This is a sub with literally 5 subscribers and probably nobody will read this, but I'll tell this anyways.

Elsagate is a conspiracy in the works, being hosted on YouTube. What makes up elsagate are videos and comments on those videos relating to cartoon characters. This seems pretty innocent, until we dig deeper.

If you go on some YouTube channels like SimpleFuns, the videos that are supposedly for young children (2-5 years old) show very suggestive content that very few parents would approve of (Adultery, injections, sex, eating feces, watersports), but the themes being presented are very easy for children to understand and digest. But, we can dig deeper...

Some YouTube channels show seemingly innocent thumbnails and titles, but if you click on them, videos of children giving handjobs to old men and child rape is shown instead. For fear of Reddit's admins and national laws surrounding this, I will not disclose any channels that show this.

These videos' titles sometimes have strings of jargon. In a post on 4chan's infamous /pol/, some anons suggested that these could be .onion links to child porn sites, in code. The comments on these videos have the same sort of jargon.

What is very strange is that YouTube has refused to comment on Elsagate. No efforts have been made to censor or remove any videos thus far. Take that as you will.

The worst part is? Most of these videos make it past the YouTube suggestive filter. That means that even with the child-friendly YouTube Kids app, very young children could be exposed to this.

Nobody knows a lot about this yet, but this is a conspiracy that's gonna be plastered on every news site before you know it. This is not a conspiracy theory as one might think. The evidence is right there. Try to follow this conspiracy as it progresses, and be in the know.

I believe the comments are not in fact ciphers (or not purely at least), and are actually mostly in Thai.

The problem is that either youtube is not encoding the comments as Thai (I doubt this, as I see Thai symbols frequently commented on these videos as well), or they are using US keyboards to type in Thai.

For example, here is an example of a comment I found on one of the learn colors videos:

v guvax ur vf n frevny xvyyre

When typed manually into a virtual thai keyboard emulator (gate2home.com is a good one), Thai symbols appear instead of english letters, and you get a sentence in Thai that is able to be translated:

อ เีอฟป ีพ อด ดพำอืั ปอััพำ

In this case (I didn't select this comment for any particular reason), the translation says:

"I have to go to bed"

It's an incredible amount of work to sift through these comments, some of which do not play well with the translators. Figured I'd shed some light on how I'm digging around and possibly get some other eyes on this. The process works 80% of the time, which leads me to believe that I'm not just getting coherent translations by chance or error.

So far I've seen a lot of talk about "friendship", "mutual friendship", "Silence" being this golden rule, and "visits" - I still believe we are seeing coded meanings after all the translation.

These are not kids commenting.

I'm building a small team to start really digging here, as the deeper this gets the worse it all looks. I'm actually mildly afraid that the outrage against Youtube will get them all banned, which is somehow scarier to me than them existing publicly. Once they go underground, they may be impossible to find again.

EDIT****

After speaking with some people, I've been told that the Thai characters make no sense when read in their language.

This is further backed up by taking the original comment: "v guvax ur vf n frevny xvyyre" and using a common substitution cypher, ROT-13 - you get a very different message:

"i think he is a serial killer"

you can check it yourself: rot13.com - this could be the solution for more of these gibberish comments as well.

I'm posting this because I've seen a few theories that a lot of the channels posting this ElsaGate content may be accounts that were created legitimately but then hacked, and I would like to confirm this.

I'm not saying this is true for all the ElsaGate accounts (it's obviously not), but I think it gives us some good insight into at least a few of them.

According to https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (great site, by the way), my account was hacked in a breach from a chatroom called "xat", which I don't even remember ever being a part of, but who knows.

This is my old YouTube account. I promise it didn't look like this when I lost it. You can still see my liked videos and my playlists from when the channel belonged to me, and all my subscriptions seem to be in order (save the FGTeeV, I don't remember subscribing to them). What has been changed, however, are the banner, the description, and the uploaded videos.

Once I knew my account had been hacked, it was inactive for about a year. I only knew about these videos popping up because one of my friends who was subscribed to me saw them flood his feed, as they were all submitted in a single day. After that day, the channel never uploaded again.

My theory is that some group is buying hacked accounts, or hacking them themselves, and turning them into ElsaGate machines, seeing if they do well or not. My small personal channel obviously didn't gain them any revenue, so they cut it off and moved on to the next one.

You guys are doing the work YouTube won't, and I respect you all for that. Do with this information what you will. Godspeed.

Bear with me, I'm typing this on mobile.

I've been on YouTube since 2006 as both a viewer and a creator (in a very small capacity), and currently work as a freelance filmmaker working for various production and marketing companies. I like to think I have a pretty good handle on how YouTube works at least at the surface level, and how/why companies might produce content like this. This is all just my opinion and not based on much else.

This is in regards to the animated videos, and live action videos that all seem to systematically follow the cartoon character themes.

Where do the videos come from?

If I was an individual or company with a strong knowledge of YouTube and ways to game it, how could I make the most money?

Maybe I'm just smart, maybe I've developed a flawless keyword generator, maybe I've hired a large chunk of market researchers, maybe it's Maybelline. Either way, I have a surefire way to make money on YouTube, and I want to expand my market.

I either:

A) Sell the information to studios and content creators

B) Sign on creators to be a part of my network. They get guaranteed clicks, I get a share of the profits

C) Create a tool that generates animations based on keywords, outsource the creative tasks to small animation and graphic design studios.

Personally, I think this whole elsagate thing is a combination of A,B, and C, with different studios and curators involved.

Why are the video so fucked up?

Well, they have different levels of fucked up. Most of the videos fall under the category of "things kids often find mysterious, scary, or taboo", which if you look at more adult forms of mysterious, scary, or taboo content, you'll recognise that those things are exactly what people look for in clickbait content. In this case, it's wrapped up in a package catered towards children.

Feces, urine, spiders, needles, sex, all things that are normally considered "bad" when you're a kid. This feeling of watching something that you're not supposed to watch is probably quite stimulating for kids, so they keep watching and the creators keep creating. It's more interesting than what's on TV because it's different, even if the kid doesn't know why it's different.

Why kids videos?

Children are easy targets for manipulation, and they're a cash cow for YouTube creators. They don't skip ads (which brings the creator allot more revenue than skipping), they don't get bored of repetitive concepts, they can be easily hooked on almost any concept, and they just let YouTube play on autoplay continuously. This is the ideal situation for anyone with a strong knowledge of keywords, and without a conscience.

What's with the gibberish in the comments?

Content on YouTube won't get recommendations unless it has high engagement, on top of views and watch time. This is how YouTube detects whether or not a video's views are "legitimate", as opposed to acquired by bots. The kids bring in the views, but unfortunately, they don't comment much.

These gibberish comments are either bots or click farms, designed to trick YouTube in to thinking that this video is popular, engaging and legitimate. Therefore, it should be recommended to viewers that are interested in the video like the one they just watched.

If you go to one of the commenters channels, you might notice they'll have a playlist of favourites relating to elsagate videos. This I'm not 100% sure on, but I assume that having a commenter that is already interested in Spiderman and Elsa videos will help that gibberish comment slip past YouTubes filters, by tricking YouTube in to thinking this person is a legitimate viewer with interests related to the video they're commenting on.

Pedophiles in the comment section, a secret pedophile ring?

They make up an insanely small portion of the comment section on these videos, and are more than likely an unfortunate by-product of the attention these videos are getting from kids.

Every time someone finds a creepy comment, it gets posted on /r/elsagate as if all these videos are flooded with pedophiles. The reality is, peodophiles exist. Where do you think they hang out on the internet? Where the kids hang out, because they're pedophiles. Sure they're there, in much smaller numbers than people claim, but I don't see a strong connection between the pedophiles and the creators of these videos.

Edit: to address the child abuse and live action videos that follow a similar theme

I believe these videos spun out of the success and popularity of the original Spiderman and Elsa videos.

Clearly these people don't think they're doing anything wrong, because most of them are willing to share their faces and identities with their viewers. If it was about sharing children or child pornography, especially on a large scale, I don't believe there would be so many people sharing their identities. That doesn't mean these people aren't necessarily abusers or pedophiles themselves, it only makes the theory of an interconnected child sex trade very unlikely.

Most likely, people saw the millions of views from Spiderman and Elsa videos and thought "I can do that", so now they attempt to replicate that same formula, even at the expense of their children. Easy money.

TL:DR- Money. Yes, it's fucked up, but child pedophile ring? I don't think so.

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.

FAQ & Infographic & Source

People investigating ElsaGate

• Investigating YouTube & Playlist

• dead link Faith Goldy

• dead link Mellisa Honeybee Zaccaria

• dead link Phil Shary

• h3h3Productions [2]

Articles

• BBC

• The Vigilant Citizen

• The Outline

• Der Standard(german)

• The Awl

• The Guardian

• aceloewgold

• 4Chan

• wgntv

• 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

• It is AI-generated Content to maximize Profit - a "virus"

• 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

• 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 - 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 ...) - why this may not work

Children Icons

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• Spiderman (red)

• Elsa (blue)

• Joker (purple)

• Hulk (green)

• Maleficent (black)

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

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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 [1]

• Stretched out libms

• Amputated limbs

Sexual

• Kissing [1]

• (partial) nudity

• simulated pornographic acts [1]

Fetish

• Scatalogical

• Urination [1]

• bondage (tied up) [1]

• belly inflation [1]

• ball busting

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

• Theft

• Assault

• Sexual assault

• Murder

• Cannibalism

• Dismemberment

• Drinking [1] [2]

• Toilet related [1] [2]

Youtube Channels in question

Channel Timeline | Add a Channel to the Timeline & Source

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Animations

• canceled by YT Beep Beep TV and if you chop off one head... two grow back canceled by YT Beep Beep TV & canceled by YT Beep Beep TV

• canceled by YT Big Cartoon and it's back canceled by YT Big Cartoon

• canceled by YT ZinZin Cartoon

• removed videos Simple Funs

• canceled by YT Junior Heroes

• canceled by YT Trolls Cartoon

• removed videos TOONS TV

• removed videos Six kids

• removed videos SuperHero Freak Family renamed to "Nikita CrazyShow"

• Shut Up! Cartoons

• canceled by YT Kids Animation

• SuperHeroes Masks

• canceled by YT Lynx Kids TV

• TOYS in Japan

• canceled by YT Emoji Cartoon

• canceled by YT Libra Kids TV

• SuperHero Gala

• removed videos Super Sweetie TV

• canceled by YT Sun Kids TV

• Toon World TV

• MEGA PEOPLE

• canceled by YT Fun Kids Smile

• removed videos Super Pups TV

• canceled by YT HC Spiderman 3D Cartoon

• removed videos than canceled by YT Kids Baby

• Super Family

• Yobo Yobo Tv

• removed videos Little Kids Tv

• Little Kids Tv

• Tom Kids TV

• removed videos -TasMil-

• Baby Nursery Rhymes

• Super Sunshine Kids

• SuperHeroesTV

• Hindi Kids Rhymes

• SumoTubeHD

• Cute Gummy Bears

• Finger Family for Kids

• Kids Club TV

• بيت الكرتون

• Koo Koo

• Kids Toy Slime TV

• Super Junior TV

• Kiba TV

• Antlia Kids TV

• Pluto Kids TV

• Mecurity Kids TV

• Mars Kids TV

• Aries Kids TV

• Toon World TV

• Candy Crazy

• Kids Happy

• Bipbi TV

• canceled by YT Kids Today Funny

• canceled by YT happy baby today

• Happy Kids Today

• Princess World

• Kids Monster TV

• Baby World

• removed videos MLP Kids CarToons

• Super Baby

• Super Baby

• Mickey Mouse

• Skye Kids TV

• removed videos Ceres Kids TV

• Super Sirius TV

• Little Lion TV

• Kids Story Tv

• removed videos Veex Tv

• Baby House TV

• Little House

• Super Banana TV

• Gifted Kids TV

• Super Little Kids TV

• canceled by YT Hercules Channel TV

• Lyra Channel TV

• removed videos SurpriseEggsFamily®

• removed videos BaBaBy TV

• Animations Toys Funny Pranks Videos For Kids

• SUPER KIDS CHANNEL

• WOA Kids Channel

• BB TOP

• Happy Surprises

• Moon Kids TV

• canceled by YT Obelisk Kids TV

• Fun Kids TV

• My Kiddy World

• SurpriseJoe

• canceled by YT Big Cartoon Minions

• canceled by YT Peter Griffin x Homer Simpson

• canceled by YT Carl Alvarado

• canceled by YT Reginald Heverly

• MEGA BIRDS

• MEGA BABIES

• canceled by YT MEGA MINIONS

• Super Vega TV

• Pegasus Kids TV and canceled by YT Perseus Kids Tv

• Super Gemini TV

• Super Taurus

• Jupiter Mars TV

• HappyKidsTV

• Toys Crazy Show

• Kids baby today

• new Toy & Candy

• and many more featuring inappropriate Content as Animations - please provide additional channel links

IRL

• removed videos Toy Baby

• canceled by YT Webs & Tiaras - Toy Monster Compilations

• canceled by YT SuperHero FUN FUN

• canceled by YT Superhero Fun Factory

• canceled by YT Superheroes Forever - Superhero Fun Factory Compilation

• canceled by YT Superhelden

• removed videos Toy Monster renamed to "Girl Corner"

• Toy Family

• canceled by YT Superheroes IRL

• canceled by YT Kids Superheroes Real Life Videos

• removed videos Good Baby Toys renamed to "TipTipTV"

• canceled by YT Kid Toy Media

• removed videos Superheroes Funny renamed to "Fun Planet"

• canceled by YT Hero Planet

• removed videos Superheroes4ever

• Super Kids

• canceled by YT Super Spider & Friends

• removed videos Princess Heroes Summertime renamed to "Princess"

• canceled by YT Your Favorite SuperHeroes IRL

• removed videos Elsa and Spiderman Compilations renamed to "Kids Try 2"

• canceled by YT Superheroes

• canceled by YT Family CrazyShow

• Kids Funville Toys & Games

• removed videos Superhero fun life renamed to "Toy Fun Life"

• canceled by YT Anna Kids TV

• canceled by YT ToysToSee

• canceled by YT Minnie ToysReview

• removed videos Superhero Real renamed to "Funny Sunny"

• سبايدرمان و المجمدة إلسا بالعربي ("Spiderman and Frozen Elsa in Arabic")

• removed videos SUPERFRIENDS renamed to "Tracy Bear - Toys"

• canceled by YT HERO & PRINCESS

• canceled by YT Spiderman-Superhero- Frozen Compilations

• canceled by owner Superhero Mashups - A Superhero Flicks Channel

• canceled by YT Spiderman EV

• removed videos TOY HERO - Superheroes Compilations

• removed videos Superheroes Galaxy Toy Movies renamed to "Toy Movies"

• Funny Baby Songs

• Funny Songs for Kids

• removed videos Rainbow TV

• lien nguyen

• Superhero-Spiderman-Frozen Compilations

• canceled by YT Glen Guerrero

• Kids Go

• Kerguelen Channel

• hoa dinh

• Funny Babies and Pets

• Top Dog Videos Youtube

• Heroes Real Life - HRL

• Vivu Kids

• mixed content Debra TV

• Crazy Animals' Gang

• and many more featuring inappropriate Content with real Persons - please provide additional channel links

Weird

• canceled by YT EggCity

• removed videos super hero kids rhymes renamed to "Kids TV Nursery Rhymes For Children"

• canceled by YT Phoenix Kids TV

• Kiki Biki

• CVS 3D Rhymes

• new RidoKids - Learn Colors For Children

• and many more featuring "weird" content targeted at children - please provide additional channel links

More Info

• Wikipedia

• 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

• Possible relation to a phenomenon called Finger Family

• One old Channel hosting the Leroy Jenkins Video was hacked and ElsaGate Content was uploaded

• Reddit about similar content HeyKidsNursery

• Toy Freaks got banned by Youtube

• The original idea of mixing Joker, Elsa, Spiderman and pregnancy comes from the provocative and infamous Czech company ViralBrothers & Czech Wikipedia & Metro Article

• Youtube reacts on ElsaGate with tougher guidelines. Youtube "relies on review requests from users".

Lots of Channels were canceled by Youtube due to Community-Guideline violations or removed inappropriate content.

THANK YOU COMMUNITY!

THANK YOU YOUTUBE!

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