ElsaGate - A Horrific Phenomenon

Hey there! So, today, I would like to talk about a heinous and a potentially dangerous phenomenon on YouTube known as 'ElsaGate'.

'ElsaGate' is a phenomenon on YouTube of reoccurring animated videos in context of inappropriate topics on several 'family-friendly' channels targeted at kids. These videos often feature Spiderman, Frozen Elsa, Joker, Mickey Mouse and other Characters popular with kids. These videos started to surface on YouTube almost a year ago when a few channels like 'SimpleFuns', 'Kids Daisy Best' and 'littledramakids' started to upload some inappropriate videos involving Spiderman and Elsa from Frozen.Soon, the number of these creepy and rather disturbing videos started to increase significantly. More and more YouTube channels started to upload inappropriate videos involving superheroes and characters from Disney cartoons.

An illustration for one of the first ElsaGate videos by The Verge

The videos, which seem very intriguing to the kids' impressionable minds, contain all sorts of gore like injections, abduction, abuse, slavery, pregnancy and so on. More often than not, these videos contain the same themes in spite of being uploaded by different channels. To elaborate on this, here's a highly censored image of the videos that are uploaded by these alleged 'kids channels' on YouTube. I want you to take notice of the titles and the thumbnails to understand everything that's wrong with these videos.

If this is not enough of an issue in itself, let's take a look at the 'Comments Section' of these videos. u/CaverTed over at Reddit made a comprehensive post looking at the comments that appear on these videos. Most of them seem like random gibberish typed by young kids who watch these videos. However, a deeper inspection of these comments suggests that they are .onion links to inappropriate or illegal websites and subliminal messages from pedophiles that visit these videos. A few people have also found comments saying things like '1130 meet me at parkinglot' or 'bring da girl' on some ElsaGate videos, suggesting that pedophiles and human traffickers use these videos to interact with one another. 

The Bottom Line

In the end, I would like to conclude that ElsaGate videos are absolutely wicked and need to be removed from the internet as quickly as possible. I do not wish to dwell on this topic any further. Instead, I would like to end this post with a flyer made by u/Throwaway4Elsa over at Reddit that provides an in-depth explanation of what ElsaGate is and how to avoid it. In the end, I request the readers to stay as far away from this part of the internet as possible and to report any ElsaGate videos or channels they come across.

Thank you for reading and have a great day ahead!

-Ritin Malhotra