![]() My youngest is a furry, she’s ten, it’s forgivable. My older two are gamers, my seventeen-year-old daughter has Minecraft tournaments (also CSGO) every Saturday, while my eldest, twenty one, plays Warhammer, DnD, Skyrim, a multitude of horror games, Fallout, Borderlands and more. If I noticed something in their history I found concerning, we’d chat, have a digital detox for a while, and then channels were unsubscribed from, and we’d go forward with more suitable viewing. I did used to monitor their viewing, but I wasn’t fastidious about it. ![]() It made me think about the older two, how YouTube acted as a kind if babysitter almost, how it helped to shape them growing up. My youngest, ten, will watch with me, and loves them. They all have huge respect for PewDiePie and JackSepticEye, along with Markiplier and Cinnamon Toast Ken (while writing this I’ve noticed that Word doesn’t try to correct the spelling of PewDiePie or Markiplier but does for Jack /Sean somehow – come on Word, catch up, he’s a Hollywood movie star!) but have moved on to other YouTubers as they’ve grown up, as I’m sure is the case for many teens and young adults. You may think that PewDiePie and JackSepticEye are channels I watch due to the children’s choices, however, I’m teased by them for being outdated and following old channels, when there’s new up and coming YouTubers that are more contemporary. There are channels that I watch alone and channels I watch with either one of the children, each of which has their own taste. As a single mother of three unique children, aged ten, seventeen and twenty-one, I watch YouTube daily.
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