I think I remember a meme from like 5 years ago saying that a dj in 2032 was gonna drop baby shark in a set and the club would go apeshit
I absolutely would and I’m already old as shit, mid 40s. I was not even remotely a child when that came out.
Tune was just a certified banger. 🔥
Yikes. Offloading your kids onto endless mindless youtube videos is not taking care of them.
its talking about taking part in your kids interests, not letting yt babysit them.
Kids tend to like happy music. AND THEY WILL ASK FOR IT ON REPEAT. Mine wants APT. CONSTANTLY.
Nothing to do with videos, it is about the music.
Baby shark predates the internet, no? I learned it on a fieldtrip in the late dialup era, well before casual internet browsing was mainstream (at least for kids my age)
It hurts to read “The original song dates back to the 20th century” in the Wikipedia article.
You got me curious so I looked it up, and you’re right. Apparently it was a campfire song that’s been around since like the 70s? I never heard of it until pinkfong put it on blast. Thanks for the education!
Yeah, we were singing it a long time before the internet was a thing accessible to children. It was passed down by those who went to camps along with such songs as “da moose da moose”
i agree with you 100%, but baby shark was so viral, it reached every child, regardless if their parents used the screen as a babysitter
Granted. That still doesn’t make it make sense to tell people that if they don’t know about baby shark they’re bad parents.
I’ll take the benefit of doubt and assume you’re not a contrarian asshole and just took a wierd interpretation.
The interpretation I got (and most people based on the comments) is that the audience did not get it because they do not take care of their children so they aren’t aware of viral songs anymore with children have heard.
I edited my initial comment. I did indeed have a weird interpretation born from unfortunate experience and ignorance.
Parents using a screen as a babysitter is child abuse. I never done that with my kids, we did watch TV together, and I shared stuff I liked, but not once leave them unnatended.
Absolutely hated when my ex did that, especially because how toxic the YouTube “watch next” algorithm is for kids. even with YT kids.
You, seemingly deliberately, misunderstood my message.
Baby Shark was astoundingly pervasive and the only way to have missed out on it was to be belligerently unobservant.
It’s clear that you either do not have children, or that it has never occurred you to take an interest in their interests.
You’re right, I don’t have children, but my sister does. I had to watch her sit her baby in front of endless youtube baby video playlists that did nothing but distract the baby for hours and hours while her mother did meth with her baby daddy. She was 2. She didn’t have communicable interests of note. She was just neglected by a shitty mom.
Take your holier than thou attitude and shove it.
Your sister sucks, therefore YouTube is bad?
Look, clearly you and this other user have some kind of weird idea going on that’s leading you to misread what I’m saying, so let me just say it here clearly:
If you don’t know about baby shark, that doesn’t make you a bad parent. If you leave your infant/toddler sat in front of youtube for hours every day, you are probably a bad parent.
There. Now stop putting words in my mouth.
We’re responding to the words you put into OP’s mouth, with your holier-than-thou attitude.
Nah, in order to spin it that way you have to ignore what I just said and keep putting words in my mouth. Get blocked, chud.
Both can be true, but not necessarily related.
Sounds more like to me like they shitty aunt and sister for just watching her sit her kid in front of a TV while she goes off and smokes meth. They just allow that to happen?
YouTube is awful for children.
While I agree that YouTube should be monitored, you’re making the same comment as someone in the 80s talking about cartoons on TV.
Meaningless argument.
Some one can say “I don’t like Nazis” and then say “I don’t like tomato soup” a week later. It doesn’t mean you can compare the two.
phones in general are awful for children
I’ve seen dozens of stories about how the schools the 0.01% send their kids to have zero tolerance for phones.
They can afford nannies to make sure that the next generation of leaders knows how to think
I’ve seen dozens of stories about how the schools the 0.01% send their kids to have zero tolerance for phones
Continuous glucose monitors update to smartphone apps. Zero tolerance phone policies are disability discrimination lawsuits waiting to happen and the schools the 0.01% have lawyers good enough to figure that out.
There are plenty of scientific studies on how bad they are, but since society and economic pressure demand parents to kill themselves for their jobs, it’s no wonder they have little to no energy to actually parent and resort to the easiest solution.
