{"id":25378,"date":"2026-10-11T06:37:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T04:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/11\/parents-fear-youtubers-are-bringing-brain-rot-to-netflix-but-are-kids-wising-up-to-slop\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T06:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T04:37:53","slug":"parents-fear-youtubers-are-bringing-brain-rot-to-netflix-but-are-kids-wising-up-to-slop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/11\/parents-fear-youtubers-are-bringing-brain-rot-to-netflix-but-are-kids-wising-up-to-slop\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents fear YouTubers are bringing \u2018brain rot\u2019 to Netflix. But are kids wising up to \u2018slop\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As streamers poach viral creators to appeal to children, digital whack-a-mole has become a new kind of family challenge<\/p>\n

Exasperated dad Simon Hooper shakes his fist at the camera in a viral video<\/a>. \u201cWe managed to get rid of YouTube in our household six months ago and the kids are finally OK with it,\u201d he says \u2013 but Netflix is \u201cnow commissioning YouTubers to make their brain rot and putting it back in front of my kids\u2019 faces\u201d.<\/p>\n

The precise \u201cbrain rot\u201d he\u2019s referring to is the arrival of a polarising show that\u2019s lighting up parent chats around the globe. And while Salish and Jordan Matter might be new to Netflix Kids users, <\/em>the father-daughter content creators are familiar to anyone who\u2019s spent any time on the internet.<\/p>\n

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\nAs streamers poach viral creators to appeal to children, digital whack-a-mole has become a new kind of family challenge
\nExasperated dad Simon Hooper shakes his fist at the camera in a viral video. \u201cWe managed to get rid of YouTube in our household six months ago and the kids are finally OK with it,\u201d he says \u2013 but Netflix is \u201cnow commissioning YouTubers to make their brain rot and putting it back in front of my kids\u2019 faces\u201d.
\nThe precise \u201cbrain rot\u201d he\u2019s referring to is the arrival of a polarising show that\u2019s lighting up parent chats around the globe. And while Salish and Jordan Matter might be new to Netflix Kids users, the father-daughter content creators are familiar to anyone who\u2019s spent any time on the internet. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As streamers poach viral creators to appeal to children, digital whack-a-mole has become a new kind of family challenge Exasperated dad Simon Hooper shakes his fist at the camera in a viral video. \u201cWe managed to get rid of YouTube in our household six months ago and the kids are finally OK with it,\u201d he …<\/p>\n

Parents fear YouTubers are bringing \u2018brain rot\u2019 to Netflix. But are kids wising up to \u2018slop\u2019?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25378"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}