Vsauce
Full review English
Numbers & MathScienceStoriesFunnyAnimationsNature & Earth
ScreenMyYouTuber — analysis performed by AI, published by us.
At a glance for parents
Read this before showing it. This is an AI assessment of the sample, not a safety guarantee.
- Age guidance
- Older. Read the age guidance and reasoning before choosing for your child.
- Concerns found
- Mature themes (Low), Commercial pressure (Low).
- Sample size
- 10 videos reviewed for age suitability and risk areas; 99 of 100 collected videos screened for harmful or misleading content. See coverage.
- Review date
- · Full review. Channels can change after a review.
- What could not be checked
- Spoken content was available for 0 of 10 reviewed videos. The model reads text and still images; it does not watch video or listen to audio. Read this review’s limitations.
How to check a channel before your child watches · Understanding Elsagate screening
Channel analysis summary
Vsauce is an educational and curiosity-driven channel that explores a wide array of topics including mathematics, geometry, history, and science. The content ranges from long-form philosophical and scientific inquiries to short, experimental demonstrations and puzzles.
What this channel covers
We looked across this channel's catalogue and did not find it teaching a school subject.
In the sample we reviewed closely, some topics were explained or practised, not only named. We have not heard the videos to confirm how far that goes.
What YouTube reports
YouTube's own figures for this channel, as collected when we looked. Nothing here is a finding of ours.
- Channel created
- 25,300,000
- Subscribers
- 666
- Videos published
- 7,091,579,375
- Total views
- English
- Audio language the uploader declared
- Not marked as made for children
- Audience the uploader declared
A made-for-children marking is the uploader's own answer to a question about advertising and data collection — not a judgement by anyone that the content suits a child, and nobody checks it against the videos.
What the recent uploads show
Counted from the 100 most recent 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
- 3
- Published in the last 90 days
- 91/92
- Run 180 seconds or less
- 1:21
- Typical length
Uploads marked made for children 1 of the 92 uploads that carry the label.
About the channel
What kind of channel this is. These describe it rather than warn about it, so they carry no severity colour.
- Consistency High The channel consistently focuses on curiosity, science, and intellectual exploration across different formats.
Does well Extensive sourcing and citations in video descriptions Interdisciplinary approach to learning Promotion of curiosity and critical thinking
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 — the pattern commonly called Elsagate — 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.
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Making Thick Urine presentation mismatchMismatch: 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 much of the content is educational, some videos deal with mature themes such as death, extinction, and the 'Death Clock' product. Additionally, some short-form content involves experiments with imitation bodily fluids and the use of a torch, which may require adult supervision for younger children.
Age guidance is our reading of the sample, not a rating and not a certification.
What we found
2 of 11 risk areas were assessed, worst first. A finding is an observation with evidence behind it, not an accusation.
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Mature themes
LowSexual, romantic, or otherwise adult subject matter.
The channel discusses death, extinction, and mortality.
Death Clock, extinct animals, killing of Gabby Petito
2 video(s) cited
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Commercial pressure
LowSelling, undisclosed promotion, gambling mechanics, and scams.
The channel promotes its own merchandise and related products.
Death Clock pre-order link, vinyl links
1 video(s) cited
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
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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.
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I Found A Wild Ambigram!
Flagged ·
Dangerous activity: use of a blowtorch/flame near the face is unsafe for a kids' app.
The rest of the sample
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