It’s not clear why they are so addictive for small children, but luckily there is a way to limit their consumption, writes Séamas O’Reilly
‘My son’s favourite YouTube videos are made on the day he watches them, often by literal children and never by anyone over the age of 25’‘My son’s favourite YouTube videos are made on the day he watches them, often by literal children and never by anyone over the age of 25’It’s not clear why they are so addictive for small children, but luckily there is a way to limit their consumption. A lot. Most of the videos he watches are inoffensive, some are excellent.
I’m sceptical about screen-time panic, and the idea that all our children are addicted to digital heroin, but I must admit that it is the latter genre of videos he loves best. I’m forced to wonder about the narcotic effect all those screeched voices and seizure-inducing hyper-edits are having on his brain because it’s irrefutably true: he’s watching a type of programming that simply did not exist when I was a child.
My son’s favourite YouTube videos, on the other hand, are made the day he watches them, often by literal children and never by anyone over the age of 25. The worst of them are loud and annoying because they’re made by content providers who owe their success to primping and preening their product until it is addictively compelling on an atomic level.
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