Mom issues warning after son watched a demonic Thomas the Tank Engine clip on YouTube Kids
A Tennessee mother has warned other parents to keep an eye on YouTube Kids after a “shocking” video of Thomas the Tank Engine appeared on her two-year-old son’s screen.
Hannah Bishop, a makeup artist, issued a stark warning after finding her two-year-old son Brody watching a seemingly innocent video of Thomas the Tank Engine on the platform that quickly turned demonic.
A happy-go-lucky Thomas can be seen singing, ‘I’m going to choo, I’m going to choo’ as he glides down the tracks.
Many parents might have thought the next line would be, “I’ve got a delivery to make,” as he says in the original song I’m Gonna Chug, which is posted on the show’s verified YouTube account.
However, the video Brody saw, which was posted by the Thomas & Friends parody account DieselD199, takes a different turn, singing in a deep, scary voice: “I’m going to kill them all.”
Hannah Bishop, from Tennessee, was ‘shocked’ to discover a seemingly innocent video of Thomas the Tank Engine (pictured) turned demonic in seconds as her two-year-old son, Brody, watched
A happy-go-lucky Thomas can be seen singing, ‘I’m going to choo, I’m going to choo’ as he glides down the tracks. Seconds later, he sings in a deep, terrifying voice, “I’m going to kill them all.”
Bishop (pictured) warned parents that these videos are appearing without parental consent
The moment Bishop ‘shocked’ when he ‘saw this video pop up while my two-year-old was watching’.
“I don’t even have words for this,” the mother-of-one wrote on TikTok. “Needless to say, we’re looking at a different subscription for Brody to watch.”
The comments section was divided, as many thought the clip was funny and said they wouldn’t mind their kids watching it, while others agreed with Bishop and said YouTube Kids has a reputation for this.
‘Whew, YouTube Kids is so frustrating! Sorry mom, that’s so scary!’ one user wrote.
Another user, Joanie Bologna, agreed, writing: “There is a huge epidemic of gory videos being placed in the middle of YouTube Kids videos.”
The show’s original song (pictured) has similar lyrics at the beginning before taking a sweet rather than demonic turn, singing, “I’ve got a delivery to make.”
Both songs are available on the platform for kids to watch and without paying attention, the parody videos are easy for parents to miss.
Callie wrote: ‘YouTube Kids gives me the creeps. I got rid of it within a week of putting it on the kids’ iPad.
One woman said: “This would have given me a heart attack as a child,” while another agreed, saying: “This would have traumatized me as a child, as if Thomas hadn’t been traumatic enough in the past.”
However, one mother wrote that she saw the video and “laughed” about it, while other parents said they watched it with their children and saw no problem.
The topic of monitoring kids’ screen time has been a hot topic lately, with even Kim Kardashian warning parents to “watch what your kids are watching.”
Many agreed with Bishop that it was “scary” to see the videos floating on the boy’s platform, but some said they were “laughing” and not concerned if the boy saw the video.
The reality star drew attention to the horrifying trend in 2019 after friends warned her about the videos, featuring a scary doll named Momo, which encouraged children to self-harm and have been linked to teen deaths in everyone.
Momo videos appeared on YouTube Kids, despite the fact that the platform was supposed to be more monitored than the normal platform.
More recently, the reality star’s son, Saint, found an ad for her sex tape on the children’s game Roblox.
In the episode, Kim was shocked when she saw her son laughing at her tablet while playing the child’s game, only to see a picture of her crying face on the screen with the caption “Kim’s New Sex Tape”.
In 2018, YouTube Kids tightened its parental controls, allowing parents to ‘hand-select’ all the videos and channels that are available to view on the child’s account, but Bishop and other parents were unaware of this trick.
Bishop posted a follow-up video showing parents how to manually opt out of this feature, by logging into their account, clicking ‘settings’. entering the password, click ‘edit settings’, click your child’s age range, and then select ‘approved content only’.