Comment by jiggawatts

That’s nothing: YouTube has recently added shorts to YouTube Kids and it can’t be disabled.

They previously had a whitelist feature where parents could curate channels and videos for their kids.

That has been silently broken and all related features are disabled or non-functional.

Whoever is pushing Shorts is the equivalent of a drug dealer waiting outside a junior school to sell heroin to kids.

Sociopaths do this kind of thing.