To my grandparents / great grandparents generation at the time (70/80's) TV has become the world's nanny would have generated all the same comments as this.
If you watched tv - the idiotbox - for more than 15 minutes your eyes would go square.
If you watched tv - the idiotbox - for more than 15 minutes your eyes would go square.
Youtube for kids seems to be a rabbithole place where you end up with "Spiderman kisses Anna", very obvious advertisements or very trippy shows while on public television you had kid shows with educative touch on them (a visit to the forest, children songs,...)
I allow my children to watch a very curated list of things and free reign on the Belgian "kids channel" but Youtube? Never.
See the critical reception section for highlights including; Sesame Street also introduced children to a shallow pop culture, undermined American education, and relieved parents of their responsibility of teaching their children how to read.
No you couldn't. TV has always been used for nefarious purposes, especially political.
For it to be the case I would expect to see a split in the population on many metrics, especially around education, dividing the with / without TV / YouTube groups.
Presumably the adverse effects would overcome the dominant factor which I assume is socioeconomic.
As for the making your eyes go square - I doubt youtube has any more effect that the old tube tv! Its also believed that reading books gives you bad eyesight ...