happen to all those poor little cartoon burnouts?

[watwut]

3 years old having temper tamptrumps were thing long before TV and youtube. I know, because books written long before that feature kids having hysterical temper tamptrums. And I assume so because I have seen kids aged 2-4 having issue like that and know for a fact that their parents did not run them loop videos (or any videos at all).

> Imagine YT going instantly offline worldwide, what would happen to all those poor little cartoon burnouts?

They will cry for a while and then they will adjust to the new world.

> and nobody, including his mom, my sister, who spinelessly managed to outsource his upbringing to YT, could pull him out of that loop

I dont know your sister. I dont know whether she always give in or whether she was not in mood for listening it or whether she specifically gave him video so that your visit can continue as normal.