For tweens and teens, more videos contained BIPOC characters than those viewed by the age 0 to 8 group (61% contained at least one BIPOC character vs. Comparatively, content consumed by tweens and teens fared slightly better than videos viewed by younger kids when it came to including more diversity and positive portrayals of BIPOC characters. We know the kids are on YouTube, that's a fact, so that's exactly where we went to investigate who and what dominated the content of our sample." The report, conducted in partnership with the University of Michigan, analyzed more than 1,242 YouTube videos watched by younger kids, tweens, and teens, representing 344 hours of content. "And because they lack the media literacy skills we often develop in adulthood, the hours of stereotypical and racially disproportionate YouTube content they consume can play a critical role in their overall identity formation and understanding of the world they live in. Only 18% of videos featuring BIPOC characters carried educational quality, compared to about 30% of those with White characters.Īnalysis of how frequently BIPOC characters appear and how they're portrayed in content on YouTube is critically needed, given the platform's popularity, influence, and ability to shape children's experiences through social validation, viral content, and recommendation feeds. "Young children and teens are like sponges, soaking up every image and message they consume," says Déjà Rollins, a doctoral student studying race and media effects who co-authored the report. In addition, videos featuring prominent BIPOC characters had lower overall educational quality. 13%), and marginally higher drinking, drugs, and smoking (7% vs. Another 10% included only shallow or stereotyped portrayals of BIPOC characters, and when BIPOC characters were prominently featured, the videos were significantly more likely to include interpersonal violence (27% compared to 16% of videos with prominent White characters), bad language (32% vs. According to the report, 62% of YouTube videos watched by kids 8 and under featured no Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) characters. The report, " Who Is the 'You' in YouTube? Missed Opportunities in Race and Representation in Children's YouTube Videos," is a follow-up to Common Sense Media's 2021 " Inclusion Imperative" report and is the first time researchers have examined hundreds of hours of YouTube content through the lens of kids' ethnic-racial development. But much of the content they consume on YouTube is either devoid of characters of color or includes biased and stereotypical representations of race, gender, and ethnicity, according to a new report released today from Common Sense Media. SAN FRANCISCO, J/PRNewswire/ - For young children (age 0 to 8), time spent on video-sharing sites like YouTube now exceeds time spent watching television, and tweens and teens (age 9 to 18) say YouTube is the site they wouldn't want to live without if forced to choose. I kept him in my mouth until he stopped c******, swallowed the rest of it, and came up for a breath of air.A new report by Common Sense Media takes a unique look at YouTube content through the lens of kids' ethnic-racial development. I remember his c** being very salty and burning my throat slightly as it went down. I was really surprised and didn't know what to do. Suddenly he thrust deeper and started to c** in my mouth. He was starting to thrust into my mouth a little using his hips. He was getting really hard, he was starting to moan, and I could really taste his seeman starting to flow. He was laying on a couch and I was kneeling beside him on the floor, head bobbing up and down. One day I was on my period and he was h**** so I started giving him head. It lasted about 15 minutes on the couch in my parent's basement before he came in me (no condom). Our first time together felt pretty good. Looking back I know it was the fingering and petting that actually tore and stretched my hymen the most. Before taking my virginity he had fingered me several times - which was actually pretty painful at first. My current boyfriend and I had "gone all the way." We had made out a lot, he had kissed and licked my b****** many times, I had given him several hand jobs and put him in my mouth before, he had eaten me which felt great. A few months earlier I had dated an older guy for a little while and we kissed some and I had let him kiss my b******, but that's all. I was 16 and with my first real boyfriend who was 15.