ScreenMyYouTuber AI analysis of what YouTube channels actually publish

Vsauce

Partial review English

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ScreenMyYouTuber — analysis performed by AI, published by us.

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Channel analysis summary

Vsauce produces short-form educational and curiosity-driven content focusing on science, mathematics, linguistics, and physics. The sampled videos feature a variety of experiments, book recommendations, and demonstrations of scientific principles like thin-film interference and constrained poetry.

What YouTube reports

YouTube's own figures for this channel, as collected when we looked. Nothing here is a finding of ours.

Channel created
25,000,000
Subscribers
649
Videos published
6,822,677,408
Total views

Audience the uploader declared This channel is not marked as made for children. That marking is about advertising and data collection, so its absence says nothing about who the videos are for.

Its 100 most recent uploads

Counted from the uploads we fetched when we looked. Where YouTube does not report a figure for a video, that video is left out of the count rather than assumed — so some totals below are smaller than 100.

Most recent upload
8
Published in the last 90 days
15/92
Run 60 seconds or less
1:21
Typical length

Audio language the uploader declared English

Uploads marked made for children 1 of the 92 uploads that carry the label. That marking is the uploader's own answer to a question about advertising and data collection, and nobody checks it against the videos.

About the channel

What kind of channel this is. These describe it rather than warn about it, so they carry no severity colour.

  • Educational value High The channel focuses on science, optics, physics, and linguistics.
  • Consistency High The content consistently revolves around curiosity, science, and intellectual exploration.
  • Synthetic media None found The content appears to be filmed by a person; no evidence of synthetic generation.

Does well Promotes literacy and interest in poetry and non-fiction books Demonstrates real-world applications of physics and chemistry Encourages curiosity and experimental thinking

This is a preliminary review. Some of what we wanted to examine was out of reach when this analysis ran, so it rests on less evidence than a full review. What is published below is accurate as far as it goes; the limitations section says what it could not cover.

Where the presentation and the content differ

  • In 1 of the 99 videos we screened, the way the video presents itself — its characters, styling, and title — did not match what it appears to contain. Those videos are listed below with the reason recorded for each.

A video made to look like it is for young children, carrying something they are not expecting, is the thing this research exists to find. These are automated observations from the images and titles, not a judgement about the channel — read them with the videos they point at.

  • Making Thick Urine presentation mismatch

    Mismatch: Use of 'medical kits' and 'imitation urine' combined with a bizarre scenario involving thickening bodily fluids, which is inappropriate for a curated kids' app.

Age guidance

older

While the content is generally educational, some videos involve activities that could be dangerous if imitated by children without supervision, such as the use of a blowtorch (-UgtKlbzers) and chemical experiments (ti8ZdImveB0).

Age guidance is our reading of the sample, not a rating and not a certification.

What we found

11 of 11 risk areas were assessed, worst first. A finding is an observation with evidence behind it, not an accusation.

  • External contact

    Low From titles and descriptions Confidence 80%

    Pushes viewers to chat, message, or meet somewhere off-platform.

    One video provides a link to an external website in the description.

    The 852655 Mystery 1 video(s) cited

  • Stimulation

    Low From thumbnail images Confidence 80%

    Pace, loudness, and sensory intensity. High is not unsafe, but it is worth knowing before bedtime viewing.

    The videos are generally calm, though some use fast cuts typical of short-form content.

Nothing found in: language · violence · horror · mature themes · bullying · commercial pressure · adult activities · medical body horror · impersonation

What this review covers

Harmful or misleading content · every video

99
Videos screened
2
Flagged
1
Of those, presentation mismatches

Age suitability and risk areas · a sample

10
Videos reviewed
0
Spoken content examined

1 sampled video(s) had no completed screening. Absence of a finding for those is not evidence that there is nothing to find.

What this review could not see

  • We could not access what is said in 10 of 10 videos we looked at; findings for those rest on titles, descriptions, and thumbnail images.

The model reads text and still images. It does not watch video or listen to audio. Full methodology.

What we looked at

Automated screening checked 99 of this channel's 100 videos for harmful content and for videos presenting themselves as something they are not, and flagged 2. The age band and risk areas above are a separate reading of 10 of those videos. We do not have what is said in any of those, so every finding rests on how a video presents itself rather than on what it contains.

Flag reasons are AI observations, published as produced — read them alongside the video, not instead of it. How screening and sampling work

Stood out from the sample

The rest of the sample

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