25 Most Annoying YouTube Channels for Kids, Ranked

These annoying YouTube channels for kids will really get under your skin.

25 Most Annoying YouTube Channels for Kids, Ranked

The internet has created a whole new landscape for children’s entertainment, but quantity certainly doesn’t always mean quality. And while there is plenty of interesting and educational programming that may make parents feel less guilty about extended screen time, there’s also a lot of kid-oriented content that gets under even the most patient caretaker’s skin.

Here are a handful of the most annoying just-for-kids YouTube channels that try to make children laugh but often only end up making parents cringe.

25. KidsTV123

Number of subscribers: 4 million

Best for: Preschool

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What Makes KidsTV123 So Annoying

These videos are admittedly helpful and educational. But there’s only so many times you can listen to the ABCs as an adult with the phonetic noises being made before you want to s-s-smack the c-c-computer.

The other major hit, “Easy Little Song,” is gentle enough to listen to, but if you actually watch the video, it feels like you’re staring at a 2D Chuck-E-Cheese animatronic, which is fun once per year during a birthday party. But it’s not something you want to listen to on repeat daily in your home.

24. HiHo Kids

Number of subscribers: 4.6 million

Best for: Younger kids

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What Makes HiHo Kids So Annoying

Some of these videos are fun, and they definitely have great messages for children. But they can also make it feel like a group of rowdy, excited children have been let loose in your home.

And anyone who has actually had a group of screeching small children wreaking havoc in their home doesn’t need to be reminded of it through the computer screen. Even if you give your child headphones, the screeches are so loud at times that the sound will seep through.

23. Cosmic Kids Yoga

Number of subscribers: 1.2 million

Best for: Preschoolers,younger kids

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What Makes Cosmic Kids Yoga So Annoying

Yoga and mindfulness lessons for children are really good ideas. And these videos are playful and admittedly well-executed. What really makes these annoying is that there are so many ads and other distractions on YouTube that it becomes impossible to actually remain present.

And as a busy parent who barely finds time for themselves, it can be obnoxious to watch your child get an easy and relaxing workout in while you continue to feel tense and worry about their screen time.

22. Simple Kids Crafts

Number of subscribers: 710,000

Best for: Preteens

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What Makes Simple Kids Crafts So Annoying

It’s not that these crafts aren’t a great idea, and the videos themselves are well packaged with great content. It is, however, incredibly annoying to see a person create a small masterpiece and show the seemingly easy step-by-step process only to attempt to do it yourself and consistently fail time and time again.

Despite what these unnervingly calm videos may show you, these crafts are significantly harder than they seem.

21. Blippi

Number of subscribers: 12.6 million

Best for: Preschoolers, younger kids

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What Makes Blippi So Annoying

If your child watches Blippi videos, there’s no denying they’ll laugh at the over-the-top almost clown titular character of Blippi. And they’ll definitely learn a number of interesting facts thanks to the educational content.

But if you watch along with them, you may start to understand why some people have an irrational fear of clowns … or children’s characters who are clown-like. As the channel’s name suggests, these videos are better to watch in short blips.

20. OhMyGenius

Number of subscribers: 1.4 million

Best for: Preschoolers

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What Makes OhMyGenius So Annoying

It seems like anybody these days can make a name for themselves in the children’s YouTube space by singing classic songs. And this channel has plenty of that without anything too exciting or different.

These songs are just repetitive enough to get stuck in your head but not exciting enough to actually provide any entertainment. And the animation looks like what you’d dream about after staring at a computer screen all day.

19. KidsTV

Number of subscribers: 18.3 million

Best for: Younger kids

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What Makes KidsTV So Annoying

Just when you think you can’t handle hearing one more classic nursery rhyme, along comes KidsTV with something new and different. They create remixes of classic kid stories and nursery rhymes you’ve heard thousands of times. It’s a fun and novel idea. Only, it’s a little too catchy.

After listening to the most beat-dropping rendition of Jack and the Beanstalk, you’ll find yourself repeating “we stole everything we had, he stole everything we had,” all day long.

18. Slick Slime Sam

Number of subscribers: 6.8 million

Best for: Preschoolers

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What Makes Slick Slime Sam So Annoying

Sam, an amorphous pink blob puppet, shows up and adds color commentary during elongated unboxing videos. If you’re into unboxing videos, and some kids are, these could be entertaining enough to watch. If you’re not and you don’t understand the appeal, these will get under your skin quickly.

And the puppet Sam’s presence is meant to add some comic relief, only it isn’t really funny. The attempted slapstick humor and jokes will make you wish they’d just go back to the unboxing process, even if you never wanted to watch the unboxing in the first place.

17. Nat and Essie

Number of subscribers: 10.7 million

Best for: Younger kids

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What Makes Nat and Essie So Annoying

Some of the most popular videos on this channel feature mind-numbing repetitive songs like a finger song that goes on way longer than five fingers should seemingly inspire. The most recent videos seem to be thinly veiled commercials with a consistently enthusiastic voice that has the same level of excitement for every single item it describes.

These aren’t exactly monotone because there is some variance in voices here. But they’re also not easy to listen to on repeat. And it becomes harder to believe that one person could have that same level of excitement about various toys.

16. Toy Time TV

Number of subscribers: 129,000

Best for: Preschoolers

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What Makes Toy Time TV So Annoying

In these videos, two puppets, Bobby and Numba, are joined by Mr. Hands as they discover and play with several different toys together. Not every puppet can have the same charm as the iconic Elmo, but Bobby and Numba likely wouldn’t have made it past the first round of auditions for “Sesame Street.”

After watching these videos, not only will their voices be stuck in your head for hours, but your child will likely be relentless about asking for the toys these two thumbless puppets somehow had a blast playing with.

15. Videogyan 3D Rhymes - Nursery Rhymes & Baby Songs

Number of subscribers: 10.3 million

Best for: Preschoolers, young children

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What Makes Videogyan 3D Rhymes So Annoying

There are so many notes on the musical scale to choose from. Yet the majority of this channel’s videos feature songs that only use three or four of them. And during the 30-minute episodes, you’ll get a mix of old classics and new remixes … all with only a few notes each.

Plus, the animation sometimes features elements that will make parents cringe, like children standing without holding onto anything not strapped in with any safety harness as they sing on a rapidly moving bus in the middle of a busy city street.

14. Super Simple Songs

Number of subscribers: 28.7 million

Best for: Preschoolers

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What Makes Super Simple Songs So Annoying

These videos mostly feature kids' songs sung by puppets. The puppets themselves are a bit in-your-face at times but can be handled in short spurts. And the songs themselves, though not exactly groundbreaking, aren’t much worse than what you may stream through any major musical application.

But what really puts this channel on the list is the fact that some of these episodes last an HOUR. After hearing these songs for a full hour, you will never want to hear them (or listen to a puppet talk) again.

13. Bob the Train

Number of subscribers: 2.2 million

Best for: Preschoolers

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What Makes Bob the Train So Annoying

Bob the Train features a train that talks about himself mostly in the third person. He also sings a lot of educational and classic songs for children to enjoy. Only Bob the Train’s approach to singing seems to be deeply rooted in yelling on key, not too much that you can’t tell what note he’s going for, but far too much to feel comfortable enough to listen to multiple songs in a row.

Obviously with some of the videos hitting over 89 million views, Bob the Train knows what he’s doing. But that doesn’t mean everyone has to like it.

12. Oddbodds

Number of subscribers: 7.4 million

Best for: Preschoolers

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What Makes Oddbodds So Annoying

If a Minion fell in love with a Teletubby, their babies would be Oddbodds. These goofy animated videos feature a group of Oddbodds going on zany and often slapstick adventures together, typically attempting one small goal that becomes complicated with so many challenges being placed in the way.

It’s understandable why many of these videos are popular. The Oddbodds admittedly have a charm to them that small children would enjoy. The hard-to-watch part involves the hazards that are too often lying out in the open for them to get tangled up in. Parents already spend huge portions of the day worrying about their children getting hurt. It’s hard to relax while being reminded of all the ways that someone can creatively get injured.

11. Finger Family Songs

Number of subscribers: 4.1 million

Best for: Preschoolers

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What Makes Finger Family Songs So Annoying

Finger Family Songs live up to the name in that these videos often feature a family of fingers wearing various costumes and singing simple songs. Some videos feature shapes singing with unnervingly large smiles. There’s no way you can listen to any of these songs without immediately having them stuck in your head.

And, because they feature lyrics that are often about your fingers and hands, every time you look down at your hands you’ll be reminded of the song. Yikes!

10. Come Play With Me

Number of subscribers: 10 million

Best for: Younger kids

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What Makes Come Play With Me So Annoying

Anna, Elsa and Mommy voiceover these videos that feature these seemingly come-to-life dolls playing with each other. While the idea is cute, and the subscriber count is a testament to the fact that this is undoubtedly popular, it is a lot of listening to little kids tell stories the way little kids do. There’s a lot of prolonged greetings, longer silences and random places for these dolls to go.

Of course, these children are just kids, so it’s unfair to ask them to have well-thought-out plots and stories. But because they’re just kids, it’s also hard to sit through a video where they’re make-believing everything on the spot. And it’s borderline impossible to sit through multiple in a row without really losing your mind.

9. Little Baby Bum

Number of subscribers: 36.4 million

Best for: Preschoolers

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What Makes Little Baby Bum So Annoying

This is yet another channel dedicated to the usual suspects of classic children’s songs done without much innovation here. Even the original songs and videos that provide some education, like how to differentiate city buses, are somewhat forgettable.

But what sets this channel apart from the others on the annoying scale is the animation. The unnervingly large eyes and the slightly off animation that go along with every single video will make you limit your children’s screen time simply on principle.

8. HooplaKidz

Number of subscribers: 4.3 million

Best for: Preschoolers

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What Makes HooplaKidz So Annoying

These videos feature really basic animation and catchy rhythms to classic children’s songs. Many of these videos, too, feature repetition of the catchiest portion of the songs to guarantee they’ll get stuck in your head for weeks afterwards.

In fact, after watching and listening to too many HooplaKidz videos in a row, you empathize with the clumsy bed-jumping monkeys and want to jump off and bump your head just so you can go to the doctor to get away from this song.

7. Let’s Play Kids

Number of subscribers: 153,000

Best for: Younger kids

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What Makes Let’s Play Kids So Annoying

This channel mostly features two kids playing with various toys together. One of the most popular videos has these two building boxes with squishy tiles, while clever editing keeps it interesting with some Big Band-style music laid over and various parts sped up. The kids themselves are having a good time. And the parents who recorded and edited the video clearly were, too.

Plus, with so many views, the idea of watching people play with toys is clearly popular. But after watching a few of these videos, you’ll want your kid to actually physically play with toys themselves (and maybe with real life friends, too) instead of watching other people have all the fun.

6. Guava Juice

Number of subscribers: 16.7 million

Best for: Preteens

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What Makes Guava Juice So Annoying

There’s a certain type of personality, production quality and over-the-top acting style that people often think of when they think of “YouTubers.” And Guava Juice is all of that and more. There’s a ton of content that’s well marketed to preteens, with much of it featuring attempted sketches about interactive games popular with tweens.

Clearly plenty of people love and support these videos, but most parents who watch a few minutes of this show will find themselves shrugging their shoulders and knocking it up to a generational thing that they will never understand. The videos on this channel will make investment in a good set of headphones for your preteen very much worth it.

5. Big Baby Mouth

Number of subscribers: 10.8 million

Best for: Younger kids (who can read along)

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What Makes Big Baby Mouth So Annoying

Just like the name implies, these videos feature a large-mouthed baby puppet that gets a little too in-your-normally-sized face before singing all sorts of classic children’s songs. And unlike some videos where it’s clear while listening that there were a bunch of singers involved, this sounds like one person who simply modulated their voice and laid each track on top of each other.

But the worst part is, it’s catchy as all get out and the songs will take days to get out of your head.

4. Mother Goose Club

Number of subscribers: 8.2 million

Best for: Preschoolers, younger kids

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What Makes Mother Goose Club So Annoying

If the creators of the Teletubbies and the producers of Barney decided to collaborate on a project, they’d create this channel. These old and new song classics are sung in over-the-top costumes. The kids involved are doing their best to sell the songs and sing with all the enthusiasm they can muster.

It’s very hard to listen to and even harder to enjoy. Still, there’s something so addicting about these videos that your child will want to watch them over and over again, no matter how badly it’s affecting your sanity.

3. FGTeeV

Number of subscribers: 19 million

Best for: Preteens

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What Makes FGTeeV So Annoying

This channel is the holy grail of family gaming content. A family of gamers with larger-than-life personalities play video games together and create videos of the game play. If Twitch has taught us anything, it’s that there’s a huge demand for content around people playing video games. And the spliced-in jokes and personalized humor mean these videos have more production quality than your average game playing video.

But FBTeeVDaddy is … a lot. Your tween may get a kick out of his antics. But it’s very likely that, as a parent, he will remind you of the guy who is always on at the office who you go out of your way to avoid. But if your child is into these videos, there’s no way to escape it.

2. ChuChuTV Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs

Number of subscribers: 48.6 million

Best for: Preschoolers

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What Makes ChuChuTV Nursery Rhymes So Annoying

This channel features electronic remixes to classic nursery rhymes with different lyrics that are catchy enough to get in your head. Plus, the videos last long enough to start to make your skin crawl before you even realize it. And each one somehow hits just the right musical tone that it feels unnerving every time you listen to it.

But, like a whistle that only dogs can hear, there is something so addicting about these videos for your little one that you won’t be able to watch just one. So you likely won’t be able to keep any of these songs from living in your subconscious and coming out randomly throughout the day for a long time after.

1. PinkFong! Kids’ Songs & Stories

Number of subscribers: 48.5 million

Best for: Preschoolers, younger kids

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What Makes PinkFong! Kids’ Songs & Stories So Annoying

This channel brought you “Baby Shark,” one of the catchiest songs in modern history. Even saying the name of the song gets it immediately stuck in your head. In fact, with over 8 billion (billion!) views, this is one of the most viewed videos in all of YouTube.

Once “Baby Shark” entered the lexicon of children’s music, it was an immediate classic. And the videos on this channel are all using the same formula that made “Baby Shark” so popular. Plus, there are all sorts of variations of “Baby Shark” to listen to. And if hearing the song “Baby Shark” and multiple variations of it isn’t considered annoying children’s content, we honestly don’t know what is.