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Chuchu tv is low effort content. I mean: it's really quite terrible and a waste of your kids time.

There's a lot of great content on youtube, but gets buried in this pile of garbage. Chuchu TV is part of the garbage. If you go to their channel and search for 'jonny jonny' (a popular nursery rhyme in india) you'll find a half dozen videos and enough garbage content to fill a whole days watching. This is a 3 minute rhyme.

The only reason chuchu has views is because they know how to game the system. Parents search for a popular nursery rhyme and leave kids with auto-play or suggestions... and guys like chuchu know how to game the recomendation algorithms to keep the kids within their content.

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>> .. and guys like chuchu know how to game the recomendation algorithms to keep the kids within their content.

Just curious, what stops other competitors like Disney, Sesame Street and Nickelodeon from doing the same thing?

Western media has sort of an honor code not to engage in such actions. We traditionally prefer people to find our creative works because it's good and high quality, not because we gamed some algorithm.

That being said, it's entirely possible for someone outside of these organizations to start something like Chu Chu TV in the United States. However, it would probably face harsher criticism.

Thats just a dense comment. Disney and others have no worthwhile content for that particular age kids on youtube.

My guess is that they just don't care, they have no need to join the ranks of bottom-feeders.

I find this comment and in fact the whole discussion here racist! It is just because that this is an Indian channel, people are bashing it!

It has songs like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq3yfQnllfQ&t=140s) with a billion views! This means millions of kids are learning their first alphabets. My kid learnt her rhymes from this channel.

It is completely upto us parents as to how much screen time they get. My kid gets 40 mins everyday and no more. I decide what to watch and I watch with them.

I, the author of the comment, am Indian.

I see what this channel is doing with the algorithm and I don't like it. In addition, I don't like the content and don't want my kids trapped by it. I'm sure that there's some educational content in there, but over all is of poor quality.

There are other channels in the toddler entertainment business, I assume from other countries, which do the same thing. I avoid them as well.

There are good Indian channels on youtube. Chuchu TV is not one of them.

Just wanted to add that this is a beautiful example of why, you shouldn't pretend to know the motivations, or what happens inside the heads, of other people. (as piyushpr134 did)

> I find this comment and in fact the whole discussion here racist!

Just curious: Why is the comment racist?

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