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My 3 year old son loves these videos as well (especially the toy car unboxing videos on Youtube). I'm glad someone linked to an article about it. It seems really odd to me that he loves them, but he finally seems to be over them after a 4 month stint of always seeking them out, trying to spell out the words to find them, etc

Cant believe some of these toy unboxing videos have +70 million views, insane

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"Cant believe some of these toy unboxing videos have +70 million views, insane"

My son watched the same skylanders unboxing every day for ... weeks? It adds up.

Kids viewing habits are not like adults. I saw the movie "sorcerer" (a tolerably good movie from the 70s, although its timeless) and its pretty cool but I'm probably not watching it again until my next reincarnation. Kids will watch the same thing over and over.

Same for my nephew. He can watch hours of these unboxing some random toy video. But then I too like watching walkthrough/gameplay and sometimes unboxing of some gadgets. :) I think we all watch such vids.

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