As a father with a camera, Greg Chism started posting videos with his two girls that quickly grew a massive following on YouTube. However, unlike other many other popular parenting vloggers, this single dad’s Toy Freaks channel wasn't entirely family-friendly. Instead, his disturbing clips featured his two daughters being terrified, pretending to wet themselves, and being force-fed baby food — with 8 million subscribers getting amusement out of the girls’ fear.
After online users complained about these disturbing videos being forms of child abuse, YouTube decided to remove Greg’s YouTube channel.
Before YouTube kicked Greg off their platform, BuzzFeed downloaded some examples of the upsetting content.
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In one of the saved videos, Greg walks in on his girls, Annabelle and Victoria, and uses an animal to scare them while they’re taking a bath.
As his daughter continues to scream and beg her dad to stop, Greg finds humor in scaring Annabelle with a dirty frog and how much she "freaked out" over it. In another video, he admits that it's typical to bring an unwanted creature, from a snake to a lobster, into the bathroom when his girls are playing in the tub.
Other videos show his daughter dressed up as a baby as she’s fed baby food, chews on crayons, and pretends to pee on her sister.
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"We take child safety extremely seriously and have clear policies against child endangerment," a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement to BuzzFeed.
"We recently tightened the enforcement of these policies to tackle content featuring minors where we receive signals that cause concern," the statement said. "It’s not always clear that the uploader of the content intends to break our rules, but we may still remove their videos to help protect viewers, uploaders and children. We’ve terminated the Toy Freaks channel for violation of our policies. We will be conducting a broader review of associated content in conjunction with expert Trusted Flaggers."
Greg told BuzzFeed he didn’t know some of his videos were on the YouTube Kids App, which is how they were flagged.
The videos were marked after YouTube updated the app’s community guidelines allowing for stronger flagging abilities for parents. "Later that day, three of our videos that we did not know were on the Kids App were flagged by the community resulting in the Toy Freaks channel being terminated," Greg said.
Although Greg might be sad that his videos were taken down, others are rejoicing that the "creepy" videos are finally gone.
Greg is not the first parent to get in trouble for sharing disturbing videos of his kids on YouTube.
Earlier this year, popular YouTuber DaddyOFive actually lost custody of his kids after he was accused of abuse for posting videos of his children distraught and humiliated from cruel pranks. While Greg is not facing any legal trouble, he still doesn't seem to understand why people we so disturbed by his content.
"Victoria, Annabelle and I want to thank our supporters as my girls have had the opportunity to develop their creativity and self-confidence over the past few years," Greg said in a separate statement to Variety. "Their future is bright. While it is disturbing to me that anyone would find inappropriate pleasure in our video skits, I deeply appreciate YouTube’s concerns for my family and I could not be happier with having had this remarkable experience."
