Silly question- Kinder egg videos

[cincodemayo]

Ok, I thought this was a MMM thing but now I have IRL friends posting that their 2-5 YOs LOVE these videos.

How did your kids find them in the first place? How do all kids know how to access these videos and WHY are they so enticing? 

I'm just curious if I should try to let DS watch one or if I will regret it forever.

[momin2013]

Meh, I don't think they're anything special. DS has watched them here and there for a while, though, and he is now obsessed with Kinder Eggs.

I think we probably stumbled upon them when doing Youtube searches for Thomas the Train videos, since some of them feature Thomas eggs.

[redheadk]

They are on YouTube Kids. I think she found them via the suggested videos based on what else she watches.

They are so strange. DD likes those unboxing videos and they are very quiet, so they do have that going for them. She only gets to watch them on the weekends if we want to sleep in a bit. She gets in our bed and watches them on low volume. It's nice that they don't have music or annoying kid voices.

[countthestars]

Side bar of youtube, I think? The ones by FunToyzCollector are the ones you want if you are going to do them but YOU WILL REGRET IT FOREVER.

[Marmee]

My DD4 loves them too...found via YouTube Kids App which she loves.

[elcjet]

My 3 and 5-year old LOVE them. I'm so glad we're not the only ones because it is so bizarre to me. Didn't realize they found them through the suggested video options.

[CloudBee]

Oct 1, 2015 12:53:20 GMT -5 @this said:

YouTube kids suggested it. Now she's OBSESSED.

She also likes when they act out scenes with toys from movies she knows.

And when they just open and describe random toys in excruciating length.

The eggs - I can sort of understand the appeal.

The way he's mesmerized watching people open toys and talk about them? Oh my gawd.

[antoniamarchette]

Ds is obsessed - every night before bed he gets to watch eggs on my Kindle. I agree - the FunToyzCollector videos are the best.

[rootbeerfloat]

Not sure whether it's because of those (or the other way around), but DD has discovered videos where they taste test candy. It is her new ambition in life to have her own YouTube channel where she reviews candy lol.

Anything is better than the ones where they act out stories with Disney character toys. The Anna and Elsa voices are so grating.

[blueberry10]

I was wondering too where DD got hooked on these things. She loves the surprise egg videos by the Engineering Family. I realized she may have watched too many of these kinds of videos when just the other day she identified the Twitter and Facebook logos on an advertisement...

[cincodemayo]

This is cracking me up. Scary Mommy had an article about it too: www.scarymommy.com/surprise-eggs-need-to-go-die/

Some of it sounds really...bizarre.

[h]

DS3 is OBSESSED, but I honestly have no idea how he found them. I was blaming DH . I had no idea it was an MMM thing.

[jinkies]

Mine also found them in the youtube sidebar.

She loves them and the toy-opening ones.

[GotWine]

I have no clue how dd found them. She was obsessed with them last winter! Those, coupled with the videos of grownups playing with playdoh and other toys are the most annoying videos ever. I actually took the ipad away from her back in May and she didn't use it again all summer because I couldn't stand her watching them, then asking for whatever toy she saw.

I'm not going to lie, these people are geniuses. They make a boat load of money doing this nonsense.

[mrshandy]

DS is obsessed with all toy videos on youtube and has been for a while.

I don't get it.

[asoctoberfalls]

I actually really like Disney Collector aka FunToyzCollector. Her voice is incredibly soothing. The one who grates on me is DCTC. The Engineering Family is in the middle.

[Alyssa]

My daughter was nuts about those stupid videos.  They never sat right with me.  Something about adults buying lots of toys and having their children opening them all for making a video is weird.

I was constantly kicking my daughter off the computer because we would come home and she would immediately run for the computer.  If I had no say, she would be on the computer all day. I finally put a stop to it when I got rid of the Youtube link on the banner.  One other reason why I didn't like her having free range of the computer is she would be on Youtube looking at those toy videos and then she would click on a video that was made by adults and they were doing creepy role-playing with Barbie Dolls.  I didn't think it was appropriate for my 5 year old to be watching Ken and Barbie making out on screen.

[tootsie]

My daughter loved those for probably 6 months. I think they are weird AF, but relatively harmless compared to some of the other crap she's found on YouTube.

Luckily she's moved onto Play-Doh videos.

[carolinagirl831]

My 2.5 year old LOVES them. she found them because she watches nurery ryhmes, peppa pig, and mickey mouse on the Ipad on you tube. they were on the side where it shows other shows to watch. She really got into them last Easter while we talked about eggs.
Haha they are really wierd, but nothing wrong with them...

[Deleted]

L will play disney collector.
She got new play doh 'welcome disney collector to my video. Today I got pink playdoh. I am going to open it now'
And she used to play it in the shower too