>>Shamar+(OP)
Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlN9jdQFSc

>>betaby+Wa
"No one bats an eye" is a weird take when the Federal Government, via the Department of Health and Human Services, has literally just declared war on added sugar. [1] Also, lots of people have already changed their diets [2] regarded added sugar.

Sugar has been vilified for longer and more vociferously than social media use by kids, but that may be changing now.

[1]: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2026-01-07/trump-admin...

[2]: https://ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S0002-9165(23)02461-9/pdf

>>michae+Zc
Let's check in on how we're doing preventing the tobacco industry from marketing to children.

Hmm, candy flavored vapes both for THC and nicotine. Teen psychosis from THC. Popcorn lung. Not so good it seems!

https://www.lung.org/research/sotc/by-the-numbers/8-things-i...

>>microm+B9
No, they actually added a bedtime reminder feature for all users that they couldn't verify to be adults: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1pmcr04/what_the_h...

>>shaftw+i8
> This sounds like YouTube taking actual steps to improve the situation.

The issue I take with statements like that is that they are saying one thing while doing the opposite. This document [1], for instance, shows that YouTube knew as early as April 2025 that infinite feeds of short form content can "displace valuable activities like time with friends or sleep", but that hasn't stopped them from aggressively pushing YouTube shorts everywhere.

The most charitable interpretation I can think of is that there are two factions, one worried about the effects of YouTube in teens and a second one worried about growth at all costs. And I don't think the first one is winning.

[1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40...

>>malfis+Gf
First two results from this new-fangled thing they call a "search engine:"

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768807?re...

https://www.vox.com/2016/10/3/12866484/michelle-obama-childh...

>>1vuio0+8C1
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyBxDVuD1l-Xqswgpr7XaFA

Example of high quality, low viewcount