ScreenMyYouTuber AI analysis of what YouTube channels actually publish

SciShow

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AnimalsNumbers & MathScienceNature & EarthAstronomy

ScreenMyYouTuber — analysis performed by AI, published by us.

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At a glance for parents

Worth a look first. 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
Horror (Low), Mature themes (Moderate), Commercial pressure (Moderate), External contact (Low), Adult activities (Low), Medical body horror (Low).
Sample size
10 videos reviewed for age suitability and risk areas; 100 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

SciShow is an educational channel that explores a wide range of scientific topics, from biology and medicine to geology and psychology. The content is presented by various hosts and focuses on explaining complex phenomena, historical scientific events, and recent research through a factual lens.

What this channel covers

Covers Health and the body, Science, Building and engineering, Nature and animals, Maths, and Space — mostly by saying how and why things work, or giving practice, rather than only saying what they are.

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.

Nature and animals 11 topics · 11 beyond naming
Health and the body 6 topics · 5 beyond naming
Science 5 topics · 5 beyond naming
Building and engineering 1 topic · 1 beyond naming
Maths 1 topic · 1 beyond naming
Space 1 topic

What YouTube reports

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

Channel created
8,420,000
Subscribers
4,228
Videos published
2,266,289,318
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
8
Published in the last 90 days
0/87
Run 180 seconds or less
11:42
Typical length

Uploads marked made for children 0 of the 87 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 maintains a consistent format, branding, and focus on science across all sampled videos.
  • Synthetic media None found No obvious signs of synthetic media in the thumbnails or metadata provided.

Does well Consistent use of cited sources in descriptions Diverse range of scientific disciplines covered Clear, thematic titling

Age guidance

older

While the channel is educational, several videos cover mature topics including drug use (cannabis, kratom, synthetic THC) and deadly diseases (plague, brain cancer) that are more appropriate for older children or teenagers.

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.

  • Mature themes

    Moderate From titles and descriptions Confidence 90%

    Sexual, romantic, or otherwise adult subject matter.

    The channel discusses drug use, legal limits for cannabis, and deadly epidemics.

    weed, kratom, synthetic THC, bubonic plague

    Why We Can’t Find a Legal Limit for Weed What's In Those Gas Station Drugs? The Plague Will Probably Return 4 video(s) cited

  • Commercial pressure

    Moderate From titles and descriptions Confidence 90%

    Selling, undisclosed promotion, gambling mechanics, and scams.

    Almost every video description contains multiple sponsorship links, discount codes, and calls for Patreon support.

    merch links, Patreon, Brilliant, Babbel, Squarespace

    Why We Can’t Find a Legal Limit for Weed What's In Those Gas Station Drugs? How to Turn Cancer Into Brain Cells 10 video(s) cited

  • Horror

    Low From thumbnail images Confidence 80%

    Fear, dread, jump scares, and disturbing imagery.

    Some thumbnails use macabre imagery related to death and disease, such as a grim reaper or a plague doctor, but in an educational context.

    grim reaper, plague doctor mask

    The Plague Will Probably Return 7 Deadly Epidemics You Didn’t Know Existed 2 video(s) cited

  • External contact

    Low From titles and descriptions Confidence 80%

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

    The channel provides links to social media and email lists, but no direct solicitation for private contact with children.

    TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, email list

    Why We Can’t Find a Legal Limit for Weed 1 video(s) cited

  • Adult activities

    Low From titles and descriptions Confidence 80%

    Alcohol, drugs, tobacco, gambling, and driving.

    Discussion of cannabis and other drugs is presented from a scientific and legal perspective.

    legal limit for weed

    Why We Can’t Find a Legal Limit for Weed 1 video(s) cited

  • Medical body horror

    Low From thumbnail images Confidence 80%

    Injections, surgery, injury detail, and body distortion.

    Thumbnails include medical imagery such as an MRI of a brain tumor.

    MRI brain cancer

    How to Turn Cancer Into Brain Cells 1 video(s) cited

Nothing found in: language · violence · bullying · stimulation · impersonation

What this review covers

Harmful or misleading content · every video

100
Videos screened
2
Flagged
0
Of those, presentation mismatches

Age suitability and risk areas · a sample

10
Videos reviewed
0
Spoken content examined

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 all 100 of this channel's 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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