Although the names seem harmless, YouTube Blue and YouTube Orange They are codes to attract minors to websites with pornographic content. This denomination has been widely extended through videos on the TikTok social network. There they promote these two variants of websites with the name of the prestigious streaming video channel.
The YouTube Orange and YouTube Blue codes allow minors to access pornographic content without any blocking or restriction. Although the fact is known and the developers of the platforms are trying to stop it, to date no concrete action has been taken to end the access.
Invitations to YouTube Blue and Orange on TikTok
In TikTok videos, where users create different fun proposals and challenges, inviting viewers to perform different actions. These two platforms and websites are mentioned where you can learn more about it. When children visit these sites, they are directed to the pornographic and adult content pages. YouTube Blue refers to OnlyFans and YouTube Orange refers to the PornHub site.
The problem in social networks to stop this modality is that the codes are changing. Other variants and puns may be used in the future, thus leading unsuspecting minors to websites that are oriented towards adult audiences.
How minors enter pornography websites without knowing it
The trend that is popularized in the social networks like TikTok It works as follows: a suggestive, but not pornographic, video appears, where it is made clear that the continuation of the video is on another platform. YouTube Orange refers to PornHub, while YouTube Blue can refer to OnlyFans or the XNXX network. In any case, underage viewers will search these platforms for the continuity of the video and there they enter the pornographic content.
It is important to note that in reality, neither of these two platforms has any kind of relationship with YouTube. The name arises rather from the popularity of the platform dedicated to streaming videos and the link to any other platform with a similar operation.
The risks involved in YouTube Orange and Blue
Although the platforms PornHub, OnlyFans or XNXX They are not illegal, but their content is not moderated or curated for minors. They are contents that minors should not be able to see until they reach an age of understanding of what is called “entertainment for adults”. However, today's social networks and the ways in which content and information are transmitted make it difficult to do anything about it.
The hashtags #Youtubenaranja and #Youtubeazul are used on social networks like TikTok and Instagram to alert viewers that they are also uploading adult content. In this practice, young people have much faster and more direct access to pornography platforms, and risks and topics of discussion begin to appear that adults often do not know how to deal with.
Beyond the video content, one of the risks that arise with these labels is the recruitment of minors to create content. Platforms to make money from the sale of adult content are being discussed in different countries around the world, but it is important to note that minors should not have access to this type of entertainment until they have reached a certain emotional and personal development.
Protecting the little ones: porn is not the problem
Education experts routinely broach the issue when conversations about behavior of minors in elementary school arise. Similar to other hashtags and codes used in the past, such as “s3x0” and “#noporn”, proposals for accessing content will continue to change and search for audiences.
The real problem lies in the times in which minors access this content. Today the Internet makes it easier for the approach to adult content to be much earlier. In addition, children of 11, 12 or 13 years old who access this content so early, do not have a real sexual life to compare those fetishes. Then, they will carry these images and they will surely be affected by the type of relationship that they learn to see in this type of work.
The best solution, according to experts in education and child psychology, is in the supervised use of social networks. Until certain ages, it is not recommended to allow minors to use social networks from their mobile phones or PCs with total freedom and without supervision. This is because the content they access can affect the way they build their idea of reality.
Conclusion
It directly compares the works of science fiction and the influence they have on children and pornography. When a 12- or 13-year-old child watches a movie with robots, aliens and time travel, she can easily compare it to her real life and see that it is narrative license. These are things that happen only in the world of history. But pornography, another type of audiovisual content in this case, is bringing it closer to sex when its own identity and practice has not yet finished developing. Then you may end up accepting as normal a fetish that is being exploited in the videos, because it is aimed at adult audiences.
The YouTube Blue and YouTube Orange tags are a new way of trying to circumvent the restrictions. They try to bring the youngest and the viewer themselves closer to accounts with risqué and adult content. But the real problem is still in the smallest. In the uncontrolled use of social networks by adults. In the ways in which we are approaching a digital world where boys and girls have more complete and precise control of the operation of the apps.