as a way of entertaining your child for 10 minutes while the parent makes a phone call,” she told BBC Trending. “I think many of them have come to trust YouTube. Sonia Livingstone, an expert on child online safety, said it was perfectly legitimate for parents to believe something called Peppa Pig was going to be Peppa Pig. The characters included ones from Minions, Thomas The Tank Engine and Frozen. “These videos are for kids, intentionally injected into the stream via confusing tags, for them to watch instead of legit episodes of beloved shows,” she wrote.īBC Trendinginvestigated, and found hundreds of similar videos involving kids’ cartoon characters with inappropriate themes. June said the videos seemed to be made to confuse children. She said her daughter had also accidentally started watching a Doc McStuffins knock-off, which ended up with Doc and her friends becoming zombies. That one involved Peppa going to the dentist and “horrifying” things happening. If you’re a pre-schooler, you could be mentally scarred.Įarlier this month, Laura June, a UK journalist and mum to a three-year-old, wrote an article for The Outline where she talked about her daughter accidentally watching a Peppa Pig knock-off on YouTube. If you’re an adult who finds Peppa Pig irritating, you might laugh. He races through the house in terror to discover that the fake Peppa has murdered Mummy Pig, ripped out her flesh, and fried it in a pan, with eggs on the side. Later, Daddy gets a phone call from Peppa, who’s still at the park. She says she wants to eat bacon and eggs, and Daddy Pig laughs it off as a joke. The parody starts harmlessly enough, with Peppa going to the park, then appearing again, saying she’s changed her mind. I clicked on that one, and a lot of similar ones appeared down the side.
I went to YouTube, typed “Peppa Pig” into search, and within the first three pages of results, “Peppa Pig Bacon And Eggs Horror Parody” popped up. These horror parodies are easy to stumble across. An adult watching the screen with a child would know to turn off at that point. They begin with a brief warning that they are for “mature audiences only” and contain strong language and violence. How about the one where Peppa is hugging Daddy Pig when someone blasts her head off with a shotgun?Ĭan’t remember those? Well, if your kids like watching Peppa on YouTube, they might have seen them.Ī YouTube channel called Horror Parody has been posting mini horror movies that look like episodes of Peppa Pig. Have you seen that Peppa Pig episode where Peppa kills Mummy Pig and cooks up her flesh in a frypan?