ScreenMyYouTuber AI analysis of what YouTube channels actually publish

TED-Ed

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AnimalsScienceStoriesAnimationsNature & EarthAstronomyGeology

ScreenMyYouTuber — analysis performed by AI, published by us.

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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 (Moderate), Commercial pressure (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

TED-Ed produces high-quality animated educational shorts covering a vast range of topics, from literary analysis and forensic science to human biology and mental health. The channel utilizes a variety of animation styles to explain complex concepts, often framing lessons around specific questions or historical narratives.

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
23,000,000
Subscribers
2,388
Videos published
4,746,391,958
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
2
Published in the last 90 days
2/97
Run 180 seconds or less
5:40
Typical length

Uploads marked made for children 0 of the 97 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 of animated shorts with a clear educational purpose across all sampled videos.
  • Synthetic media None found The content uses professional animation and human narration rather than AI-generated templates.

Does well Interdisciplinary approach combining art, science, and humanities Provides links to supplemental learning materials and deeper research

Where the presentation and the content differ

  • In 4 of the 100 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.

Age guidance

older

While much of the content is general education, the sample includes mature medical topics (emergency contraception, vaginal discharge, herpes), discussions of gore in fairy tales, and themes of death and depression, which are more appropriate for older children and adolescents.

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 covers adult health topics including reproductive health, contraception, and STIs.

    emergency contraception, vaginal discharge, herpes

    How to use emergency contraception effectively - Alison Edelman What is vaginal discharge and why does it happen? - Elizabeth Micks What causes herpes, and how can you treat it? - Christine Johnston 3 video(s) cited

  • Violence

    Low From titles and descriptions Confidence 90%

    Fighting, injury, weapons, and threat.

    Descriptions mention historical gore and crime scenes, but these are presented in an educational or literary context.

    mutilate their feet, bloody struggle, severed limb

    The dark origins of Disney fairy tales - Claudia Schwabe How to find hidden clues at crime scenes - Theodore E. Yeshion What should you do if you accidentally cut off your finger? - Jason Hoellwarth 3 video(s) cited

  • Horror

    Low From thumbnail images Confidence 80%

    Fear, dread, jump scares, and disturbing imagery.

    Some videos deal with macabre themes like plagues and 'dark origins' of tales, using horror-style imagery in thumbnails.

    shrouded figure, dripping blood text

    The dark origins of Disney fairy tales - Claudia Schwabe Edgar Allan Poe's story of the Red Death - Iseult Gillespie 2 video(s) cited

  • Commercial pressure

    Low From titles and descriptions Confidence 90%

    Selling, undisclosed promotion, gambling mechanics, and scams.

    Descriptions contain standard links to Patreon and merchandise, but they are not intrusive.

    merch links in descriptions

    The dark origins of Disney fairy tales - Claudia Schwabe Edgar Allan Poe's story of the Red Death - Iseult Gillespie 2 video(s) cited

  • Adult activities

    Low From thumbnail images Confidence 80%

    Alcohol, drugs, tobacco, gambling, and driving.

    One thumbnail depicts two people in a bedroom setting in the context of a lesson on contraception.

    couple in bed

    How to use emergency contraception effectively - Alison Edelman 1 video(s) cited

  • Medical body horror

    Low From thumbnail images Confidence 80%

    Injections, surgery, injury detail, and body distortion.

    Medical topics are discussed clinically, though some imagery (severed finger, herpes sores) could be unsettling to some.

    severed limb, herpes sores

    What should you do if you accidentally cut off your finger? - Jason Hoellwarth What causes herpes, and how can you treat it? - Christine Johnston 2 video(s) cited

Nothing found in: language · bullying · external contact · stimulation · impersonation

What this review covers

Harmful or misleading content · every video

100
Videos screened
9
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 all 100 of this channel's videos for harmful content and for videos presenting themselves as something they are not, and flagged 9. 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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