How it works
Step 1: Paste a link
Paste any YouTube video made for kids.
Step 2: We measure 12 things
- Rapid cutting
How often the picture switches to a new shot.
- Scene discontinuity
How different each new shot looks from the one before.
- Palette instability
How often the colors on screen are replaced.
- Luminance flash
How often the picture suddenly gets brighter.
- Motion density
How much of the time things on screen move fast.
- Visual intensity
How saturated the colors are.
- Visual brightness
How bright the picture is.
- Audio build-resolve
Sound that rises steadily, then drops back.
- Loudness jumps
How often the sound jumps well above its usual level.
- Surprise reveals
Loud sounds that land right on a cut.
- Audio intensity
How loud the sound is overall.
- Silence elimination
How much of the time sound is playing.
Step 3: We compare it with our dataset
Find channels
- ✓ 10K+ subscribers
- ✓ 100+ videos
(at our latest scan, August 2026)
Line up every upload by year
Pick a few at random, every year
- ✓ made for kids
- ✓ not a Short
- ✓ 2–60 minutes
- ✓ still online
Our dataset
Step 4: You get a score
A score of 74 means a video is more intense than 74 of every 100 videos in our dataset.
Common questions
What does a high score mean?
A high score means a video is more intensely produced than most videos in our dataset. We measure production style only. We don’t judge a video’s content, educational value, or age appropriateness.
This video looks really intense. Why is its score low?
We measure 5 minutes, starting 30 seconds in, not the whole video. If its busiest parts come later, the score won’t see them. And the score compares with other kids’ videos, many of which are intense too, so a video can feel busy and still sit in the middle.
What do “No cuts” and “No sound” mean?
Scene discontinuity measures how different each new shot looks from the one before. If a video stays on one shot for the whole 5 minutes we measure, there’s nothing to compare, so we show “No cuts” instead of a score. Likewise, a video without sound has no loudness to measure, so Audio intensity shows “No sound”.
How is a channel’s score worked out?
It’s the average of its videos’ scores in our dataset.
Can I check a video that isn’t on YouTube?
Not yet. For now, we can only check YouTube videos.
Do you keep anything about me?
When you check a video that isn’t in our dataset, we save its results, so anyone who checks it later gets them right away. Nothing about who checked it is saved. We keep short-lived logs to prevent abuse. If you allow it, Google Analytics counts your visit. See our privacy policy.
