Itll; 15 biflfifiz a 193 befm fszit was 15 billion last year. Announcing its results for the first time seemed almost a rite of passage. The service has matured, grown and is standing on its own two feet. I visited you tos London Office to find out how it has come office to find out how it has come of age. Kevin, youtube used to be the place or video went viral but 110w the place or video went viral but now it seems a lot of that happens on tick tock run facebook, how do you feel things have changed . On tick tock run facebook, how do you feel things have changed7m on tick tock run facebook, how do you feel things have changed . It is bigger, a lot easier to make a beautiful looking video now that it was ten years ago. Are you looking at now, with the most Popular Videos are now, it is often not these one off viral hit videos, there actually come from channels that are producing lots of content regularly and have large audiences and after that youtube is moved from this unintentional kind of quick short video thing which we all associate with the early years of youtube with until this new world where creators
have billed businesses and build these audiences. And feel of the most successful genres talk to me about a smr. Short for autonomous sensory about a smr. Short for autonomous sensory meridian response. A genre of video that people call whisper videos for people whisper or tap on things to make the audience feel relaxed. They might whisper, they might cook, they write rub Different Things on the microphone. Designed to help you relax. Another big trend is recipes. Making something the Old Fashioned way can be time consuming and fiddly. So some of the videos online, particularly many that have gone viral, make it look very simple. But is it always possible to do what youre watching . Well, chris fox has
been finding out. Youve probably seen food hacks like these online before top tips for tasty treats but are they too good to be true . Videos like this have clocked up billions of views on youtube and facebook, but do all the receipes and tips featured actually work, or will they just waste your time and ingredients . Here is a milk carton flan from the lifestyle channel blossom. This videos had 17 million views. You put the ingredients in the carton, microwave it, cool it, and out pops a perfect carton flan. Now, i followed this video step by step. Ive used the exact same quantities. Now, the first problem came when i tried to put this in the microwave, because the milk carton was too tall, it wouldnt fit. And that got me thinking, well, how did they fit their milk carton full of ingredients in the microwave . And it looks like they didnt, because if you rewatch the video,
youll see that they actually just cut the bottom of the milk carton off. Not to be deterred, i poured the mixture into a gym shaker and followed the rest of the video, putting it in the microwave to boilfor ten minutes. And did i get a flan at the end of it . No, i did not. Next up, gummy bear hacks easy diy dessert recipes from so yummy. 3. 2 million views. In this video, melting gummy bears turns them into jelly which you can use to create deserts. Heres my attempt copying exactly what i saw in the video. Turns out gummy bears are actually very thick and gloopy when they are melted, not runny like liquid jelly. Will my spoon go into the jelly just as effortlessly as in the so yummy video . Well, no it will not. Because, as you might expect, this gummy mixture at the bottom of the glass is rock solid. Lets have one more. This is from 5 minute crafts. If youve run out of popcorn, why notjust shove an ear of corn in the microwave and it will turn into popcorn . Now, im sure i dont need to tell you that if you put an ear of fresh corn into the microwave it wont come out as popcorn but willjust be hot corn. But i was willing to be proved wrong, so i tried it out in the name of science. When it comes out, it is warmer than before laughs im not the only one who has been intrigued by this ann reardon is a food scientist and runs a cookery channel on youtube, and shes been investigating, too. Its the fake news of the baking world this is faked baking. The reason why that works is its more clickable, and clickbait content is currently whats currently working on the youtube algorithm, and apparently working on facebook as well. Anns been trying a lot of these recipes on her youtube channel, too. Theres one on so yummy where they make cake frosting out of strawberry ice cream. Now, ann tried it, and it didnt work. Ive also tried it, and it doesnt work. Having a food science degree, i know what properties Different Things have and whether that would actually work or not. Its actually not possible to whip up ice cream, because the fat content isnt high enough. Even if you get the most luxurious ice cream you can get, it will not whip and it will not make frosting. Thats an example of the faked ones, but theres also some which are going to dangerous territory as well. One on 5 minute crafts, theyve one where they put a strawberry into bleach to make a white strawberry. If a child was to watch that and do it, they could consume a lot of bleach, which is obviously not good for them. There is also a so yummy video where molten caramel is poured over a spinning whisk to make a sort of birds nest decoration to put on top of a dessert. Molten caramel is hot like, its hotter than boiling water. So we made a box and put plastic wrap in front of it. The hot caramel melted right through it. While were here, those melted caramel cake decorations i showed, thats not the best way to make those, either. It takes a long time to melt one sweet, and usually theyjust burn and stick to the pan. The professional
and just as easy way, according to ann, is to put your sweets in a blender, put a thin layer of that on greaseproof paper and then put it in the oven forjust a few minutes. Thats a quick and easy way to make caramel cake decorations that you can try at home. That was chris, and chris is here now. You didnt manage to bring me lunch, though, did you . I should have saved you some of my sweaty egg flan im not sure it looked that appetising what did the companies have to say . Well, 5 minute crafts, which made the popcorn video that didnt pop, they didnt reply to my email. And first media, which runs the so yummy and blossom channel, well, they invited me to the studios in la to prove that the recipes work, but they said i couldnt film them doing it. They told me they only put recipes in the videos that do work, although i suspect not as shown in the videos because we tried it and they didnt work, and the food scientist, ann, she said some of the recipes, theres no way they would work, even if you followed
the instructions and used the most luxurious ingredients. So why are people so busy sharing these videos . I think they are obviously very visual, the videos are very nicely produced. The companies would say that the purpose of this is entertainment, they are to give you maybe cooking ideas and inspiration. And, crucially, most of the people who watch these videos arent actually going to try the recipes, theyjust like the visuals. Keeping up with the pace of technological change can be difficult at the best of times, particularly for parents who want to be able to keep track of what their children are doing, how much screen time theyre having, whether all the content is appropriate. And never has this been more true than when it comes to video games. So mark cieslak has been looking at this very problem with a spot of help from one of the best known faces in football. Father of three and ex Manchester United and england footballer Rio Ferdinand is fronting a campaign to encourage parents to learn about the Parental Controls they can use in their childrens videogames. I was someone whos been fairly involved in gaming throughout my adult life, and my children play, and we thought weve got a good balance in our house you get in, you do your school work, you do your chores about the house, and have a balance between the gaming and being outside. But having an understanding of what your children are actually doing, thats always so invaluable to me to understand what i can actually do in terms of controlling what type of games that theyre on. Do you think parents have to take more responsibility as far as video games and their children are concerned . You have to take a key interest, like youd take a key interest in your Childs School life, take an interest in their game life because its an integral part of their lives nowadays, like it or not. The get smart about play campaign is the work of the uk Games Industry trade body. It provides online guides about Parental Controls on consoles and computers,
controls which can limit play time and prevent children spending real world money on virtual items. Well, we know that more than half of parents in the uk in particular have concerns about the amount of time their children and people in their care are spending playing games and on screens in general. This is part of an Overall Society Digital Literacy agenda. You know, so, really understanding boundaries, understanding how to protect yourself, understanding how to protect your privacy, its part of a wider thing in society that i think we need to really Pay Attention to. Research suggests that up to 99 of children in the uk aged between eight and 15 play video games regularly. Compare this to Research Carried out by the nspcc which found only 19 of parents with children between aged of five and 15 actually use Parental Controls on devices which connect to the internet. But some parents think that the Games Industry should bear a greater response ability. Are they trying to empower parents, or are they passing the buck . They have a purpose and a responsibility to actually protect the mental well being
of our children. That is part of their role as i see it. Every company that is producing content for our children has to take on that responsibility. Features in games like loot boxes, randomised in game virtual items which can be bought with real world cash, have been compared to gambling, and have led to increased scrutiny of the industry. So does it need to clean up its act . We are businesses at the end of the day, and these Parental Controls and family controls are important, because you can turn off in game spending. Thats why the conversation is really important, so it is a shared responsibility. While learning about Parental Controls improves Digital Literacy, perhaps some parents who play video games with their children might enjoy the experience as well. Well, thats it for the short version of the programme. The full length show can be found on the bbc iplayer as ever. And throughout the week if you want to keep track of what the team are up to, you can find us on instagram, facebook, youtube and twitter at bbcclick. Thanks for watching. Hello there. The Amber Met Office ring warnings are expiring but we have had Record Number of flood warnings in england, some severe flood warnings as well and flooding is still a major concern across some parts of the uk. This was the scene earlier on today and worse to share. Flooded streets and that is the street we have seen around some parts the West Midlands and into south wells as well. Also in the scottish borders, we have seen some sunshine and it has turned more showery but does not mean that the flood waters receipt straightaway. At the centre of the storm, storm
dennis, we have had this Conveyor Belt of warm and wet air on that weather front which is belt of warm and wet air on that weatherfront which is brought belt of warm and wet air on that weather front which is brought with it that persistent and heavy rain. That is moving away towards the southeast and we are seeing bands of showers heavy as well pushing down from the northwest too. Focusing into scotland to this evening and overnight, there is a centrist of storm dennis getting closer so we make it a squeeze of the wind from northern scotland tonight and certainly lots of showers keep going it will still be windy but quite a bit chillier than it has been of late across england and wales. It looks like its going to be a day of sunshine and blustery showers we may find some heavy downpour is pushing eastwards a cross find some heavy downpour is pushing eastwards across southern parts of england and have showers in scotland and Northern Ireland. Some hail in there and some thunder as well, decent temperatures nine to 10 degrees, quite rightly during monday, it will not be as windy but still that is what is left of storm dennis by monday and tuesday, fading away close to norway, we are left of
this broad westerly airstream in the shower we airstream with sunshine and showers it will be heavy and thunder ore, some bands of rain pushing eastwards across england and wales in the showers turning winter in scotland and Northern Ireland over the hills as the air gets just that little bit colder. Lots of showers around on tuesday but the showers around on tuesday but the showers to defeat away overnight and he gets a bit chilly, a ridge of High Pressure trying to build and get squeezed away by the next weather system an area of low pressure coming in the atlantic. Many places started dry on wednesday, may be a dry day for eastern parts of england and scotland, some sunshine but clouding over with rain coming in from the northwest a to be quite heavy over some of those Western Hills is well with temperatures here around eight or9 with temperatures here around eight or 9 degrees. This is bbc news. Im lukwesa burak. The headlines at 7pm. Whoa oh, my. A Major Incident is declared by police in south wales, as flooding and landslides caused by storm dennis lead to a number of road closures. As we were trying to block the front door, it was all pouring in through the back door as well, and there was nothing we could do. Heavy rain and strong winds continue to lash large parts of the uk, with hundreds of flood alerts in place, including six severe warnings meaning theres a danger to life. The government says it has spent billions on flood defences. We have done more and more than ever before in terms of flood defences protecting more homes than we had to favour been able to before but we
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