YouTube’s current focus is entirely on the teenage community. It releases updates every month regarding their safety. The last two updates introduced restrictions on firearm videos and content recommendations. YouTube has also added a new supervisory tool for parents to observe their kids’ activities and what they have been sharing with viewers. Why is that, you may wonder?
Restricting content suggestions and firearm videos mainly keeps teenagers away from harmful content. Let’s understand the need to monitor what they upload.
Why did YouTube add a new supervisory tool to monitor teens’ activity?
The supervisory tool is for parents who want to see their kids’ activities and what they post on YouTube. Parents’ and teens’ accounts should be linked under Family Center Hub to monitor kids’ YouTube accounts. Parents can see shared insights on their kids’ YouTube channel in the hub, including uploading, comments, and subscriptions. With the help of insights, parents will understand what kind of content the kids have been consuming and uploading and where they need to stop them.
Parents will also be notified via email about special events, such as when the teen uploads a video or starts a live stream. When you, as a parent, start your kid’s YouTube channel along with yours, ensure the kids should be at least teenagers of 13 years old.
Studies and reports indicate that YouTube rabbit holes lead viewers to watch harmful content, especially teens. Thus, the YouTube supervisory tool introduction. Kids are easily influenced and radicalized by any ideological perspective, which can guide them to unpleasant activities. Creators like Andrew Tate have been banned since 2022 due to their potentially harmful content.
Conclusion
YouTube’s community guidelines prohibit creators from uploading content that can mislead viewers. Such content includes predatory behaviour, physical and verbal violence, malicious attacks, body weight shame, or any sort of dangerous content. However, YouTubers can upload content regardless of limitations, and it is consumed by teens and adults. This new YouTube supervisory tool is introduced to eliminate all such activities on the platform.