The latest online moral panic is a video game character erroneously rumored to have made its way to YouTube Kids
after seeing his older siblings play a Huggy Wuggy game on the gaming platform Roblox. The U.K. outletquoted a Dorset Police officer specifically stating that the videos were being served to extremely young children, stating, “if you were to use even YouTube Kids, for example, it may slip through because there is nothing obviously sinister about the name of a video.”
It’s also true that there are many fan-made videos featuring the character Huggy Wuggy on YouTube’s main platform, many of which would be quite disturbing to small children.
s all the characteristics of other kid moral panics,” says Benjamin Radford, a folklorist and research fellow for the Committee for Skeptic Inquiry. “There’s this notion of ‘what are kids today doing online,’ and there’s always this notion of hidden danger.” “From there, people took it at face value and this idea that there’s a disturbing character on YouTube Kids corrupting young vulnerable children,” says Ondrak. “It spreads incredibly quickly through people who aren’t necessarily familiar with online culture and people who aren’t familiar with how YouTube algorithms work.”
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