Please Help

[Harbinger]

My 6 year old loves Wildkratts. In case you need info, it's a cartoon about rescuing animals and it actually gives kids lots of facts about animals. For a cartoon, it is very educational. Also, the main characters are real humans who are represented as cartoons for the majority of the show. The brothers, Chris and Martin, appear as cartoons throughout the show and appear as themselves at the end. My son currently wants to rescue animals for a living.

That's pretty much all you need to know about Wildkratts for my purposes.

Today, my son yelled, "DAD, DAD, come here!"
Me: "What do you need?"
Son: "DAD!"

My kid was watching cartoons on YouTube. He was seeing something that disturbed him. Basically, Chris and Martin were engaged in cartoon faggot activity. On YouTube. I'm pretty pissed off right now. I am actually a supporter of gay "rights." Really. Pursuit of happiness and all that. But WTF was my kid watching!?

At six, he had questions. "Why were Chris and Martin hugging with their clothes off?"
"Why did Chris show his penis to Martin? He wasn't pee peeing."

So my question is this: What options do I have to block this type of shit?

I am very ignorant about this type of thing. Please help.

[Zarathustra]

Honestly, I've never had this problem. I'm not sure exactly why, raising two boys in the 21st century I would have thought it to be necessary, but either they liked what they saw on Youtube or were lucky enough to find nothing disturbing. We've never blocked a thing, so I'm just as ignorant on it as you. It's unfortunate that your son had to learn about something which confused and disturbed him at such a young age.

I thought Youtube limited sexual content so that you had to log in with an account to watch. Was your son watching on your account?

[Hashi Lebwohl]

Unfortunately, the only things you can really do is report the content as offensive to YouTube and hope they pull the video. Z is correct--YouTube normally filters their material but from time to time things sneak through. This is why I constantly tell our kids "if you are going to watch videos online then I don't have a problem with that but you had better be very careful about what you click".

You can probably find legitimate Wildkratts videos on Hulu or the Nickelodeon site (was that one of their shows? *shrug*) and they won't have objectionable content. YouTube is akin to playing roulette.

[Zarathustra]

My wife just told me that Youtube has added a children's channel. You create an account and log them into that.

[Zarathustra]

One more thing ... previous searches are remembered by your computer (browser, cookies, etc.). So if anyone is looking up porn in your house, this could lead to searches bringing up "other things you might like." Perhaps you should set your son up with his own user account on the computer itself (the operating system), and don't give his password to older siblings.

Or maybe you should stop surfing gay porn.

[I'm Murrin]

Most likely it was some sort of innappropriate fanart someone uploaded; if there was explicit stuff in there then reporting it to Youtube is the correct action.

The kid's youtube channel that Z mentions might be the way to go, as well as any kind of official apps or channels from kids' content creators, where there won't be "open" content.

Finally, while I understand that you're upset about this, I think it would be appreciated if you would refrain from using slurs such as "faggot" in your posts.

[deer of the dawn]

Agreed (with Murrin). I am sure the actual Kratt brothers had nothing to do with this. Porn makers use things like this to lure kids in. Which is really, really sick if you ask me.

[peter]

Harbinger - are you pulling some kind of prank here? The 'faggot' quip is way out of line, and the rest of the post just doesn't 'feel right' to me.

I apologise a million times if my suspicians are unfounded, but I'm just not convinced.

[wayfriend]

YouTube under fire for adult content in kids app

A little too late for Harbinger, I am afraid.