‘[They] don’t know better’: Overworked parents and their kids are being shamelessly victimized by corner-cutting YouTube celebs endorsing the barely-edible food kits ‘Lunchly’

Back when we were young, us lucky kids got our lunches made by mom or dad. We used to be embarrassed by the little hearts scribbled on the side of our brown-bagged lunch, but every day, we’d be excited to see what kind of sandwich we got, if they remembered the baby carrots we liked, …
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Parents at a movie theater let their 6-year-old watch full-volume YouTube videos for the entire runtime of the movie: ‘It concerns me how many children cannot sit without mindless garbage’

It seems like nobody’s attention spans are getting any longer. When I was a kid, video games were the main culprit in the ‘technology is ruining our children’ culture war, but I think YouTube might’ve been the biggest culprit. Like all other social media, YouTube is controlled by an algorithm that only shows you what …
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20 Spicy Nikocado Avocado Memes for Chicken Sandwich Lovers Who Are Always Two Steps Ahead

What are the qualities of a truly great internet celebrity? Many people would argue that there is no such thing, others would claim that a lot of the time it is a role that gets bestowed on random individuals who just happen to be in the right place at the right time. Others still might …
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Excessive screen time causes 10-year-old boy to lose his Australian accent, parents defend their parenting choices: ‘The kid obviously is deteriorating’

Everyone has a right to parent in their own way, but we also all have the right to think what we think about those choices. There are as many ways to parent as there are children in the world, and we will never understand the full scope of a situation from the outside. We can …
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‘This was always my song for my daughter’: The most touching comments left under songs on YouTube

Once upon a time, one of the most important pieces of wisdom about the internet was to never read the comments. Even the comment sections of the most anodyne of videos threatened to be home to the cesspit of humanity, or so we were told.  While there can be an element of truth to this …
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5-year-old stars the day with a chocolate bar and iPad time, commenters chastise parents: ‘What level of brain rot’

I was a picky kid. There wasn’t a lot I’d be willing to eat for breakfast, but cereal was one of them. I craved that hit of sugar in the mornings. I still do, though I realize that a bowl of cereal is not nearly enough to keep me sustained for more than an hour. …
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MrBeast Causes Controversy With ‘Experiment’ Where Two Strangers Try to Win $500,000 by Staying in the Same Room for 100 Days

The criticism of the internet is not an alien concept to MrBeast. He’s built multimillion dollar empire from his algorithmically-trained YouTube videos and the acts of philanthropy he often displays in them, but they’re not to everybody’s taste. With every passing day, he seems to be becoming more and more of a demented, Black Mirror …
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Google comienza las pruebas para jugar a juegos online dentro de YouTube

Google ha comenzado a realizar pruebas de juegos online dentro de YouTube. En junio se filtró que la compañía de Mountain View, tras el fracaso de Stadia, planeaba introducir juegos online en su popular plataforma de vídeo. Ahora se confirma de forma oficial que los rumores eran ciertos. El sistema se llama Playables, y ofrece …
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‘You’re A Bird!’: Rescued Raven Grows Up With Humans And Acts Like A Puppy, Knocks On Window Until Humans Give Him Attention (Video)

Even though one of our favorite things to see is a rescued animal being set free and going back into the wild… there are some rescued animals that are just- not made for that. Either they’ve been hurt or they simply don’t know how to fend for themselves because they didn’t grow up in the …
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