Il volume degli Stati Uniti YouTube mostra “indebolisce i legami per bambini del Regno Unito con la propria cultura”
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/26/volume-of-us-youtube-shows-weakens-uk-childrens-ties-to-their-own-culture
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“American website full of American content” is the hard-hitting journalism we need.
This reminds me of an article I saw a few years ago:
US parents say Peppa Pig is giving their kids British accents [https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jul/19/peppa-pig-american-kids-british-accents](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jul/19/peppa-pig-american-kids-british-accents)
Shock news story! American website full of American content!
There’s an epidemic of British kids saying flashlight, and elevator.
Somehow, I don’t think YouTube is the biggest culprit
Im an expat of the world, my kid can’t get any BBC Kids program because it’s Geolocked behind the BBC iPlayer. The Internet is the world and the BBC isn’t being competitive unless they can partner or sell their content outside of the UK broadcasting.
I can get my kid on YT Kids and none of them are BBC Kids related except Peppa Pig, which has its own channel.
Peppa Pig is the only British item available whilst most western world (US/Canada/Australia) puts their preschool kids content on YT and YT Kids.
When Peppa Pig and Mr Bean are the only British-ness pushed for young kids on YT, also Octanauts is on Netflix, is it any wonder why we are losing the content race?
FYI, we get more reading content from the BBC on Amazon Kids, but the accent, and nuance in how we speak is lost only in words that sounds American / Canadian in my kid’s head (Tuh-MAY-toes)
Parents put child in front of screen. Shocked at outcome.
I solve this tricky problem by not letting my children on YouTube
> Lisa Nandy, and the regulator Ofcom have indicated they want public service broadcasters to be given more prominence on YouTube. Nandy warned in a recent speech: “If we need to regulate, we will.”
Regulate it how? How is Nandy going to change algorithms to ensure kids are watching more “British” content?
Also the article mentioned some rubbish about “losing our language”. How? Because of Americanisms? I dislike them as much as anybody, but maybe we should leave this job to the parents.
I know a school teacher who had multiple kids in recent years who started primary school thinking that they lived in America because of the glut of Yank media they were fed.
Parents who refuse to engage with their own children are a bloody scourge.