Typically I’m incredibly cynical about “won’t somebody please think of the children” type stuff - but I’ve got to admit, this does seem like a lot more than I expected. And while a certain kind of kid, say, myself, would probably be just fine rolling his eyes and blocking/reporting and not have it be a bit thing… I really was an especially certain kind of kid, and not everybody works that way.

I wonder what I would do as a parent - if my kid relied on it to stay in touch with his friends. Sit him down and talk to him about it? Go through stuff together with him, like actually flip through the videos and chat about them? I don’t know it’s hard to imagine, I’d like to believe I could just teach them the proper attitude / framing to take when approaching this kind of content, served by this kind of app, but what would I do if I felt like I was failing at that?

What if my kid actively resisted my efforts? Talk to his friend’s parents maybe and see about setting up an alternative? Kids always find a way to get around boundaries though.