This video is hilarious and I will show it to every parent with Frozen obsessed children I know. But it is also the reason you can't leave your four-year-old alone with an iPad and access to YouTube.
I learned this the hard way.
Anyone else's kids navigate from legitimate Frozen videos to that woman who makes doll dresses out of playdough (YouTube name: DisneyCarToys) with the most annoying voice known to man and then wander unsupervised into a Frozen fan fiction vortex where a grown woman acts out "family-friendly" Frozen fantasies with dolls?
First Christof and Anna were just frolicking at the beach and all seemed okay but then Anna woke up next to Christof with "snot" all over her because of a "practical joke" and two videos later she was pregnant.
Ummmm… Mazzy, you are not allowed to watch YouTube anymore.
Regardless, enjoy the video below (not created by DisneyCarToys, thank god)…
Three questions:
1) What are kid-friendly alternatives to YouTube?
2) So… I should really be watching Orange is the New Black, right?
3) How much money do you think DisneyCarToys (I refuse to link to her) is raking in by playing with dolls on camera? She's got thousands of videos each with about one million views. Man, we are all doing it wrong.
Seriously, the Disney toy car lady… who knew? She has like thousands of videos. Now every time my 4yo daughter asks to play with my phone she asks for “Elsa play dough.”
Weird.
But she winds up on totally inappropriate videos too. There’s gotta be a way to block! :/
Our 3 year old was obsessed with trains/cars/buses etc and would peruse YouTube watching videos of people playing with vehicles and trains. One day I found him watching a cartoon of a train ramming in and out of a tunnel with red “paint” flowing out!! He just thought it was a weird/funny train video. Unfortunately we haven’t figured a way yet to find a safe way to watch YouTube since parental controls only go so far and only works if the poster puts a un-kid friendly rating on the video. So now we just make sure he watched YouTube near us and we keep an ear out for weirdness.
was that blood?
Oh my gosh! My 4 year old daughter loves that Disney Toy Car lady and I think its so strange! I guess it’s kinda nice to know my kid isn’t the only weirdo out there 🙂
PBS kids has a free app that’s basically all the PBS kids shows. My kids have gotten really into Wild Kratz which is all about different animals and quite educational.
Great alternative to youtube.
Omg I have found my 3yo watching creepy play doh figures! Also some strange one where they open Kinder eggs? There is such weird stuff…we have the amazon prime app, pbs kids, Disney movies anywhere, and Disney Jr for shows. I don’t think there’s any stopping them though, they are just innately apple-savvy!
That DisneyCarToys lady is creepy. I blocked her. The only thing that is more creepy (and scary and wrong and many more negative adjectives) is the reborn people. juliesreborns1. Yuck.
Seriously, when I saw that DisneyCarToys lady’s channel I thought it was really weird. And then I saw the number of hits she was getting. And I really wish I had thought to do that first. And then I thought of how well I’d have to be taking care of my hands to do that. And OMG, YES, her voice is so annoying.
And I wish there were a way to regulate the YouTube videos. I hate how quickly one can go from totally innocent videos to weird/creepy/inappropriate ones.
YES!!! Creepy play-doh lady!! Who knew that was a thing?? And also, why are my children so mesmerized by her opening the stupid chocolate eggs? And then my 4-year-old son somehow winds up watching completely inappropriate videos of perverted college guys playing with Batman figures.
That video could have been so much better than it was. Also – I would pay damn good money to see someone stab that DisneyCarToys lady.
There is an app called itube that you can download “safe” videos from youtube. You have to load them on first, so they can’t go randomly from one to the next, but that’s the point!
I gave up on YouTube once I couldn’t find Curious George videos anymore. Now the only thing I can find for my daughter is people playing Curious George games. So, I just have her watch short videos on Netflix with their app. I’ve also run into that creepy Barbie-playdough-egg lady. I thought I was odd by playing with Barbies until I was 13, but clearly this women has me beat on that one.
Check this crazy one out http://youtu.be/lOzhSjNRHec
Most of her videos have over a million hits, but I’m sure the majority of them were found on accident by toddlers.
I’m a teacher and at school our security blocker screens some of the videos, but the ads are always inappropriate. You would think they would have age appropriate ads for videos geared toward children??? I’m just waiting for a parent to call me because their first grader watched a 30 second ad about online dating.
Orange is the New Black is entertaining, however it’s not one my top recommendations. I have not started the 2nd season yet. It’s a good show to watch when you’re multitasking.
New reader that just finally got caught up to the present day. Btw loved the entire blog i went back to the beginning. You might try on YouTube search feature. It is supposed to keep inappropriate videos from showing up. Just a thought.
Don’t get me started on YouTube toy videos. My daughter is a huge DisneyCarToys fan, and wants to be “Toy Mom” when she grows up. But those two pale in comparison to her love of “Jon & Bin.” In case Mazzy hasn’t discovered them yet, all you have to know is that Jon is a Brony, Bin is his “wife,” and they are obsessed with My Little Pony and reading their fan mail out loud. They make DisneyCarToys seem like the freaking Godfather or something. My four-year-old daughter is obsessed though. So obsessed in fact that every night before bed I now have to SING HER A LULLABY ABOUT HER GETTING TO MEET JOB & BIN. Some kids dream of becoming a doctor. Mine dreams of meeting some YouTube weirdos.
Help.
The Kinder Eggs! OMG, the Kinder Eggs! I had a recent business trip and realized in the airport that I hadn’t bought my YouTube-obsessed daughter anything. Saw a pack of Kinder Eggs in Duty Free, brought them home for her, and she was so excited–you would have thought I had brought her a puppy. Or a Porsche.
Oh man, don’t get me started in DisneyCollectorBR. My three year old loves her. And from some research, she makes a ton of money to make those videos! Gah!
I had to look up disney car toy lady whatever..b/c I’m sick like that. I never let my 4-year old free roam on YouTube…that’s sort-of the equivalent of letting her roam around in a toy store with secret doors inside that lead to a bunch of stores that should’ve been closed down for health and safety reasons, yet they remain open because the general population is sick and twisted. 🙂
I love that idea. I was thinking that someone should invent that today! Will check it out, thanks.
Check out the pbs kids app! They have curious George, Daniel tiger and lots more available to watch.
Haha, exactly!
I can’t believe no one has addressed “Orange is the New Black”!!! YES, you most definitely should be watching it!! So good!
AWESOME!! And yes, Orange is the New Black is worth watching!
The main question here is “why are you not watching Orange is the New Black yet?”
I cannot stand the Playdoh lady. I have to tell my 4-year old daughter that I cannot stand her voice and she has to turn them off. Also, the egg opening videos — she watches those all the time too if I let her use YouTube. I stopped because of the weird “grown-up” cursing Frozen links. Ahh.
This thread is hilarious. I often find my daughter watching crazy stuff on youtube so try to pay attention to what she is viewing. Her friend is into watching lalaloopsy videos where someone is playing with them. I think it is so strange to watch a video of someone else playing with a doll. Why are our kids so into this?!
yes you should be watching Orange is the new black. Be prepared to have a couple of missing days, though…
No weird Youtubing going on here. My five year old does not have free range screen time. Ever. I don’t need alone time that bad. Ok, sometimes I do need it and then I put on Daniel Tiger or Wild Krats on Netflix. You guys have heard of the truly horrid, damaging crap that is out there on the internet right??
McKenna is obsessed with that lady and is now smart enough to find her no matter what I do. So, so weird.
I watched 0.004 seconds of the DisneyCarToy lady or whatever it is. So it’s a woman (with an annoying voice) who plays with dolls and toys? Couldn’t quite wrap my head around it.
As for Orange is the New Black, yes yes yes. Start watching. Now!
i think 500,000 of those DisneyCarToy video views are from my daughter alone…UGH! 😉
Yes you should be watching OITNB! I watched the first season alone and then invited my husband to rewatch it with me before the second season started. I thought he would get into it for all of the normal guy reasons, but he was addicted for the story line too and we binge watched the second season moderately responsibly. Go for it!