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PAW Patrol's Dark Secret, Explained

PAW Patrol's Dark Secret, Explained on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2022–2024.

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A long video essay by Skip Intro asking what vision of policing the kids' show PAW Patrol suggests. It mixes comedy with serious critique and features guest voices.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a funny but serious critique of the show's portrayal of authority and policing.

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“It’s a superb video essay and absolutely worth the watch!”
— scrollaway, Dec 2022, in “They Called 911 for Help. Police Used Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars”

What HN commenters said

3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

scrollawayDec 2022Strongly recommends

I think you will enjoy this video breakdown from Skip Intro: ▶ this video It’s a superb video essay and absolutely worth the watch! But to be clear, it’s also playing into the meme that paw patrol is copaganda, so take it as a mix of comedy and serious analysis :) The gist of the video is that, while paw patrol is not copaganda, it is problematic for parallel reasons. It’s also a terrible tv show as you noted.

in “They Called 911 for Help. Police Used Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars” · View on HN

QuinzelOct 2023Recommends

Paw Patrol is so shit, I had to study it in my undergrad forensic psychology course: [link] And if you can’t be bothered reading an academic journal about it, this YouTube video really emphasises the issues quite well: ▶ this video

in “The fascist state of Paw Patrol (2021)” · View on HN

aspenmayerJul 2024Cites it

Related: PAW Patrol's Dark Secret, Explained - Skip Intro > PAW Patrol is a TV show for kids. It's very popular, so we might as well ask: "What vision of policing does it suggest?" PAW Patrol is also a very bad TV show. ▶ this video

in “Map of Pontypandy in Fireman Sam” · View on HN

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