TOO tired or lazy to be a parent? These are the mindless YouTube videos raising your kids for you:
Disney princesses as goths
Some sad bastard with too much time on their hands has edited clips of Rapunzel so she looks like a heavily made-up and pierced goth in ripped jeans. This has no cultural or educational worth, yet small children make up the bulk of its 20 million views. The creator is set for life thanks to the ad revenue.
Cake-decorating compilations
Yes, watching someone decorate a rainbow-layer unicorn cake with generous dollops of fondant icing and gold-sprayed marshmallows is soothing, but it only reminds the kids how badly it went when you tried to make a Betty Crocker mix with a tub of pre-made icing. It might have shut them up but they’ll never respect you in the kitchen.
Unboxing videos
Youngsters filming themselves taking products out of boxes symbolise everything wrong with modern society, and it shuts your own kids up for hours. As your kids click on another video where a Funko Pop figure is removed from handfuls of non-recyclable plastic, you’ll wonder whether Western civilisation was a mistake. Yes, and your half-arsed parenting is a big part of that.
Questionable animal rescues
Your children will watch in fascination as a do-gooder struggles to rescue a puppy from a fast-flowing river or a helpless kitten trapped in a storm drain. Based on your brief glimpses, you’ll be asking basic questions like ‘how did they know to start recording’ and ‘why doesn’t the person filming f**king help?’
Educational videos
In theory, a good thing. However your kids will discuss what they’ve learnt about the Solar System or the Tudors with a vlogger’s annoying cadence, giving away that you’ve sat them in front of YouTube for hours on end. Their habit of occasionally segueing into a Nord VPN sponsorship spiel is a dead giveaway too.
