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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
- Violence (Low), Horror (Low), Mature themes (High), Commercial pressure (Moderate), Adult activities (Moderate), Stimulation (Moderate).
- Sample size
- 10 videos reviewed for age suitability and risk areas; 98 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
The channel features a stark contrast between high-energy Minecraft gameplay and deeply personal, adult-oriented vlogs. While the gaming content focuses on modded challenges and mini-games, a significant portion of the recent sample consists of the creator discussing severe life struggles, including alcoholism, legal issues, arrests, and financial loss.
What this channel covers
We looked across this channel's catalogue and did not find it teaching a school subject.
Says what the videos are about, not how well they teach it. We have not watched or listened to them.
What YouTube reports
YouTube's own figures for this channel, as collected when we looked. Nothing here is a finding of ours.
- Channel created
- 17,500,000
- Subscribers
- 4,692
- Videos published
- 14,869,598,758
- 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
- 0
- Published in the last 90 days
- 1/100
- Run 180 seconds or less
- 26:16
- Typical length
Uploads marked made for children 0 of the 100 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 Low The channel has a significant shift in tone and subject matter between the gaming content and the personal vlogs.
- Synthetic media None found No evidence of machine-generated content was found in the sample.
Does well Open discussion about sobriety and recovery
Where the presentation and the content differ
- In 4 of the 98 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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The DROPPER But I SHOCK MYSELF When I Die! presentation mismatchMismatch: Gaming content combined with self-harm/shocking behavior (electric shock) which is a risk factor for child audiences.
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Minecraft: VIRUS TYCOON! (Save The World From The Virus!) Modded Mini-Game presentation mismatchMismatch: Minecraft content combined with 'Virus', 'Corona', and medical imagery (hand sanitizer, lab setting) in a way that mimics Elsagate-style shock/trend-jacking.
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Minecraft: PIGGY FACTORY TYCOON! (MAKE MONEY & FIND THE CURE!) Modded Mini-Game presentation mismatchMismatch: Child-friendly Minecraft theme combined with a horror-style 'Piggy' character holding a blood-stained bat and blood on the ground.
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Minecraft: IMPOSSIBLE VIRUS DEFENSE! (INSANE VIRUSES & TOWERS!) Modded Mini-Game presentation mismatchMismatch: Use of 'Virus' theme combined with imagery of characters wielding large syringes/medical injections in a bizarre scenario, characteristic of Elsagate-style content.
Age guidance
older
While the Minecraft content is generally suitable for children, the channel contains explicit discussions and imagery related to substance abuse, sobriety, police arrests, and jail, which are mature themes unsuitable for younger audiences.
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.
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Mature themes
HighSexual, romantic, or otherwise adult subject matter.
The channel contains explicit content regarding alcoholism, sobriety, being robbed, police arrests, and incarceration.
alcoholism, sobriety, arrest, jail, robbery
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Commercial pressure
ModerateSelling, undisclosed promotion, gambling mechanics, and scams.
Descriptions consistently include links to merchandise (shirts) and books.
merch links in every description
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Adult activities
ModerateAlcohol, drugs, tobacco, gambling, and driving.
The content discusses substance abuse and legal issues associated with adult behavior.
alcohol abuse, arrest
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Stimulation
ModeratePace, loudness, and sensory intensity. High is not unsafe, but it is worth knowing before bedtime viewing.
Gaming thumbnails use high-contrast colors, large arrows, and exaggerated facial expressions to attract attention.
bright colors, large arrows, shocked faces
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Violence
LowFighting, injury, weapons, and threat.
Violence is limited to stylized Minecraft combat and a thumbnail depicting a character with a bat and blood-like splatters.
bat, blood splatters in thumbnail
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Horror
LowFear, dread, jump scares, and disturbing imagery.
Some thumbnails use creepy imagery, such as a distorted pig character.
creepy pig character
Nothing found in: language · bullying · external contact · medical body horror · impersonation
What this review covers
Harmful or misleading content · every video
- 98
- Videos screened
- 12
- Flagged
- 4
- 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 98 of this channel's 100 videos for harmful content and for videos presenting themselves as something they are not, and flagged 12. 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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The DROPPER But I SHOCK MYSELF When I Die!
Presentation mismatch ·
Mismatch: Gaming content combined with self-harm/shocking behavior (electric shock) which is a risk factor for child audiences.
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Minecraft: VIRUS TYCOON! (Save The World From The Virus!) Modded Mini-Game
Presentation mismatch ·
Mismatch: Minecraft content combined with 'Virus', 'Corona', and medical imagery (hand sanitizer, lab setting) in a way that mimics Elsagate-style shock/trend-jacking.
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Minecraft: PIGGY FACTORY TYCOON! (MAKE MONEY & FIND THE CURE!) Modded Mini-Game
Presentation mismatch ·
Mismatch: Child-friendly Minecraft theme combined with a horror-style 'Piggy' character holding a blood-stained bat and blood on the ground.
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Minecraft: IMPOSSIBLE VIRUS DEFENSE! (INSANE VIRUSES & TOWERS!) Modded Mini-Game
Presentation mismatch ·
Mismatch: Use of 'Virus' theme combined with imagery of characters wielding large syringes/medical injections in a bizarre scenario, characteristic of Elsagate-style content.
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Police Dog Attacked Me While Asleep In My Bed
Flagged ·
Content involving violence (dog attack) and references to substance abuse/sobriety is inappropriate for a curated kids' app.
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I Got Sober And Found Out I Was Robbed For 250,000 Dollars
Flagged ·
Adult themes regarding financial loss and substance abuse recovery.
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I Ran From The Police And Got Arrested
Flagged ·
Content depicting police arrest and running from law enforcement.
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Alcohol DESTROYED My Life
Flagged ·
Adult themes regarding alcohol addiction and life destruction.
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I went to jail
Flagged ·
Content depicting jail/mugshots.
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Minecraft: 2 BROS 1 CUP...
Flagged ·
Title '2 BROS 1 CUP' is a direct reference to a notorious shock/gross-out internet meme, creating a harmful mismatch with child-targeted Minecraft content.
Flagged in screening, outside the sample
Screening flagged these and the sample did not reach them, so no finding above rests on them. They are shown because a flag is worth seeing whether or not the sample happened to include it.
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