ElsaGate is a Phenomenon on Youtube of reoccuring Themes, Animations in Context of inappropriate Topics in Videos on several Channels available and targeted at Kids. Those videos often feature Spiderman, Frozen Elsa, Joker, Mickey Mouse and other Characters popular with Kids.

new Infographic & Source

Channels ElsaGate is about

new Channel Timeline | Add a Channel to the Timeline & Source

source

• Beep Beep TV
• Big Cartoon
• ZinZin Cartoon
• Simple Funs
• Junior Heroes
• Trolls Cartoon
• TOONS TV
• Six kids
• SuperHero Freak Family
• new Shut Up! Cartoons
• new Kids Animation
• and many more featuring inappropriate Content as Animations - please provide additional channel links

• Toy Baby
• Webs & Tiaras - Toy Monster Compilations
• SuperHero FUN FUN
• Superhero Fun Factory
• Superheroes Forever - Superhero Fun Factory Compilation
• Superhelden
• Toy Monster
• Toy Family
• Superheroes IRL
• Kids Superheroes Real Life Videos
• Good Baby Toys
• Kid Toy Media
• Superheroes Funny
• Hero Planet
• Superheroes4ever
• Super Kids
• Super Spider & Friends
• Princess Heroes Summertime
• Your Favorite SuperHeroes IRL
• Elsa and Spiderman Compilations
• Superheroes
• Family CrazyShow
• Kids Funville Toys & Games
• Superhero fun life
• Anna Kids TV
• new ToysToSee
• new Minnie ToysReview
• new Superhero Real
• and many more featuring inappropriate Content with real Persons - please provide additional channel links

• new EggCity
• new super hero kids rhymes
• and many more featuring "weird" content targeted at children - please provide additional channel links

Inapropriate Topics

This section needs proof/examples for each topic - please provide video-links including video-time and topic of the occurrence in the comments

source

Shock Value - anxiety

• Spiders / Scorpions / Other bugs
• Injections
• Gore (cuts, decapitations, severed arms/legs/tongues)

Disorientation

• Camera work (disorienting angles, shaking camera, closeups)
• Irregular sizes (giant babies, tiny humans, small humans with huge heads)

Body dismorphia

• Belly inflation
• Stretched out libms
• Amputated limbs

Sexual

• Kissing new [1]
• (partial) nudity
• simulated pornographic acts new [1]

Fetish

• Scatalogical
• Urination
• bondage (tied up)
• belly inflation
• ball busting

Inappropriate / Violent / Nasty Criminal behaviour is encouraged (often accompanied with laughter and happiness)

• Theft
• Assault
• Sexual assault
• Murder
• Cannibalism
• Dismemberment
• new Drinking [1]
• new Toilet related [1]

Children Icons

source

• Spiderman (red)
• Elsa (blue)
• Joker (purple)
• Hulk (green)
• Maleficent (black)

People investigating this issue

• Investigating YouTube & Playlist
• dead link Faith Goldy
• dead link Mellisa Honeybee Zaccaria
• dead link Phil Shary

Articles

• BBC
• The Vigilant Citizen
• The Outline
• Der Standard(german)
• The Awl
• The Guardian
• aceloewgold
• 4Chan
• wgntv
• new medium

Why is this happening?

There is no clear answer to this - several suggestions had been made. This focus on the possible negative Intentions.

• Grooming
• Learned Helplessness
• Normalize inappropriate Behavior
• Color Programming
• Children can immitate inapropriate behaviour from videos with severe consequences(e.g drive a car)
• This is not real its a meme
• new It is AI-generated Content to maximize Profit - a "virus"
• new Attempt to create easily mass-produced content for YouTube kids app that gets promoted through that system

This is strange

Some characteristica of those videos are very strange

• The amount of Views is very high - even on newly created Videos (explanation)
• The amount of Channels doing this (the new yt goldrush)
• The similarity of the Content between those Channels
• new The amount of Videos having Gibberish/Coded Comments
• and the repetition of Animations looks like its from the same person/group

Solutions

source
[2]

Solutions to prevent kids from viewing those videos ordered by time of effect

• Dont let your children watch youtube unsupervised - play with them - new risks of social media for kids
• Read about it in the YT Parent Resources
• Turn on Youtube's restricted mode howto
• Report the offensive Youtube Channels as adult content - works & YT Guidelines
• Media attention
• Inform Intellectual Property Owners (Disney, Marvel, DC ...) - new why this may not work

more

• Vietnam man fined for suggestive YouTube parody channel
• Happy Tree Friends
• The "Making of" of one of those Videos
• Additional Reddit Source [2] [3]
• Massive Child Exploitation Network on YouTube and Part 2
• new Possible relation to a phenomenon called Finger Family
• new One old Channel hosting the Leroy Jenkins Video was hacked and ElsaGate Content was uploaded
• new Reddit about similar content HeyKidsNursery
• new The original idea of mixing Joker, Elsa, Spiderman and pregnancy comes from the provocative and infamous Czech company ViralBrothers & Czech Wikipedia & Metro Article

leave a comment if you have more info/insight or found a mistake